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Timely reminder that courage is not the absence of fear. It is doing what must be done, even and especially when you are afraid.

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Okay so now that I'm not trying to cross a border, I've got some tips on how to make sure protests stay safe and peaceful.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Trump finally telling the truth... Wait, whatdoya mean he's not talking about LAPD/LASO?

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And nobody is spitting. They're making that claim because no evidence would be expected. Any claims made by police and/or the Trump administration should be treated as fabrications absent compelling evidence.

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Every time I hear, "...just doing their jobs", "...just following orders" or anything like it, my mind jumps to Nuremberg. Would be good if everyone else's did, too.

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What? Nazis unrepresented? Fascist point of view goes unheard on Bluesky? Why that's... that's... That's good. Some points of view should not be heard, should just be rejected and abhorred.

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not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

submitted 2 days ago • 381 comments

Something that isn't said enough - immigration is a great good for the United States. The xenophobes are doing us a lot of damage.

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It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling. Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.

submitted 1 day ago • 143 comments

Counterpoint: Everything the Trump administration does is a threat to democracy.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Rand wants real cuts to medicade, medicare, social security. You know - those government programs we've been paying for all our lives.

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If they try to arrest Newsom, maybe he'll put some oomph into resisting the fed.

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The other thing about the militarized teams deployed on deportations is that they are increasingly a coalition of the willing that scrambles chains of command across various dept's and agencies (DHS, ICE, FBI, CBP, BOP, etc), creating what amounts to a personalized militia loyal only to Trump. 🧵

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today

submitted 4 days ago • 645 comments

This is a good thing - this is the kind of thing that a good governor needs to be thinking about. I won't support Newsom because he's willing to throw trans people and the homeless under the bus, and people are more important than dollars. And he gave credibility to fascists. But this is good.

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Me in @nytimes: “Lindsey Boylan, the first of Mr. Cuomo’s staff members to go public with complaints that he had harassed her, said that whatever gestures he made toward contrition, including his resignation, were motivated by politics. “He knew that it was the way to salvage his future,”

Timely reminder that courage is not the absence of fear. It is doing what must be done, even and especially when you are afraid.

Okay so now that I'm not trying to cross a border, I've got some tips on how to make sure protests stay safe and peaceful.

Trump finally telling the truth... Wait, whatdoya mean he's not talking about LAPD/LASO?

And nobody is spitting. They're making that claim because no evidence would be expected. Any claims made by police and/or the Trump administration should be treated as fabrications absent compelling evidence.

Every time I hear, "...just doing their jobs", "...just following orders" or anything like it, my mind jumps to Nuremberg. Would be good if everyone else's did, too.

What? Nazis unrepresented? Fascist point of view goes unheard on Bluesky? Why that's... that's... That's good. Some points of view should not be heard, should just be rejected and abhorred.

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

Something that isn't said enough - immigration is a great good for the United States. The xenophobes are doing us a lot of damage.

It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling. Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.

Counterpoint: Everything the Trump administration does is a threat to democracy.

Rand wants real cuts to medicade, medicare, social security. You know - those government programs we've been paying for all our lives.

If they try to arrest Newsom, maybe he'll put some oomph into resisting the fed.

The other thing about the militarized teams deployed on deportations is that they are increasingly a coalition of the willing that scrambles chains of command across various dept's and agencies (DHS, ICE, FBI, CBP, BOP, etc), creating what amounts to a personalized militia loyal only to Trump. 🧵

Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today

This is a good thing - this is the kind of thing that a good governor needs to be thinking about. I won't support Newsom because he's willing to throw trans people and the homeless under the bus, and people are more important than dollars. And he gave credibility to fascists. But this is good.

Me in @nytimes: “Lindsey Boylan, the first of Mr. Cuomo’s staff members to go public with complaints that he had harassed her, said that whatever gestures he made toward contrition, including his resignation, were motivated by politics. “He knew that it was the way to salvage his future,”

I'm a long way from Knaresborough, but...

How about a cage fight with all the billionaires?