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Major General Randy E. Manner, former Acting Vice Chief, National Guard Bureau statement to Fox News: "This is an inappropriate use of the National Guard and is not warranted.”

submitted 11 hours ago • 249 comments

This is an incredibly stupid way to interpret what happened. Twitter was bought by a fascist with the express purpose of crippling it as a tool for movements. He tweaked let neo-Nazis back on the site, tweaked the algorithm to suppress viewpoints and threw off critics.

submitted 12 hours ago • 14 comments

The far-right dominates X—because the owner of the site wants it to be used for fascist propaganda. It’s simply not an effective tool for spreading a progressive message because his hand is on the scale.

submitted 11 hours ago • 13 comments

Newsom: We talked for 20 minutes, this issue never came up. I kept trying to talk about LA, he wanted to talk about all these other issues. He never once brought up the national guard. There’s no working with the President. There’s only working for him. I will never work for Trump

submitted 11 hours ago • 113 comments

You must always be more disciplined than the forces brought against you. They're allowed to make mistakes. They make the rules. Your mistakes will be used as justification for your own repression.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

Zelenskyy: "Trust me, we understand the Russians much better, the mentality of the Russians, than the Americans understand the Russians. I know for sure Putin doesn't want to stop the war."

submitted 23 hours ago • 421 comments

If Hegseth and Trump really are going to try to use Marines to shut down protests in LA, I think it is going to be the worst mistake they have made thus far by a long shot. If you think the current images are pissing people off (and they are), having them be actual soldiers...

submitted 13 hours ago • 5 comments

Between the fires and these protests, I hope this year teaches everyone that most of the shit talking you hear about California and more specifically, LA, comes from racists and gentrifying transplants. Most people love living here and would do anything to protect it.

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

We’re gonna need every branch of the military to stop this

submitted 15 hours ago • 11 comments

But yeah, seriously, the way to combat and delegitimize these militaristic actions is to ridicule them. Hands down the most effective way to undercut their power bc humor replaces fear. Calling all clowns, mimes, polka bands, Mr Robotos, improv troupes, and circus acts: Your country needs you!

submitted 15 hours ago • 27 comments

We should remember that ICE agents are people too. They have hopes and dreams. They have families that they're just trying to support. And they have chosen to do that by supporting state repression against defenseless people, and every single one of them should be fired and charged with war crimes.

submitted 14 hours ago • 6 comments

JD Vance hates Musk, I see.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Look at how easily they lie. It also tells you they know they’re losing 🧵

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

This won't play well with the average not-terminally-politically-aware American. He'll TACO this one.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Briefly: ICE at Home Depot is about quotas, not safety.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

It’s obvious but worth drawing out what raids of Home Depot’s of all places is about. It’s rounding up people who are really eager for work and for whom there is work, peoples whose labor is in demand. We know this but shows just how far it is from rounding up just the bad guys.

submitted 18 hours ago • 365 comments

I'm not convinced he's making this up. I AM very open to the possibility that he thinks this is the truth because they don't let him have unfettered access to information and they tell him what they want him to hear. I really do think he's being Wormtongued, insomuchas the info he takes in.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

What the fuck is he doing in Morristown?

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

I thought maybe I was past being taken by surprise, but I'm legit shocked how many people don't recognize a death spiral when they see one.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Yes. I have heard this from both liberal and conservative people with sources inside the agency. It’s not just the pushback, it’s also that many officers want to believe they’re targeting the “bad guys” and this admin is telling them “screw you, grab families.” Genuinely, morale is way down.

submitted 19 hours ago • 357 comments

I’m fuzzy on my Roman history, it’s fine for the emperor to not pay his soldiers right

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

Vote shaming isn’t a thing that exists. This country has a 2-party system, not a parliamentary one. You voted for the major party & candidate that was against all of this or you voted explicitly for it either by directly choosing it or throwing the vote to someone who was never close to realistic.

submitted 21 hours ago • 26 comments

Exactly this thread. Folks, what you're calling "shaming" is actually known as "consequences." Every choice you make, ever, has consequences. You own those consequences every time you make a choice.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

She goes to the "hispanic church" because they give her money and no other church in the area will let her attend any more, btw.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Apropos of nothing, an update on The Dumbest MAGA I Know: She collapsed her lung falling, I guess...? So she's in the hospital. Folks from her church--which is largely made up of migrant families--came to see her. This woman was at Jan 6th, LITERALLY worships T***p, and bitches about "illegals."

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

look I don’t know how this all plays out but “we’re too cheap to give you active duty benefits and are jerking you around on stupid bullshit” is not exactly the kind of thing that motivates people to shoot civilians in the street

submitted 18 hours ago • 24 comments

Once again reminding you how many of the active duty rank-and-file LOATHE Hegseth already. Which means the NG like him even less.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Those people over there? Fine. I just never thought they would deport my grandma...

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

SCREAMING

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Latino/Hispanic folk, learn what Black folk learned: the anarchists are NOT your friends. They’ll instigate the burning of your communities then go to their parents suburban homes and watch it burn on their 70 inch TV’s.

submitted 21 hours ago • 26 comments

If past is prologue: They will coopt your peaceful protests and expand them beyond a cohesive unifying message into THEIR pet peeve grievances. They will harass peaceful bystanders and threaten them to take a side. They will watch your families suffer while they upload their footage to youtube.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

Doubling, tripling down on this: there's a line of argument that if evil people are for something, it must be evil. But it's very easy to pick examples where that is obviously absurd. If fascists praise courage, does that mean that liberals must be pro-cowardice? Etc

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

A lot of people are asking things of Democratic Congresscritters that they should be asking from their pastors. Constituents of Senator Warnock are obviously excused.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

The thing that this admin is going to learn is that having multiple flashpoints across the country and every single immigration operation promoting resistance is going to rapidly stretch federal resources to their breaking point Great, there's some NG on their phones being bored in LA

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

DOOMERISM ISN'T A STRATEGY.

submitted 135 days ago • 81 comments

My "most people are unconsciously solipsists and that's fundamentally what's wrong with them" theory is certainly racking up the points today.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments