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One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup

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"So when I'm killing technology grants, am I killing the technology that will allow worldwide vaccination, that will allow the eradication of smallpox or the equivalent today?"

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ICE is going to parks in Los Angeles and kidnapping nannies who are caring for small children The children are witnessing these kidnappings and being held in custody until their parents are contacted Women and children in parks

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USAGM today urgently called back to work the staff of the Voice of America's Farsi language service. All had been on paid admin leave for the past three months with the rest of VOA's silenced journalists.

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FBI Warns Second California Senator Still At Large theonion.com/fbi-war...

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I would also suggest that politicians never leaving X along with their aides and consultants leave them in a far worse echo chamber of “mainstream opinion” than here and they’re under-equipped to be able to handle and judge their surroundings online.

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That there’s a headline.

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New Yorkers scream out each officer’s lawsuits against them for excessive force and more upon their city, right to their faces while protesting.

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Remember that authoritarians are always trying to create crises or take advantage of existing crises as a "state of exception," which gives them more power and abrogates any established restraints.

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I feel like “the president is illegally deploying the military on domestic soil” is maybe something we should not be giving this administration the benefit of the doubt on, or moving with anything less than lightning speed but apparently the courts do not agree with me

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Once again, it seems to me that when a court finds the president is doing something wildly unconstitutional, it is dangerous and unhealthy that we default to “but let him keep doing it until multiple layers of review all agree.”

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A year of The Onion's print edition mailed to your door is on sale for $75 until the end of the week. Father's Day is on Sunday and you will spend tomorrow washing the tear gas out of your eyes. Clear your conscience today. membership.theonion.com

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you need to read this

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Don't forget Native American history. 😉

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Pulitzer prize for this Jay L. Clenendin image of LAPD stormtroopers in front of Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)"

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This is what my family in Los Angeles keeps telling me whenever I call them. NO ONE FEELS SAFE TO GO OUTSIDE

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I think California needs to start arresting Feds. drastic but we’re there.

submitted 2 days ago • 189 comments

THIS A UNITED STATES SENATOR ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA BEING PHYSICALLY SHOVED OUT OF A MEETING ABOUT WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS DOING TO THE BIGGEST CITY IN OUR STATE.

submitted 2 days ago • 279 comments

Trump's military moves - the political Fort Bragg speech, L.A. troop call-up, tanks in D.C. for a Kremlin-style parade - aren't 'a distraction' It's the essence of his regime, and he's pulling a slow-motion coup to crush all dissent and take control My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/coup...

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This is a PROFOUNDLY disturbing dismantling of ACIP that almost certainly lays the groundwork for a broader attack on vaccine availability throughout the United States. He's going to replace these experts with anti-vax quacks who fight to take vaccines off the market and outside insurance coverage.

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I understand the sentiment but the endurance of the Jim Crow South should be a looming specter here because it wasn’t good living for anyone then either but people spilled and gave blood to keep it and it’s had a dedicated movement to restoring it since.

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Every single journalist covering the protests across the US must include an explainer on Stephen Miller covering his white nationalism and his obsession with punishing immigrants. He instructed ICE to arrest more by any means necessary. Protesters are reacting to authoritarian state violence.

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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..."

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Amazing how hard it is to write: “Police shoot at journalists.”

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BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

submitted 5 days ago • 1465 comments

Dear America: This is what you get for ignoring the fact that Russia has been waging a new kind of war against America, and Trump is Putin’s weapon.

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New from 404 Media: Delta, United, American etc don't want you to know they sold your flight data to DHS. The country's airlines sell bulk names and flight itineraries to DHS to be searched without a warrant. Contract tells DHS to not reveal where this data came from www.404media.co/airlines-don...

submitted 4 days ago • 84 comments

The reason I say the US is entering a new dark ages is we’re seeing attacks not just on science, but on the very idea that scientific reasoning should be independent of political control.

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the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

submitted 5 days ago • 276 comments

To not see it as fascism now, you have to utterly ignore what's happening @kjephd.bsky.social www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/fascism

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This is the kind of thing that is going to happen constantly now that we have an unaccountable masked gang with complete impunity: Random scammers, stalkers and criminals are just going to pretend to be ICE, because why not?

submitted 5 days ago • 55 comments

Mass protest gets the goods.

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I guess Trump decided that since he couldn't end the wars in Gaza or Ukraine, or do real trade deals, he might as well start a war in the United States. It's very MAGA!

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This is incredibly courageous and brave. Support NIH staffers. They stuck out their necks for us. Now we have to have their backs.

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The bottom line on the Trump-Musk feud www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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This really cannot be said enough. The only two major internal crisis's in the US are combatting climate change and affording healthcare.

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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

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"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated. “I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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