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Yeah I guess LeBron putting up a 22.6 PER is pretty special, but it's not that impressive when you compare him to people rolling out of bed and firing off something like this at age 86.

submitted 4 hours ago • 27 comments

seems like a military response in search of a riot

submitted 5 hours ago • 21 comments

Thought the "the DHS lost a battle at Home Depot" reporting was an exaggeration since I was out and couldn't look into the news too closely, but no, the DHS got owned in an impromptu protest that happened because they wanted to deport some construction workers at Home Depot.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Any man who says he would date his own daughter is most likely in the Epstein files.

submitted 11 hours ago • 7 comments

underrated part of being an independent journalist: you can rightfully call tom homan a bitch and not lose your job.

submitted 10 hours ago • 26 comments

When Democrats retake power, they have to invalidate all Trump-era hirings and firings. An extreme step, but necessary for restoring integrity to the U.S. government.

submitted 19 hours ago • 24 comments

The people pushing for this are just straightforwardly evil.

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

We hear about how pro-immigrant side is extreme. There is literally nothing more extreme than this statement. Being willing to sacrifice the country’s foundations for an evil goal

submitted 11 hours ago • 113 comments

Kat just said "Just because Stephen Miller wants to hit his quota of brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't make this okay" about the LA protests on MSNBC. I wish I knew how to clip these things.

submitted 9 hours ago • 46 comments

Pete Hesgeth — who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach — is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will “never forget” the veterans there. What an unbelievable asshole.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1432 comments

Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

submitted 14 hours ago • 232 comments

This is gonna hit different after a week of Miller and Homan playing soldier

submitted 9 hours ago • 65 comments

Don’t play into this dude’s game. You will never, ever oppose fascism in the perfectly appropriate way to please him. This is the same guy who made fun of pro-choice protesters because he thought they were overreacting since Roe would obviously never be overturned.

submitted 6 hours ago • 112 comments

You are not the man of the moment but at least u recognize this is suboptimal.

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submitted 6 hours ago • 16 comments

"What they want is for people to look at who's rich, who’s important & say, 'That’s just the way things are. That’s the way they're supposed to be.' They don’t want people looking back at the past & saying, “This is because of slavery or Jim Crow or because women were excluded from the workforce.'”

submitted 10 hours ago • 118 comments

ICE vs. Citizens of LA

submitted 8 hours ago • 79 comments

💋👨‍🍳👌

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

Critically important point from Juliette. The only real justification for federalizing the nat guard over a governors objection is when the civil authorities are defying the law. This is attack on the sovereign right of the people of California to self government.

submitted 2 hours ago • 17 comments

The big question is whether a) Apple is inflating this to justify their slow roll-out of AI or b) Apple is able to publish a discovery others have buried because thanks to that slow roll-out they’re less invested in AI. (Or c) Apple are the only ones to discover this, but that seems less likely)

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses. Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

submitted 7 hours ago • 61 comments

i don't want to dunk on any of the people who replied or quoted this with a "well ackshully the national guard will shoot protesters, look at kent state," but my request is to a) remember that kent state was over half a century ago and b) read about the NG's response in its aftermath

submitted 6 hours ago • 83 comments

narrator he did in fact come back.

submitted 1 day ago • 247 comments

the literal mascot of the whole country is the statue who greets immigrants

submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

Not just an affirmative good, it’s supposed to be central to what we are as a country. This is where we lift the lamp beside the golden door.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

submitted 14 hours ago • 103 comments

AIDS Memorial Quilt on display October 11-13 1996 on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Let us never forget.

submitted 12 hours ago • 141 comments

Seems like most people on here are anti-evil. That's the kind of insular groupthink that loses elections :/

submitted 6 hours ago • 41 comments

I love Mexican art so much

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submitted 15 hours ago • 42 comments

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

submitted 5 hours ago • 313 comments

picked entirely because they want to bully a visible blue state into submission but didn't do the math on how much force would be required

submitted 13 hours ago • 49 comments

I bet it'd be easier for Americans to see ICE agents as just regular folks if they weren't, you know, wearing black masks and hiding their names and identities from the public out of shame.

submitted 15 hours ago • 145 comments

I’m seeing all these debates here about whether violence can be justified in some circumstances. That’s not helpful. It is beside the point. This is a battle over legitimacy and the field of that battle is public opinion. This is a flagrant abuse of power. It is a crisis entirely of the Presidents..

submitted 4 hours ago • 30 comments

sitting in a government reeducation camp talking about how much this fucking sucks some random asshole: and you’re SURPRISED?

submitted 14 hours ago • 50 comments

Will defer to lawyers, but deploying active duty Marines to suppress domestic dissent is almost certainly a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act and illegal. It's very possible this would represent an unlawful order that military leaders would not be bound to follow.

submitted 6 hours ago • 37 comments

Jared Leto being a creep was an open topic when I was still in high school. It was breaking containment even pre-social media.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

Whatever happens in Los Angeles tonight is the playbook they’re going to deploy on blue districts across the country. And we warned people for months leading up to the election about exactly this.

submitted 8 hours ago • 81 comments

the white house thinks brute force is, no pun intended, a trump card. they don’t anticipate pushback and they don’t know how to handle it with anything other than escalation. the issue is that each escalation is itself a gamble. if protesters refuse to back down, you’ve lost face. (1/?)

submitted 8 hours ago • 133 comments

People in ICE detention are being denied health care and adequate nutrition, often given spoiled food or nothing at all. Our government’s cruelty to immigrants is a moral failing — not a policy solution.

submitted 11 hours ago • 124 comments

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

submitted 8 hours ago • 596 comments

Every one of these covid-revisionism pieces consists of people lying to your face about events that you remember www.persuasion.community/p/frances-le...

submitted 18 hours ago • 69 comments

Don’t rank Cuomo. Do rank these folks:

submitted 11 hours ago • 7 comments

I am an entertainment and Hollywood reporter by trade and by god this week has taken be back…

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

All of this. What they actually want to do is make a big show of terror and try to convince people to stop standing up. Not giving up is what they don’t want. So don’t do that.

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

The George Floyd movement was literally an important part of how Biden got elected but go off with your ahistorical nonsense.

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments