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Dossier Verein iranischer Flüchtlinge in Berlin, PRO ASYL und Landesflüchtlingsräte fordern einen Abschiebestopp und Solidarität mit den Protestierenden im Iran: „Seit dem Tod der 22-jährigen Jîna Mahsa Amînî nach ihrer Festnahme durch die Sittenpoli…
There is a form of evil that plays the referee globally while covertly funding and directing terrorism. Some of these “referees” are naive and do not know what they’re doing. Others know, and are very intentionally enabling evil. Those with eye salve applied see.
"We witnessed something today only seen in dictatorial regimes. California Democratic Senator Alex Padilla exercised his First Amendment rights and fulfilled his constitutional obligations to ask a question of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem while in his home state. He was viciously manhandled, thrown to the ground, and handcuffed. This is fascism."
Featuring Jen Rubin, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Josh Levs, "The Tea" with April Ryan, Rep. Al Green, Kitty Eisele, Jean Kilbourne, Meredith Blake, and Carron J. Phillips
"On Thursday, US Senator Alex Padilla was physically ejected from a press conference being held in a federal building, forced to the ground, and handcuffed by federal agents (FBI?) for having the temerity to ask a question of Secretary Kristi Noem, who was at that very moment threatening to remove the democratically elected Mayor of Los Angeles."
"The assault on a US Senator feels like an assault on each of us and deserves full-throated condemnation....
Trump has given permission for lawless and thuggish behavior by federal agents.
The Trump administration has lied about the incident, and some major media outlets (NYTimes) have obligingly parroted the administration’s lies about the incident."
"Moments after Noem made the remarks about, essentially, trying to undermine the authority of local and state elected Democrats in California, Padilla was forcibly removed from the briefing room, forced to lay on the ground face-down and placed in handcuffs. Because he tried to ask a question."
Just before Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) was forcibly removed from a Department of Homeland Security press briefing, forced to the ground and then handcuffed for…
"This is what has happened recently in the United States:
A United States Senator, Alex Padilla of California, was physically assaulted, forced to the ground, and handcuffed by agents acting for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem as he attempted to ask her a question."
"Noem had just returned from a raid on the home of an immigrant family in Huntington Park, California. The agents were attired in full combat gear, including helmets, Kevlar vests, and camouflage fatigues. They carried fully automatic M-4 rifles fitted with 20-round magazines and were wearing masks. They did this under color of law."
"Padilla stated, 'I am Senator Alex Padilla,' before attempting to ask Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a question.
That is...kinda really important.
As we speak, the right wingers over at FOX are convincing themselves that roughing up a US Senator was just fine and dandy because Padilla did not identify himself and bum rushed Noem. It is, of course, a lie."
FYI, according to the video footage, Padilla stated, "I am Senator Alex Padilla", before attempting to ask Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a question. That is...kinda really important.
"Every Republican member of Congress should join Democrats in condemning this administration’s vicious treatment of Senator Padilla. 'A Republic if you can keep it' is now.
This afternoon, Washington Senator Patty Murray, who has been in the Senate for more than 32 years, rose to condemn the treatment of California Senator Alex Padilla, who was manhandled out of a press conference being held by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem…
"There’s literally no way to 'both sides' this alarming and indefensible act against a U.S. senator.
That being said, I always have faith in corporate media. ... It’s clear by now that corporate media and its lackeys are now complicit in normalizing and sanewashing a very real, existential threat to our democracy and freedoms for the sake of profit, ratings, and access."
In times of doubt, you can always count on corporate media and their remoras to "both sides" Donald Trump's fascist regime and demand civility as MAGA continues to dispense violent cruelty.
"Corporate media paving the road for fascism through normalcy and civility.
~ Wajahat Ali
"They have corporate interests, which are much more important to them than you know, opposing fascism…. Opposing fascism isn't necessarily profitable. It's sort of difficult. It's messy. They don't really want to bother."
"Padilla, you should know, is not only a sitting senator. He is chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety."
“'If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question, you can only imagine what they’re doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and out in California and throughout the country,' Padilla said…."
"Secretary Noem implied that neither she nor her security knew who the senator was, but even if she had forgotten speaking with him in Senate hearings, a video of the encounter records him saying clearly: 'I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have a question for the secretary.”
"What Noem was saying before Padilla spoke out is crucially important. "We are not going away,” she said. 'We are staying here to liberate this city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city.'"
"In other words, the Trump administration is vowing to get rid of the democratically elected government of California by using military force. That threat is the definition of a coup."
When is it legal for California cops to use tear gas or rubber bullets for crowd control? Here's a flowchart explainer from #afsc #americanfriendsservicecommittee afsc.org. Please share!
Nora Barrows-Friedman, associate editor, delivers the latest news from across the Gaza Strip. This is a segment from The Electronic Intifada's livestream on ...
🌲Ed Sheeran explains to Louis Theroux that he dislikes private jets and prefers trains because "I like the environment, I like trees." We know that this type of messaging from celebrities is hugely impactful. We need far more of this from more stars. As posted by @nowthisimpact.bsky.social
Hearing Peter Thiel described as traditional conservative / arch-conservative at the keynote of #PubConf2025 (while mentioning his stances against democracy, women's rights, etc.):
In the lead-up to the No Kings Day protests tomorrow, I hope you all realize how outrageous the Trump gang's assault on liberty is.
On Thursday, the head of their Department of Homeland Security said this about the National Guard's presence in Los Angeles:
“We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city.”
So yes: she *admitted* their goal is not merely to crush protests, but to seize power from the governor of California and mayor of Los Angeles. Today a judge declared this illegal. They will keep trying.
After she said this, a senator in the room began asking a question. Her henchmen shoved him out of the room, told him to drop to his knees in a hallway, and handcuffed him!
Just before Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) was forcibly removed from a Department of Homeland Security press briefing, forced to the ground and then handcuffed for…
Denmark’s Ministry of Digital Government is phasing out its use of Microsoft Office.. to switch to open source alternatives like LibreOffice instead.
Why? Because relying too heavily on a US tech giant for your nation’s digital infrastructure is starting to feel a bit... well, risky.
Denmark's relationship with the US is under strain, following Donald Trump's clearly stated ambition to seize control of Greenland, and recent reports of increased spying by the States on Greenland and Denmark.
As we head towards the weekend, follow @renewedresistance to keep up to date on the latest peaceful organising against Trump and Trumpism.
To get involved in the discussion, follow the account, await approval, and then post by tagging the account!
As part of our Channel.org beta, we built this group to help our good friend @tchambers repurpose the @KamalaHarrisWin account (which has now been migrated) for an important cause.
Les féminicides par garçons adolescents ne relèvent pas de l'anecdotique. Ils forment les symptômes d'un phénomène exacerbé, l'incubation d'une haine des femmes suffisamment profonde et explicite pour pousser des adolescents à tuer des filles et des femmes. Une haine conditionnée et banalisée jusqu'à se transformer en passage à l'acte.
As @pluralistic says about technology, so it is with everything: Look not at what it does, but who it does it *for* & who it does it *to*.
In this example the business case is obvious - follow the money, as another saying goes. The puny 32M is irrelevant, so we'll turn our attention to the 15B: Who is going to be paying it, and to whom?
To the current power brokers the 15B isn't money saved, it's profits they feel was stolen from them & they want it back.
Comme en Ukraine, l'Occident multiplie avec la guerre au Proche Orient les erreurs stratégiques, mettait en garde en octobre le spécialiste du renseignement Eric Denécé, disparu le 11 juin 2025.
Avant que le gouvernement danois n'annonce sa décision, les plus grandes villes du Danemark, Copenhague et Aarhus, avaient déjà annoncé leur intention d'abandonner progressivement les logiciels et les services "cloud" de Microsoft. Voici pourquoi.
In starting a #war against #Iran, #Netanyahu hopes no other Mddle-Eastern coutries will support the plan of #Macron to recognise #Israel in exchange for the recognition of #Palestine by western countries. Hoping to ensure the #EU will keep supporting the #genocide in #Gaza (and on the Westbank)
Just heard on Dropsite News that Israel has cut off Internet in Gaza. Sabotaged the fiber across the strip. This is happening whilst all media is busy with Iran. It's a dreadful development. No food, no water, no electricity, no medicines, no communication, no Internet How's Israel allowed to get away with all of this..
You can bet your bottom dollar that whilst everyone is looking at the Israeli bombing of Iran, they're going to be doing some extra horrible shit in #gaza because Israel gonna Israel.
İsrail ordusunun İran’a düzenlediği hava saldırılarında hedef alınan bölgelerden hayatını kaybeden üst düzey isimlere kadar bilinen tüm detayları derledik.
for iran, capitulating to israel and the USA's demands isn't really an option. they won't stop until "regime change" is achieved which really means total destabilization, then ultimately becoming a puppet state or outright occupied territory of israel, like they are in process of taking over gaza right now.
iran could retaliate, and risk a nuclear strike from israel. israel can't defeat iran in a ground war so eventually all out war with iran would likely lead to iran being nuked.
iran's options aren't good. they could fold like syria, be destroyed like libya, or say screw it and launch everything at israel, and risk being nuked and possible US involvmenet.
iran has already demonstrated they're willing to launch missiles at israel so they'll probably at least do some retaliatory gesture. let's hope it fizzles out there and israel's blood lust is satsified
@Suiseiseki no offense but you don't have much ability to envision possible future scenarios, but hey i hope you're right. nothing happening is good. except something already happened
Ich will natürlich nicht meine Augen verschließen. Aber ich bin hier für die Meimeis und die süßen Tierbilder. Wenn Neuigkeiten hier aufregend (im wörtlichen Sinn) und emotionalisierend, statt informativ, präsentiert werden, schadet es mir.
Wenn man bewusst einen Überblick über aktuelle Geschehnisse bekommen will, ist ein Besuch auf dw.com (weltweit) und tagesschau.de (🇩🇪) immer zu empfehlen.
EXCLU BLAST / Expulsions, arrestations, descentes dans les hôtels, interrogatoires : au Caire, des tensions croissantes entre les autorités égyptiennes et les membres du convoi de la marche pour Gaza
Les pays arabes sont tous des dictatures pourrissantes au bord de l'effondrement, ils n'ont aucun état d'âme à sucer la bite des ricains et sacrifier les Palestiniens...
Alors que des milliers de citoyens venus de 52 pays s’apprêtent à entamer une marche pacifique de 48 km vers la bande de Gaza pour réclamer un couloir humanitaire, plusieurs dizaines de participants sont actuellement retenus, expulsés ou interrogés a…
Spyware from US-backed Israeli firm Paragon was used to target European journalists, raising concerns about abuse in democracies. Citizen Lab's analysis ties infections to Italy, as questions mount over state surveillance.
NEW YORK, June 12 (YPA) - The UN Envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, briefed on Thursday the Security Council (SC) on developments in Yemen, affirming the international consensus that a negotiated settlement is the best solution to end the conflict and a
Do local communities have any right to object to the imposition of alien, or at least unfamiliar, cultures upon them? Is it always irrational and xenophobic to resent someone because of their apparent refusal to learn the language of the country in which they have chosen to live? Is it similarly unreasonable to object to the amount of local authority resources devoted towards easing that problem?
And while it is both dangerous and unjust to make blanket assumptions about any nationality’s attitudes to women and sex, it is undeniable that certain cultures have, by western standards, an outdated view of women’s roles in society. Until relatively recently, it was decreed by our political masters that we should never cast aspersions on such attitudes and cultures, but such restrictions are no longer taken seriously, not after the grooming gangs scandal, or Kemi Badenoch’s warning that not all cultures are equally valid.
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Years ago, I suspected the new dishwasher detergent tablets and pods being heavily pushed were a ripoff. I put a tablet in a Ziploc bag and crushed it with a hammer, then measured the resultant powder: about 2 tablespoons (30 mL). That struck me as grossly excessive, in line with the "always fill all detergent cups to maximum for best results" instrux on detergent powder boxes (and then liquid/gel bottles).
So I bought a box of regular ol' normal ol' boring ol' dishwasher powder and started experimenting. 1 tablespoon (15 mL): dishes completely clean. 2 teaspoons (10 mL): dishes completely clean. Mind, I scrape off loose leavings, but almost no dishes get rinsed before they go in the dishwasher.
The math quickly showed that yup, the pods and powders are a complete scam. So for years now, we've had this what you see here under the sink, with a teaspoon measure in.
The dishes consistently get perfectly clean, but I've never liked that dishwasher-detergent smell they have after. It occurred to me the other night I'd stopped the experiment without inceeding 2 teaspoons, so I tried 1 teaspoon (5 mL — probably more like 6ish; I don't level off the teaspoon, just scoop-shake-dispense).
Result: dishes perfectly clean. They couldn't possibly be any cleaner, so all the marketing babble about the pods unlocking whole new levels of Ultra Platinum Extreme Clean are bulk wrap. And the dishes now come out smelling of…nothing.
I'm not gonna retire on the savings, but every bit helps. There's a whole lot less waste this way, in money and detergent and packaging and production. The powder comes in a recyclable-for-real paperboard box rather than a recyclable-nudge-wink-lol plastic tub.
As I've done this much schtick, I might's well make a complete job of it: Consumer Reports' latest test of dishwasher detergent doesn't include powders, they say, because most people buy pods and tablets. That's antithetical to CR's nominal mission; decades ago they'd've done my same math and experiments and recommended avoiding the scam and buying the powders they found to work well.
Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei and Ministry of Foreign Affairs Release Statement Following Israeli Military Strikes – “Zionist Regime Should Anticipate a Severe Punishment”
🚨 Cloudflare faces a massive global outage due to a third-party failure, disrupting thousands of websites and key services like Workers KV, AI, and authentication tools. Google Cloud also impacted. No data lost, no cyberattack.
@nemo So, a third-party service has an outage because of a third-third-party. It's third parties all the way down, isn't it? Nobody does anything of their own anymore.
On this Friday the 13th, let us not forget the sacred lesson that Salt ‘N Peppa, the grand visionary of DevOps, taught us so many years ago: “push it! Push it real good!“
Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver indicted on federal charges by #Trump admin over her attempt to check inside an #ICE facility in New Jersey. She plans to plead not guilty.
You can't just get rid of whole groups of people you don't like or don't get along with. You have to learn to live with them. And you don't even know all of them. You can't. It's not possible. So, you don't even realize that you are one of them. There is a YOU in the group of people. And if you become a part of a people who is willing to do this kind of thing? There is nothing to prevent you from being next. Because you exit humanity through that door.
The Israeli government has effectively legalized the annexation of over 60% of the West Bank, but no one’s talking about it. Here’s what this means for Palestinians.
Was just hanging up some washing, in between writing, and my mind drifted back to last month's surreal situation - when, out-of-the-blue, that politician took away my literary award. So bizarre and illogical that I needed to remind myself that it didn't just happen in my imagination.
As an author of odd literary fiction, I love developing characters that are satirical caricatures of the most ridiculous and/or worst kinds of people. I really need to hone my imaginative skills, as I could never have created a character so ridiculous and wrong as that particular politician. Or write a scene so unbelievably bizarre. And the word salad speech that he gave in parliament was pure comedy.
How can I be upset when the situation and 'villain' are so utterly ridiculous? One day, I will add a version of him to a novel. At the very least, it's what he deserves.
He would be a character with few lines, and an odd demise. Perhaps he's crushed by the books that he's ordered the state library to burn? He takes his last breath under the weight of Palestinian poetry, Aboriginal novels, and tomes of critical whiteness theory.
Ten million fireflies lit up the world as Owl City fell asleep, therefore, byvthe rules specified, I already do not believe my eyes. (No rules to unset this flag have been given yet.)
I saw footage yesterday, or the day before, of them bombing already bombed out buildings where aid workers were trying to rescue civilians trapped under the rubble.
Following the Israeli military action against Iran on the morning of 13 June, various countries and international bodies have condemned the Israeli crimes in violating international law and Iranian territory.
"This is a simple story, one that should be all too familiar to European publics if they were educated in their own histories.
For centuries, Europeans spread outwards - driven by a supremacist zealotry and a desire for material gain – to conquer the lands of others, to steal resources, and to subordinate, expel and exterminate the natives that stood in their way.
The native people were always dehumanised. They were always barbarians, "human animals", even as we – the members of a supposedly superior civilisation – butchered them, starved them, levelled their homes, destroyed their crops.
Our mission of conquest and extermination was always divinely blessed. Our success in eradicating native peoples, our efficiency in killing them, was always proof of our moral superiority.
We were always the victims, even while we humiliated, tortured and raped. We were always on the side of righteousness.
Israel has simply carried this tradition into the modern era. It has held a mirror up to us and shown that, despite all our grandstanding about human rights, nothing has really changed.
There are a few, like Greta Thunberg and the crew of the Madleen, ready to show by example that we can break with the past. We can refuse to dehumanise. We can refuse to collude in industrial savagery. We can refuse to give our consent through silence and inaction.
But first we must stop listening to the siren calls of our political leaders and the billionaire-owned media. Only then might we learn what it means to be human."
Israel is completing its genocide. Keir Starmer says the aid blockade is 'intolerable'. And yet day after day he tolerates Israel’s bombs, gunfire and mass starvation campaign
#urban gardening
#urban gardening
William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •“If they can handcuff a US Senator for asking a question, imagine what they will do to you.”
~ Gavin Newsom
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #FreeSpeech #AlexPadilla #California
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 150. 6/12/25
Ron Filipkowski (Meidas+)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"On Thursday, US Senator Alex Padilla was physically ejected from a press conference being held in a federal building, forced to the ground, and handcuffed by federal agents (FBI?) for having the temerity to ask a question of Secretary Kristi Noem, who was at that very moment threatening to remove the democratically elected Mayor of Los Angeles."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #FreeSpeech #AlexPadilla #California
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It’s an attempted coup. We must stop it.
Robert B. Hubbell (Today's Edition Newsletter)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"The assault on a US Senator feels like an assault on each of us and deserves full-throated condemnation....
Trump has given permission for lawless and thuggish behavior by federal agents.
The Trump administration has lied about the incident, and some major media outlets (NYTimes) have obligingly parroted the administration’s lies about the incident."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #FreeSpeech #AlexPadilla #California
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"If it can happen to Senator Padilla, it can happen to all of us.
That is Trump's point: He wants us to experience fear and doubt over exercising our First Amendment rights. We cannot allow that to happen!"
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #FreeSpeech #AlexPadilla #California
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Moments after Noem made the remarks about, essentially, trying to undermine the authority of local and state elected Democrats in California, Padilla was forcibly removed from the briefing room, forced to lay on the ground face-down and placed in handcuffs. Because he tried to ask a question."
~ Nicole Lafond
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #FreeSpeech #AlexPadilla #California
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Noem Says National Guard Occupation Is Meant To ‘Liberate’ LA From Its Mayor And Governor
Nicole Lafond (TPM - Talking Points Memo)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"This is what has happened recently in the United States:
A United States Senator, Alex Padilla of California, was physically assaulted, forced to the ground, and handcuffed by agents acting for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem as he attempted to ask her a question."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #FreeSpeech #AlexPadilla #California
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Under color of law
Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Noem had just returned from a raid on the home of an immigrant family in Huntington Park, California. The agents were attired in full combat gear, including helmets, Kevlar vests, and camouflage fatigues. They carried fully automatic M-4 rifles fitted with 20-round magazines and were wearing masks. They did this under color of law."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #FreeSpeech #AlexPadilla #California
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Padilla stated, 'I am Senator Alex Padilla,' before attempting to ask Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a question.
That is...kinda really important.
As we speak, the right wingers over at FOX are convincing themselves that roughing up a US Senator was just fine and dandy because Padilla did not identify himself and bum rushed Noem. It is, of course, a lie."
~ Dalbert
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #FreeSpeech #AlexPadilla #California
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"I am Senator Alex Padilla." Update: 'Whoever assaults any person designated in subsection...'
Daily KosWilliam Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Every Republican member of Congress should join Democrats in condemning this administration’s vicious treatment of Senator Padilla. 'A Republic if you can keep it' is now.
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #FreeSpeech #AlexPadilla #California
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"We are a democracy. But we can lose that democracy."
Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"There’s literally no way to 'both sides' this alarming and indefensible act against a U.S. senator.
That being said, I always have faith in corporate media. ... It’s clear by now that corporate media and its lackeys are now complicit in normalizing and sanewashing a very real, existential threat to our democracy and freedoms for the sake of profit, ratings, and access."
~ Wajahat Ai
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #FreeSpeech #AlexPadilla #media
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thelefthook.substack.com/p/how…
How Corporate Media Is Paving the Road For Fascism in America
THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Corporate media paving the road for fascism through normalcy and civility.
~ Wajahat Ali
"They have corporate interests, which are much more important to them than you know, opposing fascism…. Opposing fascism isn't necessarily profitable. It's sort of difficult. It's messy. They don't really want to bother."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #FreeSpeech #AlexPadilla #media
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everythingishorrible.net/p/how…
How Corporate Media Is Paving the Road to Fascism in America with Noah Berlatsky
Noah Berlatsky (Everything Is Horrible)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Padilla, you should know, is not only a sitting senator. He is chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety."
~ Steven Beschloss
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #FreeSpeech #AlexPadilla
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americaamerica.news/p/waging-w…
Waging War Against America
Steven Beschloss (America, America)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •“'If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question, you can only imagine what they’re doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and out in California and throughout the country,' Padilla said…."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #FreeSpeech #AlexPadilla
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Secretary Noem implied that neither she nor her security knew who the senator was, but even if she had forgotten speaking with him in Senate hearings, a video of the encounter records him saying clearly: 'I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have a question for the secretary.”
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #FreeSpeech #AlexPadilla
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Waging War Against America
Steven Beschloss (America, America)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"What Noem was saying before Padilla spoke out is crucially important. "We are not going away,” she said. 'We are staying here to liberate this city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city.'"
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #FreeSpeech #AlexPadilla
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"In other words, the Trump administration is vowing to get rid of the democratically elected government of California by using military force. That threat is the definition of a coup."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #FreeSpeech #AlexPadilla
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