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Here’s the thing about the Trump Administration talking about violence: 1. They’re lying. No doubt there’s some but they are dramatically exaggerating. 2. They’re lying in order to justify escalating violence and violations of laws and rights. 3. Their goals are bigger than today. /1

submitted 9 hours ago • 77 comments

it's aaaaaalmost like the email lady & Kamala were right about fuckin everything!

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

I realize that this is almost worn out at this point (which is itself pretty wild) but “the executive took over 2000 troops in violation of the only statute he cited and the local police are shooting reporters” is the sort of thing for which “imagine if this happened in another country” was coined

submitted 5 hours ago • 5 comments

It is completely unlawful for ICE to turn away members of Congress like this. The law could not be more clear; no member of Congress may be denied access to a facility where ICE is detaining someone, and they cannot be required to schedule in advance. Surprise inspections must be surprise.

submitted 3 hours ago • 156 comments

We hate higher prices but we’re fine with a deeply cruel immigration regime. www.liberalcurrents.com/inherent-vic...

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

We hear about how pro-immigrant side is extreme. There is literally nothing more extreme than this statement. Being willing to sacrifice the country’s foundations for an evil goal

submitted 1 day ago • 156 comments

Worth bearing in mind that illegal entry is a misdemeanor and being unlawfully present in the country is not even a criminal offense, but a civil one. This is the equivalent of saying we need to torch the Constitution & send in the SWAT team to catch jaywalkers & people with overdue library books.

submitted 10 hours ago • 46 comments

do you ever think about how this is all happening for no reason at all?

submitted 13 hours ago • 241 comments

I spend a lot of time reading and posting about fictional depictions of Mars on BlueSky. I call that Barsoomscrolling.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

When our battalion was deployed to the US-MEX border in the 1990s as part of JTF-6, our battalion commander gave us a separate rules of engagement brief, where he privately told us “Marines make horrible cops,” and that the mission was not well thought out.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 15 hours ago • 746 comments

The Life360 ad (for a service I’d never heard of before) on the Tonys was some of the most “WTF?!” stuff I’ve seen in an ad for a while. What on earth were they thinking?

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

When non-citizens reside with you in your land, you shall not wrong them. Rather, the non-citizens who reside with you shall be to you as your citizens; you shall love each one as yourself, for you were non-citizens in the land of Egypt: I God am your God. Leviticus 19:33-34

submitted 15 hours ago • 13 comments

In the last 20 or so minutes I’ve seen LAPD officers shove women to the ground without provocation, rip a sign out of a man’s hand and then swing a baton into his leg and raise a less-lethal launcher to aim directly at a protester (which I’m 99% is a major policy violation.)

submitted 17 hours ago • 504 comments

My statement on what's unfolding in Los Angeles.

submitted 16 hours ago • 394 comments

LAPD yesterday: Protests in the city have been peaceful… LAPD today: …and we’re here to fix that

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.

submitted 18 hours ago • 196 comments

Donald Trump incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol. Hundreds of dangerous felons who brutally beat police officers with impunity were then pardoned by the President on his first day in office. Don’t ever lecture America about law and order.

submitted 20 hours ago • 192 comments

Los Angeles is not a war zone. The media keeps cropping the same damn photo to make it look like it is. There are plenty of live feeds going on right now that verify what is actually happening on the ground in real time. Nothing. The only unrest is coming from Trump & his thugs.

submitted 19 hours ago • 29 comments

The illegitimate, lawless, and authoritarian regime in control of the government of the United States is at war with the people of the United States.

submitted 18 hours ago • 78 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Aerial coverage of protesters marching peacefully in LA to protest ongoing ICE raid operations and Trump’s federalization of the National Guard Reporter: “What we’re looking at right now is a quiet, organized group and demonstrators marching peacefully to their destination.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 76 comments

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2888 comments

Both statements are from last night. Note difference between how Trump characterizes conditions in LA ("RIOTS AND LOOTERS"), vs how the LAPD does ("Peaceful Protests")

submitted 21 hours ago • 28 comments

Regardless of how well Lexington does in the finals, they will shatter the record for best finish by a JV team. The prior best result by a team of all sophomores or younger was 19th, set last year by Thomas Jefferson D #pacensc #quizbowl

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

It’s obvious but worth drawing out what raids of Home Depot’s of all places is about. It’s rounding up people who are really eager for work and for whom there is work, peoples whose labor is in demand. We know this but shows just how far it is from rounding up just the bad guys.

submitted 20 hours ago • 376 comments

This story exemplifies the reason people are outraged at ICE. This guy did nothing wrong. He broke not a single law. He was a guard at a base that housed US troops. He came here legally through humanitarian parole. He had an asylum application pending. Yet the Trump admin had ICE grab him anyway.

submitted 20 hours ago • 37 comments

Excellent headline

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

A lot of these folks think Trump is only kicking out dangerous criminals. They don't hear about the arbitrarily canceled visas and TPS and asylees who are following the rules. Huge messaging failure by Democrats.

submitted 22 hours ago • 5 comments