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“There’s no recording allowed out here.” I just grabbed this uncredited off Facebook. Does anyone know who recorded it? I want to make sure they get proper credit.

Today, the Office of U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee, released the following statement after Padilla was forcibly removed from Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s press conference while performing Congressional oversight in Los Angeles: “Senator Padilla is currently in Los Angeles exercising his duty to perform Congressional oversight of the federal government’s operations in Los Angeles and across California. He was in the federal building to receive a briefing with General Guillot and was listening to Secretary Noem’s press conference. He tried to ask the Secretary a question, and was forcibly removed by federal agents, forced to the ground and handcuffed. He is not currently detained, and we are working to get additional information.”

Statement from Sen. Padilla's office: Padilla "tried to ask the Secretary a question, and was forcibly removed by federal agents, forced to the ground and handcuffed. He is not currently detained, and we are working to get additional information."

Idiocracy undersold it

80 years ago on this day, Adolf Hitler shot himself.

Never give up hope.

NSA warned of vulnerabilities in Signal app a month before Houthi strike chat The National Security Agency sent a bulletin in February warning of Russian hackers trying to access encrypted conversations on Signal.

🚨 CBS News has received an internal NSA bulletin from Feb 2025 warning staff NOT to use Signal app for sensitive info, citing vulnerabilities to Russian hackers. These docs were sent pre-Houthi chat scandal with Jeffrey Goldberg.

You can literally see the stock market plunge in real-time on Fox News as Trump announces new tariffs.

Brilliant idea

www.facebook.com/share/1B1bWp...

This doesn’t exist and will literally save $0

Elon Musk's midnight takeover The world's richest man and his allies are “avoiding office hours at all costs” as they take a wrecking ball to the US government.

A worker at an intelligence agency says unidentified outside staffers arrived to sweep the office of anything they felt was related to DEI.

That included a plaque, confiscated from a supervisor’s desk, that read, “Be kind to everyone.”

Every day is Christmas for Putin now.

Appeals Court Upholds Dismissal of Six Counts in Georgia Election Subversion Case Read more.

A Georgia appeals court affirmed a decision to dismiss six counts in an indictment charging President Donald Trump and others for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state. Trump remains charged with 10 counts.

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

Heads up Blueskyers..... If you still have a FB, Instragram, Twitter accounts...check your followers today and over the next few weeks as we all have been followed by all the trumps, and musk accts. A friend of mine just alerted me. I looked and she was right....all searched blocked.

Ketamine is a hell of a drug.

A map of the South China Sea and surrounding countries, which are marked as ASEAN members. There's a circle on the sea with the label, "Fight with China."

I made a little picture to help explain to the MAGAts why Pete Hegseth's utter ignorance about ASEAN actually matters, especially for a guy who says he wants to roll back Chinese influence.

NEVER FORGET JANUARY 6TH.
trump did NOTHING for 187 minutes.

counting on you Glenn to keep us sane

Happy New Year, friends! As we enter the era of American indecency, w/Trump's endless cussing & mocking, his lies & his name-calling, & his all-around imbecility, it'll be up to us to make 2025 the year we find & feed the points of light. Because this darkness WILL pass & the light will come again.

Sounds fair to me!

lol - urs looks like that too

Former President Jimmy Carter leans on a wall as he helps build a Habitat for Humanity house in Violet, La., in 2007. (Alex Brandon/AP)

President Jimmy Carter was an American hero and a model of compassion, wisdom, and fortitude. May his memory be a blessing.

How do you let this person - insane, vulgar, dangerous - take the office of the Presidency?

I love how Denmark isn’t taking any shit from Donald Trump. 🇩🇰 🤣

Democratic House Rep. Shri Thanedar calling it like he sees it.

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Trump and Musk joined together to kill Mike Johnson’s short-term spending compromise to keep the government open. Among other things, the measure contained nearly $100 billion in national disaster aid, economic aid for farmers and a federal commitment to rebuild Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge.