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Interesting that I’m not seeing any reports of the “He’s An Asshole But The City Needs An Asshole To Stand Up To Trump” mayoral candidate doing any standing up to Trump re: the unjustified arrest of the sitting Comptroller

submitted 7 hours ago • 18 comments

This is exactly the right tone when privileged people suffer minor or temporary consequences standing up for powerless people. It’s still about the powerless people. ICE is Gestapo trash.

submitted 6 hours ago • 41 comments

Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

submitted 8 hours ago • 436 comments

I wrote about how the 2020 protests hurt Trump politically. I also wrote about how counternarratives about left-wing violence are just spin — and wildly at odds with the reality of extremist violence. Gift link: wapo.st/3SOEv6e

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

CENSURE MIKE LEE TOMORROW MORNING!!!!!!

submitted 2 days ago • 89 comments

This is continued journalistic malpractice from the @startribune.com normalizing a violent white male suspect. He owned a private security company called Praetorian Guard, traveled overseas to preach against abortion and LGBTQ+ people, and attended a bible college that preaches "violent prayer."

submitted 1 day ago • 169 comments

No Kings was 40 times the size of the biggest day of Tea Party protests in 2009

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

In some sermons that we reviewed, Vance Boelter can be heard railing against the LGBTQ community and abortion www.wired.com/story/shooti... story with @timmarchman.bsky.social and @leahfeiger.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

Let’s not mince words on exactly what the MAGA movement is.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Musk needs to be imprisoned.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Under Trump, we have been trained that a law enforcement officer can just be a dude wearing jeans, a T-shirt, a hat, and a gaiter covering everything but his eyes, and we must comply with anything they order us to do, or risk assault and arrest.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Now we’re arresting 80 year old veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military vanity birthday parade on Capitol Hill.

submitted 4 days ago • 115 comments

If the Stephen Miller freakshow is too much even for Ron Johnson (!) it’s probably worth confronting Republicans with the ugly truth: they aren’t being bullied into supporting “the MAGA agenda.” They’re being bullied into helping a sadistic degenerate get his fix. www.offmessage.net/p/the-greedy...

submitted 5 days ago • 43 comments

More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

Breaking @propublica.org: Bukele of El Salvador has become one of Trump’s favorite authoritarians, and Trump touts him as a foe of MS-13. But a US investigation has found evidence he has colluded with the gang, even paying it for votes. www.propublica.org/article/buke...

submitted 5 days ago • 103 comments

You do not have to say “pro vaccine groups.” You can say the vast majority of doctors and scientists and the American Medical Association.

submitted 6 days ago • 227 comments

Tom Homan says that ICE raids in Chicago aren’t as severe as they could be because many people are aware of their rights. He says the city of Chicago is very well educated, with residents learning their rights through the city's Know Your Rights campaign, launched by Mayor Brandon Johnson.

submitted 139 days ago • 11 comments

It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

submitted 6 days ago • 531 comments

substack.com/@olgalautman...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

👀 ABSOLUTELY UGLY numbers for Trump/MAGA's big ugly bill: ONLY 27% of voters approve it Just 67% of Republicans support it Just 10% favor Medicaid cuts 58% of voters want Cong to "act a stronger check on Trump's power" Spread the news around. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

a new washington post / GMU poll finds trump 15 points net negative on immigration, soft disapproval of his handling of LA protests (with lots of don't knows). the narrative that these protests are good for trump is not supported by data at this point. see: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/why-the-la...

submitted 6 days ago • 41 comments

We are getting a look at how shameless newsletters of today would have covered the news from Germany in 1930s. PS: somehow @politico.com left the “d” word out of this www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

submitted 7 days ago • 1467 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 7 days ago • 1034 comments

the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

submitted 8 days ago • 275 comments

I don’t think there’s ever been a more irresponsible act in US history than putting RFK in charge of public health. You’d rather have Manson.

submitted 8 days ago • 80 comments

Earlier this evening, the Univision crew grabbed their gear and started running when federal police began shooting pepper balls at us. @lataco.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 253 comments

"Landlords in New York City have apparently picked their champion in the mayor’s race: Andrew M. Cuomo."

submitted 12 days ago • 163 comments

New piece! Media coverage of Kilmar Abrego Garcia hurt Trump, not Democrats. An actually data-driven analysis of some stale conventional wisdom. Alt title: Matt Yglesias is wrong about Democrats and Abrego Garcia🧵

submitted 12 days ago • 45 comments