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Gestapo is short for Geheime Staatspolizei. Literally translated to Secret State Police.

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

NEW -- SecDef Hegseth is asked in Congress what authority, precisely, Trump is using to put troops on the ground in Los Angeles. Hegseth says he doesn't know but is certain Trump has it. www.huffpost.com/entry/hegset...

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

Trump at -11 net approval on immigration and -16 on deportations in new Quinnipiac poll. Possible this isn’t the dominant issue for Trump that some people have assumed! www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

submitted 10 hours ago • 15 comments

Updated presidential issue approval ratings chart (YMMV) reveals a dip in Trump's immigration approval over the last week. Due mainly to a couple of big negative polls. This is the trend to watch over the next week www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data

submitted 2 hours ago • 6 comments

I guess I'd missed this. The new head of the Office of Legal Counsel at DOJ is a former Ken Paxton soldier from his wildly corrupt AG's office down in Texas. Old news. from Jan. But I hadn't heard. Arsonist now running the fire dept. www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/release...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

KENNEDY: Harvard is in many respects violating federal law SCARBOROUGH: What federal law is Harvard violating? KENNEDY: Harvard practices ideological capture

submitted 6 days ago • 2186 comments

Reporter: "This administration has talked a lot about defending law enforcement...but you've been criticized for having a double standard with the president pardoning all these people who attacked police officers on Jan. 6." Bondi: "Well, this is very different."

submitted 15 hours ago • 167 comments

Cops on horses hitting dudes in plaid shirts with sticks because the dudes are not walking quite fast enough? Anyway totally insurrectiony, very invasion.

submitted 2 hours ago • 72 comments

Republican senators freaked out when asked about Trump's military parade costing $45 million. Some hid in elevators. Some stared off into space. Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) snapped: “I answered the question I wanted to answer!” www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-se...

submitted 8 hours ago • 61 comments

ICE Releases Gavin Newsom Beheading Video

submitted 1 day ago • 212 comments

Pathetically incompetent journalism

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Dear @washingtonpost.com : Why will any academic talk to you now? That parenthetical is an insult to his academic integrity: “Is he saying this bc of his years of hard work and research, or just bc he is a partisan hack? 🤷🏻‍♂️” If he’s wrong, show he’s wrong. Don’t attack via snide insinuation.

submitted 3 hours ago • 5 comments

the insinuation here that Levitsky’s politics might influence his scholarship has the causation exactly backwards

submitted 2 hours ago • 8 comments

the word "constitution" does not appear in this article nor does any indication that the Trump regime's actions might be illegal it does however note "White House officials maintain that the president is ... standing up for 'law and order' as Democrats go soft on violent agitators."

submitted 3 hours ago • 91 comments

Pope Leo’s first US episcopal appointment, San Diego’s Bishop-designate Pham, a Vietnamese refugee, invites priests and faith leaders to “stand in solidarity”with migrants at courthouse on June 20, as they make court appearances.

submitted 4 hours ago • 102 comments

Journalistic malpractice/incompetence to not point out clearly and up front that this directly violates a federal statute

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

This is a real thing being posted and circulated by the Department of Homeland Security, referring to undocumented immigrants as “foreign invaders” and urging good Americans to turn them in. (I’ll leave it to BlueSky historians to find comparisons to WWII era materials.)

submitted 13 hours ago • 202 comments

Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole theonion.com/trump-c...

submitted 7 hours ago • 83 comments

This was always clearly the objective and many in the media also insisted on treating anyone who said so clearly like they were some kind of lunatic bsky.app/profile/carn...

submitted 1 day ago • 110 comments

FFS @politico.com

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

Somehow showing more leadership on immigration than elected Democrats

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Trump underwater in literally every single issue. 38% approval overall. 27% approval on his spending bill. 40% approval on deportations. Musk also at 30% approval. 38% approval for RFK Jr. 35% approval for JD Vance. Nobody fucking wants any of this. poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

submitted 10 hours ago • 258 comments

He was also a committed slaveowner who brutalized the human beings he owned. He didn’t fight for honor.

submitted 16 hours ago • 173 comments

From my undergraduate lecture notes on the Weimar Republic's collapse

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Billionaire Walmart heiress Christy Walton is paying for a full page ad in the New York Times entitled ‘No Kings’ and MAGA are now calling to boycott Walmart. This is funny AF. 🤣

submitted 23 hours ago • 100 comments

good piece from @jeffhauser.bsky.social. it is maddening that so much discourse ignores that Kamala Harris ran precisely the campaign the "popularist" crowd wanted prospect.org/politics/202...

submitted 16 hours ago • 21 comments

FFS @politico.com

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

Stephen Miller’s unhinged rage goes straight back to the utter impossibility of his goal: making America white. It can’t be done. So he lashes out with sadistic attacks on Los Angeles and, of course, innocent immigrants. www.salon.com/2025/06/11/s...

submitted 16 hours ago • 24 comments

Somehow showing more leadership on immigration than elected Democrats

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There are huge opportunities right now for ambitious Democratic governors and legislators to make names for themselves. Don't let Newsom hog all the glory.

submitted 16 hours ago • 16 comments

Steve Bannon literally wants to destroy democracy and replace it with an authoritarian state, and anyone who is involved with him is complicit in that project.

submitted 22 hours ago • 13 comments

Oh great, a Hatch Act violation and ignorance about California term limiting governors, all in one!

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

"In the video, agents who hid their faces with masks and sunglasses and traveled in marked border patrol vehicles, are informed they were on private property. “Excuse me, ma’am, listen to me, you are interfering with my arrest,” the agent said. “I am doing my job. You don’t have nothing to say.”"

submitted 22 hours ago • 5 comments

NIH Staff have written The Bethesda Declaration urging the NIH director to end the politicization of science and medicine and a return to academic freedom and scientific excellence. Sign in support. Please share broadly. www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

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There is no way to move forward unless rich liberals find a real media operation

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ABC News said it won't renew senior national correspondent Terry Moran's contract. Moran was recently suspended after calling President Trump and top aide Stephen Miller "world-class" haters.

submitted 1 day ago • 131 comments

Democrats should share videos of the January 6th insurrection and Trump pardoning all of them throughout this week.

submitted 3 days ago • 39 comments

Journalistic malpractice/incompetence to not point out clearly and up front that this directly violates a federal statute

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Hmm, a foreign flag, un-American activity, and violence, you say?

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

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@pelosi.house.gov: "On January 6th...we begged the president of the United States to send in the National Guard. He would not do it...And yet, in a contra-constitutional way, he has sent the National Guard into California. Something is very wrong with this picture."

submitted 1 day ago • 927 comments

what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!

submitted 2 days ago • 331 comments

given how online the white house is, at what point do they suggest locking up the kardashians

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

I spent so many years covering propaganda anticipating this exact moment and so many of my peers bought the paid-for contrarian line that even covering disinformation was somehow, itself, censorship. Now we're at the event horizon. Celebration is protest is riot is justification for a police state.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

It’s just a first step, but it’s a big one. Remember to celebrate our wins!

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This is 100% the fault of ICE and the Trump admin, which has deliberately incentivized this behavior with their tactics. Their goal is to encourage white nationalist groups to dress up as ICE to attack minorities, and the increase in lookalike crimes is to them an acceptable byproduct.

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

Neosegregationist crackpot and abusive TV show host joins ICE raids to film propaganda reels

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