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“.. ‘Whether people are legal or not, they don’t care,’ Alvarado said. ‘If chaos and fear is what they were after, they’ve accomplished it.’” @barrons.com www.barrons.com/articles/ice...

House Dems are demanding that Noem testify before Congress after Sen. Padilla was detained by federal agents at her DHS press conference in LA.

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

This is not the United States I wanted to live in. It's not the United States I wanted my kids to become adults and live out their lives in. But it's the United States we've got right now, and we need to keep alive the hope we can make it the one we do want, and work to achieve that.

Last night, @bradlander.bsky.social and I exposed Andrew Cuomo's record of corruption, scandal and disgrace on the debate stage. With early voting starting tomorrow, we're cross-endorsing to defeat the ex-Gov. and win a city everyone can afford. Rank Brad #2!

New Yorkers scream out each officer’s lawsuits against them for excessive force and more upon their city, right to their faces while protesting.

Not even @betoorourke.bsky.social was handcuffed when he called out Greg Abbott in the middle of his press conference in Uvalde and he isn’t a standing US Senator. That’s why it was all the more spine chilling to see Senator Alex Padilla pushed to the ground. This isn’t normal!

Newsom: "This is what he does. He creates a problem and then he tries to be a hero in his own Marvel movie ... he initiated those raids. He significantly increased the scale and scope of those raids. That's why he wants the National Guard."

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A cop doing the right thing? I think that i might need my fainting chair!

if you think every voice actor is a millionaire, you are not immune to propaganda and would not survive the winter, sorry.

Good morning everyone! Have a fun little face that I doodled ^_^ #art #artist #darkart #horror #face #expression #emotion

Kids, I’m a little concerned about the provision in the B.B. Bill that allows the Executive to ignore judicial decisions. Without the courts to slow this senile sociopath down, we could all be right fucked, as the Brits say.

History will not be kind to Speaker Johnson. Nor should it be.

Reuters: JUDGE ORDERS CALIFORNIA NATIONAL GUARD RETURNED TO GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM'S CONTROL - COURT RULING

Yea it’s pretty easy to see why Alex is so willing to give Trump a pass here

Muslim-Jewish partnerships on the left are real

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.”

If you'll allow me to say it, The Onion is cooking with gas today.

At the brink of war, our military is being led by an incompetent drunk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tUo...

Unsung hero of WWII

Breaking news: Four people have escaped from an immigration detention facility in Newark. They escaped from Delaney Hall, a privately run New Jersey detention facility that local elected officials have sought to close, Department of Homeland Security officials said.

It is literally going to take smoke rising from the stacks of giant ovens in concentration camps for some people to realize things have gone awry, but even then many won't care, or think "well, they probably deserved it."

there’s got to be some kind of statute of limitations on this crap. I get moral hazard, I get all of that, it’s just completely insane to say that this guy who built an American life for 30 years isn’t American.

"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

The Department of Energy is quietly slashing disability rights

Spending a few days with intramural researcher at NIH has me thinking about the old Bell Labs, the storied research institute where major breakthroughs in physics, chemistry and mat sci (and associated @nobelprize.bsky.social awards) were made in the 70s-80s 1/n

The Senate bill aims to effectively end all civil rights lawsuits against the federal government except by entities rich enough to potentially pay million/billions in fees. I am not making this up.

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.)

Senator Padilla of California was forcibly removed for asking a question during a DHS press conference. NONE OF US ARE SAFE.

ICYMI — “LIE!!” Dems heckled Speaker Johnson as he tried to put all the blame on Senator Padilla

I don't think _anyone_ should be forcibly removed like that.

I’d love for the people who think Bluesky has a “lack of diversity of thought” to explain what thoughts we’re missing over here

NEW: Mahmoud Khalil submits a letter to Judge Farbiarz asking the court to order his release. The letter says he has posted bond, and the government has not filed a notice of appeal for the court's preliminary injunction (which went into effect at 9:30am this morning).

okay but the thing about the CIA is that the mythology of the agency belies the reality, which is that for much of its existence it was a rubber room for WASP failsons and their operations reflect this

I would say he follows her around like a puppy dog but so far he has survived.

Remarkable: Vulnerable House Republicans are quietly urging Trump to refocus deportations away from noncriminal migrants and only target criminals. With Trump admitted deportations hurt farmers, Rs know this is becoming a big problem for them. 1/ (link) newrepublic.com/article/1968...

“if they can do this to a senator they can do this to anybody” they already are doing it to everybody wtf do you think weve been saying

Once again a straight, Christian, Republican, white guy.

I believe we're going to see a major escalation in government-sponsored violence in the coming weeks. I'm not sure what we do to prepare ourselves, but I do know we must be courageous & stand up for our beliefs & for the marginalized anywhere we can as loudly as we can.