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HAPPY JUNETEENTH! Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom, resilience, and the enduring spirit of Black Americans & marks the day in 1865 when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news of the Emancipation Proclamation, finally freeing the last remaining enslaved African Americans.

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Fun new BTS reel showcasing some of ILM’s visual effects work on “Andor”. Watch it here: youtu.be/vCckxCitIC0?...

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This was just four months ago.

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BREAKING: ICE agents are run off the property at Dodgers stadium. Fans, protestors and the LA Dodgers themselves have refused ICE agents access to Dodgers stadium. Here is LAPD escorting them off the estate. More of this! Resist. (🎥 Kevin Takumi, Fox L.A.)

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I’m headed home. ICE left and the LAPD acted with restraint during this 100% peaceful protest. Nobody was hurt. Nobody came close to getting hurt.

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You can see the ICE agents in their minivans then the LAPD cars in the back appearing to block the Dodger Stadium parking lot entrance. When I asked an LAPD officer if they are blocking ICE from entering the parking lot she said “put it this way. The Dodgers don’t want them coming in.”

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the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

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The Los Angeles Dodgers say ICE was "denied entry to the grounds by the organization"

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"...Trumpism is the dominant danger in America, and... the public is mobilizing against it in ways that are increasing over time. We now have the bones of a nationwide movement that can stop him."

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George Lucas speaking with James Cameron, 2018

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Wild how the Fed chair saying that entire regions of the United States won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

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What To Know About the Senate’s Public Lands Sell-Off

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President Obama spoke yesterday about the need for law firms to stand up to Trump. "Presumably, you went into the law because you believe in the law. If you are getting pressure from government saying ignore, fudge, or compromise that commitment. You have to push back."

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news is awful post a godzilla

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Wow. Lenacapavir, a twice-yearly shot that prevents HIV spread was just approved by the FDA. The problem? Due to government cuts to Medicaid, PEPFAR, and Global Fund, it's unlikely this game-changing drug will reach the many people who need it most in the US and globally.

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I moved to LA the first time a couple-few years after ICE was formed, and I remember seeing Abolish ICE signs even then and was like, wow that seems a little extreme, and then like very shortly after was like YES ABOLISH ICE. Whole thing's gotta go. Punt all the W Bush things into the sun.

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The radicalization of elites is very poorly understood but absolutely the story of the social internet era. we focus so much on mass user behavior in both extremism & media studies, but it’s a small group of powerful political & cultural elites that have been driven mad by the poster’s gamble

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The takeaway from the Tucker Carlson Ted Cruz interview is that the American public has been so badly cheated for so long by the people pretending to be the political media that when anyone asks a basic follow up that an 8th grade schoolpaper reporter would it feels like cutting edge journalism

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THIS is how you do it

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Same in Yosemite, Kings Canyon/Sequoia, Redwood, Joshua Tree, and every other national park in the country. Behind the scenery, many critical programs and activities are being dismantled, with serious, long-term consequences for park resources.

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"Forcing trans people to wait until they are eighteen to begin medical transition functions to mark us out as different not just symbolically but physically. And of course these physical results are constantly used to justify precisely this treatment." (from 2024)

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Get the federal troops out of L.A. Now.

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Gore winning 2000 means no Alito or Roberts. Clinton winning 2016 means no Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, or Barrett. A few thousand votes' difference means misery and terror for millions.

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Gonna level with you bro I think DHS needs to be dissolved after this. Regardless of what national security functions fall under its remit, it's clearly institutionally constructed in such a way allows it to be used as an unaccountable tool of executive power. Can't reform your way out of that.

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Not to knock OP, but this misses the point. Oliver contributes to Lippman’s information environment, both reinforcing for those already intellect and contributing leftward influence for centrists.

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american political interviewers are really bad at their jobs and the difference when somebody trained in another system gets at a US politician is night and day

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the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

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This evening, 18 Senate Democrats voted with GOPers to pass a bill to create a regulatory framework for stablecoins -- without anti-corruption rules to bar Trump and his family from continuing to profit from cryptocurrency.

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they’ve gone from “clearly uniformed” to “partially uniformed” to “in no way identifiable” in like three weeks

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Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

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If the federal government attempts to proceed with this, WA should pass a 1,000,000% real estate excise tax on the sale of federal lands.

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More common among House Republicans, but acting one way online and on FNC then telling Dem members some version of 'It's all in the game' helps them maintain some cognitive dissonance. At a personal level Dems should absolutely embrace being mean to these guys and / or making them uncomfortable.

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Won’t meet with allies or sign a joint declaration trying to de-escalate the Iran-Israel conflict. Hegemonic suicide

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It's pretty notable that mainstream, establishment discourse never ever ever considers giving liberal politicians credit for crime reductions. It's almost axiomatic that if crime goes down under a center-left leader it's either unremarked upon, or must be driven by something else.

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This morning, I’m thinking about the children in Los Angeles waking up on Father’s Day wondering if they’ll ever see their dad again. We’ve heard reports of fathers being snatched from car washes, Home Depots, and swap meets. This doesn’t make L.A. safer. These raids must end.

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Vaccines save lives. That’s it. That’s the post.

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ICE raiding a crowded supermarket in Rosemead, California with no identification, indistinguishable from cartel hitmen, pulling high caliber rifles on unarmed US citizens trying to ask questions about wtf is going on. #3E #StopICE

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“No Kings Day”: A compilation

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No Kings

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It’s bleak out there, but it’s heartening to know millions of people from all walks of life took the time to ruin one specific persons birthday, America’s hater spirit remains strong

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Look who isn’t afraid to speak out.

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Truly wild photos coming in from Los Angeles right now.

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Before the cops in LA started escalating things for no reason it was funny how my main takeaway was how much people were looking out for each other in really helpful ways. I’ve never seen so many people with carts giving away free water, sunscreen, snacks, and masks to total strangers.

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