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WATCH: after we got shot last night, our comrade/lawyer @shakeer.bsky.social went over to ask for the pigs badge # & name. LAPD pig Rick Linton then told (& did) Shakeer that he was going to shoot if he kept asking questions. This is unhinged behavior! @mayor.lacity.gov has completely ok’d this!

UPDATE: 8 Gaza flotilla passengers in Israeli detention, per organizers. Israel says they “illegally entered” (Israel itself took them in). Israel has imposed 100-year entry ban on them. Passenger Thiago Ávila on hunger & water strike. Others report bed bug infestations, no safe drinking water.

Vincent Price in a wardrobe test during production of Dragonwyck (1946)

shel silverstein on the LLM, 1981

Genuinely unsure Kent State, which happened half a century ago, is instructive here. It's like talking about what TV shows people like in 2025 based on the ratings for Bonanza.

the absolutely flaming throuple vibes between sarah connor, her roommate ginger, and ginger's boyfriend matt

hey quick question: if this was an illegal order and the Governor of California is in charge of the state national guard until they're lawfully federalized, why is Gavin suing instead of ordering the guard to not follow Trump's illegal orders?

The Case for Always Getting The Thing At The Restaurant You Like And Know Is Good, my two hour lecture at the Being Old Is Great Actually conference

real bummer finding out that literally everything was on the honor system this whole time

Yep that's all the interests

A data broker owned by the major airlines, including Delta, American, and United, collected travelers’ flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection, and in the contract told CBP not to reveal where the data came from. From @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/airlin...

Always relevant www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cdq...

Whenever someone says they’re afraid of downtown in American cities, I’m always like, brother, that’s where the Fogos de Chão are.

🐴 “The LAPD remains focused on its core mission: to protect lives, safeguard Constitutional rights, and serve every neighborhood in Los Angeles with integrity.” 👮🏻‍♂️

"Perhaps I will write—not to immortalize the pain, but to say that we were here… loving, dreaming, planting, drawing, singing, reading, writing… before our lives were reduced to a passing news bulletin or a cold political statement."

well target may have dialed back their pride merch this year but you know who hasn't

I'm so scared of cities. All those buildings so close to each other. You can go to the movie theater and a restaurant and the park while walking, in defiance of God. There are people you haven't met before. Sometimes there's a dog in a jacket

happy to be the poster child for this, I'm just a little guy with glasses and I live in Chicago. Surely you can't be a bigger wuss than me

okay now that i can see it in beautiful hi def i seriously want that jumpsuit bowie is wearing

if ever anything demanded 4K treatment, it's this duet of Dames

It’s such an interesting quirk of history that Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper are forever linked and equated in the minds of many people. It’s like if Radiohead died with the guys who did that What the Fox Say? song and we had to be like “From Kid A to What the Fox Say…a global tragedy”

Jersey City has become the latest municipality to ban AI rent gouging software, joining San Francisco, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and San Diego.

It’s an excellent time to donate to @uniondelbarrio.bsky.social

If you promote this kind of slop then you are just as culpable for the collapse of America as the Q-Pilled freaks screaming about white genocide and adrenochrome. Election results broadly lined up with polling. Demo shifts in paper ballot states mirrored changes in e-vote system states mentioned

He's the real deal www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/hide...

Think how many problems would have been solved if his dormmates' response to Stephen Miller writing an op-ed about how he wouldn't sign a custodian's birthday card because he's above "the help" was a towel party

🚨 SOUTH PHILLY: ICE was spotted on 7th & Snyder at 9am this morning; their two unmarked Dodge SUVs (one gray, one black) are heading South on Broad as of 10am. Community members have eyes on them—alert your neighbors! KKF 7661 gray Dodge SUV LTM 932 black Dodge SUV

🚨🚨 #Abortion: Europe’s not as liberal as you think. While the global focus is on America’s reversal of long-standing abortion rights, a surprising number of European women still have to travel to terminate pregnancies. Great long @politico.eu read summarised in 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/abor...

i still think occasionally of the older trans woman i met riding the bus on a fairly rural midlands arriva route once back in like 2004, completely unbothered by the locals, who were her lifelong neighbors & obviously knew her well and loved her

Noting that Texas does not have much public land, this story is about ranchers opening private parks.

People call this a vampire movie, but honestly it’s also one of the best films about marriage ever made.

Ah, oh well.

i stopped wearing red crosses more than a decade ago, because police *habitually* target medics. this isn’t a one-off, it’s a deliberate choice they make over and over again. it’s not “a few bad apples,” it’s widespread practice.

Can you even *imagine* what would instantly happen to a protester if they raised up the sort of grenade launcher that shoots these things? Come the fuck on.