@frssoft@udongein.xyz2025-05-15 04:35:34
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-06-13 17:06:07
Calif. Senator Forcibly Removed and Handcuffed After Interrupting Noem (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/us/politics/senator-alex-padilla-handcuffed.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p82#a250613p82
@cdarwin@c.im2025-07-15 01:55:40
Donald Trump presents himself as strong, indomitable, and always forceful.
But when disaster strikes — whether hurricane, flash flood, or pandemic — he’s oddly helpless.
To hear Trump tell it, he has infinite power to do good and no power to do bad
-- and anyone who says otherwise is an enemy of the country.
To believe in MAGA is to believe in his simultaneous omnipotence and impotence, depending on whichever is convenient for partisan purposes.
This dynamic h…
@ThatHoarder@mastodon.online2025-06-14 13:32:23
Podcast ep 190: What if we forgive ourselves, but now we know better, we do better? Choosing compassion over shame in hoarding disorder https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-190-self-compassion-shame-hoarding/
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025-06-12 19:35:52
»L.A. Protests Live Updates: Senator Padilla Forcibly Removed After Confronting Noem«
The US has fallen and the Trump dictatorship hierarchy is final!
📰 https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/12/us/la-protests-trump-marines-ice
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@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz2025-07-13 20:05:13
@… Do you want to catch the frisbee for #ListeningClub next week?
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-06-12 21:43:48
From Robert Reich:
"#SenatorPadilla was forcibly removed from DHS Secretary #KristiNoem’s press conference in Los Angeles while attempting to ask a question.
Padilla was thrown down and handcuffed. A senator in his own state! (He has since been released.)
The
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-08-13 06:35:52
Kari Lake pushes to deport some of her former employees who worked for Voice of America; they were invited to the US under J-1 visas that are no longer valid (Toluse Olorunnipa/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-06-13 06:31:03
US senator forcefully removed from DHS event in LA, triggering Democratic outcry on Capitol Hill (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/06/12/politics/alex-padilla-removed-noem-press-conference
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p6#a250613p6
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-13 04:18:59
The president did say that under the new order of things in Washington,
the police will be “allowed to do whatever the hell they want”
to secure the streets.
But that’s just performative pro-police rhetoric, right?
It may sound like the actual legitimization of police brutality.
But that couldn’t happen here.
After all, the leaders of our major institutions would speak out,
forcefully and in unison, against it.
Here in the United States of Ame…
