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Left-handed cat person in the Sierra foothills. Volunteer broadcaster at KVMR.org in Nevada City. Lapsed contra dance caller.
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This is Los Angeles. It’s 503 sq miles. Home to 4 million people. The small red dot is roughly where peaceful protests (and nocturnal lawlessness) have been happening. The rest of the city is calm. LA doesn’t need to be “saved” or “liberated” by soldiers. Our community is in danger. The city is not.

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.

It is pathetic how easily network news executives let right wingers manipulate them. Terry Moran rightly calls Stephen Miller a hater driven by bile, and ABC News accepts the idea that this is “unhinged” behavior. Critiquing people abusing their power is the JOB of journalism.

As LA protests expand, so does misinformation. This evening Sen. Ted Cruz shared a video from 2020 as if it was from today. Many of the false and misleading posts I'm seeing are from folks trying to lump peaceful protesters and violent rioters together.

The best place to get coverage of the protests in LA is from video from individuals on the scene. The totalitarian government is lying about them and the traditional media is largely unreliable — complicit or fatuously both-sidesey.

The attempts to change the story tomorrow will be EPIC

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So hot the squirrels are splooting

Trump is an idiot. Trans/genic/ mice experiments are bedrock medical science. Transgenic mice are indispensable in pre-clinical trials of treatments for virtually every human disease you can think of, including Alzheimers, cancer, diabetes, and strokes.

CNN: “Trump showed a screenshot of Reuters video taken in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of what he falsely presented as evidence of mass killings of white South Africans.” Not white. Not farmers. Not South Africa. www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/a...

Republicans snuck an amendment into this bill to ban Affordable Care Act insurance plans from covering abortion care. This is part of their play for a national abortion ban, in the middle of the night, and ripping healthcare away from millions.

This is probably the most important take of these times. R’s are expected to be idiots so when they burn the country it’s nothing out of the ordinary while D’s must meet a level of near perfection to not be picked up by every outlet.

Don't miss the scariest committee hearing of the year.

Funny to think that the Qatari bribe jet, when you consider the things Trump has said about normal trade, is what he considers normal as a (admittedly very stupid) member of the billionaire class, you're supposed to just get things for free and if you pay for them you're being ripped off

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

NYT cannot figure out time zones. Can’t believe this hasn’t been fixed. #NBA

This is a lie

Can these creepy-ass motherfuckers just stop talking about "beautiful little girls" and their dolls?

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

congratulations everyone, you made it through another week. that's no small thing, these days.

Nazi Germany surrendered in May 1945. For Americans, the Second World War would rage for three more months, until VJ Day in August. But for Russians and those influenced by them, "Victory Day" falls in May. Trump follows the Russian practice, not the American.

Ten years of Trump going on TV and just fucking saying whatever, and still nothing like an industry set of best practices to deal with it. Put someone on the set with a laptop to look stuff up, pause the interview, whatever. He'd walk off but so what. Amazing to still be at "agree to disagree."