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Chapter 4 of the police academy training manual is all about the complex nuances involved in making the affirmative decision to shoot unarmed journalists in their brains. Maybe they’re skipping that part in order to put more emphasis on evidence-planting skills.

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American cops are, without a doubt, undertrained. That's also, to a fair extent, irrelevant to what we're seeing here. An officer deliberately aiming a firearm at a reporter and pulling the trigger isn't a matter of training. It's a matter of "the cops want to shoot reporters"

submitted 23 minutes ago • 7 comments

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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Imagine being the editor of a highbrow magazine aimed at eggheads who read Conor Friedersdorf and thought “Hire that man!” And then continued to publish him for years. Jeff Goldberg and @adriennelaf.bsky.social read this, deemed it excellent, and published it to the world. Think about that.

submitted 18 minutes ago • 1 comment

Really Cool how nobody wanted to take this shit seriously

submitted 6 hours ago • 141 comments

Everyone contributes to the movement in the ways they see fit. Some get teargassed and shot with rubber bullets by rampaging cops, others offer notes online re: how the people getting gassed/shot might seem less deserving of getting gassed/shot to the general public. It's a coalition.

submitted 7 hours ago • 28 comments

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.

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

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...

submitted 10 hours ago • 43 comments

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👇

submitted 12 hours ago • 15 comments

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...

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 11 hours ago • 96 comments

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...

submitted 12 hours ago • 103 comments

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

submitted 13 hours ago • 25 comments

"a serious reading of history."

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

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."

submitted 17 hours ago • 133 comments

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.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 22 hours ago • 16 comments

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.

submitted 18 hours ago • 123 comments

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."

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

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?

submitted 19 hours ago • 225 comments

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…

submitted 45 days ago • 37 comments

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.

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments