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By now, we've all seen the video of Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and handcuffed for asking a question during Kristi Noem's press conference. But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.

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So they're openly admitting that the military occupation of Los Angeles is meant to eliminate its political leadership who disagrees with the regime?

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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: "It's a vulgar display. It's the kind of thing you see with Kim Jong Un, Putin, dictators that are weak… How weak do you have to be to commandeer the military for your birthday?“

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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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In the past week, a union leader has been arrested, a U.S. Rep charged with a crime, a U.S. Senator violently handcuffed, and reporters shot with rubber bullets and detained. There is no ambiguity. This is a regime operating as an authoritarian. Americans who believe in liberty must oppose it.

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If this was really just about getting illegals out of our country, they would be arresting and prosecuting the employers for aiding and abetting. Funny how that's not happening. It's almost like it's just pure racism. 😐

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The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20. (Via Christopher Hale)

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The same guy who tells us LA is on fire is at the Kennedy Center watching Les Miserables, and if that isn't ironic, I don’t know what is.

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Yay!

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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.

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I agree!

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A DHS spokesperson defended the detainment, accusing Sen. Padilla of failing to properly identify himself during Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference. But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.

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If gang affiliations are illegal, why isn't every Proud Boy and Klan member sent to El Salvador?

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Goldman: "These are people doing in the right way, who are nonviolent, noncriminal, and they're getting arrested. So what message does that send? Obviously it sends the message, 'Go further underground. Don't appear in court. Don't pay your taxes' ... that's just going to make the public less safe."

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i am not being pollyannish when i insist that the people who sign up do not sign up to advance a president’s domestic political agenda www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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From a friend in Torrence, California

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Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not.

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The second-generation German immigrant in the White House probably doesn't know that Mexicans have been in the United States in Texas and California for way more generations than his family has. #OnYourSide

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May the anti-ICE movement continue to spread nationwide! This is the Los Angeles spirit your news broadcast isn’t showing…

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J6 at the Whitehouse

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As Trump plans mass deployments of ICE in Chicago, a car just sped through a group of protesters. I was at the Federal Plaza protest. It was PEACEFUL. This violence and chaos are what Trump, his masked thugs, and the people who support mass deportations stand for.

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Thou Shalt Not Fire Reporters for Standing Against Fascism.

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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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RFK Jr., who's supposed to be all about "facts and logic," is out here removing members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee?!? Y’all, these aren’t political appointees. These are public health experts—people who’ve spent their careers working to keep Americans safe from disease.

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Double.

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“His Army.” Fuck all the way off with that shit. The Army is not and never will be his. The Army swore an oath to the Constitution and they are paid for by us. That’s our Army. You served. You know that. You just like how the boot and the power tastes. You’re a disgrace to the uniform you wore.

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Thank you, Terry Moran. 💙 #Courage

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Screw ABC News. Terry Moran was fired for telling the truth...something that's a rare commodity now in journalists who work for all of the corporate-owned, spineless, mass media news organizations in the United States.

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This is who Terry Moran is. It took one mean tweet about Donald Trump to dismantle 26 years

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Imagine if Woodward and Bernstein had been punished for called out Nixon. Imagine if The NY Times did not publish the Pentagon Papers, we would not know anything about continued involvement in Vietnam. Faux News slammed on Joe Biden daily and no one said dick about it! Shame on you ABC News!!!!

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Who agrees with me that Terry Moran told the truth about Stephen Miller? He should NOT have been fired for writing the truth. The 1st Amendment is still in effect last time I checked, for how long, I don’t know.

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ABC News WTF You let us all down Terry Moran has a backbone You do not You pulled the same crap with George Stephanopoulos You were my go to station No longer Goodbye

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Terry Moran, if you’re reading this: the door is open.

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i just watched a clip of stephen miller talking to hannity from a few days ago and my god is that guy a stone cold freak. like, everything about him is profoundly off-putting, like a bug in an eggar suit

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Newsom: "Democracy is under assault before our eyes. This moment we have feared has arrived. He's taking a wrecking ball to our Founding Father's historic project."

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I wonder what Mike Johnson and others would say if the Jan. 6 insurrectionists had killed a few Republican legislators? 🤔

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Good morning. Months after the United States began to announce sweeping new tariffs, businesses and consumers face more uncertainty, not less. Source: The Real Economy Blog realeconomy.rsmus.com/market-minut...

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Newsom: This Saturday, he's ordering our American heroes, the United States military, and forcing them to put on a vulgar display to celebrate his birthday, just as other failed dictators have done in the past

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Veteran reminds active duty Marines to uphold the standard and refuse any illegal order to harm US civilians. #NoKings

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Durbin to Bhattacharya: "I can't understand it. I disagree w/ this admin on so many things. But this is the one that really gets to me personally. To think this nation would walk away from medical research. For God's sake...cancer, your budget requests a 38% cut to the National Cancer Institute"

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My husband said at the beginning of this criminal administration that people with privilege would be able to keep their heads down and pretend it’s not happening. I’d thought he was wrong, but so far, he appears to have been mostly right. Those don’t want to see it, don’t.

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CNN’s Jason Carroll was zip-tied and escorted away—for reporting the news. But they claimed he wasn’t under arrest? Why are they shooting rubber bullets at and silencing journalists? We still have a First Amendment.

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@pelosi.house.gov: "On January 6th...we begged the president of the United States to send in the National Guard. He would not do it...And yet, in a contra-constitutional way, he has sent the National Guard into California. Something is very wrong with this picture."

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local senator can't keep his allegiances straight, loves states rights except when he loves sending in federal troops

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Torrance boy, 9, detained by ICE for planned deportation to Honduras. Community is outraged. He was arrested and taken to Texas. Orange Brandon is weak and pathetic. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Paging @jsphctrl.ft.com

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