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The central theme of MAGA is that this is somehow THEIR country, the folks who themselves, a few generations off the boat, scrambled up from immigrant dense inner-cities to split level ranches in the strip mall suburbs and now want to pull up the ladder behind them. It’s a LIE.

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two paragraphs from two separate NYT updates on Iran that seem like they belong together

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The Israelis are calling this a "preemptive" strike. Whether you agree or disagree with this attack, these are not - from what we know tonight - "preemptive" strikes. The Israelis are using that word for a reason. Read on. /1

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It’s times like these when we are fortunate to have a Secretary of Defense who was chosen because he could do a lot of pushups on TV.

submitted 13 hours ago • 173 comments

Since Trump inauguration: Gaza escalated, Ukraine escalated, Israel-Iran escalated. Trump is a walking permission slip to every strongman to do whatever they want, and it propelling the world into ever-more violence and chaos

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Seems relevant.

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The strong-arm tactics used against my colleague and friend, Senator Alex Padilla, in response to his peaceful conduct should convince all of us that the Administration’s goal is about more than deporting dangerous immigrants. They are determined to suppress even peaceful dissent.

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You know, we used to study Dr Kings civil disobedience as something good. It was

submitted 16 hours ago • 325 comments

Talk about a rigged system!

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Be clear on what she’s saying here: She’s saying that Trump is going to use the U.S. military to overthrow both the duly elected Mayor of Los Angeles & the Governor of California. I understand she’s not very bright, but, in essence, she’s saying the federal government has declared war on California.

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IMPORTANT: Before the fascist attack on Senator Alex Padilla, Kristi Noem said that her gestapo in California were staying to "liberate the city socialist and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country." Don't let that slide by.

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I told you we’d be back

submitted 23 hours ago • 1543 comments

🚨 Secretary Noem basically said that her agency is now dedicated to forcible regime change…in American cities and states. There 👏🏽 is 👏🏽 a 👏🏽 name 👏🏽 for 👏🏽 this

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When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.

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How rich! 😂😂The Party that accuses the left of paying protestors has an ad up offering $1000 in crypto to fill seats at Trump's parade. Yes, $1000! Hurry before it's taken down: washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/tlg/d/wa...

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I swear I am not making this up. Tonight Trump will go to the Kennedy Center to see “Les Miserables,” a play about a mass uprising against a tyrannical king. I hereby retire from satire.

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Welcome to the World Cup in Donald Trump’s America!

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pope leo standing for the downtrodden

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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.”

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Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not.

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Trump on Tuesday announced next year all disaster relief will personally be approved by him. That means he will only give aid to Red states. Another reason why Blue states need to explore withholding taxes from federal govt to pay for services. My article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/blue-state...

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leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

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The idea that the progressive left used the internet to bully institutions into accepting unpopular, far-left positions is the exact opposite of what has actually happened. The alt-right used the internet for ideological capture and they are now in the White House bragging about it daily

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Counterpoint: Robert E. Lee was a treasonous loser who gladly slaughtered his fellow Americans in defense of slavery while being a mildly above average military tactician. He should’ve been hanged in Lexington.

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America has never been broke. It’s just violently anti-poor. Troops in LA cost $134M — the price of 44 million school lunches. But sure, let’s keep pretending the issue is lazy parents and not a government that eats kids for breakfast.

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i just watched a clip of stephen miller talking to hannity from a few days ago and my god is that guy a stone cold freak. like, everything about him is profoundly off-putting, like a bug in an eggar suit

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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.

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If any Democratic president used a military audience as partisan prop, Republicans would melt down. The press would melt down. It was considered unthinkable until Trump showed R's and the media that oligarchic rule was within their reach.

submitted 2 days ago • 69 comments

Trump and Hegseth are actively and overly turning the US military into a partisan political force in violation of the Constitution, and Republicans in Congress will say nothing as another pillar of the Republic comes crashing down.

submitted 2 days ago • 166 comments

If it walks like a dictator, and talks like a dictator, maybe it’s a…..

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I can NOT grasp why media is not SCREAMING About Trump sending US Marines onto the streets of the USA. This is right from the aspiring tyrant playbook. Is it because corporate media executives fear talking about it this way? Do they approve of it? Or do they simply not get how dangerous this is?!

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Trump's latest shitshow is to detract from inflation and his ruinous tariffs. As Hitler and Stalin knew, in times of trouble, find a bogeyman.

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I think because some part of me wanted to feel better about our own situation, I've been reading Mao's Last Revolution, about the Cultural Revolution. At one level, boy yes, a reminder of how much much much worse politics can get, but also more than a few moments of recognition that are discomfiting

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In Putin’s Russia, there are only about 1,500 political prisoners in a nation of more than 140 million. But Putin's very public arrest of political prisoners is enough to deter others from daring to speak out. Trump is simply following the Putin playbook. Trump's goal is silencing dissent.

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Speaker of the House calling on a sitting governor to be "tarred and feathered." Just unconscionable rhetoric. Unconscionable. It's hard to have a democracy when one of the two major parties refuses to treat the other as legitimate and capable of governing.

submitted 3 days ago • 83 comments

If Trump tells Pete Hegseth to send troops into the streets to kill Americans the only question Pete would ask is: How many dead Americans do you want?

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There are 24,000 members of the California National Guard. Trump only deployed 4,000. There is NO reason to deploy US Marines in California-he could send more Nat Guard. Trump sent the Marines-who are trained to kill--for that purpose. Trump wants to normalize using the military against Americans

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Trump’s DHS Secretary just called America’s 2nd largest city a “city of criminals.” Trump and his people are bad, divisive people. Fuck them.

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Prof Stanley--who is an expert on fascism--says Stephen Miller is using "genocidal speech" to describe immigrants that is very similar to how the Nazis described Jews in 1930's.

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As an epidemiologist I feel like I cant breathe. I genuinely cant breathe having to act normal. Like nothing is happening. Like people arent going to die because a cult is in charge of the country. They are a cult. Republicans are a fascist death cult. Firing ALL cancer doctors & vaccine specialists

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Our Founding Fathers would have had a word for calling up a battalion of Marines for regular domestic law enforcement: tyranny.

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I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.

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If Trump can claim a "national emergency" to disappear legal residents without due process, what’s to stop him from doing the same to U.S. citizens who oppose him? No one is safe — not even people legally in the country, possibly not even American citizens. Fascism is here.

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