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Everything that is happening in Los Angeles could've been avoided if folks had listened and voted for the sane and qualified black lady.

UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

Truth-tellers, not rioters. Protect these two men at all costs. “You feel tough with your assault rifles and your sticks. You should be standing here with us. You’re on the wrong side of history.” “John Lewis said make good trouble… that means make trouble on behalf of democracy.”

see, the thing *i’m* genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines

PSA: If you think a guy standing on a vandalized Waymo car with a Mexican flag is a bigger issue than the president calling for the arrest of a governor for no reason, you may have lost the plot.

I wouldn't go celebrating too soon, but it is very gratifying to see New York City strongly considering not sucking shit

RIP to the great Sly Stone. A monumental loss. His PR just sent this out.

The President of the United States is advocating for arresting the duly-elected Governor of California for his SPEECH He thereafter admitted that the Governor of California had committed NO CRIME—but he still wants him arrested Spend as much time as you need processing what that means for America

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Trump deploying the National Guard for ICE protests but not for the January 6th insurrection sounds about white.

Not many people grow up in NYC or LA yearning to take a bus to Bumblefuck, Iowa as soon as they turn 18, but plenty of people grow up in Bumblefuck yearning to get on a bus to NYC or LA when they do.

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

“One more question, sir. You wrote a book about the former president's cognitive issues, but the current president posted that the former president was executed in 2020 and replaced by a mindless, soulless robot with cancer. What am I missing here?”

Jasmine Crockett is running to be Ranking Member on Oversight — and ready for the fight. She’s sharp, qualified, and speaking directly to this moment. Watch her make the case — and check out her take on the seniority issue. It might surprise you. @repjasmine.bsky.social

The ignorance of this administration is jaw-dropping. On Wednesday, Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA) asked Education Secretary Linda McMahon if teaching the Tulsa Race Massacre or Ruby Bridges counted as “illegal DEI.” McMahon wouldn’t give a straight yes or no. That says everything.

The bird dance for the ages

*Taps sign*

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

We @lawfaremedia.org will hopefully publish something on this soon but fwiw the legal authority invoked is NOT the Insurrection Act — it’s 10 USC 12406, which is much more limited than an Insurrection Act invocation. (Reporters: Chris Mirasola is the expert to talk to about this)

So he hasn’t invoked the Insurrection Act. It’s this thing. And it is still unnecessary, dangerous bullshit. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

they're doing this because the Insurrection Act sounds cool and edgy but they can't actually justify using the Insurrection Act. it's a silly action by an insecure administration desperately to seem manly and powerful. it should be criticized relentlessly, but it should also be laughed at.

Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses. Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

Stupidest people on Earth. balloon-juice.com/2025/06/07/t...

VETERAN: “This is why they can’t wear masks. Because people like this exist… if you want to snatch people off the streets, do it in uniform, and show your damn face.” (@MarshaBlackburn’s Secret Police bill criminalizes transparency and threatens 5 years for naming an ICE agent)

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Crockett is the full package. She's had about 20 years as a courtroom lawyer, and it shows as she runs circles around her colleagues in committee. That she's telegenic and scandal-free, is icing on the cake.

Musk is admitting the election was stolen. Then the Convicted FElon is in the White House illegally. We need to force the issue about the election being stolen and force the Convicted FElon out of office, NOW!!

“A draft dodger is holding a military parade on June 14. That is so offensive to people like me that I have no words that are not profane to say what I feel.” While Trump wastes millions on his birthday parade in DC, we’re showing up everywhere else to say NO KINGS: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

“It’s impossible to get him back from El Salvador until we manufacture a criminal charge” is a hell of an argument

Around the time that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was indicted in the Middle District of Tennessee, the chief of the criminal division in that district posted this on LinkedIn: “Earlier today, after nearly 15 years as an Assistant United States Attorney, I resigned…”

In just 130 days, Elon... -Secured even more contracts -Derailed at least 40 fed investigations of his corporations -Gutted agencies that regulate his business -Installed loyalists throughout the government Elon has fallen out with Trump, but he got exactly what he wanted.

Should Democrats take money from someone whose factory violated the Clean Air Act for 12 of the last 12 quarters? Should they welcome someone who operated a racist workplace? Who violated NLRB rules? Who committed securities fraud? Who lied to get a government loan? Who ripped off green subsidies?

🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES Republican National Committee petition to hear case to overturn voting rights victory in Pennsylvania. www.democracydocket.com/cases/pennsy...

Kristi Noem less than a month ago: "There is no scenario where Abrego Garcia will be in the United States again." (No matter what happens, bringing him back to the US is a climbdown for the administration)

Frost: Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this.

"There is an actual war against Veterans by a current sitting administration... Never again will a Veteran trust a Republican that says I'm going to be there for you." -Kyle Lewis, U.S. Navy Veteran Trump cut our care. Fired us. Lied about us. Now he parades Troops to celebrate himself.

www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

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Interview with Harvard's 2025 valedictorian, a Chinese national, while two American men fight over nothing in the background

Oof www.instagram.com/reel/DJQN99N...