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Get in the streets on saturday. It's mandatory

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

“document of limitations” is a good phrase. i think about this whenever the fbi complains warrants burden investigations. like, yeah, that’s what they’re supposed to do.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

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 • 47 comments

California national guard troops and marines deployed to LA to help restore order have told friends and family members they are deeply unhappy about the assignment and worry their only meaningful role will be as pawns in a political battle they don't want to join. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 7 hours ago • 255 comments

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

Tonight I can't stop thinking about Malcolm X saying "America's whole situation is a lunatic fringe" youtu.be/tIkK_suKJYU?...

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

Pritzker's willingness to speak over these fascist pigs is honestly a great endorsement of his suitability to lead in this moment

submitted 7 hours ago • 26 comments

shoutout to every idiot who believed that trump would "end the wars"

submitted 9 hours ago • 125 comments

and Chuck Schumer opposed it, which means he preferred this outcome.

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

i would settle for a little under half the Senate caucus not voting for a bill whose primary effect is to legalize over ten billion dollars in explicit bribes paid to the president

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

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

submitted 8 hours ago • 13 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 9 hours ago • 10 comments

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

submitted 8 hours 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 19 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 9 hours 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 17 hours ago • 12 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 21 hours ago • 222 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 10 hours ago • 14 comments

How it felt walking into tonight's debate.

submitted 10 hours ago • 25 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 11 hours ago • 37 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 10 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 10 hours ago • 22 comments

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

submitted 12 hours ago • 80 comments

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

submitted 14 hours ago • 56 comments

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

submitted 11 hours ago • 71 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 17 hours ago • 40 comments

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

submitted 12 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 12 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 15 hours ago • 5 comments

the phase “THIS bitch” is having its moment

submitted 15 hours ago • 45 comments

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

submitted 15 hours ago • 12 comments

mike johnson desperately wants to be a supplicant to a king

submitted 15 hours ago • 370 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 15 hours ago • 308 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 16 hours ago • 59 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 16 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 17 hours ago • 150 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 17 hours ago • 36 comments