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The dismantling of the research apparatus that made America the science and tech giant it's been over the past century is the greatest own-goal in history. We haven't even begun to calculate or feel the losses

submitted 13 hours ago • 16 comments

It’s wild that in the video DHS posted in an effort to make the beating of an innocent landscaper (with 3 marine sons) seem justified there’s a masked ice goon pointing a gun at a random car passing by and they don’t seem to think it matters at all

submitted 1 day ago • 539 comments

It is clearly illegal to “step out of an unmarked vehicle at an intersection, unholster a pistol and aim it at a group of pedestrians.” Local police are confused about protecting us?

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Why are so many US citizens being arrested by ICE and what happens to them once detained? open.substack.com/pub/greattra...

submitted 21 hours ago • 13 comments

Dear @kenwhite.bsky.social

submitted 22 hours ago • 27 comments

J6ers might be able to escape criminal penalties bc the chief insurrectionist won re-election but not so civil damages. Pardons won't help you here! #Accountability. Some #Justice. apnews.com/article/offi...

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

It's not the Republicans who are scared. Feel like that bears mentioning.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

You can end police misconduct & the associated settlements & judgments overnight. Pass a law that they are required to pay for all police misconduct settlements & judgments out in whole (or partly) out of the retirement funds for police officers. That shit will get sorted real quick.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

34,000 already employed by NYPD. Before overtime, $11 billion in taxpayer funds. Largest police force in world. Cuomo calling for 5000 more. Base starting salary alone: $300 million more. Could instead fund violence interruption & summer youth employment in every NYC neighborhood for 5 years.

submitted 105 days ago • 119 comments

If anything, it is understated in our public consciousness how “North Korean” we have gotten in such a short period of time, even compared to Trump’s first term. We are only a few short months in and already upwards of a BILLION has been spent on making this one guy feel good about himself:

submitted 18 days ago • 21 comments

DHS is looking for former law enforcement, former military, and former terrorism analysts to track migrants in MD, and not to find gang members or drug dealers. Migrants they find at or looking for work. Law-abiding people going to immigration check ins. Parents at elementary school graduations.

submitted 1 day ago • 112 comments

100% of Black people self censor at work. Its a job site not your personal safe space, snowflake.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

The conditions at an ICE family detention facility in Texas are so bad that adults are literally physically jockeying with children for water. This is the desperation ICE is deliberately and, it must be said, sadistically producing. apnews.com/article/migr...

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

The Trump administration has spent months illegally impounding funds in the name of waste, fraud, and abuse. Congressional Republicans are now seeking to cut GAO, an organization dedicated to rooting out waste, frauds abuse, roughly in half.

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

The Left is to blame because they explained what people like her on the Right had made happen.

submitted 2 days ago • 102 comments

brilliant

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

"Forget about intelligence" is the best summary of the Trump era I've seen in every sense

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

A federal judge, named John Badalamenti, awarded a paper that says … this stuff … an award. That’s John Badalamenti. John Badalamenti lauded a paper that refers to whites as “the People” of the Constitution, as distinct from non-white ppl. John Badalamenti. Or, if you missed it, John Badalame

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

incredible, they cop-tensed the possible beginning of the next world war

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

“If it isn’t stopped, and some of this isn’t reversed, like, immediately, a lot of Americans are going to die as a result of vaccine-preventable diseases.” Causing Americans to die is vile and sickening. It is unconscionable that our Congress simply watches the Administration prepare death.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Instead of CUTTING Social Security benefits, Congress should INCREASE payments by $200 per month and extend the solvency of the Social Security program by 75 YEARS. How? Make the wealthiest Americans pay a fairer share. I’ve got a bill to get it done.

submitted 3 days ago • 615 comments

In Florida, “free speech” and “institutional neutrality” mean that a Nazi arguing that nonwhites have no rights wins a prize while a course with “race” in the title is censored for violated the law. Congratulations to all the credulous centrists who helped this along.

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

Pretty sure if any other masked gang were disappearing people off the streets in a major city, the local papers would be all over it. But MS-ICE-13 gets a pass.

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

Yes Tyrese!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

“Juneteenth is a reminder that declarations and proclamations are not enough to make liberty real. No beloved, I am not preaching a works based salvation. I’m saying that salvation that only exists in words and in your head ain’t worth talking about. (1/2)

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

1. The "crisis" in Iran was solved in 2015. The United States and others negotiated the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which imposed a rigorous inspection regime that cut off Iran’s path to a bomb. Then Trump withdrew from the agreement for no reason.

submitted 5 days ago • 74 comments

When did it become legal to drive a vehicle with no license plate?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I think we are well beyond “close” at this point, as these ICE agents in Chicago make clear. (Esp note the metal rod at the ready.)

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Kids DO get more shots now than they did decades ago. There’s also a lot less death from preventable illnesses. That’s a win! Let’s dive into the wonderful world of Vaccine Schedules. The AAP first took ownership of schedules back in the late 1930s and we continue to recommend the vaccine schedule.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

The American gestapo.

submitted 6 days ago • 339 comments

Genuine Question because I Do not understand… so if these men roll up in plain clothes and masks, grab a human being… even a child, and throw them in an unmarked vehicle I am just supposed to look the other way and say nothing ?? Ask Nothing ?

submitted 7 days ago • 514 comments

LA Archbishop Gomez: "The current administration has offered no immigration policy beyond the stated goal of deporting thousands of people each day. ...This is not policy, it is punishment, and it can only result in cruel and arbitrary outcomes." angelusnews.com/voices/ice-r...

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Perhaps having the feds send masked men to grab immigrant workers off construction sites is having an impact on labor costs as well, but who can say for sure.

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

Just like the Padilla case, we've got several media outlets pretending like there wasn't actual video of the incident we all saw, pretending that the authorities account of events isn't directly contradicted by videos shot from multiple angles.

submitted 6 days ago • 40 comments

“The operative difference between the Republicans and Democrats on immigration is that Republicans want to exclude, deport, and jail more brown people while calling them names, and Democrats want to exclude, deport, and jail more brown people without the racial slurs.” @elienyc.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

When Teddy Roosevelt was called disloyal for criticizing Wilson’s conduct of WWI, he said “to announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

submitted 7 days ago • 54 comments

SIXTY federal agents kitted out like they were taking on Osama Bin Laden to raid a swap meet. The ONLY people they ended up arresting were to people already going through immigration court proceedings, seemingly rearrested because ICE agents didn’t want to go home empty-handed.

submitted 7 days ago • 215 comments

On behalf of the people of Greenland, I accept the surrender of the United States of America. As our first act of expanded sovereignty we shall rename your land as “West Greenland”

submitted 7 days ago • 49 comments