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Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.

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If the BBB gets through the Senate, there will be no more court rulings to stop the regime. Court orders will no longer apply to FOTUS, nor to other government officials. Think about this: Stephen Miller, Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, et al, will all have free reign to completely take over our lives.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....

submitted 4 days ago • 75 comments

What drugs? 🥴

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PRESI-DEMENTIA/CON-MANDER-IN-CHIEF/FATTY SHACK/AYATOLLAH COMPLAINI/TANNIBAL LECTER/SCAMMY DAVIS JR./RICH LITTLE HANDS/HIPPOPOTUS/OUR FONDLING FARTER/TRUMPELSTILTSKIN/HUNGRY HUNGRY HYPOCRITE/DICTATOR TOT/UNCLE SCAM/QUID PRO COMBOVER/MANGO MUSSOLINI/FRANCIS FORD GROPE-ALA/ALEXANDER SCAMILTON <the end>

submitted 10 days ago • 2081 comments

“As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air – however slight – lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.”

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

George Floyd was murdered by police five years ago today. The Say Their Names cemetery in Minneapolis features memorials for Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Amadou Diallo, Oscar Grant, Korryn Gaines, Freddie Gray and far too many more Black people who died at the hands of police.

submitted 10 days ago • 344 comments

I cannot stress enough how much of a Def Con 1 moment this is. Federal judges fear that the President of the United States will stand down security for judges in retaliation for adverse decisions. This is such a huge story.

submitted 10 days ago • 125 comments

#totem

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Grabbed this photo of Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Go’s tonight at Cruel World. She absolutely ROCKS and her guitar says it all. ✊🏽

submitted 18 days ago • 338 comments

Rafael Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. His father, Rafael Bienvenido Cruz, is a Cuban immigrant who married American Eleanor Darragh. The guy Trump called an “anchor baby” and who is only American because his mother was American, thinks birthright citizenship is a terrible policy.

submitted 18 days ago • 155 comments

There is another plantation in Louisiana, the Whitney Plantation, that has dedicated its mission to teaching about the history of slavery and those who were enslaved on its grounds. So, not a resort wedding location. In fact, wedding photography is prohibited. It just lost its federal funding.

submitted 18 days ago • 47 comments

#ICYMI: Disclosure forms show that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of shares on April 2. That day, after the market closed, Trump’s “Liberation Day” press conference sent the market tumbling. 📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social

submitted 20 days ago • 93 comments

This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.

submitted 20 days ago • 80 comments

I don't know what this means, but I'm the one who wrote a fully updated, 624-page hurricane response plan at FEMA that took over 2 years of work and careful coordination among state and federal agencies. He could start by studying that.

submitted 20 days ago • 331 comments

Postcards from the Bayou

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“In my country, we are fighting like hell for the democracy we once took for granted... Art is the crucible that brings people together. Art looks for truth. Art embraces diversity. That’s why art is a threat. That’s why we are a threat to autocrats & fascists.” Robert De Niro • Cannes 🎬 1/3🧵

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s security chief confirmed Tuesday that 17 family members of cartel leaders crossed into the U.S. last week as part of a deal between a son of the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Trump administration. apnews.com/article/el-c...

submitted 21 days ago • 125 comments

Yeah, that tracks. @nbcnews.com

submitted 21 days ago • 845 comments

SCOOP: CFBP just cancelled plans to implement new rules that would have tightened restrictions on what sensitive personal info data brokers are allowed to sell. The rule was proposed after data about US servicemembers was repeatedly exposed in which experts term a national security nightmare.

submitted 21 days ago • 37 comments

Too little, too late. Contact your democratic senators and tell them it's time for new leadership in the Senate. @schumer.senate.gov The Reformers

submitted 22 days ago • 51 comments

Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill 🔗 www.404media.co/republicans-...

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

Powerful piece from Alondra Nelson. I understand people’s desire to stay in positions where they’ve made a difference, and to try to find ways to do so. But I respect people like Dr. Nelson who refuse to be part of—and implicitly endorse—a regime working against the missions of its own agencies.

submitted 22 days ago • 17 comments

This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-...

submitted 23 days ago • 300 comments

Remember that several people asked Pam Bondi during confirmation SPECIFICALLY what she would do on matters pertaining to Qatar (which she did not disclose) or GEO (pertinent to the Baraka arrest). She said she'd consult top career lawyer at DOJ abt recusal. Then she fired that lawyer.

submitted 23 days ago • 291 comments

The Episcopal Church has announced it will end its decades-old partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by the Trump admin. religionnews.com/2025/05/12/e...

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How are the masked ICE agents arresting people off the streets different from these guys I've filmed? Proud Boys, Blood Tribe, Patriot Front, Boogalo Boyz?

submitted 25 days ago • 599 comments

1. Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old Turkish doctoral student at Tufts, speaks after a federal judge ordered her release following her arrest by federal agents on the street. She calls the United States “the greatest democracy in the world” and says she has “faith in the American justice system.”

submitted 25 days ago • 71 comments

Spotted on 4th Ave. in Brooklyn

submitted 25 days ago • 45 comments

Good Morning Everyone #MomSky Mother's Day Weekend Honoring all you great MOMS & every person who's a "mom" figure in someone's life My mom taught me My daughter now outshines me We still have so much work to do Keep Fighting Not only Moms All of us Thank you all

submitted 25 days ago • 23 comments

“Looking” at suspending habeas corpus proves that they know that their current actions with these deportations (aka kidnappings) are illegal. This is extremely dangerous & should not be ignored. Suspending habeas strips away your rights-everyone’s rights-not just brown people! #ProudBlue #Momsky

submitted 25 days ago • 40 comments

I know this is terrible to see & hear. DON'T LOOK AWAY To look away is to ignore that masked, unditentified authorities are kidnapping people on the street with no warrant and no due process. Be ready to film, peacefully intervene, call local news stations to share video.

submitted 25 days ago • 159 comments

The firing of the Librarian of Congress is worse than many appreciate. The Librarian is appointed for a ten year term by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate. The position is nonpartisan and runs the critically important Congressional Research Service. www.npr.org/2025/05/09/n...

submitted 25 days ago • 26 comments

It's a testament to the fact that ICE is full of true believers in this fascism that the orders to wear gaiters, to refuse to provide identification, and to kidnap people w/o a warrant have not leaked. I mean, yeah, I know that's obvious. But we've had leaks of virtually all other such orders.

submitted 25 days ago • 88 comments

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

submitted 26 days ago • 631 comments

77.3 million people voted for this

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

these agents and everyone up the chain of command need to be investigated and prosecuted

submitted 26 days ago • 96 comments

Drake was owned worse, but this is a close second

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

This just seems like the perfect metaphor for this administration. Throw in irony as well. #MomSky

submitted 28 days ago • 38 comments