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Which way, Democratic Party?

submitted 8 hours ago • 52 comments

content completely aside for just a second: this is weak party behavior. he’s got the nom as a Dem in a city that’s gonna be in Trump’s crosshairs, you fall in line.

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

Right, I think people get that the admin sent a knife-wielding maniac named END BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP charging at the supreme court and they calmly raised their gun, aimed, and then shot the nationwide injunctions guy who was trying to stop him

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details

submitted 1 day ago • 451 comments

"A society where artists have lost their faculty of criticism and submit unconditionally to power is well on its way to losing its democracy." Hwang Sok-yong, THE PRISONER

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

When you look for something with better tools and a better idea of what the thing you're looking for actually is, you're gonna find more of it

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Wow: ICE Has Deported at Least 70 U.S. Citizens

submitted 6 days ago • 759 comments

Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state. That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress: Sit back and do absolutely nothing.

submitted 7 days ago • 180 comments

imagine if the national democratic party spent millions on an ad blitz against the gestapo instead of against the muslim candidate for mayor of new york city

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

we actually don’t have to listen to the people who are cheerleading war who were also cheerleading war 20+ years. we’re the adults in the room now and we have the power to say fuck no to shitty ideas.

submitted 6 days ago • 45 comments

It is a pretty bad thing for the polity not just right now but going forward that the official guidance for masked men trawling around in trucks with no plates and just jumping out to beat the shit out of random people is to take it and, if you see it, not interfere

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

submitted 7 days ago • 68 comments

In ruling that she will order his release soon, Judge Holmes expressed doubt that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of MS-13. He has no criminal history, and the claim is "contradicted" by the government's evidence, she wrote. Full story. www.allrisenews.com/p/abrego-rel...

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

Surprising no one, this continues to be an ordeal that would in a just political world be enough to bring down an entire administration entirely by itself

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

I have obtained new nonpublic data from ICE that shows that 2/3 of the people it had booked into detention facilities this fiscal year had no criminal convictions at all. Less than 7% have violent convictions. Most convictions were for immigration, traffic, and vice offenses.

submitted 9 days ago • 28 comments

> New nonpublic data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) indicate that the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions of any kind. www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.

submitted 11 days ago • 60 comments

in a world so consistently hostile to larger bodies, I must once again give props to my besties at Seattle’s Sea Wolf and Oxbow bakeries, who ping me from time to time to help them make sure their seating is inclusive normalize asking your fat friends for advice on furniture! we appreciate it!!!!

submitted 9 days ago • 27 comments

So a good use of moral hazard here is the next Dem president simply using eminent domain to take this land back at the original sell price (less any value removed, not counting any value added) and screwing the buyers to dissuade future buyers if the GOP does this again.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Looking at the financial backing of GEO & CoreCivic, we can consider who owns their shares and debt, and who helps them access capital. We can't identify every partner, but because they are publicly traded, we can determine who some of them are from SEC filings.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

CoreCivic & The GEO Group are poised to take in hundreds of millions more annually. But we can do something to fight back against the corporate greed driving the mass detention, deportation, and surveillance agenda.

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

I'm used to Beltway Goldfish Brain, but it's insane that media coverage of the war to prevent Iran from getting a nuke almost never mentions Trump tearing up the Iran Nuke Deal. Much like how Ukraine coverage totally ignores that he was IMPEACHED for threatening to withhold weapons from Ukraine.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Trump has been negative on immigration twice; after the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, and after the Stephen Miller quotas went into place and sparked unrest. This is a sign people should be leaning into his outrages to highlight how terrible they are, not running away from the issue.

submitted 13 days ago • 22 comments

one thing I keep thinking about is how the upshot of a lot of technological advancements - digital cinema, non-linear editing, computer VFX replacing models and stunts etc etc - hasn't been to improve quality or even to save money, but to enable indiscipline and laziness.

submitted 13 days ago • 24 comments

Once again the correct response to this is to immediately push for a huge amnesty bill. If farm, hotel, and restaurant workers are so vital to the country that even donald trump can admit it, they should all be getting green cards now

submitted 14 days ago • 66 comments

The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency. The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?

submitted 14 days ago • 286 comments

In serious countries that are actual democracies, strong mainstream parties force members who do stuff like this to resign, & far right authoritarian parties that do this are shunned from government. Here in 🇺🇸, one of our two parties has collapsed into far right authoritarianism. So neither happens.

submitted 14 days ago • 123 comments

Los Angeles just fired a guy from the oversight commission -- a very conservative Bush-era judge -- for wanting, you know, accountability. www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I was in front of the federal building when this happened and while I admittedly wasn’t at the front of the line closest to the cops, I didn’t hear a dispersal order. We just saw people starting to run towards us followed by cops on horses and cops shooting munitions of some kind.

submitted 14 days ago • 22 comments

A lot of youse sound a lot like this lately.

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

You’re right. And in an important position to lead. But what are you going to stop it? That’s my question for every elected leader in Washington and nationwide right now.

submitted 18 days ago • 68 comments

What a rotten reality to have a White House occupant who hates so many Americans and hates everything our democratic nation stands for.

submitted 17 days ago • 325 comments

Waiting for the big outlets to put two and two together and realize that police whose identities are secret and facilities are secret are secret police.

submitted 18 days ago • 56 comments

I wonder what would happen if we banned pundits from using vague umbrella terms like "The Left" and "The Right" for a week and they were forced to actually grapple with the real organizations and individuals driving the political and media agenda.

submitted 18 days ago • 16 comments

Josh Hawley is using the regime’s manufactured crisis to begin criminalizing opposition organizations. He’s launching a Senate investigation into immigrant rights organizations. This is how dictators make it illegal to oppose them.

submitted 18 days ago • 117 comments

One of my Old Man opinions which is probably wrong given that a podcast is just a way to do effective communications now but I can’t help but think: you’re an elected official with immense national or state power, the fuck are you doing on taxpayer time hosting podcasts

submitted 18 days ago • 28 comments

Corporate media has truly failed us. Obsessed with access and focused on nothing more than their monetary perks and book deals, they'll happily slow walk us into the dismantling of the Republic if it means they still get Oval Office exclusives. Support independent media.

submitted 18 days ago • 166 comments

Cannot express enough how much what happened at that meeting three weeks ago has changed things on the ground. Courthouse arrests started within days, then check-in arrests. Worksite raids, once rare, began happening daily. Detention has skyrocketed over capacity. People are going missing.

submitted 17 days ago • 78 comments

It kind of puts the "Big Pharma" conspiracy stuff to rest, doesn't it? The medical, pharma, and insurance industries are supposed to have us all trapped in a cycle of sickness and false treatments - yet they stand by and do nothing while Trump and RFK gut their work and their companies.

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

Trump's use of piecemeal force in LA, a few hundred guardsmen standing around doing nothing, is less an act of consolidating power or tyrannical takeover, and more a weak and fearful man desperate to show the people who say nice things about him on TV that he's "doing something."

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments