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submitted 21 minutes ago • 17 comments

National Guard firing tear gas in response to what's described as "several dozen" protesters suggests to me that they're operating on a schedule, not in response to real events. (Or, even worse, some of them are panicking.)

submitted 21 minutes ago • 5 comments

I'm not sure what "usage" means. I get a lot more out of reading this site than Twitter, which is just a stream of white supremacists and spam. And I definitely get much more engagement posting here than I did after Elon took over. It works fine, even without randos yelling slurs at me.

submitted 20 minutes ago • 47 comments

ATTN: If you’re a member of the National Guard or you work for ICE and you’re asked to violate the law or your oath, contact Whistleblower Aid to safely, securely, and legally blow the whistle. You can support Whistleblower Aid HERE: whistlebloweraid.org/beans

submitted 1 hour ago • 67 comments

An anti-voting lawsuit filed Friday is demanding full access to Utah’s voter registration list — including records that are private or classified as protected under state law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 58 minutes ago • 37 comments

Happy Pride!

submitted 53 minutes ago • 0 comments

🔥 WATCH: “Courage is contagious— It’s time to rise up as a generation.” Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social tells @alivelshi Trump’s overreaction shows weakness, and people need to keep showing up. Velshi: “That was the B-12 shot democracy needed this morning.” Full: www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...

submitted 35 minutes ago • 8 comments

1/ One of the things to understand about ABC suspending Terry Moran over this (factual!) tweet is that the network was the Columbia/Paul Weiss in media companies caving to Trump, when he sued over George Stephanopoulos saying Trump had been found liable for rape in the E Jean Carrol case.

submitted 42 minutes ago • 12 comments

🔥 LA PROTEST QUEEN 👸 TO ARMED NATIONAL GUARD IN LA: “This is how ridiculous you look!” Puts on a dinosaur costume 🦕 THEN: “What the hell is this? You’re Americans, aren’t you? Put down your weapons, don’t follow these fascists.” 🇺🇸 (Someone pls buy her a drink on us)

submitted 25 minutes ago • 27 comments

This story exemplifies the reason people are outraged at ICE. This guy did nothing wrong. He broke not a single law. He was a guard at a base that housed US troops. He came here legally through humanitarian parole. He had an asylum application pending. Yet the Trump admin had ICE grab him anyway.

submitted 56 minutes ago • 19 comments

How did we get here? How do we gtf outta here? Essential lessons from history: Journey to American Democracy examines how ordinary people worked to make the principles the founders articulated in the Declaration of Independence the law of the land. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Just curious; I'm a veteran, and I'm disgusted by Trump's pimping of our armed forces for his parade, and attempting to make himself look "Mighty" and "Powerful." How many veterans out there feel the same way?

submitted 1 day ago • 299 comments

Wednesday morning in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals: Trump tries to transfer the NY criminal case that earned him 34 convictions to federal court. That and more in "Rising This Week" for @AllRiseNews.com www.allrisenews.com/p/trump-crim...

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

Bernie Sanders: "We have a president who is moving this country rapidly toward authoritarianism...to a large degree the future of this country rests with a small number of Republicans in the House & Senate who know better, who do know what the Constitution is about, and it's high time they stood up"

submitted 7 hours ago • 248 comments

“Just to be clear, the National Guard has not been deployed in the City of Los Angeles.” -- LA Mayor Karen Bass The @us.theguardian.com is spot on with this fact checking in the story & headline. Other news outlets should follow this lead: www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

submitted 8 hours ago • 20 comments

I guess Stephen Miller ordered the invasion of CA while Trump was out partying!

submitted 8 hours ago • 85 comments

My statement on the arrest of California SEIU President David Huerta.

submitted 7 hours ago • 360 comments

I've seen little comment abt assault-and-arrest of David Huerta, which preceded Trump's escalation yesterday, and which fits the model we saw with Delaney Hall and Jerry Nadler's office. Unlike the prior targets, Huerta doesn't have obvious immunity. He was also injured in the assault.

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

LAPD STATEMENT: “The protests remained peaceful… without incident…”

submitted 17 hours ago • 97 comments

JULIETTE KAYYEM: “Active duty Marines for this, Hegseth? I mean, we were just reporting on it. There's music. The traffic is moving. Most people in L.A. probably don't even know this is going on.”

submitted 17 hours ago • 191 comments

Trump quoted Hitler and said he'd unleash the National Guard against the "enemy from within" before the election. Here we are folks.

submitted 18 hours ago • 82 comments

The Secretary of Defense is talking about using the military against Americans, folks. That's where we are.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

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submitted 18 hours ago • 49 comments

Here it is: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 18 hours ago • 59 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 20 hours ago • 2967 comments

NEW: The tactic has been used by autocrats the world over — including in Turkey, Hungary and El Salvador — to erode perceptions of the courts’ legitimacy and weaken the rule of law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 19 hours ago • 36 comments

These graduates earned their commissions, the same as every other service academy graduate. But because of the bigoted, transphobic administration, they're being denied it. Being trans has no impact on the ability to excel at a service academy, or the ability to serve your country.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

“We have observed approximately 90% of the workers targeted for terminations due to a perceived association with diversity, equity and inclusion efforts are women or nonbinary,” said an attorney representing federal staffers. By @davidmcswane.bsky.social

submitted 22 hours ago • 28 comments

Tom Homan: We are making Los Angeles safer. Mayor Bass should be thanking us. She says they are going to mobilize—guess what? We are already mobilizing. We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight

submitted 22 hours ago • 3222 comments

You'd better read this thread, I think

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

"Why should anyone be ruled? What sense does it ever make to hand over all that power to one person. Americans answered that question nearly 250 years ago. We said no kings." Read @eisendrath.net:

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

ICYMI, this from last night's Letters from an American newsletter from @hcrichardson.bsky.social is chef's kiss heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-6-202...

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

New in PN: Adam Serwer on America's "new dark age" "They see this as a long-term investment in a more ignorant population reliant on sources of information they can control — a docile population that can be easily manipulated." — @adamserwer.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 302 comments

Law Professor @rgoodlaw.bsky.social catches DOJ in a contradiction in the Abrego Garcia case. A major one.

submitted 1 day ago • 181 comments

Betting pool on days to pardon?

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Thinking of a hero I knew and admired.

submitted 1 day ago • 1087 comments

ICE raids in downtown LA… Trump’s America… via: @FOXLA on IG

submitted 1 day ago • 168 comments

Palantir, Praxis, Prospera. A world of corporate city-states? Rich folks mating with robots so they can live forever? Feeding the useless masses - anyone not smart enough or productive enough or 'damaged' in any way - into biofuel processors? Sounds like really creepy scifi, but it's not.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

"Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many employees dismissed by DOGE initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process..." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 292 comments

Reminder that the Social Security Administration (per DOGE) instituted supposed anti-fraud checks for benefit claims made over the phone. Only two out of over 110,000 claims had a high probability of fraud — a rate of .0018%. But it slowed retirement claim processing by 25%.

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments