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The LA rioters are out of hand. I've been watching social media and Fox News and I'm telling you they've burned that same Waymo taxi like 50 times now.

i've been trying to see what the right wing platforms (even outside of X) are showing people regarding the protests in LA and i am not sure it can be overstated just how much the AI slop is being used to reinforce the idea that downtown is a post-apocalyptic war zone

Remember when she fed you tea and oranges, that came all the way from China... was kinda romantic ?

Shut down Fox News. Shut it down, very hard. Every tower. Every server. Every channel. Treat it like an invading army and shut it down to protect America. "He who saves his Country does not violate any Law." De-program the deplorables.

This is our political Chernobyl. Legasov (Californians): Where are you going? Shcherbina (Gov. Newsom): I'm going to get you 5,000 tons of sand and boron. "...and others have greatness thrust upon them." Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Mark this.

Kat Abughazaleh nails exactly how Americans need to address the dangers of ICE raids happening now.

This comment from TikTok pretty much sums up Newsom

America, you are rapidly disappearing.

America has never been broke. It’s just violently anti-poor. Troops in LA cost $134M — the price of 44 million school lunches. But sure, let’s keep pretending the issue is lazy parents and not a government that eats kids for breakfast.

This is how. Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.

between that, Google Images being created because of Jennifer Lopez's v revealing green dress and Facebook's prototype being used to rate students' attractiveness, it really is quite striking and grim just how much of the modern internet was created by and for sleazy men

Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

Seeing people can only understand society through pop culture references:

The No Kings protest map will help you find a place to exercise your First Amendment rights this weekend. (It's also a pretty good argument against the Electoral College.) www.nokings.org

Trump (2020): “We can't call in the National Guard unless we're requested by a governor.” Collins: “The law, of course, has not changed...So what has?” Homan: “I'm not an attorney…DOD and DOJ are making these decisions. So, I certainly think the president is acting within the confines of the law.”

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

Morning frog on scaffolding.

Four LAPD officers on horseback surround a man laying on the ground, trample him, and beat him with their polycarbonate "saber" batons.

for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle

cops doing crime on camera. as @chadloder.bsky.social has been pointing out all day, this is totally illegal. cops doing crime. on camera. adjust your stupid headlines accordingly.

Trebuchets for LA ! Just kidding, trebuchets for kids as part of a friends lesson plan on physics. #trebuchetsforkids

This is one of the most important little threads I've read in the last year.

just that period reminder that content posted to Bluesky is public to *anybody*. if you don't want to see it used in a court of law, don't post it here. and DMs here are not E2EE, they can be subpoened. a great use for bsky DMs is to share secure comms and move the conversation there.

State repression of peaceful protests can subject activists to injury and even death but—when broadcast to the world through media—often turns mass opinion against the state. bsky.app/profile/owas...

White folks watched a bunch of white folks sack the Capitol and then most of them be pardoned by the head of the white identity party and now we're supposed to listen to other white people pontificate about non-violence...

I really appreciate that the (growing?) sentiment towards the administration's aggression is like yeah this is bad and dangerous and also it is mockable and these fascist cowards can eat my ass

Pupmarine on patrol.