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In a Gangster State, the dear leader wastes other people's money on military parades to broadcast his fake strength, attacks the legislative branch and destroys programs that benefit the people.

submitted 9 hours ago • 213 comments

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

submitted 15 hours ago • 88 comments

I know it's been said but I keep getting re-infuriated about RFK Jr doing his thing, like we had this vaccines thing settled, they rule and they were working and all we had to do was NOT put the worst possible person in charge of the country's public health apparatus.

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

These are the people that make America great 🇲🇽🇺🇸

submitted 2 days ago • 1251 comments

We need to remind everyone that this man is in jail because of the ideas in his head, having committed no crime

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

This is so important it hurts. This is the tiny area of a massive sprawling city that Trump is attacking and the entire propaganda machine is churning to make us believe more is happening. Don’t fall for the lies.

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

It’s not a game, dipshit.

submitted 2 days ago • 1782 comments

“What Senator Alex Padilla did today was political theater.” --Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater

submitted 2 days ago • 1690 comments

Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."

submitted 2 days ago • 150 comments

Men are pretending to be ICE to abduct women as if this wasn't the most predictable thing to come out of allowing masked goons with no ID to snatch people off the streets.

submitted 3 days ago • 143 comments

Here’s a video of Stephen Miller in high school screaming that he’s “sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash, when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us.” This is the sociopath shaping our immigration policy and so much more

submitted 3 days ago • 2586 comments

Really important story - army officials asked soldiers to identify themselves if they don't agree with Trump's politics that way he'd get only supportive soldiers in uniform during his political rally on base. Heavier soldiers were also barred from participating.

submitted 3 days ago • 497 comments

Can’t emphasize enough what a disgrace this whole sad episode was

submitted 3 days ago • 134 comments

the southern baptist convention just had to sell their headquarters in downtown nashville to pay for all the sex abuse legal fees.

submitted 4 days ago • 74 comments

They keep talking about punishing protestors as if this country wasn’t FOUNDED BY PROTESTERS WHO ENSHRINED THE RIGHT TO PROTEST, I AM SO TIRED OF HOW STUPID THINGS HAVE BECOME

submitted 4 days ago • 77 comments

He stood in front of our troops today and gave a mean spirited, partisan speech. He stood in front of our troops today and attacked Americans by name. He stood in front of our troops today and goaded them into booing their fellow Americans. Never become desensitized to this.

submitted 4 days ago • 504 comments

Candidly, as a civ-mil watcher, this scene at Bragg is freaking me out more than anything else that's happened so far. Just an absolute collapse of professional military norms.

submitted 4 days ago • 265 comments

We should never let ourselves get desensitized to this. It can’t be overstated how outrageously unpresidential and un-American it is for Donald Trump to speak to the US military like they’re his partisan personal army.

submitted 4 days ago • 189 comments

Trump, talking at Fort Bragg right now about Los Angeles, is doing something I'm not sure I've ever seen a president do: he's actively maligning people in Los Angeles — an American city — in front of U.S. troops. And the troops are applauding. As an Army brat myself, this strikes me as very new.

submitted 4 days ago • 404 comments

for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle

submitted 6 days ago • 77 comments

Trump is aggressively incurious and ignorant about most things outside of thuggery and being on TV, but the new thing this term is that he’s made sure there’s nobody around him to correct him or tell him no. It’s not a good spot for the country.

submitted 4 days ago • 168 comments

What we have seen in the last few weeks is the ending of the Elon Musk presidency and the start of the Stephen Miller presidency.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

We don’t need to re-establish confidence in vaccines. We need to stop letting anti-science dolts and grifters make scientific policies

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

There's a lot to unpack here. But the "why do people in the developed world die from chronic diseases at higher rates than in poorer countries" is because we survive long enough to die from chronic rather than infectious disease. This is epidemiology 101. It's not a mystery.

submitted 4 days ago • 245 comments

There’s more chaos during your average championship-starved city’s sports championship celebration than there is in LA right now even with this utterly absurd militarized government presence. This administration is an absolute farce.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

In the failed state of California in the overrun city of Los Angeles today I drove my mom to the airport, got some coffee with a friend, got the kids from school and worked on some podcast edits. Thank god the United States Military will be sent in to shoot unarmed civilians. This cannot hold.

submitted 5 days ago • 157 comments

"If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived."

submitted 5 days ago • 27 comments

This is on all the Senators who turned a blind eye and voted to confirm. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

submitted 5 days ago • 1558 comments

JUST IN: Health Secretary RFK Jr. has removed all 17 members of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. He says replacing them with new members will help restore 'public trust' in vaccines.

submitted 5 days ago • 236 comments

competition heating up

submitted 5 days ago • 27 comments

It is incredibly dangerous to deploy hundreds of Marines — who are trained in lethal combat, not law enforcement — against American protesters. Absolutely nothing good will come from this.

submitted 5 days ago • 108 comments

In an unprecedented move, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removed all 17 members of the CDC's expert panel of vaccine advisers, citing conflicts of interest. cnn.it/4mYohFy

submitted 5 days ago • 159 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 5 days ago • 115 comments

2,000 National Guard members, 700 Marines, for what? Escalation, violence, and spectacle. But to legitimize a crackdown and normalize military presence on our streets.

submitted 5 days ago • 328 comments

The whole thing started when ICE agents jumped out of vans at a Home Depot in tactical gear and charged at a group of day laborers.

submitted 5 days ago • 1045 comments

It’s obvious but worth drawing out what raids of Home Depot’s of all places is about. It’s rounding up people who are really eager for work and for whom there is work, peoples whose labor is in demand. We know this but shows just how far it is from rounding up just the bad guys.

submitted 6 days ago • 414 comments

Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses. Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

submitted 7 days ago • 102 comments

Sending 2,000 troops to Los Angeles is the same thing as sending a few dozen random people to a gulag in El Salvador, they're doing this because it's a thing they've always wanted to do, not because of any broader goal or coherent plan. Subordination of strategy to tactical planning.

submitted 7 days ago • 42 comments

the funniest thing about the “ice agents are human beings with families” line is that there is no evidence to support the claim. oh they’re real people? what are their names? as far as I’m concerned they’re the T-1000 until proven otherwise

submitted 7 days ago • 39 comments

Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

submitted 7 days ago • 355 comments

ICYMI — ICE DIRECTOR: “These are real people with real families you’re hurting.” He says this not about immigrants… but about ICE agents. A record-setting lack of self-awareness.

submitted 7 days ago • 2087 comments

Pete Hesgeth — who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach — is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will “never forget” the veterans there. What an unbelievable asshole.

submitted 7 days ago • 1496 comments

This is so wrong. All to feed the ego of a mad tyrant who never had the balls to serve. This is not what we do in America. This is so fucking wrong. Makes me so sad. And so angry.👇

submitted 7 days ago • 490 comments

I feel like we aren’t making a big enough deal about how insane this is

submitted 7 days ago • 426 comments

This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”

submitted 9 days ago • 318 comments

That any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists — and that they both individually wield such massive power — is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy.

submitted 9 days ago • 644 comments

Twitter: this is how men with huge balls fight. This is what masculinity looks like Bluesky: this is the first messy breakup of pride month

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