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Still annoyed you people didn't move to Mastodon (@[email protected]). Retired Cali public policy guy, recovering academic. Cat dad, bread baker, beer drinker. #CarletonCollege grad. #UCSD #PoliticalScience #PhD No bio, no follow back.
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The most vital thing you can do right now is spread this message offline to normies. There is no "unrest", there's a protest. It has 400 people. LA does worse when the Lakers come in 3rd in a season.

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

The spin has already started as if our entire city is in chaos. I went from Burbank all the way over to Koreatown on surface streets tonight and jackshit was happening. The CNN coverage makes it look like world war 3 and that’s what Trump wants so he and his fucking goons can come shoot Angelenos.

submitted 2 hours ago • 61 comments

A stain of dishonor for the United States military that it'll take generations to wash off. Will be decades before anyone overseas will ever want to help us soldiers again

submitted 9 hours ago • 13 comments

The speed in which we have decayed into an open oligarchic kleptocracy is astounding

submitted 12 hours ago • 237 comments

This summer i hear the drumming.

submitted 9 hours ago • 14 comments

Pretty clearly setting the stage to use the Insurrection Act to crack down on domestic protests within the US.

submitted 13 hours ago • 141 comments

The Trump administration would love to use war-style brutality and violence to attack all protestors. About 35% of the country would cheer it. Remind me why I should feel any community, any common humanity, any need to connect with those people.

submitted 12 hours ago • 81 comments

What the fuck is the point of paying money to a police department if they won’t protect people from hostile masked kidnappers?

submitted 10 hours ago • 16 comments

"So here's the plan -- we impose massive tariffs on the nations that sell us food." "Hmm." "But it's OK, because we just rely more on states like California that grow a lot of the same things." "Oh, I guess that ..." "And then we go to war with California."

submitted 12 hours ago • 293 comments

Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.

submitted 12 hours ago • 2056 comments

Betraying our promises to foreign nationals who took huge risks for us on our promise that we look out for them harms U.S. national security.

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

Imagine putting on all this tactical gear and latching onto a military assault vehicle so you can storm a minimall on Sepulveda and apprehend a line cook at family restaurant.

submitted 12 hours ago • 251 comments

Appeals court rules that the president can punish a news outlet based on the content of its coverage by denying it access that it has had for generations. If the decision stands, it represents a major blow to press freedom @zjmontague.bsky.social @minhokim.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...

submitted 16 hours ago • 110 comments

We don't have secret police in America. At least we're not supposed to.

submitted 10 hours ago • 593 comments

One Maniac

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DOJ as we have known it, as a place where prosecutors from the AG on down do the right thing, for the right reason, in the right way, is over.

submitted 1 day ago • 733 comments

This is corrupt. We all know that. So...why can't people -- msm -- say it? www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

Next to Trump and Musk, Shatner and I look like adoring newlyweds.

submitted 2 days ago • 631 comments

Georgia’s governor promotes his Medicaid work requirement as a national model for reform. Yet the program has cost taxpayers more than $86M, three-quarters of which has gone to consultants, and enrolled only 3% of the quarter-million Georgians eligible. (Published Feb. 2025)

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Just a small reminder: Musk is an engineer the way Napoleon was a chef.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

If I were able to deliver a message to either of these guys, my message would be this: "You're going to let that other guy treat you like this? Make a public fool of you? After all you did for him? I thought you were a big shot. Act like a man!" That's should settle things down.

submitted 2 days ago • 50 comments

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

submitted 2 days ago • 1700 comments

CBO Says Budget Reconciliation Bill Could Add Almost 11 Million Uninsured www.forbes.com/sites/joshua...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Perfect.

submitted 3 days ago • 650 comments

The White House's stated intent to use expedited removal for this guy's family is flatly ILLEGAL. By law, expedited removal ONLY applies to people not admitted at a port of entry, or here without having been "admitted or paroled" into the US. But his family was admitted at an airport on visas!

submitted 4 days ago • 45 comments

JFC. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

For those who don't understand Trump's dismanling the US govt: Maybe he really is working for Putin. "A senior official who dismantled the US government’s Russian disinformation unit is married to a Russian woman with links to the Kremlin..." www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Harvard researcher Dr Sarah Fortune was only two years away from creating a vaccine that could have saved the 1.25 million people killed each year by tuberculosis. But last month, she received a letter telling her that the $60 million grant funding her research was being halted by President Trump.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

submitted 5 days ago • 863 comments

Going to suggest it's not very good for Jews when politicians start declaring who the "real" Jews are and who are not...

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

Yes, why yes you are. #Pinks

submitted 5 days ago • 97 comments

1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride. So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels. They opened the drawbridge to block them. So they marched to a different bridge. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 5 days ago • 243 comments

Expected. Still stupid.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

There's a lot of talk about why lawyers continue to get caught using AI generated court documents with hallucinated citations and probably one of the biggest reasons is how shoehorned it is into Westlaw. It's right there on the front page. Co-counsel is just reskinned ChatGPT from OpenAI.

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

"For 142 years, the merit-based civil service survived because both parties recognized that functional government requires professional expertise. That consensus is dead. We're watching the transformation of public servants into party servants, of a government of laws into a government of loyalty."

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submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

Not only are parks profitable, they inject billions to local economies and welcome 300+ million people a year. This is yet more wealth extraction to private interests not just from all of us as a nation but hundreds of communities and small businesses.

submitted 6 days ago • 43 comments

submitted 6 days ago • 55 comments

If it quacks like a duck, it's a Quack.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments