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75 democratic lawmakers voted to thank ice for their service.... the same ice that just physically assaulted and arrested Senator Padilla...

submitted 14 minutes ago • 23 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 48 minutes ago • 53 comments

Laws only mean anything if enforced and upheld, but when there's a bunch of criminals in power, the law means dick to them and they will only apply it in the most extreme prejudicial forms against the rest of us and even more, do things illegally and terrorize us like they are now.

submitted 6 minutes ago • 0 comments

The thing about left-right unrest in the US is that while right wingers have a lot of people willing to do violence, and able to do it, they don’t have that many willing to suffer violence

submitted 41 minutes ago • 6 comments

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

submitted 27 minutes ago • 155 comments

#55/2025 County elections board member Malcolm Roach [R] was charged with 10 felonies for illegally downloading lewd photos and videos depicting a human engaged in sexual conduct with an animal and then erased his search history in a failed attempt to hide his crime. Sickening. Truly sickening.

submitted 6 minutes ago • 1 comment

Padilla: “We will hold this administration accountable”

submitted 20 minutes ago • 118 comments

More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.

submitted 1 hour ago • 5 comments

Alex Padilla, a US Senator getting dragged out of Kristi Noem's press conference for asking questions. This is not America.

submitted 40 minutes ago • 116 comments

“ICE” as snatching people from churches now. Never forget they said this👇🏾 MAN AT CHURCH: “We don’t want this in our property.” ICE: “The whole country is our property.” No IDs shown, non-government out of state plates, basic tactical vests that just say police. Who are these men?

submitted 56 minutes ago • 134 comments

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.

submitted 36 minutes ago • 18 comments

Yeah it's really something to see a U.S. senator being hit with the same impossible compliance demands that the cops scream at people before shooting them during a stop

submitted 51 minutes ago • 9 comments

Impeachment is the remedy for impeachable crimes. It is laid out in the Constitution. Not impeaching sends the message that what is happening is not criminal. We can't wait for midterms.

submitted 1 hour ago • 12 comments

🚨 Secretary Noem basically said that her agency is now dedicated to forcible regime change…in American cities and states. There 👏🏽 is 👏🏽 a 👏🏽 name 👏🏽 for 👏🏽 this

submitted 1 hour ago • 197 comments

Update from my mom about the ICE agents who showed up at the Whittier public library the day the summer reading program for kids started on Monday. The librarians would not let them in to use the bathrooms so they retaliated by peeing on the building and the flowers, etc.

submitted 1 hour ago • 79 comments

The lives of the 7 victims of the 2024 Sapelo Island Gangway collapse mattered just as much as anyone else’s! We’ve filed a lawsuit to demand accountability and declare that Black life must be valued. Black life matters. Justice must value all lives equally.

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

goddamnit i just want to make jokes about song lyrics and eat a taco salad and instead i have to get up and fight fascism every day?

submitted 1 hour ago • 14 comments

If a US Senator is not safe from being handcuffed and detained for free speech, none of us are safe.

submitted 1 hour ago • 292 comments

Siri, what form of government is this called?

submitted 3 hours ago • 10 comments

Called my senators to encourage them to seek Noem's resignation and when she refuses to move for her impeachment Protesting on Saturday Posted to social media to help get the stadium wave rolling What else should one do just now?

submitted 1 hour ago • 6 comments

Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

submitted 58 minutes ago • 323 comments

"Liberate this city from socialists and burdensome leadership." If that's not regime change, I don't know what to tell you. The inflection point is now.

submitted 1 hour ago • 168 comments

just perfect

submitted 6 hours ago • 165 comments

Yes, I definitely what this impeccable specimen of human health in charge of my own health.

submitted 4 hours ago • 188 comments

When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.

submitted 1 hour ago • 90 comments

This kind of shit should be utterly illegal and grounds for automatic impeachment and removal. Like, no vote in the House or Senate required, just an automatic get-the-fuck-out-the-White House. But then most of the shit he's pulling should be.

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs says we’re not being invaded

submitted 3 hours ago • 80 comments

NEW: A prominent LI civil rights attorney will be announcing a lawsuit against ICE later today on behalf of his client, an American citizen from Brentwood, Long Island, NY who says ICE agents detained him, entered his car, reached inside and and demanded he exit the vehicle. More info coming soon..

submitted 4 hours ago • 13 comments

🚨BREAKING: A senior official in DHS held a briefing for a far-right anti-voting group on Thursday, according to an email sent by the group. The virtual meeting was to discuss how a database run by the department can be used to verify the citizenship status of registered voters.

submitted 1 hour ago • 56 comments

Four dead in Ohio. That's what happens when the National Guard is deployed against its own citizens. May the all too short lives of Jeffrey Miller, Allison Krause, Sandra Scheuer, and William Schroeder not be in vain.

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

Gavin Newsom is basically just using this as his presidential campaign instead of calling for an investigation into use of excessive force. Rubber bullets cause serious injury and death, especially at close range. Yet, LAPD is using them point blank, non-defensively, and targeting journalists.

submitted 1 hour ago • 19 comments

Senator Alex Padilla is one of the most decent people I know. This is outrageous, dictatorial, and shameful. Trump and his shock troops are out of control. This must end now.

submitted 1 hour ago • 406 comments

JUST IN: 248,000 Americans filed initial jobless claims last week, unchanged from the week prior and above expectations of 242,000. Ongoing claims hit their highest level since November 2021 as weekly filings remain at an eight-month high. So much for the “Golden age.”

submitted 5 hours ago • 28 comments

on Los Angeles and property damage: do we think it’s free to fix when the cops cause the damage

submitted 2 hours ago • 18 comments

It's true. You can't claim that immigrants are illegal and arrest them from their work place and then not arrest the owner of the company for hiring the "Illegal immigrants" #USDemocracy

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

Designed in a little over a year, Infinite Machine’s $3,495 Olto is meant to be a mass-market electric bike that doesn't look like any ebike that came before. It can carry two passengers, can reverse, and has a footrest that can transform into pedals—all designed to ride on the bike lane.

submitted 2 hours ago • 64 comments

The best way to honor the troops would be to keep the U.S. out of wars, strengthening the VA, and ending homelessness, not a taxpayer-funded authoritarian-style parade through Washington D.C. It’s a waste of money, especially when Congress is cutting Medicaid and SNAP.

submitted 3 hours ago • 11 comments

OOPS: Attorney for Proud Boys in their lawsuit against DOJ may not be allowed to practice law because of a prior felony conviction he appears not to have disclosed, according to the magistrate judge handling the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

i'm not going to dunk on anyone specific, but calling John Roberts a great legal writer is unhinged. disengaged with reality.

submitted 3 hours ago • 16 comments