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joshcain.bsky.social
Recovering reporter. Now I organize. IATSE Local 871. Former Newsguild-CWA. Forever SCNG Guild.
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"I'm taking these accusations against me seriously. Trump is a convicted criminal (multiple felonies in New York), a rebel (in a racist Confederate way), & an insurrectionist (Jan. 6). When Trump calls me those things, he is speaking from long personal experience."

Good morning, I'm outside the ICE detention center in Adelanto, California. A number of Southern California members of Congress are again going to try to get inside and inspect conditions that people recently swept up in immigration raids are being kept in.

A reporter from The City had overheard one agent say to another minutes before Lander’s arrest, “Do you want to arrest the Comptroller?” www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/17/b...

They want the law and order. They want tough talkin' police chiefs. Makes them feel good!

It's pretty notable that mainstream, establishment discourse never ever ever considers giving liberal politicians credit for crime reductions. It's almost axiomatic that if crime goes down under a center-left leader it's either unremarked upon, or must be driven by something else.

can't get over how stereotypical every ice goon looks. oafish henchmen with shitty fades. these bozos should be in movies getting knocked out by batman

L.A. TACO has confirmed with Brian Gavidia who filmed this troubling footage, that federal agents abducted his U.S.-born Mexican American friend, Javier Ramirez yesterday at 4 PM in Montebello. ~ @theglutster.bsky.social

At some point we gotta start arrest ICE agents for kidnapping

“Border patrol came without a warrant to my family’s business. They took my cousin who is a US citizen. This happened 6/12/25 at 4:33pm” 👇🏼 Naty2023 TikTok

EXCLUSIVE/BREAKING Gregory Sanabria Tarazona, a Venezuelan activist tortured inside Nicolás Maduro's notorious El Heliocoide prison, is seeking asylum in the U.S. Weeks before his initial hearing, he was making a routine check-in when ICE detained him @schmidtsam.bsky.social reports wapo.st/3HE9dwu

Kristi Noem, Dr. Phil, and ICE went to this woman’s home in Huntington Park, CA at 6am to make a spectacle and you want me to be satisfied with @governor.ca.gov flowery words? Watch. It’s disgusting. Noem belongs in prison.

This is very revealing and extremely upsetting. A lot of these people aren't even hateful, they're just dumb as rocks. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

now it's just ICE vs 10 million LA County residents lmao what's up dudes

I hope one of the parade tanks crushes the road with its weight and falls into with sewer system and splashes trump wirh poop

Good thing elite institutions in this country didn’t spend the last year affirming their ironclad political support for a rogue foreign state. That probably would have been a mistake

I missed that he actually said this and I cannot believe it

No, #BrokenTimes, he did not "confront" Noem. He questioned Noem. You are playing into what you know will be the government's narrative. You (should) know better. Senator Is Forcibly Removed After Confronting Noem in L.A. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

the wildest thing about this is that noem’s comments may have mostly been limited to social media before their idiot goons manhandled a senator, but even super checked out californians are gonna hear them now, good luck in the liberation of los angeles, DHS

Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

Immigrants are our neighbors. ICE are the invaders.

“ICE” as snatching people from churches now. Never forget they said this👇🏾 MAN AT CHURCH: “We don’t want this in our property.” ICE: “The whole country is our property.” No IDs shown, non-government out of state plates, basic tactical vests that just say police. Who are these men?

this image of the FBI at the orders of the state to arrest an elected politician for just asking the DHS secretary a question needs to be spread for the next 4 years when talking about the fascism of this administration

The footage is disturbing. They threw a US Senator to the ground and handcuffed him for asking a question at a press conference. Fascism. Don’t look away.

DHS is also lying about him being repeatedly told to back away. The video shows the men who pushed him don’t even open their mouths, they just grab him and get them out of the room without saying a word.

DHS is arguing members of the Secret Service don't know who a U.S. Senator is, that he didn't identify himself (he does in the tape), lunged towards the Noem (not evident on the tape), and somehow all this necessitated him being hauled away, thrown to the ground and cuffed. x.com/DHSgov/statu...

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

This should be people's takeaway, not "they're going to round us all up," these people are terrified, especially the ones who understand how unpopular all this is (Trump himself excluded obviously)

Absolutely. These assholes would be a nice start.

would also like to note that Alex Padilla is a large man and that four little guys were required to restrain him

I think California needs to start arresting Feds. drastic but we’re there.

this is egregiously bad and all of these people should go to prison, but this is not what a stable regime who are secure in their consolidation of power looks like, they’re coming unglued

Alex Padilla is a real one. More representatives need to start crashing these press conferences.

Senator Alex Padilla is one of the most decent people I know. This is outrageous, dictatorial, and shameful. Trump and his shock troops are out of control. This must end now.

BREAKING: Sen. Alex Padilla was just thrown to the ground and detained at a presser held by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

Alex Padilla born and raised in LA 💪

Trump Administration goons are using force against sitting United State Senators. We're not "on the brink" of fascism, it is 1000% here.

I’m in downtown LA where a couple hundred anti-ICE protesters have just started demonstrating.

Cuomo already sounds defeated by Trump's authoritarianism. I will stand up for our city of immigrants because I'm not funded by the very same MAGA billionaires who put Trump back in the White House.

When you look at Trump's cratering immigration numbers, remember what Zohran Mamdani was already doing three months ago — while the rest of the Democratic party was still twiddling their thumbs on detaining student protestors and giving ICE more power:

the bottom line is this — anti-vaccine contrarians, conspiracists, and cranks are now on the committee that will set vaccine policy for the nation.

Los Angeles FC crowd chants, "Fuck ICE."

A really chilling implication here is that if Trump keeps doing speeches on military bases, and commanding officers continue to tell soldiers to opt in or out of these events (as they did here), then there will be lists by base and unit of which soldiers support the administration & which don't.

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.

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

that's right