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LAPD radio chatter about "protesters arming themselves with shields" and I will point out "arming" only applies to weapons, not PPE

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Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock on Trump deploying troops to Los Angeles: “He is using the symbolism and the uniforms of our service members in a campaign to do what he's been doing for 10 years, and that is to convince us that we are at war with one another.”

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BREAKING: California Governor Gavin Newsom delivers a 'major address' in response to the Trump admin.'s actions in L.A. "Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting people who are least able to defend themselves, but they do not stop there," Newsom said.

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

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This tiny device can shrink dangerous blood clots. It’s called the ‘milli-spinner’ and its invention was partly an accident…

submitted 2 days ago • 293 comments

what’s genuinely wild about all this is that we have people on tv talking about LA as this apocalyptic hellhole they must invade with military force and I’m here and I haven’t seen shit all day, not even an abnormal number of helicopters I drove to D&D tonight, I’m just hanging out! it’s fine!

submitted 2 days ago • 187 comments

Philly local tv station reporting that a man allegedly posed as an ICE agent in order to rob a car repair business office. How many other criminals might be getting this idea right now, given that actual ICE agents are refusing to show IDs, warrants, badges?

submitted 2 days ago • 469 comments

This stuff doesn’t look very protect-and-serve-y

submitted 2 days ago • 1471 comments

Here is Trump’s DHS Secretary calling Los Angeles a “city of criminals”

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#GVerse #BreakingNews: NYPD & ICE mistakenly arrested a Chilean woman who was on vacation in New York City, leaving her 12-year-old daughter on the street alone. This is what happens when you embolden ICE to act with zero oversight. #Shitface47’s America. Share this far and wide! Repost!!!

submitted 2 days ago • 110 comments

See, the money goes into his personal account, so it's not a conflict.

submitted 20 days ago • 152 comments

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

submitted 22 days ago • 5053 comments

NSF just cancelled ALL grants to Harvard researchers. That’s right - physics, astronomy, bio, CAREER - ALL. Professors won’t get paid. Postdocs won’t get paid. PhD students won’t get paid. This is insane! If they can do this to Harvard, they can do this to your school.

submitted 27 days ago • 20 comments

Yes. This is amazing. Thank you, Episcopal Church

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

“Russia is giving us a very fine, very big wooden horse statue on wheels and we are bringing in right now past the defensive gates,” Trump added www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

submitted 31 days ago • 945 comments

“We had no choice but to make the lady that called the disabled Black kid the n-word rich, because you kept insisting Black people deserved to be treated as equals.”

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

Sesame Street had him pegged back in 1988.

submitted 36 days ago • 438 comments