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OK, I know more about the CA case and we have more information on the deployments coming out, so a few thoughts. 1. This is a massive overreach of POTUS authority. Using Section 12406 to federalize/deploy military forces w/out also invoking the Insurrection Act is literally unprecedented. 1/

submitted 2 hours ago • 11 comments

The Trump Administration always had the power to bring Kilmar Abrego back. They were always lying about this, all of it was lies. abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl... They chose to disobey court orders because they are authoritarians who regard the Constitution as an inconvenience.

submitted 2 days ago • 58 comments

A good counterargument to "you shouldn't do [xxx] because then the fascists and press will call it a riot!!" is you can literally not show up and the fascists, the press will still call it a riot

submitted 2 hours ago • 6 comments

good news everyone, McMegan thinks we’re terrible by dint of the fact that she is wrong about everything at all times we clearly have the mandate of heaven

submitted 2 hours ago • 24 comments

Almost verbatim, unbelievable

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submitted 1 hour ago • 146 comments

#USSpaceForce #TransRightsAreHumanRights "Col. Bree Fram, one of the highest-ranking openly transgender officers in the U.S. military, wrote in an Instagram post Friday that her removal would take effect the following day."

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Reports and video show flash-bangs thrown into piles of debris just before a car caught fire, strongly suggesting it was law enforcement, not protesters, who sparked it. More details are coming. Don’t let them control the narrative. Thank you to everyone sharing footage, always record everything.

submitted 8 hours ago • 229 comments

i sincerely think a lot of you believe that the people who join the service are robotic psychopaths who will mindlessly listen to whoever is in charge, and there is nothing i can say to disabuse you of that frankly delusional belief

submitted 8 hours ago • 281 comments

Paramount, CA is putting out a call for environmental engineers to collect and preserve air, soil, and water samples from the tear-gassed areas for examination and documentation.

submitted 19 hours ago • 9 comments

Less than 45 minutes after President Donald Trump thanked the National Guard "for a job well done!" Mayor Karen Bass clarified on social media "the National Guard has not been deployed in the City of Los Angeles."

submitted 8 hours ago • 133 comments

MARKWAYNE MULLIN: They were literally out there protesting, carrying a foreign flag. That's absolutely insane. They are not just peaceful protesters. These are illegals. BASH: Carrying a flag is not illegal M: A foreign fag -- a foreign flag while you're attacking law enforcement, it's pretty bad

submitted 7 hours ago • 1462 comments

There's actually an extremely large scholarly literature about this. With some regularity, dictators order their troops to shoot protestors, the troops are like "wtf no," and then the dictator falls. I'll dig ho and dump some cites below in a second

submitted 7 hours ago • 53 comments

What happened in Paramount and Downtown LA was not a riot. THIS is what an LA riot looks like.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

Trump’s Press Secretary wants ABC to hold journalist @TerryMoran held accountable for telling the absolute truth about Stephen Miller. So much for free speech.

submitted 6 hours ago • 130 comments

again we can have this guy, or we can have the guy Trump is preemptively blackmailing who hates the city and everyone who lives here

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Trump just turned the irony knob up to 12 (two louder)

submitted 5 hours ago • 14 comments

If Andrew Cuomo, a craven politician desperate for power, is putting out statements about ICE like this, that’s both a sign that the Trump administration is losing on immigration and that the pundits who are arguing we need to take a harder stance on immigration to win are full of shit.

submitted 5 hours ago • 11 comments

This is one of those situations where you don’t know if Trump is lying or misinformed by his own people. The National Guard weren’t deployed to the city, according to the mayor.

submitted 6 hours ago • 130 comments

they're doing this because the Insurrection Act sounds cool and edgy but they can't actually justify using the Insurrection Act. it's a silly action by an insecure administration desperately to seem manly and powerful. it should be criticized relentlessly, but it should also be laughed at.

submitted 17 hours ago • 73 comments

Cannot stress enough that this is a pitiful action by a weak, scared, pathetic group of insecure, wannabe authoritarians, and they should be mocked until the end of time for wanting to bring in the military over some people protesting them at a Home Depot.

submitted 16 hours ago • 48 comments

Breaking: ABC News says senior national correspondent Terry Moran "has been suspended pending further evaluation." This since-deleted tweet is the reason for the suspension:

submitted 5 hours ago • 2345 comments

I'm old enough to remember when "black lives matter" was called a bad slogan as it somehow implied it meant white lives didn't. I remember how kneeling during the anthem was called a disgusting way to protest. There is no form of protest appropriate to some people and you should ignore them

submitted 15 hours ago • 14 comments

Protests are not riots. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

13 year old girl hit in the face by tear gas canister

submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

I really appreciate that the (growing?) sentiment towards the administration's aggression is like yeah this is bad and dangerous and also it is mockable and these fascist cowards can eat my ass

submitted 17 hours ago • 11 comments

The best place to get coverage of the protests in LA is from video from individuals on the scene. The totalitarian government is lying about them and the traditional media is largely unreliable — complicit or fatuously both-sidesey.

submitted 17 hours ago • 67 comments

"Large language models do not, cannot, and will not 'understand' anything at all. They are not emotionally intelligent or smart in any meaningful or recognizably human sense of the word." 🧪🤖 [gift link]

submitted 15 hours ago • 6 comments

CATO Institute Director of Immigration Studies

submitted 18 hours ago • 161 comments

Here's the official release from the White House, and apparently, we're in a state "of rebellion". 😒 Fellow Californians, you know the drill. Every one of us should be speed dialing: - Our federal electeds - Our state electeds - Newsom - And Bonta right now.

submitted 17 hours ago • 12 comments

According to the official White House account, the US is in the midst of an "insurrection" that warrants federalization of the National Guard, which is why the President is attending a UFC fight and hanging out with Dana White.

submitted 17 hours ago • 71 comments

"everything here was pretty chill today, not sure what all the fuss was about, we don't particularly see any need for escalation" --literally the LAPD

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

ACLU: “Trump's deployment of federalized National Guard troops in response to protests is unnecessary, inflammatory, and an abuse of power. By taking this action, the Trump administration is… recklessly undermining our foundational democratic principle that the military should not police civilians"

submitted 17 hours ago • 41 comments

This is patently unlawful, if the Marines are being used for regular civilian law enforcement on the whim of the SecDef.

submitted 17 hours ago • 54 comments

👇👇👇 [Alt-text] post reads “If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel: 1-877-447-4487

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments