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submitted 3 hours ago • 343 comments

🔥 Senator Duckworth scorches Hegseth: "Your failures have been staggering… You're just an unqualified yes man who can't tell the president how to keep Americans safe.” (She even went after his tattoos)

submitted 10 minutes ago • 23 comments

@bradlander.bsky.social: "I was in a DHS detention for about 3.5 hours... I'm going to sleep at home in my bed tonight, safe with my family. But at Edgardo, who I was trying to accompany, he is in ICE detention. God knows where he's going to sleep tonight. And who knows what state."

submitted 15 hours ago • 119 comments

submitted 17 hours ago • 504 comments

LAPD are the real aggressors

submitted 17 hours ago • 162 comments

What's happening to libraries in Florida should frighten everyone. Spurred on by Moms For Liberty, the AG is threatening librarians with felonies for stocking LGBTQ+ books and overruling established processes for removing "harmful" material. It's a full on censorship campaign by the government.

submitted 22 hours ago • 118 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

Arresting elected Democratic leaders is explicitly threatening the opposition with violence. But it is also delegitimizing the votes of people who elected them -- and in the current cases, these are all (not incidentally) politicians elected by multi-racial and multi-ethnic coalitions.

submitted 22 hours ago • 9 comments

BREAKING: 13.14 MILLION attended 2,300+ No Kings protests nationwide. At 3.8% of the US population, this BLOWS AWAY the 3.5% threshold that political scientists say is required to overthrow dictators… THE. MORE. YOU. KNOW. 😎✨

submitted 20 hours ago • 40 comments

🧵 Ohio Republicans are pushing a bill to totally ban abortion, IVF, & some contraception—even criminalizing women who seek abortion with homicide charges. This extreme proposal would overturn Ohio’s 2023 constitutional amendment protecting abortion, which 57% of voters approved tinyurl.com/37k62ks7

submitted 18 hours ago • 24 comments

Stephen Miller is the one who really controls the Department of Homeland Security, according to former Trump administration Homeland Security staffer Miles Taylor. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has been demoted to nothing more than a mouthpiece for his agenda, he said.

submitted 1 day ago • 125 comments

🚨 The Idaho State Board of Examiners voted unanimously to approved a $300K request (w/o any discussion) this morning, to pay for Idaho State Police to facilitate ICE transports. Now that funding is approved, the transports to ICE detention facilities can begin.

submitted 21 hours ago • 18 comments

Trump is trying to consolidate power and normalize unconstitutional actions by masked federal agents: arresting public officials, abducting people off the streets without due process, deploying the military in U.S. cities and cracking down on protesters. Make no mistake, this is about power... 1/2

submitted 19 hours ago • 32 comments

NEW: A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration’s termination of hundreds of NIH grants was “void and illegal.” He ordered funding for some of the grants, including many profiled by ProPublica in recent months, to be reinstated. By @anniewaldman.bsky.social

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"The People United, Will Never Be Defeated!" chant crowds as they welcome Mayoral Candidate Brad Lander after he was released from ICE custody with charges dismissed.

submitted 18 hours ago • 154 comments

The idea that Brad Lander, the nerdiest guy to hold the nerdiest office in city government, is out brawling with ICE paramilitaries doesn’t pass the laugh test. Plus there’s video.

submitted 20 hours ago • 28 comments

This is dictatorship 101. Detaining and silencing those who oppose the regime is a hallmark of dictatorships. NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander was detained at an immigration court in NY for asking to see a judicial warrant. No American should stand for this abuse of power anywhere. #OnYourSide

submitted 22 hours ago • 26 comments

As they’re trying to do the right thing

submitted 22 hours ago • 537 comments

Not good enough. He needs to resign or be expelled.

submitted 23 hours ago • 419 comments

The claims that McIver, Padilla, and Lander were committing assault should make you question every other time LEOs claim assault or resisting arrest, if you weren’t already.

submitted 22 hours ago • 189 comments

👏👏👏👏👏

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

“You do not have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens,” Lander repeated, as the officers tightened handcuffs to his wrists.

submitted 23 hours ago • 43 comments

NY Governor Kathy Hochul calls “bullshit” on the arrest of New York City comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander. DOHS claimed Lander was arrested for assaulting a federal officer, though he was released without being charged. apple.news/AN40A3hTFQw6...

submitted 19 hours ago • 19 comments

what is it called when people who aren't cops and don't have a warrant drag you away, because I don't think "arrest" is the word

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

C-SPAN caller to Tapper: "When are you going to examine what's going on with Trump? ... this president has been pure chaos, which indicates to me that there is something wrong with him. We will never get a straight answer on his medical exam, and yet you have gone after Joe Biden with a vengeance."

submitted 1 day ago • 1298 comments

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

submitted 22 hours ago • 710 comments

REPUBLICANS & SKEPTICS: What did the No Kings protests accomplish? ANSWER: The anti-Trump movement is being noticed. Politicians are paying attention and will feel safer speaking out. The White House sees that Trump overreached. Watch this stitch…

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submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

Thou shalt not arrest elected public officials for trying to speak for their constituents.

submitted 18 hours ago • 92 comments

Does anything in this picture say, "federal agents making a lawful arrest?" Perhaps they identified themselves. But when did it go out of fashion for law enforcement to look like law enforcement?

submitted 19 hours ago • 290 comments

“Where is it? Where is the warrant?” Watch NYC comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander detained at an immigration court⬇️

submitted 21 hours ago • 499 comments

“OK, Boomer” just got flipped on its head. At protests across the country this past weekend, older Americans turned out in force, leading chants, waving signs and showing that resistance has no age limit. And their passion isn’t just inspiring. It might be what helps save democracy.

submitted 19 hours ago • 391 comments

HAPPENING NOW: New Yorkers are protesting against ICE’s illegal arrest of NYC comptroller Brad Lander.

submitted 21 hours ago • 290 comments

administration should just put up a “no niggers” sign and save themselves the trouble of writing out each country

submitted 22 hours ago • 281 comments

Brad has been released and the crowd breaks into a chant of “Free them all.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 10 comments

This is pure bullshit there is a clear video from start to finish, and the only one assaulted was @bradlander Still waiting for Eric Adams and/or Andrew Cuomo to condemn what happened and demand his release

submitted 21 hours ago • 32 comments

"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."

submitted 20 hours ago • 276 comments

The mob boss president

submitted 1 day ago • 614 comments

Another TACO moment? www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/t...

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was forcibly detained inside an immigration court building Tuesday morning by masked federal agents as he attempted to escort a man from his court appearance there. In the chaotic scene at around noon, Lander asked the agents repeatedly to show a judicial warrant.

submitted 22 hours ago • 31 comments