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Glad to see this “pause” so that ICE can focus its priorities on actual threats to public safety instead of farm workers and hotel maids, but this flip flop is just more evidence that Trump has no values. Only morally bankrupt “deals.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...

submitted 13 hours ago • 81 comments

Happy #FlagDay. The flag belongs to all of us. Don’t let anyone appropriate patriotism. 🇺🇸

submitted 12 hours ago • 90 comments

Thank you to all of our service members and veterans. We appreciate you, your families, and your sacrifices for our country. Wish we were spending millions on you instead of a parade.

submitted 12 hours ago • 185 comments

I wrote below on Good Friday, 2025. We are in a worse situation. What is happening will not be heralded as good. It will be another blemish on our country.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

submitted 4 days ago • 1033 comments

This is upsetting.

submitted 4 days ago • 234 comments

Trump wants a confrontation, wants to see the situation erupt. No American president should behave like this. No kings.

submitted 4 days ago • 160 comments

In the last 20 or so minutes I’ve seen LAPD officers shove women to the ground without provocation, rip a sign out of a man’s hand and then swing a baton into his leg and raise a less-lethal launcher to aim directly at a protester (which I’m 99% is a major policy violation.)

submitted 6 days ago • 533 comments

We’re in the find out part of democracy now

submitted 6 days ago • 81 comments

You know when things were pretty quiet and peaceful in L.A.? Before ICE started arresting residents who were bothering no one and going to their jobs. And before DHS and National Guard troops showed up and made the situation worse. Of course Trump and Stephen Miller want the situation to get worse.

submitted 6 days ago • 129 comments

ICRC: "The number of patients . (933 cases, including 41 . dead upon arrival) is higher than all mass casualty incidents over the twelve months prior combined" "An overwhelming majority of patients . said they had been trying to reach assistance distribution sites"

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

“Adriana’s case reflects the new “Jane Crow” era, when the state in which a woman resides, becomes pregnant, and dies now determines whether she will be accorded basic civil and human rights” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Since the AG doesn't seem to be getting ethics guidance from her team these days, I wanted to make sure she has the rule in the Justice Manual in front of her, which expressly prohibits this.

submitted 7 days ago • 1106 comments

1/ New lawsuit takes direct aim at US-El Salvador rendition agreement. Among strongest arguments: Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments.⤵️ CECOT is punishment (without trial) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights vs. Department of State storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 9 days ago • 26 comments

Yesterday, President Trump issued a proclamation which purports to restrict the entry of nationals from 12 countries and partially restricts the entry of nationals from another seven. Read the order, from ‪@katherinepomps.bsky.social‬.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

To this point, this is all gross. Imagine if Harris was our POTUS. Today would be a Thursday afternoon and you all would be going about your lives. Instead, we have to watch this exploding bromance breakup destroy our government at the expense of the people. Utterly disgusting.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

People celebrating the immediate deportation of the family of a terror suspect should really pause and think what this means for our collective freedoms especially under the Trump Administration

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

The US is openly, proudly engaging in collective punishment targeting a family, including 5 children. Undemocratic, to say the least, but also a deeply disturbing trend that could lead to much worse in the future. Just as gross is seeing the way these "anti-hate" groups salivate over it.

submitted 11 days ago • 25 comments

Now they’re using tear gas & stun grenades on the crowds that witness their cowardly “raids.” They’re shit-scared. This is gonna lead to bystander deaths. Look at these zilches in their Judge Dredd cosplay. This is the happiest moment of their miserable, forgettable lives.

submitted 13 days ago • 135 comments

We’re speeding towards the moment when one of these ICE kidnappings ends in bloodshed.

submitted 14 days ago • 285 comments

"As Musk slinks away, spending went up, not down, during his tenure, and DOGE made the government less efficient, not more..." "A legacy of shattered institutions, weakened public services, and fired civil servants who did nothing but serve their country well..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 16 days ago • 453 comments

This news reads like a canary in a coal mine just croaked

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

This man is no one's hero except for those who are committed to spreading hate and division. And, it's important to note he has nothing to do with the overwhelming majority of diverse people who want a ceasefire and an end to occupation. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

There’s been no doubt where this was headed. Trump repeatedly said he intended to send Americans to foreign prisons. Justice Sotomayor got that. The conservatives on the Court have no excuse, but they acted like they expected Trump to fall in line & obey, when all evidence was to the contrary.

submitted 61 days ago • 146 comments

Its true that America citizens can’t legally be deported. It’s equally clear that this administration doesn’t care about what the law says. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

submitted 61 days ago • 273 comments

The American President pardons guilty insurrectionists but allows innocent men to rot in foreign prisons.

submitted 61 days ago • 37 comments

1) The presser with Bukele with theater designed to get credulous journos to repeat the "terrorism" claim w/o question. Remember: THESE VERY SAME PEOPLE freed adjudged Jan6 terrorists on Day One. 2) The WAY in which they flouted courts provides more surface area (bc this was not classified).

submitted 61 days ago • 42 comments

Who could be disenfranchised by the SAVE Act? ❌69M women who changed their name after marriage ❌21.3M Americans who don't readily have access to proof of citizenship documents ❌3.8M Americans who don't have proof of citizenship documents at all www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 63 days ago • 176 comments

I'm calling for an investigation into whether President Trump manipulated the market to benefit his Wall Street donors—all while working people and small businesses paid the price. Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping? It sure looks like corruption.

submitted 66 days ago • 849 comments

This isn't The Art of the Deal. It's insider trading with a bad comb-over. Step 1: Tank the Market, Scare the Non-Millionaires Step 2: Let the Aristocrats Feast Step 3: Flip, but say ‘Winning’ Step 4: Pretend None of This Ever Happened & Get Your Media Dregs To Do The Same Rinse, Enrich, Repeat.

submitted 66 days ago • 743 comments

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

submitted 66 days ago • 3165 comments

Longest Senate filibusters ever: Strom Thurmond - opposing voting rights for black people Ted Cruz - opposing health care for poor people Cory Booker - opposing fascism #filibuster

submitted 74 days ago • 106 comments

I got five hours of sleep last night. I'm wiped out and ready for bed now at 6:54 pm EST. I'm no #CoreyBooker that's for sure. Thank you, Senator Booker for doing SOMETHING.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

🚨🚨Gross incompetence. The Trump admin accidentally texted a journalist our war plans. This proves what we always knew: Hegseth was never qualified to be SecDef—now his recklessness is putting Troops' lives at risk. This is deadly serious. MORE: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 82 days ago • 76 comments

Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.

submitted 86 days ago • 1062 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge this morning issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport several Venezuelan nationals with no process. Subscribe to Law Dork for a full report, which is forthcoming: www.lawdork.com

submitted 91 days ago • 53 comments

TODAY: A court in Washington, DC will hold a hearing in a lawsuit challenging Trump's firings of eight inspectors general — Senate-confirmed officials who audit and investigate federal agencies to prevent fraud.

submitted 95 days ago • 16 comments

Chaos at the V.A.: Inside the DOGE Cuts Disrupting the Veterans Agency www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/u...

submitted 97 days ago • 6 comments