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trump has been in "l'etat, c'est moi" territory for quite some time, aided significantly by the trump v. US decision

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

This is extremely bad. Not a mention, none at all, of any statutory obligation (which he has) to issue any orders through the state’s governor. It looks like he’s just doing the insurrection act without actually going to the trouble of invoking it.

submitted 15 hours ago • 8 comments

Cannot express how big the disconnect is between what Angelenos are seeing/saying to each other right now and what delusional rabid conservatives are barking online. I know it's par for the course, but this is another level.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

“Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.”

submitted 12 hours ago • 10 comments

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

submitted 15 hours ago • 2791 comments

Shameful. This guy is so earnest and patient in describing what happened—something truly un-American. I hope his girlfriend and the family behind them are okay.

submitted 13 hours ago • 13 comments

Not the biggest point. But what are they even doing here? Where is this? They're battling over a highway? Even from the perspective of aggressive and even brutal crowd control this is not how you do it. The obvious point that basically they're just trying to gin up these confrontations.

submitted 13 hours ago • 65 comments

There's actually an extremely large scholarly literature about this. With some regularity, dictators order their troops to shoot protestors, the troops are like "wtf no," and then the dictator falls. I'll dig ho and dump some cites below in a second

submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments

Hegseth is now threatening to send the Marines to LA to suppress protesters against ICE’s brutal assault on immigrant garment workers. Just process that: Sending in the military to crack down on protesters. We’re now at severe risk of martial law. That’s what they’ve wanted all along.

submitted 1 day ago • 157 comments

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.

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

ICE is a much greater threat to this country than illegal immigrants. The current administration ia by far the greatest threat this country faces. The problem is not st our borders. It is in the White House.

submitted 1 day ago • 341 comments

Critically important point from Juliette. The only real justification for federalizing the nat guard over a governors objection is when the civil authorities are defying the law. This is attack on the sovereign right of the people of California to self government.

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

from 1932: "If the Army must be called out to make war on unarmed citizens, this is no longer America." -Washington Daily News" www.nps.gov/articles/bon...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Feels like we are dangerously close to US military firing on US citizens

submitted 1 day ago • 194 comments

1/ If accurate, this is almost certainly a conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement, including the National Guard if they are federalized.

submitted 1 day ago • 630 comments

ugly stuff

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I loathe Musk as much as anyone else but for a sitting president to openly threaten a private citizen over what political donations he or she chooses to make is a reminder of how authoritarian this country is becoming by the day - by the hour even!

submitted 1 day ago • 214 comments

It's the Washington Monument in the background that really takes this to next-level dystopian

submitted 1 day ago • 370 comments

Kilmar Abrego being returned to the US is an important reminder that they aren’t all powerful. Our leaders and regular citizens just have to give a damn about what’s going on and make it clear that they do.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The Trump Administration always had the power to bring Kilmar Abrego back. They were always lying about this, all of it was lies. abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl... They chose to disobey court orders because they are authoritarians who regard the Constitution as an inconvenience.

submitted 2 days ago • 59 comments

If anything, it is understated in our public consciousness how “North Korean” we have gotten in such a short period of time, even compared to Trump’s first term. We are only a few short months in and already upwards of a BILLION has been spent on making this one guy feel good about himself:

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

It’s astonishing how we’ve rapidly devolved and it’s now an accepted fact that we’re no longer governed by the rule of law. Basically none of these ways of “inflicting pain” would apply in a functioning democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

“What a predictable shitshow,” said a person who has been in the room with both Musk and Trump. “Trump is a liar, and it was obvious Elon would not be able to go along with his incessant lying forever.” www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

You all understand that this would never happen in a serious country, right?

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

submitted 3 days ago • 1700 comments

i know no one cares about hypocrisy or shamelessness or anything anymore but these people really used to tell us they were scared of an armed govt being turned against americans, they made an entire career out of it

submitted 4 days ago • 400 comments

trump is an unending embarrassment. here he is awkwardly suggesting the current German chancellor would have rooted for the Nazis during WWII. Colin Powell summed up trump quite well when he called trump "a national disgrace".

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Chris Murphy: "We can't be preparing for the 2026 election. It might not come. All of our focus right now has to be on protecting the democracy, about stopping the corruption."

submitted 4 days ago • 894 comments

This statement from the police is obscene. Maybe it’s possible it was unrelated or something else was going on, but the only witness we know of is emphatically saying that’s what it was and that is by definition not “no evidence whatsoever.”

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Let’s talk for a moment about some of the more subtle ways that the press acts as a mouthpiece for law enforcement. Actor Jonathan Joss was shot to death on Sunday. I don’t know what happened; I wasn’t there. But his husband said a homophobic neighbor shot him as part of an explicit hate crime. /1

submitted 5 days ago • 93 comments

In case you haven’t read the report, here are the headings of the report’s conclusions into Andrew Cuomo’s behavior.

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments