All of this is being manufactured by Trump. The show of force is the point.

It distracts from his recent failures and inability to govern.

Like any bully, Trump wants to display his power — especially over those whom he doesn't consider "his" people.

Look how that Overton window just sliiiiiides
First it was "illegal" immigrants criminals
Then it was it was simply immigrants
Then it's lawful us residents/green card holders
Now it's criminal us citizens
GUESS WHO'S NEXT

Reddit is flooded with small businesses owners getting crushed by tariffs — devastated by the thought of raising prices, firing workers, or closing up shop entirely.

After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.

He’s watching.

ATTENTION, trans and NB friends … It’s being reported that the state department has stopped processing gender marker correction applications, and worse, they’re ordered to *CONFISCATE SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS.* Be extremely cautious when presenting hard-to-replace documents in any federal office.

Absolutely terrifying. It won’t stop with our LGBTQIA citizens. Every protection for every marginalized group is under threat.

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400,000 Americans lost their lives to Covid because of Trump's incompetence. He's not changed one bit because of it. American lives and deaths mean nothing to him.

1. In April 2024, California raised the minimum wage for fast food chains to $20/hour

The industry claimed it would be devastating & require significant job cuts and prices increases

Here is what really happened: workers got a raise, prices went modestly, and the industry continued to add jobs

Bodies are like Tetris--the longer you play the game of being alive, the faster shit keeps happening and the more you have to scurry around doing maintenance trying not to crash.

I liked Easy Mode, dammit.

Pete Buttigieg told Democrats to not allow themselves to be so outraged by the Trump administration that they would neglect working for their constituents. “We cannot be mesmerized by the worst things that we see happening,” Buttigieg said. nyti.ms/3ZiKILz

MIT announced that it would eliminate tuition costs next fall for all undergraduate students whose families earn less than $200,000 per year — following a national movement to try to make higher education more accessible.

I feel mislead by all dystopian literature. It's supposed to be a powerful authoritarian government that lords over a cowering population, and and we just need need a few brave acts of heroism to give the people the courage to rise up.

Instead it's just half the country being dumb and mean.

This.

Yes, we’re frustrated and angry that we live in a society where we don’t feel safe around men we don’t know, where we have to assume the worst for our own protection, where a rapist can SUCCESSFULLY use as a defense in court the notion that too much punishment will …

DammitMalcolm, prince of all he surveys.