What the United States is actually doing is using its massive military capabilities to airstrike random boats full of Latino people because Stephen Miller is all-but-open fascist who gets a weird semi-sexual thrill out of killing people of color. It's absolutely rogue state behavior

Just thinking about CBP rolling around the fucking loop on a Sunday. Bears out of town Protests downtown were yesterday No one who is working was there today Everyone downtown today was there for family time or shopping Just masked thugs ruining people's lives.

79. American citizen.

I'm old enough to remember (way back in 2016) when an armed militia actually occupied a federal government facility in the state of Oregon (for over a month!) and engaged in a shootout with the FBI. And, that wasn't deemed sufficient to justify deploying the military.

“What about—“ “I will stipulate to the evil of any President you can possibly think of and you will still have to defend sending troops into major cities for no good reason”

Hegseth fires general officers and JAGs, cracks down on dissenting views in military, orders killing civilians at sea without legal rationale, calls generals to Quantico to demand loyalty. Trump deploys troops to U.S. cities. "What are Trump and Hegseth up to? It's a mystery!"

Troops. In an American city. Using full force. Your now-regular reminder that Republican members of Congress are letting this happen.

Just FYI: Portland as a war zone is horseshit, and deploying federal troops is horseshit.

Being scared of Greenwich Village is basically impossible.

Expect any non-citizen (for now) in any position of power to be harassed and abused on pretext by the secret police.

I am struck, given how local police seems to factor here in *keeping ICE under control*, that this feels so much like a town being invaded by a hostile and heavily armed gang.

For some reason Chat GPT thinks Trump winning the 2024 election is fake news.

I really wish there was a grand treaty where big business and progressive grass roots teamed up. If Trump tries to do heinous illegal shit to Intel, Indivisible gets folks in the streets and out in force on their behalf. If Trump targets the marginalized, biz contributes to defend their rights

Journalist Mario Guevara has been in ICE custody for over 100 days "for doing nothing other than doing his job," @laurenleharper.bsky.social told @npr.org's 1A. "The administration is using not just the FCC, but other agencies to really go after speech they don't like.”

The administration is dedicated to pretending that mean tweets make people hate ICE and not uh, this.

Now that Trump's new executive order has outlawed the promotion of radical ideas opposing the administration's ideology, you might enjoy my podcast about the emancipatory and cosmopolitan case for radical liberalism. pod.link/1614436300

Never in our history, not even during Watergate, has a single news cycle so comprehensibly established the deep corruption and politicization of the Department of Justice

“The target repeatedly brought up Homan, saying he was collecting bribes in exchange for future government contracts, the two sources told Reuters.”

Charlie Kirk's podcast is number one on the charts, businesses and media outlets are firing employees who criticize Kirk, and flags are flying at half-mast for Kirk despite his status as a private citizen. Here's why America treats conservatives as second-class citizens.

From my colleague @walterolson.bsky.social today.

There seem to be two camps in the GOP right now - those who are embarrassed by what’s in the big Republican bill (but voted for it anyways), and those who just want to make gleeful hype video about alligators eating immigrants. www.infinitescroll.us/p/weekly-scr...

"The Nazis... imagined their targets would self-deport. Once the myth of self-deportation collapsed, they turned to more punitive measures. On Tuesday, Noem similarly noted the Everglades camp was meant to frighten immigrants into self-deporting. 'If you don’t,' she said, 'you may end up here.'"

Forgot to post this yesterday, but: Happy Effete, Liberal College Professor Saves The Union Day to all who celebrate

An archipelago, if you will

I guess I’m on team “not Cuomo” but if the choice to lead America’s single greatest city is down to “inexperienced socialist” and “corrupt sex-pest” maybe we need to have a hard conversation about the Democratic Party’s bench problem.

The idea that a school should be prepared to reward a well-argued paper for a bad position is fine in principle, but if we're not total nihilists, we'll also recognize that there are positions for which it's inherently impossible for a defense to be "well-argued."

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

Essentially levying economic sanctions to punish states that respect their residents’ constitutional rights.

Rise of "No Kings" movement is great time to note that Trump's tariff power grab is similar to the "Ship Money" abuse of emergency taxation power by King Charles I, which helped precipitate English Civil War. See my linked post for details: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Congratulations to the U.S. Army on its 250th birthday. It's a shame that this day is being marred by using soldiers to indulge the narcissism of a would-be king, instead of honoring the democratic values so many have served and fought and sacrificed for. They resisted tyrants - so should we.

It is difficult to imagine any circumstances in which the assassination of one democratic lawmaker and the attempted assassination of another is not fascist violence, calculated to suppress political resistance to a fascist project. At this point I am not going to try.

Update: Gov. Walz confirms that Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed. Officials are “cautiously optimistic” that state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife will survive their injuries.

NEW: The CBP confirmed to @404media.co that it has been flying Predator drones over LA amid the protests. These Predator B drones are military-caliber UAVs used for aerial reconnaissance that can be armed. It further breaks the seal on federal involvement in civilian matters. More here:

WATCH: “I WAS AN INTERPRETER IN AFGHANISTAN FOR 3 YEARS.” ICE grabs a man whose name they don’t even know at his immigration hearing, shackles him, expedites his removal. Q: Why would anyone ever help our military again? — Trump is endangering and weakening our military.

yep! unpaywalled:

This is how you normalize authoritarianism.

A really chilling implication here is that if Trump keeps doing speeches on military bases, and commanding officers continue to tell soldiers to opt in or out of these events (as they did here), then there will be lists by base and unit of which soldiers support the administration & which don't.

The only reason people think LA is a postapocalyptic nightmare is because of the X algorithm. An unreality machine.

We don't really have a free or functioning press if they are required to pretend not to know conclusively that Stephen Miller is an avowed white supremacist

Awful: News orgs are credulously amplifying the ugly idea that sending troops into LA is good politics for Trump. This gives his lawless abuses of power the aura of conventional politics, obscuring how extraordinary and dangerous this moment truly is. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1966...

It’s going to be something when lawyers from the law firms that settled with Trump are told they are expected to contribute pro bono services to defend the cops who shot and tear gassed reporters and bystanders.

The extent to which The Discourse is revolving around how voters are going to feel about X or Y in 2026 or 2028 feels increasingly like denial. It is harder & harder for me to imagine a scenario where Trump remains in office another 3+ years and we have meaningfully free elections.

cops doing crime on camera. as @chadloder.bsky.social has been pointing out all day, this is totally illegal. cops doing crime. on camera. adjust your stupid headlines accordingly.

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

No. Way. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...