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It's water under the bridge. Antifascist. Values science. Wears a mask because covid and bird flu. Wishing doomsday would hold off another year or four. Trying to make that happen.
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I couldn't find a major news source or any evidence otherwise online to back up that this was said on Iranian State TV. It appears to be false.

Military/paramilitary forces grabbing people without process, regardless of their citizenship status because of their perceived ethnicity is perhaps better referred to as "ethnic cleansing."

They just detained Commander Brad Lander (NYC Mayoral Candidate) for accompanying an immigrant to Federal court where the judge said he cannot be in the custody of US Marshalls and ruled in his favor. ICE waited and arrested the immigrant anyway 😑 And they’ll repeat…

In case you still had any doubts about those claims of racism.

If you’re the senate majority leader and you’re not sure what to do, here’s a song to help you remember: Thune Thune Bo Bhune Banana Fanna Expel Mike Lee

Way to go Gov!

Brad has been released and the crowd breaks into a chant of “Free them all.”

“It’s not a good look and it’s not going to go well,” the co-host of “The Five” predicted on Tuesday.

NEW: Gov. Hochul announces that the state is dedicating $50 million for legal assistance for immigrants like those who may be targeted by ICE when leaving the federal courthouse

I say again: men are clearly too emotional to be in leadership.

Well, well, well Stephen Miller is still president after all.

ICE agents are out here manhandling elected officials—yet again. They arrested NYC Comptroller Brad Lander for asking if they had a warrant—which is his constitutional right. (1/2)

Following the horrific tragedy in Minnesota, Attorney General Kathy Jennings and I have urged the General Assembly to swiftly pass House Bills 152 & 153. These public safety measures will close dangerous legal loopholes and strengthen trust with law enforcement. www.coastalpoint.com/news/state/m...

This is a must read. I am so glad Ed sent this bcz it needs to be said. The abject cruelty of the GOP has metastasized over the past several decades and it seems nothing is out of bounds for them.

Senate Republicans just introduced a plan in their Big Ugly Bill to sell off 250 MILLION acres of OUR public lands. We must stop it.

I wrote this four days ago. Today, they arrested the NYC Comptroller.

Trump just shared this alarming text from Israeli Ambassador Mike Huckabee, effusively praising him while telling him that no president has been in his position "since Truman in 1945" (when the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Japan) & that he "will hear a voice from heaven" telling him what to do.

They are demonic cult. They are in charge. And they have the Bomb.

I started volunteering as an immigration court watcher after reading an article about Brad Lander doing it. So much respect to him and all the folks standing up to bear witness and get in the way.

this is terrorism

CNN: Breaking news just into CNN, sources say DHS secretary Kristi Noem this afternoon has been taken to the hospital.

America, we gotta national strike and walk out. It will get worse until we hurt profits.

All of us urgently have to say no to war, have to make clear that the vast majority of America rejects war with Iran, and have to reject the underlying logic of endless violence. www.jphilll.com/p/no-more-en...

"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."

California brings forth bill that takes the masks off ICE agents.

House Bill Would Bar ICE Agents From Wearing ‘Police’ Uniforms Amid Rising Tensions (Full Text) migrantinsider.com/p/police-ice

👀Smart bill

It’s still pride 🌈

“.. a sorry state of public affairs, and until the rules are changed and enforced, Trump and his family will continue feathering their nest.” @timobrien.bsky.social $T $VZ $TMUS www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Sen. Padilla speaks on the Senate floor for the first time since being forcibly removed from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s Los Angeles press conference. Padilla emotionally recounts his experience, asking, “what will a city already on edge… think when they see their U.S. senator being handcuffed?”

Federal agents arrested New York City comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander outside an immigration court after he attempted to accompany a person out of a courtroom Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

So MAGA had an issue with the U.S. sending weapons to Ukraine while Ukraine never, ever asked for any military intervention but have no issues on Trump taking us into a war with Iran. Meanwhile Russia continues committing genocide and terrorist attacks killing Ukrainians on a daily basis

Mr. Antiwar President has us inches away from a Civil War at home and a nuclear war abroad in defense of an ally that is starting random hot regional wars to detract from its ongoing genocide. I’m sure all of this will just naturally cool off.

No one with a shred of civic consciousness could accept anything but the abolishment of ICE

U.S. Sen. Mike Lee is facing backlash–including a direct confrontation with Sen. Tina Smith–after making a joke on X about Rep. Hortman’s assassination. minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/16/s...

Trump is sending ICE to blue cities to enact the "largest mass deportation program in history" and Chicago is at the top of the list. I'm calling for every Democratic leader and candidate to stand against ICE, to call for its abolition, and to materially support immigrants. Inaction is complicity.

Brad Lander, NYC comptroller and mayoral candidate, was just arrested outside an immigration court by Trump’s masked cowards. These fascists need to get the fuck out of our city. Abolish ICE.

They’re cranking up the propaganda machine again: claiming Brad Lander “unlawfully interfered” and that ICE is just “enforcing Trump’s policy.” Reality: Lander stood up for civil rights. ICE’s conduct reflects a deeply troubling use of federal power.

NEW: Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) speaks on Senate floor at 1230pm eastern about his "forcible removal from Dept of Homeland Security press conference", per advisory

Thou shalt expel Mike Lee from the Senate and banish him from society, for he mocked and celebrated the murder of a political opponent.

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

💔 The number of injured in Kyiv due to massive attack has increased to 139. There are also 15 known deaths.

Can someone please ask Karoline Leavitt why the Director of White House Personnel refuses to say what country he is from and refuses to complete paperwork for a background check? Can you also ask if “Sergio Gor” is the name on his birth certificate. Seems kinda important.

I am once again asking where did the “cluster munitions bad” crowd go

This photo. ICE is a gang.

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.