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Trump’s immigration actions are a classic bait & switch. He campaigned on deporting violent criminals. Instead, he’s deporting moms with their (sometimes American citizen) kids, good neighbors & hard workers; people who pay taxes & provide the labor we need.

submitted 48 minutes ago • 60 comments

I tend to think about what is happening to America right now as the ongoing attempted murder-suicide of multiracial democracy by a white nationalist minority and it’s very frightening but what’s happening in LA feels like a good sign that we’re not going down without a fight

submitted 15 hours ago • 41 comments

We’re in the find out part of democracy now

submitted 14 hours ago • 76 comments

This is beyond delusional insanity, it needs its own new terminology for how devoid of reality it is. This man is a deranged lunatic. I live in L.A., am out doing errands. L.A. is exactly like it is on any other day, with a few hundred protestors in a couple of spots in a city of nearly 10,000,000

submitted 15 hours ago • 224 comments

This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.

submitted 15 hours ago • 187 comments

WaPo scores with worst headline: "Trump charts new territory in bypassing Newsom to deploy military personnel" .... unfuckingbelieveable

submitted 19 hours ago • 66 comments

One argument I tried to make to centrist, right-leaning folks during 2024 was that if you really hate street protest and unrest and chaos, then you should absolutely not vote for Donald Trump, because he 100% guarantees more.

submitted 19 hours ago • 123 comments

January Trump approval on the economy: plus +8.24 points Today Trump approval on the economy: minus -15.75 January Trump approval on inflation: plus +1.99 Today Trump approval on inflation: minus -22.24 So clearly it's time to deploy the Marines in L.A.? www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

submitted 19 hours ago • 430 comments

Trump wants to deliberately escalate tensions. Don’t fall into his trap. Please do not give him what he wants. We cannot be silent in the face of Trump’s dictatorial moves. But we must not succumb to violence. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-time-for-non-violent-civil-disobedience

submitted 20 hours ago • 125 comments

Is this just kind of like repeat it until you believe it yourself? Your boss pardoned everyone who assaulted law enforcement on January 6th. Ass!!!

submitted 22 hours ago • 549 comments

MIKE JOHNSON: What's important about President Trump is he has no intention of spending higher levels of money. In fact, we're in the process of cutting KARL: Well, this is adding a lot to the debt JOHNSON: No it's not KARL: It is

submitted 21 hours ago • 332 comments

Why do these agents need masks and flak jackets to raid a nail salon? Are they afraid someone will threaten them with a pedicure?

submitted 21 hours ago • 52 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 97 comments

The LAPD says there was no violence and they had things under control. The National Guard never even made it to their armories no matter clearing the streets. He’s declared victory and thinks he can dictate masks are illegal. This is a 2:41 AM lunatic post.

submitted 1 day ago • 248 comments

What's happening tonight is anything but law and order. Don't be deceived.

submitted 1 day ago • 389 comments

I wld note here that they're not exactly giving him a clean bill of health, saying he presides of a CofC. But this has shown up a number of times recently in their coverage, using SCOTUS recent, EXTREMELY narrow criteria for the crime of bribery and acting as though that's now the meaning of ...

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

We don't have secret police in America. At least we're not supposed to.

submitted 1 day ago • 705 comments

I bet it'd be easier for Americans to see ICE agents as just regular folks if they weren't, you know, wearing black masks and hiding their names and identities from the public out of shame.

submitted 1 day ago • 156 comments

Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.

submitted 1 day ago • 2419 comments

But keep telling us how they care about the debt and efficiency. This colossal waste will stand as a historic monument to his malignant narcissism.

submitted 1 day ago • 454 comments

ICE arrested former Afghan Nat'l Army soldier—our ally against Taliban—at his home in TX. He entered legally and atty says he has no criminal record. Was applying for asylum. Appears to be casualty of Trump decision de-documenting legal Afghan immigrants www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...

submitted 1 day ago • 179 comments

SpaceX would be problem for US even if it were a normal company with oversight, but it is privately controlled by one hardcore racist corrupt drug-addled authoritarian, which is insanely dangerous for US. We need to nationalize SpaceX.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

"Most everybody knew Elon was exaggerating what he could do," said Rep. Moore of Utah. If everyone on Capitol Hill was aware that Elon was exaggerating, why didn’t GOP members speak up? We do not need leaders who are afraid to speak honestly in front of the camera. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

Probably the time to make this point was when they voted on the bill. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

Re-reading Justice Robert H. Jackson's famous speech on the dangerous discretion of federal prosecutors in light of the dubious indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This section stood out. www.roberthjackson.org/speech-and-w...

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn. BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS. #EconSky

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

RIP Chief Seattle, died this day 1866, leader of the Duwamish and Suquamish peoples. “Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

The beautiful Breonna Taylor should have celebrated her 32nd birthday today. Never forget her. ❤️🕊️

submitted 3 days ago • 122 comments

One thing I’d say about ranked choice voting in NYC is that you don’t have to do complex calculations of viability. You should rank in order of who you want to be mayor and if you don’t want someone to be mayor, you shouldn’t rank them!

submitted 2 days ago • 134 comments

The Trump Administration always had the power to bring Kilmar Abrego back. They were always lying about this, all of it was lies. abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl... They chose to disobey court orders because they are authoritarians who regard the Constitution as an inconvenience.

submitted 2 days ago • 59 comments

We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.

submitted 2 days ago • 841 comments

New in PN: The Trump admin's quiet (but deadly) attack on repro rights "For the last few months, the Trump administration has been occupied with tearing the govt down to the studs. That’s really the only reason the predictable spate of attacks on abortion didn’t start in earnest until recently."

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

submitted 3 days ago • 349 comments

The craziest thing about this fight between Trump and Elon Musk is that Republicans are trying to take away health care from 16 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

submitted 3 days ago • 161 comments

Trump sad Nazis lost WWII

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

This is exactly right. Egg prices are down 400 percent, meaning that when you buy them you are given three times the January 2025 cost to put back in your wallet.

submitted 3 days ago • 70 comments