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The gunman no doubt thought of himself as a good person, as someone who was pro-life, but his ideology brought him to a place where he shot 17 bullets into a couple who got into politics to help get health insurance for his daughter, who has spina bifida.

submitted 4 hours ago • 28 comments

political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics

submitted 7 hours ago • 208 comments

I’d go further—not even “not reflect” but “actively erases.” I recall reading abt how Dylann Roof was a “self-radicalized” lone-wolf mass murderer, as if he wasn’t marinated in a toxic media environment of racist hate and grievance. That’s a willful erasure of these violent politics.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

It is firmly in the “somebody’s making an active decision to downplay this” territory.

submitted 9 hours ago • 242 comments

I count 49 news headlines on the NYT mobile app home page right now, not including opinion, sports or cooking. None of them are about the massive protests yesterday.

submitted 10 hours ago • 281 comments

Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

submitted 1 day ago • 1087 comments

It doesn’t solve anything and it definitely doesn’t change anything but it is kind of nice to know that he knows that his big macho honk honk birthday parade sucked

submitted 1 day ago • 97 comments

We laugh, but I teach my students a NY case in which State Trooper A killed State Trooper B when shooting at a guy fleeing a drug bust, and they successfully charge the guy running (who just ran, didn’t shoot) w murder. Not saying they’ll charge protesters for this. But also saying they could.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

I hope the massive protests get more elite Democrats off the price of eggs train, and actually fighting for democracy in a coherent, consistent way. The wind is right there. Sail already, damnit.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

The fascists in the federal government waging war against us haven’t figured it out yet, but they can’t kill an idea and they certainly can’t kill what we are fighting for they don’t have that ability.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

A Democratic Mayor arrested. A Democratic Congresswoman indicted. A Democratic Senator tackled and detained. A Democratic State Representative killed. A Democratic State Representative in critical condition. We can all see where this is going.

submitted 1 day ago • 682 comments

Six GOP governors activated the National Guard ahead of #NoKings because they claimed the protesters may be violent. 5 million of us marched. And so far all actual violence seems to have come at the hands of counter-protesters, Christian nationalist terrorists and law enforcement.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

“The chaos you’re seeing is not the result of peaceful protestors, it’s the result of actions of law enforcement, specifically the Los Angeles sheriff’s department.” @msnbc.com reporter #nokings

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Nobody is rioting. Nobody is breaking any laws. These are cops in my city of Las Vegas just assaulting and arresting anyone on Fremont Street who looks at them. This is fascism.

submitted 1 day ago • 872 comments

As of 2025, Seattle's population is approximately 764,753. 10% of Seattle showed up at /this/ protest and there were more than just this one.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

And Rufo saying THIS WEEK that they needed to use unmarked vans to take progressive leaders off the streets normalizes the violent unaccountability. This is exactly what he’s been trying to incite.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Equality is impossible without abortion rights. That's what Republicans figured out about 50 years ago and we'd better catch up.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

“Still punk as fuck” I say as I refill my bird feeders every day at 7am

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

"When a federal official can announce that military forces will remain in American cities until democratically elected leaders are removed, then violently detain a Senator for asking questions...constitutional government has effectively ended." @mmasnick.bsky.social www.techdirt.com/2025/06/12/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Yeah okay this shit should be banned. It should be banned and destroyed.

submitted 2 days ago • 67 comments

I have, at this point, two newsletters chambered. But I wrote this at the end of the one coming out in a few weeks. I think it’s important to realise that nothing about the tech industry/finance is black magic, and you’re fully capable of understanding exactly how these freaks run their operations.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Time to do this with “Trump is imposing military dictatorship”

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Historian here: They considered themselves victims of the war against Nazism, experienced denazification as a grave injustice & a worse crime than the Holocaust. MAGA supporters will consider themselves victims of any form of transitional justice & experience truth and reconciliation as a crime.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

GOP tax bill would cost poor Americans $1,600 a year and boost highest earners by $12,000, CBO says buff.ly/Oiza1hn

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Trump uses the royal we to deny that he is acting like a king.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

There is no lack of resistance to Trump this time around, despite what you may have heard. There's a lack of media coverage.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

he's not there to run the military bureaucracy, he's there to run a political purge. He has no idea what the fuck he's doing bsky.app/profile/verm...

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20. (Via Christopher Hale)

submitted 3 days ago • 629 comments

I’ve warned that this was only a matter of time, but it’s still shocking to see in person. Here AI generated content is being used to create a fake news ecosystem, disparaging a professor who has been critical of unscientific bullshit in the form of deextinction hype.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.

submitted 3 days ago • 2740 comments

This is Kristi Noem admitting that Homeland Security is currently occupying Los Angeles, not to protect citizens, but for purely political reasons. Yes, she really is that stupid.

submitted 3 days ago • 899 comments

The Dems really, really, really need to make Miller the face of the administration, the way Musk was until recently. He’s hugely unlikeable and has the potential to create major drag if he is out front and center.

submitted 3 days ago • 66 comments

this is a good wake up call for elected Dems to realize what’s happening and what’s going to happen not generally, not in the abstract, but to them personally shut it all down and start acting like you’re in immediate danger, because you are

submitted 3 days ago • 221 comments

"They didn't realize they were tackling a Senator for asking questions, they thought they were tackling a journalist for asking questions" oh, ok then

submitted 3 days ago • 61 comments

House Democrats need to bring articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, while Senate Democrats need to bring that chamber to a fucking halt.

submitted 3 days ago • 339 comments

In the past week, a union leader has been arrested, a U.S. Rep charged with a crime, a U.S. Senator violently handcuffed, and reporters shot with rubber bullets and detained. There is no ambiguity. This is a regime operating as an authoritarian. Americans who believe in liberty must oppose it.

submitted 3 days ago • 393 comments

It’s not illegal for a United States Senator to go to a public press conference and ask questions about your constituents safety. It's our job.

submitted 3 days ago • 445 comments

Are we really fucking doing this. Had nothing happened to Senator Padilla at all, what she was describing is a federal takeover of a major city by military force with no specified end-date, with no legal authority. Do not let the fascists talk their way out of that.

submitted 3 days ago • 51 comments

If the feds’ objective is to “liberate” Los Angeles and California from its democratically elected leadership, then this not a peacekeeping mission but a program of invasion.

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

Not sure any other policy theory has been attempted more frequently and failed 100% of the time like trickle down economics

submitted 3 days ago • 53 comments

Very basic summary: LLMs aren't "thinking" and anyone who tells you they are is lying. They're not forming algorithms. It looks to me as if they can solve simple puzzles by copying (linguistically) existing solutions - but there's no mathematical working backing it up, so it fails at scale.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

It’s a machine that knows all the possible moves to noughts & crosses (tic tac toe), and makes the move that’s most statistically likely after the move that was just made. That’s all it does. It doesn’t know the rules to the game. It doesn’t even know what a game is.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

submitted 4 days ago • 531 comments

The WSJ news pages expands on the NYT: since Stephen Miller demanded ICE increase its numbers, they’ve started grabbing people without even checking their immigration status, let alone their criminal history. Gift link: www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

Let’s Be Clear: The Rioting In LA Is By The Cops, Not The Protestors I already wrote about the GOP’s bloodthirsty desire to use the military on Americans. They manufactured a nonsense “crisis” by over-aggressively sending in ICE agents to grab people off the streets, leading to protests, which…

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments