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House and Senate leaders should demand resignations from both Major General Pat Work, the 82nd Airborne Division commander, and Colonel Chad Mixon, the Fort Bragg garrison commander. This was possibly the most partisan speech ever delivered by a commander-in-chief to U.S. troops.

submitted 14 hours ago • 63 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 16 hours ago • 400 comments

The contrast and absurdity is so brazen. They're literally raiding Home Depots to find whatever guys are there to get work as day laborers. People eager for work. And the ICE agents has zero idea who they are or any criminal background.

submitted 1 day ago • 267 comments

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 1 day ago • 1453 comments

“It was 1982 and not only did I arrive on Broadway but so did AIDS. This was no time to hide.” Groundbreaking gay playwright and actor Harvey Fierstein accepting his award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. #TonyAwards

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

While everything about this sucks, I've been waiting my whole life for some Third Amendment action, and this might be my chance.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

one reason the "do nothing and let Trumpism disqualify itself" is such a bad strategy for Dems: this shit isn't "watch them as they do something unpopular with Medicaid," this is a gradual ratcheting up of Constitutional offenses and when Dems hang back Trump knows he can proceed to the next level

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Hochschild has done excellent reporting in recent years, but there's no common ground to be had with someone who says things like "our freedoms are not being threatened and Pritzker should be arrested for saying otherwise." Just beat them, and let them try "understanding" my side for a change.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

A reason im not moved by the “don’t give the trump administration the pretext they’re looking for” is that we would not dare say that about any anti-authoritarian protest movement in literally any other country

submitted 2 days ago • 109 comments

LAPD when they think no one’s looking

submitted 2 days ago • 770 comments

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.

submitted 2 days ago • 891 comments

This implicitly puts the responsibility for "stepping back" on the protestors, which amounts to giving in to a dictatorship. Not acceptable. And who cares about maintaining "civic bonds" with degenerates anyway?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: I analyzed nearly 300 federal cases involving the Trump administration. Federal judges—across the political spectrum—are using language I’ve never seen before. One called government actions “unconscionable.” Another quoted Kafka. They’re begging us to pay attention.

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

they're doing this because the Insurrection Act sounds cool and edgy but they can't actually justify using the Insurrection Act. it's a silly action by an insecure administration desperately to seem manly and powerful. it should be criticized relentlessly, but it should also be laughed at.

submitted 3 days ago • 77 comments

There’s no reason that any Democrat should not be running on a platform of abolishing ICE. It should be one of the first question to asked of any candidate, running for a federal office representative, senator, or president.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

People trying to protect their neighbors are not the problem. The fact that some of you are thinking that way reflects a level of psychological capture & submission to fascism that you should interrogate. If they want an "excuse" to do something, they'll create one. The good guys aren't the problem.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Not good enough

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

These are one sentence apart. Words, what do they mean. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/o...

submitted 3 days ago • 75 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 3 days ago • 1497 comments

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

submitted 4 days ago • 326 comments

When having a Karen in the community is good! #impeachtrump

submitted 5 days ago • 88 comments

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

submitted 4 days ago • 123 comments

Everyone likes a good wholesome round of Boer on the Floor.

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

And to think, Canada could have been a part of this well-run real grown-up country for the low-low price of $61-billion for a missile defence system that won't work

submitted 5 days ago • 84 comments

Boooooo

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

It's extremely telling that Donald Trump's immediate reaction to a German person describing D-Day was to assume that they must be unhappy about D-Day.

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

Elon getting in trouble because he can't stop posting, been there tbh

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

God forbid Bezos pay professionals.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

i know no one cares about hypocrisy or shamelessness or anything anymore but these people really used to tell us they were scared of an armed govt being turned against americans, they made an entire career out of it

submitted 6 days ago • 400 comments

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I think I spent a record amount of time working on today's Wordle, mostly because I was under the assumption that it was still using only actual words.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

remembered drake is working on a new album and this was the image that popped into my head

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

This Champions League final is ... not competitive.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Yes, you did vote to deport moms.

submitted 10 days ago • 4931 comments

Dorothy Parker's cruel but famed line on hearing that Calvin Coolidge had died: "How can they tell?" If she were around to see this headline on a WSJ editorial ...

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

The belief that the Harris campaign talked a lot about cultural issues -- it objectively did not -- reflects its failure to properly contend with a tsunami of disinformation. But that doesn't imply that selling out the trans community is the way to go.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

i have said this before but this is why it was and is important not to ignore the “NPC” language. these people really believe that other human beings are not real, with all the consequences that flow from this

submitted 12 days ago • 104 comments

Live your life in such a way that you are never the obvious inspiration for a villain on Law and Order, as Kerik once was (this was prior to his insurrection-friendly doings).

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Please don't leak a Glenn Greenwald sex tape. It's immoral, a huge violation of privacy, but I also just don't want to see that. Thanks.

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

These spelling bee kids are usually so deliberate and careful; seeing someone miss a chance to win because he got overexcited and rushed his answer is so strange.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

And people say Columbus has no local color.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments