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The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20. (Via Christopher Hale)

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there's something interesting here in how judges are building on each other's arguments, even in very different cases, in working through how to approach the administration's bad faith storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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BREAKING The US Embassy in Israel has ordered all employees and their families to shelter in place.

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Rep. Crow: "At Fort Bragg in front of our beloved 82nd Airborne Division, sitting there while we politicize the military and pull our paratroopers into politics, booing elected officials, booing politicians with whom you disagree — it's antithetical to our values."

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In 2018, Donald Trump, then in his first term as US president, let Iran out of nuclear restrictions in exchange for nothing. Many people, very much including me, warned that he put things on a path with only two possible outcomes: large-scale war, or a nuclear-armed Iran. And here we are.

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“.. the bottom 30% of households would come out worse off ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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I wasn't under the impression that the Department of Homeland Security was authorized to unseat and replace local elected governments. (Her security detail then proceeded to wrestle a US Senator to the ground and handcuff him). Dark days indeed.

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Our survey of LGBTQ adults in the U.S. found that most who are married to or living with a same-sex spouse or partner (63%) say their relationship is going very well, and married respondents are especially likely to say this. www.pewresearch.org/...

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Newsom: "He's been a stone cold liar about what he said we talked about. He never discussed the National Guard. Period. Full stop. I would love to share with you what he actually talked about. It would send shivers up your spine."

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Just sayin

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"They took her in a car, in essence kidnapping her ... I met another young woman whose husband has quite literally disappeared" -- Newsom shares harrowing details of specific cases of ICE terrorizing immigrants in California

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Fuck the puppy killer and the curling iron she rode in on

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"The Trumpian June 14, 2025 parade and celebration will be the successor to that angry insurrection of January 6, 2021—a celebration of 'patriotism' that is deeply anti-democratic, and of a man who is the most authoritarian president in American history."

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In retrospect it probably wasn't a good idea to allow private-equity bros to buy up, suck dry, & discard numerous important US businesses and institutions.

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The Trump Administration physically attacking members of Congress, and Republican members of Congress making up excuses for it. Hmmm ... I wonder when we've seen that before.

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This is just f'ing awesome: tiny little solar power plants are sprouting on German balconies. A million of them now! This needs to be legalized in the US, ASAP. I want my own balkonkraftwerk.

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An MSNBC anchor just definitively claimed Padilla didn't identify himself when video clearly shows he did. So fucking irresponsible. This is how lies spread.

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Noem is now claiming (falsely) that Sen. Padilla didn't identify himself. Huh. I'd ask her to imagine how confusing it must be when masked men with guns don't identify themselves to people they're grabbing off the streets.

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Let's be absolutely clear: physically assaulting a US Senator for simply asking a question is disgraceful. We stand with Senator Padilla and all those peacefully defending working people against this administration's attacks.

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💯 A huge win for democracy and blow to little dictator donald

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Republicans have been openly lying about the effects of their policies for decades now and the media never holds them to account or imposes any kind of social or reputational penalty, so why wouldn't they keep doing it?

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Booker has it right. This is a constitutional, institutional issue. Do we have equal branches of government or not?

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We will, Senator. See you all at NO KINGS this Saturday!

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It’s true, as many have suggested, that if they can do this to Sen. Padilla, they can do it to others. I’d only add that they already have been doing this to others. A mass deportation regime, sooner rather than later, becomes contemptuous of civil liberties and basic decency.

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“His actions were illegal—both exceeding the scope of his statutory authority and violating the Tenth Amendment to the [US] Constitution. He must therefore return control of the California National Guard to the Governor of the State of California forthwith.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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BREAKING A federal judge has ordered President Trump to revert control of the National Guard back to California and Governor Newsom. Judge Breyer said Trump’s order was illegal.

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Trump Tax Bill Would Help the Richest, Hurt the Poorest, CBO Says - apple.news/ABlutvlWFSWe...

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We have long passed the point when impeachment is justified

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Federal judge just ordered Trump to return control of California Army National Guard to Newsom.

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Senator Padilla spoke moments AFTER Kristi Noem outrageously stated she intended to “liberate” the City of Los Angeles from its democratically-elected mayor and governor. He had every right to confront her about her incendiary, hateful, and deeply stupid statement.

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The Department of Homeland Security is lying. @padilla.senate.gov identified himself. Urging everyone to go out and righteously and peacefully exercise your freedom of speech and assembly. That’s how we take back our country.

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SEN. PADILLA: “Saying I lunged is a lie, but that’s par for the course for this administration… I was behind the cameras listening, and at a certain point hearing Noem say they had to rescue LA from the Governor and Mayor was too much to take. So I raise my voice to ask a question.”

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Kristi Noem must resign

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What a very strange coincidence that all the lawmakers they target like this happen to not be white.

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He did not “lunge” at Secretary Noem. He DID identify himself. Our government is lying.👇

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“You see plenty of elected officials getting into it with each other. You do not see the FBI or secret service dragging their colleagues to the floor and cuffing them…It is the ethos of this administration to treat people not as colleagues, but enemies." - @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

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Been joined so far by @booker.senate.gov @schatz.bsky.social @pattymurray.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @coons.senate.gov @jeff-merkley.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social and others. This is a defining moment.

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Misspelled “be prosecuted”

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Senator Padilla was driven violently to his knees–as if made to kneel before the authority of the executive–because the administration called his questions “disrespectful”. This should offend not just the other 99 Senators. It should offend the conscience of this country.

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I think the main thing is he wants vital emergency relief to be personalized rather than institutionalized. It’s not that the federal government won’t aid states hit by disasters; it’s that he wants them to kneel & beg him personally.

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This is an impeachable offense.

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