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This is an eminently more fireable offense than what Terry Moran did, if you consider that a fireable offense. (I do not.)

submitted 1 hour ago • 4 comments

I wish whenever Democrats did the boilerplate "Of course I believe that violent or destructive protesters should be arrested," they'd add, "Unlike our president who pardons them if they are beating on cops for him."

submitted 2 hours ago • 26 comments

If only there were masses of national guardsmen already in the area with nothing good to do.

submitted 2 hours ago • 14 comments

Insanity.

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NEW: The Trump admin has plans to send thousands of foreigners to Guantanamo beginning as early as this week, including citizens of close allies UK & France, with no intention of notifying their home governments in advance, per sources and documents

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Anyone in the military who cheers for Robert E. Lee should get an immediate dishonorable discharge.

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

Moran is 65 and his contract was reportedly set to expire on Friday, so whatever this performative toadying by ABC News derives from, it will not buy the network what it hopes to obtain, any more than the $15 million in extortion the network paid to the Trump "foundation" will.

submitted 3 hours ago • 11 comments

When Joe Biden had a couple soldiers standing behind him during a speech, the press threw a tantrum and went on about how inappropriate it was for days on end. Their response to Trump doing far worse will likely be much more muted.

submitted 4 hours ago • 17 comments

I worry that it’s too much to expect careers military officers to speak up about this, but Jess is right: this is a shocking breach of American traditions. George Washington is rolling in his grave.

submitted 3 hours ago • 73 comments

It is truly a 10-alarm fire that he's giving such a hatefully partisan speech in front of cheering uniformed troops.

submitted 4 hours ago • 109 comments

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III, and I count at least 15 of them that Donald Trump has also committed in whole or in part. Particularly notable right now: "He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures."

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

World War I, World War II, who’s counting?

submitted 4 hours ago • 66 comments

i'm not a political expert or a historian but the president giving one of his KKK rally speeches to active military seems really bad

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Cheung must get hit every damn day. It would certainly explain his face.

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Allegedly the units sent this out, that soldiers who disagreed politically could ask to be excused from attending the speech. Army didn't want the optics of having people not applaud the President.

submitted 4 hours ago • 160 comments

The official position of ABC News is that Donald Trump does not hate people

submitted 4 hours ago • 31 comments

The clear distinction is that one group of people support Trump and the other doesn't.

submitted 5 hours ago • 5 comments

If you absolutely contorted yourself to the most extremely charitable interpretation of this — which is “democracy can’t survive if everyone riots” — it demonstrates a gullible or bad-faith acceptance of the administration’s narrative about protests that have been overwhelmingly peaceful. But- /1

submitted 8 hours ago • 23 comments

Each clause of this post is a wonder. 1) He doesn't care whether one is a white supremacist, an insurrectionist, or protesting unidentified thugs kidnapping people. 2) Questions democracy's ability to accommodate protest. 3) Wonders whether groups of people "have the right" to express dissent.

submitted 8 hours ago • 19 comments

(Ahem) John Yoo is wrong about executive power. Following the Rodney King uprising Bush I invoked the Insurrection Act. Same with all Yoo’s other examples. The IA doesn’t mandate cooperation. Trump invoked a statute that clearly specifies a role for the governor. This is different.

submitted 9 hours ago • 25 comments

I was a medic at the Santa Ana protests in OC today. I watched police fire tear gas, flash bangs, & rubber bullets into crowds of men, women, & children. Other medics and I were clearly marked with red crosses, and the police were targeting us. One of the most fucked up things I’ve ever seen.

submitted 21 hours ago • 127 comments

How many cancer research trials would $134M pay for? www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 8 hours ago • 23 comments

Someone alert Jake Tapper that the president is having imaginary phone calls with the governor of California.

submitted 7 hours ago • 34 comments

The MAGA right keeps insisting that it's Democrats who are covering this up, but I've never heard anyone explain how the Democrats forced Attorney General Pam Bondi to back down from her promise to release the files.

submitted 7 hours ago • 12 comments

what an insane thing to say

submitted 7 hours ago • 55 comments

The overt totalitarians in the administration are laying the pseudo-intellectual groundwork for large-scale use of military force against civilians.

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they have one job -- commissioning and evaluating screen stories -- and they've outsourced to a hallucinating, racist plagiarism bot. It's fun covering Hollywood!

submitted 9 hours ago • 13 comments

Now the Speaker of the House, second in line to be President of the United States, is calling for the elected leader of the 4th largest economy in the world to be publicly tortured for [checks notes] defying the treasonous whims of the wannabe dictator currently occupying the Oval Office.

submitted 9 hours ago • 59 comments

He’s term-limited.

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I'm starting to believe that this result will be determined by turnout, and I give you my blood oath that the Cuomo-rankers in my UWS neighborhood who "liked his father" and have voted in every primary since 1948 will show up to vote. So young(er) people, PLEASE: Do your thing and nullify them!

submitted 10 hours ago • 15 comments

Democrats treat "public opinion" as an immutable fact, an axiom which demands more moderate policies. Republicans treat public opinion as a tool to be shaped and then wielded.

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

A+ Encores season just announced. Can’t wait for High Spirits! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/t...

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Fuck this fascist. I won’t be in DC, but for damned sure I’ll be at a protest. Join one near you! nokings.org

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

oh crazy, it is as if protests have consistently hurt trump since 2017

submitted 8 hours ago • 78 comments

Imagine spending your whole life cos-playing and fantasizing about fighting the federal government sending troops in against its own citizens only to root for the government when the moment finally arrives

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

Gaines: “My social platforms have gone crazy in support of the stance I’ve taken. I’ve gained hundreds of thousands of followers, again, on all platforms because of Simone and because of her personal slanderous attacks towards me. So, you have to imagine the inverse has happened to Simone.”

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Trump, who recently paid Ashli Babbitt's family $5 million and has floated the idea of reparations for January 6 rioters, calls protesters in Los Angeles "paid insurrectionists."

submitted 9 hours ago • 79 comments

Of course, this is why they're still shouting that the victims of these roundups are violent criminals, even as we see them targeting elementary schools and construction sites. And this is why it's important to keep sharing examples of the people they're actually going after.

submitted 9 hours ago • 8 comments

Rep. Aguilar: "U.S. code...cites 3 examples and circumstances for the guard...invasion...rebellion...or the president is unable to execute the laws of the U.S." Hegseth: "I don't know...Sounds like all three to me." Rep. Aguilar: "You think the president is unable to execute the laws of the U.S.?"

submitted 10 hours ago • 132 comments

"A society can't allow EVERYBODY to have free speech!" is a helluva take.

submitted 10 hours ago • 217 comments

History teacher, here. It’s on purpose. My students categorically tell me that it’s their least favorite subject. I respond to them all the time that people in power love that they feel that way, because it stamps out any curiosity to see if anything like what’s happening now has happened before.

submitted 11 hours ago • 7 comments

Whatever you think about Zohran, the success of his candidacy has been largely driven by a pretty obsessive focus on affordability and kitchen-table issues.

submitted 9 hours ago • 103 comments

"who was president in 2020" remains the most difficult question in the world for a sizable chunk of americans, professional commentators included

submitted 9 hours ago • 69 comments