U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla on Thursday was handcuffed by officers and forcefully removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles
as he tried to speak up about immigration raids that have led to protests in California and around the country.
Video shows a Secret Service agent on Noem’s security detail grabbing the California senator by his jacket and shoving him from the room
as he tried to speak up during the DHS secretary’s event.
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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
»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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Whoa - 2.5 billion with a 'b'? That's an expensive remodel...
Federal Reserve rebuts Trump admin renovation attacks
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/12/federal-reserve-trump-renovation-attacks.html
South Park is no longer available on Paramount outside the US, as sources say the platform's license to stream the series internationally has expired (Brande Victorian/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gen
I accidentally uninstalled "Microsoft Edge for Android" which also removed my extensions (UBlock Origin ad-blocker, for one) & when I reinstalled... OMG, certain sites are utterly UNUSUABLE.
Thank God for #Microsoft #Edge for
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
Tom Homan, the US border czar, has said
he does not know what happened to the eight men deported to South Sudan
after the Trump administration resumed sending migrants to countries that are not their place of origin, known as third countries.
Men from Mexico, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar were removed from the US and flown to the war-torn country
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
Trump could potentially fire Powell over Fed renovations, Hassett says (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/13/trump-powell-federal-reserve-hassett
http://www.memeorandum.com/250713/p16#a250713p16