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Senator Padilla spoke moments AFTER Kristi Noem outrageously stated she intended to “liberate” the City of Los Angeles from its democratically-elected mayor and governor. He had every right to confront her about her incendiary, hateful, and deeply stupid statement.

submitted 16 hours ago • 45 comments

A lot of scary things lately but this is super, super - super-duper - bad. Violence against your peers in government is not a warning sign. It means you are already well into a different form of rule.

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

Move to hold the agents who assaulted a sitting senator in contempt of Congress. Call for articles of impeachment against Noem. Stop working on crypto legislation. Demonstrate the stakes of what is happening in LA with your actions.

submitted 20 hours ago • 107 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.

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Sen. Alex Padilla was just removed from Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles (video: Bill Melugin/Fox News)

submitted 21 hours ago • 1602 comments

incredible Brian Wilson self-edit here:

submitted 30 days ago • 10 comments

Is it finally sinking in to the conservative Supreme Court justices that telling a president that they are immune to any law means they can defy the Constitution?

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Isaac Asimov on, "If God is Dead, Everything is Permitted?"

submitted 2 days ago • 248 comments

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

submitted 2 days ago • 311 comments

Find your closest rally on Saturday and go. You can tell your kids where you were on the other side of this. Outnumber him everywhere. www.nokings.org#map

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

Terry Moran worked at ABC for 28 years. Now, for calling Stephen Miller “hateful,” (which he 💯 is per his own family), ABC fired him to appease an authoritarian hypocrite who ran on “free speech.” This will have a chilling effect on all journalists. Fourth Estate fails. Authoritarianism advances.

submitted 2 days ago • 230 comments

This LA stuff reminds me of the protests back in 2020 in Seattle (CHAZ/CHOP) which pretty much took place in a 2 block area. Sending more people in who are armed for combat INVITES COMBAT. But Trump/Hegseth have never understood de-escalation tactics.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

It’s a nice—if weird—thing that Trump is throwing a Pride Parade this weekend in DC.

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What language does MAGA think ‘Los Angeles’ is?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Just beyond the pale, absolutely dangerous and corrosive. President basically rallying active duty US military for war against fellow Americans in an openly partisan way via @atrupar.com

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

When you’re being invaded… #satire

submitted 3 days ago • 78 comments

If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options: 1-877-447-4487

submitted 3 days ago • 92 comments

Again, I was getting real good at hating on Newsom, god damn him for being this fire emoji

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

please stand and salute the flag 🫡

submitted 3 days ago • 153 comments

see, the thing i’m genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines

submitted 3 days ago • 586 comments

You love this country. You love that we are free to pursue happiness so long as it does not infringe on the freedom of others. Now imagine, in another life, being born outside of the USA. You love this country. You love that we are free to pursue…. How is this individual the villain of our story?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

James Woods knows he can move, right? It ain’t like work is keeping him here.

submitted 3 days ago • 107 comments

This is a pretty important point!

submitted 3 days ago • 208 comments

guys will be like "these people are ruining america" and it'll be a picture of the coolest guys ever

submitted 4 days ago • 241 comments

Now that his spine has had a makeover I want him to stop with the villain hair, the massive, unbuttoned collars and the bootcut jeans.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

ABC suspended reporter Terry Moran for a now-deleted tweet calling Stephen Miller a “world class hater.” They said it violates their standards. Here’s a thought…maybe your standards should allow calling out white nationalism and hate when you see it.

submitted 4 days ago • 131 comments

oh no what are they going to call the two companies

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

“There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous…

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Rep. Gomez: LA County alone is 34% foreign born, 34%. So when he says they're going to liberate us, who is he going to liberate us from? Ourselves?

submitted 4 days ago • 533 comments

Stephen Miller says that Federal law will be enforced in Los Angeles, which is really great news because all those ICE officers who are assisting with the federal response are required to visibly display their identification per 10 USC 723.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Notable clip today👇 in light of the news that the Trump administration successfully pressured ABC into suspending Moran

submitted 4 days ago • 425 comments

The thing is, telling the objective truth about Stephen Miller invariably reads like an attack.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Is this just kind of like repeat it until you believe it yourself? Your boss pardoned everyone who assaulted law enforcement on January 6th. Ass!!!

submitted 5 days ago • 576 comments

Why sheriff Taylor doesn't carry a gun. Clip from 'The Andy Griffith Show', season 5, episode 23. Broadcast on March 1st, 1965.

submitted 5 days ago • 107 comments

ICE tear gassed people who were stuck in their vehicles because ICE blocked the intersection. They were not even protesters. They were just stuck there due to ICE blocking them. As the helpless car passengers watched, ICE, unprovoked, began firing gas canisters upon the cars.

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments