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don’t forget: waymos and other robotaxis are surveillance devices on wheels that police are increasingly tapping for footage

submitted 7 hours ago • 6 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 7 hours ago • 443 comments

brb writing a breathless Washington Post article asking if my local sports bar is a bubble because most of the customers enjoy the same football team

submitted 7 hours ago • 26 comments

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

submitted 9 hours ago • 2545 comments

Ok, I’m no @profpaulpoast.bsky.social but I shall try to do a thread on militaries and protests. Apologies up front to all the brilliant scholars I accidentally leave out - am doing this from memory. 1/

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

How now-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem felt about a president potentially federalizing the National Guard one year ago:

submitted 14 hours ago • 105 comments

Opposite of USA Like elections in UK, Canada & Australia, South Korea's election rebukes the right which fights a rearguard action against the transition to renewables. Lee promised to phase out coal, limit natural gas & accelerate wind and solar. #energysky www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

Luke also blew up 1.5M space fascists

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

Private equity is just callously indifferent to whether or not it kills the American Dream.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

I can’t compete with this

submitted 1 day ago • 133 comments

"Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward...Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear." www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsAn...

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

if I had jedi powers, I would be down with this. This isn't a fictional morality play, it's real life, and while you shouldn't react stupidly, the inability by professional Dems to call Republicans bad people for doing bad things is one reason why we're in this mess.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

Cannot emphasize enough that the people who live in the city where stuff is happening will know stuff that the NYT opinion writers do not.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Symbolism is very, very powerful. Remember this. Humans are storytellers.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

There's so much to dunk on in this NYT piece and so little time, but I gotta start here: Some law profs at U Chicago did a study to see if the chatbots could answer questions based on specific materials and found, unsurprisingly, that they make shit up. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t... >>

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

There's actually an extremely large scholarly literature about this. With some regularity, dictators order their troops to shoot protestors, the troops are like "wtf no," and then the dictator falls. I'll dig ho and dump some cites below in a second

submitted 18 hours ago • 60 comments

Unhinged, but you have to admit that “from now on, MASKS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED to be worn at protests. What do these people have to hide, and why???” is extremely funny in the context of federal law enforcement increasingly wearing masks to conceal their identities

submitted 19 hours ago • 38 comments

What’s happening in LA is an a good reminder of how ever more fragmented our information landscape has become On Bluesky it’s almost entirely about executive overreach; on X it’s “LA is burning; deport them all”

submitted 18 hours ago • 78 comments

Critically important point from Juliette. The only real justification for federalizing the nat guard over a governors objection is when the civil authorities are defying the law. This is attack on the sovereign right of the people of California to self government.

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses. Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

submitted 1 day ago • 102 comments

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

submitted 1 day ago • 782 comments

4½ months in and they’re already at “After protests over our masked agents shoving people into vans and militarized raids at Home Depots, courthouses, restaurants, and middle schools, we’re putting troops in the streets over the objections of cops and the Governor”. Not much room left to escalate.

submitted 19 hours ago • 11 comments

Everyone of you taking small steps to show alternatives to cars are awesome. It’s hard I know, the world wasn’t made for us. Maybe you go by foot, bike, scooter, skateboard, train, bus, or by boat. Every trip you take is making a difference.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Something worth remembering about immigration: it's not a choice between values and pocketbook. You get both. The best evidence is that immigration enriches us all. If you want to convince yourself, imagine the USA didn't ban Chinese immigration in 1882, or immigration more broadly in 1924.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

A few thoughts on Trump nationalize state nat guard in LA talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/break...

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

the white house thinks brute force is, no pun intended, a trump card. they don’t anticipate pushback and they don’t know how to handle it with anything other than escalation. the issue is that each escalation is itself a gamble. if protesters refuse to back down, you’ve lost face. (1/?)

submitted 1 day ago • 170 comments

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

submitted 1 day ago • 877 comments

These are the proactive steps states need to be taking right now. Another thing: every Democratic governor needs to have a sit-down now with the state adjutant general to carefully review that person's understanding of their responsibilities to their state, its citizens and the federal constitution.

submitted 48 days ago • 91 comments

This is a test

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

This is @melbuer.bsky.social on Sean’s account, posting here since it’s his video: the moment that Sean and @ryannemena.bsky.social were injured by what may have been a tear gas canister fired from a line of HSI officers in Paramount, CA.

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

The administration gets closer to using the military to crush civilian dissent. Expect deaths, disappearances, and lawless detentions.

submitted 1 day ago • 392 comments

These are crimes. They're committing crimes. And when people understandably protest the fact that they're committing crimes, they're shooting flashbangs at them.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

Wrote this in the summer of 2020, definitely a good sign to be dusting it off now. "Less lethal" weapons are tools of colonial occupation marketed to police, and tools of police marketed to colonial soldiers. Anti-civilian weapons more than "less-lethal" www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.

submitted 1 day ago • 2419 comments

it is sort of fascinating that there is a direct line from the election of the first Black man to the presidency to Trumpist hegemonic suicide

submitted 1 day ago • 94 comments

"So here's the plan -- we impose massive tariffs on the nations that sell us food." "Hmm." "But it's OK, because we just rely more on states like California that grow a lot of the same things." "Oh, I guess that ..." "And then we go to war with California."

submitted 1 day ago • 327 comments

Conversation with Paul Krugman about “Inventing the Renaissance” paulkrugman.substack.com/p/inventing-...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

"Sources said the administration is specifically considering a full termination of federal grant funding for the University of California and California State University systems." Pure vandalism. This could never happen in a country with functioning checks and balances.

submitted 2 days ago • 69 comments