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Remember when Biden was president, and he worked to ensure that the benefits of policies like the Infrastructure Law and the IRA disproportionately flowed to poor red states? Well, the GOP responded by unleashing the Marines on California. There is no “both sides” to any of this.

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So am I allowed to call these people Nazis yet or do I need to wait for Charlie to be able to grow a hitlerstache

submitted 6 hours ago • 227 comments

Apartheid, Jim Crow "democracy" returning to the US South soon

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Philly local tv station reporting that a man allegedly posed as an ICE agent in order to rob a car repair business office. How many other criminals might be getting this idea right now, given that actual ICE agents are refusing to show IDs, warrants, badges?

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Really important that no one read this @orlandosentinel.com reporting when it publishes. I'm setting up alerts just to make sure I don't accidentally read it and share it widely when the time comes

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sorry to wag my finger at folks still over there again, but your continued presence allows for a website where their business model makes it worth doing this bsky.app/profile/brai...

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One of the things mentioned here is that they arrived in unmarked cars and wore casual clothing, so if staff hadn’t had the courage to tell them to go away, how would you know they were federal agents and not random adult men abducting children? This should be the biggest conservative mom panic ever

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BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

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“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” Doechii at the #BETAwards

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These umpires are out of control, Craig Counsell was legitimately like very calmly saying "hey I have some questions" and got tossed. For the second night in a row.

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If only we had a Constitutional system in which there was a separate & co-equal legislative branch of government charged with the responsibility of providing oversight over the executive branch. You could even list that branch's powers & responsibilities in Article 1 of that Constitution.

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The central delusion of pundits who desperately try to guilt people into coming back to Twitter: they genuinely seem to think we all secretly MISS Twitter and are merely hanging out over here out of a drab, self-flagellating sense of moral superiority no, we're here because Twitter sucks shit now

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Once again, RFK is a eugenicist who believes that only “sick” people die from vaccine-preventable diseases

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Stephen Miller is the acting president. 1. He ordered the Yemen air strikes, per the signal chat. 2. He lied to Trump about the Supreme Court's holding in the Abrego Garcia case, to get him to reverse his initial reaction to comply.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Hm interesting bit from Sen. Cassidy's floor speech endorsing RFK Jr www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

submitted 7 hours ago • 10 comments

people really need to grasp that Trump is only a symptom and one of the realities is that the reason Democrats have never been willing to deal with the fascism that Trump represents is because actually dealing with that fascism and eradicating it would mean destroying the roots of this country.

submitted 8 hours ago • 6 comments

"He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power" -- The Declaration of Independence's citation of "injuries and usurpations" by King George.

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The bottom line on the Trump-Musk feud www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 17 hours ago • 34 comments

The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.

submitted 12 hours ago • 181 comments

Trump is seeking bloody confrontation. He wants to kill people. It could not be more plain. The people of this country are unsafe until he is, somehow, removed from power.

submitted 8 hours ago • 6 comments

This is a PROFOUNDLY disturbing dismantling of ACIP that almost certainly lays the groundwork for a broader attack on vaccine availability throughout the United States. He's going to replace these experts with anti-vax quacks who fight to take vaccines off the market and outside insurance coverage.

submitted 8 hours ago • 29 comments

This is the kind of thing that is going to happen constantly now that we have an unaccountable masked gang with complete impunity: Random scammers, stalkers and criminals are just going to pretend to be ICE, because why not?

submitted 9 hours ago • 51 comments

This is the Rubicon. Get with your community, support frontline demonstrators and, if you're able, get your own body on the line. The courts and the formal political system have failed us in a new, deep way. The urgency to secure our own rights as people has never been greater.

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

It is genuinely unsafe for average people to use Twitter and speak freely. It appears to be this administration's primary intelligence gathering operation.

submitted 13 hours ago • 162 comments

This is precisely the pivot on which Trump's gulag becomes unpopular. And Trump pitched that false claim during the election by 1) lying about numbers of alien criminals (most of whom are safely in prison) and 2) manufacturing a BS story abt TdA taking over Aurora CO.

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what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!

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NIH is cutting research on mRNA vaccines. NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya signed a petition calling for a halt on the vaccines & said many people view it as a "bad platform." But in 2021 he wrote a white paper praising the technology as an example of the type of breakthrough science NIH should fund.

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

Crypto is the final nail in the coffin of our campaign finance laws. A candidate can create a meme-coin and then claim its revenue as personal income, with no fetters on their speech. Expect to see more of this

submitted 16 hours ago • 8 comments

"When the invaders turn out to be seamstresses and roofers, they’ve felt an even greater need to fabricate an emergency."

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This slashes at the majority of physics and math research in the United States, a major source of national strength. Oppose this. Call your congressman or senator, 202-224-3121 and say no NSF cuts

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Somebody on Mastodon just pointed out that, unlike with tarrifs, you're not seeing a bunch of "This isn't what i voted for" regrets coming from Trump voters about what's going on in L.A. Take with that what you will.

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This is no longer true today. Deployment of federalised national guard and the shooting of that Australian journalist are leading the lunchtime bulletins US is not having a good reputation day in the international media.

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Cannot express how big the disconnect is between what Angelenos are seeing/saying to each other right now and what delusional rabid conservatives are barking online. I know it's par for the course, but this is another level.

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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

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How long til the Third Amendment is awakened from its slumber

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The entire plot of Andor S2 is about the Empire creating a bloody civil disturbance and then blaming the resulting violence on the previously peaceful protestors.

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Federal officials prevented two members of Congress on Sunday from entering an immigration detention facility in Manhattan where the representatives were seeking to investigate reports of overcrowding, stifling heat and migrants sleeping on bathroom floors.

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Folks need to understand the country they knew was clearly not able to preserve democracy, and start asking what conditions need to be that are conducive to a stable democracy. What was, is no longer, and going back to it is not a solution.

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LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

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the issue is not just ICE. we can live free and safe. or we can have police like we have right now. we cannot do both

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