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U.S. gas prices could very quickly shoot above their year ago level if there is no high level intervention from the White House to de-escalate the Iran situation.

submitted 3 hours ago • 16 comments

With war spreading through the world, Trump’s plan to use the US Army exclusively against American protesters is looking savvier by the day.

submitted 3 hours ago • 23 comments

At least Bitcoin is tanking and hurting all the incels simultaneously

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

This would’ve never happened under Trump

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

“Vladimir stop!” But it’s our entire foreign policy now.

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Trump’s go-to line about every foreign policy crisis and war - from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, to October 7th, to the Israel’s devastation of Gaza - was “It would never have happened if I was president.” Welp.

submitted 4 hours ago • 194 comments

Pathetic: ABC’s GMA, World News Tonight, This Week, CBS’ Mornings, Evening News, Face the Nation, NBC’s Today, Nightly News, Meet the Press, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal all failed to cover Trump's new office for ethnic cleansing.

submitted 14 hours ago • 81 comments

The court just confirmed what we all know: The military belongs on the battlefield, not on our city streets. End the unnecessary militarization of Los Angeles now, Donald Trump. Refusing to do so will only confirm your authoritarian tendencies. The country is watching.

submitted 4 hours ago • 171 comments

A show about fighting fascism is #1 in America right now…imagine that.

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Reuters: U.S. JUDGE TEMPORARILY RESTRICTS MILITARY'S LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES IN LOS ANGELES - COURT RULING

submitted 4 hours ago • 27 comments

“Trump will lower gas prices”…crude futures spiking +7% on Iran attack. Real tough guy shit.

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

When oil prices go through the roof this week who will they blame? Biden who’s no longer President? It’s always Biden’s fault. Even when Trump does something bad it’s not his fault. It’s Biden’s who is retired. Makes sense if you’re mentally insane.

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

But, but … Trump said all the world’s conflicts that broke out over the past four years were the result of Biden’s weakness. I guess the Trump administration’s Mideast diplomacy didn’t work out so well, huh? 🤔

submitted 5 hours ago • 29 comments

Man, why can't the world just be normal for a few days

submitted 5 hours ago • 33 comments

US Futures stock market is tanking like a brick thrown into a well. Almost -2% across indexes. Chaos is the new normal and it sucks.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

These old white guys who cling to power and want to start nuclear wars…like wtf. There’s never enough bloodshed. They just start a new war. It’s wild people fall right in line. No desire for peace but rather constant conflict.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

During the election I remember hearing a guy say Trump would end all these wars because Biden was weak. Ukraine and Gaza wars are still ongoing with Trump in office. And Israel just attacked Iran, starting a whole new war. Wondering what that guy thinks now? Or was he just full of shit.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Another war in the Middle East…but sure Trump has it under control. 😳 Dude is old and senile. He’s causing the world to fall apart.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

We have long passed the point when impeachment is justified

submitted 10 hours ago • 171 comments

I just feel like optically I wouldn’t tackle a sitting senator a few days before a military parade if I’m trying to deny allegations of being an authoritarian.

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submitted 8 hours ago • 204 comments

Maybe I’m naive or stupid, but I don’t feel particularly threatened by undocumented immigrants, whether they live next door or across the country. I feel much more threatened by young white male malcontents fed on a diet of “alpha male” bullshit and grievance culture in a country awash in firearms.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

US currency continues to collapse. -9.85% ytd and it’s only June. If this isn’t an indictment of Trump I don’t know what is. How can you claim to rule a country when its currency it’s crashing? Investors are fleeing the dollar.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

What’s really going to turn the tide is when the economy takes a hit. Whenever that happens, because of tariffs/immigration, it’s going to break the Cult in pieces. They’ll be people who finally wake up and see this guy is crazy and a sociopath. Then you’ll see calls for impeachment/resignation.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1893 comments

These are the times that try men’s souls.

submitted 7 hours ago • 499 comments

The part of me that still has some hope for this country believes people, seeing the video of Senator Padilla being assaulted, plus brown communities being terrorized in LA, will be too much for the majority. But, then again, this is America, so...

submitted 8 hours ago • 171 comments

Have faith…he’s going to be forced to resign like Nixon. The uglier this gets and the more his approval rating tanks the ground of support will crumble in. He’s not invincibile and he’s not smart.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Padilla identified himself. They want you to be intimidated.

submitted 7 hours ago • 31 comments

They're taking college students. Not criminals. We know the NYT won't ever write it this way, so it's time to be a forwarding Facebook aunt and send these stories to your family that still reads emails and make it clear that this has nothing to do with anything besides white supremacy.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

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 8 hours ago • 2381 comments

Nazism is when thugs throw a US Senator to the ground. 100% Nazi behavior.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

SCHATZ: "This is the stuff of dictatorships. He identified himself. That should be enough."

submitted 10 hours ago • 257 comments

Senator Padilla was driven violently to his knees–as if made to kneel before the authority of the executive–because the administration called his questions “disrespectful”. This should offend not just the other 99 Senators. It should offend the conscience of this country.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1095 comments

Just so we're all clear: It's not a coincidence that the first senator they've used physical force against is Sen. Alex Padilla, a Latino man representing California.

submitted 9 hours ago • 293 comments

It will be much healthier as a society without any centralized platforms. The original Web was very interest-driven. Not a unified concept. We need to get back to that and move away from Solipsism as core belief. It’s created toxic reactionary personalities who only want to feed their ego.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Neutrality is something that can happen on a protocol level but that’s it. Once that in is place you’re going to be dealing with the ethos or community of a place. Which, if it’s rotten, going to create a lot of bad experiences, and lead to fracturing into alternatives. That’s a good thing.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

The whole concept of a digital commons is erroneous to begin with. Doesn’t even exist in the real world. People are linked by commonality, not extreme difference. You don’t go to a bar to argue with people. You go to watch a sporting event with others. Any rowdiness is self imposed within protocol.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

The question of moderation is never going to get resolved with corporate-controlled siloed social media platforms. They don’t care. Being unethical is a business. Another reason why decentralization is vital. Take away the extremism. The algorithmic megaphone. And let users decide what to engage.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Societies…communities…need to curb awful behavior. That’s always been necessary. Only then can you open a path toward redemption. But just ignoring stuff, letting it fester, allowing crazy people to get bolder, that’s going to hurt society in long run. Extremism isn’t healthy.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Not supporting dirtbags shouldn’t be controversial. It’s common sense. If you’re qualifying bad behavior you’ve already missed the point. People won’t change if you don’t give them a reason too.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

My red line is people who support nazism. It’s not a difficult choice. Not supporting any brand, product, app, etc. that supports hate ideologies. I guess others feel differently but your participation is ad dollars for them which keeps the circus going. Hate is being funded when you use X.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Who’s more addicted? People on heroin or people who can’t leave X? Even after the CEO/owner flashed Nazi salutes, peddled antisemitism, and promoted far right conspiracy theories. I mean seriously. People are so addicted to that app they’re willing to overlook how awful the guy is. Zero conscience.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

The ‘is Bluesky bad’ debate is the same bullshit from the same provocateurs who brought you the ‘is LA rioting’ debate.

submitted 12 hours ago • 32 comments

i’d be curious to know whether any of the journalists who have taken to bluesky had prior experience in an earlier internet age with forums. for me at least, my acculturation into the social internet was by way of forums and so the lack of an algorithm seems natural to me.

submitted 17 hours ago • 335 comments

Walmart Heiress…of the Walton family is anti-Trump. In case you were wondering how extreme the right wing has become. They’ve lost Walmart. Where are all the centrists now?

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

I told you we’d be back

submitted 13 hours ago • 1438 comments

I could be wrong but I just don’t think AI will succeed. It doesn’t have any of the hallmarks of other historical trends. It’s over-promising, hyped, heavily corporate, and valued instantly like its fine Artwork. All backwards appreciation, very similar to other speculative bubbles that imploded.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

In the 1990’s nobody could have foreseen the explosive nature of the Web to reshape society. It was unforeseeable to anyone being honest, who lived through dial-up internet days. But now everyone on earth sees the AI future & what it will deliver in basically 2-3yrs. Right. Smells a lot like fraud.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments