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The LAPD Chief has weighed in on Marines being deployed. Basically: Why is this necessary?

submitted 10 hours ago • 21 comments

New: theonion.com/protesters-u...

submitted 14 hours ago • 58 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 1 day ago • 873 comments

People tried so hard to follow the law, Byzantine and unjust as it is. They showed up at meetings, filled out the paperwork, went to the courthouse. You responded by kidnapping them in front of their children and dragging them to black sites. This is what’s left. This is all that’s left.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Hits hard as always! Are we too bamboozled to see the truth?

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

my hot take is that posting on a text-based social media site is correlated with some very deeply held beliefs about the worth and power of written communication* and that this lends itself to arguments granting extreme power to messaging/framing *that I do not disagree with in many cases!

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Who could've guessed that the people with essentially humane ideals would be cut to ribbons by the people who hate dumbly with a passionate intensity.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

"it's not fair for you to block me" raised to the status of national policy

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

You learn in school that the genius of the founders was creating a system of government with checks and balances and coequal branches but the MAGA folks don't want anyone but the president to be treated as legitimate.

submitted 19 days ago • 48 comments

the ability to mobilize first time and sporadic voters from across the whole of american society on the basis of his totemic image as a representative of wealth and success made trump a genuinely and uniquely formidable candidate

submitted 14 days ago • 144 comments

Trump is distinguished from previous generations of right-wing Republicans primarily by being *worse,* and the people who ignored that and validated his so-called populism are part of the reason he’s in power today

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments