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NEW: The CBP confirmed to @404media.co that it has been flying Predator drones over LA amid the protests. These Predator B drones are military-caliber UAVs used for aerial reconnaissance that can be armed. It further breaks the seal on federal involvement in civilian matters. More here:

submitted 2 hours ago • 38 comments

As with social media and online misinfo (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), people overrate harms for the average person and underrate them for people in the tails

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

We will definitely need a truth and reconciliation committee. The ability to expose and shame all of this—faces and names—is the only accountability we can be sure of given Trump’s power to pardon.

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

@governorwalz.mn.gov speaks the truth, but he’s omitting something important. That road also is filled with people flapping impotently while doing nothing.

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shoutout to every idiot who believed that trump would "end the wars"

submitted 15 hours ago • 149 comments

Damn, they went and split off a “whites only” country category.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

"Hell, maybe the military parade will be wholesome and the protests will be great and the entire day will play out as an object lesson in how our Constitution is supposed to work. Anything is possible. But that’s precisely what scares me."

submitted 18 hours ago • 13 comments

Trump's Dictator Cosplay... my new column on the President's week of militarized theater: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

submitted 18 hours ago • 14 comments

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

submitted 19 hours ago • 345 comments

I’m a Mass resident. Shut down the Senate.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Members of the In group will never admit they are wrong or guilty, as that will be seen as betrayal by their fellow travellers and result in exile and attack. This is authoritarian capture in practice right in front of your eyes.

submitted 21 hours ago • 18 comments

Shut down the Senate.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Then shut down the Senate, you useless clown.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

As the videotapes clearly show, Noem is lying. Padilla is clearly identifying himself as a senator before he he is thrown to the ground and handcuffed. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

submitted 21 hours ago • 244 comments

Noem must resign immediately, and @democrats.senate.gov should shut down the Senate until it happens.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 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 22 hours ago • 27 comments

Don’t look away. Always bear witness and don’t tolerate distortion and minimization.

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WATCH: California Sen. Alex Padilla is handcuffed and detained at DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference in LA 👇

submitted 22 hours ago • 105 comments

The inability to grasp the moral meaning of a famously unsubtle work of art— —and the suggestion that he might identify more with Javert, the inflexible obsessive lawman ultimately unable to live with himself after what he sees— —make this a perfect Trumpian moment of ignorance and immorality.

submitted 1 day ago • 88 comments

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

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"Reducing US military aid to Ukraine will neither lead to a sustainable peace in Ukraine nor compel Russian President Vladimir Putin to reassess his theory of victory" understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

Sources said that even at the start of his second term, Trump was discussing with multiple advisers where & when it would make sense to send in federal troops, either for supposed crime control or in response to larger-scale public activism against his agenda. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 2 days ago • 165 comments

Quinnipiac national poll: Trump's approval rating is 38/53. GOP's approval rating is 32/61. But they have one thing going for them — Democrats are even more unpopular. Dems' approval rating is 21/70. The congressional Democratic Party is under water with Democratic voters.

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

I guess if you train AI on the New York Times Pitchbot account it could write something like this

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

Without comment. Keep hammering this.

submitted 2 days ago • 123 comments

After several wild nights in downtown L.A., faith leaders held a rally in Grand Park calling for strong non-violent resistance to what they called “reprehensible” actions in the city by ICE and the Trump Administration. They are now holding a peaceful march toward the Metro Detention Center.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Where does James Benet go to get his apology?

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Senior officers of the United States military have an obligation to speak up and be leaders. Where is the Army chief of staff? Will he or others speak truth to the commander in chief and put a stop to the assault on the integrity of his troops? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 2 days ago • 270 comments

There's a real attentional trap that all protest movements face and have faced for a long time. If you pull off protests that are polite and civil, even if large, they will struggle to get coverage. Reporters will dismiss them as not newsworthy.

submitted 2 days ago • 288 comments

All of L.A. is not a ‘war zone.’ We separate facts from spin and disinformation amid immigration raids, protests throughout the city. Latest w/ @karenmg.bsky.social @tarantulaarms.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Stop doing the circular firing squad over Mexican flags and just go out and put numbers on the streets, the main way we need to be perfect is by being nonviolent and orderly. People show up to protests in communist regalia too; mass protests are wide open things you can’t truly control.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Far from the first one to say this. But agrobusiness regions, even in blue states, are generally in red areas. They're heavily dependent on undoc'd labor. Take the dairy industry in Kristi Noem's home state or in CA. we're not seeing any of these raids there. not zero. but they're getting a pass.

submitted 3 days ago • 142 comments

I’m sorry, but the base of the Democratic Party is a middle aged black woman with a service sector job that does not know what BlueSky is, and upon being exposed to it, would swiftly and correctly conclude that we all need to log off and find Jesus.

submitted 3 days ago • 73 comments

Once again, the global economy is being held hostage to the whims of a guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

Two YouGov polls taken June 9/10: – Deploying Nat’l Guard: 38% approval-45% disapproval (30-47 among indies) – Deploying Marines: 34-47 (27-50 among indies) – Trump’s handling of deportations in general: 39-50 (30-54 among indies) Just because Trump wants this doesn't mean it's a winner for him.

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

Good Morning in L.A., where we need a point of clarity. Thus far, National Guard/DHS have restricted activities to entrances to federal buildings. Fed LEOs are not responding to protests beyond that. Marines aren’t on the ground. Most everything is being handled by LAPD.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

"Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” has $185bn for ICE, which is more than the annual military budgets of the UK and France combined. Wherever ICE raids trigger protests, Trump can send in the troops." My column. www.ft.com/content/3d6c...

submitted 3 days ago • 66 comments

The president must send the Marines back to their barracks, and Congress must reform posse comitatus laws so that no president tries to deploy the military in this manner again. abcnews.go.com/US/live-upda...

submitted 3 days ago • 198 comments

I anticipate there will be a large divide in opinion on the LA protests among people who actually watch and read the news and those who don't

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

A few words about “peaceful protests.” 1. At least 5% of people are uncontrollable assholes and will behave badly in any situation, let alone a high-tension one. So a large protest without ANYONE throwing shit, yelling slurs or for violence, etc. is likely not achievable. /1

submitted 3 days ago • 75 comments

200-250 protestors marched in Ohio county north of Cincinnati against ICE detentions there. This is a good companion to the LA protests. Harder to instigate and send National Guard into a red state. At the very least it disrupts the narrative that opposition to Trump is chaos and radical leftists.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

As ICE officers conducted a series of raids targeting Latino communities in Los Angeles, reality star Phil “Dr. Phil” McGraw embedded with immigration officials. Later, Merit TV announced in a press release that its footage will be aired throughout a “2-Night Television Event."

submitted 3 days ago • 71 comments