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Gavin Newsom vetoed a data broker privacy bill that our legislature passed last year that would have allowed Californians to opt out of all data brokers with a single click.

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More particularly, the editors of the Wall Street Journal certainly knew it.

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why would anyone anywhere in the world trust anything one american government promises when this can happen to them a few years later

submitted 23 hours ago • 34 comments

reminder gavin newsom would skin your granny alive if it garnered him even an ounce more status in the eyes of people who hate you and want you to die.

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I wrote about how the 2020 protests hurt Trump politically. I also wrote about how counternarratives about left-wing violence are just spin — and wildly at odds with the reality of extremist violence. Gift link: wapo.st/3SOEv6e

submitted 21 hours ago • 56 comments

Governor Newsom may defend us in speech, but he's voting to kill. His proposed budget for 2026 targets elderly, disabled, and undocumented Californians, and strips them of access to healthcare.

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this dude sucks all the ass and I'm tired of 'reasonable' people trying to sell him to me because he occasionally makes grumbly noises at Trump

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The advice in this article simply isn’t true in our current environment. The expert quoted here: “And there’s nothing wrong with asking for some identification. A real-life police officer is going to be more than willing to take that extra step to identify themselves.”

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From one of the people I trust most on LLMs - a clear explanation of a common and very dangerous security threat

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Transphobia is never ok. Even against problematic transgender women. This goes for cis and trans people. I promise that pedaling transphobia will not make things better for the trans people in your life you care about.

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political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics

submitted 2 days ago • 258 comments

People will tell you that they view property destruction as equivalent to violence against a person, but that's not true. They think property destruction is worse

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It is firmly in the “somebody’s making an active decision to downplay this” territory.

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Do this even if you’ve disabled Face ID, because it will put your phone back into BFU state (Before First Unlock), which will make your phone harder to access with forensics if they confiscate it

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IF YOU ARE OUT PROTESTING PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF CAFÉCITO TURN OFF YOUR FACIAL RECOGNITION SCREEN UNLOCK FUNCTION 🚫

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When you get right down to it, Waffle House is just a redneck hibachi Except instead of catching shrimp in your mouth, you catch the server’s fist

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even after an incredible day of protests, it’s impossible for me not to end it by thinking about the murder of rep. melissa hortman and what it portends.

submitted 2 days ago • 58 comments

Your cops just tear gassed a bunch of elderly people and journalists

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

assassins dress like cops bc that’s who’s allowed to murder people in broad daylight

submitted 3 days ago • 44 comments

“miasma theory” is about as credible as geocentrism and the fact that we are talking about the fucking HHS secretary setting health policy because of it should end this administration all by itself

submitted 3 days ago • 40 comments

Dudes rock

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Let’s not mince words on exactly what the MAGA movement is.

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if you think every voice actor is a millionaire, you are not immune to propaganda and would not survive the winter, sorry.

submitted 4 days ago • 216 comments

the rational assumption for most people at this point on seeing agents of the state is that there’s a good chance they’re going to kidnap or murder you, whether they’re real agents or fake ones this is America

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“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

submitted 3 days ago • 385 comments

Any person in uniform wearing a mask and refusing to be properly and reliably identified should be assumed to be the same kind of murderer we’ve seen in Minnesota.

submitted 3 days ago • 76 comments

When they tried to assassinate Trump, elected Dems could not get to the microphones fast enough.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

the nomination of this moron is, by itself, grounds for presidential removal

submitted 4 days ago • 126 comments

If Zohran wins, it will be ENDLESS NYT articles about how he needs to include "moderates" and Republicans, if Cuomo wins the NYT will be FUCK THOSE RADICAL Leftists. The editorials write themselves. No need for any rapprochement.

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I feel like “the president is illegally deploying the military on domestic soil” is maybe something we should not be giving this administration the benefit of the doubt on, or moving with anything less than lightning speed but apparently the courts do not agree with me

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It's a truly jarring split screen that Kristi Noem's goons attacking Sen Padilla happened at almost the exact same time as 16 Dem senators crossed lines to vote with the GOP to invoke cloture on the crypto bill, forfeiting any leverage. Dems need to act like an opposition.

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It’s almost like those police you didn’t abolish were never there to protect you, you stupid motherfuckers

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W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

submitted 6 days ago • 311 comments

All gas, no breaks. Only you can make this poll a reality: zohranfornyc.com/events

submitted 6 days ago • 188 comments

[encouraging Quint to get a BBL] Chief Brody: “you’re gonna need a bigger butt”

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As someone said prior, the only reason Greta got released is because people were very loud about her specifically. There are still 8 other flotilla members detained, apparently without fresh water in bedbug infested prison. They all deserve to be fought for, too.

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if they snatch up the menswear guy and I see any one of you laughing about it because he had some shit takes I'm going to take a dump through the sun roof of your car

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god i just cannot imagine giving a shit about what gender strangers live their lives in. like we get really wrapped up in layers of using science and poetry to defend ourselves but holy shit are transphobes just fucking busybody creeps

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I hate the "the protests are small! they're overreacting!" framing! even if the protests were as big or bigger than they were in 2020, it still wouldn't justify the occupation of a city by troops!!!

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the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

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Citizen shot at point blank range

submitted 8 days ago • 311 comments

"rubber bullet" is such a spectacularly evil piece of marketing. makes it sound like the thing is just gonna go squish and bounce like a tennis ball but instead they look like fucking ballistic missiles.

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