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The Minnesota assassinations, the attempted arson at Governor Shapiro's home, and the violent arrest of Senator Padilla are all straight out of the Jim Crow terrorism playbook. Same goes with cops aiming for journalists covering the ICE protests. None of these are new tactics, just a new iteration.

submitted 4 hours ago • 108 comments

Remember, in America only the secret police get to wear masks

submitted 3 hours ago • 51 comments

Excellent information

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Remember: every day is shut the fuck up Friday. You do not need to speak to law enforcement. you do not need to identify yourself to law enforcement. if the cops come to your house, if the cops come to your car, if the cops come to your protest, shut the fuck up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWEp...

submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

Seems bad?

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 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 2 days ago • 42 comments

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submitted 23 hours ago • 4 comments

wow I wonder if the cops who lied about the sitting senator even though everything they did was on tape are also being less than honest about the presence of violent agitators at the protests in los angeles. they might even not have told the entire truth about other protests

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

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..."

submitted 2 days ago • 150 comments

i think southern baptists should probably consider a ban on being led by child predators

submitted 3 days ago • 326 comments

If you're a NYC voter, I'd like to ask you to picture Mayor Andrew Cuomo's response to this. ... Right? Do not rank him.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Not surprised, not shocked, still trying to keep a cool temperament. But I was taken back by this one. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/u... Where do you go after you're both sides-ing and family feuding something that hasn't happened since the fight over the Civil Rights act?

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.” Right there in the Declaration of Independence.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 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 5 days ago • 895 comments

It’s not just that it’s clearly intentional, it’s that it’s clearly intentional knowing that he’s being recorded. They know they can do whatever they want with complete impunity.

submitted 5 days ago • 231 comments

It’s obvious but worth drawing out what raids of Home Depot’s of all places is about. It’s rounding up people who are really eager for work and for whom there is work, peoples whose labor is in demand. We know this but shows just how far it is from rounding up just the bad guys.

submitted 6 days ago • 414 comments

#2 is a big sticking point, and that it could be in conflict with #3 is less than ideal www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 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 7 days ago • 88 comments

Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.

submitted 7 days ago • 203 comments

The straightest thing you can do as a man is to think a lot about two other guys' balls.

submitted 8 days ago • 1114 comments

Good to have it explained so succinctly

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Might be a lesson here somewhere about outsourcing capacity for key government services to a guy who lives in a lair under a volcano

submitted 8 days ago • 44 comments