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Santa Barbara is the 94th largest city in California. Yesterday, more people attended Santa Barbara's NO KINGS protest than Trump's military parade in Washington, D.C. See chart comparing these two events, along with a drone shot courtesy of Ann Shaw/Society of Fearless Grandmothers, Santa Barbara

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

For NO KINGS, Indivisible Santa Barbara planned a human chain along a mile+ stretch of beach sidewalk. No way we'd complete the chain, right? Watch the video and see. #nokings #indivisible #indivisiblesantabarbara @maddow.msnbc.com

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

Turns out, mass deportation is a major economic disruptor… When farmers can’t make their harvest and restaurants can’t put food on their tables, people start to notice. A *stunning* change in strategy here. #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

“Pretty much wherever you are, you’re probably less than 30 minutes away from your closest No Kings event.” - @leahgreenberg.bsky.social with @democracynow.org We hope to see you at your local #NoKings Day mobilization on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

submitted 12 days ago • 286 comments

Red adverts stoke fear; why not do the same? Show troops on streets. People hungry. Families torn apart. Medical progress halted. Jobs lost. The difference – it’s all real, you don’t need it to be overdramatized like the GOP does… just show people what is happening, matter of fact.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

🤬😡🤬 💙✊💙✌️💙🦋

submitted 13 days ago • 225 comments

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

submitted 14 days ago • 1469 comments

The significance of this IEA finding from 2024 is that continued global deployment of BEVs for land transport will decrease fossil fuel consumption in 2025 or 2026. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 #TheFutureIsElectric

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

submitted 22 days ago • 1278 comments

GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”

submitted 24 days ago • 4556 comments

📷 Nikon FE2 🎞️ Cinestill 800T 35mm #Photography #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

My favorite sign from the “Hands Off Protest”, April 5 2025, Santa Barbara CA 📸 Nikon FE2 🎞️ Ilford Delta 400 #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #Photography

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Insidious to prevent people from even *buying* health insurance on the exchange after kicking them off of Medicaid. Republicans want millions of Americans dead, plain and simple.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

"Burn It Down" 📷 Nikon FE2 🎞️ Ektar 100 35mm #Photography #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #Art

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Dog Poppies 📷 Nikon FE2 🎞️ Ektar 100 35mm #Photography #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #Art

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Scenes from around Santa Barbara, CA 📷 Nikon FE2 🎞️ Ilford Delta 400 #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #Photography

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

We won’t survive four years of these conditions.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

JPMORGAN: “.. The trade war shock is still material. .. we now estimate an effective ex-ante tariff rate of 14.4%. This is akin to a $475bn tax hike on US households and businesses, worth 1.6% of GDP (still sitting close to the largest tax hike in the post WWII period).”

submitted 42 days ago • 67 comments

📸 Nikon FE2 🎞️ Ilford Delta 400 #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Common Ground Hands off Protest, April 5 2025, Santa Barbara CA 📸 Nikon FE2 🎞️ Ilford Delta 400 #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Stronger Together Hands off Protest, April 5 2025, Santa Barbara CA 📸 Nikon FE2 🎞️ Ilford Delta 400 #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

The California Secretary of State should waive the first year of annual franchise taxes for new small businesses, or until their gross receipts exceed a small amt. $800+ to incorporate is a high burden on many small businesses, and just encourages many people to operate outside of a business entity.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 69 days ago • 30 comments

Here’s the fun part about all of this – because the feds are turning a blind eye and the people are distracted by the chaos, corporations are going to run amok with more unethical conduct and outright fraud than ever.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Trying to sic government agencies on decent journalists for reporting on the reality he has wrought… nothing to see here…

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Someone stole my sandals from the beach while I was walking :/ #SantaBarbara

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

submitted 77 days ago • 1109 comments

The Devil’s Golf Course Death Valley National Park #film #photography #Portra

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

We expected hundreds of thousands of people yesterday. Instead, millions of Americans flooded the streets to demand an end to Trump’s authoritarian power grab. Trump and Musk have spent their first 75 days in office trying to overwhelm us and make us feel powerless, but we’re not going anywhere.

submitted 78 days ago • 99 comments

Overlooking Hendry’s Beach on a misty day in #SantaBarbara #Film #Photography

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Great turnout for #handsoff in #SantaBarbara! @indivisiblesb.bsky.social

submitted 79 days ago • 13 comments

Several thousand in #SantaBarbara showed up for the #HandsOff March. By far the largest protest I’ve seen here.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.

submitted 81 days ago • 43 comments

#AI

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Cory Booker preparing for his upcoming 25 hour marathon of cable news appearances (Fake AI image – obviously, I hope)

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

A generational fumble, from which we as a country will never recover.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

I just received notice that my health insurance premium is being raised almost 17% (once again). The system has to break at some point.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t think most Americans have understood the full impact of the shift: There is no longer confidence that the law is binding. When one can’t find recourse in the courts, businesses and individuals will change their behaviors and ways that dramatically reshape the economy for the worse.

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

Can someone explain to me how this is beneficial to Americans when we have a shortage of transplant nephrologists?

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

The United States will betray Ukraine. I am ashamed today to be an American citizen. I am ashamed of how Donald & JD treated President Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. It desecrated the the Oval Office. Nothing like this has ever happened before - at least not in public view. Shameful moment for USA.

submitted 115 days ago • 8 comments