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A few words about “peaceful protests.” 1. At least 5% of people are uncontrollable assholes and will behave badly in any situation, let alone a high-tension one. So a large protest without ANYONE throwing shit, yelling slurs or for violence, etc. is likely not achievable. /1

submitted 19 hours ago • 74 comments

see, the thing i’m genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines

submitted 19 hours ago • 540 comments

Three things about this comment: 1. Homan is a White House adviser who doesn't have the power to arrest anyone. Neither does Trump. 2. Trump once again acts like he's not in charge. "If I were Tom, I'd do it." Uh, doesn't he work for you? 3. THREATENING TO ARREST A GOVERNOR IS A FIVE ALARM FIRE

submitted 22 hours ago • 211 comments

What the absolute fuck.

submitted 23 hours ago • 92 comments

All members of vaccine advisory panel will be retired, US Health Secretary Kennedy in WSJ oped reut.rs/4dZJzhQ

submitted 19 hours ago • 35 comments

So...the ICE agents?

submitted 22 hours ago • 176 comments

The situation in DTLA to which 700 Marines have been deployed is a couple dozen interfaith clergypersons leading a small crowd in prayer.

submitted 19 hours ago • 107 comments

SD-17 Sen. Howard Marklein has voted against Medicaid expansion three times, so it's no surprise he and his colleagues aren't considering the horrible consequences for their constituents if Republicans in DC, like #WI03 Rep. Derrick Van Orden, gut Medicaid funding for Wisconsin.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

The professional agitators are ICE.

submitted 21 hours ago • 101 comments

BREAKING: Marines from Twentynine Palms have been deployed to Los Angeles. California will file a lawsuit against President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to confront protesters, the attorney general said, arguing the president had “trampled” the state’s sovereignty.

submitted 19 hours ago • 13 comments

@natasharsarin.bsky.social: Loss of insurance from GOP bill could mean more than 100,000 preventable deaths. Some estimates based on existing research on Medicaid effects on mortality: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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The administration has been hitting the “invasion” rhetoric and portraying the protests as being driven by immigrants because, as in the Alien Enemies Act cases, they want to use wartime and battlefield measures. Don’t let the rhetoric go by uncontradicted.

submitted 23 hours ago • 30 comments

I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.

submitted 23 hours ago • 898 comments

Law enforcement injure at least 4 journalists covering protests in California amid federal crackdown cpj.org/2025/06/law-...

submitted 23 hours ago • 75 comments

this is genuinely insane. we’re going to need to jail people involved with this administration

submitted 23 hours ago • 496 comments

Important thing to beat people over the head with: Trump has turned American cities into warzones and for fucking what? Prices are way up, jobs will be way down, the dollar is worth less, and now the highway is blocked off by cops. Maybe the Great Mythical Immigrant wasn’t the problem after all.

submitted 1 day ago • 120 comments

⚡️Ukrainian opera tenor and volunteer killed in Sumy Oblast. Vladyslav Horai, a renowned tenor and soloist of the Odesa National Opera, was killed in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy Oblast while on a volunteer mission, the opera house reported on June 8.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

How on earth can this country still hold the World Cup and Olympics next year??

submitted 1 day ago • 1102 comments

New @budgetlab.bsky.social analysis of Big Beautiful Bill: In the short run, bill would modestly boost GDP growth (0.2 %age point/year 2025-2027) After that it SLOWS growth. By 2054, GDP level is nearly 3% smaller than it would have been if the bill were not passed budgetlab.yale.edu/research/lon...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Still true

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Really Cool how nobody wanted to take this shit seriously

submitted 1 day ago • 364 comments

> @bloomberg.com ⛽️

submitted 1 day ago • 132 comments

I’m not a terry moran fan or anything but holy shit, if you’re not backing him vociferously this week then what good are you?

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Huh

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

This is not just revisionist history, it's ignorant of reality. Activists didn't leave Twitter because they "thought they would be more effective" somewhere else, they left because Elon made it clear that he would *deliberately undermine their influence." Why make shit up?

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

Keep protesting. Don’t light cars on fire. Distracts from a situation in which Trump looks bad for over the top raids that spurred the crisis and his obvious exploiting of the crisis he started. Really nothing is more counterproductive. Just throwing him a lifeline.

submitted 1 day ago • 109 comments

ICE agent smashes car window to grab somebody without warrant www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjguDNwJ/

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 288 comments

SWAT shoot at a woman for filming them.

submitted 1 day ago • 707 comments

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

submitted 1 day ago • 1141 comments

Watch as this LAPD cop takes deliberate aim at an Australian reporter, then shoots her at close range. I would fire the police chief over this. Inexcusable thuggery.

submitted 1 day ago • 101 comments

Rep. Gomez: LA County alone is 34% foreign born, 34%. So when he says they're going to liberate us, who is he going to liberate us from? Ourselves?

submitted 1 day ago • 532 comments

Shocked that all it took was a fascist stunt for Trump to get Elon kissing his ring again.

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

In itself it's not the biggest thing but Congress specifically passed a law requiring ICE to allow access to members of Congress because of Trump's antics in the first term. This isn't even norms. It's violating black letter statute law.

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

LAPD assisted by the Huntington Beach Police just came in full force firing munitions and with Horse support. Someone was trampled. Another has a serious head injury.

submitted 1 day ago • 207 comments

It is pathetic how easily network news executives let right wingers manipulate them. Terry Moran rightly calls Stephen Miller a hater driven by bile, and ABC News accepts the idea that this is “unhinged” behavior. Critiquing people abusing their power is the JOB of journalism.

submitted 1 day ago • 77 comments

Federal lawmakers say they have been denied access to an ICE facility in CA

submitted 1 day ago • 137 comments

1/ As a white person who has lived in CA for 20+ years can I explain a few basic facts to white people living elsewhere? A Chicano/Mexican accent doesn’t mean you’re undocumented or even an immigrant at all. Mexican flags at protests/events/businesses…it’s like the Irish flag or harp.

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 3050 comments

the fact that it's essentially impossible to hold a federal agent responsible for their unconstitutional behavior should be a bigger deal while federal agents are assaulting a city

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

NEW: Trump is spiraling. We face the consequences. Where are the other branches? James Madison expected more from the other "departments," as he referred to them Tonight, at Law Dork:

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

This is an “insurrection” to the trump White House. They aren’t satisfied with protests being peaceful, they don’t want them to exist at all

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

Again, if we make it through this, every one of these Cold War era loopholes in laws that enable an imperial presidency needs to go (as with tariffs 👇). They were based on the assumption of no fascists & only sane pro-democracy parties, & we don’t live in that world anymore bsky.app/profile/mcop...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

“But if people don't think it is dangerous criminals who are the focus of the deportation effort, support drops dramatically. The survey was completed just prior to Saturday's protests and events in Los Angeles.”

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

From a week and a half ago: “As of Monday, the model shows, about 96,000 adults and 200,000 children have died because of the administration’s cutbacks to funding for aid groups and support organizations. The overall death count grows by 103 people an hour.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 414 comments

Stephen Miller is objectively speaking a hate filled man who likes sharing ideas and inspiration from things like VDare, any news org or corporation that owns one should be able to figure that out

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments