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This is how you actually do it. Create a schism between the cops and ICE. Who's really in charge? The answer is neither of them. The people and the courts are in charge, so let them figure this out with each other. Secret police are no one's allies.

submitted 14 hours ago • 35 comments

MASSIVE good news for trans people in the United States. A federal judge has just granted class action status to transgender people looking to update their passports. This means that very shorty, the window will open to update your passports with the correct gender marker.

submitted 9 hours ago • 48 comments

Cain is a great avatar for Trumpism, emerging on the scene late in the game with no understanding about anything, no appreciation for depth or history, and absolute confidence in the easiest, wrongest answer.

submitted 8 hours ago • 21 comments

Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

submitted 10 hours ago • 449 comments

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

submitted 12 hours ago • 663 comments

Padilla: I was forced to the ground, first on my knees and then flat on my chest. And as I was handcuffed and marched down a hallway repeatedly asking, why am I being detained? Not once did they tell me why. I pray you never have a moment like this

submitted 12 hours ago • 87 comments

Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, another mayor candidate who has cross endorsed Lander, speaks to crowd.

submitted 13 hours ago • 19 comments

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1114 comments

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

submitted 14 hours ago • 2173 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 118 comments

The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.

submitted 1 day ago • 529 comments

Remember this? Does the @nytimes.com remember this?

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

citizens of new york city: do not heed the word of the failing new york times. listen instead to beloved ugly house blog mcmansion hell and rank Zohran Mamdani #1 on your ballot. DO NOT RANK SUBURBANITE AND BIKE-LANE PARKER ANDREW CUOMO mcmansionhell.com/post/7865401...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

New Yorkers scream out each officer’s lawsuits against them for excessive force and more upon their city, right to their faces while protesting.

submitted 4 days ago • 885 comments

i realize that everybody has their hands extremely full rn but it should be a way bigger deal that mike lee is trying to sell off beautiful, pristine public land

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Free Market is when the entire country is owned by a handful of insane ravenous assholes who use the government to protect them from competition

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

Is it one of those things I'm just not seeing or is the TV news really not headlining that the dude targeted democrats and had a list of democrats?

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

The Times questioning Zohran’s experience kinda just boils down to ideology & racism but the idea of 33 being too young to hold a major political office is so funny. If he was a CEO of a startup that produced something worse than nothing they’d write a glowing feature on his new bold ideas.

submitted 1 day ago • 154 comments

I love all the handwringing about Zohran’s lack of experience when a 19 year-old called Big Balls has recently been made a permanent federal employee with the title Senior Advisor at the GS-15 pay grade in the General Services Administration.

submitted 1 day ago • 186 comments

NYT last year: We're no longer going to endorse in local races. www.nytimes.com/2024/08/12/b... NYT as soon as a candidate they don't like has a shot at winning:

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Alright everyone, one last push. If you or anyone you know is: - LGBTQ+ - 13-24 years old - In the US Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health. It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :) trvr.org/survey2025

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

Unions from around the world have placed plaques on the Haymarket memorial in Chicago. It’s pretty cool to see the continued resonance of an event that occurred in the US but is mostly forgotten here. It’s telling that one of the only US plaques is from the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I don't think I've ever felt more like burning it all down than I have while witnessing the elite project to turn Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander into scary, incompetent monsters while turning an actual incompetent monster, Andrew Cuomo, into a merely complicated fellow who just made an oopsie.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

The Times saying last year they'd no longer endorse candidates in local elections, then immediately being like "oh but not THAT guy" 10 months later because the candidate wants free buses gives away the whole game. "Objectivity" means you break your own rules to punch left as much as you want.

submitted 1 day ago • 212 comments

this is obviously something to take seriously but i am also struck by how the white house’s only move is to double down, no matter how unpopular or politically disastrous it might be

submitted 2 days ago • 465 comments

Powerful sign from a #NoKings protest in Washington state. Vaccines save lives!

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

The Atlantic piece on Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo is full of holes. Mamdani's proposals are picked apart and labeled unrealistic while Cuomo's supposed goals aren't even elaborated on. Cuomo is "an asshole, but he's our asshole"—the New Yorkers who he has sexually harassed might think otherwise

submitted 2 days ago • 91 comments

Because of course he did.

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

Journalists, once again: Get used to using the word LIE. In fact, put that ish in your editorial policies.

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

yes. i think the only thing the white house has accomplished this week is dramatically grow the crowds against them.

submitted 5 days ago • 84 comments

go ahead, post another "both sides" take. tell me about cafeteria complaints and affinity group graduations at liberal arts colleges set the groundwork for today's DHS. write another essay comparing the domestic mobilization of the military to the social dynamics of leftist group chats.

submitted 5 days ago • 55 comments

Okay, the Aliens joke got me

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

whispers liberals and leftists making alliances to take power away from centrists is good, actually

submitted 4 days ago • 53 comments

Things are dogshit, but I am very proud to work here today.

submitted 4 days ago • 47 comments

I forget that a lot of people didn't grow up in super conservative southern baptist homes and don't know about why so many christians are extremely pro-israel

submitted 4 days ago • 16 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 5 days ago • 290 comments

notice the b-b-b-but biden response to "looks like trump is in decline"

submitted 5 days ago • 89 comments

This is the most straightforward thing they've said so far. They're using the military to "liberate" Los Angeles from its mayor and governor.

submitted 5 days ago • 274 comments

okay but the thing about the CIA is that the mythology of the agency belies the reality, which is that for much of its existence it was a rubber room for WASP failsons and their operations reflect this

submitted 4 days ago • 175 comments

SHUT. IT. DOWN. A senator was dragged out of a press conference for standing up for his constituents and against fascism. Watch how your representatives and senators respond to their own colleague being treated like this. That'll show you how they'll react when it's you on the ground.

submitted 5 days ago • 138 comments

a stark admission that they are here to usurp the authority of our duly elected government officials, punctuated by the physical removal of a US senator. Call it tyranny, call it fascism, call it authoritarianism. It's here, and it's coming for us all if we let this stand.

submitted 5 days ago • 43 comments

So they're openly admitting that the military occupation of Los Angeles is meant to eliminate its political leadership who disagrees with the regime?

submitted 5 days ago • 75 comments

Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.

submitted 5 days ago • 2740 comments

this is egregiously bad and all of these people should go to prison, but this is not what a stable regime who are secure in their consolidation of power looks like, they’re coming unglued

submitted 5 days ago • 58 comments

NONE OF THIS IS NORMAL. Thank you Senator Padilla for defending your constituents and showing exactly what Kristi Noem and this administration stand for.

submitted 5 days ago • 95 comments