Such a wonderful respite in these troubling times.
And the new songs sounded great live. As expected!
Best wishes for the rest of the tour!
I am as big a sucker as anyone for the fine-grained legal analysis, but I do sometimes worry it distracts us a little from the big, dumb, obvious points. This is appalling & precisely what the Framers were terrified of. Whether it’s technically legal if you squint right doesn’t change that.
Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.
Booker: He was made to kneel before the authority of the executive… They treated a member of the United States senate violently after he identified himself, dragged him out of a room, threw him upon the ground, and put him in handcuffs
This is the most straightforward thing they've said so far. They're using the military to "liberate" Los Angeles from its mayor and governor.
Senator Alex Padilla was fulfilling his Congressional oversight duties when he was thrown to the ground and handcuffed.
This is no isolated instance; this is a pattern of behavior by the Trump administration.
There is simply no justification for this abuse of authority.
Padilla: “We will hold this administration accountable”
House Democrats need to bring articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, while Senate Democrats need to bring that chamber to a fucking halt.
Yes. According to Army protocol, congressional staff are VIP Code 5, with a rank equivalent to a two-star general/admiral. Members of Congress are of course significantly higher.
I have never seen USCP, FPS, or any other federal LEO treat any Member with anywhere near this disrespect and violence.
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.”
This is an out-of-control paramilitary agency, taking orders from radical white supremacists, operating outside the law and attacking Americans and states. Shut the whole thing down
Sitting US Senator Alex Padilla forcibly wrestled to the ground and arrested by the FBI for attempting to ask a question of DHS secretary Kristin Noem.
A staff member for Sen. Padilla shared this photo with @samsteindc.bsky.social:
political journalists obsess over the public’s lack of trust in our profession but strangely see that as downstream of things like “we didn’t talk enough about how biden was old” and not “many of us appear to be indifferent to a nihilistic attack on the constitution”
It’s elementary. If only one side is pushing it will get a lot of its way. The only workable remedial action is to make clear to all relevant parties that there are two sides pushing. And act accordingly.
It’s time to build.
6/ But the thing itself is a criminal enterprise by any reasonable reading of the constitution. The fact that Congress hasn't stopped it doesn't change that fact. It's the essence of remaining sane and steady in moments of chaos and national tribulation to not lose sight of which way is up ...
Pete Hegseth must resign or be fired immediately.
In his case, after all, there were mountains of public facts establishing his guilt. Whereas the public has been provided no information meaningfully establishing that the people deported without process are really criminals, or even really aliens, never mind "terrorists."
There's something grimly ironic about Trump, whose criminal guilt was quite clear based on public information, managing to land in the White House rather than a prison cell thanks to dragging out Due Process, now handwaving process away and assuming the right to brand criminals by fiat.
I'm voting NO.
I don't think it's a coincidence the person with the most courage to take ownership for a failure is also the person I probably blame the least
The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Musk and Trump could not possibly be sending a clearer signal that the Tesla protests are working than this pathetic stunt today.
There's been lots of debate on the left over the last 8 years about whether Trumpism qualifies as fascism or not, and I've never seen a semantic debate so handily settled
As the thread makes clear, this is not a legitimate function of the U.S. Marshals Service. This is folks with law enforcement authority acting as thug enforcers.
FRIGGIN' WILD: In email obtained by TPM, White House claims that the Appointments Clause of the US constitution conflicts with Trump's "inherent authority" ...
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Makes Aggressive New Claim of Executive Power To Circumvent The Senate talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...
Canada, we are in charge of our future. We can build a strong economy that doesn't depend on the United States.
We can be masters in our own house.
