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Oh this is truly inspired. Bravo.

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US Veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military birthday parade arrested at Capitol Hill. This is the moment a 80+ year old US veteran is taken away in handcuffs for practicing his 1st Amendment right. #3E #NoKings #NoKingsProtests (🎥 @gregjstoker.bsky.social )

submitted 15 hours ago • 1285 comments

I get so tired of all the ways pundits talk around Democrats’ real problem, which is so obvious that an entire industry exists to obfuscate it. They cannot describe, let alone attack, the real sources of injustice in this country because to do so would indict themselves and their donors.

submitted 1 hour ago • 8 comments

Surprised more people haven’t impersonated police officers now that all you need is to be a white guy in a crappy face mask who says “I’m the police”

submitted 1 hour ago • 45 comments

When 5yo me said he wanted to live in Star Wars he meant like spaceships and lightsabers — not the badly written collapse of the Republic and rise of fascism

submitted 15 hours ago • 15 comments

I see this is still going around. Don't do this. This is literally, exactly the opposite of what you should do. If things are escalating, and you are uncomfortable, leave.

submitted 19 hours ago • 11 comments

Thank God they have arrived to save Westwood from stores that sell $70 candles

submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments

My grandmother was a young pregnant Jewish woman alone on a train in Poland during WWII when a German soldier told her to get off at the next stop because there wouldn't be any soldiers waiting at the station. She survived because, in that moment, a soldier chose the right thing over obeying orders.

submitted 18 hours ago • 16 comments

L.A. TACO has confirmed with Brian Gavidia who filmed this troubling footage, that federal agents abducted his U.S.-born Mexican American friend, Javier Ramirez yesterday at 4 PM in Montebello. ~ @theglutster.bsky.social

submitted 11 hours ago • 59 comments

One of my favorite things I’ve ever written! www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wha... What a Straight Man’s Favorite Musical Says About Him - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

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This ICE agent tells an immigration attorney of her three clients: "I'm not picky so I'm giving you the options cause I have to take one. If not I'll take all." He is quite literally saying that ICE is simply deporting people at random to meet a quota. www.instagram.com/reel/DKzbcQe...

submitted 23 hours ago • 194 comments

It's The Muppet Show with our very special guest star Maki Itoh!

submitted 71 days ago • 3 comments

I spoke with a former colleague of mine, a second generation Mexican American in his 50s, yesterday. It was illuminating. A 🧵 1/

submitted 23 hours ago • 4 comments

I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️ toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

everyone needs this right now. you have no idea how much you, personally, need this youtu.be/fAXO7SXK0Pc?...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Shit is so bad I am looking to the Catholic Church and Gavin Newsom for guidance.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Ron Killings was on TikTok Live and was rapping along with his theme.

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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 1 day ago • 370 comments

Brody King shared a post about what is happening in LA right now on Instagram. #AEW 🤼

submitted 2 days ago • 47 comments

Uh theres a new nut milk brand called JOI and I’m not sure who needs to be fired

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Every Dem Senator: "What happened to Senator Padilla today was an unprecedented breach of constitutional government and demonstrates the scale of the threat to our republic." Also Every Dem Senator: [Goes back to business as usual] 18 Dem Senators: [Vote for Trump's crypto bill]

submitted 1 day ago • 58 comments

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

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FIrst off, none of these fascists are going to resign on their own nor will they be asked to, so seems like the oppostion party should be impeaching people and not voting with R's on their bullshit. Secondly, you voted to thank ICE this week! bsky.app/profile/jona...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

the senate's gotta go, just a horribly undemocratic institution

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SHUT. IT. DOWN. A senator was dragged out of a press conference for standing up for his constituents and against fascism. Watch how your representatives and senators respond to their own colleague being treated like this. That'll show you how they'll react when it's you on the ground.

submitted 1 day ago • 139 comments

Folks, @resnikoff.bsky.social is right

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

What happened here is an example of the Trump administration “de-documenting” people. His workers all had work permits; it seems they were Nicaraguans who entered through CHNV parole. But the Trump admin stripped them of their status then rounded them up, making even his supporter mad.

submitted 2 days ago • 151 comments

When you're SO PATHETIC that you have to Craigslist fake attendees. 🤣🤣 washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/tlg/d/wa... #DonaldTrump

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Everyone I knew who covered disinformation got laid off, their bosses got bullied into firing them, or they changed their beats from actual Nazi harassment campaigns. It cannot be stressed the damage the paid-for Substack “free speech” guys did in the service of fascism and against real free speech.

submitted 2 days ago • 105 comments

Someone put this on a T-shirt

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

DING DONG!! DING DONG!!!

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HEGSETH: We wore a patch on our shoulder that said ISAF -- International Security Assistance Force. And you know what the joke was? That is stood for 'I saw Americans fighting.' COONS: Let's just make clear for the record that our military partners in Afghanistan included many who served and died

submitted 3 days ago • 591 comments

I wrote about this extraordinary moment in which LA leaders still seem to believe they can produce a series of megaevents in cooperation with a federal government that has occupied their downtown and is openly abducting their constituents

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Cancel culture isn't new; we've always had it. We literally write essays about it in high school for the Scarlet fucking Letter. What changed recently is who we cancel - we no longer cancel you for for being queer, using drugs, divorcing & remarrying, but for being abusive, hateful, or a sex pest.

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

They keep talking about punishing protestors as if this country wasn’t FOUNDED BY PROTESTERS WHO ENSHRINED THE RIGHT TO PROTEST, I AM SO TIRED OF HOW STUPID THINGS HAVE BECOME

submitted 3 days ago • 77 comments

Reporters: stop saying Los Angeles is under curfew. Downtown is under curfew. That is a small part of Los Angeles. Everyone else is going about their regularly scheduled lives out in the open and rolling their eyes at all of this.

submitted 3 days ago • 80 comments

It would be cool if the mainstream media pointed out that this is fucking illegal

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

I have not seen the media talk about the fact that most industries cannot survive without undocumented immigrants...and not just in California www.fastcompany.com/91167118/cal...

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“It’s our punishment for wanting so much wealth.” “So what’s going to happen to Donald Trump?” MST3K 304, Gamera vs Barugon, airdate June 22, 1991

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It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

submitted 3 days ago • 504 comments

We must protect our city’s Waymos in case they achieve sentience and are granted voting privileges

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WATCH: “Holy f*ck — They literally just shot her point blank… I live here…” @lapdhq shoot a woman trying to get to her apartment at point blank range with a rubber bullet. Alexandria’s page (the woman who helps her): www.tiktok.com/@labyrinthlo...

submitted 3 days ago • 1192 comments

As the US Army celebrates it 250th birthday, Trump is celebrating the enemy that tried to defeat it.

submitted 3 days ago • 77 comments