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I don't know how many times these people have to say "non-whites are not americans unless they are part of my inner circle, we want to do ethnic cleansing" before people start listening bsky.app/profile/pale...

submitted 5 hours ago • 71 comments

Maybe quit voting for their fucking bills then? Maybe quit confirming their nominees? Maybe shut down the Senate with the many procedural tools available to you? Maybe do something other than send sternly worded letters?

submitted 18 hours ago • 88 comments

Will 84% of the Senate realize they have tremendous power over the executive branch? Stay tuned…

submitted 5 hours ago • 5 comments

Oh cool, new version of scripp just dropped

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

"Israel’s use of force against Iran is, on the facts as we know them, almost certainly illegal."

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

I have now seen six different people who definitely know better say, without any truth whatsoever, that the April missile volley was "unprovoked".

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

The senator thing is bad, but today the government openly said they intend to use military force to depose democratically elected leaders, and they argued in court the president has unreviewable power to put national guard under his command. Mere “constitutional crisis” was ten exits ago.

submitted 16 hours ago • 8 comments

The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20. (Via Christopher Hale)

submitted 13 hours ago • 537 comments

The administrative stay needs to go bye bye. The “status quo” here was that there were no troops deployed. Also, if I’m Newsom, I would petition for en banc review of this administrative stay.

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

People seem to completely omit, coincidentally I am sure, that Israel obliterated an Iranian embassy in a third party country before Iran did that missile volley last year

submitted 15 hours ago • 15 comments

JUST IN: The Ninth Circuit GRANTS the Trump admin's request to temporarily stay Judge Breyer's order to relinquish federal control of the California National Guard. It orders briefing over the next few days and a hearing on Tuesday. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 12 hours ago • 33 comments

Democrats cannot possibly meet this moment because they can’t imagine a problem of disorder that isn’t solved through more policing. And in a moment of authoritarianism, policing essentially aligns one with the dictator rather than against him.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

PPE dispersal gets you arrested. “Orchestrated delivery.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 11 comments

Oh hell yeah, that’s… something! (also obviously the right outcome, reading now)

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

You cannot go about your life thinking about ways to avoid making fascists angry. You will not succeed, and you will not be free.

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

Jeffries should have been out there IMMEDIATELY saying that his entire caucus was filing articles of impeachment against Noem. These people LOVE to issue letters. Think of this as a souped up letter and then BASH HER WITH IT DAILY. Every time you can start a sentence with: "NOEM must be impeached"

submitted 18 hours ago • 17 comments

SCOOP — ICE employees received an email yesterday telling them the agency's warrantless arrest policy had been rescinded. It's likely part of the Trump administration's efforts to further loosen enforcement restrictions to meet the new quota of 3,000 immigration arrests per day. My report:

submitted 15 hours ago • 91 comments

If all a masked, badgeless, ICE agent needs to do to be untouchable is say the word "ICE", then all a Senator should need to do is say the word "Senator", right? They could be in full head to toe combat gear with an obscured face, right?

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

it’s extremely disorienting to see the NYC mayoral debate with Cuomo talking about protecting israel, and nobody is aware of the fact that Israel just started a war with Iran

submitted 15 hours ago • 14 comments

It's a truly jarring split screen that Kristi Noem's goons attacking Sen Padilla happened at almost the exact same time as 16 Dem senators crossed lines to vote with the GOP to invoke cloture on the crypto bill, forfeiting any leverage. Dems need to act like an opposition.

submitted 17 hours ago • 715 comments

A group of us have arrived on the Senate floor to challenge our colleagues - on both sides of the aside - to rise to this moment and jointly condemn what has happened to Sen. Padilla. Yes we still need to collect the full facts, but this appears to be a defining moment for the country.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1592 comments

Share this with people you know. How they react to it will tell you a lot that you need to remember.

submitted 15 hours ago • 12 comments

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

submitted 20 hours ago • 820 comments

"Liberate this city from socialists and burdensome leadership." If that's not regime change, I don't know what to tell you. The inflection point is now.

submitted 21 hours ago • 352 comments

We don’t need answers, we know exactly what happened. What we need is action from you. Stop appeasing the fascists and voting for their nominees and legislation. shut down the Senate. Do your fucking job.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Noem may lack formal military authority, but with material backing from the armed forces, combined with this rhetoric evoking Putin, the US looks to be in the midst of a kind of grey-zone conflict that’s already progressed beyond what you could reasonably call a soft civil war.

submitted 15 hours ago • 16 comments

It is actually nuts that even when the NYC political establishment was presented with a broad field of talented candidates w/ many ideas, in a time of generational change & anti-corruption, they STILL chose to line up behind scandal-ridden Andrew Cuomo. It’s cowardice.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1007 comments

I am as big a sucker as anyone for the fine-grained legal analysis, but I do sometimes worry it distracts us a little from the big, dumb, obvious points. This is appalling & precisely what the Framers were terrified of. Whether it’s technically legal if you squint right doesn’t change that.

submitted 17 hours ago • 23 comments

Are we really fucking doing this. Had nothing happened to Senator Padilla at all, what she was describing is a federal takeover of a major city by military force with no specified end-date, with no legal authority. Do not let the fascists talk their way out of that.

submitted 20 hours ago • 50 comments

AOC: When they say illegal vs legal immigration—they are trying to end legal status in the US making people undocumented and then they have the audacity to call them illegal when they were here documented.

submitted 20 hours ago • 338 comments

The oppression of the entire Latino community of Los Angeles right now is difficult to convey. Normally vibrant local retail areas of East LA and SELA look like ghost towns this week. People are afraid to leave their homes. Parents afraid to go to work. It's US citizens too. Anyone with brown skin

submitted 17 hours ago • 54 comments

So they're openly admitting that the military occupation of Los Angeles is meant to eliminate its political leadership who disagrees with the regime?

submitted 21 hours ago • 69 comments

This is the language of Afghanistan, of Iraq, of a thousand night raids and drone strikes and clearing operations brought inevitably, finally, back home to American soil

submitted 20 hours ago • 174 comments

…and by Congress, Mr. Representative?

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.

submitted 18 hours ago • 524 comments

If they'll treat a United States Senator like this, imagine how little respect they're showing for working class people. This administration is out of control. Working people must be prepared to act in solidarity and defend our country from this authoritarian behavior. It’s on us.

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

It has happened here before, and this looks like that. I am literally about to give a talk about the violent takeover of democratic governance in the Reconstructed South, and this looks like that. It is not the same, but if you do not see it at all, you are not looking.

submitted 18 hours ago • 23 comments

We are marching to Senator Thune’s office. There must be accountability for the detainment of a Senator. This is not normal.

submitted 19 hours ago • 960 comments

"The entire 12-member board overseeing America's most prestigious international scholarship program resigned en masse Wednesday, blasting the Trump administration for what they called blatantly illegal political interference." www.rawstory.com/trump-quit-p...

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

submitted 1 day ago • 599 comments

There are huge opportunities right now for ambitious Democratic governors and legislators to make names for themselves. Don't let Newsom hog all the glory.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments