California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state leaders held a press conference to announce their backing for a November special election initiative to redraw state election maps. The explicit purpose would be to eliminate some Republican-held current seats to offset Texas Republican efforts to remove Democratic-held seats in their own state.
But because we now live in an authoritarian state run by malevolent shit-for-brains, the press conference led the Trump-led federal government to dispatch a hundred or more federal Border Patrol and ICE agents outside the venue.
Because, and we cannot emphasize this enough, Donald Trump is a dementia-addled dotard and that has allowed psychopathic fascists like Stephen Miller to build and control their own personal secret police.
Gavin Newsom is holding a press conference today on redistricting and DHS agents have arrived masked up and in full gear. Many are armed with guns.
— Tina-Desiree Berg (@tinadesireeberg.com) 2025-08-14T18:57:20.514Z
BREAKING: @governor.ca.gov’s press conference in Little Tokyo has just been crashed by a massive CBP presence…witnesses report 50 vehicles and 100+ agents left the MDC toward Little Tokyo. From the gov’s press office:
— Mel Buer (@melbuer.bsky.social) 2025-08-14T18:40:56.509Z
These guys are all creepy fascist goons and I think I speak for most of Americans when I say "I hope they all die of untreated syphilis."
Armed Trump administration agents wearing masks just showed up outside of Gavin Newsom’s press conference. This is what rising fascism looks like.
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) 2025-08-14T18:42:11.159Z
It should be noted that Stephen Miller is, and many people are saying this, among the most valueless people to ever walk the planet. Go on, ask around. Everyone's saying it
Just heard from a source that ~100 ice/cbp guys are in little Tokyo. Then saw this. JANM has detailed and haunting exhibits on Japanese interment. This is particularly ghoulish.
— Nicholas Slayton (@nslayton.bsky.social) 2025-08-14T18:45:34.460Z
Outside an exhibit on internment camps, no less.
Anyway, I hope everyone involved in this operation gets screwworms. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Newsom: "He's a failed president. Who else sends ICE at the same time we're having a conversation like this? Someone who's weak. Someone who's broken. Someone whose weakness is masquerading as strength."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-08-14T19:33:44.817Z
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