Just to be clear, Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier is not holding some kind of sit-in protest. She is literally locked in the State Capitol against her will.
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It's called kidnapping.
aug 20, 2025, 5:03 am • 3 0 • view
I don't understand why hundreds of Dem reps at state and national level don't fly down, surround her, and walk out. See what the authorities do then.
aug 20, 2025, 5:35 am • 9 0 • view
Because the Democrats are spineless and need to get a pair. The inaction of Democrats is the reason that the Repugeblicans are doing what they are doing nationwide.
aug 21, 2025, 12:44 am • 1 0 • view
How is this legal and allowed to continue. I would think it's false Imprisonment or kidnapping
aug 20, 2025, 3:20 am • 2 0 • view
Isn't there some rule against forcible confinement?
aug 20, 2025, 3:32 am • 2 0 • view
How would they stop her from leaving? If she walked out when people are walking in, how would they stop her? She hasn't broken any law.
aug 20, 2025, 11:44 am • 0 0 • view
This should be the top story for all media.
aug 20, 2025, 2:20 am • 10 0 • view
The Texas Government (Republicans) has lost their minds.
aug 20, 2025, 2:41 am • 5 0 • view
No. They're just evil. Stop assuming that anyone in their right mind thinks like you.
aug 20, 2025, 3:43 am • 3 0 • view
Call 911 or call the police and state that you are being held against you will.
aug 20, 2025, 3:28 am • 0 0 • view
This is false imprisonment at the very least. She said she wouldn’t use the word kidnapping, but that is what has happened. To those who have put her in this position, they should be investigated and charged with crimes. This was done as a power play by the Trumplicans in the Texas legislature.
aug 20, 2025, 11:31 am • 0 0 • view
Women of color are really bringing it. Democrats, pay attention!
aug 20, 2025, 6:56 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 20, 2025, 2:12 am • 28 10 • view
Should have stayed in Illinois. Feckless Democrats keep trying cosplay resistance, but Republicans aren't playing.
aug 20, 2025, 5:58 am • 0 0 • view
How is this not false imprisonment?
aug 20, 2025, 2:28 am • 6 0 • view
Why in the hell isn't she calling law enforcement? Isn't this kidnapping? This is making world news ... where are the police in TX?
aug 20, 2025, 1:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Since when is enslaving a public official ok? She's not under arrest from a warrant. The optics and reality of this are black woman held captive.
aug 20, 2025, 2:19 am • 15 2 • view
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aug 22, 2025, 2:06 am • 0 0 • view
IT'S FUCKING KIDNAPPING. I'd break the damn door down and leave.
aug 20, 2025, 7:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Sounds like false imprisonment and/or kidnap.
aug 20, 2025, 10:44 am • 1 0 • view
So, will trumps Gestapo DOJ intervene??? Most likely not!
aug 21, 2025, 12:45 am • 0 0 • view
Only to escalate the issue. 🤷🏽♀️
aug 21, 2025, 6:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you! So many headlines read “She Refuses to Leave!” - which is so dishonest.
aug 20, 2025, 5:26 am • 0 0 • view
It's because she refuses to have her privacy violated by constant police surveillance.
aug 20, 2025, 11:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Sorry. Friends? Family? What the fuck is going on here?
aug 20, 2025, 2:20 am • 2 0 • view
Republicans shutdown the #Texas capitol. Following the evacuation, the Democrats who are staying in the House chamber remain inside. Armed DPS officers are guarding the doors to the chamber. www.kvue.com/article/news...
aug 20, 2025, 2:37 am • 8 4 • view
So they (forced everyone to leave that was demonstrating )evacuated the building allegedly due to danger yet it was safe enough to lock Senator Collier inside? Sounds about White.
aug 20, 2025, 3:26 am • 5 0 • view
All of MAGA is a criminal betrayal of the Constitution. With Trump at the head, they are traitors to all things that make this America. All freedoms.
aug 20, 2025, 5:10 am • 0 0 • view
WHAT THE FUCK COUNTRY IS THIS?
aug 20, 2025, 2:13 am • 11 0 • view
TexMaRussia.
aug 20, 2025, 5:39 am • 1 0 • view
call her a hostage, she is being kidnapped so the Republicans can remove her from office via legislation
aug 20, 2025, 4:05 am • 0 0 • view
@briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social oh lordy. should call the FBI
aug 20, 2025, 2:56 am • 1 0 • view
You mean Kash Patel's FBI? They are not to be trusted, either.
aug 20, 2025, 3:40 am • 0 0 • view
Should IL, NY, and CA send their national guards to free Rep. Collier?
aug 20, 2025, 6:30 am • 0 0 • view
We're doing something wrong if we're losing voters in almost every state. How do we fix this?
aug 21, 2025, 12:15 am • 0 0 • view
This story is referenced here, within 2 minutes of mockery of people who deserve it! www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BraGC3/
aug 20, 2025, 3:47 am • 0 0 • view
"Not Free to Leave" ??? You tell those dicks Texas State Representative Nicole Collier <3 <3 <3
aug 20, 2025, 2:32 am • 1 1 • view
She has been detained and held hostage. This is an example of what republicans want ALL women to abide by.
aug 20, 2025, 3:28 am • 0 0 • view
This is kidnapping.
aug 20, 2025, 3:06 am • 3 0 • view
Yes. So? You don't think the repubs *care* about the *law*, do you?
aug 20, 2025, 3:47 am • 2 0 • view
This should tell you everything you ever need to know about why you should never again vote Republican.
aug 20, 2025, 3:24 am • 1 1 • view
Much gratitude to rep Collier and her Dem cohorts who are fighting so hard
aug 20, 2025, 4:04 pm • 0 0 • view
😭😶🙁
aug 21, 2025, 4:05 am • 0 0 • view
I wish they ALL would have stayed there. They simply capitulated. Why did they give up so easy?
aug 20, 2025, 3:21 am • 4 0 • view
They accomplished a great deal. They bought enough time for California to get its ducks in a row to get a ballot question that, if it passes, will neutralize the effect of Texas's 5 seats.
aug 20, 2025, 1:46 pm • 3 0 • view
@briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social @kenwhite.bsky.social banana republic politics
aug 20, 2025, 7:02 am • 0 0 • view
Has she tried sneaking out the window?
aug 20, 2025, 3:22 am • 0 0 • view
👏👏👏-🌟🦸♀️💪💪💪‼️ NONE OF HER COLLEGUES SHOULD HAVE AGREED TO THAT ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE-THEY SHOULD ALL HAVE BEEN RIGHT THERE WITH HER!! I hope she sues Abbott, Paxton, & the Speaker-As Individuals & not their Office-make it hurt!! & the Law Enforcement who did not refuse illegal orders need to be fired
aug 20, 2025, 3:06 pm • 0 0 • view
I don’t understand what right they have to do this to her? This is a disgusting use of power.
aug 20, 2025, 9:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Time to show them they made a mistake locking you in. They gave you the capital.
aug 20, 2025, 3:18 am • 4 0 • view
I don't get it. This HAS to be against the law!
aug 20, 2025, 5:19 am • 0 0 • view
It is illegal, but who do call? trumps DOJ???
aug 21, 2025, 12:48 am • 0 0 • view
You get your own attorney, which she has I believe. It always has to be called out regardless!
aug 21, 2025, 3:18 pm • 0 0 • view
What's the statue of limitation on kidnapping? If the US survives the next few years, its imperative all of these lawless clowns get a day in Federal court. Civil and criminal.
aug 20, 2025, 8:57 am • 0 0 • view
Isn't there a constitutional amendment against involuntary captivity?
aug 20, 2025, 2:25 am • 1 0 • view
No. There's one against slavery and one against cruel and unusual punishment. This would be a violation of criminal law, not the Constitution.
aug 20, 2025, 3:46 am • 1 0 • view
I’m listening to your interview. Love it. Keep your strength up.
aug 20, 2025, 2:13 am • 4 0 • view
That's kidnapping!!!! But, as long as it's a Black person, it's OK ( I suppose).
aug 21, 2025, 12:27 am • 0 0 • view
outrageous
aug 20, 2025, 6:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Is she still in there?
aug 20, 2025, 4:02 am • 0 0 • view
No it is NOT legal. Come on.
aug 20, 2025, 5:56 am • 0 0 • view
That's kidnapping.
aug 20, 2025, 2:16 am • 5 0 • view
Get a shedload of cameras and just walk out. If they arrest you, it’ll highlight what a fascist state you live in.
aug 20, 2025, 2:18 am • 5 0 • view
Confusing. Why is she asking? Just walk out.
aug 20, 2025, 4:17 am • 0 0 • view
Value statement: “How we gain power over voters doesn’t matter. What matters is the power.” 😶
aug 20, 2025, 3:51 am • 0 0 • view
How is this shit legal in anyway?! Infuriating.
aug 20, 2025, 2:51 am • 2 0 • view
Oh, it's not. Since when have repubs cared about the law? Rule #2 of being a republican: "Rules are for *other* people."
aug 20, 2025, 3:44 am • 2 0 • view
How is this allowed to happen? Banana republic
aug 20, 2025, 7:24 am • 1 0 • view
That's called false imprisonment and is most certainly--say it with me now--actionable. Just sayin'...
aug 20, 2025, 3:46 am • 1 0 • view
We go live at fox where a white representative republican man is being held against his will in New York capitol building 😱😱😱...Correction: A Black woman who is a democratic representative is being held captive in Texas Capitol building...ok 👌
aug 20, 2025, 3:08 am • 1 1 • view
aug 20, 2025, 2:28 am • 16 1 • view
I hate that I laughed 😆
aug 20, 2025, 2:38 am • 4 0 • view
Isn’t this considered kidnapping?
aug 20, 2025, 11:03 am • 0 0 • view
Sounds like kidnapping, or at the very least a civil rights violation. The Speaker should be held criminally liable.
aug 20, 2025, 3:23 am • 1 0 • view
Why hasn’t she called a lawyer to have an emergency lawsuit filed on her behalf against Abbott, Paxton, the state police, and whomever else, for false imprisonment?
aug 20, 2025, 3:03 am • 0 0 • view
Oh, she *has*. You don't think they'll let it get to court in Texas before the repubs have what they want out of her, do you? www.sacurrent.com/news/democra...
aug 20, 2025, 3:49 am • 2 0 • view
So glad to hear this! You’re right though, they’ll likely stall. Was hoping an emergency hearing would help. The others should file suit too and they shouldn’t have signed the “permission slip.”
aug 20, 2025, 4:00 am • 1 0 • view
I still think they should sue, and argue (truthfully) that it was signed under duress.
aug 20, 2025, 4:51 am • 1 0 • view
How is no one doing anything about this?
aug 20, 2025, 2:21 am • 1 0 • view
There is nothing legit about the Repugnants, nowhere, at all
aug 20, 2025, 4:11 am • 0 0 • view
False imprisonment, pure and simple.
aug 20, 2025, 2:11 am • 42 0 • view
why is no one being arrested for kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment of Rep Collier? she stated she asked to leave when she found all exits locked and was told no, she could not leave. unlawful imprisonment. who gave the order for this curfuffel? police picking what crimes 2 process?
aug 20, 2025, 3:50 pm • 0 0 • view
This is kidnapping.
aug 20, 2025, 2:15 am • 22 0 • view
Agree. Why aren’t Dems indignant about this? Call a lawyer for goodness sakes!
aug 20, 2025, 2:17 am • 19 0 • view
There is a lot of good work happening quickly. Texas Dems are on it. I’d sure light more from national leadership.
aug 20, 2025, 2:30 am • 5 0 • view
Exactly my feelings as well. Where are they?
aug 20, 2025, 7:46 am • 0 0 • view
She has already filed charges. www.sacurrent.com/news/democra...
aug 20, 2025, 2:20 am • 56 11 • view
Excellent! Thank you for this update!
aug 20, 2025, 7:36 am • 2 0 • view
I’m sorry but I don’t understand why any of them had to sign something if they wanted to leave. Why not just refuse and walk out? What law says they can’t? This just seems ridiculous.
aug 20, 2025, 3:26 am • 0 0 • view
She’s kidnapped by a criminal evil GOP. Hope she sues the Hell out of them. They so deserve that.
aug 20, 2025, 10:17 am • 0 0 • view
If this is true the USA is a joke, if this is just a political garbage stunt the USA is a joke. 🍻🇨🇦
aug 20, 2025, 2:21 am • 2 0 • view
@briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social Locked in!!! This is all so insane!
aug 20, 2025, 2:21 am • 1 0 • view
Wait, what?!?
aug 20, 2025, 7:02 am • 0 0 • view
aug 20, 2025, 2:27 am • 29 6 • view
This is horrible. The people who are locking her in are nothing but bullies. They are kidnappers.
aug 20, 2025, 2:19 am • 8 0 • view
There is a shit ton of kidnapping going on these days. Thank god she isn't being sent to a concentration camp.
aug 20, 2025, 2:21 am • 10 0 • view
Seems they’re trying to wipe out everyone who’s not a straight,white male..woman, of any color, ethnicity or sexual identity or preference are not safe in these times. It’s all in Project 2025 What a fucking atrocity what’s happening here. 😡
aug 20, 2025, 6:16 am • 3 0 • view
It is an epidemic
aug 20, 2025, 5:57 am • 3 0 • view
Isn't that the definition of kid napping? Being held against ones will without being charged with a crime? Next Trump will have ICE deport her to make an example out of her. You think this is a stretch? Look at what has been done so far... ___ ...
aug 20, 2025, 5:37 am • 2 0 • view