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And once again, US jets scramble to protect Israel from the consequences of it own actions. Once again, knocking down unmanned drones over Western Ukraine remains an unthinkable red line to cross.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

I never want to read the phrase "executive order" ever again. Its prevalence is a sign of profound national decline.

submitted 6 hours ago • 7 comments

I was chief of staff to a Cabinet secretary and vice president. I have a high opinion of the various federal protective services and personnel with whom I worked. But the fish rots from the head down. Today’s thuggish behavior in LA is just one of the many corrupting effects of Trump and Trumpism.

submitted 16 hours ago • 27 comments

This is disgusting. If this is how they treat Alex Padilla, a United States Senator, how do you think they’ll treat you?

submitted 16 hours ago • 317 comments

Alex Padilla is an American citizen of Mexican descent. The video of a Mexican-American being manhandled by thugs will play extremely well with the sort of trash who support Trump. Decent people are outraged. Shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture are thrilled.

submitted 16 hours ago • 67 comments

What happened at Fort Bragg yesterday is very grave. Boos and catcalls from uniformed Army personnel responding to Trump's goading have almost no precedent in US history and would be unusual in most of Latin America. Listen to the troops boo the free press as Trump calls reporters “the fake news.”

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

Can’t emphasize enough what a disgrace this whole sad episode was

submitted 1 day ago • 135 comments

The takeover of the Army’s 250th birthday by social media influencers is a real testament to how far the army will go to avoid having any type of meaningful engagement about its origins, history, or purpose Instead, it’s one long cringe fest

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Ads talking of July 4 celebrations ring hollow this year. No, thanks.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

The people talking themselves into how this is probably fine (and there weren’t that many cheering soldiers and they were probably ordered to cheer and probably selected for who would cheer) sound like the guys on Reddit trying to convince themselves their GameStop stock was going to go back up.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

decades of “thank you for your service” thrown away in service of kidnapping day workers from Home Depot shit-ass trade for the military, I gotta say

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

Watching from abroad, seeing the US Army hootin' and hollerin' along with Trump while he trashes the city of L.A. and promises to rename bases after Confederates looks like evidence of serious national decline.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I watch this and I feel nothing but shame. What an awful country.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Two months ago, Gavin Newsom urged Canadians to visit his state, saying they’re a world away from the politics of DC. Today, U.S. Marines — active-duty military — have entered Los Angeles.

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

Nuking civ-mil relations and bi[partisan consensus over a photo-op. good luck with those cuts, Army!

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Chicago is a gorgeous, vibrant, and yes, VERY SAFE city where the overwhelming majority of people are friendly and kind. The "Chicago is a violent wasteland" narrative is racist bullshit. Do certain areas need better funding and fewer (ie no) cops? You betcha. But the people are awesome.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Come visit the United States! Get to see the Caribbean afterwards for free!

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Wilson: "What's the smallest protest that could be of use to you?" Foch: "A single elderly grandmother. And we will see to it that she is killed."

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

submitted 3 days ago • 106 comments

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!

submitted 3 days ago • 331 comments

Legit one of the most affirming arguments for trans rights I’ve read was on the Bulwark. It made the case that people are complicated and messy, life is hard and confusing, and that there’s no need for perfect understanding or for everyone to be a perfect victim at all times to care for each other.

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Comics are good.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

get your whiny ass back to x, the everything app

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Thinking of adding this to my email signature.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

You're allowed to take someone out of police custody if you say "yoink" while you do it

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Four LAPD officers on horseback surround a man laying on the ground, trample him, and beat him with their polycarbonate "saber" batons.

submitted 4 days ago • 286 comments

I'm not really too hung up on whether the protests are peaceful or not. If armed masked men came into my neighborhood and started grabbing people off to where neither courts nor lawyers can find them, I might react pretty violently too. It's the kind of thing our Founders fought a revolution over.

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

They never should have let them unionize.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Juiceless little bitch

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

ICE is raiding a hotel on Madison in Pasadena.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Earlier this year I wrote about my one encounter with Yarvin, where it was clear he was not very smart, and absolutely, completely, full of himself. The idea that he's influencing anyone is bizarre. He's a clown.

submitted 10 days ago • 29 comments

Shame on America. Shame on Americans.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Looky here, America What you done done - Let things drift Until the riots come. -Langston Hughes, "Beaumont to Detroit", 1943

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

You know what I see? I see a community reacting to gangs of armed masked men who look like nativist vigilantes, not legitimate, accountable law enforcement.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 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 5 days ago • 74 comments

not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser

submitted 5 days ago • 86 comments

me, in $3000 diamond studded high heels, drinking wine aged in a barrel made out of turtle shells: do not fucking say "AN historical" to me again. ever.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment