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DOGE affiliates Kenneth Jackson and Nate Cavanaugh “disabled and restricted access to the Institute's FOIA system, terminated the employees responsible for processing FOIA requests, and restricted the use of Institute financial resources.”

submitted 16 hours ago • 35 comments

USAGM today urgently called back to work the staff of the Voice of America's Farsi language service. All had been on paid admin leave for the past three months with the rest of VOA's silenced journalists.

submitted 10 hours ago • 127 comments

Senator Murphy: I don't ask law enforcement to throw my constituents to the ground and violently handcuff them because they have a different opinion from me. We don't do that in a democracy. If this is how a Senator can be treated, none of our constituents are safe. This is a test for the country

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""It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy," said Simon..." www.wnep.com/article/news...

submitted 14 hours ago • 364 comments

TFW Corey Lewandowski is the voice of political reason.

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Fell behind on Andor, so am catching up. Watched Episode 9 this evening. You know. The wild one where they arrest a Senator after manufacturing a fake crisis that required the military to put down protestors. So unrealistic.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

This is a watershed moment. Senator Padilla getting thrown to the ground and handcuffed. Trump admitting his mass deportations are targeting hard-working people that are contributing vitally to the US economy. Trump sending troops into a US city that even local law enforcement didn't ask for. 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

Newsom: “The courts have ruled. The Guard will be back under my command — and Donald Trump will be relieved of his command at noon tomorrow.”

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

BREAKING: Judge says Mahmoud Khalil cannot be detained or deported based on Rubio’s determination. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 2 days ago • 270 comments

RFK Jr’s ACIP pick, Martin Kulldorff, said one of the most disturbing images from the pandemic was a toddler crying about having to wear a mask. I see toddlers cry about everything all the time, and I found it far more disturbing to see refrigerator trucks full of body bags outside of the hospitals…

submitted 2 days ago • 296 comments

Bipartisan House Members Urge Secretary Rubio to Save Program Tracking Kidnapped Ukrainian Children doggett.house.gov/media/press-...

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

Genetic material shed by tumors can be detected in the bloodstream three years before cancer diagnosis, according to a study led by investigators at Johns Hopkins University. That study was made possible with federal funding. Now, many studies like this are canceled. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/04/...

submitted 2 days ago • 60 comments

On the left, Jesse Watters denouncing Comey for saying Trump should be 86’d and claiming it was a death threat. On the right, Jesse Watters describing Terry Moran’s firing from ABC as him being… 86’d. To misquote a line from the right, you don’t hate [Fox] enough.

submitted 2 days ago • 65 comments

You fight for a zygote, but cheer when a child is ripped from a mother‘s arms by ICE. Tells me everything I need to know about you.

submitted 3 days ago • 358 comments

A friend who works at Harbor-UCLA just told me that ICE was on the premises. Harbor-UCLA is a safety-net hospital & a level 1 trauma hospital. People are going to die because of these actions. This makes me so angry.

submitted 2 days ago • 90 comments

DOJ has been instructing immigration judges (who they oversee) to dismiss cases from the bench without allowing time to appeal in order to allow ICE to make courtroom arrests.

submitted 2 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.bsky.social? https://theatln.tc/eVGJfmoZ

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Chair of history department at U.S. Naval Academy resigns after order to remove paper from symposium “for reasons having nothing to do with scholarship.” [James Matheson, Baltimore Sun]

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

A piece of advice from an old retired soldier to the commanders and leaders currently serving: Review the regulations & policies addressing political behavior when wearing the uniform, and then address those standards with your teams.

submitted 2 days ago • 319 comments

Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit

submitted 2 days ago • 289 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Protesters fill the streets of Raleigh, North Carolina for a protest against Donald Trump and ICE (Video: James DeAlto)

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

WATCH: “Holy f*ck — They literally just shot her point blank… I live here…” @lapdhq shoot a woman trying to get to her apartment at point blank range with a rubber bullet. Alexandria’s page (the woman who helps her): www.tiktok.com/@labyrinthlo...

submitted 3 days ago • 1191 comments

A U.S. citizen who is nine months pregnant was hospitalized upon her release from immigration custody after she was detained by federal agents in Hawthorne on Sunday. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/i...

submitted 3 days ago • 39 comments

Here's the full Newsom address. It's great. (99% anyway, it's a tiny quibble but can we please stop reflexively adding "hard working" as the sole acceptable preceding adjective for immigrants) www.youtube.com/live/0n77NFj...

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

As Sauron invades Gondor, hobbits enter risky terrain. - Minas Tirith Herald

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Gosh, I wonder what part of the MAGA base this caters to?

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Nothing like celebrating traitorous slavers.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This an absolute insane and irresponsible way to frame a military crackdown on the freedom to protest.

submitted 3 days ago • 91 comments

"ABC claims it is motivated by the values of objectivity and impartiality. But what about the value of independence — or, for that matter, the value of truth?"

submitted 3 days ago • 442 comments

NYT: “How will Trump’s illegal military takeover of LA play for Democrats?” I’m just a political communication scholar standing in front of our paper of record asking for them to not strategy frame an authoritarian takeover. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

Tear gas can cause long-term health consequences by making people more susceptible to contracting respiratory illnesses, including COVID. The chemical agent can also hurt people inside their homes if it seeps into residential neighborhoods. What you need to know (published 2020):

submitted 3 days ago • 63 comments

I couldn't NOT do this.

submitted 3 days ago • 103 comments

I wish whenever Democrats did the boilerplate "Of course I believe that violent or destructive protesters should be arrested," they'd add, "Unlike our president who pardons them if they are beating on cops for him."

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

Completely bizarre to hear tv talk about sending in the military and then you see the actual pics of the protests and people are buying hot dogs and line dancing while the Nat Guard looks on in silent envy.

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

When we think about how elections in the US may cease to be fair, this is what it looks like. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Trump promised to deport violent criminals. Instead, he deported a 4-year-old cancer patient. Now he’s fueling chaos again. Don’t give him what he wants. If you’re showing up to protest with violence in L.A.—go the fuck home. Peaceful protesters have a case. Let them be heard.

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A more accurate rendition of what is happening in LA if it had happened in any other country

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Kentucky officials say two infants have died from complications of whooping cough in past six months; neither the infants nor their mothers received the recommended vaccines. nkytribune.com/2025/06/kent...

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments