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"A society can't allow EVERYBODY to have free speech!" is a helluva take.

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#WasteFraudAndAbuse Where's DOGE???

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"Continuing to argue that fronts in this war are a distraction, because Democrats can’t reorient themselves to walk and chew gum at the same time, is an admission of weakness." Once again, @owillis.bsky.social nails it. www.oliverexplains.com/p/there-are-...

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I know this is a very very naughty thought, but I can’t help it: a small part of me kind of hopes the little green men would test Finland. It would be a good wake up call for Europe, and a heavy weapons live fire exercise rolled in one. “Travel light, die early”

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So now the cat's out of the bag — the Trump regime, through ICE Barbie — L.A. (& by extension, CA) is seen as a racial/ethnic "sht hole state." Temu Goebbels would nuke CA from orbit (save Silicon Valley), but they need the tax revenue to cover the actual* sh*t hole taker Red MAGA states.

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It's sheer hell. The whole place is full of criminals. Including me, of course.

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

Dog murder lady said what?

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Do Grace Meng’s voters know? Do Richie Torres?! This is low even for her. Nothings too low for him.

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Wtf. I know that platform is vile, but come on...

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Ted over here redefining the freedom of speech, assembly, and protest as the freedom to “observe.”

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

Watching Labour drive itself off a cliff over Israel and austerity makes the Democratic Party in the US look like a powerful fighting machine.

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

We can argue about democratic culpabity but most of them fucking hate protests and do not know how to respond to them without pissing everybody off, yet do not game out the likelihood of them happening

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whyy.org/articles/pen... Gov. Josh Shapiro and Sen. Dave McCormick want pats on the back for bringing huge AI power sucks from the electric grid and the pollution that comes with it? Gov, you can't coast politically on fixing I-95 forever. This is not a win.

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I heard someone on the news this morning refer to "foam bullets" being used against protesters. They're not foam, they're hard rubber and they've been known to kill people. Christ, media, do your job.

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Los Angeles school district to set up safe zones around public schools, bus stops and graduations to protect immigrant children from ICE raids. Will charter schools do the same? What is the charter school industry's policy on serving students at risk of being deported? lamag.com/news/lausd-a...

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Free speech on Twitter, doesn't mean "free speech" in its normal English usage.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

Even if you don't mind eliminating driver jobs (and there are a LOT of ppl who depend on these), the massive $ spent on them could have gone to public transit, & also Waymo shares footage with police, so in the context of fighting a police state, they're automated mobile copcams

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There's a lot to unpack here. But the "why do people in the developed world die from chronic diseases at higher rates than in poorer countries" is because we survive long enough to die from chronic rather than infectious disease. This is epidemiology 101. It's not a mystery.

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Not me. I don't know David IRL.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

He will keep escalating until he triggers the Insurrection Act.

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Here's the bonkers thing about the Data for Progress poll: It has Mamdani's favorables at 58-15 and Cuomo's at 48-49 (with THIRTY-SIX PERCENT very unfavorable). If the people who hate Cuomo figure out that Zohran is the way to stop him, this could turn into a bloodbath.

submitted 16 hours ago • 9 comments

Translation: Mamdani could really win this thing.

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🎯Stochastic terrorism via prayer. The New Apostolic Reformation has been practicing this for years, but conditions for it to be truly deadly are now fully in place:

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NYT reporting that the White House is pushing for an aggressive mid-decade Texas redistricting to target Democratic-held seats. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/u...

submitted 18 hours ago • 12 comments

Lemme be real clear: At the height of the Iraq insurgency, the U.S. military had 175,000 troops mobilized inside a country the size of California, where never more than 1% of the population actively opposed occupation troops. It resulted in a strategic draw, at best. 🧵

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🧵"NACDL President Christopher Wellborn: "Protests do not constitute an emergency. The role of the military is to defend the nation, not to act as a domestic police force."

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Woohoo! Attorney General Pam Bondi's brother Brad Bondi got ~CRUSHED~ in the race to lead the DC Bar Association. Congratulations to Diane Seltzer for upholding the rule of law & winning more than 90% of the record turnout of 38,000+ voters (5x normal turnout)! www.npr.org/2025/06/09/g...

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we’ve got a bunch of parents voluntarily guarding the elementary school gates if you want to know how LA feels this morning

submitted 1 day ago • 151 comments

one of the reasons biden won is because for a change the democrats at least gave lip service to social justice protests. didnt amount to much in the white house, but dems lost more support by turning away from that movement than embracing it.

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Ooops!

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The kids with the most behavioral issues growing up got the most whoopins. That shit does not work.

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I reviewed @mwpalen.bsky.social's Pax Economica, a book that couldn't have landed at a more apposite time, as reactionary forces seek to close the world: close nations to trade and movement, and retrench political power into the hands of oligarchs and privileged classes.

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I'm seeing lots of people heavily criticising Governor Newsom for not backing the protests more. However, it appears that he understands the very real danger of this situation: if Trump uses images of LA riots to justify a seizure of total power, ordinary people don't stand a chance. It's over.

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David Huerta, President of California's largest union, was assaulted and detained Friday by ICE. Now the @aflcio.org, the biggest confederation of unions in America made up of nearly 15 million active and retired workers, is calling on members to protest on his behalf.

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Obviously, the cybertruck should not only have been amphibious, it should have had wings to fly & should have breathed fire, too, thus covering all 4 elements!

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What Federalist Papers number 51 really meant to say, "Narcissism made to counteract other narcissism"

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"To give a sense of the scale of the inefficiency, analysis we did in the Biden administration gave an example of Walmart’s blockchain usage that was up to 50 million times (not a typo) less efficient, in terms of compute, than a traditional database configuration."

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What's also funny to me about the 'one viewpoint' thing is that there are several different views I see liberals disagreeing with socialists disagreeing with communists disagreeing with anarchists and so on and so on The speaker just means 'conservatives should dominate this space too'

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