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Trump has a new plan to undermine judges, and it’s called “court-baiting.” The strategy forces judges to take potentially unpopular decisions that are necessary to protect constitutional principles, then attack them for those decisions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 22 hours ago • 20 comments

Hi, pardon me, hello: mass protest in the face of fascism is a great idea and in fact the only thing that works to actually combat it. anyone saying otherwise is an idiot. sorry, i cannot anymore with this shit. do the fucking reading!

submitted 7 hours ago • 12 comments

Abolish Palantir. Palantir Technologies is not a data analytics company. It is, as its own CEO and founder has stated, a “digital kill chain.”

submitted 6 hours ago • 7 comments

The thing to remember about the #LosAngelesRiots is that they aren't riots, and Donald Trump is all over the Epstein files.

submitted 6 hours ago • 30 comments

When Trump starts losing cops it's over.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

ICE is gearing up to deploy to these blue cities: Chicago, NYC, the DC area, Seattle, and Philly. If any of these are your hometowns—get ready. If not—watch anyway, all the way through, because Trump’s unhinged order will affect you. Spread the word.

submitted 7 hours ago • 149 comments

BREAKING: Seattle. Broad daylight. A peaceful crowd. And then—boom. Cops descend like fucking jackals. No warning. No reason. One officer struts up to a woman using a knocked-over trash can for cover and kicks it like it’s sport. This isn’t “protect and serve.” This is target and terrorize.

submitted 4 hours ago • 17 comments

When law-enforcement and military are used to terrorize citizens, and war against us, we no longer live in a democracy. This is a fascist dictatorship.

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Far from the first one to say this. But agrobusiness regions, even in blue states, are generally in red areas. They're heavily dependent on undoc'd labor. Take the dairy industry in Kristi Noem's home state or in CA. we're not seeing any of these raids there. not zero. but they're getting a pass.

submitted 20 hours ago • 137 comments

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Watching PBS’s American Experience: Nazi Town. A reminder that fascists have always been among us. The price of democracy is constant vigilance.

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submitted 8 hours ago • 24 comments

Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

submitted 18 hours ago • 58 comments

The media is going to BOTH SIDES us right into martial law

submitted 21 hours ago • 471 comments

ABC News can’t fire California Gov. Gavin Newsom for telling the truth about Stephen Miller.

submitted 10 hours ago • 102 comments

LAFD in solidarity with the protesters supporting LA residents. ✊🏻

submitted 18 hours ago • 20 comments

Washington just took the reasonable step of not allowing the National Guard of other states to operate here without our agreement. It’s not the Guard personnel we are concerned about, it’s other governors in the Trump cult. katu.com/news/local/g...

submitted 50 days ago • 176 comments

Allegedly the units sent this out, that soldiers who disagreed politically could ask to be excused from attending the speech. Army didn't want the optics of having people not applaud the President.

submitted 12 hours ago • 164 comments

what i like about this post is it is an illustration of one of the most distinctive qualities of williams' work and mainstream punditry in general, which is a belief that history began a decade ago

submitted 17 hours ago • 124 comments

"A society can't allow EVERYBODY to have free speech!" is a helluva take.

submitted 19 hours ago • 221 comments

The DoD is using 29-day deployments to avoid properly paying National Guardsmen, including not reimbursing their expenses for stuff like hotels. One of the most stupid things you can do if you're trying to wield serious power is not pay your troops.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

new youtube video! will the l.a. protests help or hurt trump politically? i say hurt! youtu.be/mOP_5IigrzE

submitted 6 hours ago • 36 comments

Newsom is doing what almost every Democrat in the country is afraid to do right now and he is going to reap all the rewards if they don’t hurry. As a California voter intimately familiar with Newsom’s actual policy bonafides, I am loudly imploring someone else to do that hurrying.

submitted 7 hours ago • 90 comments

there is a decent chance i never spend a single dime at target again in my life www.startribune.com/target-gave-...

submitted 42 days ago • 1038 comments

In an unprecedented move, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removed all 17 members of the CDC's expert panel of vaccine advisers, citing conflicts of interest. cnn.it/4mYohFy

submitted 1 day ago • 156 comments

day laborers who stand outside the Home Depot are the only men on this planet a woman alone will roll up to, invite to get in her car, tell them she has cash, and drive them to her house, feeling perfectly safe the entire time, and LA is never ever gonna let Feds fuck with them

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Protest against ICE tonight at Foley Square in NYC

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

submitted 9 hours ago • 391 comments

Protesters faced off with a big NYPD presence by the federal ICE building in Manhattan tonight. Also, naturally, Pikachu was there.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

The "Problem" AI is trying to solve is paying people wages.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Really Cool how nobody wanted to take this shit seriously

submitted 2 days ago • 365 comments

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

submitted 12 hours ago • 833 comments

He stood in front of our troops today and gave a mean spirited, partisan speech. He stood in front of our troops today and attacked Americans by name. He stood in front of our troops today and goaded them into booing their fellow Americans. Never become desensitized to this.

submitted 11 hours ago • 406 comments

AOC: If Senator Fetterman or anybody else is concerned with law and order, we should be looking at one of the most law breaking agencies and administrations that we've seen in the United States.

submitted 11 hours ago • 223 comments

Disgraceful for any news organization to bend the knee to these bad faith actors. Shameful.

submitted 12 hours ago • 615 comments

Veteran reminds active duty Marines to uphold the standard and refuse any illegal order to harm US civilians. #NoKings

submitted 9 hours ago • 181 comments

Donald Trump deployed more than 700 active U.S. Marines — men and women trained in foreign combat, not domestic law enforcement. We honor their service and bravery. But we do not want our streets militarized by our own Armed Forces. Not in L.A. Not in California. Not anywhere.

submitted 7 hours ago • 121 comments

Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet. ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

submitted 9 hours ago • 148 comments

The Authoritarian Message Behind Military Parades flaglerlive.com/the-authorit... Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Birthday Parade. Just like Adolf Hitler.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

chemical warfare

submitted 14 hours ago • 620 comments

Periodic reminder that every day is STFU Friday Also, sharing the location of cops in the public performance of their jobs is ironclad First Amendment-protected expression If you're concerned something you've said has you on the Government's radar, call your lawyer instead of posting through it

submitted 13 hours ago • 57 comments

I joined Twitter to follow this account about nine years ago. This is disturbing.

submitted 1 day ago • 99 comments

As Trump plans mass deployments of ICE in Chicago, a car just sped through a group of protesters. I was at the Federal Plaza protest. It was PEACEFUL. This violence and chaos are what Trump, his masked thugs, and the people who support mass deportations stand for.

submitted 8 hours ago • 199 comments

Instead of using this money to fund, say, the National Weather Service right before hurricane season, they're using it to send Marines to Los Angeles. THIS is waste and abuse.

submitted 10 hours ago • 239 comments

Meiselas: Terry Moran, if you’re listening, we’ve just learned that your agreement has apparently been terminated by ABC. We want you to know—you will always have a place here at The MeidasTouch Network.

submitted 12 hours ago • 480 comments

I say this with love: I understand that a lot of people didn't expect the fascists to militarily occupy an opposition stronghold. And yet, it is what people SHOULD have expected. It is what Trump tried to do in 2020, when institutionalists held him back. Those institutionalists are gone.

submitted 8 hours ago • 10 comments

By the way once you accept that Trumpian military occupation of an opposition stronghold was a "when" not "if" proposition, something else becomes clear: ANOTHER major fuckup on the part of the Trump admin here is managing to do this on a week where major protests are already scheduled nationwide.

submitted 8 hours ago • 11 comments

We can't pay to prevent children from getting measles, but we can use our taxes for this? gizmodo.com/feds-reporte...

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments