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VANCE: "Our view has been very clear that we don't want a regime change."   HEGSETH: "This mission was not and has not been about regime change."   RUBIO: Regime change is "certainly not the goal of what we're working on here."   TRUMP:

The only, and I mean only, thing I like about Trump is how regularly he undercuts his lickspittle underlings’ public statements of policy, forcing them to do rhetorical cartwheels until his whims change again.

Hell yes. More of this!

Why did the ICE agents “scatter”? Aren’t they proud of the work they are doing? If they’re simply enforcing the law in an ethical manner, why not “stand your ground”?

Here is the LAPD telling ICE to GTFO of Dodger Stadium. The only reason they came was to start a riot. What they got was the boot. More of this, California.

The subway is safe and fear of it is a mark of low character.

yes they are. they are christians and you have to deal with that

this is happening in @schumer.senate.gov's state. the comptroller is one of his constituents. is this one of the constitutional red lines yet?

These people are fucking insane.

I have to admit he’s right about this as I am originally from Michigan.

Spray paint a Tesla: domestic terrorism Targeted political assassination spree: not terrorism

via Benedicto.Uribe on TikTok

Nobody is rioting. Nobody is breaking any laws. These are cops in my city of Las Vegas just assaulting and arresting anyone on Fremont Street who looks at them. This is fascism.

@msnbc.com reporter at the 1:15 mark. “The chaos you’re seeing is not the result of peaceful protestors, it’s the result of actions of law enforcement, specifically the Los Angeles sheriff’s department.” #nokings

wow you can literally see the moment tear gas was deployed here - no agitation, no verbal warning, the crowd was chilling!! good ol’ LAPD at work putting our millions in tax dollars to good use

Five bucks says the city and the county double-charge every protester in the intersection for assaulting an officer / deputy.

I can second this. I was down there for hours with my wife and our twelve year old son. No violence. Not even any bad vibes. And now, this.

This cannot be real.

Incredible turnout for the #NoKings protest in Los Angeles!

shoutout to every idiot who believed that trump would "end the wars"

Unfortunately, for too many, it's only fascism if it happens to them. That America became this inner directed, myopically selfish place is just amazing, but it has been decades in the making.

If randomly kidnapping people (including first grade kids) from places of work, education, worship, and immigration appointments and disappearing them without due process to foreign prisons does not meet your definition of fascism, then your definition of fascism is wrong.

The terrible truth of politics is that it’s a contest between uncomfortable facts people don’t want to hear, and comforting lies they believe without hesitation.

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work. You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules. Get your lies straight.

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

a woman just trying to get home gets shot

If you told me I had a choice of a next door neighbor — sight unseen, the most wretched person from the most wretched country in the world, or Charlie Kirk, or Matt Walsh — I would pick the wretched person every single time, because there’s a chance they’re a decent person.

I’m not sure there is a more clear illustration of how journalists sanewash RW extremism than “I decided not to dig deeply into his use of CSM so I could obliquely demonstrate his hypocrisy in another matter.”

We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.

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

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

This is the best joke I have heard / read in years.

The 0-16 Detroit Lions were a better team than the following season’s 1-15 Detroit Lions.

This is such a good example of "turn every page" journalism - nothing less fun/glam than clicking through every footnote. And it's roughly 10,000x more newsy than the thumbsucker RFK profiles reported with big travel budgets.

There Will Be Blood

Me, my wife, and our 12-year-old went to NYC for four days in the Spring. We used public transportation the entire time. It was fine. People either ignored us because they were just living their lives, or were sometimes helpful when we were confused. It’s fine. These people are insane.