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Investigations are now underway into officers and ICE agents who fired crowd-control munitions at dangerously close range. In case after case, the situation only escalated when force was used against peaceful protesters.

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"In a May 21...recording..., Provost Robin Forman said that when Tulane leadership met with elected officials in April, they were pressed as to why “‘Tulane has taken a stand on the chemical industry as harming communities’,” and this “left people feeling embarrassed and uncomfortable.” "

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The entire board tasked with overseeing the State Department's Fulbright Program has resigned — claiming political interference from the Trump admin. The Board voted "overwhelmingly" to resign "rather than endorse unprecedented actions … impermissible under the law." substack.com/home/post/p-...

submitted 16 hours ago • 38 comments

a borderline-senile angry guy who aspires to be a dictator in charge, surrounded by grifters and absolute right-wing freaks who don't believe in "science" or "medicine" or "equal rights for anyone who isn't a straight, white man", what could possibly go wrong. I'm sure this will all work out great.

submitted 16 hours ago • 12 comments

Jesse Watters' chyron last night: "Terry Moran get's 86'd by ABC." Jesse Watters last month: "Any cop, any prosecutor knows the code for homicide—86."

submitted 23 hours ago • 221 comments

Trump appointees at the State Department are illegally blocking nearly 200 Fulbright scholarships, awards meant to send American professors and researchers abroad for educational exchange.

submitted 17 hours ago • 71 comments

Agree with Sen Hawley that we should look into people who offer support to violent insurrectionists

submitted 17 hours ago • 9 comments

As the US Army celebrates it 250th birthday, Trump is celebrating the enemy that tried to defeat it.

submitted 1 day ago • 77 comments

RFK Jr justifies firing scientists on the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee due to “conflicts of interest.” Yet RFK Jr made almost $100K a year from anti-vax lawsuits and almost $90K a month from his anti-vax nonprofit. The person with the biggest conflict of interest at HHS is the one leading it.

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The networks have been informed of the Marines deployment - but the LAPD has not. Incompetent Kegseth shitshow looms.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

“This is a chilling statement. Even if it were a joke, it was clearly designed to make the public afraid to exercise its First Amendment rights to protest and to hold government officials, including LAPD officers, accountable for their actions.”

submitted 2 days ago • 79 comments

Militarized police on the streets of America will NOT make us great. Single-payer healthcare will make America great. Universal childcare will make America great. Housing for All will make America great. Tuition-free college will make America great.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Wow. RFK announced via a Wall Street Journal opinion piece that he is removing all 17 members of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices, which is the expert panel at the CDC that decides who is eligible for vaccines and whether insurers should cover them.

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

the Uber CEO tells Trump his company supports the MAGA reconciliation bill (that will strip millions of healthcare and food support)

submitted 2 days ago • 532 comments

Senator Ted Cruz posted a dramatic video of LAPD cars on fire with the caption “this… is… not… peaceful.” What he didn’t mention? The footage was from 2020, not 2025. His post on X falsely implied it was current, part of a broader effort to spread lies and manufacture a crisis.

submitted 3 days ago • 1474 comments

If your response to this video is, “That’s what I voted for”— Fuck you. Fuck you very much. You’re heartless.

submitted 3 days ago • 1694 comments

I just watched this go down. Police continue to be overly aggressive

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

It’s almost like someone in a position of great power and influence has encouraged Americans to think of the press as “the enemy of the people.”

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

submitted 3 days ago • 3072 comments

It’s designed to play into a delusional fantasy held by people who not only have never been to LA, but loudly and performatively refuse to visit them because of “the crime.” It’s for people who treat Escape from LA as a documentary.

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Education research is a public good. It can benefit all students; the positive externalities benefit all of us. It's been three months since DOGE tore into IES and I'm still hearing about new layoffs and grant terminations. www.brookings.edu/articles/cut...

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Trump has federalized at least 2,000 National Guard forces and reportedly plans to deploy troops to Los Angeles over Governor Newsom’s objections. If that happens, it will be the first time since 1965 that a president has sent troops into a state without a state request. 1/19

submitted 3 days ago • 63 comments

Just like in the parks, safety comes first. - Stay with your group - Follow the signs (or in this case, the facts) - Leave no one behind - Document everything - Don’t engage alone

submitted 4 days ago • 116 comments

ICE terrorizes our communities. People protest, and now Trump is sending 2,000 National Guard troops into Los Angeles. This is how martial law begins in the so-called land of the free.

submitted 4 days ago • 182 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.

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All of this is absurd "In a statement, the University of Michigan said it had not received any complaints about the investigators. It did not deny the surveillance" it shouldnt take a complaint to know this is wrong, & how you even supposed to make a complaint about people following you secretly?!

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Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing. ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him. seiuca.org/press-releas...

submitted 5 days ago • 328 comments

We’re relieved that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been returned to the US and can be in contact with his family and lawyers who have been denied access to him for months. This wouldn’t have happened without the massive pressure put on Trump’s administration for this outrageous violation of due process.

submitted 5 days ago • 36 comments

It’s Friday, it’s been a shitty week, and many of us in #Altgov are beginning to fray. I wrote this to honor the pain and the resilience that I see in my fellow Alts everyday. No doubt you can all relate to these feelings too. Everything is too much and nothing feels like enough. #Altpoetsociety

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The U.S. Justice Department says Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been returned to the U.S. from El Salvador after an indictment in Tennessee on human smuggling charges. His wife has said that he transported groups of workers between job sites.

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

The online feud is amusing, yes, but it’s no accident. If you haven’t already heard of Dark MAGA you need to learn. The plan has always been to replace the dunce. The evil psychopaths taking over our country are playing us. Please do not be distracted. www.commondreams.org/opinion/dark...

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

Oh um, you know what Elon could do to really escalate things right now? The single most painful thing? $30 billion gift to public university gender studies programs. Then Trump could bring back USAID and then Musk builds a giant Judith Butler statue in Palm Beach and so on; cmon fuck each other up

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It's wild to think that if today's events end up amounting to anything significant, the history will have to be written in minutes, not years, months, days, or even hours.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

From @shannonbond.bsky.social The blow up marks the end of an alliance between the president and the billionaire that lasted far longer than many observers expected.

submitted 6 days ago • 54 comments

The White House fact sheet on increased steel and aluminum tariffs continues to misrepresent my @epi.org research to justify Trump's tariff chaos. Here is what @joshbivens-econ.bsky.social and I said the last time they did so: www.epi.org/press/epi-st...

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Ed Martin is expanding his operation, and it’s as dangerous as it sounds. The US Department of Justice’s pardon attorney, Ed Martin Jr, is now laying the groundwork to pardon even more of Trump’s allies, this time focusing on the Republican fake electors who tried to help overturn the 2020 election.

submitted 7 days ago • 49 comments

They are straight up speed-running the resegregation of the federal government and the erasure of all non-white male history

submitted 8 days ago • 31 comments

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?

submitted 8 days ago • 95 comments

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has reportedly seen subscription sales fall by about $1.6m – or roughly 36% – compared with 2024 amid Trump’s having appointed himself to lead the institution

submitted 8 days ago • 23 comments

Important thread

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seriously, I know this is a crazy radical idea in these extremely normal times but what if democrats stopped voting for trump nominees

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat

submitted 9 days ago • 2219 comments