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Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses. Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

submitted 20 hours ago • 99 comments

The military isn’t being employed to carry out an immigration policy. The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.

submitted 19 hours ago • 353 comments

"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." - Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica

submitted 28 days ago • 931 comments

Video from about an hour ago as less than lethal rounds are being used against protesters in Southern California

submitted 1 day ago • 1265 comments

VETERAN: “This is why they can’t wear masks. Because people like this exist… if you want to snatch people off the streets, do it in uniform, and show your damn face.” (@MarshaBlackburn’s Secret Police bill criminalizes transparency and threatens 5 years for naming an ICE agent)

submitted 1 day ago • 202 comments

So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be the story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

submitted 1 day ago • 311 comments

One thing is for certain after this week: Local cops in sanctuary cities—Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York—are working in lock step with DHS and ICE.

submitted 1 day ago • 136 comments

ICE waited until a woman’s lawyer went to the restroom then dragged her away. She fainted from stress and they dragged her unconscious body into the elevator, refusing medical attention.

submitted 1 day ago • 1139 comments

this is a day for those of us who have spent the last six months terminally online. this is for us and honestly, we deserve it.

submitted 3 days ago • 431 comments

Men are too emotional to use social media

submitted 3 days ago • 133 comments

Ah, the golden age.

submitted 3 days ago • 1187 comments

Abducting people at work sites - meaning they have jobs. Capturing them at court dates - meaning they're following the law. Blocking them from accessible higher education - meaning they're striving for more. And peddling lies about jobless, lawless, driftless.

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

UPDATE: Reuters: CBO ESTIMATES TAX AND SPENDING BILL WOULD INCREASE THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WITHOUT HEALTH INSURANCE BY 11 MILLION IN 2034

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

ICE dressed up like utility workers who offer "free estimates" if invited inside. Neighbor recorded the ICE goons and intervened, just before a young boy let them into his home. Tucson Electric Power was not told ICE agents would be impersonating their utility workers as part of the ICE raid.

submitted 5 days ago • 462 comments

Transphobes like NYT "investigations editor" @virginiahughes.bsky.social love to do the thing where they defend transphobia and then sit around reassuring themselves that the angry reaction from trans people proves their point. Absolute ghouls.

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

Mullin: What were we ranked nationally in math and reading in 1979? McMahon: We were very low on the totem pole. Mullin: We were number one in 1979

submitted 5 days ago • 1057 comments

MURRAY: Will you allocate the $220m for literacy programs that Congress appropriated? McMAHON: We're looking at the unallocated dollars to determine which of those programs we can best spend on MURRAY: Those funds were appropriated. It looks to me like the dept is illegally impounding funding

submitted 5 days ago • 899 comments

Does anyone else see the issue? TAX the RICH

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

It’s incredible that he does this as Mike Johnson is out there accusing recipients of widespread fraud.

submitted 6 days ago • 89 comments

The heartbreaking statement from Jonathan Joss’s husband about his death.

submitted 6 days ago • 456 comments

So, according to QAnon and Trump, Biden died in 2020, was replaced by a body double, but the one they picked to replace him was weak and infirm, and somehow Jake Tapper didn’t notice anything. Got it.

submitted 7 days ago • 347 comments

THESE are the tattoos we should be worried about… Valknut: historically Norse, used by some white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups.

submitted 7 days ago • 443 comments

Yes, you did vote to deport moms.

submitted 8 days ago • 4935 comments

I can’t believe the media covered up the fact that a clear mental incompetent was running the government while out of his mind on drugs, despite it being widely known in DC circles, to preserve their access to the White House. There should be huge recriminations for this.

submitted 9 days ago • 338 comments

"Well, we are all going to die." --Senator Joni Ernst That has to be the glibbest way any politician has ever told a constituent that they didn’t give a shit about them.

submitted 9 days ago • 2079 comments

This was today… Sotally tober… NYT clearly way off base…

submitted 9 days ago • 3784 comments

Unbelievable! Today, San Diego witnessed a government-sanctioned kidnapping. ICE stormed Buona Forchetta in military gear ripping workers away, then unleashing tear gas and smoke on the terrified community. Full on police state, fascism now used on American citizens. Stay aware. #OnYourSide

submitted 8 days ago • 481 comments

NOW— Mass ICE arrests happened/are happening at the Manhattan immigration court at 290 Broadway on the 20th floor. I was just outside the building and an observer came out crying, confirmed they witnessed people getting detained outside courtrooms while families watched and wept.

submitted 9 days ago • 110 comments

In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed. www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

submitted 9 days ago • 1081 comments

SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda." My report:

submitted 10 days ago • 431 comments

Today the Supreme Court cleared the way for the federal government to transfer thousands of acres of national forestland including a Native American sacred site, to Resolution Copper a mining company owned by Rio Tinto and BHP. The land holds deep spiritual significance for the Western Apache tribe.

submitted 12 days ago • 1720 comments

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submitted 16 days ago • 377 comments

Americans work more hours, take less vacation, work longer days, & retire later. But hey, at least we're not stuck with socialized health care.

submitted 16 days ago • 419 comments

“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.” Melinda Gates

submitted 16 days ago • 142 comments

Make this make sense. 🤷🏼‍♂️

submitted 16 days ago • 967 comments

Early this morning, House Republicans passed Trump's "big, beautiful" budget bill to kick millions of Americans off Medicaid and fund tax cuts for billionaires and big corporations - but not before they snuck in even more changes that will make life harder for the most vulnerable Americans.

submitted 17 days ago • 238 comments

Federal judge dresses down Alina Habba: "Your role is not to secure convictions at all costs, nor to satisfy public clamor, nor to advance political agendas. Your allegiance is to the impartial application of the law, to the pursuit of truth and to the upholding of due process for all."

submitted 18 days ago • 1285 comments

The current budget bill is an atrocity and out-of-touch leaders like Chuck Schumer laid the groundwork by voting for the CR. Appeasement and complicity do not work. When you bend the knee, they’ll break your leg.

submitted 17 days ago • 467 comments

This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social

submitted 17 days ago • 402 comments

Boyle: We just verified with the congressional budget office and of 13.7 million Americans who will lose their health care because of their bill, exactly zero are undocumented immigrants

submitted 17 days ago • 372 comments

The man with the nuclear codes walked into a wall. 😬

submitted 18 days ago • 1124 comments

submitted 19 days ago • 405 comments

“you should have a choice” means “we get to choose for you”

submitted 19 days ago • 691 comments

BREAKING Charles Kushner, the father of Jared Kushner, has had his nomination to serve as US Ambassador to France confirmed by the Senate. Notably: Cory Booker voted to advance his nomination. Here’s what former US Attorney Chris Christie said about the crimes Kushner committed.

submitted 19 days ago • 371 comments

This should be the end of Noem’s career in public life. It almost certainly won’t be, however, which is itself damning.

submitted 19 days ago • 774 comments

The Rules Committee meets at 1 AM on Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning to ram through this disastrous bill. Why? Because they don't want you to see them ripping healthcare from millions of Americans. You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.

submitted 19 days ago • 706 comments

Yet again Trump is taking credit for what Biden did.

submitted 20 days ago • 126 comments

What a disgrace by our "Justice" Dept. The family of Ashli Babbit to recieve nearly 5 million dollars.

submitted 20 days ago • 1084 comments

Can you PLEASE remove this channel from your watchlist? Please. You deserve it. These people have no decency, no integrity, no common sense.

submitted 20 days ago • 259 comments

"Tapper and Thompson want to be the center of the conversation because it will help them sell books. But with daily assaults on our constitution by the current inhabitant of the White House, the rest of us have, or should have, more important things to focus on."

submitted 20 days ago • 190 comments