Erika Smith
Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion
Columnist, Bloomberg @Opinion. Past @latimes 🦅, @sacbee_news, @indystar, @beaconjournal. Ohioan by birth. Proud Californian by choice. ✊🏾🏳️🌈 DMs open.
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6 days ago |
bloomberg.com | Erika Smith
Showing the way. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- For now, thousands of National Guard troops will remain on the streets of Los Angeles, following a federal appeals court ruling that found the violent behavior of some protesters had given President Donald Trump reason to deploy them.
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6 days ago |
flipboard.com | Erika Smith
9 hours agoLos Angeles Mayor Karen Bass responded to Vice President Vance calling Sen. Alex Padilla "José Padilla" in remarks during his Los Angeles visit. Bass condemned the remarks saying Vance disrespected the senator that he used to work alongside. June 21, 2025
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1 week ago |
japantimes.co.jp | Erika Smith
Until a few days ago, most Americans probably had never heard the name Alex Padilla. The 52-year-old Democrat, who serves as California’s senior U.S. senator, is about as mild-mannered and low-key as politicians come. But then federal agents decided to drag him from a news conference in Los Angeles, shoving him to the ground and handcuffing him, all for having the temerity to ask a question of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
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1 week ago |
bloomberg.com | Erika Smith
Facing off. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- Until a few days ago, most Americans probably had never heard the name Alex Padilla. The 52-year-old Democrat, who serves as California’s senior US senator, is about as mild-mannered and low-key as politicians come. But then federal agents decided to drag him from a press conference in Los Angeles, shoving him to the ground and handcuffing him, all for having the temerity to ask a question of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
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2 weeks ago |
jhnewsandguide.com | Erika Smith
It was an ugly Sunday of violence and vandalism in downtown Los Angeles. After President Trump took the extraordinary step of bypassing the authority of California Gov. Gavin Newsom and summoning the National Guard, ostensibly to quell protests over federal immigration raids, thousands of Angelenos angrily took to the streets. Tear gas canisters were thrown. Then bottles and fireworks.
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😂 Like, how is all of this reality? How?!
Someone explain the plot to him. https://t.co/IZps0wHTPd
As California goes, so goes… From @nytimes: “As protests escalated around the country Tuesday night, a US official said there were active discussions inside the administration, including the Pentagon, about deploying National Guard or active-duty troops to other (U.S.) cities.”
RT @latimes: ICE expands immigration raids into California's agricultural heartland https://t.co/KlMHBUMBpa
