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Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

submitted 18 hours ago • 691 comments

When Trump finally dies there will be calls for civility and “respect for the office” from even his harshest critics and I’m telling you right now I plan on saying things so harsh they might knock the earth off its axis

submitted 1 day ago • 274 comments

E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 189 comments

America is one of those countries where if you host a global sporting event, inclusive messages have to be censored to so as not to anger the central government. In this case the message is “racism is bad” www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...

submitted 1 day ago • 462 comments

The regime has posted signs at Manzanar, the WWII concentration camp for Japanese Americans, asking visitors to report "negative" historical interpretations. Hard to imagine a positive interpretation but it's probably just an excuse to shut down the park. www.sfgate.com/california-p...

submitted 1 day ago • 75 comments

Republicans have now arrested a US senator, a judge, a mayor, and a Congressional staffer, and have indicted a Congresswoman. And all for made-up crimes. This isn't going to stop. The media is failing us. We're not heading toward authoritarianism - we're in a dictatorship right now.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Today in the United States, members of the security services loyal to the increasingly autocratic leader forcibly removed an opposition member of the legislature from a press event when he confronted the Minister of the Interior about the ongoing campaign of terror against non-citizen residents.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit

submitted 6 days ago • 290 comments

She turns 88 years old on Friday. Why are Dem politicians allergic to just, you know, retiring?

submitted 6 days ago • 56 comments

Sources said that even at the start of his second term, Trump was discussing with multiple advisers where & when it would make sense to send in federal troops, either for supposed crime control or in response to larger-scale public activism against his agenda. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 7 days ago • 163 comments

I mean, scholars of fascism were like, “He’s going to attack universities, the media, and unions, and he’s going to arrest his political opponents,” and most of America was like, “Stop exaggerating.”

submitted 8 days ago • 20 comments

Candidly, as a civ-mil watcher, this scene at Bragg is freaking me out more than anything else that's happened so far. Just an absolute collapse of professional military norms.

submitted 7 days ago • 263 comments

Trump, talking at Fort Bragg right now about Los Angeles, is doing something I'm not sure I've ever seen a president do: he's actively maligning people in Los Angeles — an American city — in front of U.S. troops. And the troops are applauding. As an Army brat myself, this strikes me as very new.

submitted 7 days ago • 401 comments

Lots of people seem to think this is bad for red states too but I’m not so sure. Trump says he wants to personally make the disaster relief decisions. He’ll help his cronies and punish those who won’t kiss his ass. That’s life under mob-style governance.

submitted 7 days ago • 242 comments

something I find frustrating at times is how many folks, on here or elsewhere, are willing to write people off who are pretty clearly on the same side because of one bad take they can definitely add up to the point that it’s worth writing people off but imo too many people set the bar too low

submitted 8 days ago • 100 comments

January Trump approval on the economy: plus +8.24 points Today Trump approval on the economy: minus -15.75 January Trump approval on inflation: plus +1.99 Today Trump approval on inflation: minus -22.24 So clearly it's time to deploy the Marines in L.A.? www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

submitted 9 days ago • 501 comments

This absolute icon at Canterbury Pride 🩷🤍🩵

submitted 11 days ago • 79 comments

Tanks being moved into DC. National guard being mobilized in LA. Paramilitary thugs being unleashed across America. It's summer in America in fascism is in full bloom.

submitted 10 days ago • 182 comments

It's the Washington Monument in the background that really takes this to next-level dystopian

submitted 10 days ago • 381 comments

The administration gets closer to using the military to crush civilian dissent. Expect deaths, disappearances, and lawless detentions.

submitted 10 days ago • 395 comments

There it is. Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) says Republicans’ next goal is to kick seniors off Social Security: “Get off of Social Security. Get back into the workforce.”

submitted 11 days ago • 1646 comments

Kiss the dictator’s ass or feel his wrath.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

The last time he pulled this Muslim ban BS, people rushed into the streets in disgust & lawyers raced to the airports to help. Now, no one’s shocked, everyone is numb… This country is in seriously scary shape

submitted 13 days ago • 202 comments

Cost estimate of the House-passed "Big Beautiful Bill" is out It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

submitted 13 days ago • 66 comments

Jonathan Joss was Comanche and Apache and an openly gay actor. He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down. The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him. This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies

submitted 15 days ago • 586 comments

GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”

submitted 18 days ago • 4565 comments

This is just a straight-up lie. The post-truth insular information ecosystem on the right is just letting them lie to our faces

submitted 19 days ago • 92 comments

The real scandal in 1930s German politics was Kaiser Wilhelm’s cognitive decline

submitted 19 days ago • 65 comments

It's possible she may be guilty of this crime, but it's unreasonable for her to pay too high a price for 20 seconds of action. Think of her future! Girls will be girls.

submitted 19 days ago • 914 comments

Canada has seen a surge of American doctors seeking to move north in the months since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.

submitted 19 days ago • 54 comments

Just about every Republican/Trumpist complaint about public transportation is a poorly disguised version of “there are too many black people.”

submitted 20 days ago • 123 comments

As the Trump administration slashes the federal workforce, experts say cuts to the USDA, FDA and CDC have left the food supply vulnerable to outbreaks of foodborne illness.

submitted 20 days ago • 29 comments

Other over 40s…do you also find that simply far too much has happened for you to remember much of it?

submitted 20 days ago • 463 comments

One call to arms by President Trump, with Fox News amplification, in a country with 400 million guns, will make Rwanda look pretty tame

submitted 22 days ago • 8 comments

"This is what we were voting for!" From a friend in academia: >>I was with a public health professor from [major university] last weekend and he said that NIH is now euthanizing whole cohorts of animals from animal studies because there is nobody around to feed them<< Great work.

submitted 24 days ago • 314 comments

Whether its Chinese women and iPhones or Trump and porn stars both know how to use tiny appendages to screw

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Trump: The job of the U.S. Armed forces is not to host drag shows, to transform foreign cultures, but to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun…

submitted 24 days ago • 1252 comments

Just call it the Self-Inflicted Wound Era, when we took a bunch of stuff that was working largely fine (vaccines, weather monitoring, friendly relations with like 175 countries, cancer research, renewable energy credits, the FAA, global trade, etc etc) and just broke them for giggles

submitted 24 days ago • 196 comments

I'm genuinely sorry that Fetterman had a stroke and suffers from depression. But arguing that he has a free pass not to do his job in the name of destigmatizing brain injury and mental health struggles is offensive. If he can't do it, he should resign. If he doesn't want to, he should resign faster.

submitted 24 days ago • 617 comments