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If you can read this you are following too closely. Refugee from twitter but still have real estate there. On the side of good.
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This is a four alarm fire for democracy. The Homeland Security secretary is vowing to "liberate" Los Angeles with the U.S. military as a U.S. Senator is dragged away, tackled and handcuffed.

submitted 18 hours ago • 16 comments

Don't let them lie to you about Senator Padilla. DHS is claiming the agents DID NOT KNOW he was a senator. He CLEARLY says (BEFORE he is tackled and cuffed) "I am Senator Alex Padilla and I have a question for the secretary."

submitted 17 hours ago • 1133 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 1 day ago • 528 comments

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

submitted 17 hours ago • 947 comments

An MSNBC anchor just definitively claimed Padilla didn't identify himself when video clearly shows he did. So fucking irresponsible. This is how lies spread.

submitted 17 hours ago • 410 comments

Sen. Kim: "My colleague was thrown to the floor, handcuffed, humiliated—it is not a humiliation of that individual Senator, it is a humiliation of this body...Shame upon those that instigated this, that followed through on this, it is something all of us need to stand against."

submitted 17 hours ago • 98 comments

Former ABC News correspondent and anchor Terry Moran has joined Substack. He says he can’t wait to “get at the important work that we all have to do at a time of such trouble in our country.” bit.ly/3HAX77o

submitted 1 day ago • 646 comments

'Make the people you hate mad': Expert reveals what's driving Trump's 'childish' actions https://twp.ai/4ioPnR

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

When someone like Vindman is saying this, things are dark. He’s not posting 4th hand information. Don’t consult your hope when assessing what’s up ahead. It will lead you astray. Base your plans on reality.

submitted 1 day ago • 405 comments

Here’s a video of Stephen Miller in high school screaming that he’s “sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash, when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us.” This is the sociopath shaping our immigration policy and so much more

submitted 1 day ago • 2586 comments

Dear media: The story is not the tiny amount of violence that has occurred at some protests The story is the vast amounts of authoritarianism, police brutality, and groups of masked, unidentified federal agents trafficking people that's making us feel as if we MUST protest

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Utter clowns. Lies and complete rubbish propaganda every day

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

They weaken us irreparably in world strength and stability every new day.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Every major Dem politician needs to realize that, in this environment, they can schedule a "speech to the nation," like Newsom did, and get tons of media coverage. Just do it.

submitted 2 days ago • 518 comments

Are they shocked to find out the truth, or just shocked that he stopped holding up his end of the lie?

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Good! This administrations makes things up to suit their stories.No basis in fact as has been shown again and again.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

If Trump has to raid school children and working fathers in order to surpass Biden’s deportation numbers, then the only difference in their immigration policies is Fascism.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Trump and Hegseth are actively and overly turning the US military into a partisan political force in violation of the Constitution, and Republicans in Congress will say nothing as another pillar of the Republic comes crashing down.

submitted 2 days ago • 166 comments

📌NOTE: The same complicit corporate media that refused to call Trump a liar in his first term, is now refusing to label what we are seeing with our own eyes in L.A., fascism.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Deploying the military on U.S. soil against Americans was on page 555 of Project 2025. This was always their plan, and people voted for it anyway. America failed an open book test.

submitted 3 days ago • 150 comments

Newsom: Just moments ago, they called up an additional 2,000 National Guard troops. So now it’s 4,000 total—of which only 300 have actually been operationalized. And guess what? Yesterday, LAPD had to use their already scarce resources to protect those National Guardsmen and women…

submitted 3 days ago • 399 comments

Despicable.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Are you worried yet?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Thin skinned little would-be tyrants.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Sickening. And completely on brand for this corrupt, soulless administration

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

You misspelled accelerant.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Nick Anderson's newest cartoon for Raw Story illustrates how eager Trump is to 'put out the fire' in light of recent events. Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social for Raw Story #PoliticalCartoon #Cartoon #trump #LosAngeles #Protests #EditorialCartoon

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

“He’s exacerbated the conditions. He’s lit the proverbial match. He’s putting fuel on this fire.” https://trib.al/XqxAUjd

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Trump is tougher on Gov. Newsome than he is on Vladimir Putin. It's all part of his war on blue states!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Nailed it

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I'm posting this at least once a day and so should as many people as possible. As a child of the sixties protests at Columbia where I was pepper sprayed, billy clubbed and dragged by the hair, I know they will plant agitators in order to create the chaos they need to justify their violence. RESIST

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

DEVELOPING: No warning. No reason. NYPD officers rushed into the crowd and tackled a protester this weekend. His body was limp. He couldn’t move. He said, “I can’t feel my legs.” He might never walk again. For showing up. This is brutality. This is America.

submitted 5 days ago • 980 comments

I remember the good old days when Secretaries of Defense didn’t insert themselves unsolicited into domestic politics on a daily basis. Not what the job is supposed to be about.

submitted 4 days ago • 404 comments

And there you have it. ICE didn't target migrant workers in Kristi Noem's farms or Sarah Huckabee Sanders' meatpacking plants because they wanted to create a riot in LA as a pretext to declaring martial law. They don't care about undocumented migrants, they only care about controlling US citizens.

submitted 5 days ago • 1025 comments

He creates violence where there is none…

submitted 5 days ago • 80 comments

What happened on January 6th was an insurrection, but Trump didn’t deploy the National Guard because he wanted the insurrection to succeed. What’s happening in LA is NOT an insurrection, but he did deploy the National Guard because he wants an excuse to use the Insurrection Act. Period.

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

www.yahoo.com/news/abc-new... Whatever happened to our first amendment rights!😡

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment