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ICYMI: Federal judge GRANTS California Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov’s Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order, telling Trump he ILLEGALLY deployed the California National Guard to LA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 4 hours ago • 35 comments

This is a lie. We all saw the video. The Senator clearly identified himself, and he did not "lunge" toward anyone. If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?

submitted 7 hours ago • 524 comments

I am as big a sucker as anyone for the fine-grained legal analysis, but I do sometimes worry it distracts us a little from the big, dumb, obvious points. This is appalling & precisely what the Framers were terrified of. Whether it’s technically legal if you squint right doesn’t change that.

submitted 7 hours ago • 23 comments

@golden.house.gov what the hell is wrong with you?

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

"And now, in the latest of a string of appalling actions, a sitting U.S. senator has been assaulted and detained in the state he honorably serves solely because he tried to do his job as a public servant. The good faith experiment is clearly over." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/the-good-f...

submitted 9 hours ago • 24 comments

If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.

submitted 9 hours ago • 490 comments

And if you're worried about violence this weekend, imagine how much worse it'll be if there's no immediate action to hold these assholes accountable. If they get away with roughing up a senator at a press conference, then protesters will be killed. It's a straight line.

submitted 11 hours ago • 36 comments

mike johnson desperately wants to be a supplicant to a king

submitted 9 hours ago • 358 comments

Sen. Chris Murphy calls back to Trump's pardons for Jan. 6 rioters. "The message [...is that if...] you carry out violence on behalf of the White House -- you're excused. You lodge normal, protected protest against this White House? You are thrown to the ground and handcuffed."

submitted 9 hours ago • 8 comments

Every elected Republican should be asked if they think the president has the power to send in military in to “liberate” a state or city from its elected government.

submitted 10 hours ago • 101 comments

@schumer.senate.gov do you think it's a constitutional crisis yet?

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

JFC

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Just want to raise the point that Secretary Noem certainly knows that Alex Padilla is a U.S. senator. She could have easily instructed security to knock it off. (Also did the Secret Service not know he was a Senator, either??)

submitted 10 hours ago • 74 comments

This is it. And every other Senator should join her. And if she doesn't resign, Dem Senators should take the floor one after another and filibuster until she does resign.

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

the wildest thing about this is that noem’s comments may have mostly been limited to social media before their idiot goons manhandled a senator, but even super checked out californians are gonna hear them now, good luck in the liberation of los angeles, DHS

submitted 10 hours ago • 31 comments

whining about how the protestors need to mind their manners sure looks fucking stupid now

submitted 10 hours ago • 13 comments

Alex Padilla is an American citizen of Mexican descent. The video of a Mexican-American being manhandled by thugs will play extremely well with the sort of trash who support Trump. Decent people are outraged. Shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture are thrilled.

submitted 10 hours ago • 67 comments

Fellas is it good when Hispanic Republican House Reps are starting to send letters to ICE seeking answers? The politics on immigration have changed rapidly and to keep suggesting otherwise is harmful to our cause and to these people

submitted 12 hours ago • 15 comments

"Liberate this city from socialists and burdensome leadership." If that's not regime change, I don't know what to tell you. The inflection point is now.

submitted 11 hours ago • 327 comments

Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

submitted 11 hours ago • 658 comments

Collins will temporarily withdraw to her brow-furrowing chamber

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

The state of California needs to arrest the DHS "security" forces for assault and every Democrat in the U.S. Senate needs to sign onto a campaign to impeach Kristi Noem. Right fucking now.

submitted 11 hours ago • 251 comments

Trump's regime has now committed at least 16 of King George III's 27 offenses specified in the Declaration of Independence. Armed occupation of a city/state over its government's supposed ideology: "He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us."

submitted 11 hours ago • 19 comments

on Los Angeles and property damage: do we think it’s free to fix when the cops cause the damage

submitted 12 hours ago • 19 comments

Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."

submitted 16 hours ago • 142 comments

Incredible reporting. As part of the deal to send peeps to Salvadoran gulag, USG stayed silent on Bukele’s peeps stealing US aid money, which they sent to MS-13 as pay offs to gang leaders as part of the show of fighting crime — & the US has also agreed to return gang leaders from US custody. WUT

submitted 16 hours ago • 8 comments

The president of the United States in our time is not supposed to wield armed troops and even station marines on American soil because of political speech and assembly he doesn’t like, that is typically not allowed and no I don’t care if any of it is technically “legal”

submitted 17 hours ago • 106 comments

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

submitted 2 days ago • 1458 comments

New euphemism for authoritarian lawlessness just dropped

submitted 19 hours ago • 342 comments

Some NIH employees — a number of whom have participated in protests and walked out of a town hall featuring Bhattacharya — say the Trump administration’s actions have raised existential questions about the state of science in America. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

submitted 16 hours ago • 5 comments

This new version of the Empire troops is the shittiest one.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments