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ICYMI from CA, OR & WA: A joint statement from Governors Newsom, Kotek & Ferguson affirms their continued commitment to following the science and protecting public health amid recent federal changes to CDC’s vaccine advisory committee. 🔗 www.gov.ca.gov/2025/06/12/c...

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Super weird invasion where the invaders do your landscaping, build your developments, pick your fruit, process your chicken, and pay billions of tax dollars into a system from which they can't benefit.

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A federal judge has blocked President Trump from deploying members of the California National Guard to Los Angeles and ordered the administration to return control of the forces to Gov. Gavin Newsom. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

What an overwhelmingly bad and dangerous moment we are all living in.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

submitted 1 day ago • 693 comments

if you don't like bluesky then don't use it, it's not that deep

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I was at a car wash in Culver City today that was raided twice last weekend by ICE. 25 car wash workers and 1 customer have been kidnapped over the past several days, and the whereabouts of most of them is unknown. I spoke to families of the kidnap victims: prospect.org/justice/2025...

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🧵 My small country, Estonia, population 1.3 million sent 2003-2014 over 2500 soldiers. 9 were killed in the line of duty. 109 wounded, half of them so seriously they could no longer lead a normal life. In Iraq 2003-2009 we had more than 440 soldiers. 2 were killed. 18 seriously wounded. 1/n

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One-third of the 3,600 western soldiers who died in Afghanistan were from non-US ISAF contingents. Some countries whose militaries bore especially heavy burdens relative to their size and fought in difficult provinces include the UK, Canada, Australia, Denmark, the Netherlands, Georgia, and Romania

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

Dear USA Deploying troops against civilians will not go well. Yours Great Britain and Northern Ireland

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.

submitted 5 days ago • 932 comments

The right in this country always fantasizes about being the victim of the violence they repeatedly inflict on marginalized groups and the left.

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

I just don't see how the Army celebrates 250 years on from the resistance to tyranny this week by sending the militia that assembled in Boston in 1775 to occupy LA in 2025.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

When Joe Biden did stuff like this, Fox would play the clips over and over like it was as significant as the moon landing

submitted 5 days ago • 387 comments

Why sheriff Taylor doesn't carry a gun. Clip from 'The Andy Griffith Show', season 5, episode 23. Broadcast on March 1st, 1965.

submitted 6 days ago • 107 comments

You know what I see? I see a community reacting to gangs of armed masked men who look like nativist vigilantes, not legitimate, accountable law enforcement.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

submitted 6 days ago • 171 comments

MERZ: Tomorrow is the D Day anniversary, when the Americans ended a war in Europe TRUMP: That was not a pleasant day for you? This is not a great day MERZ: This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship

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DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

submitted 8 days ago • 3029 comments

In retrospect, maybe the excitement in mainstream news media over the supposed ascendancy of Curtis Yarvin was a sign that the Silicon Valley Führerkult bubble was about to burst Yarvin as the pets.com of the techfash boom

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Audacious Ukrainian drone attack on Russian bomber bases. Several Tu-95 strategic and Tu-22 regional bombers destroyed or damaged. Both types are dual-capable and have been used to bomb Ukraine for years. Illustrates extraordinary vulnerability of bombers. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

I’m old enough to remember when Republicans said, “We want immigrants to come, we just want them to do it the right way.”

submitted 15 days ago • 23 comments

The New York Times has found at least two more fake citations in the MAHA report. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

submitted 15 days ago • 352 comments

The Trump administration released a report last week that it billed as a “clear, evidence-based foundation” for action on a range of children’s health issues. But the report, from the Make America Healthy Again Commission, cited studies that did not exist. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

submitted 15 days ago • 234 comments

Back before the Internet, we thought the reason for human stupidity was the lack of information options. I’ll put it this way: That wasn’t it.

submitted 21 days ago • 92 comments

25 May 1929 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Edit Spitzer, was born. In July 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

submitted 20 days ago • 22 comments

Literally thousands of people died in the Soviet Gulags sincerely believing that if only Comrade Stalin knew of the “mistakes”, they’d be let out

submitted 21 days ago • 11 comments

The pilot of a small private plane that crashed in a residential neighborhood of San Diego earlier this week faced fog as he attempted to land, while runway lights and a weather alert system at the airport were not working, investigators said.

submitted 21 days ago • 179 comments

Insane. Slight young woman traveling with mom to see U.S soldier husband. Strip-searched twice. Disappeared in the afternoon into the next day. No calls. Given no food. Finally, before being put on a plane, had 3 min. call w/husband who cried inconsolably. Husband has decided to leave the Army.

submitted 21 days ago • 58 comments