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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 20 hours ago • 416 comments

In the past week, a union leader has been arrested, a U.S. Rep charged with a crime, a U.S. Senator violently handcuffed, and reporters shot with rubber bullets and detained. There is no ambiguity. This is a regime operating as an authoritarian. Americans who believe in liberty must oppose it.

submitted 21 hours ago • 353 comments

Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing Demagogues, and ending Tyrants. -- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist #1

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Exactly this. I am weary of hearing about “Christian nationalism“ or “white nationalism“ as if gender had nothing to do with these phenomena. Dominion and dominance over the women in their orbit almost certainly have more day-to-day benefits for men who affiliate with the far right.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

A really chilling implication here is that if Trump keeps doing speeches on military bases, and commanding officers continue to tell soldiers to opt in or out of these events (as they did here), then there will be lists by base and unit of which soldiers support the administration & which don't.

submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

submitted 2 days ago • 500 comments

Witnesses “can be heard shouting at the agents to ‘let her go’ and ‘she's pregnant.’ López Alvarado said agents told her she was taken into custody for trying to obstruct their operation. 'I wasn’t resisting or anything,’ she said. 'I can’t fight back; I’m pregnant.’”

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

ICE arrests pregnant US citizen in LA

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

1/ The LAPD Chief says what anybody who lives in a city with a lot of protests or is a member of the media with a brain knows: a lot of when protests turn violent/ugly it’s black bloc types who surf on any protest to fuck shit up. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjpkrvvp/

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.

submitted 3 days ago • 204 comments

<Thread> I figure I need to explain how extreme and irresponsible is the June 7 Memorandum federalizing the National Guard and authorizing regular armed forces. Those saying anything in support of this action may not realize what they’ve gotten into. (It will also escalate from here.) Preview⤵️

submitted 3 days ago • 55 comments

Protest. Protest your heart out. Protest against what Trump has unleashed as loudly & proudly as you can. But PEACEFULLY. Always peacefully. If you riot, if you engage in violence, you destroy your message, the American people will turn against you, and you will only help Trump.

submitted 5 days ago • 62 comments

When OSU leadership sneezes, OU grabs a Kleenex. If/when my uni decides to copycat, here’s my curriculum: Stop cheating with LLMs. Pass my quiz on the Top 100 Social Ills of AI. Use AI to show how LLMs are sexist/racist & why TESCREAL is bad. Complete Carl Bergstrom’s AI as Bullshit course. 😇

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This is a vitally important point to remember. Big force displays often reveal deep weaknesses—and a profound self-awareness of them.

submitted 5 days ago • 22 comments

This spectacular over-reaction is designed to give Fox News the ammunition to paint California as a lawless hellhole.

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

Again, I must favorably repost @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and tho past me could never have imagined this becoming a regular thing, present me is delighted.♥️ Our world is now: support this criminal coup or fight it! The latter group are my friends. Win this now. Discuss tax policy later.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

1/ If accurate, this is almost certainly a conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement, including the National Guard if they are federalized.

submitted 5 days ago • 632 comments

The president could really stick it to Elon Musk by reinstating all of the research grants he canceled, bringing back USAID, and taking away DOGE’s access to all of our private information.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

submitted 7 days ago • 1698 comments

Anyone of middle intelligence will be able to understand why this is a horrible idea. But the thread is still worth reading all the way through. This shit is happening just one state over from me (I’m in Ohio, where we have our own GOP woes).

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

we could have had a vax for TUBERCULOSIS

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

it's like believing a blender grows the food

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

For a pro-life party, they’re kind of pro-death.

submitted 12 days ago • 208 comments

Someone referred to Karoline Leavitt as Taco Belle, and I just couldn’t resist.🤭

submitted 12 days ago • 371 comments

Trump administration cuts to NSF will result in more than 200,000 FEWER people per year involved in basic science, training, and education - what should have been the next generation of US scientists. This isn't even eating your seed corn, it is setting your seed corn on fire and salting the earth.

submitted 13 days ago • 17 comments

Sharp blow = utter destruction. More than many posters on Bluesky, I understand why the mainstream media resists explicitly political framing. Fairness still matters. But my goodness, sometimes journalists, editors, and above all headline writers need to be frank about what’s happening!

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments