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Hey internet - dox them all. Especially the front dude, who is high as a fucking kite.

Reports of an uprising inside Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark NJ. I was here with people trying to visit family when we all started choking due to tear gas used inside.

Thousands for an impromptu rally in SLC. Saturday is going to be big

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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."

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?“

More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.

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

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."

Chuck Breyer's 36 page opinion is thorough and meticulous, and makes clear that courts shouldn't defer to Executive on whether there is a "rebellion" justifying federalizing the National Guard. Looking forward to discussing on @cnn.com w/ @lauracoates.com at 11:45 PM ET.

"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

Oklahoma’s attorney general has decided to retry Richard Glossip for murder after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned his conviction and death sentence due to prosecutorial misconduct, The Intercept reports: theintercept.com/202...

Two Jan. 6 police officers sue to force US Capitol to install memorial plaque reut.rs/4e0C5uM

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.”

What’s the over/under on Trump taking credit for the Israeli operation right after his Secretary of State says the U.S. has nothing to do with it?

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:

Judge Breyer just ordered Donald Trump to return control of the California National Guard to Gov. Newsom.

BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to return control of the National Guard back to California, saying the call-up was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

From an Oregon State Police email recruiting members for its SWAT unit: “Are you jonesing to fire 40mm less lethal rounds and gas munitions through windows, gables, cameras, and at fleeing suspects?” "Anyone want to shoot some pepperball into vehicles...?" @maxbernstein.bsky.social @oregonian.com

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.

see what you need to understand is that they’re coming hard at california bc if they can take us down then it tells the smaller states there’s no point in fighting. we’re the bellwether. that’s why it’s so important we stop this shit NOW.

Rather than apologizing and trying to resolve a problem she helped create, Kristi Noem is now lying about what happened and making it worse. This is unacceptable behavior from a Cabinet official. Noem clearly does not have the credibility or integrity to continue serving.

NEW @motherjones.com: Spoke to 6 domestic violence shelters/orgs in LA about the chilling effects of ICE: They’re closing their doors & survivors are afraid to seek help. “DV programs should be safe sanctuaries & we can’t even guarantee that anymore,” one said. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches about how to meet ‘big booty women.’”

AOC: “They’re making people undocumented by removing LEGAL status, then having the audacity to call them illegal… correct?” @govpritzker.illinois.gov: “Taking their legal right to be here away.” @aoc.bsky.social: “The Republican majority is anti-LEGAL immigration, I want to make that very clear.”

a Republican House member from SC, Rep. RJ May, is facing 10 counts of CSAM using the screen name "joebidennnn69" im dead

ICE wanted the San Francisco Standard to blur the faces of agents who were taking immigrants into custody. The Standard told them "no." "...we believe that censoring images from this news event would set a harmful precedent for the media’s right to report and the public’s right to know."

notice the b-b-b-but biden response to "looks like trump is in decline"

Because Black people know that there is no such thing as “identification” or “identifying yourself”. They aren’t saying Padilla didn’t identify himself as a U.S. Senator. They are saying that there is only one acceptable identity — credential — being white and, in these times, being pro-Trump.

Resign now, Kristi Noem.

(Reuters) - The role of Elon Musk's SpaceX in an ambitious new U.S. missile defense system is in question following the dramatic feud last week between the billionaire entrepreneur and President Donald Trump, according to three people familiar with the project. www.reuters.com/business/aer...

35% OF AMERICANS APPROVE OF TRUMP'S RESPONSE TO THE PROTESTS IN LOS ANGELES; 50% DISAPPROVE, REUTERS/IPSOS POLL FINDS

RESULT: Tuesday's two ballot measures to protect public libraries from the conservative city council in Huntington Beach have both *won.* The first repeals the recently-created 'book review committee'. The second bars privatization of the public libraries. Context:

These are the times that try men’s souls.

We need *mass* mobilization in the U.S. right now, and I think that people who are somehow still focused on sneering at Perfidious Wine Mom Liberals are profoundly unserious

So who was it that cancelled the nuclear deal with Iran?

When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.

Governor JB Pritzker said to Rep. Mary Miller: "I am not going to be lectured to by somebody who extols the virtue of Hitler." Finally, someone says it to their faces.

Maybe quit voting for their fucking bills then? Maybe quit confirming their nominees? Maybe shut down the Senate with the many procedural tools available to you? Maybe do something other than send sternly worded letters?