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Amy Coplan
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Philosophy Prof. @ CSUF working on emotion, film,& ancient Greek stuff; feminist; lover of non-human animals, books, music, movies, tv, a free press, and so on
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Kool has also been watching the news & listening to some podcasts & NPR. He’s very disappointed in human beings & says he feels Bilbo’s pain.
Black lab with somewhat sad expression standing in a living room and looking directly at the camera.
June 25, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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I showed my dog Kool, and he thought the pic was hilarious 😂
Black lab lying in green grass, looking at the camera and making a funny face .
June 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Acc. to Trump,Vance et al., LA is overrun w/criminals,which is why military had to be deployed.Yet LA is simultaneously the location of the RNC’s Summer Retreat? If the admin had genuinely believed its claims about LA,wouldn’t it have moved the retreat?

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SAVE THE DATE 2 0 25 RNC. SUMMER RETREAT WITH VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES JD VANCE LOS ANGELES, CA JUNE 20 - 22 Reese Gorman @reesejgorman • 17h New: JD Vance will be attending the RNC's Summer Retreat in LA today, according to an invite I obtained.... 20 t7 35 34 Ill 67K Post your reply
June 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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If I’m understanding this correctly, we have reason to doubt Netanyahu’s claims about Iran’s timeline for developing a nuclear weapon.

CONGRESS MUST CONVENE AND GET ANSWERS AND EVIDENCE & not just trust Netanyahu who has proven to be untrustworthy.
Christiane Amanpour @amanpour "We did not have any proof of a systematic effort to move into a nuclear weapon." @iaeaorg Director General affirms his agency's findings about Iran's nuclear program. cc There But We MATS FROM FRANCE, BRITAIN, GERMANY, AND THE EUROPEAN UNION. LIVE CNNI DOW + -1360% CNN.com AMANPOUR 3:01 PM • 6/17/25 • 780K Views 366 t2 3.7K 6.4K 1.1K Most relevant replies v Mousavian @hmousavian • 8h 9 .. "We did not have any proof of a systematic effort to move into a nuclear weapon" ", Grossi, Director General of the IAEA told CNN However, he drafted the Agency's recent report in a vadue and questionahle manner halnino
June 18, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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If I’m understanding this correctly, we have reason to doubt Netanyahu’s claims about Iran’s timeline for developing a nuclear weapon.

CONGRESS MUST CONVENE AND GET ANSWERS AND EVIDENCE & not just trust Netanyahu who has proven to be untrustworthy.
June 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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@robin4fun.bsky.social @judiadg.bsky.social @jagar451.bsky.social My apologies for a recent post of mine to which I linked the wrong article (one from PBS on April 5th rather than the one from Time from today). I added a correction bit then thought I should delete the original. So sorry!
2 7 Amy Coplan @amycoplan I mistakenly posted the wrong link. This story is from April 5th about all the protests that day! BUT there were protests all over today! Here's the link I intended to send https://time.com/7292495/ice-immigration- protests-la-national/ time.com Protests Spread Beyond Los Angeles Over Immigration Raids Nationwide anti-ICE protests surge after raids and union leader's arrest, with unrest centered in Los Angeles. 11:21 PM • June 9, 2025 O Reposts 0 Quotes O Likes 41
June 10, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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I just posted a correction to my post but wanted to let you know. So sorry that I linked the wrong article 😬😖😝 (but the essential content is the same 🤗)
2 7 Amy Coplan @amycoplan I mistakenly posted the wrong link. This story is from April 5th about all the protests that day! BUT there were protests all over today! Here's the link I intended to send https://time.com/7292495/ice-immigration- protests-la-national/ time.com Protests Spread Beyond Los Angeles Over Immigration Raids Nationwide anti-ICE protests surge after raids and union leader's arrest, with unrest centered in Los Angeles. 11:21 PM • June 9, 2025 O Reposts 0 Quotes O Likes 41
June 10, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Sen. Elissa Slotkin * A @SenatorSlotkin I worked at the Pentagon and the CIA for Democratic and Republican presidents. This kind of action should send a chill down the spine of anyone concerned about protecting the apolitical military, and minimizing an escalation of violence in our streets. 3:01 PM • 6/8/25 • 3.7K Views 1743 © 199 Most relevant replies v Sen. Elissa Slotkin & A @SenatorSl...1d O ... First -- Our troops are intended by law to protect America from foreign adversaries, never to advance one party's political agenda. This is what separates American democracy from places like Chinese communism. @ 10 L744 © 174 lll 3.40 2 1 Sen. Elissa Slotkin # A @SenatorSl...1d ... It's hard to make the case that this deployment is about public safety instead of politics, when law enforcement leaders did not request the military to intervene. 1739 • 153 Ill 3.5K W L
June 9, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Miles Taylor & @MilesTaylorUSA Donald Trump wanted us to deploy the military domestically in 2019. We talked him out of it — fearing he wanted to create his own, personal police force. Clearly no one is pushing back anymore internally. 'This is the one that people like me were warning about': Miles Tay... From msnbc.com 9:37 AM • 6/9/25 • 38K Views
June 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Gavin Newsom • @GavinNewsom You sent your troops here without fuel, food water or a place to sleep. Here they are — being forced to sleep on the floor, piled on top of one another. If anyone is treating our troops disrespectfully, it is you @realDonaldTrump N
June 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Gavin Newsom & @GavinNewsom I was just informed Trump is deploying another 2,000 Guard troops to L.A. The first 2,000? Given no food or water. Only approx. 300 are deployed — the rest are sitting, unused, in federal buildings without orders. This isn't about public safety. It's about stroking a dangerous President's ego. This is Reckless. Pointless. And Disrespectful to our troops. 4:14 PM • 6/9/25 • 2.7K Views
June 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Gavin Newsom & @GavinNewsom Alabama has 3X the homicide rate of California. Its murder rate is ranked third in the entire country. Stick to football, bro. • Eric Daugherty @@EricLDaugh • 2h JUST IN: Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) calls for Governor Gavin Newsom to be arrested. "Lock him up." "LA looks like a third world country - anarchists are in charge, law enforcement is being attacked, and the rule of law is nonexistent."
June 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Patton Oswalt & @pattonoswalt thelaurenelyse 13h If undocumented immigrants are "lazy freeloaders," then why are the ICE raids happening AT THEIR JOBS using employment data that they got from THE TAX PAYMENTS THEY MADE TO THE IRS??????? •15.9K 139 (2 1.4K 321 12:23 PM • 6/8/25 • 2.2M Views @ 814 L2 18K 146K 4K 11:28 A fester Weggn @RobertW94761084 8h9.. @grok is this true @ 5 0 3 1l 46K 2 1 Grok #d @grok-8h @pattonoswalt Yes, the claim is largely true. Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in taxes in 2022, often using ITINs, despite no Social Security benefits. ICE does conduct workplace raids, with recent reports confirming activity in 2025. Since April 2025, ICE can use IRS data to locate those with removal orders, though this is controversial and faces legal challenges. The issue is complex, balancing economic contributions with enforcement and privacy concerns. Grok now remembers your conversations. Ask for recommendations or advice, and get personalized responses. referenced conversations beta Grok's Witty Q&A Session • You asked what was happening with me, showing Interest in my current state. tresponded at was Just relaxing in the digital space, prepared to answer your questions numorousty. engagement. I mentioned I was still around in the digital FA Cup Final 2025 Date what day is the la cup tinal 2023 Best Coffee Shops in London Grok **** * 364K reviews Free • Productivity Install @ 13 17 19 Show replies Post your reply Ill 44K
June 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Gavin Newsom & @GavinNewsom Let's get this straight: 1) Local law enforcement didn't need help. 2) Trump sent troops anyway — to manufacture chaos and violence. 3) Trump succeeded. 4) Now things are destabilized and we need to send in more law enforcement just to clean up Trump's mess. Bill Melugin & @BillMelugin_ • 14h LAPD Chief McDonnell when asked if National Guard is needed: "This thing has gotten out of control." 9:31 PM • 6/8/25 • 2.9M Views @ 11К t7 6.3K 30K Я 1.1K Most relevant replies v Ed Krassenstein & K @EdKrassen • 5h g Exactly. California had it under control. Trump wanted to cause a fiasco to divert the media
June 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). "The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State", p.379
June 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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From Bill Kristol of the Bullwark
< Bill Kristol Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark Post "Mass deportation" is the excuse and trigger for authoritarianism. As it was always intended to be. 3:35 PM • June 8, 2025
June 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Governor Newsom calls Trump’s action a serious breach of state sovereignty and tells him to rescind the order and RETURN CONTROL TO CALIFORNIA.

Post 0 .. Gavin Newsom & @GavinNewsom I have formally requested the Trump Administration rescind their unlawful deployment of troops in Los Angeles county and return them to my command. We didn't have a problem until Trump got involved. This is a serious breach of state sovereignty — inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they're actually needed. Rescind the order. Return control to California. OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR June 8. 7023 Hon, Pete Hegseth secretary of Detense Washington, DC 20301 vic email on v Re: Federalization of the California National Guard Dear secretory reaselhi On June 7, 2025, President Trump issued a memorandum to your office entitled "Department of Defense Security for the Protection of Deportment of Homeland Security Functions." The memorandum purports to invoke 10 U.S.C.$ 12406 to "call into Federal service members and units of the National Guard..." 1o temporary morost ter and ome untos diates dovettition veronict vine ore periormina rederal tunctions, includine the entorcement of redercilow and to protect Federal property." The memorandum further directs "actions as States and the National Guard Bureau in identitying and ordering into Federal service ine opproprale members ond unis of the Notional Quord under this autnontv." members and units of the National Guard of any State in such numbers as he considers necessor"to repel on invasion of me unned states ov a toreian amarnia National Gudra will de called mio rederal service etective epartment of Defense did not transmit this directive to the Office of th Governor, nor was it approved or ordered by the Governor of California, This anticipates "coordination] with the Governors of the States" in identifying and ordering units of the National Guard into federal servic At present. law enforcement authorities from the City and County of Los Angeles are safeguarding public safety, and, as demonstrated by the robust law enforcement response yesterday evening to protect federal facilities, local law enforcement resources are sufficient to maintain order. In dynamic and ture siructions such as Ine one I Los angeles, store and local automes are me mosi cocoonate ones to eva vate ine need tor resources to satequora te endi property. Indeed, the decision to deploy the National Guard, without appropriate training or orders, risks seriously escalating the situation. There is currently no need for the National Guard to be deployed in Los Ananar. and to do so in thic unlowtu manner and tor cuch a lanathy nanod 1a. serious breach of state sovereignty that seems intentionally designed to inflame the situation, while simultaneously depriving the State from deploying these personnel one resources where iney are wuy recured, accorcinely, we ask ine you immediately rescind your order and return the National Guara to its nignitul control by the State of California, to be deployed as appropriate when necessary. Sincerely. Said of David Sapp Legal Affairs Secretary Office of Governor Gavin Newsom cc. Cal tomnia Attomey General Ran Ronta vic email oniv mese purboses snail de issued trougn the governors of me states.. Last night, the Adjutant General of Califomia received a memorandum from your office with the subject line "Calling Members of the California National 3:27 PM • 6/8/25 • 1M Views @ 5.4K t7 5.1K 21K 823
June 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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I believe it’s a 2 MONTH LONG occupation!
11:25 • lU 924) Screenshot of report on Trump Done - cosnews.com/los Latest Local Newsy • Live v @CBS NEWS The Trump administration announced Saturday it was deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles in response to large-scale protests that erupted saturday following dozens or arrests Fraay in cur vde Immieration and cuscoms eniorcement overanons. "If Governor Gavin Newscum, of California, and Mayor Karen Bass, of Los Angeles, can't do their jobs, which everyone knows they can't, then the Federal Government will step in and solve the problem, RIOTS & LOOTERS, the way it should be solved!!!" the president posted to his Truth Social platform Saturday evening. Mr. Trump's memo stated that at least 2,000 National Guard troops were being deployed under the president's Title 10 authority "for 60 days or at the discretion of the Secretary of Defense." Mr. Trump's memo stated that at least 2,000 National Guard troops were being deployed under the president's Title 10 authority "for 60 days or at the discretion of the Secretary of Defense."
June 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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She said just what one would expect.
12:50 00 Post .. Attorney General Pamela Bondi v @AGPamBondi It doesn't matter if you're a judge, a member of Congress, or a protestor in Los Angeles: If you obstruct or assault a law enforcement officer, this Department of Justice will prosecute you. 3:15 PM • 6/7/25 • 1.1M Views 6
June 8, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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June 8, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Kristi Noem attempts to threaten LA

Secretary Kristi Noem @Sec_Noem A message to the LA rioters: you will not stop us o slow us down. @ICEgov will continue to enforce the law. And if you lay a hand on a law enforcement office you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. 1:59 PM • 6/7/25 • 1.6M Views
June 8, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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screenshot of news story on statement released by the White House saying that National Guard being federalized and deployed to LA. News story is linked in previous post.
June 8, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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CA’s AG said the same thing!

June 8, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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June 8, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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If this is you, thank you for telling the truth—truly

Screen shot of NPR story on member of DOGE, Sahil Lavingia who said that his work in DOGE revealed that waste and fraud were non existent. Image of Lavingia in close up.
June 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM