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ICYMI senate subcommittee begins review Monday of the budget that would kill the National Endowments for Arts & Humanities if you’re in Oregon (or AK, GA, KY, MD, ND, NE, NM, NY, OK, SD, WI or WV) we’ve got info and call scripts to help you contact your senator (yes, even Republicans!) before 6/22

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

submitted 23 hours ago • 808 comments

The claims that McIver, Padilla, and Lander were committing assault should make you question every other time LEOs claim assault or resisting arrest, if you weren’t already.

submitted 2 days ago • 196 comments

UPDATE: The Los Angeles Press Club has filed suit against the city of Los Angeles and LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell in the Central District of California's federal courts over its actions toward journalists covering anti-ICE protests in recent days. /more

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

For everyone following the saga for Daphne The Intersex Cat — we have an ask. We need a socialization foster in or near Brooklyn, NY who can commit to having Daphne in their home, in a cat playpen we would provide, for the next 1-3 months. Here’s what that entails and here’s why. #cats

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

submitted 4 days ago • 1097 comments

Political Violence Breaking News Consumer’s Handbook (w/alt tex) by On The Media #breaking

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

About 70% through Lawless and I’m feeling like the democrats who make up the gerontocracy have been failing us far longer than I fully understood. #BookSky

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

📣📣📣📣📣 STRIKE AUTHORIZED, LET'S GOOOO 📣📣📣📣📣📣

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

I worked in media analysis for 20 years w a focus on agenda setting theory. This studies what news gets selected for coverage, its implicit and explicit tone, and whether it breaks through the awareness threshold I gotta talk about this headline! (Disclosure: I was also an AP staffer in the 1990s)

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.

submitted 8 days ago • 99 comments

Here me out…

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Downtown LA is not a storage unit. People live and work there. They are gonna arrest some billionaire’s kid trying to get a matcha.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Correct. And destroy lives.

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

Good clear-eyed updates on the protests in LA. If you use Snap Map you can also see what’s going on on the area by searching 300 N Los Angeles St

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

These are the proactive steps states need to be taking right now. Another thing: every Democratic governor needs to have a sit-down now with the state adjutant general to carefully review that person's understanding of their responsibilities to their state, its citizens and the federal constitution.

submitted 58 days ago • 91 comments

Posting a random album from my collection everyday that I’m in the mood Artist: SUPERKNOVA Album: American Queers Come for: American Queers Stay for: Serotonin Serenade #vinylcollection

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

This unprecedented Supreme Court ruling gives DOGE the green light to rifle through our most sensitive data — including our Social Security numbers, bank accounts, and medical records. The government should protect our personal information, not leave it open for misuse.

submitted 12 days ago • 51 comments

Posting a random album from my collection everyday that I’m in the mood Artist: TCY FORCE Album: Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt original soundtrack Come for: CHOCOLAT Stay for: Fallen Angel #vinylcollection