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So Columbia capitulated, rather than fight Trump, and in response the admin is saying it wants to pull Columbia's accreditation. Maybe capitulating doesn't work and the bullies will always demand more?

WE COULD HAVE SENT ALL OF THIS EQUIPMENT TO UKRAINE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I HATE THIS ADMINISTRATION SO MUCH THESE STRYKERS SHOULD BE IN KURSK

This is the language of abuse. "Yes, he beats you, but you must not provoke him. Don't make him mad or he'll make it even worse." But it does not work. He beats you anyway because that's what he wants to do. He gets pleasure from it. And we can't even leave. There is no place for us to go.

The Democratic Party is actually pretty effective under strict institutional norms and rules. They whip votes and submit to leaders despite a big tent and diverse base When the norms and rules don’t apply (like now), the Democratic Party is a deer in the headlights

Fuck that.

I promise you, "America was a free place, and that freedom is being taken from you" is infinitely more galvanizing than Sophomoric Marxist "Critique" #258383758394

me: in cheers frasier said his dad was dead but then when sam visited him in seattle he had to explain that he was lying because their relationship was strained but to me the weirder thing is he never mentioned niles to anyone at cheers the federal soldier being unlawfully quartered in my home: ok

man, Andor really was a timely show, wasn't it?

Feels like stating the obvious but apparently some people don’t get that it is racist to ask Mexican Americans to conceal the fact that they are Mexican to appease racists who will never like you anyway

jesus that’s like three birthday parades

In a sane world, a sitting congressman implying that mass killings are on the table would be met by near universal condemnation and demands for his resignation by his peers and the media, but in our world this will be sane washed.

NO ONE IS OLDER THAN I I AM THE AGELESS ANCIENT ONE PLEASE WITNESS THESE JOWLS OF WISDOM (shakes the jowls, gently)

Tim Walz agreeing to sign a bill to revoke healthcare for undocumented people is exhibit 5 billion in a long tradition of democrats rushing in to make sure everyone knows republicans aren't alone in their commitment to hurting the vulnerable.

Right now, Dems are hiding in their offices, scrolling their phones fearfully, wondering "how are voters going to feel about the National Guard being deployed?" The right, meanwhile, is vigorously *attempting to shape* how voters feel about it, filling every medium with coordinated propaganda.

⚡️Russia makes a year's worth of NATO ammunition in 3 months, Rutte says. "The capabilities of Putin's war machine are speeding up, not slowing down," NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said.

The art of war #cartoon

I can't imagine why people aren't tripping over each other to work their ass off covering for a blackout drunk that thinks paperwork makes you gay

Canada, recently: We can never hit 2% on defence spending Canada, today: We will hit 2% by March www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

i’m glad he’s finally beginning to see there’s no way out of this and he won’t have any shot of keeping his threadbare credibility if he doesn’t

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

do you ever think about how this is all happening for no reason at all?

Obama oversaw around 3.2 million deportations. In 2013 alone, over 438,000 were removed—the highest in any single year. But it never turned into this, likely because it was about real border security, not the illusion of it fueled by hateful vendettas.

Obama is not gonna save y'all. Cut it out.

— Senator: Americans love bananas. What is the tariff on bananas? — US Commerce Secretary Lutnick: 10%+. — Senator: Walmart has already increased price of bananas by 8%. — Lutnick: If you make the product in US, there will be no tariff! — Dean: We can’t grow bananas in US. Bananas don’t grow here.

In the bomb shelter explaining ICE to people

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

Dem senator: Please, protestors, there are better ways to oppose the president Voters: Like not voting for his nominees? Dem senator: haha no no no. No. What I mean is we are writing a rap

The entire plot of Andor S2 is about the Empire creating a bloody civil disturbance and then blaming the resulting violence on the previously peaceful protestors.

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

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

They will invent the pretext unless we’re so thoroughly supine they don’t need to, which leads to the same outcome.

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

Of course the IDF was never going to allow the Madleen to sail up to the Gaza shoreline, in the same way that of course Stephen Miller was always going to try to attack protesters. That's irrelevant. The thing that people need to get a grip about is that these are both bad things.

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

Trump is saving Los Angeles from big scary **checks notes** dancing flash mobs

Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and Trump didn't call in the National Guard.