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this is what the Roberts Court licensed when it was presented with a case called Trump v USA and ruled against USA

submitted 6 hours ago • 8 comments

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.

submitted 8 hours ago • 484 comments

And here in NYC today another shocking escalation by Trump. The law explicitly allows unannounced visits by congressmembers to federal facilities. This is yet another breach of democratic norms by an increasingly rogue administration. Don't normalize this.

submitted 6 hours ago • 28 comments

It’s not just that it’s clearly intentional, it’s that it’s clearly intentional knowing that he’s being recorded. They know they can do whatever they want with complete impunity.

submitted 6 hours ago • 156 comments

WIDER ANGLE: In this size the cop shooting Australian reporter @laurentomasi.bsky.social with rubber bullets looks even more intentional.

submitted 6 hours ago • 50 comments

Veterans lead demonstration at Camp Pendleton against potential LA military deployment. Veterans urge Marines to consider the legality of potential orders. www.cbs8.com/article/news...

submitted 6 hours ago • 15 comments

fuck you. diverted? fuck you. it was illegally boarded in international waters. fuck you. the crew was kidnapped. fuck you. they are being illegally and against their will sent to Israel where they'll be deported back to Europe. fuck you. They wanted to feed the people of Gaza & break the blockade.

submitted 7 hours ago • 22 comments

It is truly amazing how much Trump says “I have an unfettered right to rule” and how much the Constitution says “nobody has the right to rule; the people govern themselves” and nobody with any kind of platform or power points out the problem with this

submitted 8 hours ago • 10 comments

has kendall jenner tried giving ICE a pepsi yet

submitted 8 hours ago • 10 comments

1 in 12 Americans live in California. 1 in 35 Americans live in LA County. LA is America

submitted 9 hours ago • 95 comments

Bill Kristol has officially come out with a better statement that any statewide elected leader.

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

Every time the people stand up and say “what you are doing is unjust you have to stop” the police respond by beating the shit out of people

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

Honestly I think if this place was actually irrelevant we wouldn’t have to deal with the same freaking editorial every week for an entire year and a half

submitted 15 hours ago • 147 comments

Wow. What were the odds.

submitted 15 hours ago • 10 comments

Very funny day to post this.

submitted 1 day ago • 147 comments

Russell Vought, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell Americans’ most sensitive data, credit history, and Social Security numbers.

submitted 21 days ago • 527 comments

The most striking thing about the LA protests is how many people just dropped everything to show up and yell at federal agents. There are people in suits, and carrying dogs, and wearing flip flops or bike helmets. These are not people who planned to do this today. But there they are.

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

A technique with a storied history. During Mao's Great Leap forward, his propagandists hailed one fantastical harvest after another, calling them “Sputnik harvests,” on par with the success of the Soviet satellite.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Latest deadly attack at US-backed aid hub kills eight Palestinians seeking food on second day of Eid al-Adha.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1966: James Meredith is shot by a sniper one day into his solo civil rights march from Memphis, Tenn. to Jackson, Miss. The civil rights activist and Air Force veteran undertook his “March Against” Fear” to encourage African Americans to register to vote. /1

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

almost 5 years to the day

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

👇🏽

submitted 1 day ago • 106 comments

Hiding the identity of kidnappers is Stasi level tactics. The US has a secret police force and that threat is greater than many people would care to admit.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

What the fuck is the point of paying money to a police department if they won’t protect people from hostile masked kidnappers?

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

DHS is always at the bottom of employee satisfaction surveys across the federal government. which is to say: if you work for ICE, you’re in it for the love of the game. working there sucks but you’ll never work a day in your life if you’re doing what you love (kidnapping)

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

These are one sentence apart. Words, what do they mean. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

While govt moves to dismiss Abrego Garcia case, his own attys seek to pierce atty-client privilege invoking the "crime-fraud exception." "There is ample evidence that defendants have actively strategized to avoid compliance with court orders." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

People are getting kidnapped by the secret police for arguing the position of the Financial Times opinion page.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

ICE waited until a woman’s lawyer went to the restroom then dragged her away. She fainted from stress and they dragged her unconscious body into the elevator, refusing medical attention.

submitted 2 days ago • 1138 comments

It’s nihilism to oppose police murdering black people, to demand basic economic prosperity in an era of wealth hoarding, to constrain the power of state agents licensed to kill, and to support the freedom and safety of Palestinians, said the Good Guy

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

BREAKING The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

submitted 2 days ago • 637 comments

If you’re the FBI Director, and you’ve been making the rounds for weeks talking about the Epstein files specifically, and someone accuses the President—who you work under!!—of being in them, and that isn’t true, why isn’t THAT your response?

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

One striking thing from this (excellent) report on a DOGE employee's use of AI is that everything about it is antithetical to sound software engineering practices—an engineer hurriedly deploying an unfamiliar tool to meet an impossible deadline for a problem domain in which he has no expertise.

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

submitted 2 days ago • 976 comments

The way politics works is that Dems pass legislation like the IRA that are explicitly designed to spend more money in red states than blue states, and they get repaid by having the next president illegally seize the money Congress allocated to blue states www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Well I lost my job when doge cut the funds for it and you guys didn’t give a shit so

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Americans under 25 have no idea how anomalous and deranged it is for the news to report obsessively on the persona and psychology of the executive with respect to matters of policy and governance. This is not even remotely normal.

submitted 3 days ago • 40 comments

musk will pivot to being a center-right "abundance" deregulatory guy and the press will help him pretend he didn't kill millions of people and set U.S. science and innovation back a generation either that or he overdoses in a hot tub

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments