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Bibi Netanyahu, in 2002, urging the US to invade Iraq: "If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region." The US listened then, and we saw what happened. 23 years later, here we are.

submitted 9 hours ago • 48 comments

nbc is treating a series of incontrovertible facts, that padilla was shoved, taken down, and handcuffed, like unsubstantiated claims, and attributing them in the same way you would an anecdote by a guy talking about his alien abduction. some of the shittiest news writing i’ve seen in a hot minute.

submitted 6 hours ago • 61 comments

Video Proves DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s Top Deputy Lied About Senator Being Forcibly Removed By Federal Agents www.mediaite.com/politics/vid...

submitted 15 hours ago • 39 comments

Uh theres a new nut milk brand called JOI and I’m not sure who needs to be fired

submitted 11 hours ago • 23 comments

this company man

submitted 10 hours ago • 16 comments

Billy Long's sole qualification to run the IRS is that, in 2023–24, he ran a large-scale tax fraud operation. I am not making this up.

submitted 10 hours ago • 106 comments

there's something interesting here in how judges are building on each other's arguments, even in very different cases, in working through how to approach the administration's bad faith storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 10 hours ago • 11 comments

I am as big a sucker as anyone for the fine-grained legal analysis, but I do sometimes worry it distracts us a little from the big, dumb, obvious points. This is appalling & precisely what the Framers were terrified of. Whether it’s technically legal if you squint right doesn’t change that.

submitted 13 hours ago • 23 comments

Are we really fucking doing this. Had nothing happened to Senator Padilla at all, what she was describing is a federal takeover of a major city by military force with no specified end-date, with no legal authority. Do not let the fascists talk their way out of that.

submitted 16 hours ago • 50 comments

mike johnson desperately wants to be a supplicant to a king

submitted 15 hours ago • 375 comments

Be aware: Speaker Johnson just spoke to press and said that Padilla's behavior rises to the level of a censure. Are you freaking joking me.

submitted 15 hours ago • 29 comments

This is the lede. There is a woman on camera in charge of a lot of people with guns. She says they are going to liberate a domestic population center from democratically elected officials and violate too many laws to count in the process. I have zero time for anything else.

submitted 15 hours ago • 15 comments

Me as a therapist today: "yes you seem to be suffering from a condition we like to call 'paying attention' and I think you should make some improvised explosives about it"

submitted 214 days ago • 3 comments

Because Black people know that there is no such thing as “identification” or “identifying yourself”. They aren’t saying Padilla didn’t identify himself as a U.S. Senator. They are saying that there is only one acceptable identity — credential — being white and, in these times, being pro-Trump.

submitted 16 hours ago • 17 comments

Members of the In group will never admit they are wrong or guilty, as that will be seen as betrayal by their fellow travellers and result in exile and attack. This is authoritarian capture in practice right in front of your eyes.

submitted 15 hours ago • 18 comments

“accustomed to remaining free”

submitted 1 day ago • 75 comments

🚨 Secretary Noem basically said that her agency is now dedicated to forcible regime change…in American cities and states. There 👏🏽 is 👏🏽 a 👏🏽 name 👏🏽 for 👏🏽 this

submitted 17 hours ago • 528 comments

OOPS: Attorney for Proud Boys in their lawsuit against DOJ may not be allowed to practice law because of a prior felony conviction he appears not to have disclosed, according to the magistrate judge handling the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 18 hours ago • 236 comments

🚨BREAKING: A senior official in DHS held a briefing for a far-right anti-voting group on Thursday, according to an email sent by the group. The virtual meeting was to discuss how a database run by the department can be used to verify the citizenship status of registered voters.

submitted 17 hours ago • 165 comments

booker ready to do anything other than vote no on republican legislation

submitted 16 hours ago • 61 comments

So ICE is now more powerful than a sitting US senator? I hope every democrat congressperson stands up for their colleague and demands accountability for what happened to Alex Padilla. They won’t but I wish they would.

submitted 17 hours ago • 67 comments

Notably: Not because of crime. Not because of "riots". Not even because of "illegal" immigrants. Because of "socialists" and the democratically elected leaders. They're just saying they're sending in the military because of political opposition. Can't wait for mainstream media to ignore this.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

It is not the job of the federal government to "liberate" a city and state from their elected leaders. Where are all the states'-rights conservatives? And there is no need to liberate anything. The city & state aren't under siege. This is dangerous & authoritarian red-baiting & disgraceful.

submitted 17 hours ago • 53 comments

Whiskey Pete refuses to answer @congresstran.bsky.social's question about a plan to actually feed the Marines.

submitted 17 hours ago • 10 comments

This is outrageous, and we need answers. If this is how the Trump administration treated a United States senator while the cameras are on, ask yourself: what will they do to ordinary people?

submitted 17 hours ago • 192 comments

Weird how "states' rights" disappear entirely under fascist authoritarian Republican rule. Almost as if "states' rights" is code for "leave our fascist authoritarian Republican rule over various states alone".

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

We're here to liberate the city from its elected leaders.

submitted 17 hours ago • 11 comments

I think California needs to start arresting Feds. drastic but we’re there.

submitted 17 hours ago • 186 comments

Note the point @padilla.senate.gov was making when he was assaulted by Noem's team: That she keeps cycling thru six cases as her justification for the gulag.

submitted 17 hours ago • 19 comments

That is the language of a coup. Not a democracy.

submitted 17 hours ago • 76 comments

Thinking about this again seeing federal security guards roughing up a United States Senator inside a federal building.

submitted 17 hours ago • 12 comments

This is the Administration that sought charges against a sitting Member of Congress for conduct that seems a whole lot less than what it is doing to a sitting Senator for no apparent reason. This on its face looks like an illegal seizure under the Fourth Amendment.

submitted 17 hours ago • 54 comments

So, per the DHS Secretary, the Trump Regime has deployed troops to Los Angeles to overthrow the duly elected government of Los Angeles and of the State of California. bsky.app/profile/just...

submitted 17 hours ago • 16 comments

I have actually liberated several cities. This is essentially a declaration of war.

submitted 17 hours ago • 7 comments

Seems noteworthy to me that they're admitting that they're sending in the military because of the state government's ideology!!!

submitted 17 hours ago • 150 comments

This is disgusting. If this is how they treat Alex Padilla, a United States Senator, how do you think they’ll treat you?

submitted 17 hours ago • 317 comments

there was one vote, it was for trump, and he is king of america now and you will obey

submitted 17 hours ago • 84 comments

NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia's attorneys ask Judge Xinis to impose sanctions on the govt for evading discovery. They ask that she compel production of certain info/docs (or appoint a special master to investigate) and impose fines for civil contempt. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 20 hours ago • 6 comments

This is a BFD. Rand Paul and Tom Massie have been calling out Miller's gulag numbers for several weeks; it got them both disinvited from the White House picnic. And now Ron Johnson is joining in?

submitted 18 hours ago • 228 comments

AP footage of Senator Alex Padilla being physically removed from Kristi Noem's press conference about the LA @schiff.senate.gov @congresstran.bsky.social Thank you, Senator @padilla.senate.gov

submitted 17 hours ago • 434 comments

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

submitted 17 hours ago • 1589 comments

Never beating the TACO allegations www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 18 hours ago • 16 comments

This absolutely unhinged exchange is a lawyer for the Texas AG's office arguing that it's totally fine for there to be bugs crawling around in prison food. Amazing stuff.

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

Anyone who wants it, here's a non-paywall link to my 2019 column on tear gas in Nature, the world's most prestigious scientific journal. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Dude's brain does not work, that seems like that would be a problem for US?

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

Trump just admitted that his mass deportations are bad for farmers and the economy, and crucially, also admitted that workers who are getting deported are "almost impossible to replace." That's a massive repudiation of MAGA ideology:

submitted 21 hours ago • 349 comments

It's because he's a self obsessed idiot.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

It's not just the protests -- it's mass opposition across all segments of society.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment