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they didnt do this when outlaw country musicians quit nashville, when waylon picked up a telecaster, or when willie nelson started doing jazz

submitted 41 minutes ago • 11 comments

An immigrant rights advocate confirmed to me they’re on the ground outside (same facility where Newark mayor was arrested.) Working on getting more details.

submitted 1 hour ago • 7 comments

Why is Apple Maps so bad at… showing you where things are.

submitted 17 minutes ago • 0 comments

Pathetic: ABC’s GMA, World News Tonight, This Week, CBS’ Mornings, Evening News, Face the Nation, NBC’s Today, Nightly News, Meet the Press, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal all failed to cover Trump's new office for ethnic cleansing.

submitted 11 hours ago • 81 comments

"His actions were illegal — both exceeding the scope of his statutory authority and violating the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution" says Judge who blocks Trump from deploying National Guard to LA www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

submitted 1 hour ago • 10 comments

“We are staying here to liberate this city from the socialists & the burdensome leadership that this governor & this mayor have placed on this country” Putting aside for a moment the fact that this is barely coherent, purporting to “liberate” a state from its own elected officials is a 5-alarm fire

submitted 9 hours ago • 8 comments

Rep. Lynch: "In late March, ICE agents wearing masks detained Rümeysa Öztürk. And those of you who watched that abduction, when you compare the old films of the Gestapo grabbing people off the streets of Poland ... it does look like the Gestapo."

submitted 13 hours ago • 211 comments

Pentagon is out with a FULL COURT PRESS publicizing that the United States had nothing to do with Israel’s attack on Iran. CNN and MSNBC are each reporting directly from DOD. They really don’t want the Iranians to hold us responsible. Meanwhile, Israel wants to roll us up into their mess…

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

How it felt walking into tonight's debate.

submitted 2 hours ago • 18 comments

If the Stephen Miller freakshow is too much even for Ron Johnson (!) it’s probably worth confronting Republicans with the ugly truth: they aren’t being bullied into supporting “the MAGA agenda.” They’re being bullied into helping a sadistic degenerate get his fix. www.offmessage.net/p/the-greedy...

submitted 3 hours ago • 34 comments

As someone who often writes A LOT of words fairly quickly... I'm still impressed by a 36 page detailed ruling just hours after the hearing...

submitted 2 hours ago • 14 comments

A federal judge has blocked President Trump from deploying members of the California National Guard to Los Angeles and ordered the administration to return control of the forces to Gov. Gavin Newsom. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 2 hours ago • 21 comments

notice the b-b-b-but biden response to "looks like trump is in decline"

submitted 4 hours ago • 80 comments

Yea it’s pretty easy to see why Alex is so willing to give Trump a pass here

submitted 6 hours ago • 54 comments

yes. i think the only thing the white house has accomplished this week is dramatically grow the crowds against them.

submitted 3 hours ago • 56 comments

Trump's military moves - the political Fort Bragg speech, L.A. troop call-up, tanks in D.C. for a Kremlin-style parade - aren't 'a distraction' It's the essence of his regime, and he's pulling a slow-motion coup to crush all dissent and take control My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/coup...

submitted 9 hours ago • 38 comments

Sometimes maybe you should throw out your dumb format convention because it makes the writer look like an idiot.

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Seeing the ref working to get the media almost to, "Didn't Padilla kind of ask for it really?" I'm pondering the double standard Democrats must constantly navigate. And as much as I attack their sometimes hapless responses to events, it's rarely conceded as a very real factor in the press.

submitted 4 hours ago • 24 comments

Republicans have been openly lying about the effects of their policies for decades now and the media never holds them to account or imposes any kind of social or reputational penalty, so why wouldn't they keep doing it?

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

the phase “THIS bitch” is having its moment

submitted 7 hours ago • 42 comments

Those who don't criticize the government have nothing to fear.

submitted 7 hours ago • 12 comments

mike johnson desperately wants to be a supplicant to a king

submitted 7 hours ago • 332 comments

Just so we're all clear: It's not a coincidence that the first senator they've used physical force against is Sen. Alex Padilla, a Latino man representing California.

submitted 7 hours ago • 286 comments

In case you weren't aware, the greater LA metropolitan area is the size of Portugal and contains 80% more people. They cannot constitutionally do this, but also, they cannot physically do this.

submitted 8 hours ago • 42 comments

capital believes that labor has built them a mill which turns wage labor into a slave you can ethically employ. they believe that this is the end-state of capitalism. palantir and anduril stand for the proposition that they can use this slave to murder their way into eternal tyranny

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

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

submitted 9 hours ago • 146 comments

They're insisting that Donald Trump's election as president means he gets to do whatever he wants and not letting him do so is "violating the will of the people" and "overturning an election." But the governors and senators of a blue state? Totally different. They're illegitimate from the start.

submitted 9 hours ago • 36 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

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We all saw what the hell went on. What the hell are you going to do about it?

submitted 8 hours ago • 68 comments

Adulterous Nazis

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

THIS A UNITED STATES SENATOR ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA BEING PHYSICALLY SHOVED OUT OF A MEETING ABOUT WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS DOING TO THE BIGGEST CITY IN OUR STATE.

submitted 9 hours ago • 274 comments

Andrew Cuomo is afraid he'll lose, so his donors want you to fear me. His SuperPAC just sent out a mailer that artificially lengthened and darkened my beard. This is blatant Islamophobia—the kind of racism that explains why MAGA billionaires support his campaign.

submitted 13 hours ago • 189 comments

not a new point or anything but many of the atlantic types i see complaining about the ungovernability of the la protests are intellectual heirs of the factions and traditions that debilitated the kind of strong & trusted civic society orgs and institutions that could impose discipline

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

"Let me be clear: It fucking matters. Truth matters. Documentation matters. Fighting corruption matters. That accountability seems out of reach right now doesn’t change that." heck yes molly

submitted 13 hours ago • 4 comments

When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments