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Since May: Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time. Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time. A judiciary at war with itself.

submitted 1 day ago • 261 comments

In a June Democratic mayoral primary, Zohran Mamdani received more votes than 22 sitting US Senators received in their most recent general elections.

submitted 1 day ago • 116 comments

Wake up Democratic Party old guard establishment. This isn’t about New York City. This is the way the wind is blowing. Step aside for young people who this country will need over the next several decades long after you are gone. Enough with your egos and the big money interests.

submitted 2 days ago • 441 comments

No explanation. None. It’s obscene. I keep remembering the 1679 habeas corpus act. It reacted to the king arresting people & without trial deporting them. It began: “for prevention of imprisonment beyond seas.” Without explanation, our current SCOTUS majority is undoing centuries of justice.

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

to call this a crime against humanity is true but inadequate — it’s a crime against all creation

submitted 3 days ago • 44 comments

The American people were lied to about Vietnam, with tragic consequences. The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences. The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.

submitted 4 days ago • 917 comments

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

submitted 5 days ago • 816 comments

Congress? You awake?

submitted 5 days ago • 1111 comments

If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.

submitted 6 days ago • 506 comments

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

submitted 5 days ago • 1648 comments

AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

submitted 5 days ago • 345 comments

“You would never know, as The New York Times churns out its usual policy-option thumb-suckers, that the United States is well down the road to dictatorship at home. That is the context in which a war with Iran will occur.”

submitted 5 days ago • 140 comments

“ICE in just a few weeks has transformed itself into the closest thing that the US has ever had to a ‘secret police,’ with more seemingly culturally in common with the Klan nightriders of Reconstruction than their federal agency brethren like the FBI or ATF.” @garrettgraff.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 697 comments

an easy disguise: all you’d need are some black masks

submitted 6 days ago • 1288 comments

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

submitted 7 days ago • 3210 comments

Look what I found when I searched "ICE uniform" in Google Shopping. None of us have any way of knowing if the "ICE agent" pushing you into a car, isn't just some unbalanced vigilante into cosplay. These are very dangerous times.

submitted 12 days ago • 889 comments

Way to go Napa!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Farmworkers are hiding because Trump made them targets. Without farmworkers, the crops that feed our nation rot and our tables go empty. This isn’t strong immigration policy — it’s economic sabotage fueled by hate. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 13 days ago • 128 comments

In just one week: A GOP president deployed Marines in a U.S. city, called for a Democratic governor’s arrest, the GOP Speaker called for him to be tarred and feathered, a Democratic senator was handcuffed, and two Democratic legislators were shot in their homes.

submitted 12 days ago • 278 comments

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

submitted 12 days ago • 92 comments

Happy Friday the Thirteenth! Come check out our booth at the Getman’s Virtual Book Faire. You’ll find a fabulous assortment of rare books and collectible paper!! getmansvirtual.com/blank-verso-...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

The resemblance is spot on.

submitted 15 days ago • 107 comments

The new cover of TIME.

submitted 16 days ago • 53 comments

The No Kings protest map will help you find a place to exercise your First Amendment rights this weekend. (It's also a pretty good argument against the Electoral College.) www.nokings.org

submitted 17 days ago • 204 comments

My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.

submitted 18 days ago • 290 comments

Dem senator: Please, protestors, there are better ways to oppose the president Voters: Like not voting for his nominees? Dem senator: haha no no no. No. What I mean is we are writing a rap

submitted 18 days ago • 58 comments

Newsom: "Arrest me. Let's just get it over with, tough guy. I don't give a damn ... Tom, arrest me. Let's go."

submitted 18 days ago • 1076 comments

Reporter: There’s a pretty good chance Trump might be watching Newsom: I hope so, he might learn something— rescind this order— it’s illegal. You’re creating the conditions you claim you’re solving and you’re not

submitted 18 days ago • 140 comments

This is a pretext for suspending habeas corpus, which this Congress will bend over to let him do even if he doesn't try do it it unilaterally first. Very dark days ahead for the republic.

submitted 19 days ago • 24 comments

We’re deeply disappointed in much of the U.S. media. Grateful, however, to international journalists who are telling the truth.

submitted 18 days ago • 496 comments

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

submitted 18 days ago • 3063 comments

This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.

submitted 18 days ago • 202 comments

The National Guard has arrived in Los Angeles, but they were not requested by California. Both Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass made it clear that the state did not authorize or want federal troops deployed.

submitted 18 days ago • 424 comments

"Sources said the administration is specifically considering a full termination of federal grant funding for the University of California and California State University systems." Pure vandalism. This could never happen in a country with functioning checks and balances.

submitted 20 days ago • 69 comments

Thinking of a hero I knew and admired.

submitted 20 days ago • 1095 comments