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June 21, 2025

submitted 10 hours ago • 43 comments

It’s the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

submitted 15 hours ago • 2033 comments

Please don’t presume this is now an American president making a serious decision for the good of America, not a malignant despot desperate to be seen as a strong man.

submitted 15 hours ago • 207 comments

Why are we bombing Iran, mom? Well, honey, the President didn’t have enough people at his birthday parade, too many people attended the NoKings protests, and he needs attention and conflict so he can play hero. That’s why.

submitted 16 hours ago • 50 comments

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2554 comments

Feel like a lot of law schools in a lot of cities in a lot of states would not struggle to find students to participate in a program like this.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

Or at the very least, glitter-bomb them.

submitted 18 hours ago • 397 comments

I don't think we're in a democracy anymore. Unmarked secret police kidnapping people off the street? A dictator mobilizing the military against civilians? Defying court orders? Ignoring due process? Arresting political opponents? Democracy has left the building. We CAN & MUST get it back, though.

submitted 1 day ago • 572 comments

1 of 29/ Body Language and Behavior Analysis No. 4772: Karoline Leavitt Disses Juneteenth with a Joker Smile and other Red Flags – Nonverbal and Emotional Intelligence

submitted 1 day ago • 411 comments

If you took the $1.1 trillion earned by just 100 billionaires last year and mailed every household a check, it'd be $8,700 each. The thing is most billionaires don't actually pay taxes anymore. What the GOP bill is really doing is selling off public lands and cutting Medicare to pay off oligarchs.

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

Congratulations on voting for the guy who thinks you aren't working hard enough. 👍

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

submitted 2 days ago • 3209 comments

Great statement from Sen. Sasha Renee Perez … ICE is becoming lawless. If we had a president he would do something about this. Instead, We have a limp dictator.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

Today’s decision out of Rhode Island isn’t getting a lot of attention, but it’s very important. Trump tried to withhold fed’l funds from states that won’t help with his immigration policy & mass deportations. A Judge just told him he can’t do that. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

submitted 2 days ago • 106 comments

Sayed Naser served as a U.S. military interpreter in Afghanistan. Now he’s being deported. The Taliban assassinated his brother and kidnapped his father. All because he helped us. Why are the feds trying to deport him, even though his asylum case is still pending? Not justice, it’s a betrayal.

submitted 2 days ago • 1089 comments

So, a Fox personality calls for ICE to go to Dodger Stadium and then it happens a couple of days later. Our leaders now just getting their marching orders from right wing media.

submitted 2 days ago • 342 comments

He was detained outside church. “He was in chains at his feet,” Alondra Sotelo-Garcia told a local news outlet about seeing her father arrested. “Shoelaces were taken off, his belt was off, he didn’t have his ring, he didn’t have his watch. Everything was taken from him.”

submitted 2 days ago • 252 comments

LA DODGERS just now: “This morning, ICE agents came to Dodger Stadium and requested permission to access the parking lots. They were denied entry to the grounds by the organization. Tonight’s game will be played as scheduled.” Right on, Dodgers! More of this, please.

submitted 2 days ago • 1196 comments

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

submitted 4 days ago • 555 comments

Grateful that Brad Lander is using his experience to highlight the biggest outrage; that ICE is re-arresting people who have been 100% compliant with ICE and the courts, with the goal of unlawfully stripping them of a court hearing to juice Stephen Miller's deportation numbers.

submitted 4 days ago • 52 comments

The White House just posted some wild propaganda about the overtime tax proposal in the form of... a diet coke ad. 💰🤑 They want workers to think they're not getting taxed on overtime and are taking home bigger paychecks, but here's why that's incredibly misleading.

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

A truly moving & brave statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark: "The best way to honor our parents' memory is to do something, whether big or small, to make our community just a little better for someone else." 💔😔

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

HUGELY Important.

submitted 5 days ago • 120 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health.

submitted 5 days ago • 388 comments

Now the Trump family is peddling cellphones. Is there nothing this family won’t do to make a buck, even if it involves conflicts with a raft of government policy responsibilities, from tariffs to telecommunications oversight? www.wsj.com/business/tel...

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

Goddamnit. I love my Instant Pot. But I'll never buy anything from that company again.

submitted 6 days ago • 40 comments

🧵I think it’s important to understand what disinformation like Sen. Mike Lee’s tweets are trying to do, psychologically/cognitively. In my disinfo class/Substack, I talk about how disinfo often uses “moral disengagement strategies” to manipulate people into accepting harmful conduct 1/

submitted 6 days ago • 301 comments

I don’t think there are any marines as far as I can tell, all the closeup videos, they have police on the back of their vests (plus a few HSI guys) tho the fact that you can’t really tell is incredibly problematic…

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, massive.

submitted 7 days ago • 436 comments

In the movie "Wag the Dog", the film centered on a spin doctor and a Hollywood producer who fabricate a war in Albania to distract voters from a presidential sex scandal. Everything Trump does is to distract from him robbing us blind and committing crimes in front of our eyes.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

A 23 year old electrician from Brentwood speaks out out after a disturbing encounter with federal immigration agents handcuffed him, leaving him shaken, despite being a United States citizen. This is racial profiling , harassment, and it’s unacceptable!

submitted 8 days ago • 92 comments

This ICE agent tells an immigration attorney of her three clients: "I'm not picky so I'm giving you the options cause I have to take one. If not I'll take all." He is quite literally saying that ICE is simply deporting people at random to meet a quota. www.instagram.com/reel/DKzbcQe...

submitted 9 days ago • 203 comments

<thread> On the left: June 12, Judge Breyer writing that THE test for whether the US Marines/Guard violate Posse Comitatus will be whether they've engaged in "detaining" civilians. On the right: June 13: See for yourself. Note: The DoD has confirmed the detention of civilian to Reuters.

submitted 8 days ago • 406 comments

👇👇

submitted 9 days ago • 573 comments

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

submitted 9 days ago • 2263 comments

In the past week, a union leader has been arrested, a U.S. Rep charged with a crime, a U.S. Senator violently handcuffed, and reporters shot with rubber bullets and detained. There is no ambiguity. This is a regime operating as an authoritarian. Americans who believe in liberty must oppose it.

submitted 9 days ago • 391 comments

Republicans who do not condemn this are unfit to serve in any capacity. They are servile, abetting an evil regime.

submitted 9 days ago • 43 comments

What happened to Senator Padilla is absolutely DISGUSTING. Point blank, period. This shit is out of control. Another elected official disrespected while doing their job. (1/2)

submitted 9 days ago • 1062 comments

This is the term we must use now, yes.

submitted 9 days ago • 116 comments

Boos, drag queens and a heavy dose of irony as Trump takes in Les Mis with his hostage immigrant wife against backdrop of LA protests www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Being uninvited from the White House caused Rand Paul to lose a lot of the respect he had for Donald Trump that Trump’s two impeachments, insurrection, four criminal indictments, criminal conviction, and sexual abuse damages verdict did not cause him to lose. Got it.

submitted 10 days ago • 1062 comments

Here’s a video of Stephen Miller in high school screaming that he’s “sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash, when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us.” This is the sociopath shaping our immigration policy and so much more

submitted 10 days ago • 2588 comments