Justin Gibson @JGibsonDem@mastodon.social

Today is the Families Belong Together march across the nation and the world in protest against the Trump Misadministration's harsh family separation/detention policies.
Marches, via MoveOn: https://act.moveon.org/event/families-belong-together/?source=FBTsite622
#FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch #FamiliesBelongTogether #FamiliasUnidasNoDivididas #LasFamiliesMerecenEstarUnidas
#EndFamilySeparation #FindelaSeparaciónFamiliar
#EndFamilyDetention #FinalaDetenciónFamiliar

@washingtonpostbot reports that the Trump Administration may seek to detain migrant families longer than previously allowed, in violation of the Flores Settlement, #EndFamilyDetention #EndFamilySeparation #FamiliesBelongTogether https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-administration-plans-to-detain-migrant-families-for-months/2018/06/29/f9ffecb6-7bf7-11e8-93cc-6d3beccdd7a3_story.html

BREAKING: Trump will announce Kennedy's successor to #SCOTUS on July 9th. He has narrowed the shortlist down to 5, including two women.

The likely shortlist, based on PredictIt and Trump's announcement: Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Joan Larsen, Thomas Hardiman, Amul Thapar, and Raymond Kethledge. #SCOTUSWatch #SaveSCOTUS
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-kennedy-trump/trump-narrows-supreme-court-list-to-name-nominee-july-9-idUSKBN1JP2H4

Marriage equality is on a knife's edge in the wake of the retirement of Anthony Kennedy from #SCOTUS should Obergefell v. Hodges get overturned. 30 states ban marriage equality (16 of which also ban civil unions). #MarriageEquality #LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/06/see-state-will-ban-marriage-equality-supreme-court-turns-right/

Kaiser Family Foundation​ poll (06.11.2018-06.20.2018): 67% of Americans polled say NO to overturning Roe, 29% say YES to overturning Roe. Democrats [81%-16%] and Indies [73%-23%] oppose overturning Roe, while Republicans favor overturning Roe [53%-43%]. NOTE: This poll was conducted prior to Kennedy's retirement from #SCOTUS.

https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/poll-finding/further-findings-from-kaisers-june-health-tracking-poll-womens-issues/

Vox Exclusive: Trump Misadministration plan would bar people who enter illegally into the US from getting asylum. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/29/17514590/asylum-illegal-central-american-immigration-trump

Clare Foran reports for CNN Politics about the states' plans to set up for the possible weakening or overturning Roe v. Wade at #SCOTUS by passing draconian laws similar to Iowa's heartbeat bill. #SaveRoe #DefendRoe #ProtectRoe #Abortion #RoevWade
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/29/politics/abortion-roe-v-wade-supreme-court/index.html

Michael Moore​ on last night's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert​: “Sadly, Trump is not going to leave. He plans to be reelected, he loves the term ‘president for life.’ The only way that we’re going to stop this is eventually we’re all going to have to put our bodies on the line. You’re going to have to be willing to do this.”
#MichaelMoore

https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-moore-we-have-to-put-our-bodies-on-the-line-to-stop-trump

The shooting that killed 5 and injured several others at the Capital-Gazette in Annapolis, MD comes in the wake of White Nationalist Milo Yiannopoulos' dangerous call to gun down journalists and Trump's repeated anti-American attacks on the free press. #CapitalGazette #Annapolis
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-gazette-shooting-20180628-story.html

Charles Blow writes in the NY Times today in op-ed called "Trump Remakes America" in the wake of Kennedy's retirement from #SCOTUS why Trump has remade and will continue to remake America into a far-right authoritarian hellhole country akin to Hungary.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/opinion/anthony-kennedy-supreme-court.html

Emma Green at The Atlantic: Anthony Kennedy’s retirement from #SCOTUS could have a huge effect on a number of issues-- abortion may be the biggest, as Roe v. Wade will be in serious jeopardy. #SaveRoe #ProtectRoe #RoevWade #Abortion
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/the-coming-battle-to-overturn-roe-v-wade/563936

Earth to Russian Puppet Trump: the Russians interfered in the 2016 elections to install you as our "President."
This serves as a reminder that he loves to kiss Putin's rump while disparaging Hillary any chance he gets. #TrumpRussia #TrumpPutin

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/trump-vouches-putins-innocence-election-meddling-early-morning-twitter-rant/

It's official: Trump and Putin will have their first bilateral meeting on July 16th in Helsinki, Finland. This meeting will be held while 45 is under investigation from Mueller in the #TrumpRussia probe.
#TrumpPutin #TrumpPutinSummit

https://www.buzzfeed.com/hazelshearing/president-trump-putin-meeting

Some examples:
- Roe v. Wade will likely be overturned, and abortion rights will be severely harmed.
- LGBTQ rights will be chipped away at and/or overturned.
- Partisan gerrymandering will continue.
- Anti-Discrimination Laws could be weakened and/or overturned.
- Religious exemption laws protecting conservative Christians' rights to discriminate against LGBTQ, Atheists, Muslims and women could be strengthened.
- The movement to end the death penalty could stagnate.
#SCOTUS #AnthonyKennedy

Ian Millhiser at ThinkProgress lays down the stakes of how disastrous the retirement of conservative-leaning swing justice Anthony Kennedy as #SCOTUS justice is for progressive policy in the USA and will send this nation down a far-right tunnel. #AnthonyKennedy
https://thinkprogress.org/the-horrifying-consequences-of-justice-kennedys-retirement-90c450d9d106/

BREAKING: Justice Anthony Kennedy, the "swing vote" on the Supreme Court, will retire effective July 31st. Any pick of Trump's to fill Kennedy's seat will swing the court further to the right. #SCOTUS #AnthonyKennedy
https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/justice-anthony-kennedy-retires

BREAKING: Joe Jackson, the patriarch of the Jackson 5, has passed away at 89 years old. #RIPJoeJackson
- @VanityFair

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/06/joe-jackson-obituary

BREAKING: The Trump-Putin summit is on track to be held sometime in July. The announcement of the exact day, time, and location will come tomorrow. #TrumpPutin #TrumpPutinSummit
- @cnn
https://cnn.it/2MZwGY5