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A curfew to protect ice and federal forces with the threat of arrest for civilians doing their legally protected first amendment is nothing less than a de facto, police state snd marital law. This is unconscionable that the Democrat mayor would protect fascist federal forces in this way. Disgusting.

submitted 6 hours ago • 7 comments

I feel like for a lot of people on this site, the weird news coverage of LA is like, “lol ok of course they’re not telling the truth” But can I just say: as a longtime journalist, who had a lot of faith in the industry I joined, I’m quite disturbed by some of the coverage of LA!

submitted 6 hours ago • 26 comments

Why should you be concerned about what RFK is doing to ACIP (the committee that reviews vaccines, sets recommendations and vaxx schedules)? Covered by private health insurance, Medicaid or Medicare Part D? Your vaxx coverage is tied to ACIP recs. If the recs change, so will insurer obligations.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Who else will I see there?

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

JUST IN: Two ballot measures to protect public libraries from the conservative city council in Huntington Beach are both ahead by very wide margins. Measure to repeal a 'book review committee' up 61/39. Measure to bar privatization up 63/37. That's already with 51K+ ballots counted. Context:

submitted 6 hours ago • 21 comments

Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

submitted 10 hours ago • 213 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 10 hours ago • 29 comments

This. It's so obvious.

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

"I haven't even heard about a protest."

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

this is absolutely correct.

submitted 9 hours ago • 9 comments

I have a hard time mentally processing any claims that Los Angeles is a “distraction” given that deploying the military if he gets pissed off and also expansively cruel immigration crackdowns were like the top two things he ran on in 2024

submitted 9 hours ago • 74 comments

One of the consequences of many newsrooms deciding that it's not their job to educate is this story doesn't include a paragraph of why FEMA was created. It leaves the reader to decide if this is a good idea without any context of why FEMA exists

submitted 9 hours ago • 18 comments

Shame on anyone claiming flying non-US flags will justify use of the insurrection action. You know this is a lie. Don't blame protesters. He'll do whatever he wants, regardless of legality or facts. It's fucking racism all the way down. No one would say a word if those were Irish flags.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Furthermore, they think this stuff is a political winner for them. If you talk to people in the White House, they’re not bullshitting you in the sense they Really think this will redound to Trump and co’s polling benefit. I do not think, tho I’ve been wrong before, that that would be the case

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

What you can offer to others, what supports you can ask for, what you can build where you are, who knows what you need to know, how you'll handle conflict, who will grieve with you

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

From CLUE: ICE is detaining people in workplaces, at day-labor gathering spots, on the streets, and at lawful check-ins and court hearings. There are attempts to deport quickly, potentially without due process, & the only hope to keep families together is through providing bond funds to get them out

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

They are moving fast through the stages of martial law deployment and fascist terror. It really appears we are about to see every blue state invaded by fascist military forces this appears to be it.

submitted 9 hours ago • 17 comments

I am begging world leaders to stand up to the rogue fascist state

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

A paramilitary force of unidentified federal forces interspersed with active duty National Guard and marines illegally kidnapping People off of the streets is hallmark fascism stuff and if we do not fight back, there will be no country Left to fight for. Let’s be clear this is an invasion.

submitted 13 hours ago • 5 comments

Also worth reminding folks that just like an electoral map a lot of the uncovered land there is just not populated.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

do not perform collective death magic on main keep that shit in your group chat where it's managable

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

I know it's wild to ask a physics pedagogy question at a time like this but here I go: Astro/physicists, do you have a suggested piece of reading/advice column for people who are going through the transition from lecture-based learning to self-taught learning as a PhD student? ⚛️🔭🧪

submitted 11 hours ago • 7 comments

"Tenants in Kansas City are declaring victory after eight months on rent strike—the longest such action in the city’s history...an outcome that lends momentum to efforts to adapt labor union strategies for housing fights." inthesetimes.com/article/rent...

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

oh yeah this is a widespread conspiracy theory among evopsych types who have bad luck with women (but i repeat myself)

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

Debates on whether anti-ICE protesters should be waving the American flag center so much optics. But what we really need to ask is: who gets to write the dominant narrative about the uprising? Whose and what narratives get traction, and why?

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

@sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, a @ucl.ac.uk chemistry professor, has returned his 2014 Michael Faraday Prize to protest the @royalsociety.org's failure to take more decisive (or any) action against Elon Musk for his attack on science. 👏

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Shuffling up to the podium to instruct the know-nothing youth on proper use of and care for a hanky

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

We're keeping an eye on what the EPA is doing...and not doing.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

we make this point over and over again but it remains true: while discerning the intent of the founders is in many cases difficult or inapplicable to modern situations (and, more broadly, not something we should care about), they were extremely, explicitly clear about "no Trumps"

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

An important read.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

The Noamis ditty, but it's for Ezras Klein and Levin

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

"yap till heat death" is 100% my vibe

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

"Right now, cancer patients are not receiving novel cancer treatments and are being cut off, um, when their only other option is hospice care."

submitted 16 hours ago • 9 comments

Deploying the military against citizens and destroying decades of public health initiatives. Both of these are forms of state violence.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

The mainstream/centrist punditocracy seems to exist in an alternate universe around discussing protests where 1) BLM happened while Joe Biden was President and 2) it resulted in an electoral wipeout for Dems

submitted 18 hours ago • 64 comments

I spent so many years covering propaganda anticipating this exact moment and so many of my peers bought the paid-for contrarian line that even covering disinformation was somehow, itself, censorship. Now we're at the event horizon. Celebration is protest is riot is justification for a police state.

submitted 17 hours ago • 24 comments

i usually think i have made peace with being a person who talks too much and then every so often a little thing happens that makes me go OH I JUST TALKED SO MUCH and we get to start the whole self-doubt merry-go-round again

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments