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Trump just admitted that his mass deportations are bad for farmers and the economy, and crucially, also admitted that workers who are getting deported are "almost impossible to replace." That's a massive repudiation of MAGA ideology:

submitted 15 hours ago • 347 comments

Trump should talk to Shadow President Stephen Miller, who explicitly ordered ICE to start rounding up non-criminals at farms and Home Depot parking lots

submitted 15 hours ago • 77 comments

Every prominent Democrat in the country should jump on this immediately. Enough bullshit cowering on this issue. Get on this! Trump just handed you a massive weapon. Use it!

submitted 15 hours ago • 82 comments

At this point in time, I trust protestors far more to resolve situations peacefully, legally, and without violence than I do ICE or other militarized representatives of this autocratic federal government. The news media needs to adopt a whole different perspective on coverage.

submitted 17 hours ago • 25 comments

Trump calls for jailing people who burn the U.S. flag anntelnaes.substack.com/p/the-one-wh... (100k subscribers on @bsky.app! Thank you everyone)

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Why is ICE arresting employees but not employers? DOJ policy is to charge the most culpable people. The employers would seem to qualify.

submitted 1 day ago • 1524 comments

the party of free speech and small government demands small businesses rename things or else

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

submitted 2 days ago • 1458 comments

They keep talking about punishing protestors as if this country wasn’t FOUNDED BY PROTESTERS WHO ENSHRINED THE RIGHT TO PROTEST, I AM SO TIRED OF HOW STUPID THINGS HAVE BECOME

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Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock on Trump deploying troops to Los Angeles: “He is using the symbolism and the uniforms of our service members in a campaign to do what he's been doing for 10 years, and that is to convince us that we are at war with one another.”

submitted 2 days ago • 47 comments

A reminder, because apparently that’s needed today: tarring and feathering is an act of physical violence against someone. During the Revolutionary era, it was employed specifically as an act of terror to intimidate officials, merchants, and others who opposed the Sons of Liberty.

submitted 2 days ago • 57 comments

It’s day five in Occupied California, and people are engaging in dangerous behavior like walking their dogs and eating lunch. Thank goodness the marines are on their way to put a stop to this.

submitted 2 days ago • 177 comments

Trump’s absolute incompetence is on full display.

submitted 2 days ago • 47 comments

Now the Speaker of the House, second in line to be President of the United States, is calling for the elected leader of the 4th largest economy in the world to be publicly tortured for [checks notes] defying the treasonous whims of the wannabe dictator currently occupying the Oval Office.

submitted 2 days ago • 259 comments

Q: The president said that if he were Tom Homan he would arrest Gavin Newsom. Do you believe Newsom should face consequences in a legal way? MIKE JOHNSON: Um, that's not my lane. I'm not gonna give you legal analysis on whether Gavin Newsom should be arrested. But he ought to be tar and feathered.

submitted 2 days ago • 1577 comments

The Secretary of Defense lies under oath, claiming "21 million illegals" entered under Biden. Trump previously invented a 20 million figure out of thin air at a campaign rally. Recently, he randomly started saying 21 million. Now his surrogates are parroting that fake number.

submitted 2 days ago • 117 comments

This is what it looks like without a United States Congress.

submitted 2 days ago • 559 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 137 comments

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 3 days ago • 508 comments

The man who has stated “don’t take medical advice from me” has disbanded the cdc vaccine advisory panel of experts to be replaced by new people with no details as yet as to how they will be selected. Rfk wrote about this in am op-ed. This is extremely worrisome 🧵🧪 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

Philly local tv station reporting that a man allegedly posed as an ICE agent in order to rob a car repair business office. How many other criminals might be getting this idea right now, given that actual ICE agents are refusing to show IDs, warrants, badges?

submitted 3 days ago • 468 comments

What a disgusting thing for a public servant to say about any city

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Profiles in Courage

submitted 3 days ago • 1882 comments

Jeffries: "We will not be lectured by Donald Trump and anyone in the Republican Party about issues of law and order ... he pardoned hundreds of violent felons, criminals, who brutally assaulted police officers and attacked the Capitol on January 6. That's what Donald Trump did on day one."

submitted 3 days ago • 256 comments

LA is quiet. THe attempt to provoke is failing. So far. "Police officers and deputies from several agencies maintained a large presence across downtown Los Angeles on Mon morning, but no protesters have been seen in the area. A cleanup effort has begun to clear debris from streets..."

submitted 3 days ago • 63 comments

I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.

submitted 3 days ago • 932 comments

once again bystander president

submitted 3 days ago • 37 comments

"Nobody’s going to spit on our police officers," says Trump, who four months ago pardoned people who beat police officers with pipes, flagpoles, baseball bats and 2-by-4s at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

submitted 3 days ago • 250 comments

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 3 days ago • 109 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 4 days ago • 52 comments

We’re in the find out part of democracy now

submitted 4 days ago • 81 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 4 days ago • 236 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 4 days ago • 205 comments

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

submitted 4 days ago • 67 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 4 days ago • 132 comments