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It really is an interesting moment, logistically, to have a whole lot of military assets prepositioned in the capital.

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No, Kristi Noem. Senator Padilla identified himself. Yes, he did. Everyone heard it. It was recorded. The recording was broadcast. It was actually broadcast worldwide. We're not only inside an Orwell novel, we're well into it, nearly at the end.

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💙💙💙💙💙

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"I didn't vote for this." - people who absolutely voted for this but thought this would only hurt people they hate

submitted 12 hours ago • 32 comments

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A snapshot moment where Trump’s diminished mental capacity is on full display. Trump claims Putin fought in World War II (Putin was born after the war was over) and he lost 51 million people (approximately 27 million Russians died in WWII).

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you may be mad at me, but im also mad at me so what now?

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

The Holy Bible gets at least one prediction right: That we wouldn't recognize the AntiChrist when he appears among us.

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On the one hand, folks frequently argue women are two weak for combat. On the other hand, when women are drawn as warriors, they're frequently wearing next to nothing — maybe a chain-mail bikini — while men are frequently drawn in full battle gear, armor and whatnot. So, really then, who's weaker?

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This is quite true. But I'd like to add that the meme is really good advice.

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There's a lot of pushback on describing what Israel is doing to the people of Gaza as being a genocide. And sometimes the argument is that victims of a genocide wouldn't be perpetrators of a genocide. World history would strongly disagree. This happens fairly regularly.

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I dunno, frankly insane that we were bullied into silence about a genocide and I don’t think we should be bullied into silence about the same state actors bombing a new population of civilians and starting a major world war

submitted 5 hours ago • 7 comments

Centrist Democrats: It's not time yet to do anything — we'll let you know when it's time and what we're doing. But in the meantime an anonymous donor has offered a rare 700 percent match and your $3 will really help a lot.

submitted 49 minutes ago • 0 comments

team "do something" was right all along.

submitted 16 hours ago • 16 comments

July 14 is Bastille Day. Just saying.

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kristi 'puppy killer' noem said that what Senator Alex Padilla did today was "political theater". This person. This person said that.

submitted 7 hours ago • 76 comments

We are invading Greenland now.

submitted 1 hour ago • 5 comments

To Kristi Noem we’re all annoying puppies.

submitted 2 hours ago • 17 comments

In the past week, a union leader has been arrested, a U.S. Rep charged with a crime, a U.S. Senator violently handcuffed, and reporters shot with rubber bullets and detained. There is no ambiguity. This is a regime operating as an authoritarian. Americans who believe in liberty must oppose it.

submitted 16 hours ago • 323 comments

The road to fascism is always lined with people saying those giving warnings are overreacting. Always.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Uff.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

If we don't put a stop to this, we are done.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

You know who didn't identify themselves? The thugs who assaulted Senator Padilla.

submitted 7 hours ago • 87 comments

Booker voted to confirm Charles Kushner as Ambassador to France. Gonna take me a while to get over that.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

What happened to Sen. Padilla was outrageous and now international news outlets around the world are covering the story.

submitted 7 hours ago • 12 comments

Just awful how this scene can satisfy The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper...

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“My family was separated by deportation, and I was left behind.” - Diane Guerrero

submitted 9 hours ago • 66 comments

Three minutes of zen. Justin Johnson on the flat-blade trenching-spade guitar.

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Some with clout are standing up: Reps. AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Al Green, LaMonica McIver; Sen. Alex Padilla; Govs. JB Pritzker, Gavin Newsom (belatedly); several others. Just asking here: Is the next step to coalesce behind one leader? Who then? Who is our Lech Wałęsa? Who is our George Washington?

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

they're putting hands on senators when are you dumb motherfuckers gonna wake up

submitted 13 hours ago • 12 comments

Reposting

submitted 15 hours ago • 45 comments

People abducted by masked gunmen, often as they're making a good-faith effort to work within the system. Judges arrested and arraigned. Mayors and members of the U.S. House detained. Troops on the streets. A U.S. Senator handcuffed. Surely all just some kind of coincidence. Let's not overreact.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

After every mass shooting, the press and media seem to always find a way to manage each story as a one-off incident — a disturbed lone gunman off the rails, instead of the product of a holistic environment. I see the press and media now treating our current acts of tyranny in the same fashion.

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Things will surely get better this weekend though, right?

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I'm just a boy, standing in front of a year, asking it to knock it the fuck off.

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If you remove a few words of rhetoric, she's saying Team Trump is staying in California to liberate California from its local and state leadership. That seems not good.

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see what you need to understand is that they’re coming hard at california bc if they can take us down then it tells the smaller states there’s no point in fighting. we’re the bellwether. that’s why it’s so important we stop this shit NOW.

submitted 16 hours ago • 168 comments

When I was a kid (in the Sixties), I heard adults (who were born in the Thirties) mock the French citizenry as cowardly and the German citizenry as complicit in WWII. In 2025, as it turns out, quite a few Americans are one or the other, and some of us are both.

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Sen. Padilla: “If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question…I can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and throughout the country.”

submitted 16 hours ago • 37 comments

'failed to identify himself' — which, I'll add, is in reality what the MASKED GUNMEN do routinely as they're abducting people off the streets.

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Chances that any of the 45 U.S. Presidents other than Donald Trump — from George Washington to Joe Biden — would condemn the handcuffing of a U.S. Senator: 100 percent. Chance that Donald Trump will condemn the handcuffing of a U.S. Senator: 0 percent.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

My frequent reminder that ‘Protect and Serve’ is not the mission of the police; it’s just a marketing slogan. The mission of the police is to enforce order. And who decides what is ‘order’? The police.

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I see we've gotten to the 'handcuffing US Senators' phase of our descent into tyranny.

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We are just such suckers for corporate propaganda. One example: In other countries, no one refers to 'pre-existing conditions' — they document people's 'medical history' Label literally anything 'socialism' and Americans will shun it, even when whatever it is would save their own lives.

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The confederate flag is literally the most un-American flag.

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People yelling impeach don’t really understand how deep of shit we are standing in right now.

submitted 23 hours ago • 154 comments

Crazy that some folks still post that ‘no one is above the law’

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