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The suggestion that Kristi Noem, a white woman, is the "delicate, beautiful, tiny" victim after a Latino man is physically dragged out of a room fits into the admin's pretext of criminality it attaches to people who are not white. Like Rep. LaMonica McIver.

submitted 17 hours ago • 479 comments

OMG. According to two members of Congress that just conducted an inspection and confirmed horrible conditions at the ICE detention center where unrest led to 4 people escaping, apparently people were able to escape because an EXTERIOR WALL was made of drywall and wire mesh!

submitted 20 hours ago • 206 comments

Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

submitted 18 hours ago • 349 comments

Let’s talk about yesterday. During a Department of Homeland Security press conference in Los Angeles led by Secretary Kristi Noem, Senator Alex Padilla (D‑CA) was forcibly removed, forced face-down on the ground, and handcuffed by federal agents. Here’s what to know:

submitted 22 hours ago • 107 comments

I asked Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to justify cutting Medicaid by $700 billion dollars just to give the very richest people in this country a $235 billion tax break. You won't be surprised to learn: he didn't have an answer.

submitted 21 hours ago • 108 comments

It is actually nuts that even when the NYC political establishment was presented with a broad field of talented candidates w/ many ideas, in a time of generational change & anti-corruption, they STILL chose to line up behind scandal-ridden Andrew Cuomo. It’s cowardice.

submitted 1 day ago • 1089 comments

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

submitted 1 day ago • 184 comments

SHUT. IT. DOWN. A senator was dragged out of a press conference for standing up for his constituents and against fascism. Watch how your representatives and senators respond to their own colleague being treated like this. That'll show you how they'll react when it's you on the ground.

submitted 1 day ago • 139 comments

Don't let them lie to you about Senator Padilla. DHS is claiming the agents DID NOT KNOW he was a senator. He CLEARLY says (BEFORE he is tackled and cuffed) "I am Senator Alex Padilla and I have a question for the secretary."

submitted 1 day ago • 1293 comments

Trump & my Republican colleagues want to throw 16 million Americans off health care – on top of 85 million who are uninsured or underinsured. Their actions will cause more than 50,000 Americans to die unnecessarily each year. Why? So they can give massive tax breaks to the 1%.

submitted 1 day ago • 77 comments

Senate Republicans just confirmed an IRS Commissioner who: 1) Supported legislation that would abolish the IRS 2) Doesn’t know the law 3) Has a track record of doing whatever Donald Trump tells him to do It’s dangerous and absurd.

submitted 1 day ago • 189 comments

What's happening in Los Angeles right now and what happened at the Capitol on Jan 6 share something: They both resulted directly from Donald J. Trump's lies.

submitted 2 days ago • 98 comments

He is weak. Never forget that. A weak traitor. We can move this needle.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Gutting funding for public media will cut off news sources for millions of Americans. That’s exactly what Trump wants: to exert even more control over the news and information that the public receives – or doesn’t even receive at all. It’s a hallmark of dictatorship.

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

Today, in the House Oversight Committee, Republicans called in governors from so-called “sanctuary states” to try and bully them over immigration policy. They want y’all to think this hearing is about solutions. But let’s be honest—it’s not about fixing the system.

submitted 1 day ago • 88 comments

Everyone I knew who covered disinformation got laid off, their bosses got bullied into firing them, or they changed their beats from actual Nazi harassment campaigns. It cannot be stressed the damage the paid-for Substack “free speech” guys did in the service of fascism and against real free speech.

submitted 2 days ago • 105 comments

Odd, how MS-13 gang members are all ALL OVER California during elections, but conspicuously absent when ICE is rounding up "criminals" in that state. Instead, ICE goes to Home Depot to arrest helpful people looking for home improvement jobs. It's almost as if everything Trump tells us is a lie.

submitted 1 day ago • 153 comments

How many governors from the beginning of an autocracy make it to the end? I can think of very few examples and none that ended well You can't outwit a knife in the back

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

From Gingrich to Tea Party to MAGA - Republican efforts to kill funding for public media have intensified @deirdrekwalsh.bsky.social and I report on today's House vote on whether to strip public broadcasting of all federal funds - and the history behind it www.npr.org/2025/06/12/g...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

If this bureaucratic smash-and-grab had a technical mission, it was to break down existing silos of the data the government collects on you to enable a sort of God’s-eye view of the American populace.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

The President of the United States this week has: - Restored the name of Robert E. Lee to a U.S. military base (Lee fought against the U.S. military) -Deployed Marines to an American city. - Shipped military equipment to Washington D.C. for a military “parade.”

submitted 2 days ago • 394 comments

We believe in the Constitution, Bill of Rights, separation of powers, and checks and balances. The U.S. was founded in opposition to monarchy. We fought for democracy over dictatorship. What the Trump regime is doing is the antithesis of the values this nation was founded upon.

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

A woman walking home alone was shot point-blank with “non-lethal” rounds fired by officers in Los Angeles. A neighbor filmed the assault and rushed to help only to be fired on and ordered back.

submitted 2 days ago • 728 comments

"Long overdue." "An awesome thing." "Great news!" Anti-vaxxers are rejoicing after RFK Jr. fired all the CDC's vaccine experts.

submitted 3 days ago • 717 comments

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

submitted 3 days ago • 1466 comments

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.

submitted 3 days ago • 734 comments

None of these idiots wanting violence to happen has any idea of what violence really is They all think that they will end up being the ones on top But the thing about real violence is, you have no idea what will happen next And you are never fully prepared for it

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Instead of using this money to fund, say, the National Weather Service right before hurricane season, they're using it to send Marines to Los Angeles. THIS is waste and abuse.

submitted 3 days ago • 344 comments

Last night, President Trump deployed an additional 2,000 National Guard troops to quash protests in Los Angeles, over the objection of the governor. DHS also reportedly requested more military assistance and has asked the military to arrest people. Military troops have no place on our streets.

submitted 3 days ago • 48 comments

Moderate, inside-voice, policy-wonk liberalism has allowed our society to descend into nativist, eugenicist, segregationist hellscape straight out of 1920. It has refused to consider how these ideas spread and refused to fight back as they have.

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

It's already happening. This is why professional uniformed and identifiable agents doing high profile work like ICE raids is so important. GOP worried about someone using the wrong bathroom instead of criminals imitating their own regime's contracted questionable agents

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

submitted 4 days ago • 1462 comments

Sometimes I feel that the USA is living through the dumbest destruction of an empire. I feel like this will end up as an object lesson for the rest of the world for generations to come.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Put up or shut up…

submitted 4 days ago • 132 comments

On Saturday, Trump called 2,000 California National Guard troops into Los Angeles in response to growing protests against the administration’s worksite immigration raids. The roots of this move can be traced back to enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act.

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

The injuries done to America by slavery have never healed They've just suppurated

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I'll never understand the hate-on Republicans have for "liberals" in America or for "liberal" states No place in America is particularly liberal It's like having some public transportation and maybe a few social services cause Republicans to start foaming at the mouth

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Reports and video show flash-bangs thrown into piles of debris just before a car caught fire, strongly suggesting it was law enforcement, not protesters, who sparked it. More details are coming. Don’t let them control the narrative. Thank you to everyone sharing footage, always record everything.

submitted 6 days ago • 292 comments

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 2539 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 5 days ago • 894 comments

LAPD when they think nobody is watching

submitted 5 days ago • 1905 comments

They never arrest business owners or executives for hiring undocumented immigrants in these raids because the point of them isn't to stop undocumented immigration. It's to keep labor divided and prevent the workers from demanding their fair share. Labor is the only source of value.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Well, threatening to unleash the US military against peaceful Americans in a dystopian flouting of law has gotten everyone to stop talking about Donald being on Jeffrey Epstein's list.

submitted 5 days ago • 50 comments

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

submitted 6 days ago • 884 comments

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

submitted 6 days ago • 102 comments

Right now, Muslims in Gaza are supposed to be celebrating Eid al-Adha. Instead of feasting, they are starving. Instead of gathering with their loved ones, they are burying their children. Netanyahu and the IDF can end this misery ANY time by agreeing to a ceasefire and allowing aid into Gaza.

submitted 6 days ago • 267 comments

President Trump just floated sanctioning Ukraine for fighting back against Russia's aggression. America deserves a leader, not a president who bows to Putin, and every lawmaker should condemn this.

submitted 7 days ago • 169 comments

Who DIDN'T have this on the 2025 bingo card? -'Violence First!', choice of the MAGA elite -Senate bill says $270 BILLION, in unmarked spending authority... 20K is ten times the number in the field - maybe they just wanted to create headlines, but it's prob real (they sucked up a Stryker b, so...)

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Republicans are on the verge of passing a budget bill that would amount to one of the greatest transfers of wealth from the working poor to the super rich. And two billionaire oligarchs are fighting about it because the bill doesn't cut vital social programs enough. Hello?

submitted 7 days ago • 94 comments