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WellstoneDem retweeted
Yesterday afternoon, ICE agents — who did not present a warrant, and who appear to have been disguised as construction workers — fired 7 shots into a car with a 5-year-old child, hitting Oscar Belgal in the neck.
Belgal was not presenting a safety risk to anyone at the time. It was ICE officers who created all the danger and lawlessness. It was ICE who carelessly and needlessly unleashed a hail of bullets that could easily have killed a 5-year old. Unfortunately, this is not the first time, or the tenth, or the hundredth, that ICE has endangered kids.
We just hit the streets to demand that Oscar Belgal be released from ICE custody immediately. He’s currently being held at MDC Brooklyn. There also must be an independent investigation, led by the NYS Attorney General, to ensure accountability for this shooting. I’m also calling for a thorough review of NYPD actions yesterday. It is the job of the NYPD to preserve safety and peace, not to facilitate ICE detentions and deportations.
No more of rogue federal agents terrorizing our neighbors. Get ICE the hell out of NYC. #AbolishICE #ICEOutNow
WellstoneDem retweeted
A decent way to think about 2026: many of the places that have swung the most towards Republicans during the Trump era (Iowa, Ohio, Wisconsin, south TX, north country of NY) are the places we could see some of the biggest pro-Dem swings this year.
WellstoneDem retweeted
Mamdani: There is no explanation for these tactics. There is no explanation for federal officers firing this many rounds into a car that has a five year old in the car. Look at how many people live right here. This is a residential neighborhood. We are right here by a subway.
And the pretext of ICE is, in their words, to keep this country safe. How is it keeping everyone safe to have, as you just heard from the police commissioner, individuals wearing construction vests in masks with long guns? Residents have no idea if these are law enforcement agents, or if they are simply attacking someone on the street. And when it comes to ICE, it begs the question, what's the difference? There is no explanation for this.
WellstoneDem retweeted
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens.
We are.
500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term.
Our tally is almost certainly an undercount.
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WellstoneDem retweeted
This unconscionable move will hurt the most vulnerable children in America.
Because of federal rules, children covered by Medicaid won't be able to access vaccines that are no longer recommended by the federal government, even as children with private insurance will. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/r…
WellstoneDem retweeted
FOX: I understand thinking that some people have too much money. We are engine of the world for these things and people end up being billionaires as a result.
El-Sayed: The issue is not that some people have too much money. It’s that the engine that created their opportunity to make money is being underfunded…
FOX: You said you wanted to choke them out.
El-Sayed: I don't want to choke anyone out. I want to make sure everyone can breathe. Right now, you have an economy where people are getting choked out because they don’t have the basic means for a dignified life because we are more focused on allowing a billionaire to make another billion…
WellstoneDem retweeted
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
"We’re talking about kids who have a mom, a dad, and siblings who want them to be living with them." motherjones.com/politics/202…
WellstoneDem retweeted
Mamdani: Thirty years from now, when our city is dancing to a beat we cannot imagine, or taking in art more creative than anything we’ve ever seen, it will be in no small part because the children of this city had the support and the public goods they needed to succeed. The parks in which they could play, the public transit they could ride to visit new worlds, and the universal childcare they could rely upon to learn, to grow, to become themselves. And while we may have some more gray hair then, we will know that progress was made, that greatness was made possible because of a program like this one. Because government provided its people with the foundation to succeed. And because, and I say this specifically to all of the providers and the advocates, because you were willing to believe once again that something different could happen.
WellstoneDem retweeted
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings.
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WellstoneDem retweeted
About 6 inches of the water that flooded Sag Harbor last weekend was there because of us.
102 flood readings from South Carolina to Massachusetts. At 32 of them the water never would have reached flood stage without climate change.
WellstoneDem retweeted
“Ranking Member Lofgren Urges Removal of Wielicki as Leader of Climate Research Office” lofgren.house.gov/media/pres…
WellstoneDem retweeted
Sherrod Brown: Data centers really show whose side you’re on. Are you going to do the bidding of sort of the tech titans? Are you going to do the bidding of those companies from out of state that don’t give a damn about local communities? Are you going to do the bidding of the electric companies? Are you going to do the bidding of the polluters? Or are you going to stand with the public?
WellstoneDem retweeted
"Demolish the deep state" - Trump has overseen the most corrupt administration in modern history making billions of dollars for him and his friends while your costs go up.
"Expel the warmongers from our government" - Trump started a war with Iran that has cost taxpayers billions and raised your gas prices to almost $5 a gallon.
"Rout the fake news media" - Trump's order banning news outlets from the White House was just struck down by a judge because it violated the First Amendment.
And how much taxpayer money did the government spend on this ad?
The U.S. Government is up on TV with this spot --
It aired nationally on FOX yesterday during Illinois at #7 Ohio State and also during Fox News Sunday this morning
WellstoneDem retweeted
You’ve likely seen the news: The U.S. Supreme Court Friday greenlit a flawed Trump administration database for purging voters from the rolls.
Almost as troubling: Plenty of major news outlets were eager to downplay the decision’s importance. democracydocket.com/news-ale…
WellstoneDem retweeted
They’re just stealing your money to pay for this.
WellstoneDem retweeted
AOC: “We must abolish ICE. This is not an extremist position. ICE is not structured as any sort of recognizable law enforcement agency even if they are labeled as such. They are not subject or structured in any way to even resemble law enforcement. There is no accountability. You cannot assert your constitutional rights in these facilities. These black box detention centers are for-profit institutions. They exist to house bodies and that is one of the many reasons it should be abolished”
WellstoneDem retweeted
Black Communities Face More Pollution as EPA Ends Power Plant Limits - Capital B News capitalbnews.org/trump-epa-p…
WellstoneDem retweeted
You voted to confirm the OMB Director.
Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration. This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress’s Constitutional power of the purse.
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.
Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress’s appropriations powers. OMB is an agency of the executive branch. It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.
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Senator Collins voted to confirm OMB Director Vought, despite Vought’s known support for the President’s efforts to impound Congressionally-approved funds.
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