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Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

submitted 19 hours ago • 498 comments

Turning the most powerful nation in the history of humanity into a personalist regime where everyone - every treaty ally, everyone living in the US, and people around the world who depend on us - are vulnerable to the whims of the mad king

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

It’s so cool how American national security policy works these days

submitted 23 hours ago • 22 comments

"You don't have the authority to arrest US citizens who are asking to see a judicial warrant." NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander being arrested along with a member of his NYPD security team by ICE.

submitted 23 hours ago • 97 comments

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1138 comments

It constantly blows my mind that we have elected someone so gobsmackingly uncomprehending of the gravity and responsibility of his office that he does not grasp how insanely dangerous it is to fire off comments like this on a whim.

submitted 1 day ago • 269 comments

as someone prone to directly confronting people for stuff they say online, that from lee is the face of someone who did not expect to be confronted for something he said online

submitted 1 day ago • 585 comments

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Via Sam Stein on twitter

submitted 1 day ago • 142 comments

So did we declare war on Iran, or is this another one of those Greenland invasion sort of deals? I feel like I should be able to have more clarity on what the statements the President of the United States puts out actually mean.

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

Been saying this since February, even before I got arrested for protesting. People want Dems to fight, and it’s time to show up.

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

Hey there Scott Walker. I noticed you deleted this after learning that in fact the shooter was from the right. I don’t think it matters either way, violence is violence, so I’m waiting for you to tweet the same thing with corrected facts? Cuz you’re uh, to use your words, “being silent.”

submitted 2 days ago • 2115 comments

In serious countries that are actual democracies, strong mainstream parties force members who do stuff like this to resign, & far right authoritarian parties that do this are shunned from government. Here in 🇺🇸, one of our two parties has collapsed into far right authoritarianism. So neither happens.

submitted 2 days ago • 124 comments

This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, massive.

submitted 3 days ago • 435 comments

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

submitted 3 days ago • 385 comments

I would like my state, every state, to mandate badges, name plates, no masks, for all law enforcement in the state. And if federal agents try to break the mandate, arrest them, then let the courts sort it out.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again

submitted 3 days ago • 232 comments

Horrified by the news out of Minnesota. RIP Melissa & Mark Hortman. I wrote this 18 months ago: "As a political scientist who studies political violence across the globe, I would chalk up the lack of high-profile assassinations in the United States during the Trump and post-Trump era to dumb luck."

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

Trump has not only pardoned insurrectionists who tried to violently overturn an election result but is now “settling” lawsuits by those insurrectionists, giving them multimillion dollar rewards for their political violence. There’s a straight line to the Minnesota assassin trying to seize…

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

What happened in Minnesota is a direct consequence of the violent way that Trump talks about his political opponents.

submitted 4 days ago • 73 comments

the nomination of this moron is, by itself, grounds for presidential removal

submitted 4 days ago • 126 comments

The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20. (Via Christopher Hale)

submitted 5 days ago • 634 comments

Israel aggressively bombing Iran—unlike two incidents of strikes in 2024, which followed Iranian missiles launches against Israel—is in part another consequence of a weak, chaotic US president. Worth noting that this didn't happen under Biden, Obama, or Bush, despite Israel talking about it a lot.

submitted 5 days ago • 83 comments

It's a truly jarring split screen that Kristi Noem's goons attacking Sen Padilla happened at almost the exact same time as 16 Dem senators crossed lines to vote with the GOP to invoke cloture on the crypto bill, forfeiting any leverage. Dems need to act like an opposition.

submitted 5 days ago • 826 comments

Another pro wrestler with better politics and a more clearly articulated moral stance than 99.9% of elected officials

submitted 5 days ago • 39 comments

This is insane. I’m trying to think what the reaction would have been if Mayorkas, DHS Secretary under Biden, had got his security folks to manhandle and shove Tom Cotton or Ted Cruz in this way.

submitted 5 days ago • 157 comments

I want to see this quote on many signs this Saturday!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Sorry but this is total LARP, 0.00% chance the guy who went to Yale Law and converted to Catholicism because he thought they were right on the issues has never heard of Les Mis

submitted 6 days ago • 231 comments

This is how you normalize authoritarianism.

submitted 6 days ago • 1116 comments

They’re doing jobs Americans refuse to do and they’re being hunted ….

submitted 7 days ago • 451 comments

RIP to Brian Wilson, who gave us many perfect albums but also the perfect interview

submitted 6 days ago • 71 comments

I know it's super inconvenient for everyone trying to go to work and get the kids into summer camps and all that, but the White House is literally trying to start a civil war

submitted 7 days ago • 188 comments

Literally all I’m asking for is for elected Democrats to treat the unpopular evil stuff as being unpopular and evil, because when they don’t, that signals to everyone that it’s not all that evil and it becomes less unpopular

submitted 8 days ago • 29 comments

The entire state of South Dakota, where she's from, is a massive fraudulent haven for white collar criminals who skirt tax laws and hide money. It's arguably the most lawless state in the union. A shocking percentage of people in her state either are criminals or abet criminals.

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

"If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived."

submitted 8 days ago • 27 comments

Right now, Dems are hiding in their offices, scrolling their phones fearfully, wondering "how are voters going to feel about the National Guard being deployed?" The right, meanwhile, is vigorously attempting to shape how voters feel about it, filling every medium with coordinated propaganda.

submitted 8 days ago • 802 comments

see, the thing i’m genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines

submitted 8 days ago • 584 comments

This entire thing is a manufactured crisis the Trump regime has telegraphed from before Inauguration Day. They want to justify a crackdown on Democratic elected officials, immigrant rights organizations, journalists and anyone who speaks out against them. It’s authoritarianism 101.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

👇🏽🇺🇸

submitted 9 days ago • 224 comments

Newsom is skating to the puck for once god bless

submitted 9 days ago • 52 comments

When Joe Biden did stuff like this, Fox would play the clips over and over like it was as significant as the moon landing

submitted 9 days ago • 387 comments

How on earth can this country still hold the World Cup and Olympics next year??

submitted 9 days ago • 1108 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 11 days ago • 332 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 11 days ago • 329 comments

not enough said about how, by turning the national government against states on the basis of ordinary political disagreement, trump is undermining the idea that the union is worthwhile. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

submitted 11 days ago • 336 comments

Simone Biles, continuing to prove she’s the GOAT

submitted 11 days ago • 340 comments