My plans for today's show changed just moments before showtime as there was really disturbing breaking news! Senator Alex Padilla was forcibly removed - wrestled to the ground and handcuffed at a Kristi Noem press conference after LOUDLY AND CLEARLY identifying himself.
Here’s another view where you can hear and see him more clearly identifying himself. You can also see how they clearly manhandled him, pushed him to the ground and handcuffed him!
This is what the DHS Secretary, Kristi Noem, was saying before Sen. Padilla spoke up. “We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country.”
Really? I thought they were there to quell so-called riots!
And then, after the fact, you can hear how Noem, blatantly lies!
I'm still shaking with rage and terror. Those people are evil. They twist and lie about everything.
If one thing is more apparent to me now, it's that we all must take to the streets. Participate in a NO KINGS protest on Saturday. Go to nokings.org, find one happening near you. Show up, DO IT PEACEFULLY, but get involved. This is our future we're protecting. We cannot let them take over and destroy what's left of our democracy.
I was going to talk about other things on the show today. Here's what I wrote up before the show:
It's a busy Thursday with multiple hearings going on simultaneously in the House and Senate. Whiskey Pete Hegseth is showing how incompetent and unqualified he is to be Defense Secretary while Democratic governors are testifying about Sanctuary State Policies before the House Oversight & Government Reform committees.
Senate Republicans are meeting (arguing) with the official White House Nazi Stephen Miller, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent struggles to answer questions about his 2026 Budget, and D'ump tries to answer some questions from the press after signing more bullshit resolutions barring electric vehicle sales mandates and diesel engine rules for California as he continues lying about the protests in California and why he called out the National Guard and the Marines!
Meanwhile, DC braces for a military invasion for D'ump's ego birthday party — er — parade on Saturday. And he denies knowing about the 1800 and counting NoKings protests happening that same day. Opposite World indeed.
Today is Thursday, so we'll check in with Howie Klein of downwithtyranny.com & the Blue America PAC on his way for another cancer treatment...
In the aftermath of the Padilla assault, the hearings that were still ongoing turned ugly too.
Make no mistake. This is D'ump's MO. This is what he wants. He's fomenting division just as he fomented insurrection on Jan 6 at the Capitol. He WANTS to call in the National Guard and the Military on peaceful protestors everywhere, despite his claim that he knows nothing about the No Kings protest plans. He's lying about that as he lies about everything else!
Tomorrow we'll wrap up the week with Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net as we do every Friday.
Here’s the video version of today’s show, courtesy of YouTube
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