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Be careful, friends, when you read accounts of what is happening in LA. We will hear a lot about violence, and it is essential to remember who is defining that term. "When state actors refer to peace, they are really taking about order..." (@prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social)

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submitted 5 hours ago • 14 comments

The young Black people who fought cops in the streets were ALSO part of the Black Freedom Movement which some people call the "Civil Rights" Movement.

submitted 1 hour ago • 5 comments

people object to the proliferation of networked surveillance machines subject to subpoenas by police and the feds because they do not want to be surveilled on the behalf of police and the feds. this is not difficult to figure out, unless you’re an idiot.

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

What a shameful act of cowardice from @governorwalz.mn.gov and every DFL member that went along with this.

submitted 2 hours ago • 10 comments

There’s been a lot written about the reactionary backlash to the 2020 protests but not enough about how much of Trump’s current shtick is driven by that night he got scared and had to hide in the basement.

submitted 2 hours ago • 24 comments

there really seems to be a strange “green lantern theory of fascism” that some people on this website have internalized, in which the white house’s desire for martial law — it’s desire for organized repression — is tantamount to a guarantee that it will happen

submitted 3 hours ago • 138 comments

I am on the other side of the world from Los Angeles and I just heard a news grab on our national radio station of Maxine Waters telling a cop "Are you gonna shoot an elected representative? If you shoot me, you better shoot straight" and she remains one of the best to ever do it

submitted 19 hours ago • 80 comments

I will allow myself one armchair protest tactics take re: LA this rules

submitted 2 hours ago • 6 comments

So much waste and harm could be avoided if we just treated these as fragile, dangerous tools suited for very specialized use cases, like we do with lasers and circular saws, and not as magic thinking beans

submitted 2 hours ago • 4 comments

The funny part about the iPad adding a usable UI is they did such a good job with the hardware that they can’t pretend it’s not a real computer any more.

submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

> Greetings, programs. I've been finishing up another logo that's been languishing on my hard drive. > Loading image 1 of 3…

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

a youtuber killed off a guy's second startup electric automaker, turning the few $40k-$60k cars they had sold into unrepairable museum pieces still processing how wild the zero percent interest era was

submitted 2 hours ago • 11 comments

That VideoGame Blog's @barebigboss.bsky.social begins a new life in the city in the PAX East demo of Perfect Tides: Station to Station, the coming-of-age point n' click narrative adventure sequel to Meredith Gran’s award-winning title Perfect Tides ✏️🎓🚆#gamespr

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

The united states government is run by an actual death cult

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

A guy unprovoked points a gun at you and you're desperately, perhaps even hysterically, trying to get him to lower the gun, meanwhile trying to figure out if you can distract him long enough to disarm him, and then an Atlantic contributor walks in and says "You both need to calm down."

submitted 10 hours ago • 19 comments

this shit is BONKERS

submitted 2 hours ago • 19 comments

Los Angeles, 2025 📸 afpphoto

submitted 6 hours ago • 22 comments

RIP to this absolute genius

submitted 2 hours ago • 3 comments

The US state in free fall. Had to check cause I thought it was fake. It is not. And the rest of the last posts are about the same level.

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

For the past two years some of the largest voices on Twitter, including some elected Republicans, have been playing a fun game called "post a photo of any trans person minding their own business and see how quickly we can ruin their entire life"

submitted 7 hours ago • 7 comments

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

submitted 3 hours ago • 349 comments

The professional agitators are ICE.

submitted 5 hours ago • 86 comments

time to re-up this again i guess

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

America is a system where we try to manage political balance by having an election every four years. That doesn’t actually work, so every five years give or take we just wait for the police to do something awful and then react to that instead

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

LAPD presser talking about their restraint and respect for the first amendment in split screen while cops repeatedly trample an unarmed and compliant protestor with horses and beat him with batons fucking disgusting

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

This is the kind of thing that is going to happen constantly now that we have an unaccountable masked gang with complete impunity: Random scammers, stalkers and criminals are just going to pretend to be ICE, because why not?

submitted 3 hours ago • 43 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 3 hours ago • 98 comments

portnoy appears to be a guy who wants to be respected by respectable people for his success and resents that this isn’t forthcoming. and it’s like, i don’t know what to tell you dude — that’s life1

submitted 3 hours ago • 145 comments

the thing about this is that these guys don’t actually want blunt talk; blunt talk would be things like “you’re a sexist and a bigot whose contributions to culture have been overwhelmingly negative, and you frequently respond to mild criticism like a child”

submitted 8 hours ago • 76 comments

I mean what the fuck are we doing here there’s not even any big clashes going on today so far, they’re just gonna send these guys in to stand around bitching to each other about what a dipshit Hegseth is both terrifying and deeply stupid

submitted 4 hours ago • 69 comments

It is not sticking your head in the sand about fascism to think that the guys who didn’t think about where 2,000 people would sleep are maybe not operating from a position of strength

submitted 3 hours ago • 6 comments

Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in California is not about the protests. It is about expanding his never-ending grasp for more power. It is about moving this country toward authoritarianism. All Americans must stand together against this gross abuse of power.

submitted 3 hours ago • 97 comments

[aerosmithy] 🎵Chekhov's got a gun...🎵

submitted 3 hours ago • 6 comments

guess we will soon see how this take ages

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

i personally do not think the administration is actually prepared for what happens if they are facing mass protests in every major city in the country

submitted 3 hours ago • 240 comments