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Was consumed all day at work by the fact that trump tweeted "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!" at Iran, which from any normal president would be hugely consequential and it wasn't even a story because the media has just sort of deformed itself into nihilistic acceptance of the fact that he's insane

submitted 6 hours ago • 29 comments

The best way to conceptualize Jake Tapper's Joe Biden book is that a lot of media views problems that occur under Democratic administrations as caused by Democrats, and problems that occur under Republican administrations as caused by Democrats not having prevented Republicans winning an election.

submitted 2 hours ago • 8 comments

the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

submitted 8 hours ago • 531 comments

Looking for answers. Are the dems just gonna let themselves be arrested and not fight back? We need to know because some of us want to see some kind of pushback and not just the fucking political theatre bullshit.

submitted 31 minutes ago • 0 comments

Good morning🌞 Just sharing a little financial advice… Fill up your fuel tanks now Gas prices are going to skyrocket.

submitted 1 hour ago • 21 comments

Language was REMOVED from VA hospital guidelines requiring healthcare professionals care for vets regardless of their politics/marital status, & allowing doctors & other medical staff to be barred from working at VA hospitals based on same parameters. WTF? 1/2 www.murray.senate.gov/trump-admini...

submitted 16 hours ago • 26 comments

Wait a minute...didn't we all learn from the Trump Mar-a-Lago case that doing this is totally OK, and that jailing any person for it would mean America haa a "two-tiered system of justice" that is biased against Donald Trump? Really confusing these days trying to navigate the American fascist state

submitted 44 minutes ago • 21 comments

U.S. bankruptcy Trustee Christopher Murray has filed three suits accusing Infowars host Alex Jones of hiding millions of dollars in cash and property. https://n.pr/3STi0x3

submitted 39 minutes ago • 50 comments

This is what Gabbard said: "The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon & Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003. The IC continues to monitor closely if Tehran decides to reauthorize its nuclear weapons program."

submitted 12 hours ago • 50 comments

It’s 2003 again. I remember being one of the few voices then cautioning against a massive invasion of Iraq, and on Fox and elsewhere I was accused of being unpatriotic and against democracy.

submitted 9 hours ago • 76 comments

Oof. You knows it's bad when Tucker Carlson makes you look like the dumb one.

submitted 8 hours ago • 239 comments

Trump on video: “I don’t care what Tulsi Gabbard says!” Trump WH hours later: The fake news media is trying to cause division in the our team with their lies and false reports. The president has complete confidence in his outstanding DNI.

submitted 9 hours ago • 72 comments

There's only one way to handle a bully. @democrats.org

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

L.A. police pushed down a journalist helping an injured man and broke his camera

submitted 18 hours ago • 1042 comments

The NSA says Iran is not close to building a nuclear weapon. Trump says they're wrong. Tulsi gaslights us and claims they're all saying the same thing. Who tf knows?🤷‍♀️ I don't trust any of them. apnews.com/article/gabb...

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Gov Gavin Newsom’s TikTok page is 🔥

submitted 11 hours ago • 355 comments

"The report, produced by the nonpartisan CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation, factors in expected debt service costs and finds that the bill would increase interest rates and boost interest payments on the baseline projection of federal debt by $441 billion."

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

LAPD shoves an unhoused woman to the ground so hard her skull cracks open and she’s knocked unconscious. They then carry her to the curb, prop her up and abandon her. Witnesses took her to the ER.

submitted 1 day ago • 1331 comments

Reporter: Five fellow mayoral candidates came here within 90 minutes of you being arrested and called for your release. What does that say about the tenor of the mayor's race? Lander: Was one of them Andrew Cuomo? Reporter: It was not. Lander: Imagine that!

submitted 13 hours ago • 38 comments

According to what I heard during the arguments, it seems as though SCOTUS precedent all falls on the side of the president, and the 9th Circuit is bound by that. That was my takeaway from the hearing. So it would be up to the Supreme Court - not the 9th Circuit - to decide.

submitted 15 hours ago • 53 comments

That’s a tough question. Resisting masked armed thugs in any circumstance can get you beaten or killed by the armed thugs. If the masked armed thugs are agents of the U.S. government it will also get you prosecuted for “assault on a federal officer” or “resisting arrest.” /1

submitted 18 hours ago • 162 comments

The Government Accountability Office found that the Trump admin broke the law when it withheld funding for the nation's libraries. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

submitted 14 hours ago • 95 comments

Rage Against the Machine lyrics on a protest sign in DC

submitted 13 hours ago • 4 comments

I’m old enough to remember when the Republicans used to rail against “jack-booted thugs.”

submitted 13 hours ago • 40 comments

I think we need to legitimately ask if ICE has instructions to target Democratic public officials when possible and if they are choosing to carry out those orders. This is the second in less than a week who identified himself before being taken into custody for nonviolent behavior.

submitted 14 hours ago • 45 comments

C-SPAN caller to Tapper: "When are you going to examine what's going on with Trump? ... this president has been pure chaos, which indicates to me that there is something wrong with him. We will never get a straight answer on his medical exam, and yet you have gone after Joe Biden with a vengeance."

submitted 20 hours ago • 1218 comments

This sure will be good for Macron’s approval rating

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10 years before I was born, there was a time when…

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

🌮 #TACO We got it! now all is very clear.. you go after the blue immigrants!!!! Most narcissists don't talk... they confess.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

I wrote this four days ago. Today, they arrested the NYC Comptroller.

submitted 16 hours ago • 439 comments

It would be so great if Democratic Party elected officials would start acting as if they’re living under a government that will lawlessly kill or arrest them for the crime of political opposition.

submitted 18 hours ago • 180 comments

The oral argument in the 9th Circuit on whether to stay the decision invalidating Trump's federalization of the National Guard is ... not sounding good. (For LA, CA, the country, or the boundary between military & civilian enforcement.)

submitted 15 hours ago • 17 comments

Both sides news coverage is killing democracy and there is no place where it is more dangerous that in how legacy media covers the GOP attacks on free and fair elections. For my latest and to access all Democracy Docket premium content, sign-up now. newsletters.democracydocket.com/member-meblu...

submitted 23 hours ago • 208 comments

Kids pick up on things.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

Sen. Padilla speaks on the Senate floor for the first time since being forcibly removed from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s Los Angeles press conference. Padilla emotionally recounts his experience, asking, “what will a city already on edge… think when they see their U.S. senator being handcuffed?”

submitted 16 hours ago • 21 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1125 comments

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2207 comments

This warning and the Fuhrer leaving the G7 to head straight to the situation room are VERY bad signs. The world should be very concerned…

submitted 1 day ago • 248 comments

Keep pushing back at their lies. We aren’t protesting Trump because we hate the United States. We are protesting because we hate what Donald Trump is doing to the United States.

submitted 19 hours ago • 31 comments

Someone ask the right if we are liberating cities, shouldn't we be liberating republican lead ones that have literally denied the will.of the voters by ignoring laws that pass by vote but weren't allowed to become law because republicans said no?

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Bartiromo: "The Senate Finance Committee unveiling the text of President Trump's bill ... it includes even steeper Medicaid cuts than the House called for." (Trump has repeatedly claimed that the bill doesn't cut Medicaid. Oops.)

submitted 22 hours ago • 50 comments