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Every accusation is a confession

submitted 32 minutes ago • 8 comments

These govt employees are not in an undercover operation, not in a covert operation. Their role is clear. But their individual identities are not. Recipe for impunity. No transparency. No accountability. www.foxla.com/news/paramou...

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

Here is why they have to lie about who they are targeting: "if people don't think it is dangerous criminals who are the focus of the deportation effort, support drops dramatically."

submitted 52 minutes ago • 1 comment

The federal government is taking over the California National Guard and deploying 2,000 soldiers in Los Angeles — not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle. Don't give them one. Never use violence. Speak out peacefully.

submitted 11 hours ago • 2110 comments

U.S. Army tanks, and military vehicles arrive in Washington D.C. by train. This is so 1930s Nazi Germany

submitted 17 hours ago • 77 comments

The LA protests will trigger a drumbeat of "law and order" messaging from the White House and their media allies as a prelude to invoking the Insurrection Act. This is entirely predictable, and any Dem or media outlet that facilitates this narrative will be aiding Trump's authoritarian project.

submitted 17 hours ago • 86 comments

I loathe Musk as much as anyone else but for a sitting president to openly threaten a private citizen over what political donations he or she chooses to make is a reminder of how authoritarian this country is becoming by the day - by the hour even!

submitted 21 hours ago • 210 comments

Imagine putting on all this tactical gear and latching onto a military assault vehicle so you can storm a minimall on Sepulveda and apprehend a line cook at family restaurant.

submitted 19 hours ago • 260 comments

This is so jarringly unAmerican that I sort of hope it wakes some normies up. It is occurring in a context where military-style equipment is being used to enforce immigration roundups and conveys the notion that we are increasingly living in a police state.

submitted 22 hours ago • 332 comments

Here's the full article from Stars and Stripes www.stripes.com/branches/arm...

submitted 23 hours ago • 5 comments

Expect a fixed “sue and settle” outcome with MAGA DOJ. Taxpayer resources to political allies is their specialty. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 23 hours ago • 116 comments

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

submitted 1 day ago • 325 comments

Wearing a mask during a pandemic is a highly effective means of stopping the spread of airborne communicable diseases, like Covid. It's a routine public health measure. Law enforcement officers refusing to identify themselves and wearing masks is something associated with totalitarian regimes.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Every reference to these guys should note that several remain adjudged terrorists. Even Trump didn’t disrupt that ruling from a Trump appointed judge.

submitted 23 hours ago • 29 comments

At least three immigrant children were taken into custody and restrained with zip ties at the San Antonio Immigration Court. The children were between the ages of 9 and 12. www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

submitted 23 hours ago • 52 comments

Since the AG doesn't seem to be getting ethics guidance from her team these days, I wanted to make sure she has the rule in the Justice Manual in front of her, which expressly prohibits this.

submitted 1 day ago • 1090 comments

Wellman: When I served in Iraq.. I heard about how Saddam Hussein divided them. Different sects fought each other. But you know -- Saddam and his family sat laughing at all of them. They divided them against each other and kept their power for 35 years. Does this sound familiar to anybody?

submitted 1 day ago • 380 comments

Donald Trump, all day Friday: Elon Musk has a problem. The guy needs help. SCOTUS, end of Friday: Okay then! We'll let his DOGE boys access all of Americans' Social Security data!!

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

"We are witnessing a constitutional tool of mercy being wielded as a tool for rewarding loyalty and creating 'an incentive structure to encourage people to take illegal actions” on the president’s behalf.'" ICYMI @kimwehle.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-new-...

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

“Even if most Americans haven’t abandoned their private sense of empathy, many don’t seem terribly bothered by the rancidness of their leaders,” writes George Packer. “It might be the ugliest effect of Trump’s return”:

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

“Putin is tired of this whole thing,” Trump said on Fox News. “He’s not looking good. And he wants to look good.” In reality, it is Trump who is tired of “this whole thing,” Trump who’s not looking good, and Trump who wants to look good. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 19 days ago • 106 comments

From Heather Cox Richardson today: "Do not doubt, don’t second guess, and don't challenge the President of the US Donald Trump,” House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) warned GOP lawmakers. “He's the leader of the party." That's MAGA. That's Christian nationalism in a nutshell. SUBMISSION.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

Around the time that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was indicted in the Middle District of Tennessee, the chief of the criminal division in that district posted this on LinkedIn: “Earlier today, after nearly 15 years as an Assistant United States Attorney, I resigned…”

submitted 1 day ago • 275 comments

www.inquirer.com/politics/new...

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

With aggressive ICE raids, a new travel ban, Trump’s attacks on foreign students, and a trade war with multiple countries, I honestly don’t see how the 2026 World Cup happens in the U.S.

submitted 1 day ago • 146 comments

Heavily-armed DHS paramilitary forces in military vehicles fired dozens of stun grenades at a crowd of onlookers today in Los Angeles.

submitted 1 day ago • 221 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 1 day ago • 839 comments

WATCH: Chris Hayes on the growing prevalence of “secret police” in the Trump-Stephen Miller era of ICE raids: “They’re usually masked—hiding their faces—and either wearing plain clothes or irregular uniforms. They won't give their names or say what agency they're with.”

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

Who is Leonard Leo? He's a lawyer, but he's never argued a case in court. He's never held elected office. But for years he rebuilt the American legal system, resulting in the Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority. By @andykroll.bsky.social‬ (Published Oct. 2023)

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

And that, children, is the art of the deal.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

🚨BIG STORY: Senators put a line into the crypto bill requiring bankrupt banks to prioritize remunerating crypto investors over depositors. The provision could require banks to take cash from your savings account & use it to pay senators' crypto donors. www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-...

submitted 2 days ago • 126 comments

Remember when Republicans were losing their minds about leaving Afghans who worked with US troops to be killed by the Taliban? Well, Trump has revoked their asylum and is planning to send them back to be murdered.

submitted 2 days ago • 60 comments

The most alpha thing of all time: two old men typing on their phones while crying

submitted 2 days ago • 92 comments

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

submitted 2 days ago • 534 comments

I feel like Musk could really blow MAGA's collective minds just by continuing to tweet out facts the rest of us have known for years but never penetrated their media bubble.

submitted 2 days ago • 88 comments

Steven Miller and the stormtroopers are diligently carrying out the agenda of the far-right while Trump and Musk catfight. Trump has long served as a useful idiot for Christofascists and oligarchs alike. Keep an eye on Vance’s rise—it's only the beginning.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

submitted 2 days ago • 643 comments

Remember when Trump gave Elon access to ALL of the government’s data?

submitted 2 days ago • 121 comments

Did they even say “Thank you?” 🤡 #OligarchEra

submitted 2 days ago • 489 comments

As I predicted, we are now entering an era where we cannot necessarily trust data coming from the federal govt on things like inflation. Something to watch VERY closely for GDP, unemployment, everything. www.wsj.com/economy/cpi-...

submitted 3 days ago • 523 comments

📣 Update: Three hours after we published this article, an inspector arrived at Trump's club for its reinspection. (NJ code requires such visits be conducted “at an unannounced time.”) This time the club earned a B with a score of 86—the lowest score possible to still receive a satisfactory grade.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

DELETED: Trump administration deleted a webpage summarizing evidence that “undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes.” 1/2

submitted 3 days ago • 67 comments

"It’s hard to understate the damage they will inflict." The latest from the Editorial Board: wapo.st/4mLlPC0

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump-Johnson BBB will increase deficits (and debt) by at least $2.4 trillion over 10 years. This would be the biggest bout of deficit spending in US history, far outpacing the Covid recovery package or spending in past existential military conflicts.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Noted conservative con law prof says the tariff challenges are shaping up as the biggest separation of powers showdown since 1952's steel seizure case, in which #SCOTUS ruled that even war did not endow a president with powers granted neither by the Constitution nor by congressional statute. /1

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

No one has described the full extent of Trump's attack on the American scientific enterprise—it's too vast and still evolving. So when you look at this excellent visualization of funding cuts, keep in mind that, as appalling as they are, the full story is even worse. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments