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"We can handle one 10,000-person protest, but ten 1000-person protests throughout the city will overwhelm us." -LAPD Chief Michel Moore in response to the 2020 uprising Decentralization is key. Elon Musk personally banned our Twitter account in 2022, but this post remains good advice today.

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LAPD when they think nobody is watching

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NEW: Unbelievable. A seemingly endless line of tanks & other military vehicles arrive in DC ahead of next week's parade. They departed Texas 5 days ago. What a colossal waste of time, money & military resources. All for a President who has shown zero respect for service personnel. (🎥 DW)

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Right now, Muslims in Gaza are supposed to be celebrating Eid al-Adha. Instead of feasting, they are starving. Instead of gathering with their loved ones, they are burying their children. Netanyahu and the IDF can end this misery ANY time by agreeing to a ceasefire and allowing aid into Gaza.

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some resources for protestors A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions and how to defend against them crimethinc.com/2021/01/04/a...

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Trump has authorized regular military in addition to the Guard: "In addition, the Secretary of Defense may employ any other members of the regular Armed Forces as necessary to augment and support the protection of Federal functions and property in any number determined appropriate in his discretion"

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Can't help but think that if Trump deploys the military against American citizens in Los Angeles, his little military parade in a week will take on completely different optics. And at this point, I can't tell if that's what he wants or if he doesn't realize.

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average ICE agent

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an important thing to remember as The Cool Zone looms: the most egregious recent violent and militarized crackdown -- at places like UCLA and Columbia -- was done under democrats with the full support of democrats. they aint gonna help

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Video of an ICE caravan just ramming people

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The FAA has issued a NOTAM (which bans unauthorized drone flights) covering the area in Los Angeles where the protests are happening right now: tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=d...

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shocked the guy who wrote scientific racism books would talk to scientific racists. what's next, he's gonna buddy up to pedophiles?

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Just got shot with one of these…

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what a day jfc

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BREAKING The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

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The chief of the country’s premier anti-antisemitism organization is now praising a government official who just this week defended Holocaust denial as part of “viewpoint diversity.”

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aesthetics are out, ergonomics are in

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People shouldn’t be reporting this as “he returns to face charges.” They should be saying “Trump admin concedes it can bring people back from CECOT and tries some new shit against Abrego Garcia after the old shit didn’t stick.”

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This is appalling. These are also conditions they tested in the Biden admin by keeping people outdoors and providing no food, water, and shelter. Congress didn’t say a word, and now here we are

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The NYT has faced intense (and hard earned) pressure internally and externally over its coverage of trans kids and they likely know they'll face even more blame if SCOTUS rules against trans care in Skrmetti, and I think the podcast and more should be seen in that light

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you can't tell at first because this is written in the exonerative tense, but she was shot by another police officer

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can we pls stop using "manic" to describe neurotypical behavior? im gonna be an SJW abt this but mania is awful and using it to describe that time you did something crazy🤪 does harm. bipolar disorder has killed people in my family and it may very well kill me. it is not an aesthetic for you to wear.

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Thomas Ptacek, from "My Cocaine Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts," literally describing how an AI-fueled gambling addiction feels from the inside. I wrote about this here: pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/g...

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lol

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the curse of prophecy (we are all tied to the tracks watching the ironclad inevitability of neoliberalism slowly roll towards us)

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I know everyone is loving the Musk schadenfreude but we have to stay on the alert for the possibility that Musk is going to turn his sights to those centrist dem conventions going on and further entrench transphobia and anti-immigrant sentiment. And they would easily work with him.

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Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology was published in 2004, yet still today is popular in Anthropology sections in bookshops and libraries. With Right-Wing myths always spread about the state, about hierarchy and about what is possible, the book is a good read to get another point of view.

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unironically this is so true. Democrats are anti-passion and anti-sincerity. if someone actually gives a shit, they are a threat to the ideological liquidity of the Democratic party platform.

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One difference between Republicans and Democrats is that the GOP organizes and recruits their keyboard warriors to be activists and campaign workers and Democrats mock their keyboard warriors.

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The New York Times is back at it again (derogatory). An upcoming New York Times podcast on trans youth healthcare used audio from the mother of a trans girl against her will, after producers caught a vulnerable moment on tape.

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Guy living on a Native burial ground in McSlaveville, USA: Guys… I think we might be entering fascism

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Whoever wins in 2028, this era isn't over until there are convictions and jail terms for the people responsible for this.

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Her 12 yr old daughter screams and runs after him. Ambar wails in agony and collapses onto the sidewalk. As the SUVs pull away Ambar leans over a nearby fence sobbing, “My love, my love.” — via @gwynnefitz.bsky.social @fractenberg.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/04/i...

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NYT, Page One: “Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.” @nytimes.com

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happy pride month everyone

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ICE consists of people who are too unprofessional to be in the military and somehow too racist for the cops. They dress up like they’re fighting the Taliban in Korengal to brutalize Guatemalan-American teens, so they can defend the master volk (oh, I’m sorry: “real Americans”).

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rediscovered my favorite mathematical turn of phrase in an old chat log

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I can't get over the AI 2027 thing. I reread it this morning, and realized that one of the underlying assumptions is that 'if we run an LLM on a big enough data cluster, it'll somehow develop goal-directed learning, metacognition, and independent innovation, instead of being autocorrect writ large"

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Three Palestinian students were shot in Vermont. A Palestinian six-year-old was murdered by his pro-Israel landlord. A Texas woman was indicted for trying to drown a 3-year-old Palestinian girl. We don't have to make this comparison to condemn what happened in Boulder on Sunday. We really don't.

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