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Helicopters. Armed troops wearing masks. All for a freaking military-grade raid at a flea market that appears to have resulted in two measly arrests. DHS and ICE are out of control. ktla.com/news/local-n...

submitted 10 hours ago • 186 comments

It’s so cool this administration is going to sell the most pristine parts of the Rockies, Sierra Nevada, Cascades, and Sawtooths to private owners so they can log, hunt, mine, and build survivalist compounds on our shared national heritage.

submitted 4 hours ago • 31 comments

Grateful that Brad Lander is using his experience to highlight the biggest outrage; that ICE is re-arresting people who have been 100% compliant with ICE and the courts, with the goal of unlawfully stripping them of a court hearing to juice Stephen Miller's deportation numbers.

submitted 7 hours ago • 39 comments

“If defending my country’s interests and rejecting foreign military presence carries with it the consequence of having my visa revoked,” Mr. Torrijos said, “I accept this with pride.” An example of Ideological Exclusion ⬇️ See also Chap. 7 of "Threat of Dissent" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/w...

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Every single Senator who voted for this, including plenty of Democrats, just helped make Trump’s crypto grift more profitable

submitted 6 hours ago • 90 comments

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Armed man arrested at Nashville's 'No Kings' protest had long fascination with Nazis, mass murder www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

submitted 10 hours ago • 19 comments

I shit you not, people

submitted 10 hours ago • 369 comments

There’s always a tweet.

submitted 9 hours ago • 174 comments

SCOOP: DHS Sec. Kristi Noem directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to prepare a memo on how to abolish itself and create a re-branded, radically smaller disaster response organization, according to a copy of the document reviewed by Bloomberg News. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 9 hours ago • 29 comments

An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.

submitted 1 day ago • 835 comments

BREAKING: Jury finds MyPillow founder Mike Lindell defamed former employee for a leading voting equipment company.

submitted 1 day ago • 139 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health.

submitted 1 day ago • 384 comments

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

submitted 1 day ago • 742 comments

i know we're numb but it seems not great that an executive branch official is on a Russian asset's show spreading conspiracy theories about American elections being rigged

submitted 12 hours ago • 121 comments

“'States’ rights,'” along with any other principle Republicans claim to value under a Democratic president, is just a convenient cudgel. Quite simply, they don’t think Democrats and the governments they run have any rights they are bound to respect." — @playtyperguy.com

submitted 12 hours ago • 56 comments

It’s interesting to think back to the ACA which was unpopular at the time (though not this bad) but Dems argued (correctly it turns out) eventually the public would come to like it. What possible argument do the R’s have here other than “shut up”?

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

🚨Stephen Miller gets his way. Just a few days after Ag. Sec. Rollins convinced Trump to briefly back down, quotas and indiscriminate raids are back. Farms, restaurants, and hotels are now subject to ICE raids again, with intense pressure on ICE to hit 3,000 arrests a day. Miller remains in charge.

submitted 1 day ago • 124 comments

Trump team is doing literal information warfare around intensified political violence and Democrats are still confirming nominees and cooperating on bipartisan legislation

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

On a Proud Boys-affiliated podcast late last month, Oath Keeper & J6 participant Jessica Watkins said that fellow J6 participant Jake Lang while they were in prison wanted her to sign a document saying "we're all seditionists & we need to declare war on the United States government" via a militia.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

The Senate bill explicitly directs HHS to publish an interim final rule (meaning they don't have to wait for public input) for implementing Medicaid work requirements.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Republicans know that their policies are wildly unpopular. We know they know this because they’re deferring most of the pain from the Medicaid cuts to be post-midterms. This will place more burden on Democrats to be effective messengers going into election season… which they could excel at more.

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Nearly half of 140 senior SSA administrators have been forced out or left the agency. A decimation of hundreds of years of administrative expertise at the insitence of the ignorant. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Holy crap. The VA has removed language from its guidelines that forbid VA doctors to provide treatment base on, among other things, party identification. (VA as a whole has to provide, but individuals don’t. Now imagine a rural VA hospital…) Again, how is this different than a civil war?

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

What I learned today is that the @nytopinion.nytimes.com doesn’t believe in young people of color in leadership. Time and time again people tout “seniority” and “experience”. 75 years ago, there were no women of color elected in NY. Where is “seniority” or “experience” to come from for us?

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

The Republican controlled Senate has released their Finance committee text. On energy policy, it improves slightly over the House bill — but it will still gut clean energy projects, killing jobs largely in Republican districts. This is a garbage bill. THREAD. 🧵 www.finance.senate.gov/tax-reform-2...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Will CBO give extra points for deliberately causing chaos that drives even more eligible people out of Medicaid?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Federal government telling states that if they don't drop their expansion population, the federal government will dramatically cut funding to the entire Medicaid program. This sounds very similar (though reversed) to what SCOTUS found unconstitutionally coercive of states back in 2012.

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[email protected] on Mike Lee: "Either he's so mentally ill and deranged that he's convinced himself that this person is a Marxist, and that Tim Walz is responsible....Or he knows it's a lie....either one of those options makes him totally unacceptable as a person in public trust."

submitted 1 day ago • 461 comments

The ACA Marketplace policies seem to be substantially sinilar to Senate bill. We already saw CSRs funded in the HELP language. Maybe most consequentially, the Finance Committee language, like the House bill, prohibits automatic renewal of Marketplace plans (with financial assistance)

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A senior DHS official held a briefing for a far-right anti-voting group last week on how federal databases can be used to check voters' citizenship status, according to an email sent by the group. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

UPDATE: The Los Angeles Press Club has filed suit against the city of Los Angeles and LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell in the Central District of California's federal courts over its actions toward journalists covering anti-ICE protests in recent days. /more

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

"Trump is too stupid to profit off this scheme" is a truly incredible defense.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

To be clear — “to accept more nuclear risks” meaning accepting lax regulations and oversight of NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

What the lawsuits challenging the NIH grant terminations have shown is just how involved DOGE was. As we previously revealed, DOGE provided lists of grants to terminate, as well as letter templates and boilerplate language. A big issue in the hearing today. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Where the hell did they come from? Fresno?

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This seems like a bad idea.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

“I was born here,” Jason Brian Gavidia shouted as a federal agent twisted his arm & pressed him against a fence outside his auto body shop in a working-class L.A. suburb. “I’m an American, bro!” Vivid @nytimes.com reporting on the targeting of U.S. citizens of Hispanic descent.

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NEW: GAO has ruled Trump illegally impounded funds. “IMLS ceased performing agency functions and withheld from obligation and expenditure funds that Congress appropriated for such functions. … GAO concludes that IMLS has violated the ICA by withholding funds from obligation and expenditure.“

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