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Sen. Alex Padilla was just removed from Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles (video: Bill Melugin/Fox News)
Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”
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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
screenshot from a news item about the cuts being undertaken in services: "Mr. Kennedy is also eliminating entire but lesser known parrts of his department, such as the Administration for Community Living, which supports programs that help older Americans and people with disabilities live independently. Advocates for disability rights say the cuts could deprive the most vulnerable Americans of housing, personal care and other services."
there aren't any words for how much I hate the people doing this. I wish every harm upon them, it is right and just to pray for such harm
Things Democratic Senators could do that would be useful:
- Withdraw unanimous consent from all Senate business until constitutional rule was restored
- Refuse to vote for any legislation until constitutional rule was restored
- Boycott as a caucus until constitutional rule was restored
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
@booker.senate.gov is STILL speaking 17+ hours in! We are SO proud of you!
#CoryBooker #RESIST #SenatorBooker #StandUp #SpeakOut #RESIST #DoSomething #Obstruct #Disrupt #IDA-CO #Indivisible #Resistor #SenCoryBooker #Filibuster #ImpeachTrump #DeportMusk
Tens of thousands of employees across the federal government have left their jobs, been put on leave or been fired as a part of the government-gutting initiative of the Trump administration and billionaire Elon Musk. We confirmed the number of cuts here. nyti.ms/4lckQdp
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Same with Trump. Neither of these "wealthy" "men" have contributed anything of substance towards the common good. They take but they do not give.
I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.
I bet some of us could do a pretty kick ass lecture on modern propaganda methods
Democracy, itself, is the inefficiency that DOGE intends to shut down.
They're dismantling institutions one-by-one, to replace it with AI and tech autocracy.
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BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨
U.S. District Judge John D. Bates ruled that President Donald Trump's administration must immediately restore public health webpages that were abruptly deleted after the new president took office.
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The biggest problem—and Elonald's greatest advantage—is that almost no one knows this Constitutional Coup is happening now, let alone how illegal it is. That alone won't change anything, but it is the first step to taking this on.
The President of Colombia Gustavo Petro has branded Trump a fascist in a TV interview: “This attitude of criminalizing population groups for profit is exactly what Hitler did with regard to the Jews.”
Need more of this de-normalisation as the US media isn’t doing it.
I think it's so important that everyone knows that Web Archive web.archive.org backs up and mirrors many US government websites.
SOS researchers: download what you can from publicly available health datasets now.
Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.
Control of the entire federal purse is being stolen in the middle of the night by a Nazi. There has never been anything like this.
Democrats need to learn how to treat real scandals with the same intensity and seriousness that Republicans use on bullshit like Hillary's emails and Hunter's laptop. Non-stop circus. Run shifts outside treasury, someone there 24/7. Make them prove they're not breaking the law.
National call this Sunday to strategize with Indivisible, MoveOn, WFP, and a ton of other groups. We choose to fight. www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
At home, Trump has enabled Musk to stage a coup against the government with his army of unvetted stooges taking over the Treasury.
Abroad, he's shut down aid & canceled malaria/ HIV programs & put 1000s of lives at risk.
Meanwhile, top Democratic leaders are tweeting about egg and priza prices. 😠
Kloster is a fierce partisan. While he was working as deputy general counsel at OPM in 2020, the Associated Press reported that “Kloster worked as an observer for the Wisconsin Republican Party on election night and was accused of yelling at election workers and police in Green Bay, a claim he disputes.” He was directly involved in efforts to legally challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election by working for a controversial, taxpayer-funded effort in Wisconsin that ultimately found no widespread fraud. Days after the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, he responded to a tweet raising a scenario that could spark a “civil war” with hand clap emojis between the words “Do it.”
The new general counsel for OPM—the office issuing all those deranged memos—is Andrew Kloster, a self-described “raging misogynist” with a public history of racist comments and a temporary restraining order for domestic violence who most recently worked for Matt Gaetz.
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