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Elon saying he’s going to reprogram his chatbot’s view of history is a perfect example of why these kinds of AI products aren’t the neutral “tools” people always defend them as. They’re little political projects reflecting the ideologies of their creators

submitted 7 hours ago • 121 comments

There can be no future for constitutional government in the United States that treats this as merely an unfortunate election outcome producing an administration with bad policies. It must be repudiated root and branch as an illegitimate criminal enterprise, void and unlawful in its entirety.

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Job Garcia’s kidnapping by the Trump administration is the top story on the LA Times website right now. www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 15 hours ago • 60 comments

This isn't mentioned in the piece but there's also a worker safety angle. Many postal service trucks don't have air conditioning these do

submitted 7 hours ago • 10 comments

Compton, CA: A masked, heavily-armed man wearing body armor jumped out of a SUV today to kidnap a local resident. He forgot to put the vehicle in park, causing it to roll down the street damaging other cars. He jumped in the vehicle (which had no platess) and drove off without identifying himself.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1963 comments

Open defiance of the courts continues Federal judges need to start holding officials in contempt or it will only get worse

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

honestly this was very predictable if you could a) accurately recall the political consequences of the 2020 protests and b) take public opinion as it actually existed in 2025. impossible difficulty for a non-trivial portion of the professional political commentary class

submitted 1 day ago • 79 comments

what are you supposed to do when the "good" political party doesn't treat a dozen credible sexual harassment claims as disqualifying for a political candidate. how are you supposed to ignore that

submitted 1 day ago • 102 comments

That it’s possible to say this in public with no consequences is ultimate proof cancel culture is not a thing.

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

Hours after @pbump.com posted this today, ICE updated its figure to 500%.

submitted 1 day ago • 633 comments

No American outlet would hesitate to describe them as pro-regime paramilitaries or an irregular militia and similar terms if this was happening anywhere else.

submitted 1 day ago • 118 comments

ICE arrested Job Garcia while he was running errands in LA. Job is a US citizen, a scholar, and a brilliant photographer. He’s also my friend. But none of that should determine his humanity. ICE must release Job Garcia immediately.

submitted 1 day ago • 153 comments

The conservative movement is lying about basically every empirical "debate" of our time, from climate change to voter fraud to vaccines. Why is it so impossible for reactionary centrists to contemplate the possibility they're lying about trans healthcare too?

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

various theories of "the South's model of chattel slavery was unsustainable and therefore the Civil War was unnecessary" have floated since before the Civil War itself and it represents one of the most studied topics in Economic History as a profession. Nobody but cranks & confederates believe this.

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

Look at those lowlife thugs. They look like cartel kidnapping team.

submitted 1 day ago • 165 comments

It’s almost like there are really good reasons legitimate law enforcement doesn’t normally operate masked and in civvies.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

the republicans hate the crowning achievements of their party: the destruction of chattel slaver and the reconstruction amendments

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

ICE agent points gun directly at the head of innocent civilian—just for taking picture of his license plate. He drew his gun with one hand—while fumbling to open the car door with the other. The "agent" did not seem to be aware someone else was already recording his vehicle. Pasadena, California.

submitted 2 days ago • 263 comments

Am I missing something? This isn't how laws work.

submitted 2 days ago • 78 comments

To be really clear: The reason members of Congress can't just walk right in is because of the guns. Armed DHS personnel won't allow entry. In other words, DHS is using armed force to break laws. Democrats need to wrap their minds around that. Accept that the frog is boiled.

submitted 2 days ago • 201 comments

This is shocking. Pure totalitarianism from DHS, and also blatantly unconstitutional. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

submitted 2 days ago • 144 comments

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

submitted 2 days ago • 143 comments

Hahahahaha.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

A reminder that Scott Cauthon donated tens of thousands to Republicans and the Donald Trump campaign. Do not buy his games.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Three billion dollars -- that's $3,000,000,000.00+ USD -- for a meager 64 miles of border wall According to the Texas Department of Transportation, the state's border with Mexico is 1,254 miles long www.texastribune.org/2025/06/17/t...

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

submitted 2 days ago • 260 comments

i think it’s not talked about enough that so many christian rightwingers support israel because they want to trigger the end times rapture and they believe supporting israel will ensure this

submitted 3 days ago • 228 comments

Insane that this even got brought to the table after the George Floyd protests They did a "snap curfew" then too, and simultaneously raised all the bridges. They trapped protestors downtown after enacting a curfew! This is made to be weaponized!

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

So ridiculous that entire groups of Americans are literally fighting for their lives and there are people who see the struggle and their first reaction is "this is a distraction from the thing that I'm personally more interested in"

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There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

submitted 3 days ago • 173 comments

If you need to get out, don't feel any guilt about trying to make it happen.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

For generations, if you came on a visa and applied for asylum, you would generally not be arrested even if your visa expired during the process. That’s over now. They’re arresting everyone, even people who have done legitimately nothing wrong. What a terrible, awful, inhumane, cruel policy.

submitted 3 days ago • 82 comments

Gonna level with you bro I think DHS needs to be dissolved after this. Regardless of what national security functions fall under its remit, it's clearly institutionally constructed in such a way allows it to be used as an unaccountable tool of executive power. Can't reform your way out of that.

submitted 3 days ago • 357 comments

The day before they ruled that banning trans children's healthcare isn't discrimination Wake up. They are trying to wipe trans people out. Stop calling people hyperbolic and fucking look at it

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

his intern or whatever deleted but let no one forget how these people view the importance of trans kids' lives

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

oh my god

submitted 3 days ago • 184 comments

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

submitted 3 days ago • 259 comments

The repression of trans people is not, by and large, a grassroots outpouring of hatred from the American people. It's something that's been carefully planted and tended over years by a handful of media people and their pet reporters.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.

submitted 3 days ago • 596 comments

SIXTY federal agents kitted out like they were taking on Osama Bin Laden to raid a swap meet. The ONLY people they ended up arresting were to people already going through immigration court proceedings, seemingly rearrested because ICE agents didn’t want to go home empty-handed.

submitted 3 days ago • 216 comments

A CONTROVERSIAL “APPEAL to Heaven” flag that has recently become associated with the “Stop the Steal” movement and Christian nationalism was flown above the Small Business Administration (SBA) agency last week in Washington, DC.

submitted 3 days ago • 226 comments

It is pretty funny that even after Musk has fed this thing a constant diet of Nazi propaganda it is still smarter than your average Fox News viewer

submitted 3 days ago • 51 comments

When Teddy Roosevelt was called disloyal for criticizing Wilson’s conduct of WWI, he said “to announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

submitted 3 days ago • 54 comments

I think we have a civil-military problem here folks

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

Helicopters. Armed troops wearing masks. All for a freaking military-grade raid at a flea market that appears to have resulted in two measly arrests. DHS and ICE are out of control. ktla.com/news/local-n...

submitted 4 days ago • 307 comments