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First time, long time. Gen X NJ native, leftist, rock nerd, sports fan, & militant grammarian. I blame Ronald Reagan. The original Jaboobinator. I'll hang up and listen.
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Just to recap, Trump has taken the extraordinary step of federalizing 2000 member of the California National Guard — over the objections of the state’s governor — in response to a protest that currently involves A FEW DOZEN PEOPLE AT A HOME DEPOT

submitted 8 hours ago • 171 comments

Well, at least we can all dunk on Tom Nichols.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

submitted 10 hours ago • 12 comments

Hope other countries are excited for the LA Olympics!

submitted 11 hours ago • 71 comments

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

submitted 10 hours ago • 627 comments

So just remember if you ever encounter an LRAD or other directional sound weapon, move perpendicular to the direction of the beam. You know just in case it comes up.

submitted 14 hours ago • 14 comments

Trump regime leaders claim to love America, but they hate the majority of Americans, our traditions and our freedoms.

submitted 14 hours ago • 29 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 14 hours ago • 83 comments

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

submitted 14 hours ago • 115 comments

not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser

submitted 15 hours ago • 83 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 15 hours ago • 103 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 17 hours ago • 202 comments

Ladies and gentlemen, the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

The cops that grabbed this New Yorker are part of a secretive, aggressive unit that's particularly close to Mayor Eric Adams. I recently did a detailed investigation of the unit, which has often executed on Adam's priorities -- and has a long of abuses. www.propublica.org/article/eric...

submitted 15 hours ago • 21 comments

I bet it'd be easier for Americans to see ICE agents as just regular folks if they weren't, you know, wearing black masks and hiding their names and identities from the public out of shame.

submitted 16 hours ago • 145 comments

The White House is setting expectations for an invocation of the Insurrection Act

submitted 16 hours ago • 66 comments

Cops cannot be 'reasoned' with. They do what they want with impunity in the US and a lot of people simply refuse to acknowledge this reality.

submitted 17 hours ago • 18 comments

We’re now seeing paramilitary ICE raids in LA — with full on military garb, military tanks, flash bang grenades & the arrest of a major labor leader. This is a core manifestation of fascism — using federal forces to put down dissent. If we don’t stop this now, this is the future everywhere.

submitted 18 hours ago • 61 comments

🚨BIG STORY: Senators put a line into the crypto bill requiring bankrupt banks to prioritize remunerating crypto investors over depositors. The provision could require banks to take cash from your savings account & use it to pay senators' crypto donors. www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-...

submitted 2 days ago • 124 comments

This is the energy we need right now.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Send all this stuff to Ukraine.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

This is like something from a dystopic movie about American fascism. Oh, wait.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

There’s not a large audience interested in the answer to this question, so why are they publishing it? To manufacture consent for cooperation with mass deportations.

submitted 17 hours ago • 8 comments

Midnight, June 7 is the deadline to comment on the revised Schedule F, Trump's plan to politicize the civil servants by converting them into at-will appointees that can be fired for the mildest pushback against illegal actions. It's easy - here is how: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/last-day-t...

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

super curious how one of the favorite topics of a consolidated corporate press owned by rich right wing billionaires is the need for Democrats to behave more like Republicans

submitted 17 hours ago • 12 comments

A teacher breaks down after ICE causes multiple schools to lockdown during graduation ceremonies and parents to flee for their lives. Only the soulless aren’t hurting from what is happening in our country. This is affecting all of us.

submitted 1 day ago • 778 comments

Triangulating Ourselves to Death

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

seems to me the basic error these centrists are making is that they are playing on enemy turf, rather than trying to raise the salience of issues that favor them

submitted 18 hours ago • 185 comments

This has been the case since Clinton and it's destroyed the moral authority of the Democratic Party.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

My advice to Democrats would be to stop letting Republicans set the terms of debate, start making it clear you’re acting on principles instead of polls, and fire Rahm Emmanuel into the sun.

submitted 17 hours ago • 102 comments

Has any Democratic leader in Congress or Governor or anyone with aspirations for 2028 spoken out against this?

submitted 19 hours ago • 36 comments

I must once again point out that all of this is Ronald Reagan's fault.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Removing people from public service because of their identity is the grossest and least-defensible form of anti-trans bigotry.

submitted 19 hours ago • 12 comments

Their reward for serving their country is being punished for being punished for who they are by people who have never spent a day in public service, even if they are now in the government bsky.app/profile/eric...

submitted 19 hours ago • 11 comments

not enough said about how, by turning the national government against states on the basis of ordinary political disagreement, trump is undermining the idea that the union is worthwhile. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 338 comments

Republicans snuck a line into their "big beautiful bill” that could CLOSE nearly 200 Planned Parenthood locations. And guess what? 90% of those centers would be in states where abortion is LEGAL. It’s one step closer to banning abortion nationwide.

submitted 19 hours ago • 87 comments