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I’ve said it before but it is embarrassing that so many intellectuals spent years in small factional battles over the propriety of calling this fascism.

submitted 5 hours ago • 138 comments

ICE is detaining people in LA in a basement with no beds, no air, no light and not enough food and water. These are crimes.

submitted 4 hours ago • 143 comments

With the Supreme Court now handing DOGE access to Social Security data, it’s becoming undeniable, the Trump administration is building the “deep state” themselves. Don’t get distracted by the noise.

submitted 3 hours ago • 70 comments

Don’t forget that a small handful of Republicans in the House and Senate could put a stop to all of this.

submitted 6 hours ago • 53 comments

But why defund schools? To curate failure — to say that public schools are broken and public school teachers are inept all in a push to privatize public schools. To dumb down the populace. To demonize a system that educates over 90% of kids in this state… open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

submitted 5 hours ago • 210 comments

Snatched in plain sight. Congress, where are you on this? Plainclothes. No identification. Unmarked cars with everyday plates. Anyone can throw on regular clothes, flash a fake badge, and claim to be “ICE.” A reckless operation and dangerous. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov

submitted 5 hours ago • 279 comments

Two babies have died from whooping cough in Kentucky. Neither they nor their parents had been vaccinated. The current whooping cough outbreak in the U.S. hasn’t grabbed the media spotlight as much as measles has, but it’s important to update your vaccination if you’re going to be around babies.

submitted 5 hours ago • 116 comments

This is so jarringly unAmerican that I sort of hope it wakes some normies up. It is occurring in a context where military-style equipment is being used to enforce immigration roundups and conveys the notion that we are increasingly living in a police state.

submitted 5 hours ago • 301 comments

Right now, Muslims in Gaza are supposed to be celebrating Eid al-Adha. Instead of feasting, they are starving. Instead of gathering with their loved ones, they are burying their children. Netanyahu and the IDF can end this misery ANY time by agreeing to a ceasefire and allowing aid into Gaza.

submitted 5 hours ago • 130 comments

This is fascism. Being punished for who you associate with.

submitted 6 hours ago • 54 comments

New in PN: Adam Serwer on America's "new dark age" "They see this as a long-term investment in a more ignorant population reliant on sources of information they can control — a docile population that can be easily manipulated." — @adamserwer.bsky.social

submitted 7 hours ago • 231 comments

The blowup between Elon and Trump hasn’t ended DOGE, it’s still expanding. Russ Vought now plans to institutionalize DOGE across the federal government, and Elon’s staffers are embedded deep within key agencies.

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submitted 8 hours ago • 468 comments

ICE agents better start reading up on the Nuremberg trials. Because when we get to the other side of this, and we will, "I was just following orders" ain't gonna cut it.

submitted 8 hours ago • 237 comments

If ICE can snatch people without warrants and rip families apart in the shadows, what kind of country are we living in? This isn’t justice, it’s cruelty pretending to be law and order. Protest isn’t optional. It’s survival. It’s the only thing keeping us human. #Resist

submitted 8 hours ago • 37 comments

"Veterans know the layoffs aren’t about saving money. They’re about weakening the institution and ultimately privatizing and gutting VA disability funding, as spelled out in Project 2025." share.google/pz6mLWSzZIYC...

submitted 7 hours ago • 413 comments

People don’t realize just how much damage this administration is doing to American science—and confidence in American science globally. Everyone I speak with inside is horrified…

submitted 16 hours ago • 171 comments

LAPD eventually showed up and rescued ICE by attacking US citizens, ICE joined them in firing tear gas and pepper rounds at people. (🎥 @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social )

submitted 16 hours ago • 165 comments

Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today

submitted 15 hours ago • 461 comments

ICE forced to barricade themselves inside the federal building in Los Angeles until LAPD could intervene and rescue them from the brave crowds standing up to the regime.

submitted 16 hours ago • 253 comments

It’s really unfortunate how much we, collectively, disparage women in our society. So many comments about yesterday’s fight comparing them to girls and women, as if that’s a bad thing. They are MEN behaving badly. It’s ok to say that.

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

🧪⚛️ From my colleague Neal Lane: thebulletin.org/2025/06/time...

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Equality Diversity Inclusivity: good for science. Via @chrischirp.bsky.social #academicsky 🧪 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

🚨🚨 BREAKING: Protesters have surrounded the federal detention center in Los Angeles. California isn’t backing down, this is a full-blown standoff with the feds. ❤️ A FUCK YEAH!!!

submitted 16 hours ago • 92 comments

Crowds of brave people have surrounded the ICE detention centre in Los Angeles. They are trying to liberate victims kidnapped by Trump’s regime forces. Victims were abducted and thrown into the basement of the building without due process. #3E

submitted 16 hours ago • 156 comments

live from the huge spontaneous anti-ICE protest after the agency used military-style tactics during a series of raids in Los Angeles today.

submitted 19 hours ago • 211 comments

A teacher breaks down after ICE causes multiple schools to lockdown during graduation ceremonies and parents to flee for their lives. Only the soulless aren’t hurting from what is happening in our country. This is affecting all of us.

submitted 18 hours ago • 730 comments

We are no longer the leader of the free world. We are no longer a beacon of democracy and justice. We are no longer than land of opportunity. We are no longer a nation in which no one is above the law. Our myths about ourselves are killing us. What to do? My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

submitted 18 hours ago • 91 comments

Been saying this for weeks. In order to build a mass deportation machine to round up and deport 4% of the entire goddamn population, you must first build the police state.

submitted 18 hours ago • 29 comments

To be fair it's easy to be vindicated when your commitment is "the border Gestapo are evil and should not exist" Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

submitted 18 hours ago • 42 comments

NEW: LAPD just declared ICE protesters an unlawful assembly. A few moments ago 👇🏾

submitted 17 hours ago • 949 comments

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

submitted 17 hours ago • 305 comments

solidarity with LA. fuck ICE.

submitted 17 hours ago • 33 comments

Wellman: When I served in Iraq.. I heard about how Saddam Hussein divided them. Different sects fought each other. But you know -- Saddam and his family sat laughing at all of them. They divided them against each other and kept their power for 35 years. Does this sound familiar to anybody?

submitted 17 hours ago • 334 comments

The only thing sad about Simone Biles standing up for trans athletes is the fact that, with just two tweets, she’s shown more integrity and leadership on this issue than most House Democrats.

submitted 20 hours ago • 10 comments

On Friday afternoon, thousands of veterans who fought wars on behalf of the United States descended on the National Mall in Washington, DC, to fight something else: cuts proposed by the Trump administration. “Veterans are the canary in the coal mine.”

submitted 19 hours ago • 37 comments

The Republican Party has fully embraced fascism and destroyed American democracy. But some Democrats still say Latinx. I have never felt more politically homeless.

submitted 19 hours ago • 35 comments

ICE agents or bounty hunters? A raid at Home Depot on Wilshire in Los Angeles earlier today. What’s disturbing is that they’re wearing masks and vests you could buy on Amazon. They’re in unmarked cars, and I don’t see any IDs on the officers — regular SUVs with standard plates.