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This is Angela Padilla, Alex's wife, posting on his account to wish him a Happy Father's Day. Millions may know you as their Senator and as a voice for the voiceless, but to Roman, Alejandro and Diego you are the most caring, thougtful and dedicated dad in the world. We love you so much. ♥️

submitted 15 hours ago • 19 comments

Leave it to Trump to gut substance abuse and mental health programs just when they are starting to save lives. Want to keep track of Trump’s disasters? Go to AnotherTrumpDisaster.com

submitted 15 hours ago • 10 comments

Trump wants us to cower in silence, but we will not back down from calling out the destruction, corruption and hypocrisy of his administration.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country. Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest. Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org

submitted 2 days ago • 286 comments

She’s a disgrace and she needs to resign immediately. This is not what happens in democratic countries

submitted 3 days ago • 123 comments

If that’s what they do to a US Senator with a question, imagine what they do to farm workers, day laborers, cooks, and the other nonviolent immigrants they are targeting in California and across the country. Or any American that dares to speak up. I will not stop fighting to demand accountability.

submitted 3 days ago • 211 comments

If you incite violence or destroy our communities, you are going to be held accountable. That kind of criminal behavior will not be tolerated. Full stop.

submitted 5 days ago • 291 comments

The Trump/Musk bromance blew up in such a spectacular fashion this week it could have been a SpaceX rocket.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Last week @emilyslist.bsky.social had a great event ft @mcbride.house.gov where she was AMAZING! This is her short speech if you’re looking for inspiration and a funny story… www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG5o...

submitted 32 days ago • 8 comments

Did you hear? Thanks to the Republican budget bill, 14 million people's health care could be at risk. @vanhollen.senate.gov breaks it down:

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

“This is the way.” To defend democracy. To protect voting rights. To fight disinformation. We don’t need lightsabers, we have the force of action, courage, and hope. #MayTheFourthBeWithYou #StarWarsDay

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

People like to compare where Trump’s America is taking us to the Handmaid’s Tale, which is honestly an unfair comparison. In Gilead they guarantee women maternity health care.

submitted 43 days ago • 6 comments

Trump’s entire brand is built on a projection of strength, but it’s a facade. He is weak, impulsive, insecure and easily manipulated. Putin knows it. Xi knows it. The entire free world knows it. But because the GOP has decided to fall for his pantomime dictator act he is an actual threat.

submitted 43 days ago • 31 comments

The anti-voter SAVE Act is a radical solution in search of a non-existent problem. It's already against the law for non-citizens to vote, which is why it’s extremely rare. This bill would make it significantly harder for millions of Americans to vote. I’m leading the fight to stop it.

submitted 45 days ago • 14 comments

National Law Day of Action -- May 1st Lawyers, law firms, bar associations, the general public lawdayofaction.org

submitted 46 days ago • 225 comments

May Day, May Day! SO IMPORTANT open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

submitted 46 days ago • 28 comments

Trump is gutting federal agencies that provide vital services to the American people, because the billionaires who support him want to privatize the public sector, slash regulations that keep us safe, and cut their taxes while leaving the rest of us to foot the bill.

submitted 48 days ago • 5 comments

Maybe instead of an infantilizing set of ridiculous incentives you could try offering paid parental leave, affordable childcare, research funding for maternal medicine, and early childhood education 🤷🏻‍♀️

submitted 50 days ago • 10 comments

Every single Democratic Senator &Congressional Rep should be making videos EXACTLY like this! @riotazewell.bsky.social @daveminca.bsky.social @Derektranforcongress.com @adamschiff.com

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Merwil Gutiérrez is a 19 year old teenage boy who was nabbed by mistake! He was at the wrong place at the wrong time & got shipped off to a torture mill in El Salvador where he's in a CAGE with no mattress, blanket or human rights, subjected to beatings & degradation & probably RAPE! A BOY! Resist!

submitted 51 days ago • 5 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters have now gathered outside a federal courthouse in downtown Milwaukee to support Judge Hannah Dugan

submitted 51 days ago • 624 comments

Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested by federal agents inside her own courthouse. Not at home. Not with dignity. In public. In front of her peers. This isn’t justice—it’s intimidation. And we need to talk about what courthouses are actually for. #Oregonizers

submitted 51 days ago • 13 comments

Trump is weaponizing the DOJ—targeting the judiciary, undermining due process, and now arresting a sitting judge in a clear pattern of intimidation. As details continue to emerge, there’s no doubt the Trump admin believes they’re above the other branches of government.

submitted 51 days ago • 3 comments

Now they’re arresting judges who follow the rule of law. Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested by the FBI for giving an immigrant sanctuary in her chambers when ICE showed up to snatch him without a proper warrant or due process. She did the right thing and stood up to the Trump/Patel Gestapo. ✊

submitted 51 days ago • 30 comments

Maine is super fortunate to have a Secretary of State as brave as @shennabellows.bsky.social. She has been standing up for voting rights for as long as I have known her. Now she’s a key voice opposing the #SAVEAct and EO threatening the right to vote for millions of women.

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

Republicans want the power to choose who gets to vote. They’re trying to pass the anti-voter SAVE Act because they know cutting Social Security and Medicaid to fund tax cuts for billionaires is deeply unpopular. I’m going to fight to stop it.

submitted 52 days ago • 8 comments

Not even 100 days in—and a nonstop comedy of errors—except none of it’s funny. Some of this you probably didn’t know. And once you do, you’ll wish you didn’t. Part I

submitted 52 days ago • 313 comments

ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

submitted 52 days ago • 313 comments

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had the consumer messaging app Signal set up on a computer in his office at the Pentagon so that he could send and receive instant messages in a space where personal cellphones are not permitted, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

submitted 52 days ago • 1192 comments

BREAKING: In a major victory for press freedom & workers’ rights, a fed. court ruled the Trump admin unlawfully shuttered USAGM—granting a preliminary injunction in our Voice of America case VOA journalists can return to work, countering authoritarian propaganda, while we continue fighting in court

submitted 54 days ago • 10 comments

While Trump tries to slash funding for federal housing programs, I'm focused on solutions that would address homelessness and the affordable housing crisis in California and across the country. We need bold, transformative strategies, not reckless cuts.

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

Happy Earth Day! 🚨We have less than a decade to stop irreversible climate disruption. 🌎 Good news: Pres Biden passed climate legislation to help. 💩Bad news: Trump wants to reverse it. But we can still do our part & these folks are the tip of the spear. Please follow them.

submitted 54 days ago • 68 comments

Let me be clear: unannounced DHS visits to our elementary schools is NOT how we protect kids — it’s how you terrorize families and destroy public trust.

submitted 55 days ago • 8 comments

The Ministry of Propaganda is out early today doing damage control.

submitted 55 days ago • 2283 comments

“I think that all regular people have the ability, but also the responsibility to stand up, in the face of injustice whenever we, whenever we encounter it.” Emily Baden on standing up to her neighbors, the Alitos, on our webcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHrk...

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Either everyone has due process or none of us are safe. If the Trump administration gets away with abducting and disappearing people like Kilmar Abrego García — a father, husband, and union worker — in defiance of court orders, ALL of our freedoms are at risk.

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

Today I stood with the nurses of @nationalnurses.bsky.social and veterans at the San Diego VA to say no to Trump’s reckless staffing cuts. We won't back down from this fight.

submitted 60 days ago • 3 comments

"Subject has no criminal history." Imagine the lawsuits against Bondi, Rubio, Vance & Trump.

submitted 60 days ago • 43 comments

Republicans are attacking voting rights with anti-voter bills like the SAVE Act because they know their plan to cut health care and nutrition assistance programs to pay for their tax giveaway for billionaires is deeply unpopular. I am leading the fight to STOP this bill in the Senate.

submitted 62 days ago • 14 comments

If ANY good can come of this administration I hope that it’s the myth that Republicans are better for the economy dies forever.

submitted 64 days ago • 7 comments

Trump is turning global trade into a system of corporate peonage where companies compete to make deals with him to avoid paying crippling tariffs that would disrupt entire industries, all while manipulating the stock market to make himself and his inner circle of other billionaires even richer.

submitted 64 days ago • 7 comments

Don't get it twisted: Donald Trump and the Republicans are cutting vital programs that millions of Americans depend on like Medicaid and supplemental nutrition assistance to give billionaires and the biggest corporations in the world a massive tax break.

submitted 65 days ago • 14 comments

This was three months ago.

submitted 65 days ago • 839 comments

The President of the United States engaged in insider trading, and laughed about it. He is not exempt from the law. Where the fuck is Congress?

submitted 65 days ago • 2613 comments

Today House Republicans passed their budget framework that will result in devastating cuts to critical programs that working families rely on like Medicaid and SNAP. They try to deny it, but the numbers don't lie.

submitted 66 days ago • 6 comments

I am but a humble cable news host with a bachelor’s in philosophy, but I feel like at some point the bond market is also going to notice that the GOP is going to pass a deficit financed 5 trillion dollar tax cut. Maybe?

submitted 66 days ago • 920 comments

Today would be a great day to ban members of Congress and their families from trading stocks.

submitted 66 days ago • 975 comments

The anti-voter SAVE Act just passed in the House of Representatives. Their motives are clear: the GOP wants to disenfranchise millions of Americans by putting up roadblocks to the ballot box. I will be leading the charge to stop this in the Senate.

submitted 66 days ago • 193 comments

Nearly 800,000 children depend on Head Start—and Trump just slashed the workforce supporting them. No plan. No input. Just damage. I’m leading the call to immediately reinstate these critical employees and protect the programs that families and children rely on.

submitted 68 days ago • 21 comments

We need EVERY single Democratic member of Congress on Bluesky so that their constituents can engage with them here. That's why I am thrilled to see that Senator @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social from California just joined! He is one of the best people we have in the Senate. Definitely worth a follow!

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments