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No sleep for ICE tonight as activists found their hotel again. Hotel managers have to decide whether that GSA per diem money is worth having their hotel completely surrounded 24/7 by protesters.

submitted 7 hours ago • 72 comments

Every major Dem politician needs to realize that, in this environment, they can schedule a "speech to the nation," like Newsom did, and get tons of media coverage. Just do it.

submitted 6 hours ago • 191 comments

It would be nice if the city’s major newspaper hadn’t effectively collapsed thanks to its billionaire owner deciding he needed to suck Trump off for his pharma empire to prosper.

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

I enjoy how Americans will post an image of a man bravely standing in front of a tank at Tiananmen every year to commemorate the wickedness of violence against protestors and then see a protester get trampled by a cop on horseback on CNN in LA and say “well what did he do wrong to deserve that?”

submitted 8 hours ago • 23 comments

"trump wants people protesting in front of the marines" but the thing is many are going to be, quite literally protesting the marines. the marines should not be on american streets. it is wrong, it is antidemocratic, it is fascist, it is contrary to how people understand themselves as americans

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

YouGov poll, just out: "Should ICE agents be required to wear uniforms while making arrests?" Yes: 68% No: 18

submitted 19 hours ago • 141 comments

Newsom is on the money here www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u... Can someone wake up the rest of the Democratic Party and tell them to earn their paychecks and get behind him?

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

From my undergraduate lecture notes on the Weimar Republic's collapse

submitted 14 hours ago • 11 comments

Entire story runs on that same analytic method, where Trump's "pushing the boundaries of his powers" and "customary hyperbole" serve as problems for the Democrats, and the Democrats' responses to those abuses are also problems for the Democrats

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

Damn 😶

submitted 9 hours ago • 7 comments

"Alternative ways of staying president" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

submitted 7 hours ago • 12 comments

The Fair Share amendment has been outperforming expectations and helping our state invest in universal school meals, free community college, far-free transit, and so much more, and Healey is out here shit-talking it to rich people and peddling debunked lies about "outmigration."

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Had a great time tabling at an organizing fair in Reading earlier today!

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

DC recently granted noncitizens the right to vote in local elections. 210 Republicans (all present) and 56 Democrats (see below) voted to block DC's ability to administer its own local elections in that way. Republicans don't believe in self-rule for DC. Dems shouldn't join them.

submitted 8 hours ago • 6 comments

Contrast is so clear: Do you want to live in Trump's America where disease spread, free speech is physically attacked and everything from government contracts to science depends on the whim of the mad king OR do you want to live in a free country, with vaccines and decisions based on merit

submitted 8 hours ago • 32 comments

The choice of chyron really makes the mainstream media's goal here clear. Newsom said it, but he spent most of his focus on Trump's pointless escalation and violation of California's sovereignty. But the media wants to make this about the protests.

submitted 9 hours ago • 17 comments

The US attorney doing this is Alina Habba??? thehill.com/regulation/c...

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

If the president of another country staged a rally with the military and having the troops cheer for attacks on the free press and on opposition party leaders, how would our media cover that?

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

Democrats should be calling for the resignation of any and every general involved in staging what was no more than a campaign rally for Trump on the public dime. www.yahoo.com/news/trump-e...

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

"Trump declares intention to openly break Congressionally-enacted valid law in order to honor white supremacy." Sums it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

submitted 10 hours ago • 47 comments

ICE, the LAPD, and the National Guard are in full collusion to arrest and disappear people who have no criminal record and pose no danger to society. I knew it was going to end up like this as soon as Trump ordered the National Guard to LA. But still. Damn.

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I just want the New York Times to tell me who they think the Constitution is for — because they must not, given this hand-wringing headline about the “risky territory” of upholding constitutional righta and the rule of law, think it’s for everybody.

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1016 comments

It's been really demoralizng how much the press mindlessly repeats the lie that the National Guard was sent to quell violence. It was sent to start violence. People know this, so just say it.

submitted 16 hours ago • 150 comments

lol lmao even

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

House and Senate leaders should demand resignations from both Major General Pat Work, the 82nd Airborne Division commander, and Colonel Chad Mixon, the Fort Bragg garrison commander. This was possibly the most partisan speech ever delivered by a commander-in-chief to U.S. troops.

submitted 12 hours ago • 61 comments

RESULT: Democrats defend a legislative seat in Oklahoma (HD71) by a massive margin, 85% to 15%. This was a district that voted for Harris by 19% in November, so this is a huge shift toward Dems of 51 percentage points.

submitted 9 hours ago • 30 comments

Using active-duty Marines this way sets a dangerous precedent that damages public trust in our military.  Trump himself said LA is "simmering, but not very much.”  And yet, he's putting our troops at risk and undermining the democracy each one of them swore to defend.

submitted 9 hours ago • 38 comments

Who’s gonna tell him?

submitted 9 hours ago • 24 comments

Amazing how hard it is to write: “Police shoot at journalists.”

submitted 9 hours ago • 71 comments

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

submitted 10 hours ago • 395 comments

notable that this times piece casts a story with conventional wisdom abt protests, immigration etc. and cites various polling data but doesn't cite the one poll since this started which shows the militarization is distinctly UNpopular 🤔 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

submitted 10 hours ago • 45 comments

BREAKING: ICE is preparing to deploy tactical units to five cities run by Democratic leaders, according to two sources familiar with the planning of future ICE operations.

submitted 11 hours ago • 569 comments

These 30 Democrats just joined Congressional Republicans in voting to repeal recent police reforms passed in DC. They want to make it harder to discipline cops who violate people's rights. Shame on them, and shame on the 205 Republicans voting yes. clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

Hugely disturbing: (1) treating these paratroopers as scenery for a political rant (1b) watching them clap and laugh along (2) renaming forts after Confederate generals (2b) watching troops applaud Robert E. Lee (3) same week as Trump's parade & deploying the armed forces against protesters.

submitted 13 hours ago • 22 comments

All Ivy League Universities are supporting Harvard's lawsuit--except Columbia and Cornell. www.masslive.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 13 hours ago • 5 comments

Split screen between US troops deployed against American protesters and US troops marching to celebrate Dear Leader's birthday is going to be quite something

submitted 20 hours ago • 38 comments

Ya, I’m fairly certain this was staged, which is even worse because someone in the CA NG should have told them to fuck off, because the optics of these pics are so goddamn bad

submitted 14 hours ago • 11 comments

The centrist, moderate, safe, poll-tested position here for elected officials and pundits is to blast the Trump admin using every argument they can. Anyone who isn't doing that should be asked why they're trying normalize the deployments and enable Trump's fascism.

submitted 17 hours ago • 13 comments

🎯

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Periodic reminder that every day is STFU Friday Also, sharing the location of cops in the public performance of their jobs is ironclad First Amendment-protected expression If you're concerned something you've said has you on the Government's radar, call your lawyer instead of posting through it

submitted 14 hours ago • 59 comments

There’s obviously a lot going on right now, but the Speaker of the House calling for the Governor of California to be tortured seems like it should be a pretty big story.

submitted 19 hours ago • 236 comments

Stephen Miller, no amount of violent law-breaking and terrorism of immigrants will undo your wife cheating on you with Elon Musk. Go see a therapist and leave the country alone.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

They're just really concerned about women's sports you guys

submitted 14 hours ago • 12 comments