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A friend in suburban San Diego woke up at 5:45 AM to flash bombs and masked armed men claiming to be from the government breaking into homes on street and disappearing people into vans. This is real and happening in America right now. This is Germany circa 1935. Don’t look away people

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

Shouldn’t the NY Times headline note that this new policy breaks the law?

submitted 19 hours ago • 1542 comments

To be really clear: The reason members of Congress can't just walk right in is because of the guns. Armed DHS personnel won't allow entry. In other words, DHS is using armed force to break laws. Democrats need to wrap their minds around that. Accept that the frog is boiled.

submitted 22 hours ago • 198 comments

A wise person knows that the best way to fight fascism is to fight fascism. Not to give into it piecemeal. The person who thinks that we just need to find the right sacrifice to feed to the fascists in order to appease them is, at best, a collaborator.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Hint for Democratic lawmakers from your voters: We want you to vote NAY on everything the GOP wants. E V E R Y T H I N G

submitted 1 day ago • 236 comments

And ICE doesn’t really look at your papers, either, judging from how many citizens and permanent residents they’ve kidnapped

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

No comment needed. SCOTUS

submitted 2 days ago • 116 comments

It's unclear to me why the US Congressmen are not escorted by big armed cops to push through obstacles to them exercising their legal rights, and instead everyone now defers to the guys with no uniforms or badges or name tags to determine what is and is not legal?

submitted 2 days ago • 134 comments

I'm sorry, if Liz Cheney's presence, even with hindsight, is too much for you to bear, I think your antifascist principles kind of suck! I'm of exactly the right age to hate her too, and share your distaste, but if distancing yourself from her was more important than stopping all this, well!

submitted 2 days ago • 72 comments

A Democratic comptroller in NYC arrested A Democratic marcher shot and killed A Democratic State Representative killed A Democratic Congresswoman indicted A Democratic Mayor arrested A Democratic Senator tackled and detained A Democratic State Representative in critical condition

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

Wild how the Fed chair saying that entire regions of the United States won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

submitted 1 day ago • 440 comments

I can't believe the United States suffered a political assassination on Saturday, and all that's left of that story on Tuesday is calling out Mike Lee for being an unfeeling monster. The USA has a huge political violence problem, completely incompatible with a functioning democracy.

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

NEW: Gov. Hochul announces that the state is dedicating $50 million for legal assistance for immigrants like those who may be targeted by ICE when leaving the federal courthouse

submitted 2 days ago • 163 comments

jfc Lander, as he's being cuffed: "You don't have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens. You don't have the — I'm not obstructing; I'm standing right here in the hallway. I asked to see the judicial warrant. [...] You don't have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens asking for a judicial warrant."

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

It's quickly becoming a normal occurrence for Democratic elected officials to be physically assaulted, threatened with arrest, or prosecuted on bogus charges. If you'd recited the litany from just the past month a year ago, it would have been dismissed as hysterical.

submitted 3 days ago • 83 comments

Arresting candidates for public office under false pretenses is a thing that routinely happens in authoritarian states.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.

submitted 2 days ago • 597 comments

We have a federal secret police dragging away our public officials in plain sight, in front of cameras, with no warrants, no badge numbers. Judges, a Senator, a Representative (she got charged with a felony), now a mayoral candidate/city comptroller

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends

submitted 2 days ago • 507 comments

"Detained" is an interesting word choice. It sounds official but it just means they grabbed him. They couldn't say "arrested" because that would open up questions like "on what authority" and "for what charge." If you or I "detained" someone we could be charged with unlawful imprisonment

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

The claims that McIver, Padilla, and Lander were committing assault should make you question every other time LEOs claim assault or resisting arrest, if you weren’t already.

submitted 3 days ago • 196 comments

what is it called when people who aren't cops and don't have a warrant drag you away, because I don't think "arrest" is the word

submitted 3 days ago • 60 comments

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

submitted 3 days ago • 735 comments

Zohran Mamdani, who recently cross-endorsed with Lander, called for the comptroller’s immediate release. “This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice,” said Mamdani.

submitted 3 days ago • 666 comments

This is exactly why I press Democrats to push back. The media might do this kind of fact-checking on its own, but when a prominent Democrat makes the case for them, it's much more likely they'll run a piece like this. Well done, @amyklobuchar.com and @sltrib.com

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

Creeping Civil War Claiming to represent the “will of the people,” the Trump regime is at war with American society as it actually exists. Free link to my new piece for @zeit.de (in German):

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

In serious countries that are actual democracies, strong mainstream parties force members who do stuff like this to resign, & far right authoritarian parties that do this are shunned from government. Here in 🇺🇸, one of our two parties has collapsed into far right authoritarianism. So neither happens.

submitted 4 days ago • 124 comments

I know this is controversial but I don't think we need to pay anybody to assault senior citizens. We can defund this 100%.

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

Irrational numbers cannot exist. Therefore I posit that the so called “real numbers” are badly named. We should call them the “fake numbers”.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Democratic senators need to stop pretending that GOP senators are their “good friends across the aisle” and realize many of them are just lying sociopaths who are actively fanning the flames of violence against them.

submitted 4 days ago • 169 comments

Grok (powered by XAI, currently poisoning Memphis) didn’t back up Elon’s claim that “the left is murderously violent” — so he’s going to “fix that” 🤔 AI is a propaganda tool of whoever controls it

submitted 4 days ago • 66 comments

To those who still somehow say you’re overreacting to say we are far past the point of historic crisis, go back to summer 2024 and say that in less than a year the president of the United States would be deploying the literal Marines on American soil to deal with and intimidate his political enemies

submitted 6 days ago • 97 comments

The political assassinations in MN = domestic terrorism. A reminder that the guy now running the DHS division responsible for combating domestic terror & targeted attacks is a 22 yr old with no federal experience, and whose last job was his own lawn mowing biz. Dems should now be screaming this.

submitted 5 days ago • 84 comments

I really really needed to see that people hadn't given up and accepted this shit as inevitable, or (even worse) embraced it. And today showed us that beautifully. No one wanted in on his tank show, but people WERE HUNGRY to tell him to go fuck himself.

submitted 5 days ago • 116 comments

anyone who works for ICE is a bad person imagine clocking in at the child traumatization factory every morning and thinking that’s an acceptable thing to do as a human being just unconscionable

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments

Less than 5 months in: ☑️Arrested a judge ☑️Arrested a Democratic mayor ☑️Arrested a Democratic Congressperson ☑️Detained a Democratic Senator ☑️Threatening to arrest a Democratic Governor ☑️Investigating other political enemies ☑️Deploying Marines domestically They are not hiding their intentions.

submitted 7 days ago • 117 comments

Visible dissent is essential to resisting creeping fascism. Not because it magically stops the fascists but because it breaks the suffocating illusion of complicity and consent. This matters and has been often discussed by scholars of Nazi Germany and fascism generally.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Between Baraka, Iver, and Padilla - you gotta ask why it’s only our legislators of color taking these risks. Disproportionate punishment will reign down on them but they are alone in going directly to places where abuses of power are happening. Meanwhile, white moderates debate “distractions”.

submitted 7 days ago • 50 comments

Scoop: Threat intelligence reports obtained by WIRED and @propertyofthepeople.org show military and state-run fusion centers are tracking civilian-made ICE encounter maps, while others distribute "threat" alerts about tomorrow's "No Kings" protests. By me @wired.com (free to read):

submitted 6 days ago • 47 comments

really looking forward to being part of a Very Large Crowd this weekend

submitted 7 days ago • 20 comments