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"The Right has theater. The left has critique." That's Avgi Saketopoulou, a radical psychoanalyst, scholar, & I think it concisely expresses so much of how we got here. The Right presents spectacle; the "left"--shorthand for a range--prides itself on seeing through it. 1/

submitted 3 hours ago • 31 comments

In case you weren't aware, the greater LA metropolitan area is the size of Portugal and contains 80% more people. They cannot constitutionally do this, but also, they cannot physically do this.

submitted 22 hours ago • 64 comments

16 Senate Democrats voted with Republicans on crypto, Alex Padilla was shoved to the ground and handcuffed by the Trump administration, and then Democrats participated in *another vote*. "They will continue to stern-letter us into fascism," a former staffer said. prospect.org/politics/202...

submitted 3 hours ago • 16 comments

Every word of this is nonsensical garbage that reflects the offal excreted by the nest of snakes in Stephen Miller’s brain. But I want to focus on “America will be for Americans again,” & offer a thread on exclusion & inclusion in the history of California specifically. 🗃️ bsky.app/profile/pale...

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

another pattern to name: power enables emotional fragility

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

Seems relevant.

submitted 17 hours ago • 68 comments

Resegregation has always been the plan

submitted 15 hours ago • 30 comments

BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to return control of the National Guard back to California, saying the call-up was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 16 hours ago • 211 comments

ICE officially lawless

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

“We don’t want this on our property," the pastor told the agents. One shouted, "‘the whole country is our property,’” Lopez said. “When someone tells that to you, with a weapon in their hands, that was a very clear message." You live in a police state. spectrumnews1.com/ca/southern-...

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

these colors don’t run either, Trump

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

I didn't come to Congress to be a part of a political circus that attacks the LGBTQ+ community or free speech. I came to defend our state from MAGA Republicans agenda.

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

submitted 20 hours ago • 665 comments

Just so we're all clear: It's not a coincidence that the first senator they've used physical force against is Sen. Alex Padilla, a Latino man representing California.

submitted 21 hours ago • 338 comments

“We will hold this administration accountable,” says Sen. Alex Padilla after being arrested Thursday.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

When your military is buying White Privilege cards…

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

They are extremely clear about the fact that they consider themselves to be at war with you. They do not equivocate about it. It's their stated policy.

submitted 22 hours ago • 19 comments

the learned helplessness of (some) people on this website is fucking appalling, if you can’t see any way out of any of this, you are not going to make it

submitted 22 hours ago • 16 comments

🚨 Secretary Noem basically said that her agency is now dedicated to forcible regime change…in American cities and states. There 👏🏽 is 👏🏽 a 👏🏽 name 👏🏽 for 👏🏽 this

submitted 22 hours ago • 551 comments

A thought experiment Newsom, Bass etc should really think through: Let's say Trump issues an executive order that's like "I hereby remove the Governor of California from office and replace him with [whoever]". How do you respond to this? Does the answer needs to be better than "uh see you in court?"

submitted 22 hours ago • 12 comments

One of the major right wing assumptions is that, when Democrats regain power, it’s all going to be “bygones”. They must seriously be disabused of that notion as soon as possible.

submitted 42 days ago • 20 comments

It is time to meditate on infinite compassion everyone. 60 full seconds try it now for me, and smile too

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The more time goes on, the more I think Dick Cheney's "reality-based community" comment is the most misinterpreted-- *revealingly* misinterpreted --political aphorism in history. What he meant is absolutely correct & the way Dems misinterpret it reveals why they are in a perpetual reactive crouch.

submitted 23 hours ago • 23 comments

One concept that I think people are getting at very neatly when they talk about things like a white person, or a man, or a member of another privileged group “failing up” or otherwise being incompetent and not paying the price for it is that privilege erodes opportunities for growth.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Every time I open LinkedIn it gets progressively more “eat the rich”

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Global ocean acidification has passed safe planetary boundary threshold: Study

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

June 12th is Loving Day, a holiday that commemorates the Loving v. Virginia case, which allowed interracial marriage in all parts of the U.S. NPR readers share how the case changed their lives.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Me: man, I’m sick of the troops being here The troops: we are also sick of this weird armed vacation we’re taking without funds for food or water

submitted 1 day ago • 124 comments

Calling it now, Trump is going to attempt to use mass deportation to hobble California’s dairy industry.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I like how people are pretending like he has put some great thought into Javert vs Veljean as some deep philosophical exercise and chosen not to comment on sides as an ideological position when in fact he has no clue whatsoever who any of these people are

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

Metabolic ecology of microbiomes: Nutrient competition, host benefits, and community engineering Review by Erik Bakkeren, Vit Piskovsky, and Kevin R. Foster www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Here's Governor Newsome's full address tonight: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXQQ...

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

The claim that protests that "inhibit the execution of the laws" constitute "rebellion" is an extraordinarily dangerous one. That argument would have made sit-ins in diner counters in the South acts of "rebellion" against Jim Crow, for example. Nonviolent resistance and protest are not "rebellion."

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

You and your children will breathe more air pollution because of this action. People will have more asthma attacks. People will have more heart attacks. All while climate impacts accelerate.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Apparently the regime doesn’t like scientific integrity. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

DING DONG!! DING DONG!!!

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments