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Senator Ted Cruz posted a dramatic video of LAPD cars on fire with the caption “this… is… not… peaceful.” What he didn’t mention? The footage was from 2020, not 2025. His post on X falsely implied it was current, part of a broader effort to spread lies and manufacture a crisis.

submitted 6 hours ago • 643 comments

I am in debt to the brave protestors in LA County defending our freedom I realize a bright light attracts flies but that is separate

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Special shout out to the guy with the Nazi flag AND Confederate t shirt

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 10 hours ago • 257 comments

There is no mass-deportation campaign going on right now. Deportation is a process. This is kidnapping and human trafficking.

submitted 11 hours ago • 264 comments

fuck ICE and all solidarity and love to the brave folks in LA putting their bodies on the line for their community

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Much as JC seems to be on the side of the angels, his comment about the Canadian medical system are misleading Rationing by delay is definitely a major feature of the system Not to say that the American system is better or that Ameri-con critiques of Canada's health care system are valid 1/

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

I just realized I had been on here all this time without the benefit of ex post libertarian Megan McArdle's edgy tender solicitude to the plutocrats.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

The entire point of military is to protect own civilians not to dominate them...

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

In awe of this guy

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Liberty was born in Lexington LOLZ Maybe it would help in preserving the country if we could raise the discussion above toddler level

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Trump congratulates the National Guard in Los Angeles for doing a great job despite the fact they had not yet even arrived. This brings up a quandary we all face: How do we know when Trump is just brazenly lying versus when he's experiencing another creeping advancement of his cognitive decline?

submitted 14 hours ago • 76 comments

The guy looks like he sat under an outhouse seat and had somebody with IBD shit all over his face

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Brava!

submitted 11 hours ago • 13 comments

What decisions? They are afraid of directional changes in the path of rates and have basically sworn off making decisions for now I get it The public would freak if they cut and then raised or vice versa But call it what it is

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

My understanding is that the home country is a pretty big arms dealer and horrible greenhouse gas emitter. But they tried to be somewhat less bad with the carbon tax, for which they congratulate themselves on their left and feel martyred on their right. Sorry, I call self righteous bullshit

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I don't want to seem as insecure about my masculinity as, say, the median Trump defender. But I do admit to being a bit offended that Spotify thinks I might like Harry Chapin or Lyle Lovett.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

One of the most basic principles of rhetoric is that you need to attract the audience with a compelling hook right off the top

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The speed in which we have decayed into an open oligarchic kleptocracy is astounding

submitted 1 day ago • 250 comments