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Americans know scapegoating when we see it. Authoritarians target, vilify and demonize small minority groups to whip up negative emotions and mask their own programs. It's up to the people to reject sinister efforts to dehumanize and stigmatize transgender Americans.

submitted 9 hours ago • 67 comments

Corporate media should be sharing images of the thousands and thousands of peaceful protestors - not the one guy who is probs a boogaloo boy in disguise throwing a stick at a cop with a machine gun. Show the world the United States is protesting!!

submitted 9 hours ago • 173 comments

Absolutely ridiculous. Moran stated verifiable facts that anyone paying attention knows.

submitted 8 hours ago • 478 comments

Terry Moran, if you’re reading this: the door is open.

submitted 8 hours ago • 694 comments

The same people who shoveled money to a settle bogus case with Trump, have now fired Terry Moran for telling the truth. No one should wonder why viewers are abandoning legacy media in droves. www.cnn.com/2025/06/10/m...

submitted 8 hours ago • 435 comments

ICE stands for: Initiating Chaos Everywhere #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory apple.news/AHzi9K_FJTRi...

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

He stood in front of our troops today and gave a mean spirited, partisan speech. He stood in front of our troops today and attacked Americans by name. He stood in front of our troops today and goaded them into booing their fellow Americans. Never become desensitized to this.

submitted 8 hours ago • 389 comments

“The distance between what is said, and what is known to be true, has become an abyss…The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands - we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest.”

submitted 8 hours ago • 70 comments

The Art of Misdirection.

submitted 8 hours ago • 16 comments

Maddow: I also feel like there’s not very much about that that I don’t understand. Like, it’s the same everywhere. This is blond Berlusconi, you know what I mean? This is inarticulate Viktor Orbán, right? These guys are all the same. The authoritarian playbook is the same everywhere

submitted 8 hours ago • 215 comments

The military booing an American city, goaded by the president, is deeply unsettling.

submitted 8 hours ago • 35 comments

“We don’t need another king, another tyrant, another dictator.” — U.S. Army Veteran, 101st Airborne We took an oath to the Constitution—not to serve the ambitions of any one man. What’s happening isn’t national defense. It’s a warning sign.

submitted 8 hours ago • 36 comments

America needs to rise up and vigorously respond to this simple-minded, evil clown and his vanity fascism.

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Today, Federal Judge Charles Breyer has declined California’s request to issue an emergency order to block Drumpf’s use of CA NG troops & Marines within Los Angeles He will hold a hearing on Thursday before making a decision tinyurl.com/5496eatz

submitted 7 hours ago • 13 comments

His speech at Fort Bragg today should send shivers down the spines of every patriotic American. Gearing up to use the military against American citizens in cities everywhere.I cannot believe how fast the fascism is coming.

submitted 7 hours ago • 290 comments

🚨 Omaha, Nebraska, Mayor: "We are aware that ICE is raiding Omaha businesses and detaining people. We do not know yet the scope of this federal action today” ICE is targeting working people, not criminals. Abolish ICE. www.ketv.com/article/nebr...

submitted 7 hours ago • 22 comments

RINO traitors.

submitted 6 hours ago • 360 comments

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

submitted 6 hours ago • 379 comments

This is my friend's video from Santa Ana, CA in OC. The Santa Ana PD had this situation totally under control. It was peaceful. Then ICE came in to provoke & attack. ICE is a terrorist secret police Gestapo-style band of thugs, posers, mercenaries & miscreants Speak up Call Congress: 202-224-3121

submitted 6 hours ago • 159 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 6 hours ago • 915 comments

This happened live on the show today. Independent journalist Jorge Ramos caught up with a pregnant U.S. citizen who told us she was roughed up and arrested by federal agents during a detainment near Los Angeles. Watch!

submitted 8 hours ago • 149 comments

You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work. You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules. Get your lies straight.

submitted 8 hours ago • 445 comments

What’s happening in Los Angeles is a personal question to all of us, regardless of where we live, asking how much we’re willing to do to preserve the America we call home and claim to love. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-are-all...

submitted 16 hours ago • 98 comments

Imagine a world where millions lose healthcare, ERs are overwhelmed, and rural hospitals close. That’s the danger of cutting Medicaid. It’s a perilous gamble. Call your Senators: (202) 224-3121 - Save Medicaid!

submitted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

Durbin to Bhattacharya: "I can't understand it. I disagree w/ this admin on so many things. But this is the one that really gets to me personally. To think this nation would walk away from medical research. For God's sake...cancer, your budget requests a 38% cut to the National Cancer Institute"

submitted 16 hours ago • 457 comments

November 10th, 1775 Philadelphia PA 2nd Continental Congress founds the United States Marines. Are military men & women seriously going to let Joke POTUS ruin 250+ years of our history and erase the honor & integrity from our memories of all those Americans who served — who DIED? Choose correctly.

submitted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called Los Angeles a “city of criminals” and not a city of immigrants. But like its name, Los Angeles is a city of angels. We protect and look out for one another, especially the most vulnerable.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1050 comments

MURRAY: I want to know what's the total number of employees who left the agency as a result of the administration's personnel actions? BHATTACHARYA: We'll get those numbers MURRAY: I told you I was gonna ask for this. How come you don't have it? B: My misunderstanding M: I was being very clear

submitted 16 hours ago • 457 comments

Murray grills Bhattacharya about cuts to medical research that have already happened, including ending HIV vaccine trials that were on the cusp of a breakthrough, and asks him how he justify proposing even deeper cuts. Bhattacharya hems and haws and tries to change the topic.

submitted 15 hours ago • 101 comments

This escalation came from the President of the United States.

submitted 15 hours ago • 182 comments

It’s not a crime to be an undocumented person in America! It’s just a civil offense and nothing more! We need everyone educated about this!!

submitted 15 hours ago • 19 comments

There’s obviously a lot going on right now, but the Speaker of the House calling for the Governor of California to be tortured seems like it should be a pretty big story.

submitted 15 hours ago • 231 comments

DNI Tulsi Gabbard repeats Putin’s talking points today, releasing an unhinged video where she claims that “political elites” want a nuclear war with Russia because they have sophisticated bomb shelters that will help them survive it.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1587 comments

🚨NEW: Federal court dismisses WITH PREJUDICE a lawsuit filed by the 1789 Foundation and a voter against Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt (R) and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania challenging the state’s voter roll maintenance practices. www.democracydocket.com/cases/pennsy...

submitted 15 hours ago • 47 comments

“We’re going to deport violent criminals…” ICE arrests garment workers, flower market workers, day laborers, pregnant moms…tries to arrest first graders at an elementary school #Shame #UnmaskICE

submitted 15 hours ago • 25 comments

More people should be talking about the utter freak that is Stephen Miller and his white nationalist worldview. He's the architect behind most of this chaos as Trump is golfing, falling asleep during meetings, making money of memecoins and tripping while climbing stairs.

submitted 15 hours ago • 130 comments

🚨BREAKING: Georgia Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN four State Election Board rules concerning certification and hand counting ballots last year. A big victory for GA voters and a stinging defeat for the RNC and election deniers. www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgi...

submitted 14 hours ago • 405 comments

Why settle for first place when you can tie for fifth?

submitted 14 hours ago • 232 comments

While Trump uses LA to deflect from his threats to democracy, Senate Dems are still doing the work. Sen. Andy Kim lays out this week’s Big 3: 1) Pete Hegseth’s senate hearings 2) the brutal Recissions package 3) budget reconciliation fights that shape everything. Stay focused

submitted 14 hours ago • 12 comments

Kristi Noem: "In LA, what we're been going after is the worst of the worst. They're murderers." [Kristi Noem then raids a Home Depot to arrest people just looking to help with home improvement jobs.] Trump people lie so effortlessly and often.

submitted 14 hours ago • 160 comments

$134 MILLION DOLLARS for this MANUFACTURED crisis Trump has created. Here’s the real: 📌 WASTE 📌 FRAUD and 📌 ABUSE This is Trump’s authoritarian America. www.kctv5.com/2025/06/10/p...

submitted 13 hours ago • 45 comments