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Obviously it's a very bad moment but it is funny that Trump really seems to have thought he would win a Nobel Peace Prize by getting on the phone with a bunch of authoritarian sociopaths and saying "knock it off." Dumbest possible version of the Great Man Theory of History. The sports radio version.

submitted 5 hours ago • 114 comments

No explanation. None. It’s obscene. I keep remembering the 1679 habeas corpus act. It reacted to the king arresting people & without trial deporting them. It began: “for prevention of imprisonment beyond seas.” Without explanation, our current SCOTUS majority is undoing centuries of justice.

submitted 19 hours ago • 33 comments

SCOTUS majority not deigning to give any reasons for staying the injunction of the district court - in the highest-possible stakes context & where the executive branch has acted appallingly - evincing real contempt for both district courts & the rule of law

submitted 23 hours ago • 161 comments

with a supreme court like this, what hope do we have?

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

These men are terrorists and every single one of them needs to spend years in prison.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This makes me so angry. Every one of these masked goons that hops out of the unmarked pickup is a domestic terrorist and should be tried and jailed as such.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I wish we lived in a world where @davidjroth.bsky.social could write exclusively about the Mets, but we don't live in that world and I'm grateful he cranks out pieces like this, which is a banger that I wish I could force my parents and all my relatives to read: defector.com/against-the-...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Unaccountable extremist ideological army to persecute all opposition www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/building-t...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This is continued journalistic malpractice from the @startribune.com normalizing a violent white male suspect. He owned a private security company called Praetorian Guard, traveled overseas to preach against abortion and LGBTQ+ people, and attended a bible college that preaches "violent prayer."

submitted 8 days ago • 168 comments

This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, massive.

submitted 9 days ago • 435 comments

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

submitted 10 days ago • 384 comments

This is the lede. There is a woman on camera in charge of a lot of people with guns. She says they are going to liberate a domestic population center from democratically elected officials and violate too many laws to count in the process. I have zero time for anything else.

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

House Democrats need to bring articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, while Senate Democrats need to bring that chamber to a fucking halt.

submitted 12 days ago • 337 comments

In the past week, a union leader has been arrested, a U.S. Rep charged with a crime, a U.S. Senator violently handcuffed, and reporters shot with rubber bullets and detained. There is no ambiguity. This is a regime operating as an authoritarian. Americans who believe in liberty must oppose it.

submitted 12 days ago • 390 comments

If the feds’ objective is to “liberate” Los Angeles and California from its democratically elected leadership, then this not a peacekeeping mission but a program of invasion.

submitted 12 days ago • 24 comments

When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.

submitted 12 days ago • 289 comments

Looking forward to your strongly worded letter, Senator Schumer.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

We've got our brownshirts! Our jackbooted thugs!

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Real world: - Trump team trying to create a Reichstag moment. - Trump telling military audience that LA is hellhole full of "animals" - Officials in Calif trying both to calm things down, and stand up PUNDIT world: - Is it smart politics? - Is Gavin running? - Doesn't Trump look strong!

submitted 13 days ago • 115 comments

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

submitted 13 days ago • 597 comments

this doesnt really sink in until you've witnessed it firsthand. Being at the protests in Seattle in 2020 and then seeing how they were portrayed by the media and perceived by the public was a real eye opener.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

The reverse is actually true: the system is trying to predict which idea will turn out best, at a level of detail that's not achievable. It would be better to have a "really good idea" threshold and choose randomly from proposals making the bar

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

At no point in this entire article of 16 paragraphs does ABC mention that another cop killed this cop by shooting her in the back. Nor does it mention the name of the cop who killed this cop. Nor does it mention that the civilians involved never fired at them. ABC might as well be state media.

submitted 15 days ago • 244 comments

Teams that kneel the ball win the game >85% of the time. Why doesn't every single football team just kneel the ball every play?

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

All of these violent, lawless ICE officers terrorizing communities and hiding their faces weren't just hired this year. It's why dismantling ICE as an agency was so important and remains so. These people are unfit to be public servants if they hate the public.

submitted 16 days ago • 84 comments

For some reason, Goldy Gopher, mascot of the Minnesota Golden Gophers, is the special guest star at this lesbian wedding I am at.

submitted 16 days ago • 66 comments

these people keep forgetting that part of the reason LEOs are typically uniformed is because if you see some masked goon in street clothes ziptying your neighbor and shoving them in a van, you are within your rights to intervene

submitted 18 days ago • 12 comments

I should offer a more substantive critique than this but look at this guy’s face and listen to his voice when he talks; you are a mark if you trust him

submitted 23 days ago • 80 comments

Israel tells people it's safe to go and get aid from a site Israel itself set up. Then, they kill 31 people and injure 170 who are traveling to that site to get some food. Starve people, tease them with scraps of food, then kill some along the way. It's terrorism.

submitted 23 days ago • 28 comments

every article about politics in every mainstream publication is flat out lying to you if it does not emphasize that our government has been taken over by freaks and lunatics

submitted 24 days ago • 124 comments

We were likely years away from making HIV a thing of the past. Humanity triumphing over one of its worst diseases Instead we'll live in a world where people continue getting sick because of a greedy few who didn't want to pay their fair share of taxes

submitted 24 days ago • 49 comments

Trump administration cuts to NSF will result in more than 200,000 FEWER people per year involved in basic science, training, and education - what should have been the next generation of US scientists. This isn't even eating your seed corn, it is setting your seed corn on fire and salting the earth.

submitted 24 days ago • 17 comments

As I've said before, what we're dealing with fundamentally here, and have been dealing with for some time, is evil. Our political norms and political media prohibit talking about a mainstream political faction this way. But it is the truth. It needs to be known and it needs to be said.

submitted 25 days ago • 71 comments

That's my senator. I hope the others follow her lead.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Couldn't agree more with this. It's jaw-dropping to see the patty cake people are playing with him after what was a full constitutional assault that, oh by the way, is almost certainly going to lead to tens of thousands of people in the global south dying needlessly.

submitted 25 days ago • 156 comments