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Best thing yesterday.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

So many of Trump's executive orders are unconstitutional: apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

We’ve uncovered fraud, waste, and abuse! ICE has now exceeded its congressionally approved budget. ICE is violating the Antideficiency Act by spending beyond Congressional authorization.

submitted 17 hours ago • 606 comments

"DOGE offered a glimpse of the technofascist future. It formed the beachhead for a targeted hit on public institutions and their employees in the service of a new, radical, and cash-soaked post-democratic order." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Senator Padilla was driven violently to his knees–as if made to kneel before the authority of the executive–because the administration called his questions “disrespectful”. This should offend not just the other 99 Senators. It should offend the conscience of this country.

submitted 1 day ago • 1273 comments

Sometimes MSM speaks the truth. Should be all the time, just saying. youtu.be/7if99iz88Zo?...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Ramming cars and raiding churches: The ways ICE is becoming more aggressive in arresting migrants

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

PADILLA: “If this is how the administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, cooks, and day laborers throughout the country.”

submitted 1 day ago • 265 comments

What we just witnessed is outrageous & should never happen in a democracy: a sitting U.S. Senator was violently thrown to the ground and handcuffed. He was removed from a press conference for challenging the administration’s false & dangerous claims about what is happening in LA. See my statement:

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

Newsom testified to the character of Padilla after video of his handcuffing went viral, calling him “one of the most decent people I know.”

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

What happened to @padilla.senate.gov is an attempt to intimidate anyone with a dissenting view of this Administration and stop them from exercising their First Amendment rights. We will not be silenced. youtu.be/7dNpkFlP0BQ

submitted 1 day ago • 260 comments

GO CALIFORNIA SENATOR ALEX PADILLA!!! We support you, our Senator 💯 #Pinks 💖

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Socialism is not illegal

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

When running the Vigelence Project, and messing up my mental health for a good stretch, my most restrictive data set shows GOP members and voters molest kids at 16:1 compared to Democrats. On a more permissive data set, it jump to 24.7:1.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

A federal judge just ruled what we’ve known all along. The Trump administration had no right to detain Mahmoud Khalil. This is a victory, but it should’ve never come to this.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

"If Trump is successful in LA, he will export his tactics everywhere. Trump doesn't only want to be authoritarian in the eyes of Angelinos. Autocrats aren’t in the business of imposing limits on their own power. He wants to be an autocrat everywhere. LA is where he’ll start but not where he’ll end."

submitted 1 day ago • 170 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 1 day ago • 129 comments

Senior officers of the United States military have an obligation to speak up and be leaders. Where is the Army chief of staff? Will he or others speak truth to the commander in chief and put a stop to the assault on the integrity of his troops? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 3 days ago • 270 comments

MEMPHIS: “I’M UNDERAGE!” ICE officers forcefully grab a young girl after saying they don’t need a warrant to enter. Trump’s Gestapo busts into homes, grabs anyone? When do police protect people from blatantly unconstitutional raids? @mayorpaulyoung www.facebook.com/share/v/1Bih...

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This is just meaningless words. He said something similar a month ago and nothing happened.

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While Trump wastes millions on a military parade in DC, we're mobilizing everywhere else to show that organized people power is stronger than his authoritarian aspirations. app.sosha.ai/s/8e5h1TW3

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

"They swear an oath to uphold the Constitution. They also swear an oath to obey orders from the president. Right now the president is ordering them to do something that does not support the Constitution." Rep. Jake Auchincloss explains the impossible situation Marines deployed to Los Angeles are in.

submitted 2 days ago • 56 comments

Cops are shooting impact munitions madly. They're shooting at people who are simply moving along on sidewalks and leaving the area as they were ordered to do. No one in this video is throwing anything at police. Mounted cops are coming up behind people and hitting them with extra long riot batons.

submitted 2 days ago • 74 comments

The riot police threw a police riot

submitted 2 days ago • 60 comments

California is home to the most immigrants out of any state in the nation. We also have the strongest economy out of any state in the nation. Not despite our immigrant population –– but because of it.

submitted 2 days ago • 326 comments

You know what’s annoying? Gavin Newsom is standing up and putting himself on the line. And the political press has to frame it as campaigning for president. Maybe he would like to be president, but that’s not really the point right now.

submitted 2 days ago • 155 comments

Over & over again, Sen Dems asked Joint Chiefs nominee Dan Caine if he would push back on Trump if he tried to politicize the military, as his predecessors had to do. He assured Senators he would. Where is Caine now? In hiding? Witness protection? What is he doing about this?

submitted 2 days ago • 132 comments

I’ve seen a few variations of this making the rounds. I like this one best. I don’t know who the original artist is but thank you to them.

submitted 2 days ago • 220 comments

As I said in an interview with @npr.org in January, “Kennedy has been told…by experts in the field that his positions on vaccines are wrong and not supported by scientific evidence, and he refuses to listen. I think that that is a very dangerous position for the Secretary of HHS to have."

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The life-saving COVID vaccine was developed because of federal research investments at a Mass-based company. Disbanding HHS’s COVID advisory panel and targeting Moderna is yet another baseless attack on Massachusetts and example of RFK Jr’s incompetence. Vaccines work. RFK Jr should resign.

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

"Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting people who are least able to defend themselves "But they DO NOT stop there "Trump is not opposed to lawlessness and violence as long as it serves him "J6!" — CA Governor Gavin Newsom youtu.be/pXQQNUeb4Sw?...

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Now go after the members of the corrupt SC, congress and the ones who planned, funded and helped this terrorist attack.

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Real world: - Trump team trying to create a Reichstag moment. - Trump telling military audience that LA is hellhole full of "animals" - Officials in Calif trying both to calm things down, and stand up PUNDIT world: - Is it smart politics? - Is Gavin running? - Doesn't Trump look strong!

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Yes. ♥️

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This is not fair. Newsom has an enormous advantage over the Republicans attacking him because he can add and subtract and multiply and even do long division. Sanders has to sit down and take her shoes off to count past ten.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

This is what one of the greatest generals of our time thinks of recent events. Fuck Trump and his goons. They hate America and everything it represents. www.npr.org/2020/06/04/8...

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