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I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

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Lots of people seem to think this is bad for red states too but I’m not so sure. Trump says he wants to personally make the disaster relief decisions. He’ll help his cronies and punish those who won’t kiss his ass. That’s life under mob-style governance.

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Trump mobilized 2,000 National Guard troops to suppress the protest, defying the position of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who had deemed a federal mobilization an act of overkill for demonstrations that didn’t draw a turnout above three figures in either site.

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Gavin Newsom has pissed some Democrats off. But on El-TACO's coup, he is spot-on!

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the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

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The fact that the State Department is planning to open an Office of Remigration didn't get even anywhere close to the attention it deserved. Remigration is explicitly a European far-right/neo-Nazi word that in Europe refers quite explicitly to ethnic cleansing beyond simply immigration enforcement.

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Stephen Miller represents everything vile about this administration and drawing more attention to him will (a) make it harder for the administration to pretend this isn't creepy white nationalism in action and (b) likely make Trump jealous to the point he shitcans him like Elon. Win-win.

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RFK Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic who has trafficked in conspiracy theories, purges all 17 members of an advisory committee on immunization to the CDC as he continues to upend scientific conventions. @apoorvanyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

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We have a president who said “Next time, I’m not waiting,” and a Defense Secretary who refused to deny that he’d allow soldiers to shoot protestors. https://trib.al/BeIk7Zt

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This is beyond the pale. Predatory cruelty. 💔

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"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

submitted 5 days ago • 329 comments

More LA

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Law Professor @rgoodlaw.bsky.social catches DOJ in a contradiction in the Abrego Garcia case. A major one.

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EVERYBODY WATCH. ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today. He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader. Don’t turn away.

submitted 5 days ago • 2018 comments

We're doing a lot of fact checking on Medicaid claims on our blog this week. Despite claims by GOP leaders that the Big Beautiful Bill Medicaid cuts are about cutting Medicaid fraud, we did the math and only 3.2% of the $863 billion in cuts address fraud. ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/06/06/f...

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

I mean to be clear — yes, having to identify yourself clearly is EXACTLY WHY law enforcement has to give you a name or at least a badge number so that allegations of misconduct or questionable procedures can be reported. It’s how we establish and keep trust with these PUBLIC SERVANTS.

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

"The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise--with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country." Abr Lincoln, Dec. 1, 1862

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Masked ICE thugs terrorized Chicago yesterday. They lied to immigrants waiting for their court hearing by summoning them for “surprise check-ins” and then assaulted protesters and elected officials. THIS IS WHAT FASCISM LOOKS LIKE.

submitted 7 days ago • 208 comments

Three arguments for the bill are forming: it won’t cause coverage losses, it will affect only able-bodied Americans who could be working but aren’t, and it won’t cause anybody to suffer real financial or physical harm. None of them hold up.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Trump slashes funding for FEMA and other natural disaster relief programs just in time for things like hurricane season. Trump wants all Americans to suffer, regardless of party affiliation. Why? Because he doesn’t care about you. youtu.be/Y8PQn3OdRj8?...

submitted 8 days ago • 88 comments

This shows a profound societal sickness. I recently got an email begging me to review proposals for the equivalent of Israel's NSF, and the requesting person said "We cannot find anyone international to review these, and are scratching our heads as to why." MAYBE ITS THE GENOCIDE???

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Ruin is more accurate !

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqmX...

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Something spicy & delicious as a taco has gotten under Trumplestiltkin's thin tangerine skin. Seems the master of mean, juvenile nicknames can dish them out but when directed towards him, he can't take it, angrily calling it "nasty."🤣 Good to know. (you know what to do!) 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮

submitted 13 days ago • 2384 comments

Homicide rates: NY 4.5, FL 7.2 Life expectancy: NY 79, FL 76.1 Uninsured rate: NY 4.8, FL 10.7

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I spent five weeks talking to federal workers about knowledge loss and brain drain across the federal government, and its implications, both right now and for decades to come. Their stories are frightening, but I think it's important to know what we're facing: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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70% of lawyers have left DOJ Civil Rights Division & voting section down from 30 lawyers to just 3, dropping all major voting rights cases Trump has completely decimated crown jewel of DOJ & now weaponizing it to advance his extreme voter suppression plans www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Because free speech.

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Today is the day we honor those who died overseas stopping the same thing many of you are ignoring here at home--fascism.

submitted 16 days ago • 438 comments

This is beyond terrifying www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 17 days ago • 207 comments

Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.

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This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode the deficit. 3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions. 4) Repeat. They're trying to get away with it again.

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"I believe this Israeli government is the enemy from within. No external enemy in the 77 years of Israel’s existence has done us more harm than what the current Israeli government, led by Itamar Ben Gvir, Netanyahu, and Bezalel Smotrich, is doing now." Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert in Ha'aretz:

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