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The Minnesota assassinations, the attempted arson at Governor Shapiro's home, and the violent arrest of Senator Padilla are all straight out of the Jim Crow terrorism playbook. Same goes with cops aiming for journalists covering the ICE protests. None of these are new tactics, just a new iteration.

submitted 5 hours ago • 109 comments

BREAKING: Just spoke with one of the lead organizers of the No Kings Day protests. The final number of protests is 2,169 in 20 countries!

submitted 4 hours ago • 30 comments

We need leadership. We need bold fighters willing to step up to fascism using every legal lever at their disposal. So many establishment figured have been cowardly and complicit assuming it wouldn't come for them. They were fine throwing the rest of us under the bus. Do you feel safe now?

submitted 4 hours ago • 18 comments

Brevard County Sheriff Sheriff Wayne Ivey: "If you throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun at one of our deputies, we will be notifying your family where to collect your remains at, because we will kill you graveyard dead."

submitted 6 hours ago • 1734 comments

I’m praying for Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband’s family, and for Sen. John Hoffman and his wife’s recovery this morning. I’m praying for everyone in Minnesota. Praying for our country. This is on all of us.

submitted 4 hours ago • 72 comments

Dating myself, but keep thinking there’s a Kent State feeling in the air—this shit is really real and we’re finally on our own. And brooding question is: what can possibly wind it back? What keeps the fires from raging all summer and longer?

submitted 4 hours ago • 237 comments

A Democratic Mayor arrested. A Democratic Congresswoman indicted. A Democratic Senator tackled and detained. A Democratic State Representative killed. A Democratic State Representative in critical condition. We can all see where this is going.

submitted 4 hours ago • 397 comments

One of my many fears is that the next Democratic president will spend too much time talking about "the importance of not dwelling on the past" instead of prosecuting every single one of the people responsible for this nightmare.

submitted 19 hours ago • 656 comments

Somehow, this makes me think of the movie Red Dawn. Except here, it's our military on American streets.

submitted 1 day ago • 260 comments

It's a truly jarring split screen that Kristi Noem's goons attacking Sen Padilla happened at almost the exact same time as 16 Dem senators crossed lines to vote with the GOP to invoke cloture on the crypto bill, forfeiting any leverage. Dems need to act like an opposition.

submitted 1 day ago • 830 comments

🚨 Iran: Mohammad Bakari, Chief of the Iranian General Staff reportedly killed in the Israeli precision strike on Tehran. Iran may be on the brink of developing its first nuclear weapon, and Israel will likely do everything possible to prevent that.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

This is not hard. Every Republican member of Congress should join Democrats in condemning this administration’s vicious arrest of Sen Padilla. “A Republic if you can keep it” is now.

submitted 2 days ago • 345 comments

"darth i heard u peed in the squad car after getting arrested to put the car out of commission" "...yes exactly"

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

Lynch: "Deploying the military against a civilian population is wrong. And if we don't step up, this will continue. If we don't step up & declare what is right under our Constitution, then other cities, other citizens will meet this same fate..Trump is a wannabe gangster..I'm fighting today's Nazis"

submitted 2 days ago • 105 comments

This is the term we must use now, yes.

submitted 2 days ago • 116 comments

BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to return control of the National Guard back to California, saying the call-up was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 215 comments

Senator Padilla spoke moments AFTER Kristi Noem outrageously stated she intended to “liberate” the City of Los Angeles from its democratically-elected mayor and governor. He had every right to confront her about her incendiary, hateful, and deeply stupid statement.

submitted 1 day ago • 46 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 2 days ago • 1295 comments

Sen Cory Booker is already on the Senate floor speaking out. He’s right: this isn’t an isolated incident—it’s a pattern of abuse by the Trump regime targeting those who dare to hold them accountable & law enforcement engaged in racial profiling. 🤬🤬🤬 @booker.senate.gov

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

I’m calling for the censure of House Speaker Mike Johnson for two things: condoning the assault on a sitting Senator and for being a total douche.

submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments

AND, their deployments are broken up into 29 day blocks so DoD doesn't have to pay them active duty benefits INCLUDING no allowance for housing.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

They have literally already indicted a member of Congress for daring to try to inspect a private prison where they are detaining kidnapped migrants. She was shoved while trying to protect an elder member of congress, yet it is Rep. LaMonica McIver who is being charged with assault.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

"How could you say that you did not know who he was?" L.A. Mayor Karen Bass speaks out on the forced removal of California Sen. Alex Padilla from a DHS press conference. DHS claimed the senator "interrupted a live press conference without identifying himself."

submitted 1 day ago • 107 comments

Rather than apologizing and trying to resolve a problem she helped create, Kristi Noem is now lying about what happened and making it worse. This is unacceptable behavior from a Cabinet official. Noem clearly does not have the credibility or integrity to continue serving.

submitted 1 day ago • 444 comments

Right fucking now. If a Republican Senator had been treated like this, the Democratic president would already have been impeached.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Are we really fucking doing this. Had nothing happened to Senator Padilla at all, what she was describing is a federal takeover of a major city by military force with no specified end-date, with no legal authority. Do not let the fascists talk their way out of that.

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

Agree on both points. 1) States control most criminal prosecutions. Calif state charges for physical assault OF A US SENATOR in state's biggest city. 2) Dems in US Senate need to stand up on this one. This didn't happen even in days Faubus/Wallace/Maddox/Bull Conner resisted fed authority in 60s

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

Which would you describe as “actions,” trying to ask a question, or being wrestled to the floor and cuffed?

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

This is the price of questioning a fascist regime.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 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

submitted 2 days ago • 568 comments

Another video of Senator Padilla’s violent arrest at DHS Sec Noem’s press conference in LA. You can see him thrown to the ground by FBI agents and handcuffed. (video shared by Padilla’s staff with Elex Michaelson of Fox LA and posted on X)

submitted 2 days ago • 210 comments

We can't let this story die. This is seriously crazy.

submitted 2 days ago • 285 comments

Not loving the Iran attack rumors tbh.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

BREAKING : I’m hearing from sources that an attack on Iran may be imminent. Stay tuned. More to come.

submitted 2 days ago • 48 comments

The head of the UKs Equality and Human Rights Commission just said that the European Convention on Human Rights Article 8 right to privacy doesn't apply to trans people. Article 8 is why the UK was forced to create the gender recognition act by the European Court of human Rights in the first place.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

It took far, far too long to get to this ruling in a completely spurious case, but it is so good to see. Now let's get him OUT. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Guys, Trump's gonna un-preserve federal land so he can drill more, and probably build condos there or whatever. And since it's a DOJ memo that says this, that makes it binding federal policy until the end of time, as we learned in the "presidents can't be charged with a crime" fiasco. [gift link]

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

"The peaceful protests happening in LA are in response to ICE, a federal agency, performing raids in the city, kidnapping allegedly undocumented immigrants in an arbitrary and cruel manner reminiscent of Ivan the Terrible’s secret police—who, incidentally, also concealed their identities."

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Trump threatening military parade protesters with “very heavy force” is part of a pattern. Remember in 2020 when he wanted the military to shoot protesters in the legs? How about his comments about Tiananmen Square — when he sided with the guys driving the tanks? www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

At Fort Bragg, Donald Trump crossed a dangerous line. Where are the generals who should be speaking up in defense of the military's rules and traditions, asks @RadioFreeTom?

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

This is what happens to racists in Ireland.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

"Mass illegal migration or criminal activities plainly do not fall within the AEA's statutory boundaries," the judge wrote in a blunt ruling. Furthermore, the judge said Proclamation 10903 doesn't assert the gang is acting as an army or military force.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia said he spoken to the Trump regime about Lauren Tomasi, the reporter who was hit by a rubber bullet while covering the protests, calling the incident “horrific,” adding, “we don’t find it acceptable.”

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

"An incompetent warning shot or the act of a coward, either way it needs to be properly investigated... how is it okay for your police force to be firing at unarmed Australian journalists?" Karl Stefanovic, an anchor for the Australian broadcast channel that @laurentomasi.bsky.social works for.

submitted 4 days ago • 442 comments