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Los Angeles specifically is the realest America, imo.

submitted 4 hours ago • 20 comments

“Motivated by love of country” nah Stephen Miller has been on the record as being motivated by hate since he was literally in high school.

submitted 12 hours ago • 60 comments

CATO Institute Director of Immigration Studies

submitted 1 day ago • 164 comments

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

submitted 5 hours ago • 176 comments

Every accusation is a confession

submitted 16 hours ago • 78 comments

Journalists have to make judgments based on the available evidence all the time--about character, about honesty, about consistency, about motivation. It's disingenuous to pretend that doing so is wildly outside the bounds of a reporter's job, or that "objectivity" means never expressing an opinion.>

submitted 12 hours ago • 22 comments

lmao The Sun has a livestream of the “LA riots” on YouTube and when you click on it it’s a bunch of troops standing around doing nothing you can literally hear birds singing in the background what a time to be alive

submitted 13 hours ago • 222 comments

First they illegally deport citizens. Then they unleash ICE to terrorize communities. Now they’ve got the National Guard in L.A. to silence protestors. This ain’t about law and order. This is what authoritarianism looks like.

submitted 12 hours ago • 356 comments

This story exemplifies the reason people are outraged at ICE. This guy did nothing wrong. He broke not a single law. He was a guard at a base that housed US troops. He came here legally through humanitarian parole. He had an asylum application pending. Yet the Trump admin had ICE grab him anyway.

submitted 9 hours ago • 36 comments

Trump nearly falls flat on his face while struggling to walk up the steps to Air Force One today

submitted 8 hours ago • 758 comments

Notable clip today👇 in light of the news that the Trump administration successfully pressured ABC into suspending Moran

submitted 11 hours ago • 338 comments

Just want to shout out the reporters and photojournalists of the @latimes.com. They have a shitty owner, and as a result there are far fewer of them than a few years before, but on this story, as with the fires, they are giving it their all.

submitted 6 hours ago • 18 comments

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

submitted 1 day ago • 705 comments

You're only allowed to condescendingly psychologize Dems. Sorry, them's the rules.

submitted 13 hours ago • 10 comments

Stephen Miller got caught repeatedly trafficking in white nationalist rhetoric and conspiracy theories and an ABC News reporter got suspended for calling Miller hateful

submitted 11 hours ago • 149 comments

Rep. Gomez: LA County alone is 34% foreign born, 34%. So when he says they're going to liberate us, who is he going to liberate us from? Ourselves?

submitted 6 hours ago • 314 comments

beginning to suspect that LA wants ICE to fuck off

submitted 7 hours ago • 157 comments

submitted 11 hours ago • 484 comments

Took less than five months to get to “deploying troops on American soil”

submitted 5 hours ago • 31 comments

This reads like the kind of letter you send before filing litigation.

submitted 6 hours ago • 47 comments

1/ If accurate, this is almost certainly a conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement, including the National Guard if they are federalized.

submitted 1 day ago • 630 comments

looks like an objective assessment to me

submitted 13 hours ago • 479 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 357 comments

Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.

submitted 1 day ago • 2417 comments

L.A. is a Mexican-American city. The majority of the population is made up of racial and ethnic minorities. We are all happy living together and really do not want to see our friends, neighbors and families being terrorized by federal robo-cops. This is bullshit.

submitted 1 day ago • 245 comments

The Insurrection Act is sweeping. It’s a huge grant of power to the President. It is also very expressly for conditions that do not exist in California. And if you’re hypothetically the governor, you should be saying so.

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

Not the most important part of this story, but note how the photographer and videographer do not flinch for a moment here, keeping up with the phalanx of riot-ready cops every step of the way.

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

Stephen Miller is fulfilling his high school wet dream of terrorizing all the Brown people in Los Angeles. My daughter's friends who went to SaMo High with him said he used to seethe while the morning announcements were repeated in Spanish. Hell, they did that when I went there. (Mesozoic age.)

submitted 1 day ago • 512 comments

JD Vance now wants to use the chaos ICE is causing in Los Angeles as pretext to pressure politicians to pass the Republican budget bill that will saddle Americans with trillions of dollars of debt, skyrocket the deficit, take away people’s healthcare, and give massive tax breaks to the wealthy.

submitted 1 day ago • 383 comments

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

submitted 3 days ago • 1700 comments

Trump / Elon split is entertaining I guess, but the entire thing reflects a travesty for our democracy and society more generally. It reifies undermining the rule-of-law and the notion that individuals rather than predictable systems drive value, contracting, and democracy. Watch, but don't cheer.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

There a couple ways to read this kind of thing: a) admin purposefully puts grossly underqualified people in to brick the agencies, which has the effect of funneling power back up to the top b) no one qualified actually wants to work for them and they're scraping the barrel maybe some mix of both?

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

submitted 3 days ago • 3024 comments

peter theils palantir becoming the worlds most powerful military system and data harvester is going to usher in a new, worse age of humanity. i hate to say it but this is complete libertarian cultural victory

submitted 8 days ago • 237 comments

Every year it’s the same: Cut services. Blame the poor. Protect the powerful. But we know where the money is. It’s in corporate profits, real estate empires, and tax loopholes. Let’s go get it.

submitted 9 days ago • 45 comments

You’re telling me this guy was on drugs? I’m not buying it.

submitted 9 days ago • 915 comments

Page One in Des Moines. @jemsinger.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 1596 comments

Apparently when you are Brown even a Real ID is not enough to convince ICE that you are a citizen

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

hi yes and who pays for the army budget just wondering

submitted 15 days ago • 278 comments

I'm genuinely sorry that Fetterman had a stroke and suffers from depression. But arguing that he has a free pass not to do his job in the name of destigmatizing brain injury and mental health struggles is offensive. If he can't do it, he should resign. If he doesn't want to, he should resign faster.

submitted 15 days ago • 618 comments

Jake Tapper thinks this gives him some sort of “speaking truth to power,” “both sides” street cred, when in reality, it makes him look like an obsessively myopic asshole. Democracy is burning down around us, and here is this smug prick. Trump walked into a wall, and he’s still fixated on Biden.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Neguse was grilling Jim Jordan so hard this morning over language in the reconciliation bill to restrict federal judges' ability to enforce court penalties that Jordan had to consult with his lawyers

submitted 18 days ago • 917 comments

The formal acceptance of the Qatari plane by the Trump administration will be largely forgotten within a week's time, if not sooner. Legacy media sees zero incentive in reporting on it beyond that time. If anything, we're more likely to see political reporters post pics of themselves on the plane.

submitted 18 days ago • 49 comments

GWU graduation…

submitted 21 days ago • 239 comments

Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.

submitted 21 days ago • 1116 comments

Pence: "To have POTUS in Saudi Arabia questioning America's global war on terror & describing is as nation building & interventionist I thought was a disservice to generations of Americans who wore the uniform..particularly giving that speech in Saudi Arabia where 15 of the 19 hijackers hailed from"

submitted 21 days ago • 1548 comments

"Average voters won't trust us until we dump on Biden more" is the most transparently self-serving horseshit I have ever heard in my life.

submitted 22 days ago • 82 comments

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

submitted 22 days ago • 163 comments

average comment section in 2025

submitted 22 days ago • 533 comments

Secretary Noem wants to turn the border into a reality show - because exploiting human suffering is easier than offering real solutions. This isn’t leadership, it’s a disgraceful stunt that demeans the office she holds and our nation. Even merely exploring the idea is utterly shameful.

submitted 23 days ago • 44 comments