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Rep. Rivas: "What we witnessed today are actions of an authoritarian government. The Trump administration quickly resorted to violent actions to silence Seneator Padilla, erase our democracy, and rewrite our nation's values."

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Cops are great. @gregdoucette.bsky.social

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🧵 1/2 Senator Padilla’s press conference removal response “I couldn’t accept the rhetoric anymore, I had the audacity to ask a question, I introduced myself, I’m Senator Alex Padilla & I have a question It took all of maybe a second for multiple agents to forcibly remove me” 📽️ was too long-🧵2/2👇

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Guess who was right in the thick of the assault on @padilla.senate.gov? Corey Lewandowski. (He may have been the guy instructing that there's no recording at a press conference and seems to have realized how badly they fucked up.)

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@morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Hey Willie Geist, please stop lying. Senator Padilla did not "charge in," he has brought into the room by FBI and Military. He STEPPED forward to ask her a question, and WHY DID SHE KNOW WHO HE WAS????????? Very disappointed in you.

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Well, I forgot my roommate from my summer 2012 apartment sublet in D.C. is now the Secretary of the Army, until tonight, when he told Fox News there is a troop on the moon

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“My family was separated by deportation, and I was left behind.” - Diane Guerrero

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My colleagues and I went to Speaker Johnson’s and Leader Thune’s offices just now to demand an investigation into the assault of @padilla.senate.gov. Let’s be clear: Republican leadership is complicit in enabling the growing authoritarianism in this country.

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Marching with Congressional Hispanic Caucus to the senate to demand GOP Leader Thune take immediate action to investigate and hold DHS accountable for the assault and detainment of Senator Alex Padilla. This is America. This is our democracy. We will not stand for it.

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Listen to this great American. This nation is privileged to have a man of this character in the United States Senate. Thank you @padilla.senate.gov. We stand with you.

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Newsom: "Speaker Johnson -- his eloquence was elevated when he called to 'tar and feather' the governor of California. Very religious man. I guess that's the spirit. The word of the Lord."

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These are the people that make America great 🇲🇽🇺🇸

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Newsom on Trump's military parade: "It's a vulgar display. It's the kind of thing you see with Kim Jong Un, you see it with Putin, you see it with dictators around the world that are weak ... Weakness masquerading as strength ... that's about as small as it gets ... that's Donald Trump."

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www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson...

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Padilla identified himself as a US Senator as soon as a federal agent started to manhandle him. And come on, if it's "oh we didn't know"--never would have happened to a white person who IDed themselves as a Senator

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What do these public officials who have either been handcuffed and/or arrested over the past few months have in common? Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) Mayor Ras Baraka (D-Newark) We are in the midst of full on fascism

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We knew that some immigrant-citizen couples would choose to leave everything behind to start anew in a foreign country. We may never truly know how many families have made that wrenching choice, or what finally pushed them to do so.

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As I predicted on air tonight @cnn.com Judge Breyer: "Defendants are temporarily ENJOINED from deploying members of the California National Guard in Los Angeles. Defendants are DIRECTED to return control of the California National Guard to Governor Newsom" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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SCOOP — ICE employees received an email yesterday telling them the agency's warrantless arrest policy had been rescinded. It's likely part of the Trump administration's efforts to further loosen enforcement restrictions to meet the new quota of 3,000 immigration arrests per day. My report:

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Seems relevant.

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YES!!!!! open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

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The oppression of the entire Latino community of Los Angeles right now is difficult to convey. Normally vibrant local retail areas of East LA and SELA look like ghost towns this week. People are afraid to leave their homes. Parents afraid to go to work. It's US citizens too. Anyone with brown skin

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Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks 👇👇👇👇👇

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BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Democratic Rep. Sam Liccardo just called out Mike Johnson's lies in the middle of his press conference. This is amazing.

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Senator Alex Padilla is the proud son of Mexican immigrants, his father a short-order cook and his mother a housekeeper. Alex attended Los Angeles public schools and is a graduate of MIT where he studied mechanical engineering.

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Kristi Noem pressed Pete Hegseth to have the military arrest civilians A leaked letter from the DHS secretary shows her asking to have the military arrest demonstrators in Los Angeles.

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A man with a green card said ICE agents arrested him in #Lynn, Mass then took him to a detention facility—but first made a detour to a cemetery, where they took him out of their vehicle and beat him. #mapoli #Massachusetts

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Padilla: From the moment I entered the building, I'm being escorted by a member of the National Guard and an FBI agent. I asked, well, since we're waiting, can we go listen in to the press conference? They escort me over to the press conference. They opened the door for me.

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The words that came out of Noem’s mouth before Padilla interrupted her: “We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city." WTF?!?

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Rep. Ryan: "At Fort Bragg 2 days ago...soldiers who have political views that are in opposition to the current administration were told to speak with their leadership & get swapped out of the event...Is that appropriate?" Gen. Caine: "The nation demands a nonpartisan military."

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NEW: A prominent LI civil rights attorney will be announcing a lawsuit against ICE later today on behalf of his client, an American citizen from Brentwood, Long Island, NY who says ICE agents detained him, entered his car, reached inside and and demanded he exit the vehicle. More info coming soon..

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The fire crews are now understaffed and put in harms way. I hope and pray they remain safe. If anything does happen to these firefighters, there should be major hell to pay.

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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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This is not hard. Every Republican member of Congress should join Democrats in condemning this administration’s vicious arrest of Sen Padilla. “A Republic if you can keep it” is now.

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The most important words of our Constitution are the first three: We the People. We have no Kings here, no monarchs, no slaves and no subjects. We the People.

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My wife just met a convoy of Missouri National Guardsmen heading S. on HWY 65, just North of Chillicothe, MO, about an hour ago. I've since learned that Gov Kehoe has activated the National Guard as a "precautionary measure." The lead-up to a fascist use of our National Guard? You're Goddamn right.

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The U.S. House voted Thursday on a rescission bill to claw back money for foreign aid programs, along with two years of funding for the public media system. The measure now goes to the Senate.

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mike johnson desperately wants to be a supplicant to a king

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A DHS official told me Noem & security had no idea who Senator Padilla was. Now, the FBI is running with the statement that the senator "did not identify himself and was not wearing his senate security pin" — but he very much did identify himself, loudly, on video...

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She is saying, in effect: "We are going to liberate the city from its democratically elected leadership using the military"

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I have a lot to say and am going to say it tonight at 7:30pm in a special free Democracy Docket newsletter. I warned you then and we’re doubling down now. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

submitted 16 hours ago • 69 comments

Just called my Senator, Thom Tillis. (No, I didn’t vote for him,) Left a message not just about Senator Padilla but about what Noem said before she had him arrested. She said the Feds are in L.A. to “liberate” the city. As in free it from oppression. As in take over LA.

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Damn right!! 👊

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