{"id":15415,"date":"2025-06-12T18:22:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T01:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15415"},"modified":"2025-06-12T18:34:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T01:34:28","slug":"and-then-they-came-for-the-us-senators-bradcast-6122025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15415","title":{"rendered":"And Then They Came for the U.S. Senators: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 6\/12\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_AlexPadilla-RemovedNoemPresser_061224.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Sadly, it&#8217;s another in our Trump 2.0 Era &#8220;Then They Came For&#8230;&#8221; series on <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>The BradCast<\/i><\/a>, which previously included <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15374\">&#8220;the Judges&#8221;<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15388\">&#8220;the Mayors&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15397\">&#8220;Members of Congress&#8221;<\/a>.  In today&#8217;s case, at least, the victim, a U.S. Senator, was roughed-up and handcuffed but not arrested and was fairly quickly released. But those elected officials are hardly the only folks they are now coming for in Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;New Police State&#8221;. [<i>Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]\n<p>Among our stories today highlighting that New Police State, Trump&#8217;s continuing failures as President on several fronts, and his ongoing war with the Golden State&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Breaking shortly before airtime&#8230;<\/i> Just two days after the Trump Administration&#8217;s corrupted and <i>actually<\/i> weaponized Dept. of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lamonica-mciver-assault-charge-alina-habba-immigration-7b6a5b0fc8079a9efd0606ab68e3f02d\">indicted<\/a> a sitting Democratic U.S. Congresswoman from New Jersey on absurd assault charges related to allegedly impeding the arrest of Newark&#8217;s Democratic Mayor (for whom all charges were soon dropped), <b>California<\/b>&#8216;s Democratic U.S. Senator <b>Alex Padilla<\/b>, the state&#8217;s first Hispanic Senator, was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/alex-padilla-noem-immigration-protest-california-f67d220a0254473c53c16aa96f554239\">roughed up<\/a> on Thursday, forcibly pushed out of a room where Homeland Security chief <b>Kristi Noem<\/b> was holding a press conference in L.A., was thrown onto the floor by FBI agents and handcuffed after he&#8217;d peacefully dared attempt to ask a question of Noem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/poll.qu.edu\/poll-release?releaseid=3924\">new Quinnipiac<\/a> poll finds that <b>Donald Trump<\/b> is being rejected by voters on virtually every front. His approval rating in the survey of more than a thousand registered voters has now fallen to 38%; his budget bill is opposed by almost twice as many as those who support it (while a huge majority of Americans want to see Medicaid <i>expanded<\/i> or left as is, as opposed to cut, as the Trump\/GOP &#8220;Big Beautiful Bill Act&#8221; would do); and he is deeply underwater on every single issue they polled on, including immigration, deportation and the economy. New polling out today <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IAPolls2022\/status\/1933149808568447182\">from AP\/NORC<\/a> finds similarly poor numbers for the President, which is largely unprecedented in modern times this early in a new term.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Those 4,000 <b>California National Guard<\/b> soldiers federalized by Trump and deployed against Americans on U.S. soil over the weekend against the wishes and needs of the state&#8217;s Governor and the Los Angeles Mayor? They aren&#8217;t getting paid yet, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2025\/06\/11\/guard-soldiers-deployed-trumps-la-crackdown-arent-getting-paid-yet.html\">according to Military.com<\/a>, which cites military sources describing a chaotic, still-incomplete activation, leaving soldiers without pay, a place to sleep, food, amid a local community uncharacteristically <i>un<\/i>supportive of the deployed troops.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>But <b>Trump&#8217;s New Police State<\/b> is not only rolling out in large cities. <a href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/3FS0k1M\"><i>WaPo<\/i>&#8216;s Catherine Rampell has a chilling story<\/a> of heavily armed masked men, claiming to be federal agents (while refusing to show ID), showing up with out-of-state plates to sweep up migrant gardeners in a tiny <b>New England<\/b> town. Yes, Trump&#8217;s New Police State is coming to a town near you as well, no matter where you live.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On Thursday at the White House, <b>Donald Trump<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/california-gavin-newsom-trump-gas-emission-526c14aa5a44cc3457233c1cfef7a2cc\">signed three bills<\/a> that were recently &#8212; and perhaps unlawfully &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/california-senate-vehicle-emissions-rules-epa-a506228ff7f692daee59970a87fbd02e\">rammed through the Senate<\/a> by Republicans in violation of its rules, nuking the filibuster in the bargain to do so. They are meant to strip <b>California<\/b> of its legal right to establish its own clean air and car pollution standards. Specifically, the new laws, if they are allowed to stand &#8212; CA has already said they are filing suit &#8212; would, among other things, ban the state&#8217;s 2036 deadline for phasing out the sale of new, gasoline-only cars and trucks. A dozen or so other states have previously adopted CA&#8217;s now &#8220;banned&#8221; standards. Despite the fact that used all-gasoline cars and trucks could still be sold and that those who really wanted a new one could still buy them from another state in 2036, this is apparently what Trump has been falsely describing as &#8220;Joe Biden&#8217;s EV mandate&#8221; for years now.  Today, once again, he did another solid for his owners in the fossil fuel industry. Desi Doyen has the full scoop and context.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Then, Desi is here with <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15414\">our 1,500th <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a>! Sadly, with the above news and much more, it&#8217;s a rather grim milestone today, largely from top to bottom.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>BUT, we close with something a bit brighter that we hope might cheer you up after all of that, and help you leave the theater whistling. It&#8217;s the latest <b>Randy Rainbow<\/b> tune on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RFzHg-9HEIg\"><i>Trump Derangement<\/i><\/a>!&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman-PadillaHandcuffed-TrumpQPoll-NatGuardLA-SecretPoliceMA-TrumpNixCarStandardsCA_GNR1500_061225.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/256-the-bradcast-w-brad-friedm-30973643\/\">iHeart<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, it&#8217;s another in our Trump 2.0 Era &#8220;Then They Came For&#8230;&#8221; series on The BradCast, which previously included &#8220;the Judges&#8221;, &#8220;the Mayors&#8221; and &#8220;Members of Congress&#8221;. In today&#8217;s case, at least, the victim, a U.S. Senator, was roughed-up and handcuffed but not arrested and was fairly quickly released. But those elected officials are hardly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[814,89,675,21,299,513,479,753,883,227,323,1129,261,477,2037,337,125,1528,1486,1365,300,233],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-15415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alex-padilla","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-california","category-democrats","category-dhs","category-donald-trump","category-electric-vehicles","category-fascism","category-fbi","category-fema","category-ice","category-immigration","category-kpfk","category-kristi-noem","category-los-angeles","category-massachusetts","category-national-guard","category-policing","category-pollution","category-republicans","category-us-senate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15415"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=15415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}