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A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

submitted 8 hours ago • 691 comments

The Dem Party also has no idea who its leader is, or who it wants the leader to be. Seriously…is it Schumer? Jeffries? I see lots of wannabes pretending to act like leaders (eg, Newsom, Slotkin) but they’re running the same old BS playbook & not actually stepping up. Is it Van Hollen? Pritzker? AOC?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

democratic messaging doesnt make sense. not only in the context of politics, but just in the context of marketing in general. at this point in trump's presidency the party has no clear go-to on what trump is and what they are. and its basic stuff.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

The vibe that Dems are poll-tested cowards with no underlying principles will persist at least as long as they insist on maintaining that image themselves bsky.app/profile/murs...

submitted 2 days ago • 102 comments

Sen. Van Hollen and his meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador is all over the news and social media. Joe Rogan is talking about the value of due process, wrongly denied to Abrego Garcia. Thankfully the “just poll, then do what’s already popular, never try to lead or shape opinion” crowd lost.

submitted 3 days ago • 90 comments

Gotta love it when right-wing media personalities are outflanking Dem institutionalists on something as fundamental as “let’s make sure to have due process before sending people to prison.” Dems always play prevent defense instead of going on offense, & it’s why they always lose. Fucking cowards.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine what would happen if they actually led. This was simply doing the moral thing, fighting for someone wronged by this administration. If they went on the attack? They could get famous! Be in the media! Raise money! Get people in Midwest diners talking about them, thus making them legitimate!

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Democrats will never be an opposition party until they learn that they do not, under any circumstances, “gotta hand it to them”

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Asked why he was so good at defensive game-planning, Bill Belichick explained that many try to find a weakness and exploit it, while he finds a strength and takes it away. Democrats ducking the immigration issue, as if they should compete only where they’re already winning, is bad strategy.

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

I’m not a wise political consultant but I’ve been around a while and I can tell you that somebody like Karl Rove would look at these numbers and say “we should hit him on immigration issues because that’s his only strength and we have a chance to weaken it”

submitted 5 days ago • 80 comments

any Democratic elected who says they can't win the politics of "should we give Trump the power to disappear innocent people into a concentration camp" has a terminal case of consultant brain and should be ruthlessly hounded from office

submitted 4 days ago • 96 comments

reagan/bush judges: "this administration's shocking arguments would reduce the rule of law to lawlenssness" neocons: abolish ICE david brooks: communist manifesto Dem leadership, top liberal consultants/pundits: the latest NYT/Ipsos has Trump up +4 on immigration, +9 with noncollege men

submitted 4 days ago • 72 comments

one thing that Democratic politicians should take note of is that the overlap between “great political optics” and “actual morally good stuff” is really big right now

submitted 5 days ago • 161 comments

🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.

submitted 6 days ago • 591 comments

Why Bukele's tieless looked killed, while Zelensky's bombed.

submitted 8 days ago • 43 comments

Trump said he wants to send Americans to foreign gulags. But what did he mean?

submitted 8 days ago • 32 comments

the only way kidnapping and illegally detaining lawful permanent residents (or citizens!) in foreign concentration camps "plays out" is we all live our lives under fascism or the fascists are jailed and many of them executed. that's it. read a fuckin book.

submitted 9 days ago • 33 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring all removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 9 days ago • 1332 comments

American civil society is full of abject cowards, that is the issue. The government is a mafia state but it is winning because most American elite institutions are devoid of anything resembling integrity and are folding rather than stand on principles that were little more than marketing.

submitted 33 days ago • 551 comments

The fallout from Trump’s trade war has become so devastating that Chuck Schumer is thinking of pausing his book tour.

submitted 10 days ago • 22 comments

Some horrifying details on the white supremacist book purge at the Naval Academy library: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

submitted 11 days ago • 68 comments

I tell my undergrads that my 20th c lecture course revolves around two big questions — what is America and who counts as American?

submitted 11 days ago • 32 comments

I say this a lot but also maybe not enough (??): Ask people in the U.S. territories about this! Look at the stories and histories and legal complexities of the territories! Every recent question/issue of "real" American identity and defining/defending citizenship has a LONG history there.

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

In another country the colonels would be getting ideas.

submitted 14 days ago • 43 comments

The moment is now — Hold them in contempt of court, sanction the lawyers, and lock up those disregarding court orders like we do with everybody else. Or else, stop cosplaying balance of powers.

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

None of this stops until they throw members of the Trump regime in jail for disobeying court orders.

submitted 12 days ago • 28 comments

Trump has repeatedly threatened to annex Canada and has started a trade war with them, bringing relations with our neighbor to their lowest point in any of our lifetimes. If you think it's okay to confirm his ambassador anyway, you lack the gravity to serve in any office, much less U.S. Senator.

submitted 13 days ago • 113 comments

If only SOMEBODY hadn’t unconditionally surrendered all the Democrats’ leverage for nothing in return.

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

This is a great point. For example, when I look back at the epochal changes of this past January, I would personally have voted not to confirm Marco Rubio

submitted 15 days ago • 19 comments

Fucking finally.

submitted 15 days ago • 32 comments

Given this SCOTUS’s trajectory of ignoring stare decisis & engaging in logical gymnastics to interpret precedent in a way to fit the desired result, it is not at all surprising that they did it again to pave the way for Trump to do whatever he wants. But it is nonetheless profoundly depressing.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

The Dodgers went to the Trump White House today to desecrate Jackie Robinson, Sandy Koufax, Fernando, Hideo, and the diversity, equity and inclusion that always gave the team their strength. Instead, they walked in the tradition of Al Campanis. Email them your thoughts! [email protected]

submitted 16 days ago • 41 comments

Bill Ackman didn’t vote for tariffs. He voted for using lies about antisemitism to take away free speech rights on campus and crack down on universities, get a tax cut for himself, try to help Russia win in Ukraine, and empower Elon Musk, while willfully ignoring all the tariff talk. Get it right.

submitted 16 days ago • 29 comments

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

submitted 16 days ago • 1139 comments

It isn’t just companies & execs. It’s also political leaders with the power & tools to do something, anything. Instead, the so-called “reasonable” Rs capitulated long ago, & Schumer is unabashedly the guy saying “there go my people, I must follow them, for I am their leader.”

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

they are segregationists, it has been obvious from the jump, and i think that pundits who dismissed the charge as hyperbolic should explain why they couldn’t see the fact pattern

submitted 17 days ago • 165 comments

Not all heroes wear capes 👇🏽

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

A fundamental rule of ethics: the duty to advocate zealously does not require OR allow a lawyer to violate other ethical rules, such as the duty to not make frivolous arguments. Kudos to this & all other DOJ attorneys who’ve refused to make frivolous arguments in support of immoral & illegal acts.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Hi there, broken record here. Mr. Schumer needs to go. Sign the petition here: www.change.org/p/boycott-co...

submitted 19 days ago • 9 comments

This is a terrific explainer of trade deficits, tariffs, the Trump administration‘s fundamental lack of understanding of the relationship between those two concepts, and how that incompetence led us to where we are now.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments