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Open defiance of the courts continues Federal judges need to start holding officials in contempt or it will only get worse

submitted 1 hour ago • 15 comments

honestly this was very predictable if you could a) accurately recall the political consequences of the 2020 protests and b) take public opinion as it actually existed in 2025. impossible difficulty for a non-trivial portion of the professional political commentary class

submitted 48 minutes ago • 42 comments

what are you supposed to do when the "good" political party doesn't treat a dozen credible sexual harassment claims as disqualifying for a political candidate. how are you supposed to ignore that

submitted 7 hours ago • 103 comments

That it’s possible to say this in public with no consequences is ultimate proof cancel culture is not a thing.

submitted 10 hours ago • 64 comments

Hours after @pbump.com posted this today, ICE updated its figure to 500%.

submitted 17 hours ago • 520 comments

No American outlet would hesitate to describe them as pro-regime paramilitaries or an irregular militia and similar terms if this was happening anywhere else.

submitted 19 hours ago • 110 comments

ICE arrested Job Garcia while he was running errands in LA. Job is a US citizen, a scholar, and a brilliant photographer. He’s also my friend. But none of that should determine his humanity. ICE must release Job Garcia immediately.

submitted 20 hours ago • 128 comments

The conservative movement is lying about basically every empirical "debate" of our time, from climate change to voter fraud to vaccines. Why is it so impossible for reactionary centrists to contemplate the possibility they're lying about trans healthcare too?

submitted 9 hours ago • 74 comments

various theories of "the South's model of chattel slavery was unsustainable and therefore the Civil War was unnecessary" have floated since before the Civil War itself and it represents one of the most studied topics in Economic History as a profession. Nobody but cranks & confederates believe this.

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

Look at those lowlife thugs. They look like cartel kidnapping team.

submitted 19 hours ago • 164 comments

It’s almost like there are really good reasons legitimate law enforcement doesn’t normally operate masked and in civvies.

submitted 20 hours ago • 20 comments

the republicans hate the crowning achievements of their party: the destruction of chattel slaver and the reconstruction amendments

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

ICE agent points gun directly at the head of innocent civilian—just for taking picture of his license plate. He drew his gun with one hand—while fumbling to open the car door with the other. The "agent" did not seem to be aware someone else was already recording his vehicle. Pasadena, California.

submitted 1 day ago • 255 comments

Am I missing something? This isn't how laws work.

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

To be really clear: The reason members of Congress can't just walk right in is because of the guns. Armed DHS personnel won't allow entry. In other words, DHS is using armed force to break laws. Democrats need to wrap their minds around that. Accept that the frog is boiled.

submitted 1 day ago • 199 comments

This is shocking. Pure totalitarianism from DHS, and also blatantly unconstitutional. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

submitted 1 day ago • 142 comments

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

submitted 1 day ago • 143 comments

Hahahahaha.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

A reminder that Scott Cauthon donated tens of thousands to Republicans and the Donald Trump campaign. Do not buy his games.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Three billion dollars -- that's $3,000,000,000.00+ USD -- for a meager 64 miles of border wall According to the Texas Department of Transportation, the state's border with Mexico is 1,254 miles long www.texastribune.org/2025/06/17/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

submitted 2 days ago • 259 comments

i think it’s not talked about enough that so many christian rightwingers support israel because they want to trigger the end times rapture and they believe supporting israel will ensure this

submitted 2 days ago • 225 comments

Insane that this even got brought to the table after the George Floyd protests They did a "snap curfew" then too, and simultaneously raised all the bridges. They trapped protestors downtown after enacting a curfew! This is made to be weaponized!

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

So ridiculous that entire groups of Americans are literally fighting for their lives and there are people who see the struggle and their first reaction is "this is a distraction from the thing that I'm personally more interested in"

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

submitted 2 days ago • 788 comments

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

submitted 2 days ago • 173 comments

If you need to get out, don't feel any guilt about trying to make it happen.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

For generations, if you came on a visa and applied for asylum, you would generally not be arrested even if your visa expired during the process. That’s over now. They’re arresting everyone, even people who have done legitimately nothing wrong. What a terrible, awful, inhumane, cruel policy.

submitted 2 days ago • 81 comments

Gonna level with you bro I think DHS needs to be dissolved after this. Regardless of what national security functions fall under its remit, it's clearly institutionally constructed in such a way allows it to be used as an unaccountable tool of executive power. Can't reform your way out of that.

submitted 2 days ago • 358 comments

The day before they ruled that banning trans children's healthcare isn't discrimination Wake up. They are trying to wipe trans people out. Stop calling people hyperbolic and fucking look at it

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

his intern or whatever deleted but let no one forget how these people view the importance of trans kids' lives

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

oh my god

submitted 2 days ago • 185 comments

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

submitted 2 days ago • 260 comments

The repression of trans people is not, by and large, a grassroots outpouring of hatred from the American people. It's something that's been carefully planted and tended over years by a handful of media people and their pet reporters.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.

submitted 2 days ago • 597 comments

SIXTY federal agents kitted out like they were taking on Osama Bin Laden to raid a swap meet. The ONLY people they ended up arresting were to people already going through immigration court proceedings, seemingly rearrested because ICE agents didn’t want to go home empty-handed.

submitted 2 days ago • 216 comments

A CONTROVERSIAL “APPEAL to Heaven” flag that has recently become associated with the “Stop the Steal” movement and Christian nationalism was flown above the Small Business Administration (SBA) agency last week in Washington, DC.

submitted 2 days ago • 226 comments

It is pretty funny that even after Musk has fed this thing a constant diet of Nazi propaganda it is still smarter than your average Fox News viewer

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

When Teddy Roosevelt was called disloyal for criticizing Wilson’s conduct of WWI, he said “to announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

I think we have a civil-military problem here folks

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Helicopters. Armed troops wearing masks. All for a freaking military-grade raid at a flea market that appears to have resulted in two measly arrests. DHS and ICE are out of control. ktla.com/news/local-n...

submitted 3 days ago • 307 comments

This is an absolutely disgraceful act of corruption by both major parties. It will lead to an incredibly foreseeable set of disasters: best case, unlimited corruption and scamming, worst case a global financial crisis and inevitable federal bailout. Horrifying that 18 Democrats voted for it.

submitted 2 days ago • 66 comments

#booksky #writingcommunity

submitted 3 days ago • 176 comments

it is so psychotic how these prosperity gospel freaks believe in one remotely religious concept, that a mass blood sacrifice of millions can force an aspect of God back to Earth at will

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Secret police forces typically meet 5 criteria: targeting political opponents & dissidents answer directly to dictator the identity of members / operations are secret surveillance operations arbitrary searches, arrests, interrogations, detentions, disappearances & torture. So yeah: ICE= Gestapo

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

It is extraordinarily weird watching him conveying a single, cohesive thought for more than five seconds here. It really does show you that, while his heart as always been several shades deeper than vantablack, there's something medically wrong with his brain at this point.

submitted 3 days ago • 178 comments

I told you guys

submitted 3 days ago • 48 comments

If random men in masks claiming to be ICE agents try to grab me, and they’re not really ICE, I have the legal right to defend myself against them, yes? And if they are ICE, I don’t? So how am I supposed to tell the difference? I’m supposed to give my masked kidnappers the benefit of the doubt??

submitted 3 days ago • 208 comments