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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 20 hours ago • 2574 comments

Trump is trying to manufacture a crisis in LA County — deploying troops not for order, but to create chaos. Don’t take the bait. Never use violence or harm law enforcement.

submitted 1 hour ago • 142 comments

Now, if Trump invokes the insurrection act then we’re in a whole new world and it won’t end well for Trump

submitted 9 hours ago • 393 comments

Notable clip today👇 in light of the news that the Trump administration successfully pressured ABC into suspending Moran

submitted 4 hours ago • 236 comments

The contrast on the debate stage Wednesday night — and in this election — could not be clearer.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

When Trump encounters a demographic he doesn’t care for, he “disappears” them–in many cases, the very record of their existence. Meet America’s new “missing persons," and the govt campaign to delete statistical evidence of anyone who doesn't fit Trump’s idea of our new golden age. w/ @ashendruk.com

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

Less than 45 minutes after President Donald Trump thanked the National Guard "for a job well done!" Mayor Karen Bass clarified on social media "the National Guard has not been deployed in the City of Los Angeles."

submitted 10 hours ago • 137 comments

Terry speaks for all of us

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

There's actually an extremely large scholarly literature about this. With some regularity, dictators order their troops to shoot protestors, the troops are like "wtf no," and then the dictator falls. I'll dig ho and dump some cites below in a second

submitted 9 hours ago • 54 comments

lmao The Sun has a livestream of the “LA riots” on YouTube and when you click on it it’s a bunch of troops standing around doing nothing you can literally hear birds singing in the background what a time to be alive

submitted 6 hours ago • 204 comments

really illustrates just what a pathetic bit of theater this is there are simply not large scale riots going on, there’s a clusterfuck of an ICE operation that went badly in one place yesterday if LA was full on rioting I promise everyone would know

submitted 6 hours ago • 28 comments

Your oath is to the Constitution. The President violates the Constitution. If he orders you to violate the Constitution… Your oath remains to the Constitution.

submitted 14 hours ago • 83 comments

Kid has guts, have to say.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 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 • 381 comments

Torres: It demonstrates that Trump is not pro-crypto, he’s not pro-blockchain—he’s not even pro-Web3. I doubt he could define any of those terms. He is simply pro-Trump. The only ideology Trump has is himself. His presidency exists to enrich him and his family, and crypto is just a means to that end

submitted 23 hours ago • 68 comments

Phang: We are just 19 weeks—approximately—into the second term of the Trump administration. We have another three and something years to go, people. We cannot allow the DOJ to be led by a lackey of Donald Trump. That is the type of shit you see in a dictatorship.

submitted 22 hours ago • 135 comments

Goldman: Both of the issues Marjorie Taylor Greene raised—were widely publicized and thoroughly debated in committee and on the House floor. If you’re publicly admitting that you didn’t know what you were voting on and now regret it—you’re not competent or qualified to serve in Congress.

submitted 22 hours ago • 315 comments

Kristi Noem in Feb 2024: If Biden federalizes the National Guard [to handle border issues], we’ve got a war on our hands.”l Kristi Noem in 2025 as DHS Secretary: …federalizing the National Guard.

submitted 21 hours ago • 419 comments

Meiselas: As we wrote on the MeidasTouch account—Trump lit the match, poured the gasoline, and now wants to use the blaze he created as a pretext to burn it all down.

submitted 21 hours ago • 129 comments

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

submitted 18 hours ago • 682 comments

Every accusation is a confession

submitted 9 hours ago • 78 comments

Speaker of the House: Using active duty Marines on the streets of an American city is just “peace through strength.” ‼️ So we can’t count on the Speaker to defend the rule of law, or to defend the military against misuse.

submitted 7 hours ago • 230 comments

RADDATZ: Does President Trump think Russia is winning this war, do you think? ZELENSKYY: Yes ... [but] it's not true

submitted 7 hours ago • 27 comments

One of our core principles is to not deploy the Marines domestically to carry out law enforcement functions. They aren’t trained for that and aren’t there for that. Since the founding of the Republic. But this toady will never go against Trump on anything. bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 7 hours ago • 322 comments

Booker: "This is a morally wrong bill, and it's definitely an economically wrong bill as well."

submitted 8 hours ago • 93 comments

Other Western Countries: "Sure glad we're not the US"

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submitted 9 hours ago • 13 comments

A national disgrace

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Stole it because its true

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Okay, last one. @ 4am NaT Guard began arriving downtown LA. 12 am its time for action in LA at City Hall. 🐔🌮TACO said it's illegal for protestors to wear masks, so you know the assignment. Do your best to dress for success. Welcome the Fascists to the City of Angels 😇 and Dodgers)

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Elon believed he bought the presidency for Trump ~$300 million (may be true) and that in return he was entitled to control NASA and the federal budget (didn’t work out)

submitted 3 days ago • 85 comments

Is it helpful for Epstein's attorney to vouch for you?

submitted 2 days ago • 95 comments

"The decision to pursue the indictment against Abrego Garcia led to the abrupt departure of Ben Schrader, a high-ranking federal prosecutor in Tennessee...Schrader’s resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons, the sources said."

submitted 2 days ago • 110 comments

Just to recap, Trump has taken the extraordinary step of federalizing 2000 member of the California National Guard — over the objections of the state’s governor — in response to a protest that currently involves A FEW DOZEN PEOPLE AT A HOME DEPOT

submitted 20 hours ago • 199 comments

Far from ending its "work," the lawless vanguard of DOGE is being assimilated into the larger Trump & Project 2025 authoritarian project. My latest for Lucid: open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

Good thing there were no masks at J6.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

America has a huge and worsening problem. It's Donald Trump

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 466 comments

Get the deportees out and leave the "officers" in

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Zelenskyy is absolutely right.

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What's Vincent D'Onofrio doing there

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Seems the easy answer is to just give them all high ranking positions of power at the White House

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Twitter: this is how men with huge balls fight. This is what masculinity looks like Bluesky: this is the first messy breakup of pride month

submitted 2 days ago • 229 comments

DOJ as we have known it, as a place where prosecutors from the AG on down do the right thing, for the right reason, in the right way, is over.

submitted 2 days ago • 733 comments