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Re-upping this!

Who does right-wing media claim is “funding” the immigrant rights anti-ICE protest? Stay with me… Radical jihadist are funneling money from Qatar to Mexican drug cartels, international bankers are funneling money to left-wing groups, and Chinese communists are funneling money to organized labor…

how is this real life www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Had a civil but troubling conversation with two 60-something vocal Trump supporters in the hometown bagel place. Both said Trump critics were "radical leftist Democrats" forcing kids to be gay and trans. One was more sanguine about civil war than reaching unity, saying "We can all get our guns"

It's an illegal use of active-duty troops to enforce domestic policy, it's been a key foundation of our system of laws for 150 years, indeed a blatant disregard for the law, & that's how every headline should describe it.

what

That there’s a headline.

Execs from the company that helped foment a genocide are now taking their expertise to the US Army.

DOGE affiliates Kenneth Jackson and Nate Cavanaugh “disabled and restricted access to the Institute's FOIA system, terminated the employees responsible for processing FOIA requests, and restricted the use of Institute financial resources.”

Now watch this video knowing all this: "FBI ‘Escorted’ Him To Trump DHS Presser They Claim He Crashed" www.mediaite.com/media/news/s...

Stop calling America an oligarchic democracy. It's an oligarchic republic.

Yep, that definitely sounds like the pseudointellect who once asked me to join his Columbia conservative club

"the Court is troubled by the implication inherent in Defendants’ argument that protest against the federal government, a core civil liberty protected by the First Amendment, can justify a finding of rebellion" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Well, I forgot my roommate from my summer 2012 apartment sublet in D.C. is now the Secretary of the Army, until tonight, when he told Fox News there is a troop on the moon

Working in the Army's broadcast studio in Al Faw Palace in Baghdad in '09, @stephencolbert.bsky.social confided to me and a colleague that he'd never seen Caddyshack all the way through

Anyone recall the conservative freakout in 2015 around the Jade Helm conspiracy theory?

Getting a new war scooped by Mike Huckabee and the Pentagon Pizza Report

Again, that doesn't sound like a "preemptive strike"

More free markets from The Free Market People

Share this with people you know. How they react to it will tell you a lot that you need to remember.

Except that they used F-15s, JDAMs, GPS and comms. Other than that, "no U.S. assistance"

If you're expecting an attack and an emergency in response to your "preemptive strike"... then it wasn't much of a preemptive strike, was it?

We drill into military officers that Members of Congress have Constitutional oversight rights, Members outrank four-stars in protocol, and even Congressional staffers are treated like generals/admirals. To see sworn federal officers manhandle and handcuff a U.S. Senator... I'm still shook up.

He's not "Trump's top general"; he works for us and swore an oath to the Constitution

Sen. Murphy: “They say that he didn’t identify who he was. Watch the video, he clearly states, ‘I am Senator Alex Padilla.’ They’re going to spin this, but I’m begging my Republican colleagues, don’t let them do it.”

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.

A lot of media outlets and brands are doing gymnastics to indulge people who exult in irrational, antisocial, violent, fascist behavior that would have been called out as such in any other epoch. Many of them are in government, but that doesn't make them saner or more respectable. Your coverage does

This is appalling and intolerable. Dissent — and separation of powers — are essential to democracy, not threats to it.

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.

If they'll do this to a Senator, what will they do to you? The authoritarian moment has arrived in the US.

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth refused to say whether he would follow the courts if they ruled against President Donald Trump’s deployment of active-duty Marines to Los Angeles.”

🚨 Secretary Noem basically said that her agency is now dedicated to forcible regime change…in American cities and states. There 👏🏽 is 👏🏽 a 👏🏽 name 👏🏽 for 👏🏽 this

“fascism is colonialism turned inwards”

newrepublic.com/article/1579...

i've been trying to see what the right wing platforms (even outside of X) are showing people regarding the protests in LA and i am not sure it can be overstated just how much the AI slop is being used to reinforce the idea that downtown is a post-apocalyptic war zone

There is no deal Thank you for your attention to this matter

My OARP (Oppression Above Replacement President) metric predicts that the United States will be a full-on military dictatorship by June 2026. And I tell you my favorite kinds of potato chips to buy at Home Depot. Think I'm wrong? Use the cold Silvered on polymarket for 2x payout on qualified bets

And Bundy supporters showed up armed to the teeth and were openly sighting in on federal employees. None of this seemed overly troubling to those on the right. Imagine if these images were of LA protestors aiming in on LAPD officers.

Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."

“a founding member of the state’s ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus”

ICE wanted the San Francisco Standard to blur the faces of agents who were taking immigrants into custody. The Standard told them "no." "...we believe that censoring images from this news event would set a harmful precedent for the media’s right to report and the public’s right to know."

It goes without saying that the federal government's "anti-antisemitism" campaign is going to completely ignore this: www.jta.org/2025/06/10/u...