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Headline/chyron if this were happening in a foreign country: "Far right president calls for arrest of opposition party provincial governor, raising further questions about democracy & the rule of law" Headline/chyron when this happens in 🇺🇸: "Trump Takes Questions As He Returns To The White House"

submitted 2 hours ago • 21 comments

Protesting is one of the most important things we could all be doing right now.

submitted 19 hours ago • 8 comments

Five months into office, this administration is trying to arrest Democratic members of Congress, congressional staffers, and governors. This is not just the authoritarian playbook, it is the aggressive version of it.

submitted 3 hours ago • 47 comments

Another thing to mention for people who don't live in LA. Most of LA is very chill and peaceful right now. There's a huge Pride fest going on, countless farmer's markets, tourists walking around, families at the parks, people walking their dogs. It's a big place.

submitted 18 hours ago • 67 comments

Okay, here's the new one www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

submitted 6 hours ago • 24 comments

Worth bearing in mind that illegal entry is a misdemeanor and being unlawfully present in the country is not even a criminal offense, but a civil one. This is the equivalent of saying we need to torch the Constitution & send in the SWAT team to catch jaywalkers & people with overdue library books.

submitted 15 hours ago • 50 comments

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

submitted 8 hours 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 22 hours ago • 9 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 20 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 19 hours ago • 10 comments

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

submitted 22 hours ago • 2985 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 20 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 20 hours ago • 68 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 • 62 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 • 158 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 • 75 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 • 347 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 • 86 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 2 days ago • 214 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 379 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 3 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 4 days ago • 5 comments