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Reminder that I AM LATINA AND PROUD. I am the product of immigration - my grandmother was undocumented and entered the country from Mexico as a baby. My mother was a fierce, gorgeous Latina woman of Mexican and Spanish descent.

submitted 23 hours ago • 712 comments

What a rotten reality to have a White House occupant who hates so many Americans and hates everything our democratic nation stands for.

submitted 23 hours ago • 326 comments

Again, the big divide within the Democratic Party is not going to be progressives versus moderate (or The Groups). It's going to be fight versus flight. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 20 hours ago • 9 comments

This is so hard to watch. Just terrorizing people who feed us. I will never forgive and never forget the brutality of this regime and the cruelty every voter who put this evil into power. And when the price of food escalates -- you know who to blame: every single Trump voter.

submitted 20 hours ago • 14 comments

This is — and I cannot stress this enough — a real government website right now. It is hosted on the Department of Commerce website (the Department of Commerce has no immigration functions whatsoever that I am aware of).

submitted 19 hours ago • 158 comments

@hcrichardson.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/c...

submitted 20 hours ago • 7 comments

BREAKING: This ain’t a protest. This is a reckoning. Raleigh, NC is flooding the streets with one message: ICE is a violent gang. Trump is a fascist thug. And if you stand with either—you’re a fucking enemy.

submitted 21 hours ago • 59 comments

Yet another lie. 🤥 www.mediaite.com/media/tv/lap...

submitted 21 hours ago • 228 comments

Right now there are more U.S. troops deployed to Los Angeles than there are to Syria and Iraq combined.

submitted 21 hours ago • 529 comments

Brutal Trump takedown by @governor.ca.gov Newsom

submitted 22 hours ago • 147 comments

If you want to know why Trump and Johnson didn’t do funding for the border and deportations as a standalone bill months ago like many Republicans wanted, this is why.

submitted 22 hours ago • 122 comments

Why accountability matters: “Civilians have impersonated ICE agents while committing robbery (Pennsylvania), kidnappings (Florida, South Carolina), sexual assault (North Carolina) and other forms of public intimidation (Washington state, California). Opinion”

submitted 22 hours ago • 139 comments

Chair of history department at U.S. Naval Academy resigns after order to remove paper from symposium “for reasons having nothing to do with scholarship.” [James Matheson, Baltimore Sun]

submitted 23 hours ago • 27 comments

Gavin Newsom speaking Truth to Sarah Huckabee Sanders

submitted 23 hours ago • 86 comments

We will not be intimidated. We will not be silenced. This rogue administration may thrive on fear — but we rise on courage. 📢 Stand up. Speak out. Join us June 14th. 1/2

submitted 23 hours ago • 27 comments

Not all resistance wears a bullhorn. Some write letters. Some carry water. Some raise their voices. Some raise the spirits. Some paint banners, others hold them. Every role matters. This is a chorus, not a solo. Show up how you can. We need you all. #Resist

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

Bipartisan House Members Urge Secretary Rubio to Save Program Tracking Kidnapped Ukrainian Children doggett.house.gov/media/press-...

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

Out of the 109 DOGE staffers we've identified: • At least 38 currently work/have worked for businesses run by Musk • At least 23 are making cuts at agencies that regulate the industries that employed them • At least 12 remain, on paper, employees/advisors of the companies they worked at before DOGE

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

Cannot express enough how much what happened at that meeting three weeks ago has changed things on the ground. Courthouse arrests started within days, then check-in arrests. Worksite raids, once rare, began happening daily. Detention has skyrocketed over capacity. People are going missing.

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

A joke right? While Russia bombs Ukrainian cities, U.S. Secretary of State Rubio congratulates Russians on "Russia Day" and says the U.S. remains committed to a "bright future" for the Russian people — and seeks "mutually beneficial relations" with the Kremlin.

submitted 18 hours ago • 307 comments

💥 A microelectronics assembly facility "Rezonit" was reportedly targeted in Russia’s Moscow region at night. The extent of the damage is being clarified.

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

Zelensky tells Politico: “Russia is simply lying to Trump. Most world leaders see it—I hope America does too.” He warns a Russian "victory" is Kremlin fiction, Putin only understands strength, and U.S. withdrawal would be the Kremlin’s dream.

submitted 18 hours ago • 26 comments

🇷🇺 Russia is cultivating a pro-Kremlin African elite through state-funded education & youth programs, warns Ukrainian intel rep Andriy Yusov. Moscow expands influence by offering scholarships & syncing curricula, using education & sports as hybrid tools to shape loyal future leaders.

submitted 17 hours ago • 8 comments

1,000,000 🤩

submitted 17 hours ago • 18 comments

💥 Local residents report that the Zubovskaya factory was attacked in the village of Zubovo in the Klinsky district of the Moscow region.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

CAN YOU SAY THE SAME?! 🤚

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

Gotta. Love. Gavin. 😎❤️✨

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

As Russia escalates its attacks on Ukraine, Pete Hegseth announces that the U.S. will reduce its military aid budget for Ukraine: “This administration takes a very different view of that conflict. We believe that a negotiated peaceful settlement is in the best interest of both parties”

submitted 2 days ago • 72 comments

BREAKING: Rep. McIver has been indicted by a federal grand jury for confronting ICE agents during a May oversight visit. She’s accused of “forcibly impeding” federal agents, a charge carrying up to 8 years in prison. McIver says: “I will not be intimidated.” From: @yuniorarivas.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 84 comments

@timmiller.bsky.social: “I don't think that we're projecting too much into the minds of Trump, Vance, Miller, and Homan…to say that they are happy that there is unrest in LA. They want this to happen. They're not trying to solve it…What they want is an escalation of it.”

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

Andrew Cuomo engineered a cover up and helped his huge donors shield themselves from legal consequences after the COVID massacre of New Yorkers. After thousands and thousands of deaths, New Yorkers may now reward him by making him their mayor.

submitted 2 days ago • 84 comments

Amid fast-moving events in Los Angeles, users are turning to chatbots like Grok and ChatGPT to find out what’s real and what’s not—and getting inaccurate information. www.wired.com/story/grok-c...

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments