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This is the lede. There is a woman on camera in charge of a lot of people with guns. She says they are going to liberate a domestic population center from democratically elected officials and violate too many laws to count in the process. I have zero time for anything else.

submitted 4 hours ago • 13 comments

you know, I always expected that this was going to happen, but my god we're not even 5 months in

submitted 4 hours ago • 11 comments

🚨 Secretary Noem basically said that her agency is now dedicated to forcible regime change…in American cities and states. There 👏🏽 is 👏🏽 a 👏🏽 name 👏🏽 for 👏🏽 this

submitted 5 hours ago • 423 comments

MSNBC with a great speed debunk of DHSs justifications for tackling and handcuffing Sen. Padilla. Padilla is the top Dem on the Senate Judiciary immigration subcommittee -- there's no way Noem (who meets regularly with senators on this topic) didn't know who he is.

submitted 4 hours ago • 218 comments

And if you're worried about violence this weekend, imagine how much worse it'll be if there's no immediate action to hold these assholes accountable. If they get away with roughing up a senator at a press conference, then protesters will be killed. It's a straight line.

submitted 5 hours ago • 32 comments

I was hanging up Know Your Rights posters in the neighborhood and had a nice chat w/a guy also flyering (for something else). He hadn't heard that ICE was taking people off the streets without warrants. Talk to your neighbors, if you can. A lot of people don't know what's going on!

submitted 6 hours ago • 14 comments

House Democrats need to bring articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, while Senate Democrats need to bring that chamber to a fucking halt.

submitted 4 hours ago • 279 comments

A panel of antivaxxers in charge of vaccine recommendations, approvals, and insurance coverage…to gatekeep vaccines from Americans. The goal has always been to take away all vaccines, and it is disgraceful that so many in the media and in power pretended it could ever be anything but that. For shame

submitted 10 hours ago • 13 comments

THERE’S a headline. @politico.com www.politico.com/live-updates...

submitted 8 hours ago • 22 comments

Get ready for Saturday by watching the @aclu.org’s “Know Your Rights” training to help keep all of our #NoKings Day events safe and non-violent.

submitted 8 hours ago • 15 comments

This whole thread but especially this one!

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Worth considering that one reason Bluesky doesn't always feel super fun is that current events are relentlessly horrifying and bad

submitted 9 hours ago • 304 comments

When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

Gov. Gavin Newsom tells Fox LA that Trump has "lost it." "This is serious. He is not the same person that I dealt with just four years ago, and he's incapable of even a train of thought. He's making things up."

submitted 11 hours ago • 152 comments

When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.

submitted 5 hours ago • 203 comments

How about some neutral-leaning-good news? Brooklyn Public Library is making funding available for libraries across the US who want to develop freedom to read programming for young people. It's open to any library, with a note that small and rural libraries are especially encouraged to apply.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Have you voted in the Crystal Kite Awards yet? Each year we recognize great books from around the world. The Crystal Kite Awards are chosen by other children's book writers and illustrators, making them the only peer-given awards in publishing for young readers. Vote via your Member Home.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

I don't need to hear another word from anyone defending the NYT ever again and I have to assume the talented reporters and writers employed there will understand. This is Jenny McCarthy shit. Shameful and pathetic. Both sidesing scientists vs the stupidest people on earth. National Enquirer shit.

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

For my first @salonnewsroom.bsky.social piece, I wrote about how freaks for the em dash (me, and possibly you) will not stand by and cede our precious punctuation to AI www.salon.com/2025/06/11/a...

submitted 21 hours ago • 28 comments

Don't just say it's unconstitutional, remind people that the constitution is full of very good ideas designed to prevent authoritarianism, and most people who want to ignore it want that specifically because they are authoritarian.

submitted 1 day ago • 105 comments

A terrifying escalation:

submitted 1 day ago • 102 comments

America has never been broke. It’s just violently anti-poor. Troops in LA cost $134M — the price of 44 million school lunches. But sure, let’s keep pretending the issue is lazy parents and not a government that eats kids for breakfast.

submitted 1 day ago • 202 comments

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

submitted 1 day ago • 101 comments

dude this party is such an echo chamber. it's just friends hanging out and chilling and having a good time. you need to invite some people over who want to kill you with hammers

submitted 1 day ago • 387 comments

I've been tear gassed, shot at with pepper balls and shoved by officers this week. And it's got nothing on some of the worst stuff that's gone down. Journalism is not a crime. Good piece from @liborjany.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 22 hours ago • 12 comments

What they aren’t showing on Fox News

submitted 1 day ago • 693 comments

we are more polarized than ever, and the consequences of extremism are equally bad on both sides: violent deaths for the majority of the population, indentured servitude, and an unlivable planet on one hand, and the possibility that a transgender teen might do a sport on the other

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

A journalist got fired this week for calling this guy a hater, something that's just objectively true and has been true since he was a kid.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

You do not have to say “pro vaccine groups.” You can say the vast majority of doctors and scientists and the American Medical Association.

submitted 1 day ago • 222 comments

I think we’ve become so inured to this stuff that it’s easy to lose sight of just how quickly epistemic collapse has accelerated. Ten years ago, the media was wringing its hands over social media misinformation and what it meant that Trump had the gall to lie. Now, the lies control health policy.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 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 1 day ago • 77 comments

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

submitted 1 day ago • 596 comments

Cannot express enough how much what happened at that meeting three weeks ago has changed things on the ground. Courthouse arrests started within days, then check-in arrests. Worksite raids, once rare, began happening daily. Detention has skyrocketed over capacity. People are going missing.

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

one big reason beltway journalists shouldn’t buy white house spin about los angeles is that the actual public opinion info we have doesn’t suggest the president has a winning hand here

submitted 1 day ago • 109 comments

You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work. You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules. Get your lies straight.

submitted 2 days ago • 732 comments

real bummer finding out that literally everything was on the honor system this whole time

submitted 2 days ago • 425 comments

Every day the authoritarianism grows worse - Christopher Rufo calling for the Trump administration to "dispatch unmarked vans to follow key agitators and snatch them from the streets while the media are not looking" christopherrufo.com/p/trump-shou...

submitted 2 days ago • 184 comments

Find your closest rally on Saturday and go. You can tell your kids where you were on the other side of this. Outnumber him everywhere. www.nokings.org#map

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

Stephen Miller represents everything vile about this administration and drawing more attention to him will (a) make it harder for the administration to pretend this isn't creepy white nationalism in action and (b) likely make Trump jealous to the point he shitcans him like Elon. Win-win.

submitted 2 days ago • 125 comments

There are THOUSANDS of protests planned for June 14th all over the country to send a message to Donald Trump that no one wants his birthday military parade in DC that will cost taxpayers millions. #NoKingsProtest You can find a location here: www.nokings.org#map

submitted 2 days ago • 69 comments

It's been really demoralizng how much the press mindlessly repeats the lie that the National Guard was sent to quell violence. It was sent to start violence. People know this, so just say it.

submitted 2 days ago • 188 comments

The president has declared that any Americans exercising their right to protest — not committing violence, just voicing their opinion — will be met with a “very heavy force”

submitted 2 days ago • 62 comments

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 1 day ago • 497 comments

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

submitted 2 days ago • 1033 comments

I wish whenever Democrats did the boilerplate "Of course I believe that violent or destructive protesters should be arrested," they'd add, "Unlike our president who pardons them if they are beating on cops for him."

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

It’s so much worse this time. It might not be clear if you don’t live in LA, but the supposed “riots” are tiny. They’re nothing like George Floyd in 2020. Protests are happening in a few blocks downtown and as resistance to specific ICE raids. This is 100% pretense for fascist subjugation.

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments