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Critically important point from Juliette. The only real justification for federalizing the nat guard over a governors objection is when the civil authorities are defying the law. This is attack on the sovereign right of the people of California to self government.

submitted 10 hours ago • 66 comments

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submitted 5 hours ago • 11 comments

There are ZERO riots. I am in downtown Los Angeles. There are live feeds of everything that was here and what went down in Paramount. Dudes on mini bikes making noise and people holding Fuck Ice signs etc. But no violence from protesters. None. Cannot say the same about the opposition.

submitted 14 hours ago • 20 comments

Oh, wow 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 6 hours ago • 7 comments

The Insurrection Act is sweeping. It’s a huge grant of power to the President. It is also very expressly for conditions that do not exist in California. And if you’re hypothetically the governor, you should be saying so.

submitted 16 hours ago • 55 comments

We must keep this highlighted. The “Big Beautiful Bill” cements tRump’s plan to be dictator:

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Posting for no reason. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

submitted 17 hours ago • 29 comments

In preparation for next week’s parade/demonstration, tanks are being moved into Washington, DC today. Unprecedented. (Photo from a colleague in DC)

submitted 1 day ago • 2158 comments

The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2918 comments

Reposting today for no particular reason.

submitted 17 hours ago • 7 comments

The LA protests will trigger a drumbeat of "law and order" messaging from the White House and their media allies as a prelude to invoking the Insurrection Act. This is entirely predictable, and any Dem or media outlet that facilitates this narrative will be aiding Trump's authoritarian project.

submitted 21 hours ago • 87 comments

The arrest of union leader David Huerta is galvanizing a new element—solidarity: “Right now, just in the last 14 hours, labor unions are joining together from far and wide, communities are reaching out in ways I’ve never seen,” Orr told me. “Something is different.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 18 hours ago • 20 comments

Me: Is it ok for me to be the landlord of the concentration camp? NYT: Yes that is fine. Me: Thank you.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

GIFT ARTICLE: A Comprehensive Accounting of Trump’s Culture of Corruption His self-dealing is part of his larger efforts to weaken American democracy. By The New York Times Editorial Board www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/o...

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

one reason for this is how few US newsrooms are willing to interview and hire immigrant and international journalists due to legal costs for work visas, and how often non-white immigrant perspectives are considered 'bias' instead of expertise

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

submitted 22 hours ago • 103 comments

Hell of a photo

submitted 17 hours ago • 370 comments

submitted 21 hours ago • 67 comments

They are using violence against the people of Los Angeles. That is the opposite of safe.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Surprise! Or not.🤷‍♀️ A former DOGE employee says that he found that the federal waste, fraud and abuse that his agency was supposed to uncover were "relatively nonexistent" during his short time embedded within the Department of Veterans Affairs. www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...

submitted 20 hours ago • 36 comments

We don't have secret police in America. At least we're not supposed to.

submitted 20 hours ago • 677 comments

So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be the story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

submitted 23 hours ago • 305 comments

Deportations are supposedly meant to protect Americans from "violent" immigrants, but law enforcement is committing violence against Americans to facilitate deportations. Our government is actively making us all less safe.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

The word you’re looking for is “illegal.”

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

It's been harder to avoid doomscrolling lately, but embroidering jellyfish is still a good way to wind down before bed. Here's my latest.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

This is them trying to save face. I bet this case doesn't make it past the early hearings, though. Regardless, he's going to get the due process he deserves, which is all anyone was ever asking for.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Republicans have gotten a lot more regressive on gender in a very short period of time. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/o...

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

This isn't actually funny at all; it's a window into Trump's worldview, because he absolutely expected any German official to be upset over the Nazis losing. Because if Trump were German, he would be. Because things like "they were fucking Nazis" are way less important to him than "on my team"

submitted 2 days ago • 99 comments

In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

submitted 2 days ago • 311 comments

I can’t understand, after the last 30 years of it happening EVERY TIME, how people think AI is going to stay free Once everyone’s reliant, it’ll cost a fortune we just “have” to pay Its energy needs will cost us the only world we have All so someone doesn’t have to write their own Reddit shitpost

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

Okay, all jokes and schadenfreude aside, Trump would be an idiot (yes, I know) to not fire every single one of these guys immediately. However you feel about them, none of them are Trump allies; they literally all work for Elon.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

No nonwhite person is safe in this country right now.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

AOC: “The girls are fighting, aren’t they?”

submitted 2 days ago • 533 comments

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

submitted 2 days ago • 348 comments

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 127 comments

guys...GUYS

submitted 2 days ago • 67 comments

The Democrats should enlist Elon Musk’s wealth by taxing him heavily and using the money to reduce income inequality.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

"We cannot build bananas in America" 💀

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Hi! I specialize in medication toxicity. All available, real-world data has proven mifepristone is actually even safer than many over the counter medicines. Mortality rates: Mifepristone: 0.65/100,000 Penicillin 2/100K Viagra 4/100K Pregnancy in the US: 22/100,000 (some states see rates >60/100K)

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

Excellent thread on the SCOTUS discrimination case, which was a unanimous decision, written by Justice Jackson.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

New piece! Media coverage of Kilmar Abrego Garcia hurt Trump, not Democrats. An actually data-driven analysis of some stale conventional wisdom. Alt title: Matt Yglesias is wrong about Democrats and Abrego Garcia🧵

submitted 3 days ago • 44 comments

What absolute deranged fantasyland do these people think we live in

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

A window into the actions of ICE in NYC. People go into a building. Their friends and loved ones wait outside, not know if they will be taken or not. When they are taken, it's agony.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Evildoers of the world! See the face of America's mighty counterterrorism program and cower in fear! This bro means business!

submitted 3 days ago • 194 comments

A top covid vaccine adviser at the CDC has resigned, citing concerns that she could no longer help vulnerable people after federal health officials rescinded long-standing recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Sexual abusers do not see women as human beings who are deserving of basic decency and respect. So yes, that is absolutely a dealbreaker.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Zero interest in this book or the conversation around it, but that is an excellent book cover.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments