Yeah you’ve got hochul uploading an official nygov social video calling lander’s arrest, and I’m quoting here, “bullshit.” They think the feds have overreached and are vulnerable.
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HOCHUL: “When you challenge the values and our rights and the people of our state, I’m going to have to fight, and stand up. That day has arrived.”
jun 17, 2025, 10:47 pm • 20 2 • view
NY needs to start arresting them under NY State law.
jun 17, 2025, 9:56 pm • 20 1 • view
Putting them on the stand and forcing them to testify under Oath seems advisable too.
jun 17, 2025, 11:14 pm • 9 1 • view
!00% Thank you @governor.ny.gov
jun 17, 2025, 9:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Start sending in troopers with the politicians. It's not going to get better till we have a passing match.
jun 18, 2025, 12:25 am • 6 0 • view
Good speech, now actions must follow!
jun 17, 2025, 10:07 pm • 2 0 • view
I'm surprised to be saying it, but hell yeah Hochul.
jun 17, 2025, 11:08 pm • 92 1 • view
It's like Newsom stepping up recently. Anytime a Dem who's been failing to behave like we are going into a full fascist state suddenly steps up...hooray!
jun 18, 2025, 12:55 am • 35 2 • view
I guess they needed a moment to understand that it‘s not all just the usual panicking etc. but that there‘s REALLY fire in the house. Letzte hope they won’t get placated again but keep up their resistance. (Still, it‘s funny we all need to feel endangered ourselves to jump.)
jun 18, 2025, 10:47 am • 3 1 • view
I agree, it's funny so many of us need to feel endangered ourselves to jump...if there's anything I feel like I've learned these last years, most humans are wired to believe that all is well.
jun 19, 2025, 1:52 am • 2 0 • view
💯
jun 19, 2025, 1:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Me too!
jun 19, 2025, 12:47 am • 1 0 • view
This is exactly the effect Trump wants. It’s awful. Change up your strategy.
jun 17, 2025, 10:02 pm • 1 0 • view
So send some State Troopers as escorts for him Don't just say things, do things.
jun 18, 2025, 1:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Can they sent State Troopers into a Federal court building? Good idea, but not sure it's possible.
jun 18, 2025, 2:41 pm • 1 0 • view
See, it is true. The evil indeed has to reach their doorstep, to touch their lives personally before they are ready to take a stand.
jun 18, 2025, 6:06 am • 4 1 • view
Exactly.
jun 18, 2025, 6:28 am • 1 0 • view
Might Noem be suffering from a panic attack? If not, she should be. Go for her personally! Like Baraka said, acting politically makes her vulnerable. Lander maybe is the straw that broke her back.
jun 17, 2025, 10:03 pm • 2 0 • view
Right?! If mealy-mouthed, go along to get along Kathy Hochul is doing this... Notably it comes days after the same treatment of a sitting US Senator, marches estimated to have breached the 3.5% participation threshold, and a shameful and embarrassing face-plant of a military parade for Tangerini.
jun 17, 2025, 10:38 pm • 3 0 • view
how about charge the agents in state court for assault, unlawful detention and anything else you can
jun 17, 2025, 9:45 pm • 21 0 • view
Absolutely!
jun 17, 2025, 9:54 pm • 4 0 • view
Hochul, Newsom, Pritzker and Walz all know what needs to be done. More democrats need to get on board. Make everything as public as you can and share it everywhere.
jun 17, 2025, 9:19 pm • 191 29 • view
100%Thank goodness for @governor.ny.gov @govpritzker.illinois.gov @governorwalz.mn.gov @governor.ca.gov
jun 17, 2025, 9:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Sad my governor isn’t on that list, but she chose to be a loser coward.
jun 17, 2025, 9:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, it's going to be up to the states since Congress has neutered itself. Themselves.
jun 17, 2025, 9:21 pm • 62 3 • view
.. and that’s why the coordinated attacks on states, the targeted assassinations of state representatives, and the violence and illegal detention of congressional leaders heading back to their districts to confront the illegal abductions and seizure of state means of control.. forced on the states
jun 18, 2025, 4:23 am • 7 2 • view
I hope you’ve been paying attention to Governor Janet Mills from Maine because she’s been leading the way since day 1.
jun 17, 2025, 10:45 pm • 9 0 • view
There are more out there, yes, but the moment has arrived and we need people to stand up to save our country.
jun 17, 2025, 10:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Plenty has been going on that you may not have seen or read about, perhaps b/c the media doesn’t report on it. Glad Hochul’s statements are being heard👍🏼
jun 17, 2025, 10:50 pm • 4 0 • view
Wisconsin’s governor has been standing up and fighting back, too.
jun 17, 2025, 10:51 pm • 2 0 • view
Don’t put Newsom and Hochul In the same boat as Walz or Pritzker. Walz and Pritzker have genuine integrity. Hochul and Newsom do not.
jun 17, 2025, 9:44 pm • 16 0 • view
I don’t see any other democrats speaking up? Hochul and Newsom have made some questionable choices, but they’re meeting the moment currently.
jun 17, 2025, 9:46 pm • 3 0 • view
Both MA senators have been involved and speaking from day one.
jun 17, 2025, 9:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Love our senators, but why does our governor have to be such a disappointment? I’ll never get past her rolling over after the Worcester incident. Charlie fuckin Baker probably would’ve taken more of a stand than Healey did.
jun 17, 2025, 10:44 pm • 2 0 • view
Yeah I’ve been underwhelmed with Healey too. Wu has been great at least.
jun 17, 2025, 11:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Still has to throw in “I was willing to work with you” … why
jun 18, 2025, 12:27 am • 4 0 • view
To satisfy the bothsiders.
jun 18, 2025, 1:08 am • 0 0 • view
She said “when our interests align”. She knew what she was saying.
jun 18, 2025, 1:33 am • 2 0 • view
Indeed she did
jun 18, 2025, 1:42 am • 0 0 • view
she's running. At least for VP.
jun 17, 2025, 10:35 pm • 0 0 • view
This is the kind of American politician the rest of the world looks to, respects, and hopes will be able to make America serious again. Good luck. We are backing you to fix things through decency and fortitude.
jun 18, 2025, 11:18 am • 7 0 • view
More of this please.
jun 18, 2025, 1:31 am • 31 2 • view
@down.blue
jun 17, 2025, 9:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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jun 17, 2025, 9:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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jun 17, 2025, 9:43 pm • 7 3 • view
I hope this is a success!
jun 17, 2025, 9:57 pm • 0 0 • view
When even state leaders call out federal overreach, it signals an opportunity for people-powered accountability.
jun 18, 2025, 1:38 pm • 0 0 • view
There is no one to work with, with Trump, he is an empty shell of a person. A great void! We don't have a president! I hope we can get through the next 3 years without one. We should be calling for an emergency election so someone trust worthy can lead us during the coming shit storm.
jun 17, 2025, 10:44 pm • 2 2 • view
Yeah, and most of the shit storm, he "created", himself. I don't want to "go down with the ship" with him behind the wheel. Which is what's happening/and gonna' happen, to ALL of us. (No matter how you vote. We are ALL going to go down.) Why can't EVERYONE see that ???
jun 18, 2025, 6:06 am • 2 0 • view
(We are looking for a life jacket. The repubs will just keep on talking, till the water is over their head.)
jun 18, 2025, 6:06 am • 1 0 • view
Another thing that is obvious to me: For awhile now (you could tell by the way he talked), that he's just been 'itching' to get us into a war with... someone. (Of course, he won't be the one who is fighting it. He'll be holed up somewhere, eating burgers and fries, and watching it on TV.)
jun 18, 2025, 6:16 am • 1 0 • view
This guy is not right in the head. There is something wrong with him.
jun 18, 2025, 6:20 am • 2 0 • view
Why ANYONE would trust to put their life (and the lives of their family) in this guy's hands, is beyond me.
jun 18, 2025, 6:27 am • 1 0 • view
(And let the record reflect: I am not one who scares easily.) But what I do know is: This guy has a mental problem. This guy is a "loose cannon". He could say the wrong thing, or do the wrong thing, and that could be IT. (All he seems interested in is: "my button" is bigger than "your button")
jun 18, 2025, 6:44 am • 1 0 • view
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jun 18, 2025, 6:54 am • 0 0 • view
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jun 18, 2025, 7:09 am • 0 0 • view
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jun 18, 2025, 7:21 am • 0 0 • view
Contrary to my last post - a link to an Atlantic article on haplessness in the Democratic Party, this is inspiring. This is what Democrats do. Stand up for working people, not billlionaires
jun 17, 2025, 11:58 pm • 2 0 • view
I'm so tired of words, man. She's been doing this for months. We need actual action.
jun 17, 2025, 9:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Having a come-to-Jesus moment is fine, but if you want to separate yourself from the bullshit you helped create, tell us Governor Hochul where Edgardo is and what you are doing to help him and his family.
jun 18, 2025, 1:41 pm • 2 0 • view
State should arrest ICE agents for Official Misconduct, end of story. If they can't abide by the laws of the state and conduct themselves in an official manner then they should be detained.
jun 18, 2025, 1:14 pm • 21 2 • view
@youranoncentral.bsky.social
jun 19, 2025, 10:31 am • 0 0 • view
Detained and identified.
jun 18, 2025, 1:16 pm • 11 2 • view
@down.blue
jun 17, 2025, 10:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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jun 17, 2025, 10:03 pm • 0 0 • view
*Presumed* ICE agents. But without ID they are just kidnappers performing renditions.
jun 18, 2025, 3:27 pm • 18 1 • view
www.bluestatedefiance.org/ice
jun 17, 2025, 9:19 pm • 0 0 • view
I hope she used that word and more with Trump.
jun 18, 2025, 1:39 am • 0 0 • view
MORE OF THIS, please!
jun 17, 2025, 10:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes!
jun 17, 2025, 9:22 pm • 1 0 • view
The feds have been overreaching since January 20th
jun 18, 2025, 12:39 am • 3 1 • view
📌
jun 18, 2025, 8:37 am • 0 0 • view
All elected officials in this country need to be saying this! They’re doing this all over the country. It’s heinous & also distracting from the big shitty bill grift.
jun 18, 2025, 11:31 am • 10 1 • view
They’re coming for one of her cities. Be on the lookout.
jun 17, 2025, 10:40 pm • 0 0 • view
#📌
jun 17, 2025, 10:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Hi from Canada; a little late, but thank you very much, "America". #youCanDoIt!
jun 18, 2025, 12:22 pm • 4 0 • view
Excellent.
jun 18, 2025, 1:29 am • 6 2 • view
Hochul is alright! I'm holding her in higher esteem right now! She's stepping up and defending our state, and that's what we need, someone to lead and organize us. We need a statewide resistance to Trump. Maybe also talk to regional governors about a contingency plan in case the Union collapses?
jun 17, 2025, 10:11 pm • 15 6 • view
I live in California. We’ve been talking about the “United Pacific States” forever. That would be awesome…..can you imagine what would be left? 😁
jun 18, 2025, 1:20 am • 1 0 • view
Well, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota would probably get something together, but the rest of the country would devolve into theocratic warlord fiefdoms centered on various megachurches. Not pretty.
jun 18, 2025, 3:30 am • 1 1 • view
Every time I see a map like this it really pisses me off. Maryland, Delaware, and northern Virginia are "northern" states, more blue, more Democratic, with more significant ports, industry, research, and educational institutions than PA. This map is Civil War era nonsense.
jul 21, 2025, 5:49 pm • 2 0 • view
Actually, it's just how the Census divides the US up into regions. Which, ummm... started probably before the Civil War. But, if the Northeast does ever break away from the FAILING UNITED STATES, the DMV is more than welcome!
jul 21, 2025, 6:13 pm • 1 0 • view
In case no one noticed the alt-text on that image, here it is again:
jun 17, 2025, 10:56 pm • 9 0 • view
honestly just call it “New England” or “New Freeland”. You guys would be a rad country. I’d visit all the way from New Pacifica for some Maine lobster rolls, some NY pizza and whatever else y’all got! 👍
jun 20, 2025, 2:20 am • 2 0 • view
New England would be a great name. It's well-established, and a lot snappier than "Mid-Atlantic," which is what PA, NJ, and NY are. THIS NY'er would LOVE a nation called New England! But, if we can't agree on that, then let's name it for the Native Americans whose land we stole!
jun 20, 2025, 2:31 am • 0 0 • view
I’m in Delaware. From NJ. I’m thinking we’d like to join you guys.
jun 17, 2025, 11:16 pm • 2 0 • view
It'd be great to have the whole "DMV" (Delaware, Maryland and Virginia), and I would love if that's logistically possible. Hard to say where the lines are that will rip this nation apart. The truth: even getting rid of Trump might not keep the whole nation together. He broke it.
jun 17, 2025, 11:25 pm • 3 0 • view
He certainly did.
jun 17, 2025, 11:34 pm • 1 0 • view
The fact we even have to consider this is so depressing. But very smart of you to mention it.
jun 17, 2025, 10:23 pm • 3 0 • view
We're certainly better situated than other regions of the US, not to mention we have the Liberty Bell, Constitution Hall, the Statue of Liberty, and all the Boston landmarks of the Revolution! Oh, and probably 75% of all the physical gold in the United States is in the vaults of the NY Fed!
jun 17, 2025, 10:28 pm • 1 0 • view
jun 17, 2025, 10:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Why won't the state arrest those fake agents?
jun 17, 2025, 9:23 pm • 18 3 • view
Why won’t people stand up to them.
jun 18, 2025, 12:23 pm • 0 1 • view
It will only stop when NY militia, deputized by the state, intercedes and there is a standoff. Otherwise ICE does what they want and gives the finger to court rulings
jun 17, 2025, 9:36 pm • 3 0 • view
Oh so they really fucked up then if they got her actually doing her job.
jun 18, 2025, 1:48 am • 9 0 • view
but they think its ok to treat hamas that way. Im starting to think they are a bunch of damned hipocrites that cant take one bit oif what they dish out.
jun 17, 2025, 10:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Democrats who have been arrested, detained, charged or removed under Trump www.axios.com/2025/06/17/l...
jun 18, 2025, 12:03 am • 1 0 • view
More of this. The overreach is scary. The statements she makes at the end though - maybe even more important - this is Nazi Germany 2.0 - I believe we are going to find out some horrific things about the disappeared folks when this regime is finally eradicated.
jun 18, 2025, 9:29 am • 14 1 • view
I hope the next protests will be even more overwhelming 🙏 but stay peaceful and non-violent.
jun 18, 2025, 10:42 am • 2 1 • view
The US dictator doesn’t care about legal
jun 17, 2025, 9:08 pm • 4 0 • view
No shit. But the people do.
jun 17, 2025, 9:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Well let’s MAKE HIM CARE, you generic-pfp-ass Debbie Downer
jun 17, 2025, 9:13 pm • 82 0 • view
Word. I'm so fucking sick of every first reply being like "it won't matter." Then just give up and crawl into a hole already. Get the fuck outta the way while the rest of us fight.
jun 17, 2025, 9:15 pm • 77 0 • view
Yep, totally agree. Anyone who pulls the “it won’t matter, laws don’t count now” line anymore is a fucking loser. We’re all still here to fight another day. This admin and their cronies are old and outnumbered. Time to throw punches and stop whining.
jun 18, 2025, 2:14 am • 3 0 • view
Exactly. We outnumber them by miles, we just have to show up.
jun 18, 2025, 2:16 am • 1 0 • view
I mute or block them! Plenty of room
jun 17, 2025, 9:18 pm • 3 0 • view
(Kool aid man bursting through wall voice) OH YEAH
jun 17, 2025, 9:20 pm • 2 0 • view
I’m starting to think it’s a deliberate campaign. that people are creating bots to do this
jun 17, 2025, 9:17 pm • 39 1 • view
Yes! I’ve noticed it too.
jun 17, 2025, 9:28 pm • 5 0 • view
You're all correct. There are a ton of bots on BlueSky, just like on Twitter, and they're meant to discourage us and annoy us.
jun 17, 2025, 10:17 pm • 4 0 • view
This is what leaders in Russia did have done to their people for centuries. Beat them down emotionally so that they don’t think anything can ever be better. And that’s why you don’t see more outcry there over bad things. Definitely gotta resist that feeling.
jun 18, 2025, 1:25 am • 2 0 • view
It's appealing sometimes to imagine giving in.
jun 18, 2025, 1:29 am • 2 0 • view
Fear is the goal. Fear is exactly what they want.
jun 17, 2025, 9:44 pm • 1 0 • view
this clip really surprised me. her emotion seemed authentic. and for me it moved the needle from NFW to...maybe??
jun 18, 2025, 5:26 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s a great speech and if it’s not heartfelt she did a good job faking it. I think it’s real and I’m just so pleased to hear her say it.
jun 18, 2025, 1:26 am • 25 1 • view
Precisely. Hochul isn’t exactly a profile in courage as governor, and the fact that she feels free to say that tells us where the needle is pointing…
jun 17, 2025, 9:39 pm • 7 0 • view
I am extremely low trust with her, but I am willing to hope for a change towards the better Honestly 2 weeks ago I would have called @padilla.senate.gov the weakest of my 3 rep and I am seeing him making a change and I am all for it @schiff.senate.gov @rephuffman.bsky.social be better
jun 18, 2025, 2:08 am • 0 1 • view
That day has arrived. So what is she going to do?
jun 17, 2025, 10:25 pm • 0 0 • view
This is pretty good
jun 17, 2025, 9:08 pm • 64 0 • view
My feelings are so conflicted right now
jun 17, 2025, 9:17 pm • 26 1 • view
hey ill take it where i can get it
jun 17, 2025, 9:21 pm • 31 2 • view
I know, right? It's like Gavin when he's not being insufferable
jun 17, 2025, 9:22 pm • 42 1 • view
Once in a while it’s like some bulb wakes up in her head. It’s weird.
jun 17, 2025, 9:27 pm • 30 1 • view
It looks like the Godfather's hitmen will be sending her roses soon. His guys will steal your little dog.
jun 18, 2025, 12:52 am • 0 0 • view
Why don't immigration courts take a page from the pandemic and have court hearings over zoom or Google duo?
jun 18, 2025, 5:10 pm • 4 1 • view
@governor.ny.gov Thank you for calling this out. We cannot let it go anymore. Years of not holding them accountable have emboldened them.
jun 17, 2025, 10:12 pm • 5 0 • view
I would certainly hope so - at least we don’t have our heads so far up our a$$es that we can see our tonsils, like MAGA supporters continue to do, somehow.😶
jun 18, 2025, 6:02 am • 0 0 • view
HOCHUL, of all people, getting her dander up and speaking truth is an incredible event. Come on, Dems, shit just got yet even more obvious!
jun 17, 2025, 9:18 pm • 280 11 • view
There have been many times I’ve criticized her, but I’m impressed with this statement and I’m glad to see it
jun 19, 2025, 12:46 am • 1 0 • view
Transcending one’s own shittiness is arguably humanity’s greatest quality.
jun 19, 2025, 1:26 am • 0 0 • view
Her coming to the defense of congestion pricing was a pleasant surprise as well. There’s blood in the water and opportunists like her and Newsom know when to pounce
jun 17, 2025, 9:31 pm • 146 3 • view
Brother, I’ll fuckin take it.
jun 17, 2025, 9:44 pm • 113 3 • view
Plus it’s a good indicator
jun 17, 2025, 10:24 pm • 29 2 • view
That's crazy when Kathy hochul is out loud saying this is bullshit. And she's so right.
jun 17, 2025, 9:24 pm • 62 1 • view
jun 18, 2025, 12:01 am • 0 0 • view
Start a state investigation into ice dhs etc asap
jun 17, 2025, 10:25 pm • 1 0 • view
👍👏👊
jun 17, 2025, 9:48 pm • 0 0 • view
news will spend more time talking about the P Diddy case
jun 18, 2025, 12:28 am • 0 0 • view
Milhouse is dunking on Trump now
jun 17, 2025, 9:42 pm • 3 0 • view
And she at least has a lot of influence over Jeffries.
jun 17, 2025, 9:18 pm • 2 0 • view
Incredible speech and the tables are beginning to turn, little by little until we have our power back
jun 18, 2025, 12:35 am • 10 2 • view
Preach, Mme Governor. God calls us to stand for the marginalized. Sen Padilla stood, Comptroller Lander stood, millions of decent Americans stood on Saturday and you are standing. You are on the side of compassion, dignity and integrity. Be strong, keep marching.
jun 18, 2025, 11:50 am • 15 2 • view
She’s not wrong.
jun 18, 2025, 2:13 am • 1 0 • view
Ok Governor, start by using your State Police force and lock up any masked, unidentified so-called ICE agents... NOW!
jun 18, 2025, 5:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Damn. That was actually powerful.
jun 17, 2025, 9:24 pm • 3 0 • view
Good.
jun 18, 2025, 12:27 am • 0 0 • view
@massago.bsky.social are you listening? How about you and your boss get on board and start with ending criminal abductions by warrentless masked men on the streets of Massachusetts? Arrest them instead of protecting them?
jun 18, 2025, 12:41 pm • 0 0 • view
True. Also she might not have been this bold if she wasn't being primaried by the first progressive Dem in over a decade to have an actual chance of winning. Delgado was also loudly hinting at running the week before she stood up to Trump on congestion pricing.
jun 17, 2025, 9:31 pm • 15 1 • view
This is why more people should keep running
jun 18, 2025, 1:25 am • 5 1 • view
respect
jun 17, 2025, 9:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes!
jun 18, 2025, 2:17 am • 0 0 • view
Shockingly good statement!
jun 17, 2025, 9:26 pm • 16 0 • view
Taking notes from Newsom. 👊👊👊
jun 17, 2025, 10:54 pm • 2 0 • view
#sos #usa
jun 17, 2025, 9:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Why don't you get it that Trump will ONLY be removed by force! Anything else is pathologically naive. He's a Bully. Force It's usual a last choice.But in his case, the sooner, the better.
jun 17, 2025, 9:53 pm • 2 0 • view
Wild since she’s been mostly useless
jun 18, 2025, 3:35 am • 0 0 • view
Finally, an establishment Dem goes on the offensive.
jun 18, 2025, 3:26 pm • 10 0 • view
Call your senators and reps today! 5calls.org/issue/ice-ma... Block Increase for ICE and Mass Deportation in the "One Big Beautiful Bill" Act (UPDATED 5/22) ⭑ 5 Calls
jun 18, 2025, 1:00 pm • 0 0 • view