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If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.

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Bombing Iran is to distract us from ICE which is to distract us from tariffs which are to distract us from the looting of our country

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Check out these baddies waging a psyops campaign outside the hotel where ICE agents were trying to sleep. Mariachi for the win!! 💃

submitted 8 days ago • 353 comments

🤣🤣🤣

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Key word here: reality.

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This is the definition of patriotism 👏🏼👏🏼👊🏻✊🇺🇸 Marine officer in LA speaks out against the rise of fascism in our country!! 🇺🇸💙

submitted 14 days ago • 23 comments

a haitian woman died in ICE custody her name was marie ange blaise

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

:: Pause ::

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It doesn't end with the illegal immigrants folks, it's actually just the beginning.

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LAPD out there like

submitted 20 days ago • 339 comments

This is a consistent theme since yesterday from people on the ground in Paramount. Yes, there are crowds, there are protesters. But they are PEACEFUL. ICE began firing tear gas, flash bangs and smoke bombs once they saw people who happened to be there start filming.

submitted 21 days ago • 63 comments

NEW: Members of the California National Guard have arrived in Los Angeles early this morning in response to yesterday's protest of federal immigration raids. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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So proud of my talented brother for getting his story published in McSweeneys! Check it out here. Choose Your Own Adventure (Endings Only) www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cho...

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Happy #MayDay everyone. Today (and every day!) we recognize the struggle for workers’ rights that shaped our country’s history. Be sure to find your closest May Day event and show out! www.mobilize.us/mayday/ Art by Madeleine Jubilee Saito

submitted 59 days ago • 10 comments

The succulent stalk is giving

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#Caturday afternoon to you

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#MAGA #Trump #Tariffs

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“You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.” - Kurt Vonnegut

submitted 88 days ago • 2 comments

Parts Cat #catsky #cattax #witchsky #pagansky

submitted 88 days ago • 4 comments

REST IN PEACE, VAL KILMER

submitted 89 days ago • 25 comments

Thank you, @booker.senate.gov

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My agency is paid from grant $ to handle all marketing and digital comms for the NIH's All of Us Research Program. The program committed to recruit 1 m+ to create a diverse data set, improving our prevention and treatment of disease for all people. The program's comms staff was gutted today. #cdc

submitted 89 days ago • 3 comments

Every day during the two hours leading up to dinner. #bug #catsky #cats

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

Immigration attorney Linette Tobin shares details with NPR about the government's case against her client, Jerce Reyes Barrios, a Venezuelan soccer player and father of two.

submitted 91 days ago • 39 comments

If any of these are your representatives, urge them to divest from Tesla: Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas), Gil Cisneros (D-Calif.), Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.), Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), Adam Smith (D-Wash.), and Dwight Evans (D-Pa.).

submitted 91 days ago • 283 comments

Captain Mark Kelly has more honor, courage, & integrity than Musk, Trump, Vance, Rubio, the entire congressional Republicans, & the MAGA administration put together.

submitted 110 days ago • 12 comments

We should get a lot more French about this situation . . .

submitted 111 days ago • 16 comments

Justin Trudeau gave the exact kind of press conference today that we have been waiting for from our Democratic leaders. Watch it and learn from it. No gimmicks, no stunts, no script, no platitudes, no slogans, no games. Just straight talk, honesty, sincerity and facts.

submitted 117 days ago • 867 comments

State of the Union

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Don’t invite me to the function unless this is the vibe

submitted 118 days ago • 99 comments

There’s a major shift in U.S. cybersecurity policy. A recent CISA memo removed Russia from its list of priorities, focusing instead on China and local systems. Analysts were told not to track Russian cyber threats.