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From my column, linked below

submitted 14 hours ago • 19 comments

This is the slap back to Stephen Miller’s “arrest everyone” madness. And an admission that Trump is under pressure from multiple industries that rely on migrant workers. This is huge and important. Keep amplifying the harm done by the Trump/Miller zealous, cruel overreach. Don’t bury this.

submitted 13 hours ago • 125 comments

In context of the 3,000 arrests/day mandate, this means turbocharging arrests in construction, child&elder care, delivery services, transport, manufacturing. It also means desperate ICE agents prowling the streets for victims. Courts, check-ins, and interviews will be ground zero for arrests...

submitted 12 hours ago • 35 comments

Truth.

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

@governorwalz.mn.gov: "The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you're overreacting."

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

The first civilian detained by U.S. Marines in Los Angeles was an ARMY VETERAN on his way to a VA APPOINTMENT

submitted 16 hours ago • 111 comments

The L.A. protesters have really gone too far this time… 🌼

submitted 1 day ago • 660 comments

The comedy continues. Good luck trying to balance budgets if you appoint a guy who wants to destroy the ability to collect tax revenue. "Long sponsored legislation to get rid of the IRS, the agency he is now tasked with leading. A former auctioneer, Long has no background in tax administration. "

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

"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...

submitted 1 day ago • 236 comments

This is disgusting. Shame.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Just so we're all clear: It's not a coincidence that the first senator they've used physical force against is Sen. Alex Padilla, a Latino man representing California.

submitted 1 day ago • 370 comments

Nope. None at all. This is a message from Stephen Miller, who for some reason hates Latinos most of all (& his hate list is LONG!)

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

“I’ve never seen anything that simultaneously really goes after poor people and then really helps rich people." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

So Kristi Noem goes on Fox and lies that Sen Padilla didn’t ID himself, even though the video is there for all to see. But get what she’s saying: Assaulting and handcuffing someone for trying to ask a question is OK in any case? This is a criminal regime.

submitted 1 day ago • 659 comments

If a US Senator is not safe from being handcuffed and detained for free speech, none of us are safe.

submitted 1 day ago • 639 comments

WSJ: Billionaire Christy Walton Buys Ad Supporting This Weekend’s ‘No Kings’ Demonstrations by Sarah Nassauer. Gift link!

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Trump's EPA says new plan to axe pollution limits on power plants will save US $1bn a year. In reality, these 'savings' will fully go to power plant owners. In return? $20bn a year in climate and health benefits for all Americans are now lost, EPA figures show. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I JUST sounded the alarm in the Oversight committee on the fact that this administration has threatened to arrest elected officials and they have. A judge, a mayor, a Representative, and now a US Senator in his OWN STATE during an open press conference. Governors will be next.

submitted 1 day ago • 90 comments

An 11-year-old girl who is a U.S. citizen and has a rare brain tumor was deported to Mexico when ICE deported her parents. The girl’s condition has not improved. Trump’s State/Homeland have yet to approve her humanitarian request for treatment. Shameful. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

We are marching to Senator Thune’s office. There must be accountability for the detainment of a Senator. This is not normal.

submitted 1 day ago • 990 comments

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

submitted 1 day ago • 2258 comments

Been joined so far by @booker.senate.gov @schatz.bsky.social @pattymurray.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @coons.senate.gov @jeff-merkley.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social and others. This is a defining moment.

submitted 1 day ago • 158 comments

This is chilling to watch and utterly unacceptable in the United States of America. As a former Senator, I’m calling on all current members to speak out on behalf of Sen. Padilla and defend him and the Senate against these outrageous attacks.

submitted 1 day ago • 315 comments

I don’t remember Marjorie Taylor Greene ever being forcibly removed and handcuffed after heckling during President Biden’s State of the Union, because…checks notes we were living in a democracy back then.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

U.S. Senator Alex Padilla was handcuffed for asking a question. This is a very scary step towards dictatorship: silencing critics and punishing dissent. We can’t let this become normal. We have to call it out, and on Saturday, June 14th, show up to a nonviolent protest near you.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This is an assault on a United States Senator by a reckless, lawless Administration with no respect for the Constitution. We will not be silent. We will not be intimidated. We stand with Senator Padilla.

submitted 1 day ago • 143 comments

“If you can read those words and sleep well tonight, I envy you. As I tell my few remaining Republican friends, ‘It's crazy to say that America looks like 1936 Germany when it's so clearly 1938 Germany’” Read the latest from @stuartpstevens.bsky.social: www.lincolnsquare.media/p/has-maga-d...

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Here's my take on why it was reckless of Israel to bomb Iran, and why President Trump should keep the U.S. away from a new Middle East war: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

"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

submitted 1 day ago • 483 comments

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?“

submitted 1 day ago • 1137 comments

Newsom: "He's been a stone cold liar about what he said we talked about. He never discussed the National Guard. Period. Full stop. I would love to share with you what he actually talked about. It would send shivers up your spine."

submitted 1 day ago • 2073 comments

Funded by your tax dollars.

submitted 2 days ago • 1608 comments

Active duty military to the streets of an American city A military parade to celebrate the President’s birthday An emerging police state with secret police who cover their faces & disappear U.S. residents *Our democracy is in a red zone. We must mobilize to stop this.

submitted 2 days ago • 52 comments

If you are dumb or naive enough to believe the grifters on the right who tell you they’re oppose to immigration because it drives down wages for native-born workers, just ask them 1) if they support raising the minimum wage and 2) how come the GOP doesn’t? Go ahead.

submitted 2 days ago • 295 comments

Rep. Lynch: "In late March, ICE agents wearing masks detained Rümeysa Öztürk. And those of you who watched that abduction, when you compare the old films of the Gestapo grabbing people off the streets of Poland ... it does look like the Gestapo."

submitted 2 days ago • 236 comments

Andrew Cuomo is afraid he'll lose, so his donors want you to fear me. His SuperPAC just sent out a mailer that artificially lengthened and darkened my beard. This is blatant Islamophobia—the kind of racism that explains why MAGA billionaires support his campaign.

submitted 2 days ago • 203 comments

Trump just admitted that his mass deportations are bad for farmers and the economy, and crucially, also admitted that workers who are getting deported are "almost impossible to replace." That's a massive repudiation of MAGA ideology:

submitted 2 days ago • 356 comments

My family owes everything to America's acceptance of a refugee named Nicholas Pritzker on its shores over a century ago. My story, however, is not unique — our state and nation have been strengthened by people from across the globe seeking freedom, opportunity, and refuge here.

submitted 2 days ago • 129 comments

NEW FROM CBO: brutal distributional analysis of House GOP "Big Beautiful Bill" On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP bill Avg gets little - and are worse off if you include tariffs This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

submitted 2 days ago • 60 comments

this is NUTS. Trump's pet dictator seems to have collaborated directly with MS-13, including persecuting his own law enforcement officials who were working with a US task force www.propublica.org/article/buke...

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

While Trump deliberately escalates tensions in vulnerable communities, don't forget: He's also directing the Republican Congress to pass a budget that would abandon the very people who most need support. www.cnbc.com/2025/06/06/h...

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments