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

submitted 9 hours ago • 1290 comments

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

submitted 11 hours 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 23 hours ago • 1382 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

submitted 20 hours ago • 75 comments

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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 22 hours 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 1 day ago • 56 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 1 day ago • 177 comments

Trump’s absolute incompetence is on full display.

submitted 1 day 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 1 day ago • 260 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 1 day ago • 1581 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 1 day ago • 117 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 560 comments

👇👇

submitted 1 day ago • 137 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 507 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 1 day 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 1 day ago • 468 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Profiles in Courage

submitted 2 days ago • 1881 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 2 days ago • 255 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 2 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 2 days ago • 924 comments

once again bystander president

submitted 2 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 2 days ago • 251 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 2 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 3 days ago • 52 comments

We’re in the find out part of democracy now

submitted 3 days ago • 82 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 3 days ago • 237 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 3 days ago • 205 comments

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

submitted 3 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 3 days ago • 132 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 3 days ago • 484 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 3 days ago • 130 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 3 days ago • 572 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 3 days ago • 342 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 3 days ago • 52 comments