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Almost every protest in my life is described initially as a "peaceful protest" that "devolves" into unrest or vandalism or violence or whatever else. There's a quiet sit-in going on in front of the federal building. All local businesses are still open. But the headline's now "Waymos on fire"

submitted 5 hours ago • 12 comments

Close to LA City Hall, there's a line of maybe 30 protesters huddled behind CalTrans signs as LAPD shoots pepper balls, smoke grenades, etc in their direction

submitted 5 hours ago • 6 comments

An Australian reporter was also shot.

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Wondering why they ran the Good Night and Good Luck play on CNN last night, that was about stuff from 70 years ago, what relevance could it possibly have today

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing. ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him. seiuca.org/press-releas...

submitted 2 days ago • 325 comments

I was alarmed by this photo, wondering what on earth Elizabeth Warren did to her hair, then realized it is just reflections in the photo. We should hear her on this, as always.

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Remember when Ronald Reagan literally had Alzheimer's during his 2nd term, his wife ran the country with astrology, the Republicans all covered it up and turned him into an icon naming airports and highways after him all over the country? Yeah, that actually happened.

submitted 7 days ago • 44 comments

Labour won a massive majority, then turned to austerity and immediately saw their poll ratings collapse, with the far-right Reform UK party now leading. The lesson to the center-left: never, ever embrace austerity. Ever.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Psst…those 1950s manufacturing jobs Trump loves so much? They were good jobs because they were UNION jobs. Oh...and taxes on corporations and the rich were much higher. Trump’s agenda won’t bring back the “Golden Age.” It’ll make the rich richer at everyone else's expense.

submitted 8 days ago • 129 comments

'The Trump White House and The Great Quieting' is a great read, especially the note at the end citing the work of the student journalists at the Daily Northwestern. Yes to speaking up and No to normalizing quiet desperation.

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"...This order, like the others, seeks to chill legal representation the administration doesn’t like, thereby insulating the Executive Branch from the judicial check fundamental to the separation of powers. It thus violates the Constitution and the Court will enjoin its operation in full."

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I know to buy Penzey's spices now. Thanks, @rabcarian.bsky.social , I needed this today.

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"An ocean of crypto money helped Adam Schiff win a primary against Katie Porter, also helping take down Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio. Having bought Congress “over the counter like so many pounds of cheese,” crypto’s newest (senatorial) employees are doing as they’re told." Primary them? Yup.

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A reminder that if the minimum wage had kept pace with worker productivity gains since the 1960s, it would now be nearly $26 an hour.

submitted 22 days ago • 469 comments

NO STRINGS

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

Personalization, The Vastly Bigger Story Behind the Pimpmobile Jet Bribe

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Donny TwoScoops strikes again, uniting the Iranians around contempt and disgust for an imbecile.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Damn, Leo might be in trouble if ICE demands his phone and scans his Twitter

submitted 31 days ago • 38 comments

Quick on the draw, literally, @anntelnaes.bsky.social!

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

As Trump guts the NSA and CyberCom, we have this going on

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💪🏼

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Blatant.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

You'll be the envy of the neighborhood! 👇🏻

submitted 42 days ago • 6 comments

👇

submitted 42 days ago • 29 comments

I feel the need to repeat that Slotkin got 23,847 fewer votes in Michigan than Kamala Harris did.

submitted 45 days ago • 29 comments

Our cover this week.

submitted 45 days ago • 1335 comments

Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

submitted 47 days ago • 1678 comments

As the degredation of public services rolls on.

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I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

submitted 48 days ago • 251 comments

Well apparently there is a red line, and Whiskey Pete crossed it, writes @ryanlcooper.com. When you hire a substitute Fox host to run the largest organization in the executive branch, you get the clown show you deserve. prospect.org/2025-04-21-p...

submitted 48 days ago • 15 comments

All the serious people in DC told us not to fight for wonky issues like “due process” bc normies will never care about anything beyond price of eggs and here we are …

submitted 49 days ago • 7 comments

Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?" Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."

submitted 49 days ago • 1225 comments

Exactly this

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Gavin Newsom calls Kilmer Abrego Garcia a “distraction” @washingtonpost.com What an absolute disgrace he has become. Beyond repulsive and shameful.

submitted 52 days ago • 902 comments

Solidarity exemplified.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you, Greg Pearre. He's the senior executive who said no here, and got marched out of his office by Trump lackeys. This is where we are right now, declaring people dead to pressure them out over the objections of professional public staff.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

i feel physical pain from how stupid this presidency is.

submitted 60 days ago • 58 comments

Elizabeth Warren (as usual) steps up. 🙏🏼🙌🏻

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

The Budget Resolution is a framework, yes, but it determines which sections of the budget will be cut and by how much. Medicaid and Medicare are the primary budget items in the committee the Budget Resolution says must cut $880 billion. Hands Off Our Medicaid

submitted 60 days ago • 4 comments

They are not invincible. Public presser/advocacy campaign works up. Don’t give into apathy. Never give in or give up.

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One week ago, Susan Crawford won in Wisconsin—despite the biggest flood of attacks Musk and Trump could throw at her. Voters showed that they're going to fight back. That's only going to accelerate until the people doing all this to the country lose power. And then we rebuild.

submitted 61 days ago • 41 comments

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submitted 63 days ago • 21 comments

According to @chenoweth.bsky.social’s work, regimes change or collapse when 3.5% of the population takes to the streets. Yesterday was just shy of 1%. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

submitted 63 days ago • 106 comments

@maddow.msnbc.com Deb Haaland & 95 year old Dolores Huerta at the Hands Off Rally in Albuquerque, NM.

submitted 64 days ago • 44 comments

Millions of people coming out over thousands of events isn't "cringe" and "privilege" just because the people who built the thing didn't hand you the mic afterward so you could talk about guillotines or whatever

submitted 64 days ago • 4 comments

I kept WaPo for the journalists there, to wit:

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