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Has anyone been on hold with the VA, specifically community care for so long that the hold music and reminders all stop and it’s just dead silent on the other end? It all went silent at 1h 45m into the hold.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

submitted 19 hours ago • 36 comments

Should start the Hogg party.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

75 Dems: Surely we’ll come out on the right side of history with this.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

The "fuck you clowns" contempt is an effective strategy in these moments which more people should adopt.

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

If we live through this, I am holding out for a full-blown Truth and Reconciliation Commission to hold the perpetrators accountable, up to and including a long drop with a short rope, but of course after as much due process as they’ve shown is necessary

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Fascists.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 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 1 day ago • 50 comments

Just so we're all clear: It's not a coincidence that the first senator they've used physical force against is Sen. Alex Padilla, a Latino man representing California.

submitted 1 day ago • 356 comments

I gotta exercise my 2nd amendment right to bear arms. [remembers I'm a depressed alcoholic] I gotta find another amendment to get into.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Judge Charles Breyer (brother of retired SCOTUS justice Stephen) hears arguments on whether to grant California's emergency motion to limit Trump's deployment of the National Guard in LA. 🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

it’s secondary to everything else but i have some follow up questions about “there’s no recording here per fbi rights”

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

This is what Trump's government thugs are willing to do in broad daylight, to a US Senator, with cameras on. They are sending the message that anyone who disagrees with Trump isn't safe in America. This is authoritarianism.

submitted 1 day ago • 117 comments

DHS is also lying about him being repeatedly told to back away. The video shows the men who pushed him don’t even open their mouths, they just grab him and get them out of the room without saying a word.

submitted 1 day ago • 108 comments

I was chief of staff to a Cabinet secretary and vice president. I have a high opinion of the various federal protective services and personnel with whom I worked. But the fish rots from the head down. Today’s thuggish behavior in LA is just one of the many corrupting effects of Trump and Trumpism.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 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 1 day ago • 557 comments

The state of California needs to arrest the DHS "security" forces for assault and every Democrat in the U.S. Senate needs to sign onto a campaign to impeach Kristi Noem. Right fucking now.

submitted 1 day ago • 256 comments

While I was slicing up bits of video for this thread/post, we got confirmation that the commanding officers at Fort Bragg set this up deliberately. This should be career-ending for those responsible. If not, it's "game over" for even the appearance of an apolitical, democratic military in the US.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

"We are here to liberate this city from [democratically elected leaders]" You may not think you're at war with them, but they're at war with you.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Fuck the NY times. Propaganda trash.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

She can’t even define socialist.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

NY Times is becoming hardly passable for toilet paper while they prop up the regime and pretend to take a “journalistic” stance. Nation of laws and these mouthpieces can’t even inform why these moves are illegal. Just making it the norm for Trump and his cronies.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

do not install any app from Facebook or Meta on any device. Ideally avoid installing ANY social media app. Login through a browser. I highly doubt Facebook is the only company pulling this shit www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-...

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

Wild for a place like Spokane. Should continue to speak volumes at how much people hate ICE and their actions.

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A grim new development - Sen. Hawley attempting to leverage the LA protests to investigate & intimidate an immigrant rights group...

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Washington Post should just rebrand itself to the Bezos Times. It’s a corporate circle jerk.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Remember when these guys were screaming about the existence of a COVID violation tip line? Turns out they love the idea of reporting on their neighbors (of course).

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

submitted 2 days ago • 2320 comments

NEW: The Trump admin has plans to send thousands of foreigners to Guantanamo beginning as early as this week, including citizens of close allies UK & France, with no intention of notifying their home governments in advance, per sources and documents

submitted 3 days ago • 102 comments

BREAKING: Miller reportedly engineered the raids that sparked the protests that have engulfed the city in recent days—likely because he wanted a pretext to send in federal troops. https://trib.al/oM1280f

submitted 3 days ago • 384 comments