#defund the gov

[radicalgraff]

"Defund the Gov"

Seen in Spokane, Washington

#defund the gov #anti gov #anti government #graffiti #graff #anarchism #vandalism

[mariemariemaria]

Does anybody else feel like mental health awareness has done very little to help them in material reality

#i was gonna say done nothing to help but that seemed too harsh #like there definitely is more knowledge about it now. maybe more people feel comfortable speaking about it which is good #but personally i don't feel that. like idk. workplaces will post about mental health awareness and then do nothing to help employees #the same w universities. my uni cut back the already meager mental health support #and then the government is doing absolutely fuck all as well #like idk im just back in a place i thought id gotten out of long ago and i still don't feel comfortable talking about it with people #maybe that's a me problem or maybe it's cultural or something idk. but in the 10 years ive been depressed (🫠) i don't think it's gotten a #whole lot better. teenagers are still dealing with the same shit i did and they're still not being taken seriously #women's mental health is not even spoken about.....anxiety depression sh eds etc are still ignored or seen as hysterical behaviour in women #or just normal esp with disordered eating. society hasn't changed people still want women to be stick thin and weak #like i know 10 years is a short time and there has been massive improvements in mh awareness if we look back over the past 50+ years #but idk i just think that it hasn't gotten better for a lot of people #i think specifically of belfast and like god. the amount of trauma there is the amount of homelessness the amount of substance abuse #drug abuse in particular that has gotten visibly worse over the past decade or so* #and i connect the dots n see the 2008 recession + a tory gov defunding the nhs + dehumanisation of homeless people & addicts + the troubles #+ ptsd + generational trauma + a negative peace + classism + paramilitary drug dealers + parties linked to those paramilitaries #and its like hmmmm i think we live in a society. and a mental health approach based on individual actions like journaling and meditation #isn't the way to go. or at least is not the be all and end all which is what a lot of mental health awareness raising seems to promote #*visibly worse on the streets. it was always a problem ofc but even a decade ago my parents never imagined it would be as bad as it is now #and it's become so normalised. i do think there's less individualism here than there seems to be elsewhere which can be good and can be bad #but i think we are becoming more and more individualistic. slowly. there's still a sense of community here but i do think it's changing #and callousness towards homeless people is one of the most obvious examples of this. #love when i put a wee asterisk in the tags of a post. like i have A Lot To Say lol

[contemplatingoutlander]

Make no mistake about this. This is a white nationalist attack not only on any sort of affirmative action (even for low income people of ANY race or ethnicity) but also an attempt to prohibit discussions of racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. on university campuses. The United Daughters of the Confederacy who pushed the “Lost Cause” whitewash of the Civil War in textbooks in the early 1900s would be thrilled at the kind of legislation that DeSantis has been able to pass in Florida. What is truly frightening is if he makes it to the White House, he will try to pass the same kind of legislation nationally.

Here are some excerpts from the article:

Florida’s new law prohibits public colleges from spending state or federal money on DEI efforts. These programs often assist colleges in increasing student and faculty diversity, which can apply to race and ethnicity, as well as sexual orientation, religion and socioeconomic status.

The law also forbids public colleges from offering general education courses — those that are part of a required curriculum for all college students — that “distort significant historical events,” teach “identity politics,” or are “based on theories that systemic racism, sexism, oppression, or privilege are inherent in the institutions of the United States and were created to maintain social, political, or economic inequities.”

The Florida legislation has been met with backlash at both the state and national level, where higher education experts and First Amendment advocates say the state is trampling on academic freedom. “It’s basically state-mandated censorship, which has no place in a democracy,” Irene Mulvey, president of the American Association of University Professors, said in a recent interview with The Washington Post.

[emphasis added]

#censorship #academic freedom #ron desantis #florida #sb 266 #gop #dei #anti-crt legislation #racism #whitewashing history #the washington post

[beardedmrbean]

Before this column ends, we’ll get to the unmissable fact that anti-Israel, often antisemitic, protests are proliferating at what we amusingly choose to call our most “selective” universities—Columbia, Yale, New York University, Stanford, Berkeley. For the moment, add these North Face tent protests on $75,000-a-year campus quads to the sense among the American public that their country is running off the rails.

A list of the phenomena laying us low includes: wokeness, DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion), defund the police (a depressing subset of wokeness), conspiracy theories, head-in-the-sand isolationism and a self-centered political polarization typified—from left to right—by Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Cori Bush, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert.

Ironically this time of year is associated with hope, amid spring and college graduations—except at the University of Southern California, which, fearing trouble, canceled its commencement speakers and told honorary-degree recipients not to show up.

Setting silenced USC aside, a hopeful note one hears at college commencements is that the American system is self-correcting, that despite recurrent stress, it always rights itself. Opinion polls suggest few believe this anymore but—happy spring—it looks as if we may be on the brink of a real counter-revolt against the craziness.

Last week in the hopelessly gridlocked House, Republican Speaker Mike Johnson, facing threats to his job from the chaos caucus, cast his lot with the enough-is-enough caucus. The House passed bills to sustain allies in Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Congress isn’t dead—yet.

Blue states and cities that looked willing to collapse rather than defend their citizens have begun to push back against progressives’ pro-criminal and antipolice movements.

At the urging of Gov. Kathy Hochul, New York’s just-passed state budget includes measures to crack down on shoplifting. Assaulting a retail worker will be a felony. Larceny charges can be based on the total goods stolen from different stores. Progressives in the state’s Legislature opposed the measures. Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker, elected in January on restoring law and order (yes, it can be a Democratic issue), last week announced a plan to support policing in the most crime- and drug-plagued neighborhoods.

March seemed to be a tipping point. The hyperprogressive Council of the District of Columbia, in a city that had become an embarrassing carjacking hellhole, passed an array of anticrime measures. Oregon’s Legislature voted to reverse the state’s catastrophic three-year experiment with drug decriminalization. San Francisco voters approved two measures proposed by, of all people, Mayor London Breed, to ease restrictions on policing and require drug screening for welfare recipients. The results in Los Angeles County’s primary for district attorney strongly suggest progressive George Gascón will be voted out in November.

In all these places, the reversals by elected officials are driven by the prospect of voters’ turning them out of office. That is the U.S. political system trying to right itself.

In California, a safety coalition has collected about 900,000 signatures to reverse parts of Proposition 47, the state’s now-notorious 2014 decision to reduce some theft felonies to misdemeanors. This week, the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared sympathetic to overturning a Ninth Circuit decision that bars cities and towns from enforcing vagrancy laws. Though the case emerged from Grants Pass, Ore., which is trying to ban homeless encampments, about three dozen elected officials and organizations in California filed briefs arguing that the Ninth Circuit’s ruling made cleaning up the streets almost impossible.

News stories since the start of the year have noted that many private companies are rethinking policies on DEI, partly under legal pressure, such as the Supreme Court’s decision last year to strike down the use of race in college admissions.

Some in the corporate DEI movement thought they were immune to restraints. No longer. Companies are rediscovering that the constituency most needing inclusion is their customers. The loudest shot across the bow came last week, when Google fired 28 employees after some staged sit-in protests at its New York and California offices over a contract with Israel’s government. Google’s firing statement describes “completely unacceptable behavior.” No one saw that coming.

All this adds up to a nascent counter-revolt against America’s lurch toward self-destruction. The exception is elite U.S. universities. Their leadership has seen itself as answerable to no one and politically immune.

Robert Kraft, a Columbia grad and owner of the New England Patriots, said this week he will no longer give the school money “until corrective action is taken.”

If big donors ever regain control of these so-called selective schools, a suggestion: Firing the president won’t close the barn door. Instead, fire the admissions office. What a tragedy to think how many serious high-school students were rejected by Columbia, Yale and NYU, edged out by nonuseful idiots whose chosen major is the political structure of re-education camps.

Someone has to be a lagging indicator, and these schools are it.

Non-paywall link

#nunyas news

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Right-wing commentator Mike Huckabee is coming under heavy criticism after warning of “bullets” in future elections should Donald Trump lose in 2024 due to his mounting legal woes.

Over the weekend, Huckabee accused President Joe Biden of trying to “destroy Trump” via legal actions in the courthouse rather than at the ballot box via an election.

“Here’s the problem: If these tactics end up working to keep Trump from winning or even running in 2024, it is going to be the last American election that will be decided by ballots rather than bullets,” he said during his monologue on his TBN show “Huckabee.”

Trump is facing a combined 91 felony charges in four different cases, including charges related to the mishandling of classified information, his attempts to stay in power after losing the 2020 election, and his efforts to overturn the election results in Georgia.

But Huckabee compared the proceedings to those that go on in “banana republics and communist regimes,” where political opponents are imprisoned or exiled for “made-up crimes.”

“Joe Biden is using exactly those tactics to make sure that Donald Trump is not his opponent in 2024,” he declared:

Huckabee is a former Governor of Arkansas and father of current Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who was a White House press secretary under Trump.

His comments over the weekend are the latest in a line of inflammatory statements from figures aligned with the former President.

Last week, Georgia state Sen. Colton Moore told former Trump strategist Steve Bannon that he wanted to defund Fani Willis, the district attorney prosecuting Trump in the state, and warned of dire consequences if she’s allowed to proceed with the case.

“We need to be taking action right now. Because if we don’t, our constituencies are gonna be fighting it in the streets. Do you want a civil war?” he said, according to Salon. “I don’t want a civil war. I don’t want to have to draw my rifle. I want to make this problem go away with my legislative means of doing so.”

Last month, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin alluded to a civil war and urged Trump supporters to “rise up and take our country back.”

Last year, failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake also issued a thinly veiled threat to Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland and special counsel Jack Smith.

“If you want to get to President Trump, you are going to have to go through me, and you are going to have to go through 75 million Americans just like me,” she said, The New York Times reported. “And I’m going to tell you, most of us are card-carrying members of the NRA.”

She said it wasn’t a threat but “a public service announcement.”

On X, formerly Twitter, critics called Huckabee out for his extremist rhetoric:

#us politics #news #republicans #donald trump #conservatives #tweet #twitter #x #2023 #mike huckabee #alt right #domestic terrorism #2024 elections #Colton Moore #Sarah Palin #kari lake #The New York Times #salon #huffington post #Youtube

[cultml]

[tomorrowusa]

A friendly reminder that letting any Republican get elected president in 2024 will be a disaster for a woman's right to choose.

Donald Trump Donald Trump, the former president and GOP front-runner, has boasted about the fact that he appointed three of the Supreme Court justices who were part of the decision that overturned Roe. [ ... ] Ron DeSantis DeSantis calls himself a “pro-life candidate” and signed two abortion bans into law in Florida—a 15-week ban last year and the six-week ban this year—and suggested to Tucker Carlson in July he would sign a national version of Florida’s six-week abortion if he were president. More recently, during the second GOP presidential primary debate on Wednesday, he confirmed that he would sign a 15-week nationwide ban. [ ... ] Tim Scott Unlike some of his counterparts, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott has not shied away from abortion on the trail and has made it clear to Iowans that he supports a national abortion ban.  “I am 100% pro-life. When I am president of the United States, I will sign the most pro-life legislation the House and Senate can put on my desk,” Scott wrote in a July op-ed for the Des Moines Register.  [ ... ] Nikki Haley Nikki Haley, a former UN ambassador and South Carolina governor, said during a May campaign event in New Hampshire that she would sign a nationwide abortion ban, without specifying details.  [ ... ] Mike Pence A good foundation of former Vice President Mike Pence’s political career has been built on opposing reproductive rights.  “I’m pro-life and I don’t apologize for it,” Pence frequently says. He ran for Congress in 1996 for “the babies” and said he was the first person to introduce legislation to defund Planned Parenthood in the US House of Representatives. [ ... ] Vivek Ramaswamy Vivek Ramaswamy, a former biotech entrepreneur, describes himself as “unapologetically pro-life,” but has said he does not believe a federal abortion ban “makes any sense,” while in the same breath comparing abortion to murder. “This is not an issue for the federal government. This is an issue for the states. I think we need to be explicit about that,” Ramaswamy told CNN in May. “If murder laws are handled at the state level and abortion is a form of murder, the pro-life view, then it makes no sense for that to be the one federal law.” At the state level, Ramaswamy said he backs outlawing abortion after six weeks. [ ... ] Chris Christie Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor, told NBC he is a “pro-life” candidate who supports abortion exceptions for rape, incest, or the life of the mother. [ ... ] Asa Hutchinson Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed a near-total abortion ban into law in 2021. The measure outlawed all abortions, except those performed to save the life of the mother. It did not include exceptions for rape or incest. [ ... ] Doug Burgum North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum signed a near-total ban on abortion into law in his state in April of this year. The law bans abortion throughout pregnancy, with exceptions for cases of rape, incest, or medical emergencies up to six weeks of gestation. After six weeks, rape and incest victims cannot get abortions.

ALL of those candidates would appoint radical anti-abortion fanatics to the federal courts including the US Supreme Court.

Those candidates may differ on wording or nuance but are united in their desire to put a GOP uterus cop in every American bedroom.

Voting for some clown running as an independent or a third party candidate who has ZERO chance of getting elected is as bad as voting Republican. The only way to protect reproductive rights for the rest of this decade is to re-elect Democrat Joe Biden; remind people of this whenever the topic of abortion comes up.

#abortion #a woman's right to choose #dobbs v. jackson women's health organization #roe v. wade #reproductive rights #the sanctity of reproductive freedom #republicans #republican anti-abortion fanatics #us supreme court #scotus #donald trump #ron desantis #tim scott #nikki haley #mike pence #vivek ramaswamy #chris christie #asa hutchinson #doug burgum #election 2024

[nodynasty4us]

Click through to read various Republican politicians and media personalities snarking at each other and making contradictory claims about who is or is not MAGA or RINO.

Trump said: “I was Strong on Ethanol, DeSantis voted against it, and other things bad for Iowa, like wanting to destroy Social Security and Medicare. Despite all of this, Reynolds remained Neutral on Endorsements, and she is now America’s most Unpopular Governor, and Ron DeSanctimonious is Second. That’s what happens when you are disloyal to those that got you there!”

I dunno about that. Yes, Reynolds didn't do much about covid, and she is trying to defund public education, but there is strong competition for the title of most unpopular governor.

[Edited to correct popular -> unpopular.]

#kim reynolds #ron desantis #donald trump #republicans #what i think

[batboyblog]

funding of libraries is in the Missouri state constitution, not that the Republicans care. They're trying to punish the librarians for suing over a poorly thought out censorship law that they pushed through to ban books (of course)

The Missouri House debated for over eight hours last Tuesday on a budget that is roughly $2 billion less than the one Gov. Mike Parson (R) proposed last January, cutting not only the $4.5 million Parson had slated for libraries, but also costs for diversity initiatives, childcare and pre-kindergarten programs.

because we don't want to be funding pre-K right?

any ways please make sure to donate to the ACLU of Missouri, the Missouri Library Association and/or the Missouri Democratic Party

#Republicans #banning books #book ban #Missouri #Library

[cleoselene]

Gift article, from me to you

I have always encouraged people to go to public school instead of private for college, but not in Florida.  Not anymore.  Public education is about to become a fucking joke in Florida.

It’s heartbreaking.

#fucking florida #ron desantis #i hope he dies

[gefdreamsofthesea]

I see Missouri is once again making a strong case for being worst state ever.

#censorship #library things

[beardedmrbean]

Even liberal San Francisco voters are getting tough on crime and public disorder.

Residents of the City by the Bay approved ballot measures Tuesday to set minimum police staffing levels, allow officers to chase suspects under reasonable suspicion they have committed or will commit a felony or nonviolent misdemeanor — with the help of drones — and set up public safety cameras that could use facial recognition technology to apprehend perps.

Another proposition that passed requires anyone who receives employment assistance, housing, shelter, utilities or food from city coffers to submit to drug screenings — and denies them those benefits unless they enter a treatment program.

The San Francisco Police Department had prohibited officers from pursuing nonviolent offenders unless there was an imminent risk to public safety.

Mayor London Breed, a Democrat, backed the ballot measures as she eyes re-election to a second full term in November — while facing challenges from Daniel Lurie, a nonprofit executive, and current and former city officials including ex-interim mayor Mark Farrell.

“We want San Francisco to be exactly what the people who live here want to see,” Breed said at a cocktail bar surrounded by supporters as the results rolled in Tuesday night, according to Politico. “And that is a safe, affordable place to call home.”

Voters also overwhelmingly approved tighter ethics rules for city employees regarding the receipt of gifts and mandating the teaching of Algebra I in schools by eighth grade.

Ballot measures allow voters to directly change laws during elections without the help of their elected officials.

Following a spate of state and local changes to crime policies in recent, San Francisco has been dogged by retail crime sprees, burglaries, rampant open-air drug use and public defecation.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, during a high-profile TV debate this past November against former San Francisco Mayor and current California Gov. Gavin Newsom, pointed to the city’s downfall as proof of failed liberal policies.

Dozens of big-name businesses have departed the city’s formerly bustling downtown area since 2020, the year after Breed was elected. Drug overdose deaths also hit a record high last year, with 806 recorded.

The descent into lawlessness was turbocharged by the COVID-19 pandemic and widespread rioting following the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in summer 2020, as San Francisco and other cities embraced calls to defund law enforcement.

Breed supported a $120 million cut from the city’s police budget in 2020 — but reversed course the following year and pleaded with the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to restore funding.

“I’m proud this city believes in giving people second chances,” she said in December 2021. “Nevertheless, we also need there to be accountability when someone does break the law … Our compassion cannot be mistaken for weakness or indifference … I was raised by my grandmother to believe in ‘tough love,’ in keeping your house in order, and we need that, now more than ever.”

The pivot to the center came just in time, as disgruntled San Francisco voters went on the following year to recall District Attorney Chesa Boudin, a progressive prosecutor and former public defender.

Before that, parents had ousted three members of the city’s school board for pushing a progressive political agenda and keeping classrooms closed during the coronavirus pandemic.

A former city supervisor, Breed was elected mayor in 2018 to finish out the term of the late Ed Lee, who died in office. She was later elected to a five-year term in November 2019.

She is still working to regain the trust of law enforcement officials, however, with the San Francisco Deputy Sheriffs’ Association saying in November that her “commitment to dismantling the criminal justice system has remained a focal point.”

Breed is battling a high disapproval rating, with 71% of likely general election voters taking exception to her job performance, according to a San Francisco Chronicle poll last month.

The city’s ranked-choice voting system could also throw a wrench into Breed’s re-election bid if she does not receive at least 50% support in the initial round, as second- and third-place candidates often receive more votes than those at the top of the ticket.

#nunyas news #whoopsie

[technovillain]

Reading your Delphine thing, I have two thoughts. First, I don't like some of your explanation for why they divorced, because smart woman who has ideas to fix the Psychonaut's finances is what Hollis is already doing, and Truman mostly seems to want her in charge, so it's hard to imagine him being that resistant to help from his wife.

But I do really like the idea of Delphine trying to involve herself in Truman's work, because it could mean that when Lili says "the Psychonaut's aren't what they used to be" she could be parroting things her mother says, maybe because Delphine is bitter, and views Truman's more casual style as being a bad way to run an organization.

I wasn't thinking that it was Delphine's involvement in helping in finances that he didn't like, just the decisions she was proposing and sometimes beginning the process of acting on without his behalf. Like fighting for MORE government involvement in the project which she overtime started to reveal she thought needed some serious reform because it was just a bunch of old people sitting on their hands after a disaster. They needed another big grant and to work more like a real government organization for a while otherwise they were going to go under. Because Truman wasn't any good at finances. It wasn't that Truman didn't want to relinquish control of the financial department it was that he didn't want to be asking for any more help because he didn't want to bring in any additional eyes from the gov. looking at how they were running their program. There had never been talk of defunding the Psychonauts and he just wanted to keep flying under the radar. Delphine scheduled a call with a connection she had anyways and there was a big argument about her trying to make that call despite what Truman had said.

She had taken his agreement that the Psychonauts were currently inefficient and needed some reform as an invitation to bring in the big guns in terms of money. She probably could have found a way to really help them but Truman was tainted by nostalgia and family ties I think and wanted it to stay the way it was, at least for now. I kind of think he'd be the type to string things along in general, and he probably did that with his marriage. That he wouldn't act on things until they'd already become a big problem. When he fired Bob, he had already became a much bigger problem than if he would have tried and help with the situation sooner. When his marriage started to fall apart due to both of their constantly busy schedules and disagreements on whether or not the Psychonauts needed more help, he just tried to limp it along forever, thinking that it would get better at some point. Because that's sort of how he grew up, just struggling through one thing for a long time before eventually you exhaustedly get to the other side and things turn out "okay" right? The arguments stopped but so did conversation with Delphine. She'd still let him speak to Lili on the phone, but stopped wanting to talk herself. She didn't dislike Truman by any means, but they just couldn't make a long distance marriage work. Especially when both of them spent every waking hour thinking about their jobs and neither of them was willing to give up the opportunities and responsibilities their jobs offered.

That's why I think the marriage ended in a civil way. Not like a "we always fight about money and I don't want your help" way, just in a "you didn't grow up around this organization and lack the proper emotional connection to the project to fully understand that I don't think this is the best way to help my project" way.

As far as Hollis goes, her talk of finances comes off as fully pinching pennies, because she's working with the small budget that they already have. Truman doesn't want to touch the budget, and he trusts Hollis' judgment on it. Hollis shares the same "there's probably things that it would be best not to share with the people funding us so I'd prefer if there wasn't any more government meddling in the project" mindset, especially considering her inciting incident to join the Psychonauts with Dr. Potts.

I think Delphine's help could have helped the Psychonauts be a lot better off financially but could have changed how the management there worked. Hollis would probably be a lot less stressed out about it. Part of me likes to think that the Psychonauts eventually changes pretty drastically as an organization on account of them essentially running out of money, and the project has to be continued in a different sort of way.

#i chose not to go too in depth on the other post but this is what I had in mind #idk there isn't a lot to work with on truman's character but #i like to view him as a keenly nostalgic individual. i feel there's a bit of evidence for that #.txt #ask #hcs #oc tag #delphine feng

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Since news broke that the FBI searched former-President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday, a growing number of Republicans have spoken out against the raid.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., took to Twitter, posting a statement that read in part: "I've seen enough."

"The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization," McCarthy continued. "When Republicans take back the House, we will conduct immediate oversight of this department, follow the facts, and leave no stone unturned."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., took it a step further, tweeting: "DEFUND THE FBI!"

A Twitter account for Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee run by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, tweeted: "This is what happens in third world countries. Not the United States." Another tweet read: "If they can do it to a former President, imagine what they can do to you."

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in a series of tweets that "launching such an investigation of a former President this close to an election is beyond problematic."

"We’re 100 days away from midterm elections. President Trump is likely going to run again in 2024," Graham tweeted. "No one is above the law. The law must be above politics."

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, called the raid "incredibly concerning."

"We need answers NOW," Scott tweeted. "The FBI must explain what they were doing today & why."

Several Republican Senators used the raid to further criticize President Joe Biden's sweeping climate, health care and tax bill, which Senate Democrats passed on Sunday and which includes nearly $80 billion in funding for the Internal Revenue Service. For instance, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., tweeted: "After todays raid on Mar A Lago what do you think the left plans to use those 87,000 new IRS agents for?"

Other Republicans, including potential 2024 presidential candidates, continued to attack the Justice Department and the FBI.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis tweeted that the raid "is another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies," then said: "Banana Republic."

Former Secretary of State and ex-CIA Director Mike Pompeo said executing a search warrant against a former President "is dangerous."

"The apparent political weaponization of DOJ/FBI is shameful," Pompeo tweeted. "I served on Benghazi Com where we proved Hilliary possessed classified info. We didn't raid her home."

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tx., called the raid "unprecedented."

Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel also released a statement, asserting -- without evidence -- that the search was an attempt by Democrats to "weaponize the bureaucracy against Republicans."

"Countless times we have examples of Democrats flouting the law and abusing power with no recourse. Democrats continually weaponize the bureaucracy against Republicans," McDaniel said. "This raid is outrageous. This abuse of power must stop and the only way to do that is to elect Republicans in November."

Multiple sources confirmed to ABC News that Trump's residence in Palm Beach was raided by FBI agents on Monday, starting around 10 a.m. local time. The former President was not there at the time.

Sources said the search of Mar-a-Lago was related to the 15 boxes of documents that Trump took there when he departed the White House, some of which the National Archives has said were marked classified. In January, Trump handed over the documents to the National Archives, and his attorneys said they were searching for any more records they may have.

The former President issued a statement Monday evening, saying Mar-a-Lago "is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents." He added: "They even broke into my safe!"

Later Monday, during a planned tele-rally with Sarah Palin ahead of her upcoming special election in Alaska, Trump didn't specifically mention the raid but appeared to briefly reference it when saying: "Another day in paradise. This is a strange day."

Law enforcement sources told ABC News that the FBI's activities at Trump's compound are court-authorized.

The Justice Department and FBI declined to comment.

A senior official briefed on Monday's events told ABC News that the Secret Service was notified by the FBI a short time before agents arrived that they would be coming. The Secret Service validated the search warrant and facilitated entry into the residence, in accordance with a court order, the official said. Secret Service agents were not involved in the search.

The Secret Service declined to comment.

A Biden administration official told ABC News that the White House received no advanced notice of the raid.

The White House has otherwise referred requests for comment on the investigation to the Justice Department.

ABC News contributor and former federal prosecutor Kan Nawaday said the raid is "extraordinary" but not "that surprising."

"I don't think we've ever seen this," Nawaday told ABC News Live Prime on Monday night. "At the same time, to me, it doesn't seem that surprising, given all the evidence that the Jan. 6 Committee has set forth about possible crimes relating to [the Capitol riot]."

"I think the indication is that it's moving forward. They are taking active action and following the leads and following the evidence," he added. "It's only a matter of time, in my view, that they're going to work up the chain to other potential targets."

#us politics #news #donald trump #mar a lago #fbi #fbi raid #department of justice #ag merrick garland #merrick garland #biden administration #Florida #Republicans #conservatives #gop #rep. kevin mccarthy #rep. marjorie taylor greene #rep. jim jordan #sen. lindsey graham #sen. rick scott #sen. marco rubio #internal revenue service #gov. ron desantis #mike pompeo #Ronna McDaniel #sen. ted cruz #abc news #national archives and records administration #us secret service #2022

[lenbryant]

Ah ha! As always, follow the money. Republicans' clutching their pearls over "wokeness" is just a front. Their real ambition is to defund public schools and give the $$$ to privatizing education. Dumbing down the younger generations so they will maybe vote for them in the future.

(Times) ...Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, is hoping that fear of a “radical woke agenda” in places like this will help him secure a long-elusive goal: a voucher-style program that would award public stipends of up to $8,000 to parents who switch to homeschooling or private schools.

Abbott’s effort will test whether rhetoric about “wokeness” can convince Republicans to abandon even the nation’s most traditional public schools.

#war on education #privatizing schools #politics #maga me sick #maga #republicans #dumbing down of America #anti-woke #vote #it's all a lie

[vague-humanoid]