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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's comptroller, mayoral candidate Brad Lander, has been arrested while visiting an immigration court.

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Genuinely hate the 'nothing ever happens' crowd. Just zero empathy and massive privilege to look at the multiple atrocities happening every hour and go 'nothing's ACTUALLY going to happen though...'

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There's a debate about if Lander getting arrested was a stunt? Of course it was a stunt, and it was a good one. He's got the race's best photo op, he raised awareness that they will arrest anyone without a warrant, and most importantly he put his body on the line to do good. Nothing wrong there.

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If this photo was coming out of another country western media would have no problem identifying a fascist takeover by a military backed junta with masked guards

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ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

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Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

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Everything we’re dealing with now is fallout from decades’ worth of mistakes that have been compounded because the people who made them have hung onto power and hidden their crimes. God help us. What a truly awful moment and we’re all stuck here against our will.

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Mr. Antiwar President has us inches away from a Civil War at home and a nuclear war abroad in defense of an ally that is starting random hot regional wars to detract from its ongoing genocide. I’m sure all of this will just naturally cool off.

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The bodies weren't even cold before MAGA spun up a conspiracy theory, deflecting blame for the Minnesota shooting and saying no, it was actually Democrats who did it. To themselves. It makes no logical sense. But it does encourage more MAGA violence. www.salon.com/2025/06/16/c...

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Don Jr: "The trans shooter shooting up a Catholic school -- they'll never release the manifesto. I wonder what their motives could be? It couldn't be that they were on 15 years of hormones."

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Patriot Front crashed Springfield, MO Pride festival. Driving a Penske truck. U-Haul banned Patriot Front from renting their vehicles. It’s time for people to tell Penske to do the same.

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At this point a guy could be screaming "I LOVE TRUMP AND AM KILLING DEMOCRATS SO THEY LOSE THEIR MAJORITY" while caught on camera shooting someone and next day the narrative online will be "far left extremism has gone too far"

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Here's CNN fueling the insane conspiracy theory linking the Minnesota assassin with Governor Tim Walz. "It's a very confusing motive because this guy was appointed to a political position by Tim Waltz." "So you have to try to figure out where he is with a lot of confusing different messages."

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The US Army can march in unison. Synchronized. I don’t think they wanted to…

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Things get chopped up in coverage and context gets lost. What’s happening is an authoritarian regime with existing and increasingly radicalized agencies and law enforcement are brutalizing and disappearing people while the cultists who support them are carrying out asymmetric violence and murders.

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Even Mother Nature is done with Felon47’s bullshit.

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“I expected this to be a terrifying fascist spectacle, but instead I actually feel a little sad” The dichotomy between this gloriously pathetic whomp-whomp of a parade and a nation of enthusiastic record-breaking protest crowds is an incontrovertible vibe shift. The Lame Duck Dictatorship is here.

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Alleged assassin Vance Boelter's best friend and roommate says he is a strong Trump supporter

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Good doggie

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“If ICE is going to wear a mask in their uniform, then I can.”

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This is a great piece about the underlying anxiety of hypernormalisation; “That funny feeling,” as Bo Burnham called it, of having to continue churning on with your jobs, meetings, chores, whatever obligations are required of you by the very system that is ever-more-dramatically collapsing around us

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The point is to create a world in which the authoritarians can simultaneously inhabit a position of victim and abuser, creating an imagined threat of persecution and violence in order to persecute and carry out violence. This is how this always works. We cannot allow this to continue.

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I, like many of you, am not only devastated but furious at the assassination of two Minnesota lawmakers this morning. This isn’t some isolated tragedy. It’s extremism, it’s fascist violence, and we have to treat it that way. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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CNBC: "The Democrats are really not saying anything" on the Israel/Iran strikes. "I mean, Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Schumer, no statements from them." "I think that silence is deafening for many."

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The darkest but most important story you’ll read today, especially if you or your family uses ChatGPT:

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This is a holy shit article. Fragile man asks AI if he can safely leap off rooftop. ChatGPT responded that, if Mr. Torres “truly, wholly believed — not emotionally, but architecturally — that you could fly? Then yes. You would not fall.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

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Should be noted how many sheriffs around the country have spent their careers absolutely champing at the bit to engage in systematic violence against the populace. We’ve seen and heard this for years, so don’t be surprised if it comes to pass. www.cnn.com/2025/06/13/u...

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Explosions ring out across Iran’s capital as Israel claims it is attacking the country

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Reuters: JUDGE ORDERS CALIFORNIA NATIONAL GUARD RETURNED TO GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM'S CONTROL - COURT RULING

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Judge says Trump illegally called up National Guard to assist with LA protests and must return control to governor.

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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.

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A DHS spokesperson defended the detainment, accusing Sen. Padilla of failing to properly identify himself during Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference. But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.

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Governor JB Pritzker said to Rep. Mary Miller: "I am not going to be lectured to by somebody who extols the virtue of Hitler." Finally, someone says it to their faces.

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The Gaza feed on Bluesky has none of the on the ground reality of the genocide . Why ?

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This is how you normalize authoritarianism.

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Disney, Universal sue AI company for copying Minions, Avengers and 'Star Wars' characters

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we need to increase immigration. we have not replaced enough white people yet

submitted 6 days ago • 201 comments

Perhaps the country shouldn't be run by people living in an absolute fever dream that has no relationship with reality

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BREAKING: Brian Wilson, visionary leader of the Beach Boys and a giant of modern music, dies at 82.

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FFS...

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Brace Belden of TrueAnon joined my podcast this week to break down the Elon vs Trump feud and talk about where Elon goes next. Subscribe to my YouTube and watch the episode!

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i think southern baptists should probably consider a ban on being led by child predators

submitted 6 days ago • 326 comments

A startling number of ChatGPT uses are developing intense, reality-bending AI delusions. The impacts on their real lives are often disastrous

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You have no obligation to defend or explain the behavior of random street protesters. We have a lawless government that is flagrantly violating its legal, moral, even philosophical obligations to us. Everything else is secondary

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines and pledged to replace them with his own picks.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — National Guard troops are now protecting ICE agents as they make arrests in LA.

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