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As someone who lives in Los Angeles, don’t let social or mainstream media gaslight you into thinking there’s a violent uprising taking place here. The Trump administration is trying to punish this state and this city. He’s also setting a precedent to unleash troops on Democratic cities.

submitted 2 hours ago • 86 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 2 hours ago • 220 comments

It's wild to hear this critique from Megan McArdle, one of a couple dozen Bush-era pundits who've spent the past two decades talking exclusively amongst themselves with zero significant engagement outside their hermetically sealed bubble

submitted 2 hours ago • 5 comments

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

submitted 5 hours ago • 232 comments

Quelle surprise

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 109 days ago • 1021 comments

BREAKING: please, everyone, turn on local news. there is NOTHING going on in LA. Its over, the protest broke up hours ago. Local news helicopters are trolling for trouble and there's none. Just some LAPD/LASD road blocks. If they 'send the Guard' now, its just because they really really want to.

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

Joe Biden was old and not fully competent and his staff covered it up. Big scandal. Donald Trump was accused by his top donor and former top ‘Special Government Employee’ of being a pedophile. So are his staff covering that up? Isn’t that, y’know, a bigger scandal?

submitted 1 day ago • 151 comments

The Trump administration would love to use war-style brutality and violence to attack all protestors. About 35% of the country would cheer it. Remind me why I should feel any community, any common humanity, any need to connect with those people.

submitted 1 day ago • 84 comments

The Times is a big paper. There are many thoughtful writers there doing really good work. Unfortunately most of your subscription goes to paying for the people who soft-focus nazi pedophiles or write op-eds titled “I Personally Respect Trans People, Just A Little Less Than Dogs.” Cancel your sub

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

EVERYBODY WATCH. ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today. He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader. Don’t turn away.

submitted 2 days ago • 2017 comments

We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.

submitted 2 days ago • 841 comments

As ever, the Republican platform is simple: they want to sexually abuse children, and they want you to pay for it.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

this post is a joke from a New York Times reporrter's work account about video of an infant being raped to death

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

It’s legitimate cause for a tax strike. Money from California is going all over the country to help support states that, through hundreds of years of mismanagement, haven’t managed to lift half their populations out of poverty. And they get spit on for it.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

This is 10-12 tenure-track assistant professors’ salaries at many places. A whole academic program’s worth of money, pissed away, In Times of Austerity, on rent-a-cops going after students who dared speak. Nobody behind this should have a career.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

More broadly, political commentators & strategists need to get it into their head that most people’s “opinions” on most political topics are so shallow as to be virtually nonexistent. The practice of polling itself has manufactured this illusion that voters have views on every imaginable policy.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Are we seriously shifting from having wars over oil to having wars over microchips?

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

submitted 8 days ago • 462 comments