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Just in from DC Bar - labor attorney Diane Seltzer defeats securities attorney Brad Bondi in a closely watched race with record turnout.

submitted 10 hours ago • 498 comments

This stuff doesn’t look very protect-and-serve-y

submitted 11 hours ago • 1142 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 1 day ago • 862 comments

Whenever law enforcement agents are given a quota of a specific number of people to arrest or detain, especially with the WH policy director screaming at their superiors to hit those target numbers, bad things are going to happen. Quotas always result in civil rights violations.

submitted 1 day ago • 467 comments

ICE was already suited up and armed like military. Now it's official.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Imagine that. www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 357 comments

Actually, yes, this and a fantastic set of encyclopedias

submitted 7 days ago • 746 comments

We obtained lists of alleged gang members used by Venezuelan law enforcement and Interpol. Those lists include some 1,400 names. None of the names of the 238 Venezuelan deportees matched those on the lists. W/ @texastribune.org‬ @cazadoresdefakenews.info & Alianza Rebelde Investiga

submitted 7 days ago • 48 comments

Finally watched the Joni Ernst videos and… I mean, I…. It’s just infuriating how much they think they can get away with. They truly believe the the voters are so beaten down and so disengaged and so hopeless that they can do That to you, and still draw a salary from your money

submitted 8 days ago • 434 comments

I just think there needs to be more attention paid to the uniquely creepy, mendacious, awfulness of Speaker Mike Johnson. Don’t underestimate the depth of his ambition and breadth of what he is willing to do to never return to Shreveport.

submitted 11 days ago • 649 comments

Currently reading "The Death and Life of August Sweeney" by @samuelashworth.bsky.social and thoroughly enjoying it. Somehow, despite the description of an autopsy, it makes me hungry for fine food and wine!

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens. Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.

submitted 24 days ago • 1941 comments