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ICE crossed a line in LA

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With Musk gone, it’s time to start irritating Trump with “Stephen Miller is the person actually running the country.” Miller has survived longer than anyone in Trump’s orbit, so he’s clearly learned how to stroke Trump’s ego. But it can’t hurt to try. It also appears to be true. Terrifyingly so.

submitted 12 hours ago • 15 comments

Less than 45 minutes after President Donald Trump thanked the National Guard "for a job well done!" Mayor Karen Bass clarified on social media "the National Guard has not been deployed in the City of Los Angeles."

submitted 12 hours ago • 138 comments

well it has certainly been an amusing prank to let the worst people alive take over the american government for a few weeks, but I think it's probably gone on long enough

submitted 116 days ago • 103 comments

Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.

submitted 1 day ago • 203 comments

Pete Hesgeth — who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach — is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will “never forget” the veterans there. What an unbelievable asshole.

submitted 1 day ago • 1495 comments

Heavily-armed DHS paramilitary forces in military vehicles fired dozens of stun grenades at a crowd of onlookers today in Los Angeles.

submitted 1 day ago • 221 comments

Pam Bondi is thug scum. The Attorney General making these comments about a defendant in a federal criminal case is lawless. This administration’s unethical hacks continue to demonstrate that they want to be deposits.

submitted 2 days ago • 198 comments

Pretty shocking: Over on The Bad Place Elon Musk basically admitted to spending $250 million to elect Trump while knowing this about him:

submitted 3 days ago • 44 comments

The Guardian broke the story about excessive surveillance on U Michigan’s campus (thousands of surveillance cameras, undercover cops trailing students, drones over public squares). U-M regents approved spending for cops/cameras and ignored our complaint in the May Faculty Governance report.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

MERZ: Tomorrow is the D Day anniversary, when the Americans ended a war in Europe TRUMP: That was not a pleasant day for you? This is not a great day MERZ: This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship

submitted 3 days ago • 1462 comments

⚠️⚠️⚠️ Jonathan Joss' sister in law has spoken out about the misinformation being spread about Jonathan and her brother, and the series of hate crimes and murder that took Jonathan's life. #mmir

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Never let the printer see that you’re in a hurry. Just act natural; it can smell fear.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

How will future historians write about Trump, whose first term ended in disaster and an attempted coup, and whose second term authoritarianism and demented lies are so routine that the latest "false claim" can be cataloged as "another outlandish conspiracy theory"? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments

Joni Ernst clarified her statements saying that the Dalmatians were going to die in 12 to 14 years anyway and now she has a fabulous winter coat.

submitted 8 days ago • 29 comments

"If what you're doing is legitimate and lawful, why do you need to cover your face?”

submitted 7 days ago • 728 comments

honestly becoming an accelerationist about stuff like this, the quicker this awful toxic shit gets in front of the public the quicker people will stop trusting AI

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

but if i'm not allowed to feed artists into my artist killing machine it's going to be basically impossible for the machine to keep killing artists. is that what you want?? and before you answer keep in mind this is a very expensive machine

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

Some grim Memorial Day reading: a recent ruling in the 9/11 military commission reveals descriptions of one of the CIA’s most sadistic black sites — like, well,

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

Man Feared to Be Cognitively Slipping After Writing Book About Wrong President

submitted 15 days ago • 64 comments

Of 14,777 unique articles on the NYT's homepage over the 310 days from 1/1/24 to Election Day, 293 articles–almost one a day–focused on Biden’s age compared with just 27 articles focused on Project 2025, a ratio of 10.9 to one mediabiasdetector.seas.upenn.edu/blog/new-yor...

submitted 15 days ago • 66 comments

Welp, that’s my legs gone, then.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

The NYT has reporting out on how Project 2025 has a specific framework to use false accusations of antisemitism to shut down speech. It comes 5 days after they mused whether Ms. Rachel was antisemitic, and straight up asked her if she was paid by Hamas.

submitted 19 days ago • 8 comments

Of the books named on this reading list, Brit Bennet, Isabel Allende, Andy Weir, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Min Jin Lee, Rumaan Alam, Rebecca Makkai, Maggie O'Farrell, Percival Everett, and Delia Owens' titles are all books that DO NOT EXIST!!! See Alt Text for more detail. Image by @tbretc.bsky.social

submitted 19 days ago • 75 comments

The current President is taking bribes from anyone who’ll offer them but I’m so glad Alex Thompson and Jake Tapper are not letting that distract them from the fact that the former President who just got diagnosed with cancer is also old.

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submitted 24 days ago • 12 comments

Turned on CNN three times yesterday while running errands. First time was in the middle of a segment about Biden's age. Second time they were airing a promo for Tappers book, which is about Biden's age. Third time was during a panel discussion -- about Biden's age. Meanwhile . . .

submitted 21 days ago • 144 comments

WOW. The Trump admin said they will review social media and deny immigration benefits to people saying antisemitic claims. They're even trying to deport people with green cards on alleged claims of antisemitism. Anyway, here's a tweet from an Afrikaner they flew here on Monday.

submitted 25 days ago • 321 comments

Oh my god

submitted 25 days ago • 70 comments

It’s not impossible that the pope has read one of your tweets, and perhaps even enjoyed a sensible chuckle over it.

submitted 31 days ago • 55 comments

not saying anyone should, but I bet you could convince Trump to re-open Alcatraz in under 20 minutes

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all of Trump's TRUTH SOCIAL posts should be read aloud in the style of Parker Posey doing Victoria Ratliff

submitted 44 days ago • 24 comments

King Vitaman (1968-2019): A lightly sweetened, corn and oat cereal, in vaguely crown-shaped pieces. Initially marketed as having "100% daily value" of vitamins and iron, and for it's modest sugar content. The box featured an ever-evolving "king" mascot over the years.

submitted 249 days ago • 68 comments

Fun Tariff Facts: during the depression the US lost access to many imported paper products. They were replaced with an unusually tough paper stock made of hemp from the Philippines (then a US colony, and tariff exempt). Anyway, that’s why they were, and still are, called Manila folders / envelopes.

submitted 50 days ago • 145 comments

“He was just making a joke”

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

getting rid of or even curbing ice was a pet issue and a purity test until we got here

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments

The parasite. And will the Lichtenstein Foundation pass on even a little of this windfall on to the comics artists whose images he pilfered? They never have. An Ohio State grad, like me. The School of Art worships him. Right across the Oval sits the Cartoon Museum w/ the artists who he plundered.

submitted 52 days ago • 6 comments

Tomorrow’s going to be a good stress test of the press. El Salvadoran President Bukele will visit the White House. At the press availability, every Q ought to be about Abrego Garcia: where is he now? Did US ask you to return him? etc. WH will hate, maybe try to prevent, so all should band together.

submitted 55 days ago • 1313 comments

An autistic, nonverbal teenage boy who was shot repeatedly by Idaho police from the other side of a chain link fence while he was holding a knife died Saturday after being removed from life support, his family said.

submitted 57 days ago • 263 comments

Personal year to date.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments