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The ICE "agents" aren't agents. They're bounty hunters who've been deputized. That's why they don't wear uniforms and or provide ID. They get paid $1k-$2k per person. This is state-sanctioned. human trafficking and kidnapping.

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an easy disguise: all you’d need are some black masks

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Just a reminder that Republicans in Congress could put a stop to this at any time.

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People are getting arrested for impersonating ICE officers, yet another reason we shouldn’t normalize plainclothes, masked police forces that don’t wear badges. www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/u...

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Love that Cake (the band) wants to overturn Citizens United v. FEC (an awful Supreme Court decision). Respect ✊🏾 🎂💵🗳️⚖️

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

If you’ve got a badge and a gun but think your actions are shameful enough to need a mask, you should quit.

submitted 1 day ago • 1403 comments

"We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief. Nor will we ever. Church and State are, and must remain, separate." --President Ronald Reagan, whom I usually never quote

submitted 1 day ago • 441 comments

We are facing a serious threat to democracy, law, and liberty. The abuse of prosecutorial power to intimidate, investigate, and detain political opponents is upon us. It is a constitutional crisis. I will keep speaking out until public outrage overflows. I just hope it’s not too little, too late.

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BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional. We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.

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We've become a failed nation-state in 150 days | Salon.com by @BrianKarem

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The lie that got us into the Iraq war was that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. The lie that’s going to get us into this war is that Iran is on the cusp of a nuclear weapon. Only stupid people would believe the same lis twice.

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BREAKING: We just sued the Department of Homeland Security over their use of excessive force against protesters, reporters and legal observers. Exercising our rights to free speech should never be met with retaliatory attacks by federal agents. We’ll see you in court, DHS.

submitted 2 days ago • 114 comments

Oh YES she did! Thank you @aoc.bsky.social for doing the things that others won't. #SupremeCourt #Impeach #Alito #Thomas www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

submitted 2 days ago • 146 comments

ICE's increasingly aggressive tactics are unacceptable and dangerous. They do not make us any safer. I’m calling for an independent investigation right now — this abuse of power must end.

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Really excited about the time limit on delays. This is huge!

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"The Democratic Party has an AIPAC problem. Too many of its leaders seem more afraid of crossing a powerful lobbying group than they are of dragging the U.S. into another costly regime change war." – Our Revolution leader Joseph Geevarghese. @commondreams.org: tinyurl.com/33498bc3

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BREAKING: Organizers have a date set…👇 "NO KINGS 2.0, 4th of July. 🇺🇸 INDEPENDENCE DAY WITHOUT TYRANNY. 🇺🇸 This 4th of July, we're reclaiming America's promise: Freedom for all… Justice for all… NO KINGS! Are. You. Ready?! 😎✨

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War with Iran would be the most catastrophic US foreign policy decision since the invasion of Iraq. It would give Trump vast new authoritarian powers. Americans of both parties oppose it overwhelmingly. So why are Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries so silent? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

The same people who can’t stop talking about Biden’s health won’t ask Trump why this keeps happening.

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The two arresting ICE officers who detained Brad Lander are both immigrants - one, a Pakistani Muslim and the other, Indo-Guyanese. I don't have a followup sentence here.

submitted 2 days ago • 140 comments

Well done, AOC…👇 Well done. Corrupt. SCOTUS. Impeachment. 😎✨

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Deseret News on Mike Lee: “The tweets were unacceptable for anyone, let alone from a member of the Senate. It revealed a lack of compassion for both victims and their loved ones and cast a poor light on Utah.” Editorial calls on Lee to apologize: www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

I am hearing people on our side describing Brad Lander, Mayor Baraka & Senator Padilla's arrests as "stunts" designed to boost their electoral prospects. First of all, I know that Brad Lander has been quietly accompanying migrants to their appointments for YEARS now, long before he ran for mayor.

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

To the Creature!

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Former ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

submitted 3 days ago • 115 comments

Great Blue Heron searches for breakfast. Or maybe second breakfast. 🪶

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

The at home assassination of a state lawmaker should be getting a bigger reaction from the President than someone throwing a rock at a Tesla dealership.

submitted 2 days ago • 609 comments

We should be able to keep two thoughts together in our heads at the same time: 1) Attacking Iran would be really dangerous. But also 2) Attacking Iran would be extremely dangerous.

submitted 3 days ago • 153 comments

They've got enough money to throw us into another war, but not enough money to fund the suicide prevention hotline. Very "pro-life." Very "pro-family." So "GREAT."

submitted 3 days ago • 510 comments

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

submitted 3 days ago • 1571 comments

Had jury duty this week. The defendant had committed five armed robberies WITH A MACHINE GUN. When asked what I think about firearms, I said: "I think the Second Amendment is one of the stupidest things America ever did, other than the way activist judge Antonin Scalia willfully misinterpreted it."

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The idea that we can "easily" overthrow the regime in Iran is a fantasy of people that have never served. Afghanistan is back in the hands of the Taliban after 20 years of slaughter. Iraq still isn't peaceful. Libya is a war zone that's been in civil war since we dropped bombs. History is screaming!

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Note, there are two dailies in SLC. The SLC Tribune, which is more mainstream, and the Deseret News, which is Mormon. This is the Mormon newspaper calling on him to apologize.

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

I don't know about you...but I'm disturbed by the amount of hell NOT being raised by leadership about masked individuals jumping out of unmarked vans, refusing to identify themselves...and just shoving people into a Goddamn vehicle and whisking them away.

submitted 3 days ago • 1123 comments

Wish I had a governor like this. 👇🏾#walz

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Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) Mayor Ras Baraka (D-Newark) Judge Hannah Dugan (WI) Controller Brad Lander (D-NYC) This is not normal. This is not okay. We cannot let them convince us that this is normal or okay.

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For those unconditionally cheering the attacks on Iran, remember that our early strikes in Afghanistan and Iraq were “successful”. But we ended up getting dragged into costly wars that created more terrorists than we killed. The American people haven’t forgotten that.

submitted 3 days ago • 1542 comments

Call me cautious, but I’m not optimistic about a war run by a reality TV show Commander-in-Chief and his TV talk show chatterbox Secretary of Defense.

submitted 4 days ago • 602 comments

no matter your politics it’s disrespectful to joke about someone’s health. don’t say kristi noem died from getting her ass stuck in a wooden barrel and floated off a waterfall and her head hit every tree branch on the way down and an eagle flew by and grabbed her hat. don’t say stuff like that

submitted 4 days ago • 270 comments

“The best way to honor our parents' memory is to do something, whether big or small, to make our community just a little better for someone else." Beautiful statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman.

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