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Yes. According to Army protocol, congressional staff are VIP Code 5, with a rank equivalent to a two-star general/admiral. Members of Congress are of course significantly higher. I have never seen USCP, FPS, or any other federal LEO treat any Member with anywhere near this disrespect and violence.

submitted 4 hours ago • 41 comments

I feel like Republicans deeply underestimate how stubborn and deeply resentful of bullshit Midwesterners are

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Governor JB Pritzker said to Rep. Mary Miller: "I am not going to be lectured to by somebody who extols the virtue of Hitler." Finally, someone says it to their faces.

submitted 2 hours ago • 139 comments

that "jfc" look on his face at the end

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

Noem and her masked stormtroopers are coming after LA first because they know we’re the strongest. “Start a fight with the biggest guy in the yard on your first day” logic. they don’t expect to lose. they will lose. be emboldened by their targeting us first—we’re the city they’re most afraid of.

submitted 4 hours ago • 5 comments

In case you weren't aware, the greater LA metropolitan area is the size of Portugal and contains 80% more people. They cannot constitutionally do this, but also, they cannot physically do this.

submitted 5 hours ago • 40 comments

A few key points: - Senator Padilla is the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety - He identified himself as a Senator - Right before this happened Noem literally said she was there to liberate Los Angeles from its elected leadership

submitted 4 hours ago • 65 comments

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

submitted 4 hours ago • 747 comments

The idea that Secret Service agents don’t know all the senators on sight alone is absurd. And yes, you can hear him clearly identify himself in the recording. Just nonsense. And this is why the Trump admin likes making “pretty” white women its spokespeople— to play the scared victim

submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

"They didn't realize they were tackling a Senator for asking questions, they thought they were tackling a journalist for asking questions" oh, ok then

submitted 4 hours ago • 56 comments

Nintendo just makes games, has always just made games, and will continue just making games for the foreseeable future They don't have some broader product portfolio they need to shill with their console

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

The maddening thing is liberal media does this over and over again. A hundred years ago this is what news looked like in Germany. They’ll chew their own arms off before attacking the unhinged right wingers.

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

the clear message of this administration is that if your city or state didn’t vote for Donald Trump you do not have the right to self-governance and that will be enforced by the United States military we know what they are

submitted 5 hours ago • 9 comments

Kristi Noem straight up announcing a coup of the California government on live television and Dems still won't do anything about it even though a member of Congress was arrested for no reason moments later

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Noem straight up announcing at a public presser she's here in LA to remove political leadership she doesnt agree with is a testament to not only how fascist she is but also how stupid

submitted 5 hours ago • 36 comments

Call your senators, demand they shut the Senate down.

submitted 4 hours ago • 232 comments

WATCH: California Sen. Alex Padilla is handcuffed and detained at DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference in LA 👇

submitted 4 hours ago • 86 comments

regimes have to project control, consensus, and approval, this shit does the exact opposite and strongly encourages more protest. “if they can do this to a senator, they can do this to you” only works if that senator can’t turn around and go on NBC five minutes later

submitted 5 hours ago • 8 comments

me in 2009: this smartphone is fun to play games on me in 2025: the portal to the horrors is open and never stops screaming

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

some right-winger looked up a jacket I was wearing and is mad that it was expensive when it was for sale in like 2014 and I really don't know how to explain the concept of thrifting to them

submitted 9 hours ago • 597 comments

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submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

I wonder if LLMs would have even taken off had Google not degraded search. For years they used questionable ranking metrics which rewarded SEO slop over useful content. It's not surprising fast but inaccurate information was more attractive than sifting through a 10,000 word essay to find a recipe.

submitted 22 hours ago • 13 comments

It's D&D night

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

i'm laughing thinking about money spent on expansion packs for planet zoo and then the idea that they couldn't pay ppl to make character portraits in their game

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

a lot of the people who will chastise you for criticizing Dems instead of focusing on Trump are surprisingly willing to criticize protestors instead of focusing on Trump

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

Feels kinda important to point out that if non-citizens are required to carry proof of legal status, then citizens do too by default. This is absolutely insane.

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

These 18 Senate Dems just voted to advance the crypto industry's money laundering bill: Alsobrooks Booker Cortez Masto Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Kelly Kim Lujan Padilla Rosen Schiff Slotkin Warner Warnock

submitted 1 day ago • 316 comments

Stephen Miller represents everything vile about this administration and drawing more attention to him will (a) make it harder for the administration to pretend this isn't creepy white nationalism in action and (b) likely make Trump jealous to the point he shitcans him like Elon. Win-win.

submitted 2 days ago • 125 comments

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

submitted 1 day ago • 2321 comments

something's happening

submitted 1 day ago • 87 comments

A terrifying escalation:

submitted 1 day ago • 102 comments

despite everything tumblr remains undefeated as a platform full of the funniest people online fyi

submitted 1 day ago • 13 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 1 day ago • 596 comments

This is like when Russian oligarchs and, more recently, Chinese tech billionaires learned the difference between being a fantastically rich person and being in direct personal control of the state and its powers.

submitted 1 day ago • 109 comments

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I’m being asked every stream if I’m okay. Thank you for the concern, but ignore the media machine. There are protests ALL THE TIME in LA. It’s one of the largest most active cities in the world. I mean Summer Game Fest just happened this weekend in the supposedly burning DTLA.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments