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“Shocking and appalling”

I keep shouting about how the federal agents scooping people off the streets cannot be sued for their constitutional violations:

🚨🚨Holy Shit!! Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) is not fucking around with this fiery speech on the Senate floor.💥🔥💥We need this from every Democrat if we are going to push back on fascism and save our fragile Democracy!! More of this please!! Bravo Senator Booker!!

Russia was never a hoax
The 2020 election wasn’t stolen
Tariffs are a tax on you
Haitians didn’t eat pets
The Epstein files exist

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What CBS' disgraceful termination of Stephen Colbert illustrates is how quickly a Republic can fall when the media chooses cowardice instead of courage.

Tax the rich, stop robbing the poor. #SocialistSunday

Ex-farm worker here.

We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.

Not true AT ALL.

Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.

The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.

At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

"Questioning is the way of learning,"

Encourage your children to ask questions, not to accept existing answers.

Disabled veteran who is a US citizen was taken during Camarillo immigration raid, family says Concerned family members are desperate for answers after they say a disabled U.S. veteran and citizen was taken during a federal immigration raid at a cannabis farm in Camarillo.

Concerned family members are desperate for answers after they say a disabled U.S. veteran and citizen was taken during a federal immigration raid at a cannabis farm in Camarillo.

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The richest family in the United States, the Waltons, made money by not paying Walmart employees enough. This forced employees to seek government assistance for food and healthcare.

Republicans’ response is to take away that assistance because the Waltons aren’t rich enough.

Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Who Threatened Police Joins Justice Dept.

NY Times: “A former F.B.I. agent who was charged with encouraging the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to kill police officers has been named as an adviser to [DOJ] task force that Pres Trump established to seek retribution against his political enemies.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...

So much that was once unimaginable now coming at us multiple times per DAY. 👇

Where will we be in another four months?

McGovern: "A family making less than $50,000 a year? They get less than $1 a day in tax cuts. You can't buy a damn cup of coffee with that. But those making a million dollars or more? They'll get more than $250 a day in tax breaks ... that's how rigged this bill is to benefit the wealthy."

This has always been the GOP's strategy:

1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.

2) Explode deficits.

3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.

4) Rinse and repeat.

~ Robert Reich

The modern US right was built out of outraged responses to a handful of stories about federal actions like Ruby Ridge & Waco. What we're witnessing with these vicious ICE attacks is dozens of sadistic, draconian, & often fatal actions PER DAY, & it's that same US right that's now cheering them on.

Again, I’d like to encourage the people who think it’s a good idea to embrace a cruel and capricious dictatorship, while making it clear no legal or legislative authority can stop them from ruining ordinary people’s lives, to keep on reading to see what usually happens next.

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

Nice dog whistle, JD. His name is Sen. Alex Padilla. You served with him in the Senate. But of course you called him “Jose.”

We still have no idea who the ICE agents are. They could be insurrectionists, extremist militiamen or criminals themselves, chasing law-abiding citizens down the street for recording their kidnappings. The odds they aren't are low. Congress must raise hell about this. A masked gang runs our country.

The frog is boiled.

JD Vance refers to Sen. Alex Padilla as 'José Padilla' in remarks blasting Democrats during L.A. visit The vice president, who is touring federal facilities, attacked Mayor Karen Bass and California Gov. Gavin Newsom over protests against ICE raids in the city.

Talk about “political theater”!

This wankpuffin appears to have scripted himself a racist “mistake” and scripted his staff a racist excuse for it, all to feed his audience the type of insult-tainment that keeps their hate muscles strong.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jd-...

Had to mute the Nazi paper thread. Once again (1) no the KKK did not correctly interpret the Constitution, by any methodological lights (2) no paper that argued for the KKK’s interpretation of the Constitution should have received a passing grade, let alone an award (3) what the fuck

Seattle, Arlington, and D.C.—notably cities with an abundance of affordable housing options on short notice <insert sarcasm font>.

IT'S. NOT. A. BITTER. DISPUTE.

It's a one-sided authoritarian assault on a private institution. What are we doing here, and what is journalism, anyway?

Workers’ rights were bought in blood. #solidarity

New York Times: ICE Imposes New Rules on Congressional Visits The policy specifies that ICE field offices are not subject to an existing federal law that allows members of Congress to make unannounced oversight visits to immigration facilities that “detain or otherwise house aliens.”

To be really clear: The reason members of Congress can't just walk right in is because of the guns. Armed DHS personnel won't allow entry. In other words, DHS is using armed force to *break* laws.

Democrats need to wrap their minds around that. Accept that the frog is boiled.