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Padilla: I was forced to the ground, first on my knees and then flat on my chest. And as I was handcuffed and marched down a hallway repeatedly asking, why am I being detained? Not once did they tell me why. I pray you never have a moment like this

It most certainly is!

#NoKings New York

So proud to be a part of this amazing morning. Location ocean beach San Francisco #nokings

I love this so much! Austin, Texas in solidarity with LA. 🙏🏽❤️

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

Jong-Fast: This would be the largest cut to food assistance in US history—and it will result in hungry kids. It’s also important to mention that this bill grows the deficit. I don’t know how it manages to do the two things you absolutely don’t want—starve children and grow the deficit—but it does.

Crockett: Right now, it seems like you don’t care about the constitution unless it’s the second amendment and that’s misinterpreted as well. There’s other amendments.. And we don’t get to just change it because our fearless leader says that he doesn’t like it

Today in Politics, Bulletin 134. This is a crazy one packed with news from all over the place. I did my best to stay up with it. Here is everything that happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

AOC: We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces — and, in many cases, their identification… The idea that we’re going to allow a paramilitary force to bloom, one that isn’t accountable to the Constitution… we’ve got another thing coming.

AOC: If anyone is breaking the law in this situation, it’s not members of Congress — it’s DHS. It’s people like Tom Homan and Secretary Kristi Noem. You lay a finger on Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman or any of the Representatives that were there… we’re going to have a problem.

FUCK ICE, THEY ARE NOT HUMAN!!!

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

This will NEVER get old‼️🤣🤣🤣

AOC: I heard that someone was flying a plane with a banner that said this is Trump country… It sure don’t look like it today. I don’t think this is Trump country. This is our country.

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Raskin: Would it be problem for it to be standard practice to conduct sensitive foreign policy on a signal chat group? It just came out that Waltz’s team set up 20 signal group chats for crises across the world… I’m sure this will raise the question on whether he should continue in that position

Oh, simpler times....

EXCLUSIVE: This just happened onstage in front of 6,000 Bostonians at the Dropkick Murphys concert. "This is America, no kings here!" @dropkickmurphys.com nails it again!!

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS motion to HALT deportation under rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act of 1798. “A TRO is appropriate for the class members to prevent the removal of the class.” WOW. Planes in air must turn around. A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.

Following the Oval Office meeting between Zelensky and tRump, a Ukrainian unit welcoming foreign volunteers saw a surge of several thousand applications. kyivindependent.com/a-massive-sp...

Extraordinary moment — Nancy Pelosi issues a statement calling on Democratic senators to reject the House funding bill, i.e. to defy Chuck Schumer. "Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.

Sen. Mark Kelly is ditching his Tesla

Protesters from Jewish Voice For Peace occupy Trump Tower to protest the detainment of Mahmoud Khalil. (via @btnewsroom.bsky.social)

Another day, another Trumpian dumpster fire. youtu.be/kxMt06IlQD0?...

Wealthy Teen Nearly Experiences Consequence theonion.com/wealthy...

Rapper Eminem tells fans to shout “F*ck Trump” during his concert. 💀

Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

And listen up you dickless bags of hair, because this Gulf of America bullshit is so stupid it makes flat-earthers look like goddamn Nobel Prize winners. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

"People who like to sound tough back the guys with guns over the guys in jeans with sacks of grain or the guys in suits with papers. But take it from someone who spent nearly 1,500 days downrange over the course of 20 years: USAID is worth every penny."

"Daddy says he owns you. Can you get me an ice cream?"

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Tryna strike a chord and it's probably A minorrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.