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A group of us have arrived on the Senate floor to challenge our colleagues - on both sides of the aside - to rise to this moment and jointly condemn what has happened to Sen. Padilla. Yes we still need to collect the full facts, but this appears to be a defining moment for the country.

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"Mobilizing military forces into cities is going to be seen as an overreach, and it's going to be now met with peaceful, boisterous moms, dads, grandmas. kids and their dogs and families showing up, saying, 'we're not going to put up with this authoritarianism..." www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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Kristi Noem has that rare ability to shoot her dog in the face and it still not be the worst thing she ever did in her sorry, lying life.

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“What Senator Alex Padilla did today was political theater.” --Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater

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Don't let them lie to you about Senator Padilla. DHS is claiming the agents DID NOT KNOW he was a senator. He CLEARLY says (BEFORE he is tackled and cuffed) "I am Senator Alex Padilla and I have a question for the secretary."

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America’s neighborhoods are not war zones. Peaceful protesters are not enemy combatants—they’re Americans who have the constitutional right to peacefully assemble and speak up. Acting Ranking Member @lynch.house.gov opens today’s hearing on Donald Trump’s militarization of Los Angeles.

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Q: Which premiers aren't stepping up? ANGUS: Clearly, we see Danielle Smith and Premier Moe breaking the boycott, inviting US alcohol back into the stores. What’s that about?... Smith needs to stop threatening to break up our country and start standing with the rest of Canada. #cdnpoli

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I am sounding the alarm as loudly as I can that Donald Trump has turned the Department of Justice into a cog in his authoritarian machine to prosecute his political opponents.

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THE Wonder Woman weighs in!

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The lack of total outrage at the indictment of Congresswoman McIvey is truly frightening. Hakeem Jeffries ought to be causing high holy hell over this. She is indicted because she is Black. Half of the GOP caucus engaged in sedition and Garland felt arresting a member of congress went too far.

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States with permissive gun laws experienced a rise in pediatric deaths from firearm injuries between 2011 and 2023, whereas states with stricter laws did not. That's according to a new study published in JAMA Pediatrics. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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I….don’t see how it can in the United States.

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Gavin Newsom and his team are doing a good job at social media. Using comebacks and memes to just straight up murder muffukahs. Pay attention, Dems. This is how it’s done.

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PAY ATTENTION: They didn’t just erase our history. They criminalized it. Now they’re banning every page that tells the truth. But we remember. And we wrote it down.

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I challenged Secretary Noem almost a month ago on DHS’s reckless deportation practices. Since then, the cruelty has only escalated. Enough is enough.

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A piece of advice from an old retired soldier to the commanders and leaders currently serving: Review the regulations & policies addressing political behavior when wearing the uniform, and then address those standards with your teams.

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We feed you. They hunt us.

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“You have made progress.” “You are not a danger to yourself or others.” The denial letter from Geneva Moore’s insurer directly contradicted her therapist’s words. Cut off from her treatment program, Moore slid into a monthslong downward spiral. (Published Dec. 2024)

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Disney on ICE. 🥲

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Must Read: In federalizing the California National Guard over the objections of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), Trump is asserting broad powers that could be used against any state, legal scholars and national security experts told Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/tru...

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Do you remember What’s the Matter with Kansas? It argued that white working class people vote for culture war stuff against their economic interests. That work was based on the flawed assumption that voters know they do that. They don’t know and won’t unless we tell them.

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he’s just completely vacuous. he talks in television sound-bytes and clearly does not think about a word coming out of his mouth

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Pope Leo’s first US episcopal appointment, San Diego’s Bishop-designate Pham, a Vietnamese refugee, invites priests and faith leaders to “stand in solidarity”with migrants at courthouse on June 20, as they make court appearances.

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Every major Dem politician needs to realize that, in this environment, they can schedule a "speech to the nation," like Newsom did, and get tons of media coverage. Just do it.

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I’m begging politicians to stop saying “Let me be clear” at the beginning of every statement. “At the end of the day” can go too.

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the perfect pop song doesn't exis—

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Reminder that I AM LATINA AND PROUD. I am the product of immigration - my grandmother was undocumented and entered the country from Mexico as a baby. My mother was a fierce, gorgeous Latina woman of Mexican and Spanish descent.

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BREAKING: Judge says Mahmoud Khalil cannot be detained or deported based on Rubio’s determination. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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It took THREE WEEKS to get this indictment. I have to ask; how many grand juries did they shop before getting the indictment? www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

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Rep. McIver was conducting oversight. That’s her duty as a Member of Congress. This isn’t justice—it’s retaliation. A political stunt meant to silence anyone who dares to hold power accountable. They may think they can scare us into silence. They’re dead wrong.

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W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

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Double.

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Why is ICE arresting employees but not employers? DOJ policy is to charge the most culpable people. The employers would seem to qualify.

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WTH @joecourtney.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social Those on this list will start to see primary challengers in 3…2…

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i think southern baptists should probably consider a ban on being led by child predators

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The same president who wants to cut $800B from Medicaid and strip health care from 16 million Americans to fund tax cuts for billionaires...is spending $134M to send troops to CA and $45M on his birthday parade in DC. Burning taxpayer dollars to play king. Un-American.

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We need to hear the Dems standing strong and firm with Rep. McIver.

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JUST IN: Judge finds Trump administration in breach of agreement Biden admin signed settling litigation over family separation policy. Judge Dana Sabraw (GWBush) says feds are obliged to find private lawyers to aid class members. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

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Who does he think he’s talking to? Dude grew up 3 miles from me in Queens and talks like doesn’t know what country he lives in.

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