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  1. Padilla preps for Trump trying to control elections via emergency order

    misryoum.com/us/politics/padil

    Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) is preparing for President Trump to declare a national emergency in order to seize control of this year’s midterm elections from the states, including by bracing his Senate colleagues for a vote in which they...

    #Padilla #preps #for #Trump #trying #control #elections #via #emergency #order #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

  2. I called #Pelosi, #Schiff & #Padilla today about #Iran using the @5calls app.

    The script yesterday was hoping to "Stop unauthorized mlitary strikes on Iran."

    But since #Trump struck Iran on 2/28, @5calls updated the script.
    It's easy to do, please call

    I don't want to see "a mushroom cloud in the shape of Trump's smoking head."
    Link for web calls.
    5calls.org/issue/iran-israel-w
    #uspol

  3. I called #Pelosi, #Schiff & #Padilla today about #Iran using the @5calls app.

    The script yesterday was hoping to "Stop unauthorized mlitary strikes on Iran."

    But since #Trump struck Iran on 2/28, @5calls updated the script.
    It's easy to do, please call

    I don't want to see "a mushroom cloud in the shape of Trump's smoking head."
    Link for web calls.
    5calls.org/issue/iran-israel-w
    #uspol

  4. Padilla & Schiff describe inhumane conditions with food, medical, access to family & counsel. One case is a woman with diabetes who has not had medical care for two months

    Fin, Padilla hablamos en Espanol tambien

    Keep demanding to abolish #ICE and their private contractors

    CSPAN: #Schiff & #Padilla news conference at California City

    #USpol #immigration

    c-span.org/program/news-confer

  5. Padilla & Schiff describe inhumane conditions with food, medical, access to family & counsel. One case is a woman with diabetes who has not had medical care for two months

    Fin, Padilla hablamos en Espanol tambien

    Keep demanding to abolish #ICE and their private contractors

    CSPAN: #Schiff & #Padilla news conference at California City

    #USpol #immigration

    c-span.org/program/news-confer

  6. #Padilla & #Schiff are out at #California City concentration camp today, 1/20/26

    I've called. Their lines are busy. Left message expecting public report on the inhumane conditions, and to defund and abolish #ICE

    Keep your voice heard. Every small act has power

    If you need the number: Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 (voice) or 202-224-3091 (TTY)

    #USpol

    kget.com/news/local-news/schif

  7. #Padilla & #Schiff are out at #California City concentration camp today, 1/20/26

    I've called. Their lines are busy. Left message expecting public report on the inhumane conditions, and to defund and abolish #ICE

    Keep your voice heard. Every small act has power

    If you need the number: Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 (voice) or 202-224-3091 (TTY)

    #USpol

    kget.com/news/local-news/schif

  8. For those of you in #antiRacism work, here is a fact that may help you

    Via Senator #Padilla:

    “In fact, the USDA has several tools available which would enable #SNAP benefits to be paid through or close to the end of November.”

    #USpol #CareForEachOther

    padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/pr

  9. For those of you in #antiRacism work, here is a fact that may help you

    Via Senator #Padilla:

    “In fact, the USDA has several tools available which would enable #SNAP benefits to be paid through or close to the end of November.”

    #USpol #CareForEachOther

    padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/pr

  10. Amazing - no #shame, no sense of #embarrassment - this is #ReligiousBigotry and #Racism bearing fruit, dehumanizing people to the point you murder people trying to recover a dead body. And here I thought shooting #UnarmedCivilians on purpose was a war crime.

    And my Congressional Democrats, #Pelosi, #Schiff & #Padilla - are silent on this outrage. And they wonder why voters didn't see much to choose between? #GormlessPols

    theguardian.com/world/2025/sep

  11. Amazing - no #shame, no sense of #embarrassment - this is #ReligiousBigotry and #Racism bearing fruit, dehumanizing people to the point you murder people trying to recover a dead body. And here I thought shooting #UnarmedCivilians on purpose was a war crime.

    And my Congressional Democrats, #Pelosi, #Schiff & #Padilla - are silent on this outrage. And they wonder why voters didn't see much to choose between? #GormlessPols

    theguardian.com/world/2025/sep

  12. "Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in"

    ' “The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger,” a senior adviser to the then prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said in 2006. An Israeli court ordered the release of documents showing the details of those macabre sums two years later.'

    And how many Democratic senators voted to provide bombs to the government that uses starvation as an intentional policy? Why are my Senators, #Schiff and #Padilla, among those supporting acts to provide the #NetanyahuAdministration with the weapons to support these policies?

    theguardian.com/world/2025/jul

    #DisgustedWithCentrists

  13. "Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in"

    ' “The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger,” a senior adviser to the then prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said in 2006. An Israeli court ordered the release of documents showing the details of those macabre sums two years later.'

    And how many Democratic senators voted to provide bombs to the government that uses starvation as an intentional policy? Why are my Senators, #Schiff and #Padilla, among those supporting acts to provide the #NetanyahuAdministration with the weapons to support these policies?

    theguardian.com/world/2025/jul

    #DisgustedWithCentrists

  14. The US government is blatantly misrepresenting events captured on video
    in an effort to intimidate powerful officials and ordinary citizens who seek to challenge the White House’s policies.

    Alec Karakatsanis, the founder of Civil Rights Corps, a nonprofit legal advocacy group, argued:
    👉 “By relentlessly telling the population that ‘two plus two equals five’, it helps determine who is willing to go along with ‘two plus two equals five’ and deny basic truths.

    “It’s also about a longer-term and more profound assault on the very notion of truth
    – to get people so confused that they don’t know what is what,”
    said Karakatsanis,
    author of Copaganda, a book about false narratives promoted by police.

    🔥“This is the classic propaganda tactic of George Orwell’s 1984,” he added.

    New York City mayoral candidate Brad #Lander was arrested by federal agents inside an immigration court building on Tuesday, as he asked officers whether they had a judicial warrant to detain an immigrant he was accompanying.

    He was released after four hours, and so far, no charges have been filed against him.

    Video of the encounter shows plainclothes officers, some in masks, pinning Lander to a wall, handcuffing him and escorting him away.

    Lander had held on to the arm of the immigrant who was being targeted.

    Still, DHS assistant secretary, Tricia McLaughlin, said in a statement to the press and on social media soon after the incident that it was Lander who had assaulted officers.

    The accusations echo those against US congresswoman LaMonica #McIver, a Democrat, who, DHS claims, assaulted and impeded law enforcement when she and two other representatives arrived at a privately run Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention center to inspect the facility on 9 May.

    Representatives are authorized to conduct this oversight without prior notice, and McIver said she wanted to ensure the facility was clean and safe and detainees had access to their attorneys.

    Shaky videos of the encounter, some released by DHS, showed a chaotic scrum where McIver and others were surrounded by officers, some masked,
    as law enforcement and the representative pushed against each other.
    Soon after, she was given a tour of the facility, but a month later was indicted for assault, a charge she has strongly denied.

    In Los Angeles, David #Huerta, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) of California, was arrested on 6 June when he showed up to document an immigration raid at a garment factory.
    As he stood outside, blurry footage showed officers pushing him to the ground, with multiple agents on top of him as he was put in handcuffs.
    US attorneys charged him with conspiracy to impede an officer.
    He was not charged with assault, but even after the complaint was filed, DHS has continued to respond to questions about his case with a statement that says:
    “Huerta assaulted Ice law enforcement.”
    Huerta was hospitalized after his arrest, before being transported to jail.

    And last week, California senator Alex #Padilla was handcuffed and forcibly removed from a DHS press conference as he attempted to ask a question,
    with the FBI accusing him of “resisting” law enforcement. He was not charged with a crime.

    In a statement to the Guardian on Thursday, McLaughlin said Democratic politicians were “contributing to the surge in assaults of our Ice officers through their repeated vilification and demonization of Ice”,
    adding: “This violence against ICE must end.”
    DHS has repeatedly asserted in recent weeks that it has seen a major increase in assaults on its officers.
    Since May, the department has often cited the claim that Ice officers, who are part of DHS, are facing “a 413% increase in assaults against them”.
    Spokespeople for DHS have repeatedly refused to respond to questions about the source of the statistic, how many assaults have occurred and what time periods it was comparing.
    In April, a press release had referred to a “300% surge in assaults”.
    McLaughlin, of DHS, said in an email late Thursday that Ice officers were “now facing a 500% increase in assaults”,
    but again did not respond to inquiries about the figure.

    theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

  15. The US government is blatantly misrepresenting events captured on video
    in an effort to intimidate powerful officials and ordinary citizens who seek to challenge the White House’s policies.

    Alec Karakatsanis, the founder of Civil Rights Corps, a nonprofit legal advocacy group, argued:
    👉 “By relentlessly telling the population that ‘two plus two equals five’, it helps determine who is willing to go along with ‘two plus two equals five’ and deny basic truths.

    “It’s also about a longer-term and more profound assault on the very notion of truth
    – to get people so confused that they don’t know what is what,”
    said Karakatsanis,
    author of Copaganda, a book about false narratives promoted by police.

    🔥“This is the classic propaganda tactic of George Orwell’s 1984,” he added.

    New York City mayoral candidate Brad #Lander was arrested by federal agents inside an immigration court building on Tuesday, as he asked officers whether they had a judicial warrant to detain an immigrant he was accompanying.

    He was released after four hours, and so far, no charges have been filed against him.

    Video of the encounter shows plainclothes officers, some in masks, pinning Lander to a wall, handcuffing him and escorting him away.

    Lander had held on to the arm of the immigrant who was being targeted.

    Still, DHS assistant secretary, Tricia McLaughlin, said in a statement to the press and on social media soon after the incident that it was Lander who had assaulted officers.

    The accusations echo those against US congresswoman LaMonica #McIver, a Democrat, who, DHS claims, assaulted and impeded law enforcement when she and two other representatives arrived at a privately run Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention center to inspect the facility on 9 May.

    Representatives are authorized to conduct this oversight without prior notice, and McIver said she wanted to ensure the facility was clean and safe and detainees had access to their attorneys.

    Shaky videos of the encounter, some released by DHS, showed a chaotic scrum where McIver and others were surrounded by officers, some masked,
    as law enforcement and the representative pushed against each other.
    Soon after, she was given a tour of the facility, but a month later was indicted for assault, a charge she has strongly denied.

    In Los Angeles, David #Huerta, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) of California, was arrested on 6 June when he showed up to document an immigration raid at a garment factory.
    As he stood outside, blurry footage showed officers pushing him to the ground, with multiple agents on top of him as he was put in handcuffs.
    US attorneys charged him with conspiracy to impede an officer.
    He was not charged with assault, but even after the complaint was filed, DHS has continued to respond to questions about his case with a statement that says:
    “Huerta assaulted Ice law enforcement.”
    Huerta was hospitalized after his arrest, before being transported to jail.

    And last week, California senator Alex #Padilla was handcuffed and forcibly removed from a DHS press conference as he attempted to ask a question,
    with the FBI accusing him of “resisting” law enforcement. He was not charged with a crime.

    In a statement to the Guardian on Thursday, McLaughlin said Democratic politicians were “contributing to the surge in assaults of our Ice officers through their repeated vilification and demonization of Ice”,
    adding: “This violence against ICE must end.”
    DHS has repeatedly asserted in recent weeks that it has seen a major increase in assaults on its officers.
    Since May, the department has often cited the claim that Ice officers, who are part of DHS, are facing “a 413% increase in assaults against them”.
    Spokespeople for DHS have repeatedly refused to respond to questions about the source of the statistic, how many assaults have occurred and what time periods it was comparing.
    In April, a press release had referred to a “300% surge in assaults”.
    McLaughlin, of DHS, said in an email late Thursday that Ice officers were “now facing a 500% increase in assaults”,
    but again did not respond to inquiries about the figure.

    theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

  16. “Yesterday, he noted in a New York Times op-ed that ‘public safety is not the point; the #spectacle is.’ #Trump ‘is testing the boundaries of his power,’ #Padilla wrote, “[a]nd he’s using the theatrics around his immigration policies to do it.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-20-20...

    June 20, 2025

  17. “Yesterday, he noted in a New York Times op-ed that ‘public safety is not the point; the #spectacle is.’ #Trump ‘is testing the boundaries of his power,’ #Padilla wrote, “[a]nd he’s using the theatrics around his immigration policies to do it.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-20-20...

    June 20, 2025

  18. @democratsabroad well, they're still talking about #Padilla and not about #NoKingsDay so unfortunately one senator is more powerful than tens of millions of people in America

  19. More PBS coverage here:

    pbs.org/newshour/politics/watc

    “And as I was handcuffed and marched down a hallway, repeatedly asking, ‘Why am I being detained?’ Not once did they tell me why. I pray you never have a moment like this,” he added.

    He said he asked himself many questions in that moment, including where he was being taken, what his wife and sons would think, as well as whether speaking out had really been worth it.

    #USPol #Padilla #Immigration #Democracy #Resist

  20. More PBS coverage here:

    pbs.org/newshour/politics/watc

    “And as I was handcuffed and marched down a hallway, repeatedly asking, ‘Why am I being detained?’ Not once did they tell me why. I pray you never have a moment like this,” he added.

    He said he asked himself many questions in that moment, including where he was being taken, what his wife and sons would think, as well as whether speaking out had really been worth it.

    #USPol #Padilla #Immigration #Democracy #Resist

  21. Sen. Padilla's speech on being forced to the ground & handcuffed after asking a question:

    youtube.com/watch?v=G-mKheWHHD

    "… we've seen masked federal agentsn in tactical gear, ordered into our communities. We've seen a disturbing pattern of increasingly extreme and cruel immigration enforcement operations targeting nonviolent people, at places of worship, at schools,
    in courthouses, all to meet an arbitrary quota."

    (automated captions, some errors)

    #USPol #Padilla #Immigration #Democracy #Resist

  22. Sen. Padilla's speech on being forced to the ground & handcuffed after asking a question:

    youtube.com/watch?v=G-mKheWHHD

    "… we've seen masked federal agentsn in tactical gear, ordered into our communities. We've seen a disturbing pattern of increasingly extreme and cruel immigration enforcement operations targeting nonviolent people, at places of worship, at schools,
    in courthouses, all to meet an arbitrary quota."

    (automated captions, some errors)

    #USPol #Padilla #Immigration #Democracy #Resist

  23. CW: USpol, Senator Padilla

    "He looked like an illegal"

    Let that sink in... Just because of Padilla's skin color the detainment of a senator was justified by Trump.

    yahoo.com/news/trump-calling-h

    #USpol #immigration #padilla #racism

  24. CW: USpol, Senator Padilla

    "He looked like an illegal"

    Let that sink in... Just because of Padilla's skin color the detainment of a senator was justified by Trump.

    yahoo.com/news/trump-calling-h

  25. #Fascism #Legal #USpol #Padilla

    The second #Reconstruction of the #USA after this #NewCivilWar will require a drastic overhaul of the protections for all elected officials of federal and state governments.

    "#Showboating" an active US 🇺🇸 Senator who is using his right to question actions of the executive branch of government should be made a #CapitalOffense.

    "#California Sen. #AlexPadilla was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference and #handcuffed..."

    bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lir7f

  26. #Fascism #Legal #USpol #Padilla

    The second #Reconstruction of the #USA after this #NewCivilWar will require a drastic overhaul of the protections for all elected officials of federal and state governments.

    "#Showboating" an active US 🇺🇸 Senator who is using his right to question actions of the executive branch of government should be made a #CapitalOffense.

    "#California Sen. #AlexPadilla was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference and #handcuffed..."

    bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lir7f

  27. "This is a huge red flag"
    Heather Cox Richardson's analysis of what to Senator #Padilla and the intentions behind the troops in #LA is worth watching:
    youtube.com/watch?v=dJrTQvMYRT

    #USpol #democracy

  28. staceyabrams.substack.com/p/th

    The Rise of the Loyal and Legitimate Opposition
    #StaceyAbrams

    ..."As# Noem waxed at her press conference, prior to the attack on Sen. #Padilla, the mission is clear: “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.” We must acknowledge that #Trump, Noem, Speaker Mi. "...

  29. Attacking #Padilla was disgusting and unacceptable, but honestly I’m more concerned with the attacks on #immigrants happening out of the limelight each and every day. I venture that Sen. Padilla would agree.

    #Amerika #impeach47 #resist #Ω #donotcomply #eightysix47 #immigration

  30. #Padilla: From the moment I entered the building, I'm being escorted by a member of the National Guard and an #FBI agent. I asked, well, since we're waiting, can we go listen in to the press conference? They escort me over to the press conference. They opened the door for me.

  31. Be Disrespectful!

    This administration doesn't deserve our respect. Anyone who thinks grabbing a 4 year old out of school is ok earns my contempt.

    They said Sen. Alex Padilla was disrespectful and THREW him on the ground and cuffed him as he identified himself. THAT'S disrespectful to the people who sent Mr. Padilla to represent them .
    He had a question. His job is oversight on immigration and the secretary should have just answered the damn question. That's democracy
    #trump #law #padilla

  32. Be Disrespectful!

    This administration doesn't deserve our respect. Anyone who thinks grabbing a 4 year old out of school is ok earns my contempt.

    They said Sen. Alex Padilla was disrespectful and THREW him on the ground and cuffed him as he identified himself. THAT'S disrespectful to the people who sent Mr. Padilla to represent them .
    He had a question. His job is oversight on immigration and the secretary should have just answered the damn question. That's democracy
    #trump #law #padilla

  33. #US-Senator bei #Pressekonferenz gewaltsam abgeführt.

    Während einer Pressekonferenz der #US-Heimatschutzministerin ist es zu einem Vorfall gekommen, der für Empörung sorgt. Der #demokratische #Senator #Padilla aus #Kalifornien wollte Fragen stellen, wurde jedoch aus dem Raum gezerrt und in Handschellen gelegt.

    tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/