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Just to make it clear to you guys- having to yoink the NG away from the governor and dispatch them at platoon strength because 400 zoomers are camped out in a Home Depot parking lot is regime *weakness*. In indicates how little power you actually have.

All of these violent, lawless ICE officers terrorizing communities and hiding their faces weren't just hired this year. It's why dismantling ICE as an agency was so important and remains so. These people are unfit to be public servants if they hate the public.

The easiest way to stop immigration to your country is to make it a worse place to live for everyone

mein fuehrer.... steiner.... steiner's CA guard troops are stuck on the I-5, we are going to lose the home depot

Cops signed up to crack American skulls in their own neighborhoods. That's the job. Reservists didn't. And I can only imagine what happens when they run into a friend or family member in the protests.

not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser

It’s so funny how the same centrists arguing Democrats should pivot away from identity issues are also incredibly weak on economic issues. Rahm is like, let’s stop talking about bathrooms and start talking about means tested tax credits.

All our cities all over our country have 40% of their total budgets allocated for this, not for citizens but for this occupying force

LAPD helicopter circling immigrant rights protesters behind the pride month rainbow-lit city hall

I’m not gonna do the Vince McMahon meme because fuck that guy but Alien Noah Hawley Cyberpunk shit Robot girl With a sword.

Uesama, a hyperrealistic head on legs, promotes Sof’ ice cream.

i think it's really cool that like 50% of all municipal budgets go to fund guys who milk overtime to do this between 2 part time gigs body guarding where they also clock overtime when they're not playing candy crush on duty

Well. Here we are again, America.

I’m late to this interview with Tony Gilroy but I think his answer, about why most art is progressive, hits the nail on the head. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...

I seem to be of the minority opinion that it's bad for our historical understanding when people use "blood libel" to mean "well-documented exposé reporting on actions committed by the Israeli military."

Like seriously. I know to a lot of people it sounded like a far-left rallying cry before, but if we get through this, we need to Abolish ICE much like a democratizing Germany got rid of the Gestapo or the collapsing USSR got rid of the KGB

DM nerd alert: new song dropped yesterday at the first screening of M (the Memento Mori live 101-type film). This recording sucks but it sounds like Dave and Marty are doing a call-and-response Tears for Fears type thing? What I can hear I like.

woke dei financial times

Rogue state

I find this strangely beautiful.

Good, they're the ones making the money.

the people putting themselves on the line to run off these thugs truly are the best of us

How many times I told ya: play your position, small soldier.

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

"Don't murder Greta Thunberg and half a dozen other people in cold blood with US made weapons" gets a whopping 11 signatures in the House

Freeze your credit with all three bureaus if you haven’t already. It’s pretty benign in terms of impact on your life and reduces potential loss if all our SSNs get sold on some Discord server by these scriptkiddies

the fun version of this is when you’re posting about some nerd shit and someone pops up in the comments like “actually I am a world renowned expert in this field and here’s how this works” easily the best thing that happens on social media

Pet's name with a gif

In my time living the South I learned that the local white conservative bigwigs love cheap labor above all else, and deep down still pine for the days when it was so cheap they didn’t have to pay their workers at all.

39, not counting airport layovers. Missing Alaska, Mississippi, Arkansas, the SW, and the northern stretch between Minnesota and Washington.

r/lebowski spitting facts today.

This list is like the Avengers for people who only read airport books called something like "Leading Leadership for Leaders"

Khanna says the word “progressive” a lot but aside from that, is there any reason he should be described as one?

It took a while, but here’s my piece on the last ~1.5 years in US cultural politics: “When They Came for Culture.” It looks at censorship and suppression post-10/7, post-1/20, and what comes next—with some uncomfortable truths on who has weaponized anti-antisemitism. I hope you’ll read it.

A1. Clown paper and no mistake.

I know posting "the girls are fighting" seems funny, but it's actually insensitive and shitty. My father died in a girl fight. He tried to break it up and the girls pulled him apart like freshly baked bread. He didn't even scream. One moment he was there, the next just a spray of dad viscera.

Is there a better encapsulation of the Trump era than “the schemings of unworthy men”?