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they're doing this because the Insurrection Act sounds cool and edgy but they can't actually justify using the Insurrection Act. it's a silly action by an insecure administration desperately to seem manly and powerful. it should be criticized relentlessly, but it should also be laughed at.

submitted 11 hours ago • 65 comments

Cannot stress enough that this is a pitiful action by a weak, scared, pathetic group of insecure, wannabe authoritarians, and they should be mocked until the end of time for wanting to bring in the military over some people protesting them at a Home Depot.

submitted 10 hours ago • 46 comments

Bad shit happens when the military comes into to a volatile situation. This reminds me of a story from the 1992 riots in Los Angeles, to which some Marines deployed. I knew one of them and he told this story I also saw elsewhere — absent his telling it I would have assumed it was apocryphal. /1

submitted 10 hours ago • 63 comments

The military isn’t being employed to carry out an immigration policy. The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.

submitted 11 hours ago • 274 comments

When the LA police says you are overreaching, you are overreaching.

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Trump uses fear as a weapon. He spread it effectively for two months with his shock and awe/flood the zone barrage. But in recent weeks as he’s faced a series of defeats, the people have grown less afraid. So he needs to make a power move to reinstill fear. Don’t let him have that effect.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

the white house thinks brute force is, no pun intended, a trump card. they don’t anticipate pushback and they don’t know how to handle it with anything other than escalation. the issue is that each escalation is itself a gamble. if protesters refuse to back down, you’ve lost face. (1/?)

submitted 13 hours ago • 150 comments

I have complete confidence in this prognostication

submitted 15 hours ago • 38 comments

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What the fuck is the point of paying money to a police department if they won’t protect people from hostile masked kidnappers?

submitted 17 hours ago • 15 comments

The Trump administration would love to use war-style brutality and violence to attack all protestors. About 35% of the country would cheer it. Remind me why I should feel any community, any common humanity, any need to connect with those people.

submitted 19 hours ago • 82 comments

"So here's the plan -- we impose massive tariffs on the nations that sell us food." "Hmm." "But it's OK, because we just rely more on states like California that grow a lot of the same things." "Oh, I guess that ..." "And then we go to war with California."

submitted 19 hours ago • 314 comments

Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2234 comments

The guy who did nothing but play video games and do 90s raver drugs on the clock was emailing federal employees asking them to justify their jobs each week. Wild.

submitted 16 hours ago • 8 comments

How utterly shorn of dignity and self-respect must one be to speak this way about … Donald Trump and Elon Musk? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 15 hours ago • 197 comments

We don't have secret police in America. At least we're not supposed to.

submitted 16 hours ago • 647 comments

These are crimes. They're committing crimes. And when people understandably protest the fact that they're committing crimes, they're shooting flashbangs at them.

submitted 15 hours ago • 29 comments

Most people think trade is “cars for wine.” But the moment you realize that trade is mostly in intermediate goods—stuff like steel, or aluminum—your whole perspective changes. Tariffs aren’t taxes on “them.” They’re taxes on your own country's production line.

submitted 21 hours ago • 19 comments

“Anyone” here means anyone besides the rightwing extremists and rioters who attacked cops while overrunning the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.

submitted 14 hours ago • 17 comments

This is a test

submitted 14 hours ago • 44 comments

The administration gets closer to using the military to crush civilian dissent. Expect deaths, disappearances, and lawless detentions.

submitted 14 hours ago • 380 comments

Unconstrained ICE and hosting the World Cup and Olympics are not compatible.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

I think nuance and respectful disagreement can be found on a lot of issues, but ICE isn't one of them. Fuck ICE. I'm rooting for their abject failure and personal misery. May the people of Los Angeles send these discount gestapo hacks packing.

submitted 14 hours ago • 71 comments

Hope other countries are excited for the LA Olympics!

submitted 14 hours ago • 73 comments

ICE arrested former Afghan Nat'l Army soldier—our ally against Taliban—at his home in TX. He entered legally and atty says he has no criminal record. Was applying for asylum. Appears to be casualty of Trump decision de-documenting legal Afghan immigrants www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...

submitted 20 hours ago • 154 comments

This isn’t a warning from the outside. It’s a message from someone who’s worked inside the system. This is about what we owe each other. What We Owe Our Kids. What I owe my daughter Vilte, whose life was never lived, but who made me a far better person. open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 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

“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

While govt moves to dismiss Abrego Garcia case, his own attys seek to pierce atty-client privilege invoking the "crime-fraud exception." "There is ample evidence that defendants have actively strategized to avoid compliance with court orders." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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People have actually been far more indulgent towards these masked marauders than they should be.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Supreme Court lets incompetent, teenage racists who submit to a ketamine-addicted billionaire white supremacist gobble up all our data to be shared with companies like Palantir and others. Awesome.

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

By the way a military parade when we’re not celebrating a war victory is something a dude who never served would do.

submitted 1 day ago • 1006 comments

Said another way: current US policy is empowering our adversaries and giving them new advantage against American interests

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

This is corrupt. We all know that. So...why can't people -- msm -- say it? www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

The officials responsible should still be charged with extralegal kidnapping and violating his civil rights, when that becomes possible again.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

How does Musk know Trump is in the confidential DOJ files on Jeffrey Epstein? HOW did he access that information? WHY did he inquire/search for that specifically?

submitted 1 day ago • 335 comments

"There is an actual war against Veterans by a current sitting administration... Never again will a Veteran trust a Republican that says I'm going to be there for you." -Kyle Lewis, U.S. Navy Veteran Trump cut our care. Fired us. Lied about us. Now he parades Troops to celebrate himself.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments