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After being forcibly removed from a press conference, Senator Alex Padilla has shown what will happen to those willing to speak out against this administration. I react to Padilla's forced removal and explain why it signals the end of American ideals.

Watch here: youtu.be/41qhkhFeIOo
Handcuffing A U.S. Senator Undermines Our Entire Democracy
YouTube video by The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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June 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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#resist #June14

Found this picture as I was sorting through some files this morning. Very fitting.
June 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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June 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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we need elected leaders afraid for the country, not their careers open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Words & Phrases We Could Do Without
I’m “afraid” these lawmakers are cowardly careerists
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April 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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April 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
April 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
– Adlai Stevenson
February 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM