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As the government is putting up photos and rewards for protesters that they want to go after, remember that the person who called in the tip about Luigi never got paid.

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

submitted 4 hours ago • 209 comments

This is sort of what happened with DOGE. They were convinced there was a mountain of easily-detectable waste and fraud that a handful of folks equipped with "common sense" could root out & eliminate in a manner of weeks. And there wasn't. But they had promised headlines about big cuts...

submitted 14 hours ago • 37 comments

The entire state of South Dakota, where she's from, is a massive fraudulent haven for white collar criminals who skirt tax laws and hide money. It's arguably the most lawless state in the union. A shocking percentage of people in her state either are criminals or abet criminals.

submitted 4 hours ago • 18 comments

One of the memes on the left is about how cops can contain one 1000 person march but not ten 100 person marches and honestly just having two marches in the same city a small distance away from each other can debilitate a police force

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

In case you're wondering, authoritarians use this strategy of escalation to manufacture crisis, provoke outrage, then use the reaction to justify repression. It’s not about restoring order, it's about creating a spectacle of chaos they can claim only they can control.

submitted 9 hours ago • 51 comments

“One day before the Trump administration deployed U.S. Marines to confront protesters in Los Angeles, [DHS Sec] Kristi Noem asked Defense [Sec] Pete Hegseth to direct the military to detain or arrest “lawbreakers,” a move one expert called “a grave escalation.’” www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/art...

submitted 4 hours ago • 7 comments

Post a ten year old picture of yourself.

submitted 50 minutes ago • 0 comments

Immigration is good, actually.

submitted 4 hours ago • 10 comments

And as I always harp on when this comes up— not just cervical cancer! HPV causes penile cancer, anal cancer, head and neck cancers. It is important for people of every gender to get the vaccine, and in the US you can get it up to age 45

submitted 4 hours ago • 14 comments

Jaws at 50: Was the Terrifying Movie Really to Blame for Worldwide Shark Declines? • @whysharksmatter.bsky.social digs into history for @therevelator.org therevelator.org/jaws-at-50-s...

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

PSA: If you think a guy standing on a vandalized Waymo car with a Mexican flag is a bigger issue than the president calling for the arrest of a governor for no reason, you may have lost the plot.

submitted 10 hours ago • 233 comments

I just watched the baseball episode of Poker Face so this came at the right time on my TL. (I don't like sports, but this is cool.)

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Doomers really need to dial it down right now and actually pay attention to what is happening. It's not just that they're incompetent, they're fucking up massively. And this is their big moment, if they fuck up the martial law rollout idk that they get another chance

submitted 4 hours ago • 25 comments

There's this super cool thing tech companies use to decide what products to build. They ask people "would you use this?" and then use synthesis techniques to interpret the answer as "yes" no matter what it actually was. This is called "validation" and you can make six figures doing it for a living.

submitted 5 hours ago • 13 comments

reminder that gavin newsom is a genuinely terrifying person who routinely allows his hatred for homeless people to propel him into public acts of cruelty that no regular person would ever be associated with in broad daylight. you do not have to hand it to that man!

submitted 6 hours ago • 40 comments

Sending the Marines to shut this down is 2025's Footloose remake.

submitted 7 hours ago • 30 comments

I was in the counterprotest to Boston's "Straight Pride" in 2019. We were entirely peaceful, harmed no one. Those we were protesting shouted constant provocations and flew literal Nazi flags. We were then kettled, maced, and beaten by Pepper Jack's bike squad. Yr "peace" means nothing to cops.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Friends: Unless you are from Los Angeles, are an American West historian, or a Latinx/Latine scholar, you might not understand how intrinsic the Mexican flag is to protests movements there. Grape boycotts, Chicano high school protests, all of it. It's history.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

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 7 hours ago • 27 comments

A lifelong liar and the world’s biggest antivaxxer broke his ‘promise’ not to destroy vaccination. Bill Cassidy knew exactly what self-serving partisan deal he made and who he was making it with.

submitted 7 hours ago • 13 comments

At no point in this entire article of 16 paragraphs does ABC mention that another cop killed this cop by shooting her in the back. Nor does it mention the name of the cop who killed this cop. Nor does it mention that the civilians involved never fired at them. ABC might as well be state media.

submitted 17 hours ago • 208 comments

"Pop Tarts" is the lie we designed so we could eat cookies for breakfast I will not be taking questions at this time

submitted 7 hours ago • 11 comments

Incredible research on MAHA illuminating who RFK Jr. hires here: A man who spent years promoting the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the kind of rabid antisemitism you only see in places (literally) one step from Stormfront.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Yes, “disaster” is the correct word – this is a public health catastrophe. The pressure for him to resign should begin tonight, and continue until it happens. Nothing else should be in front of this. Go to a 19th century cemetery anywhere in this country to know why.

submitted 7 hours ago • 13 comments

I reckon my proofing and editing work might just about be safe until I retire… [image shows Grammarly suggesting “still wasn’t” should be changed to “was stilln’t”]

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

Portland proved this point. We didn't have to defund the police. We just stretched it's resources thin, and they ran out of money on their own. Multiple protests in multiple places over a certain length of time will do that. They didn't even have money for traffic cops after the protests were over.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

The media needs to stop referring to RFK Jr. as a "vaccine skeptic." He is a conspiracy theorist and a vaccine denier.

submitted 8 hours ago • 30 comments

I don't really think Americans, even the ones who read non-Fox news, have fully internalized how much the current administration has just pissed off potential customers of US goods around the world.

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

#3 especially. Honestly: have convos with your family and friends today. Talk to your coworkers. Explain why this is a five alarm fire. Off-line, I'm seeing too much shrugging and not enough recognition that this is crossing a line which can't be walked back.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

everyone who’s spent years stockpiling weapons and screeching about “tyranny” and “government overreach” sure is fucking quiet right now

submitted 7 hours ago • 77 comments

I bought some CR2032 batteries and noticed that they now have a pattern of coloured dots on one side. Google revealed that the dots are ink, dissolve in saliva, and provide a visual warning that someone has swallowed a battery. So I licked one. My tongue was blue for two days.

submitted 12 hours ago • 15 comments

I truly love all the allegations of paid protestors and professional agitators. Bitch, if that was an option do you think I'd be a farmer??

submitted 9 hours ago • 7 comments

If I'm reading this right, Hegseth fired his three closest aides because one of Elon Musk's coder twerps made up a story about how he had NSA wiretaps showing they were leaking. Hegseth is in charge of 2 million people and a $1 trillion budget. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 10 hours ago • 10 comments

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

submitted 12 hours ago • 72 comments

(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: TRUMP DECLARES WAR ON UNITED STATES BY ILLEGALLY DEPLOYING UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES AGAINST AMERICAN CITIZENS

submitted 10 hours ago • 112 comments

something that started with signalgate and continues here is that trump clearly does not understand (can't/won't is a different q) that he is actually in charge. like, "tom" (homan) does not get to make that decision, you do, you're the president

submitted 9 hours ago • 133 comments

if there is one topic trump has been unwaveringly consistent on it is his unacceptable and inhumane policies on immigration

submitted 10 hours ago • 78 comments

The truth is that you're only gonna beat the fascists by actually beating them. You can't rely solely on winning a propaganda war, on making fascism unpopular in the "marketplace of ideas". Fascism fails when the cost of doing it becomes too high, when it's no longer the path of least resistance.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

With the Supreme Court now handing DOGE access to Social Security data, it’s becoming undeniable, the Trump administration is building the “deep state” themselves. Don’t get distracted by the noise.

submitted 2 days ago • 94 comments

Inch Abbey, Northern Ireland. Used in Game of Thrones. Small but lovely.

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