Re: June 10, 2025 (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 05:53:15 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > this quotes Gov Gav's speech most of which KQED missed

Yeah.  Good speech.  Unfortunately, he's not the progressive savior we're
all wishing we'd see.

When he mentioned serving your family "hors d'oeuvre", I knew there was a
disconnect.

 >  > From: Heather Cox Richardson from Letters from an American  <http://www.substack.com/~heathercoxrichardson>
 >  > Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 06:03:37 +0000
 >  > 
 >  > View this post on the web at 
 >  > https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-10-2025
 >  > 
 >  > Tonight Governor Newsom delivered a prime-time address about the events of 
 >  > the past few days. He outlined the story of the ICE raids and Trump’s 
 >  > escalation of conflict. He urged protesters to exercise their First 
 >  > Amendment rights peacefully and warned that anyone participating in violence 
 >  > would be held accountable.
 >  > Then the governor launched into a wholesale condemnation of the Trump 
 >  > regime. He warned that “[i]f some of us can be snatched off the streets 
 >  > without a warrant, based only on suspicion or skin color, then none of us 
 >  > are safe. Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting people who are least able 
 >  > to defend themselves. But they do not stop there.”
 >  > Newsom called Trump out for firing the government watchdogs that could hold 
 >  > him accountable for fraud, and for declaring war “on culture, on history, 
 >  > on science, on knowledge itself. Databases quite literally are vanishing. He�>  > ��s delegitimizing news organizations and he’s assaulting the First 
 >  > Amendment…. [H]e’s dictating what universities themselves can teach. He� >  > �s targeting law firms and the judicial branch that are the foundations of 
 >  > an orderly and civil society. He’s calling for a sitting governor to be 
 >  > arrested for no other reason than…, in his own words, ‘for getting 
 >  > elected.’”
 >  > “[T]his isn’t just about protests here in Los Angeles,” Newsom said. � >  > �When Donald Trump sought blanket authority to commandeer the National Guard,
 >  >  he made that order apply to every state in this nation. This is about all 
 >  > of us. This is about you. Ca may be first, but it clearly will not 
 >  > end here. Other states are next.”
 >  > “Democracy is under assault right before our eyes,” Newsom said. “This 
 >  > moment we have feared has arrived. He’s taking a wrecking ball…to our 
 >  > founding fathers’ historic project: three coequal branches of independent 
 >  > government.”
 >  > Newsom urged Americans to stand up for the country. “I know many of you 
 >  > are feeling deep anxiety, stress, and fear,” he said. “But I want you to 
 >  > know that you are the antidote to that fear and that anxiety. What Donald 
 >  > Trump wants most is your fealty, your silence, to be complicit in this 
 >  > moment,” Newsom said.
 >  > “Do not give in to him.”
 >  > —