Padilla said Trump is on a "tour of retribution" in his first floor speech since he was handcuffed at Noem's press briefing last week.
— Politico (@politico.com) June 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Padilla gave this speech on the floor pretty much as the news of Brad Lander's arrest in New York was breaking. Two Democratic lawmakers tackled and handcuffed by federal law enforcement in the span of a week.
— Nikki McCann Ramírez (@nikkimcr.bsky.social) June 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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The same people demanding you present a photo ID to vote are perfectly fine with letting you be arrested, handcuffed & thrown into a van by armed men wearing plain clothes, face masks & presenting no identification of any sort.
— Charles Gaba ?? (@charlesgaba.com) June 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Not an original point but worth saying again – there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.
— Jeff Lazarus (@jlazarus.bsky.social) June 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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I would add, that the fact the GOP is acting the way they are is being treated by the DC political press corps as though this is actually strategically good for them, when, in fact, it probably isn't.
— Dennis Yedwab (@dennisyedwab.bsky.social) June 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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So @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social did a writeup of Brad Lander's arrest today at 26 Federal Plaza in NYC, focusing not just on Lander's treatment, but the treatment of immigrants inside, both in the courtroom and once they are detained.
prospect.org/justice/2025…— David Dayen (@ddayen.bsky.social) June 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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WATCH: NYC comptroller Brad Lander says he sat in a detention room for 3.5 hours without hearing a word about why he was arrested.
"They knew who I was. There's no doubt they knew I was the comptroller."— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris.bsky.social) June 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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We will all be worse off if we let Donald Trump and his fascist regime undermine the rule of law.
— Brad Lander (@bradlander.bsky.social) June 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Ice is literally cutting advertisements for democrats https://t.co/H5rZbA1WGZ
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) June 17, 2025
NaijaGal – No Kings Protest in Marina del Rey/Playa Vista, California
Baud
I guess Lander and Mamdani are the two progressive candidates in the race. How do they compare to each other? It’s nice that people don’t have to choose between them but can rank them.
Old School
Did they ever give a reason why he was “arrested”?
FastEdD
I’ve known Senator Padilla for 23 years, since he was an LA City Councilman. One of the most mild mannered people I’ve ever met. You really have to go out of your way to piss him off. I watched him get thrown to the ground and I was spitting nails.
Raoul Paste
Every Dem TV appearance should feature the GABA quote.
ID required to vote, but not for arresting someone??
JoyceH
Does anyone else think that this innovation of having arresting officials being masked and unbadged is because at least some of them are pardoned J6ers? Just livin’ the dream!
gvg
Let’s see…they think it’s OK to not insist on police identification with faces, warrents and official badges and vehicals but Women are stalked and murdered by ex’s by the thousands every year and men too,plus sometimes relatives.
I get alerts on my phone all the time about missing children believed to have been taken by non custodial parents, or just kidnapped at the mall.
No way.
If they have hired criminals which is what I suspect, I want it known. I also think there has probably already been some criminal maskarades that people thought were ICE but weren’t. Some of those disappeared people are going to turn out to be murdered.
Dorothy A. Winsor
I defy anyone to look at that picture and pick out the law enforcement officers.
bbleh
There have been several Dem politicians willing to put themselves on the line and good on them! But it’s not enough IMO. ALL Dem politicians (ok, except for the Fettermans of the world) need to support them LOUDLY. The non-uniformed goon squads need to be called out for what they are — basically Nazi Brownshirts for the Orange administration — repeatedly and publicly, by the entire party apparatus.
If they don’t, they leave the impression that they don’t care that much, and they leave the field open to the Republican propagandists screeching about the Law and the Illegals, as though the goon squads were the equivalent of properly uniformed police or the people they’re harassing were at a minimum receiving due process and in some cases entirely innocent.
The Kilmar Abrego Garcia case was an object lesson. Make it a Big Story and the TACO guy and his minions will (mostly) back down. Otherwise, they’ll keep pushing and Dems will look hapless.
Scout211
I read this yesterday. Scroll down to see a map of the US and which law enforcement agencies are cooperating with ICE.
I do wonder if they knew what they were getting into when they signed their agreements. Especially those in the state of New York.
I posted a link to that FTFNYT photo (in the blue sky post above) yesterday and I thought they all looked like gym rats who spent too much time in the gym pumping iron while pumped up on protein (and other) supplements. All brawn, no brain?
Kelly
Also Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Rep. LaMonica McIver, Judge Hannah Dugan
This is an authoritarian putsch.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
I am thinking the same thing, this mask thing isn’t right for even a Fascists’ regime.
Kelly
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: Fascists want a sharp uniform and shiny boots. These guys are sleezy thugs.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Mamdani just got pulled up by the Holocaust Museum. So there is that.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
What does that mean?
Trollhattan
If some be-masked un-badged thugs try and sweep me up, what happens when I call 911?
schrodingers_cat
@Baud:
Mamdani, on The Bulwark podcast, says ‘Globalize the Intifada’ chant signifies, to him, a call for Palestinian human rights. Adds: “The word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising into Arabic — because it’s a word that means struggle.”
US Holocaust Museum’s reply
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
Thank you.
Geminid
@Baud: Assemblyman Mamdani seems to be the most “Left” of the field. Brad Lander does not seem much different from former Comptroller Scott Stringer and City Council Chair Adrienne Adams.
Marist just published their final poll of the Mayoral race. It showed Cuomo starting out with 43% of first round votes; Mamdani was second with (I think) 20%. The final tally was projected as Cuomo 56%, Mamdani 44%, at least as I recall.
Ed. A contraindication that suggests Mamdani strength: a large number of younger voters are said to be voting early. Crosstabs from an earlier Enerson poll showed Mamdani running better than Cuomo among voters under 50.
Baud
@Geminid:
Thanks. Next week should be interesting.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Baud:
All I know is that the housing justice people I network with in NYC are going 1-2 with both of them in whatever order the individual wants. The feeling is that either would be fine as Mayor.
They are also very united against ranking Cuomo at all.
ColoradoGuy
I too feel that some of these thugs are not Federal employees at all, but MAGA militia members. So no badge number, no ID, and no authority to arrest. Just gangsters connected to the local GOP apparatus.
Not that different than the folks who tried to hijack the 2020 election. They weren’t all State or Federal officials; some were just local GOP operatives who were quite happy to break the law. Going back further, think of the “Brooks Brothers Riot” that stopped the vote count in Florida in 2000. They were operatives of the GOP, and were rewarded with posts in the GWB administration.
Marc
The Hortman’s would still be alive if we all hadn’t been long habituated to the idea that real police might be at your door, at any time day or night, dressed like armed thugs with masks.
Kelly
I believe all the masked thugs are federal employees. I believe some of them haven’t been out of the office for a long, long time before this push.
matt
News media filled with awful people, some of the worst people. These people vastly overestimate the advantages of being a horrible person.
Matt McIrvin
@JoyceH: I’ve heard that some of them are themselves recent immigrants.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Matt McIrvin: That really would be so on brand for Trump admin.
lowtechcyclist
Why should the press give the least fuck what’s strategically good for whom? How about (a) what happened, (b) if it’s legal, and (c) some sense of what’s right and wrong?
Fuck all this theatre criticism crap.
Jackie
@Scout211:
Didn’t a certain NYC mayor agree to this in order to get criminal charges against him dismissed/dropped?
laura
That shite-bag was holding a press gaggle where the rose garden used to be and when asked the difference between his first term and now, he stated that in the first term, he was the hunted and now, he is the hunter. Just a scant few days after a chilling political assassination spree.
Jay
Anaphylactic Noem, DOGE, DHS illegality pulled an $80 million dollar FEMA grant from NYC, meant to reimburse NYC for the costs of housing and caring for recent migrants.
Lander and NYC sued and so far, have been winning in court.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@laura: and falling asleep during his special parade. He’s posturing because the parade made him look like a frail old man.
Jay
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
He also fell asleep at one of the G7 meetings.
There is a group photo of the G7 where DJTdiot is front and center, a cluster of 3, shoulder to shoulder on each side, all staying 6 feet away from Diaper Don.
Jay
The four things you can expect to get bombed today are Iran, Israel, Ukraine, and Pete Hegseth
Baud
Looks like JD Vance joined Blue sky. There are calls to block him.
Princess
@Baud: I feel like it would be more fun just to endlessly dunk on him.
Matt McIrvin
@laura: At some point he’s going to try to kill every Democratic member of Congress. I’d stay out of the federal murder pardon zone of DC as much as possible if I were them. Roll call votes are a problem.
Baud
@Princess:
That’s what he wants. They’re not our entertainment.
IMHO
Jay
@gvg:
I know of 8 cases so far where people pretended to be ICE to commit crimes, from armed robbery to kidnapping and murder.
different-church-lady
It looks like that in context.
different-church-lady
@laura: Mask off.
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
Half of Blue sky will blame Dems.
different-church-lady
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Say what you will about the tenants of National Socialism, Dude, at least they had uniforms.
different-church-lady
@Baud: Murc’s Law.
Jay
@different-church-lady:
And Hugo Boss designed and made them.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Who cares that half of Blue sky will blame Dems? Sounds like BlueSky is the next cesspool.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
It’s just the nature of the culture. It extends beyond Bluesky.
different-church-lady
@WaterGirl:
AlwaysHasBeen.gif
KSinMA
@bbleh: I’m thinking that now that we’ve shown we can succeed at nonviolent demonstrations, we should move on to nonviolent civil disobedience–perhaps crowding the hallways in the immigration courts, interfering with ICE, and going to jail. Why should our elected politicians have to do it for us? … Just thinking out loud, not very clearly.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: It’s what you make of it. No algorithm and I is easy to block idiots, so your feed is what you choose it to be.
Interesting Name Goes Here
@WaterGirl: It’s not just BlueSky. I can point to several other cesspools that have been around for much longer. The problem is there is a culture of performative jackassery, and everyone wants a piece of that pie while it’s still tasty. What will spoil it? TBD, but clearly a pandemic wasn’t enough to do it, so let’s see what another ill-advised bout of stupidity in the Middle East can do.
Speaking of that, anyone see that strongly-worded letter the Abandon Harris folks wrote to Trump? Pure comedy.
different-church-lady
@Interesting Name Goes Here:
Nominated!
Baud
@Interesting Name Goes Here:
The who?
@different-church-lady:
Seconded.
Jay
@KSinMA:
In Seattle, LA, NYC and Portland, protestors are blocking access to Immigration Courts, so that ICE can’t hustle some Immigrant, Asylum seeker or Green Card holder off to bum fuck Alabama after they arrest them at their court hearings.
kindness
What happens when a group of masked Ice guys with no badges or insignia jump some guy in Florida and he pulls a gun out and shoots them all dead? It is gonna happen. If not Florida, one of the gun humper states.
WaterGirl
@kindness: Stand your ground!
WaterGirl
@Interesting Name Goes Here: I don’t know about any letter. Do you have a link?
kindness
@WaterGirl: No, really. Don’t have to go out on a limb and predict all the people that thought shooting Treyvon Martin was justified for holding a bag of Skittles will say the shooter is at fault with that scenerio. Their right and wrong is completely situational.
WaterGirl
@kindness: Yep. Hard to win the game when the other guys gets to change the rules at will.
Interesting Name Goes Here
@Baud:
@WaterGirl:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/s/8E4ykOn7Yq
Link goes to an appropriate Reddit thread about it, because I absolutely refuse to give them the web traffic from visiting their websites or even searching for them. The thread has the letter screenshotted and captured upfront.
Baud
@Interesting Name Goes Here:
Thanks. Weird.
Jeffro
@Raoul Paste: 110% agree
And it’s so easy to walk people through it: “picture yourself, walking down the street, when suddenly…”
WTFGhost
@Raoul Paste: Trump is taking advantage of a weakness in the judicial branch. Cops are supposed to be sworn officers of the court – the very idea of lying under oath should make them feel sick to their stomachs. But we know a lot of cops will arrest annoying people for “impeding law enforcement,” “resisting arrest,” and “assaulting an officer, meaning, we know some cops lie, and they get the backing of the department, saying “it was a good bust!”
Trump thinks “OMG, they’ll TRUST you guys? Then you have to tell the right lies!” People who understand democracy say “OMG, they’ll trust YOU GUYS? I better find some of you who don’t like lying.”
@JoyceH: No, it’s so no one can complain about the cops. No one gives a damn if they’re pardoned J6ers. Yes, it would be an aberration of justice, but Trump lives for that kind of crap. In fact, I’m sure that the color he uses on his face is “Aberration of Justice Orange.”
Jeffro
@kindness: this scenario should be raised by Dems every single time they talk about ICE
”what do we do THEN, Secretary Noem? President Trump? Who’s the bad guy when a Floridian ‘stands his ground’ and wipes out five non-uniformed, non-badged, mask-wearing ICE officers who jumped out of a van and tried to grab him?”
”can’t we avoid that horrible tragedy RIGHT NOW and agree that all ICE officers need to be wearing official uniforms, badges, and so on?”
WaterGirl
@Interesting Name Goes Here: Oh my gosh, the level of hubris on display is astonishing. oh my god, they are proud of what they did, and they are writing to FFOTUS as if he were an actual person who gives a fuck about anything besides his own power.
I didn’t stay to read anything further. How is the letter being treated on reddit?
Baud
@WaterGirl:
That was a Leopards Ate my Face subreddit. They were making fun of it.
Jackie
@WaterGirl: Are these Abandon Harris members supposed democrats? Independents?
Old School
Donald Trump, Master Strategist
Eunicecycle
@Old School: and he mentions the Civil War right after talking about the Declaration of Independence, like he thinks that is what caused the Civil War.
Old School
28-year-old Pedro Luis Salazar-Cuervo, who has no known criminal record, was accused by Texas police of being in a Venezuelan gang because they found a photo of him posing with another man with tattoos, his lawyers say.
From ProPublica partner @texastribune.org:
different-church-lady
@WaterGirl: That’s a parody, right?
Geminid
@WaterGirl: I thought the claim that “we cost Kamala Harris the White House” was very much a stretch. I don’t think its true but even if it was, Trump already got his use out of this organization.
Baud
@Geminid:
A Trump always pays his debts.
WaterGirl
@different-church-lady: I just googled and they have a twitter account with postings from last fall, so they appear to be a real group.
Instead of thinking, oh no, we were short-sighted, their takeaway is “look how powerful we are!”
So proud of themselves! They have lost the fucking plot.
WaterGirl
@Jackie: No idea, but you could check out their twitter page if you want to know. I was only on twitter long enough to see if they were real.
WaterGirl
@Geminid: I think November was a perfect (awful) storm. I can think of a dozen things where if any one thing had been different, Dems would have won.
So in that sense, yeah, I think they could have cost Dems the election.
Splitting Image
@Jackie:
Useful idiots.
The one never-changing noise in the background of my life are the thousands of angry voices shouting “Not a Dime’s Worth of Difference Between Them” helping to throw elections to the Republican Party.
Every time they do this, the Republicans immediately set to work enacting legislation that underscores the major differences between the parties: tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulation, and throwing some shitty little country against a wall for the hell of it.
The question at this point is who are the fools? The people doing this or the folks who still think these people are on their side?
Jackie
@WaterGirl: I don’t do twitter, so I’ll just follow along reading everyone else’s thoughts LOL
Geminid
@WaterGirl: Given how close the election was, I think the overall effects of the Gaza war might have cost Harris the election. But these folks were a fairly small movement, and I doubt if they moved the needle much themselves. They’re taking credit for votes of people who might never even have heard of them.
Sadly, the war in Gaza is still ongoing and this group seems to have moved on to a different war already.
Bill Arnold
@Interesting Name Goes Here:
Some text from it:
LOL. Twits are (twit is?) asserting that they are guilty of mass homicide. Maybe nine figures, in the fullness of time, and 6 figures already.
Captain C
@Old School: Well, sure, if the South had given up slavery, and maybe even proposed the 13th through 15th Amendments themselves. I’ll come in again…
Sister Golden Bear
@Princess: Vance is trolling to get responses he can post on Twitter.
One major reason Bluesky didn’t become a Nazi bar is that from the early days there was a gentlepersons’ agreement to not engage with right-wing trolls, but instead to block and move on.* The trolls got bored when there was no one to fight with and went back to Twitter.
*Albeit I usually mute instead of block, unless someone is abusive or poses a potential danger (just in case I need to see what they posted), but the effect is the same
@Omnes Omnibus:
Agreed.
Old School
@Captain C:
Or if the North could have been a little more flexible on the subject…
Jay
@Old School:
3/4’s of a person?
Kayla Rudbek
@Scout211: probably steroid abusers
Ksmiami06
@Matt McIrvin: they should come armed
Ruckus
@Scout211:
A lot of young cops work out, a lot, because often they can get in a situation that requires strength. And if they aren’t strong enough they can get rather hurt. And while it isn’t likely to be every day in most places, with shitforbrains back in office, I’d bet they are betting on more situations, rather than fewer. And of course we have a political party that seems to want to likely end a lot of competition for what they see as the way life should be and make all of us struggle just to exist.
I’ll say that in the lifetimes of others around my age – geezer, (not me of course, people older than me…..)
strange visitor (from another planet)
@Ruckus: a lot of the cops here in brooklyn look like juiceheads (and kind of act like them, too).