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It's unclear to me why the US Congressmen are not escorted by big armed cops to push through obstacles to them exercising their legal rights, and instead everyone now defers to the guys with no uniforms or badges or name tags to determine what is and is not legal?

submitted 2 days ago • 133 comments

begging for someone to leak the party's anti-trans group chat next so i can stop getting screamed at for pointing out when they're doing this exact shit

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Grateful that Brad Lander is using his experience to highlight the biggest outrage; that ICE is re-arresting people who have been 100% compliant with ICE and the courts, with the goal of unlawfully stripping them of a court hearing to juice Stephen Miller's deportation numbers.

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

It’s pretty funny how all the MAGA people pretended to hate neocons and Bush style foreign policy and the split fucking second they get the chance to do it they’re like damn sounds awesome freedom isn’t free

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If you've read that Atlantic story by Annie Lowrey about why ranked choice voting sucks, I'm telling you she's wrong. And I know this because I did something in 2017 Annie did not for this story - I talked to a mathemtician.

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

Lawmakers who put their bodies on the line for migrants? Folks, they’re good. www.discourseblog.com/p/brad-lande...

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In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.

submitted 2 days ago • 202 comments

New York City did not defund the police. This is not a thing that happened.

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

I truly believe we will look back at this attitude as the sickness of our political era. It is an extremely basic fact, and has been for decades, that the vast majority of political violence in the US is committed by the right! You cannot solve a problem if you refuse to identify it.

submitted 3 days ago • 109 comments

"Tenants in Kansas City are declaring victory after eight months on rent strike—the longest such action in the city’s history...an outcome that lends momentum to efforts to adapt labor union strategies for housing fights." inthesetimes.com/article/rent...

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

People should generally be less afraid of: -strangers People should generally be more afraid of: -stairs -rings

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fascism isn’t just Trump he is a figurehead for a sprawling,wealthy pan right network of elites that will require a true reconstruction of democracy and society away from the forces of digitized consumer hyper capital and back towards people based systems to fix.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

... look, it isn't the point, but not a single rank of these dudes is managing a parade march, and that is one of the few things that I can guarantee they've all been trained in. Which means none of them give a solitary shit, especially the NCOs who would in other circumstances be demanding it.

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

Thoughts and prayers (genuine) for everyone injured in LA and at No Kings events. T's & P's (drippingly sarcastic) for each one of these losers:

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It is true. ICE would still be brutalizing immigrants, cops would still be rioting, Israel would still be committing atrocities with our money, capitalism would still be destroying the planet - but they would indeed be at brunch.

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

This is genuinely wonderful news.

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As I understand it, to block Cuomo, it's critical for everyone to fill out all five slots with non-Cuomo candidates. Here's Mamdani's (very fun) video explaining it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFGk...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

LAPD is illegally sharing license plate data with ICE and Border Patrol. Under California law, police agencies are barred from sharing license plate reader data with out-of-state public agencies or federal entities.

submitted 7 days ago • 117 comments

People in the West Bank were afraid that this was coming - that once Gaza had been sufficiently subdued, they'd be next. Please don't miss this because of all the noise about Iran.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Daylight violation of the Posse Comitatus Act: the military is forbidden from domestic law enforcement or political repression

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

If this is true, this is an astounding crime

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

From an Oregon State Police email recruiting members for its SWAT unit: “Are you jonesing to fire 40mm less lethal rounds and gas munitions through windows, gables, cameras, and at fleeing suspects?” "Anyone want to shoot some pepperball into vehicles...?" @maxbernstein.bsky.social @oregonian.com

submitted 7 days ago • 47 comments

My latest scoop: ICE has rescinded its accountability policy for warrantless arrests, giving agents “free license to make any arrest,” per one lawyer representing victims. It follows @theguardian.com exclusive that the agency was told to “push the envelope” to meet Trump’s 3k arrest quota.

submitted 7 days ago • 59 comments

I love recycling

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🧵NEW from @thefreeradical.org: Right in the middle of pride month, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles is obeying in advance and ending their trans health programs for minors and surgeries for adults--despite Trump's legal threats having no actual power. Edited by @davidforbes.bsky.social and me

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

For those who do not have access or care to go to Twitter for the video, here is the video of the U.S. Secretary of the Army stating that there is currently a soldier on the moon:

submitted 7 days ago • 372 comments

SCOOP — ICE employees received an email yesterday telling them the agency's warrantless arrest policy had been rescinded. It's likely part of the Trump administration's efforts to further loosen enforcement restrictions to meet the new quota of 3,000 immigration arrests per day. My report:

submitted 7 days ago • 101 comments

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

submitted 9 days ago • 597 comments

RIP to Brian Wilson, who gave us many perfect albums but also the perfect interview

submitted 9 days ago • 71 comments

This is trash. "A.i." MAKES THINGS UP. We all know this. None of these reports should be admissible in court.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

Los Angeles FC crowd chants, "Fuck ICE."

submitted 10 days ago • 123 comments

Met an active duty member of the military yesterday who filed conscientious objector paperwork in response to deployment of military on U.S. soil. Was told multiple Army have filed, unknown quantities in other branches.

submitted 9 days ago • 473 comments

We must protect our city’s Waymos in case they achieve sentience and are granted voting privileges

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

With Democrats like these... www.newsweek.com/75-democrats...

submitted 9 days ago • 43 comments

cops doing crime on camera. as @chadloder.bsky.social has been pointing out all day, this is totally illegal. cops doing crime. on camera. adjust your stupid headlines accordingly.

submitted 11 days ago • 142 comments

“If a cop is caught in a lie on the stand, it’s much easier for them to say the AI made that up as opposed to them saying you caught me lying in the report,” EFF’s @mguariglia.bsky.social told @sfstandard.com.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

oh wow this just keeps happening

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I was a medic at the Santa Ana protests in OC today. I watched police fire tear gas, flash bangs, & rubber bullets into crowds of men, women, & children. Other medics and I were clearly marked with red crosses, and the police were targeting us. One of the most fucked up things I’ve ever seen.

submitted 10 days ago • 146 comments