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The LA protests will trigger a drumbeat of "law and order" messaging from the White House and their media allies as a prelude to invoking the Insurrection Act. This is entirely predictable, and any Dem or media outlet that facilitates this narrative will be aiding Trump's authoritarian project.

submitted 19 hours ago • 86 comments

What the fuck is the point of paying money to a police department if they won’t protect people from hostile masked kidnappers?

submitted 20 hours ago • 15 comments

This stuff really pisses off vets.

submitted 21 hours ago • 31 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 18 hours ago • 229 comments

BREAKING The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

submitted 1 day ago • 635 comments

A Chinese Gov Advisor & delegate of C.P.P.C.C.- a group, according to the NYTs, that functions to "broaden the Communist Party’s influence," bought $3.7M worth of Trump's presidential memecoin. That was enough to buy him access to the White House. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

I’m remembering this @radleybalko.bsky.social piece from last year because he was one of the few prominent journalists who laid out what this would look like. open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

We don't have secret police in America. At least we're not supposed to.

submitted 19 hours ago • 672 comments

We hear about how pro-immigrant side is extreme. There is literally nothing more extreme than this statement. Being willing to sacrifice the country’s foundations for an evil goal

submitted 18 hours ago • 138 comments

This is a recurring thing where the second a former appointee says something mildly critical, Trump goes on a tear about how incompetent & traitorous they are. It never seems to occur to him that he’s announcing he’s unfit for his job.

submitted 20 hours ago • 17 comments

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

submitted 21 hours ago • 103 comments

It's the Washington Monument in the background that really takes this to next-level dystopian

submitted 23 hours ago • 364 comments

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

submitted 21 hours ago • 2331 comments

The party that subjected Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Michael Byrd, Ruby Freeman, Shaye Moss, Ashley Thomas and countless other public servants to death threats demand that you to stop posting the names of the ICE agents who are snatching innocent people off the street and disappearing them.

submitted 18 hours ago • 26 comments

These are crimes. They're committing crimes. And when people understandably protest the fact that they're committing crimes, they're shooting flashbangs at them.

submitted 17 hours ago • 29 comments

quiet everyone, I'm trying to take in the towering majesty of two high-agency alpha males going at it

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be the story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

submitted 22 hours ago • 305 comments

Lefty Pundits Continue to Drown Out Democratic Actions with their Complaints about Democratic Inaction www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/06/l...

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

Scenes like this were DIRECTLY caused by Stephen Miller's wailing that ICE can't arrest the number of people he promised they would arrest (bc he lied abt how many criminal aliens there are).

submitted 1 day ago • 157 comments

"It’s not so much [that] Democrats are doing nothing. It’s that the people...best situated to make a stink about what has happened...[spend] entire days claiming that nothing is happening except a comment they watched out of context." @emptywheel.bsky.social www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/06/l...

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

And pitched by Politico (that's their job) and Steve Bannon (are the people who chased this THAT easy a mark?).

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

I confess I bought into the complaint that Dems were feckless about this. Instead, as this piece shows, it is the leftie pundits, ignoring what Dem pols are actually doing, who are the feckless ones. www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/06/l...

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

www.gocomics.com/mikeluckovic...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Um. Sure. Interesting. Thanks for the reminder, USPS.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Some people condemn professional trolls who share child sexual abuse material. We prefer to take a vaguely amused, aloof stance that treats them as “characters” and denotes our contempt for people with beliefs or values. Tomorrow in the NYT.

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

The Republican Party has fully embraced fascism and destroyed American democracy. But some Democrats still say Latinx. I have never felt more politically homeless.

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

Ro Khanna wants Democrats to be the party of feeding USAID to a wood chipper, killing thousands. The party of securities fraud, and environmental violations, and union-busting. The party of Great Replacement and White Genocide conspiracy theories. The party of blatant white-only immigration policies

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Should Democrats take money from someone whose factory violated the Clean Air Act for 12 of the last 12 quarters? Should they welcome someone who operated a racist workplace? Who violated NLRB rules? Who committed securities fraud? Who lied to get a government loan? Who ripped off green subsidies?

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

be sure to stick around until the 33rd paragraph, where you will learn this right-wing grifter posted child sexual abuse images and that media coverage of his post made him sad (you will not hear from any of his critics)

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Kristi Noem less than a month ago: "There is no scenario where Abrego Garcia will be in the United States again." (No matter what happens, bringing him back to the US is a climbdown for the administration)

submitted 1 day ago • 1393 comments

note that this completely inverts the public justification for the deportation scheme. they claim they’re deporting criminals, but they deported Kilmar without knowledge of a crime, and now that they supposedly found one they’re bringing him BACK.

submitted 1 day ago • 139 comments

There it is. Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) says Republicans’ next goal is to kick seniors off Social Security: “Get off of Social Security. Get back into the workforce.”

submitted 1 day ago • 1615 comments

Kind of wild that the New York Times has more sympathy for an influencer who posted child porn than it does for trans children who want to be left alone.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

as always, the only kind of fascist profile I'm interested in seeing

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Probably his best post ever. Concise, good visuals.

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

And thanks to a generation of reactionary centrists, feckless Dems, autocratic GOPers, and a TV culture of non-stop crime shows and bleeds-it-leads news, we spent TWENTY-FIVE YEARS of declining and low crime rates building out that police-state style police system at EVERY level of government.

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

Blood libel is the classic antisemitic monstrously false claim that Jews use the blood of Christian children, and has been an excuse for pogroms and persecution for more than a thousand years. Cynical, dishonest, and dishonorable people try to redefine it as “criticizing Israel’s policies.”

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

I seem to be of the minority opinion that it's bad for our historical understanding when people use "blood libel" to mean "well-documented exposé reporting on actions committed by the Israeli military."

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

Come make me, Temu Heinrich Müller

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments