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A U.S. senator being physically removed for saying “I have a question” isn’t just a bad look. It’s authoritarian energy. You don’t lay hands on oversight. You answer to it and everyone should be paying attention to how they won’t.

submitted 8 hours ago • 20 comments

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

submitted 1 day ago • 596 comments

The lack of total outrage at the indictment of Congresswoman McIvey is truly frightening. Hakeem Jeffries ought to be causing high holy hell over this. She is indicted because she is Black. Half of the GOP caucus engaged in sedition and Garland felt arresting a member of congress went too far.

submitted 15 hours ago • 504 comments

They lie about everything

submitted 7 hours ago • 1031 comments

Same here.

submitted 4 hours ago • 186 comments

Performative Austerity Vanishes As GOP Flees Town Before Trump’s Dictator-Style Parade talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

submitted 6 hours ago • 16 comments

This is absolutely insane, and criminal. Everyone, especially a Senator representing the state, has a right to speak out. The fact that the agents felt protected in acting this way says everything. We’re quickly traversing a dangerous path

submitted 6 hours ago • 747 comments

If a US Senator is not safe from being handcuffed and detained for free speech, none of us are safe.

submitted 8 hours ago • 539 comments

It’s not illegal for a United States Senator to go to a public press conference and ask questions about your constituents safety. It's our job.

submitted 7 hours ago • 374 comments

Don't let them lie to you about Senator Padilla. DHS is claiming the agents DID NOT KNOW he was a senator. He CLEARLY says (BEFORE he is tackled and cuffed) "I am Senator Alex Padilla and I have a question for the secretary."

submitted 7 hours ago • 967 comments

Listening to the asshole @SpeakerJohnson just blame Senator Padilla makes a few things clear. 1st - He uses God and religion to justify lying. 2nd - IT IS TIME FOR A NATIONAL STRIKE. AMERICANS SHOULD CALL IN SICK AND SHOULD STOP SPENDING MONEY ON ANYTHING BUT NECESSITIES.

submitted 6 hours ago • 338 comments

Worker to ICE agent at a workplace raid: “And here’s my bag of f*cks.”

submitted 9 hours ago • 620 comments

We are marching to Senator Thune’s office. There must be accountability for the detainment of a Senator. This is not normal.

submitted 6 hours ago • 885 comments

Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2271 comments

“This could poll well with midterm swing voters in Ohio” I remark sagely as I watch a fourth grader get bundled into an unmarked van at recess by armed and masked agents of the state.

submitted 2 days ago • 131 comments

This administration needs to stop targeting international reporters, they’re the ones helping spread the truth. In multiple videos, officers are seen aiming directly at them, fully aware they’re members of the press. These so-called “non-lethal” rounds can absolutely be lethal.

submitted 3 days ago • 559 comments

ICE now has a 3,000 deportations a day quota. Like that traffic cop with a quota: Arresting ten people for going 30 mph in a 25 mph zone is TEN TIMES better than arresting one person for going 75 mph in that same 25 mph zone.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Why sheriff Taylor doesn't carry a gun. Clip from 'The Andy Griffith Show', season 5, episode 23. Broadcast on March 1st, 1965.

submitted 5 days ago • 105 comments

DEVELOPING: No warning. No reason. NYPD officers rushed into the crowd and tackled a protester this weekend. His body was limp. He couldn’t move. He said, “I can’t feel my legs.” He might never walk again. For showing up. This is brutality. This is America.

submitted 4 days ago • 980 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 5 days ago • 360 comments

And there you have it. ICE didn't target migrant workers in Kristi Noem's farms or Sarah Huckabee Sanders' meatpacking plants because they wanted to create a riot in LA as a pretext to declaring martial law. They don't care about undocumented migrants, they only care about controlling US citizens.

submitted 5 days ago • 1025 comments

People are going to get seriously hurt, or worse, over this maniac’s escalation.

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio tried to give a press conference to announce his lawsuit against DOJ. Much to my surprise it turned out to be the greatest press conference of all-time.

submitted 6 days ago • 2378 comments

I love this. So much.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

PRO PUBLICA: Of the 238 men sent to an El Salvador mega prison, only 6 had prior violent crime convictions. 0 were on the gang member list. 130 had no criminal history. 32 had minor offenses. All 238 thought they were being sent back to Venezuela. www.instagram.com/p/DKcjM7FPhz...

submitted 9 days ago • 406 comments

If you want to astound a younger American today, tell them that thirty years ago there was actually a years-long investigation into a president's personal business dealings and, even better, it centered on a real estate venture where he *lost* money.

submitted 10 days ago • 186 comments

Donald has spent the last week pardoning his friends who defrauded Medicare, union pensions, banks, and more. This is what “fraud and abuse” actually looks like. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

submitted 10 days ago • 158 comments

With this awful terror attack in Colorado, Congress needs to ask how many federal resources have been pulled from counterterrorism to deport Hispanics?

submitted 10 days ago • 444 comments

For all the “Russia participates in the START treaty which is why the bombers we’re in the open” level of cope out there: No they don’t. They suspended their participation in 2023. They just thought the bombers we’re safe

submitted 10 days ago • 340 comments

Tesla Takedown in Boston.

submitted 10 days ago • 779 comments

Love the way the FNYT has to qualify that the claim that Biden was executed and replaced with a clone robot is not true.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Spare us the fake outrage.

submitted 11 days ago • 1094 comments