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You've heard that phrase, "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't following you." Just because "It's never happened here" doesn't mean it's not HAPPENING. HERE. RIGHT. NOW.

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TURNER: You are not confirming in your testimony that the Pentagon has plans for invading Greenland? That is not your testimony today. HEGSETH: We have plans for any number of contingencies TURNER: I sure as hell hope that it is not your testimony HEGSETH: 😏

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"Earlier this week Donald Trump called for a second civil war at a US military base. This scenario can be resisted and prevented, if we have the courage to listen, interpret, and act. And this Saturday we will have the occasion to act." snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-civ...

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The caning of Charles Sumner by a southern Congressman captured attention in 1856 because it distilled views of slavery and the sectional conflict. In the eyes of slavery's defenders, Sumner's assailant vindicated the honor of the South and its politicians.

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We drill into military officers that Members of Congress have Constitutional oversight rights, Members outrank four-stars in protocol, and even Congressional staffers are treated like generals/admirals. To see sworn federal officers manhandle and handcuff a U.S. Senator... I'm still shook up.

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Noem says the Department of Homeland Security is “not going away” and that it will “liberate” Los Angeles from its democratically elected mayor and governor. The fascism is getting more brazen by day.

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Speaker Mike Johnson just called on the Senate to censure...Sen. Alex Padilla. You read that right. The American Fascist Party at work.

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Two of the police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol from a mob of Trump supporters filed a lawsuit on Thursday seeking to compel Congress to follow one of its own laws and install a memorial to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.

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BREAKING: House approves President Trump's request to cancel $9.4 billion in previously approved foreign aid and funding for NPR and PBS.

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@therickwilson.bsky.social: If a US Senator is not safe from being handcuffed and detained for free speech, none of us are safe. WATCH: youtube.com/watch?v=cEqM...

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Reminder that seven Democratic senators voted to confirm Kristi Noem and six Dem senators declined to vote either way. She was confirmed, 59-34. The good faith experiment is clearly over, and we need the Democratic senators who didn't stand against her nomination to be loud as hell right now.

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Let’s get back to work. I wish David the best.

submitted 22 hours ago • 101 comments

Started / Going

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We need to lean on each other right now, but don’t forget who warned us. Who fought this from the start. Who tried to keep us out of this authoritarian shitshow. Remember this when it’s time to rebuild.

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Manhandling a sitting US Senator is just the latest in a series of authoritarian moves by this Administration…Silencing your opposition from even asking a question. They do this shit because they think they can get away with it. Be mad. Be outraged. Demand accountability.

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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.

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RIGHT FUCKING NOW! #ImpeachNoem

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CHP needs to start arresting Trump officials for disturbing the peace.

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"First they came..." with an APP. They're ROUNDING UP immigrants--chilling words straight from 1930s Germany. They won't stop with immigrants. They'll use the data they stole to fill their for-profit prisons with anyone who opposes them. #NoKings. No dictators. No concentration camps. #June14

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Luz Del Carmen Herrera. Free her. This is an atrocity. No decent person wants to see this wife, a mother of six, dragged away by gestapo in the United States. WHO ARE WE? That's up to us now. #OnYourSide

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You mean elected officials who were voted into office by the citizens of California? I wonder how Kristi is going to fare in a women’s prison someday.

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Fucking FBI thugs. If they can do this to a U.S. senator, just imagine what they’d do to you.

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Unacceptable. We didn’t elect you. We don’t want you in our state. We didn’t ask for this and you throw OUR representative out of the room and onto the floor when he tries to speak for us?! Who do you think you are?!

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holy shit -- GOP Rep. Mike Turner tries to "help out" Hegseth by getting him to confirm that the Pentagon does not in fact have plans to take Greenland by force, but Hegseth instead more or less testifies that yep, they have devised plans for that

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Walmart heiress Christy Walton, one of the wealthiest women in America, paid for this ad in the NY Times. www.wsj.com/politics/a-w...

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VIDEO: Here is the Regime treating a duly elected U.S. Senator like a farm animal because he had the temerity to ask questions of Kristi Noem. Fascism is here. The jackboot of Big Government is pressing down on all our faces, and the only question is what we do next.

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We have long passed the point when impeachment is justified

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Transportation Sec Sean Duffy today. At least Zelensky wore socks.

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AOC: When they say illegal vs legal immigration—they are trying to end legal status in the US making people undocumented and then they have the audacity to call them illegal when they were here documented.

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Under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, America's poorest families lose about $1600 per year. The richest households gain about $12,000 per year. It's Reverse Robin Hood. (Via CBO)

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“May the odds be ever in our favor.” The National Weather Service is now predicting an 85% chance of rain and thunderstorms during Trump’s Vanity Parade in DC.

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If you had any doubt before about the necessity of public protest to oppose this lawless regime, I hope you now understand that if a US senator is not safe, none of us are safe--and we must join together in the millions in response to these criminals.

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Fvck. Them. All.

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Sen. Alex Padilla just got forcibly removed from Kristi Noem’s presser—for daring to ask real questions? Outrageous. This is what GOP “freedom” looks like: silencing truth. Padilla showed guts. Noem showed cowardice. I'm pissed? Are you?

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48 hours ago I was on a call with another political writer and we were discussing how Trump likely feels it is too early to declare martial law because the goal of doing so is to cancel the midterms. We discussed how Trump needs a big event elsewhere to eject from his LA intervention. Iran, I said.

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Almost 20 years ago, I wrote this profile of the man who basically founded the contemporary anti-immigration movement. inthesetimes.com/article/keep...

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This is not hard. Every Republican member of Congress should join Democrats in condemning this administration’s vicious arrest of Sen Padilla. “A Republic if you can keep it” is now.

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Kristi Noem should resign in disgrace.

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A Republican state representative in South Carolina accused of hoarding indecent pictures of children has been deemed too dangerous to receive bail, South Carolina Public Radio reporter Maayan Schechter reported on Thursday.

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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.

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A US Senator. Donald Trump’s America.

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Republicans in congress and cabinet members get such delight in causing others pain. How sad their lives are that they must do that to feel good…

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