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Like okay, sure, but you might need a touch more than 2,000 soldiers to pacify the inland empire. Might be helpful if they have a place to go to the bathroom too. Massive authoritarian actions require massive state capacity, which the Trump administration has been destroying since day 1.

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The green lantern theory of authoritarianism that is so popular around these parts is really tiresome, ngl. Just because an individual wants a pretext to do a dictatorship does not mean he has the capacity, capability, or that the state is even structurally built for it.

submitted 1 hour ago • 4 comments

hell yes.

submitted 2 hours ago • 5 comments

not even an officer of the United States

submitted 2 hours ago • 3 comments

really confused about whether Johnson thinks he’s for or against violent mob action towards government officials

submitted 1 hour ago • 11 comments

The Khan has an extremely good comms team

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

An Afghan CTPT officer who was with NDS-03 during the collapse, defense of HKIA, and evacuation confirms to me: “Yes, we have one guy in Texas who has been taken.” “Been taken” is a chilling way of phrasing it from a guy who lived through the disappearances of many of his men in Afg.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Time for a very serious national conversation about the visible cognitive decline of a president who is no longer aware of the world around him. Does anyone have Jake Tapper on speed-dial?

submitted 19 hours ago • 7 comments

A full Tejano band in a big truck rolled into the Olvera St, the lead singer has a Fuck ICE shirt on, and this protest is now a dance party

submitted 18 hours ago • 113 comments

This is the spirit of Los Angeles. This is California. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. #FreeDavidEndRaids

submitted 19 hours ago • 310 comments

Waters is meeting the moment, Harris re-emerged from (forced) retirement, and the Gruesome Newsom personality overwhelmed Gutless Gavin again. Meanwhile Padilla is AWOL and Schiff is probably at CryptoCon.

submitted 17 hours ago • 21 comments

Martin actually does seem to be doing good stuff, despite the fact that the DNC is basically a Potemkin institution

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part of me expected this to happen earlier but also still so fucking early

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

possible in public opinion data over the next 6 months we will see a large thermostatic increase for the liberal position on immigration. already halfway to "peak woke"

submitted 16 hours ago • 9 comments

I hate having to hand it to Gavin Newsom

submitted 16 hours ago • 28 comments

this is, in fact, how democrats should respond to Republicans

submitted 16 hours ago • 11 comments

the american voter approves of the idea of giving everyone a pony, but if will go psychotic if ever have to deal with horse shit on the street, and don't vote for pro pony candidate because they'd actually only give ponies to black people

submitted 16 hours ago • 7 comments

seriously what are they gonna do with an entire brigade for two blocks?

submitted 16 hours ago • 9 comments

I have just been re-reading a timeline of the Euromaidan protests in Ukraine & the thing that always jumps out is that the protests simmered for months until the police started killing protestors, which lead to Yanukovich's ouster within weeks.

submitted 17 hours ago • 8 comments

i think one of my biggest concern with Schumer in particular is he doesn't have the killer instinct to seize opportunity with both hands, mostly because Congress hasn't been anything but choreographed for decades at this point

submitted 16 hours ago • 7 comments

The democratic party is a cosmopolitan party. You shouldn't be ashamed about that. You should have contempt towards those who don't share your values. Disengaged people think we believe in nothing because we try as hard as we can to pretend we don't believe in anything

submitted 16 hours ago • 16 comments

Good shit!

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

It is not possible or practical to assert total control over thousands of people, many of whom are protesting spontaneously. The right is very intentionally seeking out negative images and inevitably will find some. What you are doing by obsessing over this is giving the right exactly what it wants

submitted 17 hours ago • 23 comments

real contender for the defining quote of american christianity here

submitted 16 hours ago • 20 comments

If we sent a brigade of guardsmen every time five cars got set on fire, that'd happen for basically every championship game for every sport

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

I would kill for the timeline where we got Beto in 2020

submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments

I’ve seen a lot of “the left is blowing this race by uniting behind a socialist like Zohran” takes but not enough “the establishment/center is blowing this race by uniting behind a sexual harasser/corrupt weirdo like Cuomo” takes

submitted 14 hours ago • 62 comments

Ukraine endured what seems to have been the largest drone attack since Feb, 2022. This is happening while the US diverts relevant systems like APKWS that could protect Ukraine lives to the Middle East. What is worse is that production for this system hasn't been scaled to help Ukraine.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

This is not a good sign.

submitted 13 hours ago • 82 comments

My 5 year old and I left Little Tokyo in DTLA this morning to go to the museum near USC. We road the metro, walked through a rose garden, & hung out. On our way back, we got off at the Broadway stop, stopped by the protest, & cut our way through the anime fans on 2nd Ave. Truly a hellscape.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Fascists, like republicans and members of the Israeli government, smear those who stand up for others’ rights (like AOC, Thunberg, and the other members of the Freedom Flotilla) as out for their own glory because they can’t fathom having empathy for others.

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A few days ago, Musk called for Trump to be impeached and suggested he was involved in pedophilia. Then Trump threatened to terminate Musk's federal contracts. Now Musk is back to promoting Trump.

submitted 1 day ago • 233 comments

if the U.S. had a real and functional press it would just be nonstop journalism highlighting how this party has absolutely zero ethical center or credibility, its policies are broadly unpopular, and nothing any of its representatives say can be trusted or taken seriously

submitted 23 hours ago • 7 comments

Trump will never support you if you aren’t a billionaire. Don’t support him (I know I’m speaking to the choir here)

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I do wonder what it costs financially to have an army occupying Los Angeles and why I keep being told the government doesn't have enough money to pay for public schools to buy supplies for their teachers

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

I also wonder how many actual ICE agents are abusing their powers. If we get through this it seems likely we'll learn about some that solicited bribes and some that did things considerably worse

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

Media pundits love accusing Democrats of having a condescension problem, but Republicans calling Los Angeles "a city of criminals" is fine.

submitted 13 hours ago • 24 comments