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No one in LA is looking for advice from pundits or online randos. But people in your life are likely looking (or willing) to learn what is going on.

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me: i would like to purchase your product. in exchange i would like to be able to read it on the device i already own ebook retailers: first of all, fuck you. second of all, go to hell

submitted 3 hours ago • 14 comments

What are the detention contracts that can be cancelled? What are the cooperation agreements that can be torn up?

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Thought Free Tom

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I’ve lived through the definition of “terrorist” changing from people who fly planes into buildings to it becoming “anybody who disagrees with the president, and also brown or black folks, and some whites from the gayer countries.”

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Tear gas is a chemical weapon.

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They shot at reporters in 2020 too. This is what cops do.

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People need to understand the word “criminal” is the easiest weapon for an authoritarian to use and work on changing their emotional reactions to the word and recognize they’ve spent most of their lives being manipulated into vilifying allies to the delight of the wealthy.

submitted 14 hours ago • 22 comments

they are using guns and tanks for one part of the country and choosing slow death for their rural supporters through policy.

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beyond the thin veneer of concern behind all of these opeds is the much simpler truth that their authors desperately want to describe something that is very obviously their problem (fewer people want to post in the venues they like more) as though it were our problem

submitted 18 hours ago • 45 comments

You can just call for an end to the ICR raids.

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if you're a reporter or pundit, do you keep writing about, talking about, agonizing about irrelevant topics? Strange if yes. The centrists had an event where they spent HUGE AMOUNTS of time crying about the online left(s). Strange.

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I should emphasize that my anger at this stuff comes from a place of having been a contributor to Jacobin since almost its first issue, and a personal friend of several of the editors. They have not always been like this.

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If you’re looking for quality independent reporting on what’s happening in Los Angeles, I’ve put together a starter pack for it. If you’d like to be added or know an indie who should be added, hmu

submitted 22 hours ago • 45 comments

This sucks.

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FLAG: the SEIU is holding rapid response rallies to call for the release of David Huerta and an end to the ICE raids TOMORROW at multiple locations nationwide

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Trump has ordered the violence you vapid dipshit.

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‘People should go through all the hoops of the citizenship process’ — no they shouldn’t. The hoops are illegitimate.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Conservatives have always been about preserving white superiority and capital, so miss me with your feigned surprise that the current iteration violently suppresses all potential opposition, starting with bodies on the margins.

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Well, the government killed a lot of the people in those orgs. Red baited others into social death. There was that whole neoliberal turn where we said non-profits were more civilized than activists. Even with all of that, those orgs (even some of their people!) are still very much around.

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Jake Tapper invented a statement by Rashida Tlaib and he’s still on TV!

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This has turned out to be the perfect moment for reading David Walker’s Appeal.

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I suspect that calling out the National Guard will make the news about LA more widely known.

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Turns out the lie that we have to ‘secure the border’ is the actual threat.

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What people will do is an unprecedented moment isn’t set. It is a product of contestation.

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Cops target the media or anyone documenting this in these moments because they know it will lead to even more pushback.

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ICE is attacking whole communities.

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What happened Los Angeles yesterday reminds me of the time Sarah Sanders was politely asked to leave a restaurant

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ICE crossed a line in LA

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I have a long-standing policy not to tell people whose bodies are on the protest line how to do it. You could be right but if you’re not in it, your feedback does more harm than good.

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Faith is commitment to something that doesn’t require facts and is unaffected by contrary facts.

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One of the biggest failures of the Biden era was that zero effort was made to reduce the legal authority of presidents to take extraordinary measures.

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The people insisting that anger is always wrong express anger plenty. Their objection is about the direction of the anger not it’s existence.

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An involuntary and bleak chuckle imagining a left wing president highlighting universal healthcare by doing this parade with ambulances, and then realizing of course they couldn't because unlike tanks the ambulances serve an important social function

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The idea that Ezra fucking Klein is equipped to provide any guidance in this moment is among the wrongest takes imaginable.

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