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Substance aside, i have long been confused why Jake Tapper gets to be "an objective journalist but with opinions" while others don't. He is the "lead anchor" not an opinion show host. This has been true for years

submitted 13 hours ago • 17 comments

Sly Stone made a lot of timeless, enjoyable, challenging music. But “Hot Fun in the Summertime” is arguably the greatest 45 RPM record ever issued.

submitted 1 day ago • 84 comments

the reason the ruling class has such disdain for public art is because they think the space could be better used for ads

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

submitted 12 hours ago • 836 comments

The Democratic Party is actually pretty effective under strict institutional norms and rules. They whip votes and submit to leaders despite a big tent and diverse base When the norms and rules don’t apply (like now), the Democratic Party is a deer in the headlights

submitted 11 hours ago • 130 comments

If troops show up in our cities, we stop. No work. No deliveries. No shopping. No compliance. A general strike isn’t radical—it’s survival. This isn’t what freedom looks like. You want martial law? Then you’ll get a country on pause. We refuse to be ruled by force. #GeneralStrike

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

You want martial law? Here’s your recession.

submitted 22 hours ago • 3 comments

If Trump actually had a mandate to do what he's doing we wouldn't have nationwide protests and he wouldn't need the military to silence those protesters

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

They can’t arrest all of us. They think they can. Because they don’t believe in numbers. Because math is for nerds.

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

Watching the right now oppose the part of the second amendment that guarantees a well regulated militia under state control is… something.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1059 comments

You know when else that “generational disruption” was happening, Dave? In freaking 2021 and ‘22 when you were doing the very ill-advised merger you’re now undoing. (From here: www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...)

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I'm grateful that if I post that Stephen Miller is a hateful dickbag on social media, no one can fire me from MSW Media because I own it. I might not be your cup of tea, but thanks to all who support independent media 💙🙏

submitted 1 day ago • 976 comments

What would happen if, as a form of protest, America got sick. Too sick to show up for work. Too sick to shop and buy things from companies that rely on their commerce. What would happen if instead of protesting on the streets, Americans just got sick and shut everything down?

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

I’m not sure why Gavin Newsome doesn’t activate the rest of his army guard to prevent the president from it or force him to overrule it…. Then fight on the second amendment guaranteeing a state a right to a militia. How can a state have a militia if the president can simply federalize it

submitted 1 day ago • 1092 comments

The MAGA "GOP" should be banned from US politics forever as a domestic terrorist organization.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

While tempting, violence will isn’t the answer. Peaceful protests, economic pushback and if needed, general strikes are going to be more effective. They will ultimately resort to violence — they lack the ability or intelligence to outflank smart, organized resistance. Violence will B their downfall.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

He is using the Feds to antagonize and terrorize the protestors into using violence to defend themselves and our right to protest. He wants to escalate to a point he can access emergency powers.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

"In several examples printed out and shared in Politico’s Rosslyn, Virginia, newsroom last week, staff pointed to instances where the tool appeared to garble the publication’s reporting, or generate reports filled with completely made-up information."

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Important thing to beat people over the head with: Trump has turned American cities into warzones and for fucking what? Prices are way up, jobs will be way down, the dollar is worth less, and now the highway is blocked off by cops. Maybe the Great Mythical Immigrant wasn’t the problem after all.

submitted 2 days ago • 120 comments

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.

submitted 2 days ago • 891 comments

⚠️ Warning: The Trump administration is circulating footage from 2020 to make the situation in L.A. appear more chaotic than it is. This is an intentional effort to manufacture a larger crisis. Stay alert. Pay attention. The propaganda machine is in overdrive.

submitted 1 day ago • 122 comments

Independent journalism is when you can write what Terry Moran wrote without getting in trouble. Corporate journalism is when you can’t. It’s why many left the latter for the former. I understand the rationale behind corp journalism rules, I’m just glad they don’t apply to me

submitted 1 day ago • 482 comments

We have the power to fight back: cut your spending. Only support pro-democracy companies. Those who bend the knee: nothing for them. Money speaks louder than violent protest.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

So Trump is just Stephen Miller’s puppet. It’d be a shame if Trump turned on him bc he thought Miller was stealing the spotlight. Ahem.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

submitted 2 days ago • 3060 comments

I’m convinced a lot of the whining about Bluesky is because the trolls get angry when they’re not fed.

submitted 2 days ago • 50 comments

Ezra Klein and his fans are part of the West Wing fandom problem that infects the Democratic Party from the top down. This ridiculous notion that we can engage in rational debate with people who want black people on the plantation, women as breeding wombs, and trans kids dead.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Honestly I think if this place was actually irrelevant we wouldn’t have to deal with the same freaking editorial every week for an entire year and a half

submitted 2 days ago • 158 comments

First they illegally deport citizens. Then they unleash ICE to terrorize communities. Now they’ve got the National Guard in L.A. to silence protestors. This ain’t about law and order. This is what authoritarianism looks like.

submitted 2 days ago • 418 comments

ICE is raiding Home Depots in LA because nothing says “national security” like cracking down on people buying mulch.

submitted 3 days ago • 133 comments

Whenever law enforcement agents are given a quota of a specific number of people to arrest or detain, especially with the WH policy director screaming at their superiors to hit those target numbers, bad things are going to happen. Quotas always result in civil rights violations.

submitted 2 days ago • 467 comments

The Los Angeles Police Department has stated that demonstrations in the city have remained peaceful. Let that sink in.

submitted 3 days ago • 439 comments

Now, if Trump invokes the insurrection act then we’re in a whole new world and it won’t end well for Trump

submitted 2 days ago • 453 comments

Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing. ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him. seiuca.org/press-releas...

submitted 4 days ago • 326 comments

If you’re angry about the situation in California. Don’t post here. Stop buying anything you can live without. We need a consumer strike to shut this all down.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.

submitted 3 days ago • 3013 comments

I’m taking California and the points.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

submitted 4 days ago • 326 comments

But God forbid someone leave a mean note on his Cybertruck.🙄

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

As a native Californian — I agree. Tonight’s ICE protests are just the beginning — the federal government will not be able to contain a resisting California (and other states NJ, MASS NY will join).

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

it's wild how many journalists still use Twitter, a right wing propaganda sewer owned by an overt white supremacist fascist directly responsible for killing millions of human beings

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments