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I kind of want to let go, at least for now, of some of the disgust I feel for the enablers of the people doing the things and aim it more at the thing-doers. But I can't. I always think of the "We must try to appeal to MAGA," "Not everything Trump does is bad," anti-"elitist" people.

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in so many videos out of LA i am seeing officers aiming rubber bullets right into crowds, this is filling me with a deep and anxious rage knowing what happens when they do that www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

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Why won’t these feminists go to Andrew Dice Clay shows? Why won’t these D&D nerds go to frat parties? Why won’t these black people go to Klan rallies? So closed-minded and judgmental.

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OPINION: Not joining the cheer squad hurts goths and their causes.

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LAT reporter👇

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It’s always kinda funny when a Very Serious Pundit calls Bluesky an echo chamber while they’re on X ten hours a day being hypnotized by an algorithm that prioritizes fascist content while squelching anything remotely liberal/left. badfaithtimes.com/twitter-viol...

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1 in 12 Americans live in California. 1 in 35 Americans live in LA County. LA is America

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Trump's stumble on the steps up to Air Force One highlights the extent of Joe Biden's physical decline. www.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...

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Easily over 1,000 people outside the federal detention center in LA, with another 2,000+ at City Hall.

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"a serious reading of history."

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Hectoring people who vehemently disagree with each other into hanging out together is both pointless and stupendously dumb. But all the reactionary centrists believe in it like it's a religion. It's their NO. 1 "issue." Whole industries are based on it (the media, think tanks, much of academia).

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ICE shot a reporter... "Nick Stern, a British news photographer based in Los Angeles, is set to undergo emergency surgery for a wound sustained during the standoff between police and anti-Ice protesters in Los Angeles on Saturday."

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Inchoate musing. A big difference between the '60s protests and today's: the troops, cops, politicians, etc. in the '60s thought they were battling a bunch of mostly young, dirty, obnoxious, radical hippies. Today's protestors look like (and maybe even are) the people they see at backyard barbecues.

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I think about this speech about every week or two. America -- and the media -- freaked the fuck out over him saying "take back our country." And rightly so. But now, being old and slow, or saying that Nazis are deplorable, is worse than being a Nazi.

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Worth noting LBJ used the National Guard to protect and expand civil rights; DJT is doing exactly the opposite.

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One argument I tried to make to centrist, right-leaning folks during 2024 was that if you really hate street protest and unrest and chaos, then you should absolutely not vote for Donald Trump, because he 100% guarantees more.

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When Miller came upon the scene a decade ago, I spent a day or so combing through his past to see if I could find "evidence" that he was a straight-up Nazi. Writings, group memberships, etc. I didn't find much. But it didn't take very long after that for him to basically say "I'm a Nazi."

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The Israeli defense minister is openly threatening the life of GretaThunberg and other unarmed peace activists on an aid ship. Where the f**k are the world’s leaders? The world’s media?

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Authoritarians love "Gen AI" because it - Sounds confident even when factually wrong - Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf - Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases - Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…

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Moran is right, and the people who own ABC News (and many who work in the newsroom) are vile. But this was a really fucking stupid thing to do, and also not his job. Most of you reading this will know how much I despise the way the media stifles the truth. This isn't really that.

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Next week: Newsom hosts Hegseth on his podcast to politely debate the idea of sending the U.S. military in to crack protestors' skulls.

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I know rescinding Section 230 isn't viable now, but what if it had never been written into law in the first place, and people who owned websites were held responsible for what appeared on those websites? The argument against that was "people deserve a voice." Well, they got "a voice," and...

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