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The masked agents pull up quickly. They jump out of unmarked vans. They wear blue jeans or battle fatigues. They approach Latinos, yelling and carrying assault rifles. If someone runs, they’re taken. If they don’t answer a question, they’re taken. If they can’t produce papers, they’re taken.

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🧵 1/2 US citizen tackled by ICE in downtown LA—for filming them harassing street vendors. They pinned him face-down, punched him, & then left him seizing on the street. When his family tried to intervene, they were shoved & threatened. The man never touched an ICE thug. Video in 2 parts

submitted 3 days ago • 115 comments

Science fiction has always given us both hope and dire warnings about what could be.

submitted 4 days ago • 146 comments

Personally I am unfamiliar with any legitimate activity that requires switching license plates, which by the way is illegal.

submitted 6 days ago • 565 comments

There is no such thing as achieving peace through feigned strength masking strategic incoherence and tactical incapacity to achieve stated goals.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

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So unemployment up. Jobless claims up. Inflation up. GDP down. Dollar plummeting. More wars abroad. Soldiers on the streets at home. By every objective metric, this administration is a disaster.

submitted 9 days ago • 439 comments

🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️

submitted 9 days ago • 816 comments

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

submitted 11 days ago • 235 comments

Sen. Murphy continues to regularly say the things that many of you complain that no prominent Democrat is saying.

submitted 12 days ago • 27 comments

The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.

submitted 12 days ago • 324 comments

It’s not hyperbole to say that the deaths in Minnesota are on the GOP’s hands. They’ve built this political environment and they’ve allowed a demagogue to spread hate. This is entirely on them.

submitted 13 days ago • 517 comments

Walnut Creek is tracking you. www.mercurynews.com/2025/06/05/i...

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We’re at war with Iran, Trump’s gone into hiding, nobody will tell us our objectives, plan or end game, our Sec of Defense is a useless dipshit, our Sec of State lied about it, our DNI loves the leader of Iran’s greatest ally, & tomorrow we’re having a parade for Trump’s bday.

submitted 14 days ago • 441 comments

We’re bombing Houthis. Israel is bombing Iran & Gaza. Russia is bombing Ukraine. We’re threatening Greenland. When is all this peace & tranquility going to happen that Trump promised us he would accomplish on Day 1 because everyone around the world was supposedly afraid of him?

submitted 15 days ago • 206 comments

The Trump admin has been so cowardice on foreign policy that they are still using the Solemani strike years ago as an example of strength. But after that Iran hit and injured 100 Americans and Trump was too frightened to respond

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This is the central dynamic to most of the Trump Administration’s legal strategies, including, most notably til now, the deportations to El Salvador. A law says: Under condition X, the President can do Y. Trump: I declare X is happening! So I can do Y.

submitted 15 days ago • 10 comments

AOC: When they say illegal vs legal immigration—they are trying to end legal status in the US making people undocumented and then they have the audacity to call them illegal when they were here documented.

submitted 15 days ago • 410 comments

HAPPENING NOW: A federal judge is set to hold a hearing on Governor Gavin Newsom’s request for a temporary restraining order that would bar the Trump administration’s use of the state national guard amid protests against immigration raids in LA. Hearing starting now before Judge Breyer 🧵⬇️

submitted 15 days ago • 51 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Judge Charles Breyer (brother of retired SCOTUS justice Stephen) hears arguments on whether to grant California's emergency motion to limit Trump's deployment of the National Guard in LA. 🧵

submitted 15 days ago • 23 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 15 days ago • 156 comments

Note the point @padilla.senate.gov was making when he was assaulted by Noem's team: That she keeps cycling thru six cases as her justification for the gulag.

submitted 15 days ago • 22 comments

🚨🚨 #Russian losses in #Ukraine hit a massive, and grim milestone on June 12 — 1 million Russian soldiers killed or wounded during the 39-month-long full-scale war, according to figures from Kyiv but there are little evidence Russia will retract its war efforts.🧵 kyivindependent.com/as-russian-l...

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You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work. You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules. Get your lies straight.

submitted 17 days ago • 736 comments

One thing Newsom has shown is key to effectively deal with Trump & the MAGA propaganda machine: You must respond immediately & call out the lies. You can’t wait until hours/days later, then answer in a press conference, statement, scripted speech. All Dems should learn from it.

submitted 17 days ago • 355 comments

Every time RFK is in the news for doing something horrific (example: firing the entire vaccine safety board), I become increasingly more disgusted with Olivia Nuzzi. What a gross weirdo.

submitted 17 days ago • 43 comments

The fact that so many were so eager to shoot at the press is a big tell fyi.

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Back in 1999, Putin insisted Russia doesn’t want Crimea and warned that redrawing international borders would be a disaster.

submitted 19 days ago • 63 comments

They’re not behaving as if they’re in a four-year term. They’re behaving as if they’re in an everlasting dictatorship. Are we all clear on this?

submitted 20 days ago • 587 comments

No elite bubble is more impenetrable than the one in which elite political professionals applaud each other for uttering banalities like these. Little of this "advice" is actionable for Dems in the real world, no matter how hard this bubble discourse pretends otherwise. Grift factor here is large.

submitted 23 days ago • 11 comments

When you want Americans to be arrested for helping America's allies fight America's enemy, that can only mean one thing: You are one of America's enemies.

submitted 24 days ago • 901 comments

Jasmine Crockett calls out the ridiculous smears against Joe Biden: “We didn’t have to worry about the stock market crashing every other day when Joe Biden was in office. We didn’t have to worry about whether people were going to have their Medicaid when Joe Biden was in office”

submitted 27 days ago • 12 comments

Spare me the fake outrage. None of these people showing up for court are criminals of any kind. As a prosecutor, I worked with many ICE officers who arrested violent criminals. None of them wore masks. Many of your agents are clearly ashamed to carry out your orders.

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