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Haven't seen a single post defending ICE. This is the exact bubble I want in social media.

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los angeles, a famously governable city

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The fact they chose California as the flash point is also an indicator that they don't think these things through LA has like 4M+ people. Sending every single ICE officer is ~20K, LAPD is 9K, LASD is 10K. Going in at 100:1 manpower – leaving zero bodies for literally anything else – is foolish 1/

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This was always going to be the way Los Angeles responded.

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ICE is poisoning the city to kidnap its residents.

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Cops cannot be 'reasoned' with. They do what they want with impunity in the US and a lot of people simply refuse to acknowledge this reality.

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kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

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the people in LA putting their safety on the line right now to try and stop ICE are the bravest people we have got

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This thread.

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there's a reason the lie that private is efficient and public is inefficiency and lazy and bloated and and and has to be sold so hard

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Relying on other people in the short and long term is a POLITICAL practice that puts you in relation and solidarity with others. It creates and nurtures things like shared interests, which motivate collective action across differences and disagreements. Your Own Private AI blocks that political life

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not saying it's going to happen but the wannabe dictator inviting in more than enough tanks for a tidy little coup would be about right for this whole thing

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As Mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass ( @mayor.lacity.gov ) has the following authority: • Sets the proposed budget for the LAPD • Appoints all 5 civilian members of the Police Commission • Appoints the new police chief at the end of their term • Has a national bully pulpit She's not doing anything.

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"Don't murder Greta Thunberg and half a dozen other people in cold blood with US made weapons" gets a whopping 11 signatures in the House

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David Lynch's Dune (1984): Spice harvester, model (and a cowboy)

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Ordinary Notes in paperback. Grateful for everyone who has read it.

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on the one hand you shouldn't judge someone by how they look, but on the other hand, steve pinker doesn't look like that by accident

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An example of the earliest pottery in North America, c. 4,500yrs old. Indigenous Ancestral Muskogean potters added Spanish moss to the clay and decorated with all kinds of techniques. These impressions may have been made using a marsh periwinkle (snail) shell #archaeology #history

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For some perspective, the federal government funds over half of all scientific research and development conducted by the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social -- and UC is collectively responsible, in turn, for over 8% of all academic research conducted in the United States.

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newly posted: rob mclennan : 2025 Trillium Book Award shortlist interviews: Matthew Walsh / @emdubbleu.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/06/rob-...

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Brynn Saito, from Power Made Us Swoon

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one must ask, if the UC system doesn't have federal grants anymore can it really afford all those regents and chancellors being paid millions

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“Sources said the administration is specifically considering a full termination of federal grant funding for the University of California and California State University systems…The UC system is the state’s third largest employer, and both systems are major engines of research…”

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feel like if you looked around and went alright who'd do right by the gay hockey romance one of the Shoresy guys would be your guy

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The poppies!

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I'd imagine a case that makes a US attorney literally quit instead of prosecute is not very strong no

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lots of funny bot things around but this "please speak with rabbi in discord" one cracks me up

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Political imagination is a moral responsibility. Those who cannot imagine that justice is possible will make peace with the unjust and contort themselves in their defense.

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