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It’s worth keeping in mind that nowhere in the record has Garcia Abrego ever been accused of a discrete criminal act. The double hearsay allegation made by an informant to a corrupt cop is of gang “membership”, a kind of ontological state of criminality that is assigned by the state to men of color.

submitted 13 hours ago • 12 comments

@chrislhayes.bsky.social breaks down each layer of the "sheer lawlessness" of the Trump deportation case. (1/2)

submitted 14 hours ago • 68 comments

The American people built a way to file taxes for free and now they're burning it down to enrich the predatory tax-prep industry who helped Trump get elected. Hail to the thief.

submitted 19 hours ago • 21 comments

One of the features of the "popularity" of Trump's immigration positions was that voters were repeatedly lied to by the media, who told them Biden/Harris's position was open borders, Trump's position was Biden/Harris's actual position, and Trump's actual position was lefty scaremongering

submitted 18 hours ago • 9 comments

Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?" Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’” “I’M PISSED!”

submitted 1 day ago • 1265 comments

Trump has (hitherto at least) polled well on immigration because most people have no clue that a) the immigration system is an incomprehensible clusterfuck b) he is doing totalitarian war crimes to innocent people

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This administration sent 200+ fathers, sons, and husbands to be tortured in a foreign prison for the rest of their lives. 9 in 10 have no criminal record. None received any due process. If you aren’t outraged, you need to check your fucking humanity.

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“now all of a sudden over the last 20 years, [the eagles] win two super bowls and they think they’re the best thing on the planet” oh emmitt. sweetie. it’s two super bowls in the last eight years. we’ve been to four in the last 20 seasons. the cowboys haven’t been to an nfc champ game in 30 years.

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

Someone once said NextDoor is the social network for dogs if they could type. It’s always “what’s that noise?” and “who’s that stranger?” which is exactly what I imagine my dogs would text other neighborhood dogs.

submitted 2 days ago • 530 comments

going to need to start hearing from governors what they intend to do to protect residents of their states from the federal government

submitted 2 days ago • 199 comments

If Trump comes after you, and you have some resources—think law firms and universities, not foreign students disappeared for speech—then you have a moral and patriotic obligation to fight back. If nothing else, it ties up the regime’s resources. They don’t have that much. They need capitulators.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

they can come for any of us. an absolutely intolerable situation for a free people. trump is now promising the same treatment for us citizens. a plot to enslave america

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

We're in The Bad Place, folks. The existence of an overseas gulag to which you - yes, you personally - can be sent with no recourse marks the end of a whole period of American history. There's no going back after this. Even if these guys are defeated, the new order will have to look much different.

submitted 2 days ago • 108 comments

It sure feels like Bukele should be more concerned that El Salvador is party to the Rome Statute and he's therefore prosecutable by the ICC

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🚨 NEW: These are photos from Pennsylvania @GovernorShapiro’s home after police say an arsonist set it on fire while the Governor and his family were sleeping around 2 a.m. Cody Balmer of Harrisburg was arrested. Charges expected: attempted murder & terrorism. Trump and his administration? Silent.

submitted 3 days ago • 62 comments

Just two guys who are listed at 6'3", 220ish.

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Exiling people beyond the protection of US law without due process is not only unconstitutional, it's a rejection of the entire American revolutionary project. Sending people "beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences" is one of the grievances enumerated in the Declaration of Independence.

submitted 4 days ago • 83 comments

Pretty much the same amount Republicans promise to “save” in this budget is what the IRS could have collected from tax cheats and wealthy/sophisticated filers WITHOUT RAISING A SINGLE TAX. But instead somebody somewhere will lose out on healthcare. Stupid and cruel.

submitted 6 days ago • 33 comments

This is classic Dem leadership stuff. Congress sets tariffs, not a brainwormed executive, but even as the economy collapses they've already given up on opposing it and have moved on to legitimizing Trump's power grab while offering some little tweaks around the edges.

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments

Pebble Rattling Around In Shoe Turns Out To Be Loose Toe

submitted 6 days ago • 63 comments

The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!

submitted 7 days ago • 883 comments

Future generations will be baffled (as I was baffled at the time) that the Dem trifecta in 2021 did so little to stabilize democracy or repair the courts. The "radical" 14th amendment plan was much less radical than the alternative of doing nothing, it turns out. Constitution now in shreds.

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

[playing poker] FRIEND: I’m all in ME: [yearning for this type of commitment since we first met] me too, man, I’m all in too FRIEND: um, a pair of kings ME: you bet we are

submitted 120 days ago • 35 comments

NFL RedZone host Scott Hanson will be the new in-game voice for EA Sports Madden NFL 26.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

In his defense he’s a history teacher, not a math teacher ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Happy birthday Thaddeus Stevens, one of the greatest US politicians. "Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors."

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The man sitting next to me on the Metro is reading a printout of the "Tariff" Wikipedia page

submitted 13 days ago • 214 comments

This surgeon is blacklisted by the medical malpractice insurance carriers.

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