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Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

submitted 8 days ago • 1092 comments

Civil disobedience by an elected official defending his constituents is something we should applaud. This is bringing the fight… www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2025/05/09/n...

submitted 44 days ago • 495 comments

In SCOTUS's 7-2 ruling stopping more kidnapped people from being sent to El Salvador, the majority justices didn't wait for Alito to write his dissent. That's odd and suggests they didn't trust him to act in good faith, that his plan was to hold up the order until the prisoners were already gone.

submitted 60 days ago • 467 comments

This unapologetic brutality, this senseless waste of life, this asinine global trade war, this stupid squandering of prosperity, this sociopathic predation against citizens and immigrants—they are collaborators on all of it. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/for-americ...

submitted 63 days ago • 39 comments

“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.” Hannah Arendt

submitted 65 days ago • 49 comments

With these posts, they’ve made it essentially inarguable that they’re deliberately defying the Supreme Court.

submitted 65 days ago • 1038 comments

We must expect and demand that the executive branch follow the law. We must expect and demand that the executive branch comply with court orders. To expect and demand anything less is a form of obeying in advance. Defeatism is a form of surrender.

submitted 66 days ago • 187 comments

I'm advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and every other person who was shipped to that concentration camp. And Gorka can go fuck himself. They sure are very nervous about being found out.

submitted 67 days ago • 7 comments

I am advocating for due process for Abrego Garcia.

submitted 67 days ago • 1781 comments

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

submitted 68 days ago • 807 comments

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

submitted 69 days ago • 331 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 69 days ago • 1317 comments

Trump defying a 9-0 Supreme Court decision is the reason I say "if we still have free and fair elections in the United States" when I talk about 2026 midterms.

submitted 69 days ago • 219 comments

The Justice Department spent the weekend defying a federal court, and this morning Trump and his top officials revealed that they will defy the Supreme Court, refusing to take ANY steps to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador. We have passed the point of crisis: slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 69 days ago • 61 comments

If Stephen Miller can lie about Abrego Garcia and his case on national TV, he can do it in federal court under oath. Judge Xinis should demand his appearance, question him under oath, then jail him for Contempt when he commits Perjury. This lawless administration has to be subjected to rule of law.

submitted 69 days ago • 800 comments

Dear Decent Human Beings in the Military and Law Enforcement, If you are ordered to violate the Constitution by this president, please disobey. The millions who served, suffered, and died before you deserve your courage now.

submitted 70 days ago • 297 comments

Using the excuse of a single national security emergency, real or fake, the fascist dictator takes complete control… totalitarianism. Any courageous opposition is silenced or imprisoned. Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.

submitted 73 days ago • 12 comments

"What would a rapist think? What would a rapist say? What would a rapist do?" The only model for this presidency.

submitted 74 days ago • 15 comments

Zelensky: We have their documents, even credit cards. They are citizens of China. I believe the United States of America needs to pay more attention to what is happening today. #standwithukraine

submitted 75 days ago • 100 comments

As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.

submitted 75 days ago • 395 comments

BREAKING: 60 Minutes just exposed the lie. Over 75% of those deported to El Salvador’s mega-prison are innocent. No crimes. No charges. No justice. This is manufactured fear and state-sanctioned abuse. www.thedailybeast.com/60-minutes-c...

submitted 76 days ago • 372 comments

The obvious move, very much in their interest, and in the interest of democracy itself.

submitted 77 days ago • 59 comments

The theory that all this is Trump getting revenge on America and the world for perceived past slights is a far more reasonable take than some think

submitted 79 days ago • 183 comments

Their goal is to destroy this country. Donald Trump is fucking things up far worse than anyone else ever has. It's not due to some unforeseen "event." It's because Donald Trump is choosing this. POTUS. Is. Choosing. This.

submitted 80 days ago • 128 comments

I mean really the first order of business for the democrats is to go on every interview possible and repeat until it sinks in that republicans in congress could stop this whenever they want

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

Japan and South Korea, two top US allies, are joining forces with China to jointly retaliate against Trump’s tariffs. This is a major international realignment against the United States.

submitted 83 days ago • 396 comments

Martial Law. It’s the elephant in the room. It’s what authoritarians resort to when the tide turns against them. It’s what the authoritarian in this White House is setting the stage for. 🧵…

submitted 86 days ago • 1414 comments

Reasonable to ask if we are now oppressing the Russian opposition at Putin’s behest. theins.press/en/news/280037

submitted 87 days ago • 535 comments

Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?

submitted 87 days ago • 3019 comments

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 88 days ago • 1900 comments

They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.

submitted 87 days ago • 545 comments

In Germany’s defense they only elected Hitler once.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.

submitted 90 days ago • 840 comments

“Hey babe, what u up 2? Got a strike package from the USS Truman hitting Houthi camps northwest of Sana’a at 2AM. Wanna come by after?” - Pete Hegseth

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.

submitted 90 days ago • 3647 comments