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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

submitted 218 days ago • 3 comments

“You see plenty of elected officials getting into it with each other. You do not see the FBI or secret service dragging their colleagues to the floor and cuffing them…It is the ethos of this administration to treat people not as colleagues, but enemies." - @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

submitted 9 hours ago • 71 comments

For everyone repeatedly abused by NYT headlines, please remember the @inquirer.com is owned by a nonprofit trust.

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

Call it assault, people. Senator Alex Padilla, California's first Latino senator was assaulted. Manhandled is a euphemism. He stopped trying to get free, and they threw him to the floor and cuffed him anyway.

submitted 8 hours ago • 17 comments

I personally hope a lot of folks in the food and hospitality industry end up calling in sick this weekend. I'd call for a general strike but I'm semi-retired so it seems shallow.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

www.kctv5.com/video/2025/0... Now it's starting Be SAFE Be STRONG Be PEACEFUL

submitted 8 hours ago • 26 comments

When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.

submitted 11 hours ago • 244 comments

Trump said protests against him would be met with “very heavy force.” Sen. Padilla’s treatment suggests that’s their attitude toward attempts to question the king’s courtiers as well.

submitted 11 hours ago • 37 comments

I think if you're in Florida you'd have a very very strong Stand Your Ground defense.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

"FBI rights" is dystopian as fuck

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

this is a good wake up call for elected Dems to realize what’s happening and what’s going to happen not generally, not in the abstract, but to them personally shut it all down and start acting like you’re in immediate danger, because you are

submitted 11 hours ago • 190 comments

“ICE” as snatching people from churches now. Never forget they said this👇🏾 MAN AT CHURCH: “We don’t want this in our property.” ICE: “The whole country is our property.” No IDs shown, non-government out of state plates, basic tactical vests that just say police. Who are these men?

submitted 11 hours ago • 764 comments

In the past week, a union leader has been arrested, a U.S. Rep charged with a crime, a U.S. Senator violently handcuffed, and reporters shot with rubber bullets and detained. There is no ambiguity. This is a regime operating as an authoritarian. Americans who believe in liberty must oppose it.

submitted 11 hours ago • 282 comments

Important for US activists to understand that laws cannot protect you. Armed soldiers are on the steets. They are violently arresting judges and mayors and US Senators. They are kidnapping people from churches, elementary schools, and hospitals. Your only protection today is anonymity, opsec,

submitted 10 hours ago • 14 comments

This is not hard. Every Republican member of Congress should join Democrats in condemning this administration’s vicious arrest of Sen Padilla. “A Republic if you can keep it” is now.

submitted 11 hours ago • 333 comments

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

submitted 10 hours ago • 793 comments

If the feds’ objective is to “liberate” Los Angeles and California from its democratically elected leadership, then this not a peacekeeping mission but a program of invasion.

submitted 11 hours ago • 21 comments

they are trying to set up a military dictatorship WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF THE MILITARY with 40% approval ratings

submitted 11 hours ago • 16 comments

An MSNBC anchor just definitively claimed Padilla didn't identify himself when video clearly shows he did. So fucking irresponsible. This is how lies spread.

submitted 10 hours ago • 406 comments

Move to hold the agents who assaulted a sitting senator in contempt of Congress. Call for articles of impeachment against Noem. Stop working on crypto legislation. Demonstrate the stakes of what is happening in LA with your actions.

submitted 11 hours ago • 101 comments

If Donald Trump gets away with deploying the National Guard and Marines into LA without clear authority or justification, he won’t stop there. This isn’t just an attack on Los Angeles — it’s a test run for using the military against any American city he chooses.

submitted 2 days ago • 80 comments

I want to hear Dems start talking impeachment. Today.

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

Kristi Noem just had a Democratic elected official thrown to the ground, handcuffed, and arrested at her presser MAGAs are publicly celebrating because they want nothing more than the jackboot of Big Government stamping on the face of every free person for eternity just like Orwell wrote about

submitted 11 hours ago • 64 comments

Once again, DHS outright LIES to the American public, falsely claiming that people who entered the country LEGALLY are "illegal aliens." BY DEFINITION someone approved to fly here by the US government and who is authorized to enter and work legally is not an "illegal alien." It's a total lie.

submitted 12 hours ago • 9 comments

Holy shit. This is @padilla.senate.gov They just forcibly arrested a U.S. Senator.

submitted 11 hours ago • 70 comments

🚨BREAKING: A senior official in DHS held a briefing for a far-right anti-voting group on Thursday, according to an email sent by the group. The virtual meeting was to discuss how a database run by the department can be used to verify the citizenship status of registered voters.

submitted 11 hours ago • 151 comments

This is outrageous, and we need answers. If this is how the Trump administration treated a United States senator while the cameras are on, ask yourself: what will they do to ordinary people?

submitted 11 hours ago • 189 comments

I've got all the receipts on what Trump caused at Fort Bragg breaking a host of military traditions and regulations. youtu.be/rn1_VGyzfHA?...

submitted 12 hours ago • 13 comments

In the most sprawling voter records request yet, Trump's Department of Justice is demanding an unprecedented amount of election data from Colorado to target political allies and exert more power over state voting processes. This is his test case, mark my words. www.npr.org/2025/06/11/n...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Trump cutting UC research grants will sabotage cancer cures, genetic breakthroughs, & medical tech advances. But it's worth it to own the libs by making sure Grandma dies sooner. These policies are like sawing off your head because your brain keeps disagreeing with you.

submitted 15 hours ago • 20 comments

Tan suits or brown shirts? You can only choose one.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Bears constant repeating: Fear is the goal. That goal is unconscionable and abhorrent. "Trump will want to make the public believe they can remove anyone and everyone. That terror will have real consequences."

submitted 17 hours ago • 30 comments

🤦🧪NIH terminates network aimed at stopping pandemics before they start - Agency calls research to identify viral threats “unsafe” www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

A silver lining on the dark Trumpian cloud https://twp.ai/4ioOQp

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Excellent piece from an amazing colleague @heidiurben.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

In all seriousness one thing Democrats have to do is invest heavily in Spanish-language media. Right now that media is right-wing - even more so than English-language media.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Everyone I knew who covered disinformation got laid off, their bosses got bullied into firing them, or they changed their beats from actual Nazi harassment campaigns. It cannot be stressed the damage the paid-for Substack “free speech” guys did in the service of fascism and against real free speech.

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submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Pro-tip to Blueskyers - when you get good news celebrate it, share it and do not somehow turn it into bad news. The snark on this platform is far too often exhausting, corrosive and exactly what MAGA would want you to be doing - turning good news for us into something not good.

submitted 18 hours ago • 24 comments

as usual, when reporters tomorrow say "the protests turned violent", the violence was only coming from one side

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

New euphemism for authoritarian lawlessness just dropped

submitted 19 hours ago • 342 comments

NEW: The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. ProPublica heard from more than 150 researchers to understand the work that’s been lost.

submitted 18 hours ago • 25 comments

This entire "national immigration emergency" is the fakedy-est faked fake emergency in the history of fakery That is what it was on January 20, and that is what it is now The whole thing is a steaming, fly-riddled pile of horseshit and anyone who tracks immigration trends knows it

submitted 1 day ago • 168 comments

Even if I were inclined to take them at their word (I'm not) what is described here is absolutely impossible to do without constantly violating the Posse Comitatus Act. It is the military doing ordinary law enforcement. It is illegal and dangerous.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments