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submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

St. Louis. #STL

submitted 17 hours ago • 12 comments

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

submitted 23 hours ago • 57 comments

We are a proud country of Haters. Kendrick performing Not Like Us during halftime of the Superbowl is the most American shit that has ever happened

submitted 17 hours ago • 29 comments

It's hard to understate how important Representative & former Speaker Hortman was to Minnesota politics - she was probably the most prominent woman politician & integral to the recent budget deal. She was also incredibly kind and a real person - Kiernan sold her girl scout cookies. It's horrifying.

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

I'm struck by how the major political theorist Giles of Rome (c.1278) described the ways tyrants cling to power, including: –prohibiting study –impoverishing the people –promoting discord –monitoring citizens –restricting gatherings –fomenting war But that list was a bit hard to fit on a placard...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Well past time for big city mayors to call for the arrest of anyone who claims to be law enforcement but wears a mask and/or won’t identify themselves

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Me as a kid reading Dune: I don’t get why their whole society is built around the eradication of A.I., seems like they’re wasting a lot of tech Me as an adult: oh that’s why

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Sorry I left the Overton Window open

submitted 149 days ago • 25 comments

And Rufo saying THIS WEEK that they needed to use unmarked vans to take progressive leaders off the streets normalizes the violent unaccountability. This is exactly what he’s been trying to incite.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

The neighborhood is getting ready for tomorrow

submitted 2 days ago • 100 comments

I'd start with a list of all the J6ers he pardoned that live in the area. But I am pretty sure there's also a decent chance they'll "never find him" because he's a cop

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

The way the ICE officer, who looks like a middle-aged guy who's probably been doing the job for years, just casually tosses off that line... My guess would be that he felt he was doing her a favor; he was being reasonable within the bounds of his orders. But it's the orders that are unreasonable.

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

States should be passing laws that make concealing one's identity while dressed as a police officer presumptive probable cause for an arrest for impersonating a police officer.

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

Just remembering how many times the cops' stories changed in Uvalde. For no particular reason. Just remembering.

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Evergreen.

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The assassin posed as law enforcement. As we can no longer tell the difference between civilians and law enforcement thanks to the ICE, I would expect the reforms to start regarding officers having to stop hiding their faces and clearly identify themselves. That won't happen but one can dream.

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

"It's a republic, not a democracy," say the conservatives as they get very excited for a big display of military force moving across the river into the capital.

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

This woman will be denied promotion.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

This is everywhere. Every academic institution I know is held together by some exhausted woman in her early 40's who waits until the old white male professors have finished their vague rants and says, "alright, so concretely can I propose the following next steps..." She makes half their salary.

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.

submitted 1 day ago • 179 comments

Lot of accounts on here talking like cocky, gun-slinging revolutionaries, often behind anonymous accounts, about what separates real protest from performance. A) If you're not a fed and doing that in a public forum, you're a dupe. And B) I hope you’re protesting as much as the folks you dismiss.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

@governorwalz.mn.gov: "The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you're overreacting."

submitted 2 days ago • 57 comments

this statement was made just yesterday

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

I would like my state, every state, to mandate badges, name plates, no masks, for all law enforcement in the state. And if federal agents try to break the mandate, arrest them, then let the courts sort it out.

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In 1977, Andrew Cuomo was working on his father's unsuccessful mayoral campaign against Ed Koch. Voters received mailers saying, "Vote for Cuomo, not the homo", which Andrew Cuomo has been widely reported to be responsible for. He's been using the same bigoted campaign tactics for nearly 50 years.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Still the greatest military headline of all time

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

Between 1970 and 1985, a typical American family could save 10% of their income for about five years and accumulate a 20% down payment on a median-priced existing single-family home, according to a New York Times analysis. As of 2023, it would take nearly eight years, the data shows. nyti.ms/3FKEzkx

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

submitted 3 days ago • 55 comments

I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️ toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf

submitted 2 days ago • 109 comments

Fun fact: in the 1960s, Civil Rights protestors were given literal classes on nonviolent protest; they didn't all just spontaneously know what to do. So, if you're planning on showing up, this weekend: read this comic. And if you're staying home, signal-boost it/link it around.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Talking of playbooks, page one of that fetid book is to falsely associate your enemy with the darkest of threats: The Nazis (1942) 'Der Untermensch' (Jews) Daily Mail (1980s) 'Britain threatened by gay virus plague' (gay men Trump (2016) 'Drug dealers, criminals, rapists' (Mexicans)

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I was in Alaska less than 24 hours before I heard that Alaska Natives are genetically more susceptible to drug and alcohol abuse. I can't find the study right now (in the field), but that has been disproven. So, like, stop spreading that plz?

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They cut Gaza’s last internet cable to suffocate more than two and a half million people living under siege, hunger, and extermination. This is not just a loss of connection it is the killing of humanity itself. While Iran is bombed without justification and without a UN resolution,

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this too is a trans allegory

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I had a joke about Enkidu but it's on my tablet

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bluesky is the #1 app for introspection

submitted 3 days ago • 142 comments

Noone is getting out alive and unless you're part of an inherently lucky few noone is getting a happy life for free. So without hurting ppl or stealing happiness from others, take what you can fuckin get and run. There's no way to make your life worth while that waits for permission and validation.

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We've always assumed increasing NHS spending is a good thing, because it makes us better. But suppose that it is now becoming a measure of just how sick our economy is making us? Shouldn't we be looking at curing the problems that make us ill in that case? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06...

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

This paragraph is on point. Having known many people whose mental and even physical health issues are CAUSED by work.

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W/alt

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