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Gov Gavin Newsom’s TikTok page is 🔥

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

Good question.

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

We were promised peace through strength and we got wars from incompetence.

Senator Mike Lee pretended he was on the phone to avoid being confronted by @smith.senate.gov after he mocked assassination victims this weekend. She made sure he heard what she had to say.

holy shit -- acting US attorney Thompson details that Boelter went to the homes of two other elected officials after shooting Hoffman but before going to Hortman's house. One cop encountered him at the third house but thought he was a police officer.

Utah voters: Are these really your values? Mike Lee is the best you can do?

Hey there Scott Walker. I noticed you deleted this after learning that in fact the shooter was from the right. I don’t think it matters either way, violence is violence, so I’m waiting for you to tweet the same thing with corrected facts? Cuz you’re uh, to use your words, “being silent.”

“Trump is…incapable of grasping how despised he is…and sadists like Noem and Miller are determined to prove the harsher the cruelty and criminality, the greater the success. But Saturday’s protests boosted my belief this false proposition will not last.” www.americaamerica.news/p/the-energy...

Okay, this is so weird. I came across this June 3, 1933 issue of a French satirical magazine at our local flea market and I was shockingly struck by how much the guy licking Hitler’s boots looks like…

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This is a United States Senator mocking the assassination of a Minnesota legislator and her husband. He pretends to be a good Mormon. He’s a sick fuck.

🧵I think it’s important to understand what disinformation like Sen. Mike Lee’s tweets are trying to do, psychologically/cognitively. In my disinfo class/Substack, I talk about how disinfo often uses “moral disengagement strategies” to manipulate people into accepting harmful conduct 1/

Wait. That military parade is supposed to make other countries fear and respect us more?

97% of extremist-related murders in the U.S. in 2024 were linked to right-wing extremists. It’s not a political movement anymore - it’s a hobby for failed men with too much testosterone and not enough brain cells.

That army parade was straight outta Spinal Tap.

Defense attorney Shabazz says “snitch #1” is undocumented, has been deported 5 times, was serving a federal sentence until recently — and didn’t cooperate until Kilmar was famous and the federal agents offered him leniency. Prosecutor asks him to stop calling them “snitches”

The "I'll lower costs and get us out of endless wars" candidate is now presiding over surging costs and brand new wars.

Clearly, Trump cannot live up to this standard.

AOC: When they say illegal vs legal immigration—they are trying to end legal status in the US making people undocumented and then they have the audacity to call them illegal when they were here documented.

I've said it once, and I'll keep saying it as long as I'm governor: If you come for Illinoisans, you have to come through me.

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.”

This is a lie. We all saw the video. The Senator clearly identified himself, and he did not "lunge" toward anyone.   If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?

"Please continue peacefully protesting": Sen. Padilla after forced removal from DHS presser

Double.

Honestly this is a pretty good response

They’re ripping kids out of their parents’ arms—again. In America. In our names. DHS raids don’t just “enforce law”—they shatter families like glass on pavement. A child’s scream isn’t collateral damage. It’s the sound of a democracy losing its soul. This is cruelty by design.

Also remember, these very public immigration raids are Trump’s attempt to distract you from the economy that he has singlehandedly fucked up.

👇 Hearing the same from a lot of friends and family in LA

Whenever law enforcement agents are given a quota of a specific number of people to arrest or detain, especially with the WH policy director screaming at their superiors to hit those target numbers, bad things are going to happen. Quotas always result in civil rights violations.