Liveblog - ICYMI: June 12, 2025

Today’s blog will focus primarily on the protests occuring in Los Angeles, other cities, our state’s response to them, and The Fascist Felon’s War on California and the USA. I have also included other headlines unrelated to the focused events. But, feel free to share what you have as long as your headlines come from credible sources.

Breaking News-Fuck These Fascists!

AP footage of Senator Alex Padilla being physically removed from Kristi Noem's press conference about the LA @schiff.senate.gov @congresstran.bsky.social Thank you, Senator @padilla.senate.gov

Arthur Anderson (@uabyyruwi.bsky.social) 2025-06-12T18:07:01.556Z

Here's another angle from Fox News reporter Bill Melugin of Sen. Alex Padilla getting roughed up by law enforcement after he tries to question Kristi Noem at her presser:“I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary. Because the fact of the matter is, a half dozen… Hands off!”

Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona.bsky.social) 2025-06-12T18:11:41.933Z

Video: Sen. Alex Padilla removed from news conference with Homeland Security Secretary Noem

Sen. Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from a news conference Thursday morning with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

Noem was speaking in Los Angeles about recent ICE operations in the region when Padilla was removed from the room after saying, “You insist on exaggerating.” At least two men approached Padilla, a Democrat, near a wall and removed him through doors near the rear of the room.

Noem continued speaking to the room of reporters and law enforcement officers.

My goodness- California's Senator Alex Padilla just went to ask Kristi Noem questions in person at her photo op / press conference in LA and she had her security forcibly throw him out of the room. Video here:

Aaron Fritschner (@fritschner.bsky.social) 2025-06-12T18:11:05.176Z

PSA:

I’ll be there, will you?No kings. No cults. Just the Constitution—and the people who hold the line.

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2025-06-12T01:09:01.698Z

Good Trouble:

Crockett: I know that there’s been some conversations about what’s going on in LA and they want to say that it’s riots because they didn’t want people to keep talking about the Epstein files

Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-06-12T17:46:39.104Z

Palmer: Charges should be brought against each one of you AOC: Raising the prospect of charges against witnesses is a form of intimidation is it not?Palmer: I strike those words

Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-06-12T17:49:46.910Z

The Big, Ugly Bill:

NEW FROM CBO: brutal distributional analysis of House GOP "Big Beautiful Bill"On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP billAvg gets little – and are worse off if you include tariffsThis'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

Bobby Kogan (@bbkogan.bsky.social) 2025-06-12T15:02:43.211Z

Megabill would cost poorest households $1,600 a year, boost richest by $12K, according to Congress’ nonpartisan scorekeeper.

Politico (@politico.com) 2025-06-12T15:59:19.466Z

The Gestapo:

Goldman: "These are people doing in the right way, who are nonviolent, noncriminal, and they're getting arrested. So what message does that send? Obviously it sends the message, 'Go further underground. Don't appear in court. Don't pay your taxes' … that's just going to make the public less safe."

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-06-12T13:56:54.446Z

#GVerse #Spectacular – Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov just completely wrecked #Shit4Brains again. We're loving this.

𝕲𝖆𝖊𝖙𝖆𝖓𝖔 (@gmf1369.bsky.social) 2025-06-12T16:26:08.841Z

The Trump administration appears to have put on hold plans to dramatically ramp up transfers of undocumented migrants to Guantanamo Bay.It comes after we obtained documents showing the administration vetting 9,000 migrants for transfer to the base 👇

Politico (@politico.com) 2025-06-12T16:55:03.765Z

The Fascist Felon and His Brownshirts:

Can we just get some healthcare and some basic human rights?

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes.bsky.social) 2025-06-11T19:42:34.604Z

So migrants are ok if they pay $5M, but criminals if they don’t?

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes.bsky.social) 2025-06-12T17:15:14.420Z

Pudding Time!:

The Couch Fucker with Mullet Boi:

JD Vance, Podcaster Joke That “Gay” Frederick Douglass Fought to End Slavery to “Meet Men”The vice president laughed as abolition was reduced to a dating motive—just days before Juneteenthmeidasnews.com/news/jd-vanc…

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes.bsky.social) 2025-06-12T11:53:07.105Z

JD Vance riffed along with a podcaster that claimed abolitionist “Frederick Douglass was gay” and fought to end slavery to “meet men.”Vance cracked up when slavery was described as “being at work.”

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes.bsky.social) 2025-06-12T16:51:04.909Z


“But, But California is Broke!”

Craven Assholes:

holy shit — GOP Rep. Mike Turner tries to "help out" Hegseth by getting him to confirm that the Pentagon does not in fact have plans to take Greenland by force, but Hegseth instead more or less testifies that yep, they have devised plans for that

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-06-12T15:15:12.202Z

Other News:

Judge in Harvey Weinstein trial declares mistrial on rape charge

The judge overseeing Harvey Weinstein’s criminal trial in Manhattan declared a mistrial Thursday, June 12, on a third-degree rape charge against the former Hollywood movie mogul, after one of the jurors refused to continue deliberations.

Weinstein had been found guilty one day earlier on a separate sex-abuse charge, on the fifth day of jury deliberations.

Air India flight bound for London crashes, sole survivor identified

LONDON − A London-bound Air India passenger plane with more than 200 people on board crashed shortly after taking off from an airport in India’s western city of Ahmedabad, the airline and police officials said June 12.

Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a 40-year-old British national, appears to be the sole survivor.

G.S. Malik, Ahmedabad’s police chief, told Indian news media that Ramesh may have survived what no one else did. However, local officials have not yet definitively concluded that everyone aboard the jet was killed.

Authorities have yet to release any information about what may have caused the crash.

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