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Today: Tanks are being moved en masse into DC. Trump is deploying a state national guard over a governor’s objection to police protests. Trump threatened a major donor with “severe consequences” if they support his political opponents. If you’re still wondering what time it is, read this again

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ER doctor here! Please seek medical attention (go to the ER) if you are hit in the head with a ballistic. “Less lethal” weapons kill people all the time, in addition to causing permanent disabilities. If you don’t feel safe disclosing that you were protesting just say you were hit in the head, etc

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Republicans want to murder their fellow Americans but more than that they want to have their fellow Americans murdered on their behalf. They’re frothing at the mouth for this.

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I do find the idea that the President of the US can: Invoke the insurrection Act Federalise the National guard; and Use the national guard in civil law enforcement, And this somehow has no steps or stages where formal processes allow for objections to reviewable decisions to be a bit weird myself.

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The fact they chose California as the flash point is also an indicator that they don't think these things through LA has like 4M+ people. Sending every single ICE officer is ~20K, LAPD is 9K, LASD is 10K. Going in at 100:1 manpower – leaving zero bodies for literally anything else – is foolish 1/

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the white house thinks brute force is, no pun intended, a trump card. they don’t anticipate pushback and they don’t know how to handle it with anything other than escalation. the issue is that each escalation is itself a gamble. if protesters refuse to back down, you’ve lost face. (1/?)

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“No civil police force could hold out against an irate and resolute population. The trick is not to let them realize that.” - Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals

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My colleague @josephanunn.bsky.social did a deep dive report on the Posse Comitatus Act and domestic deployment of the military. Seems like a good time to reup it. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/pol...

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"If teachers could indoctrinate students, more people would use apostrophes correctly."--Adam Rothman

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fucking hilarious for CNN to livestream a play about the importance of journalism during the McCarthy Era and then have a panel featuring Bret Stephens and Kara Swisher

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ICE (law enforcement in general) operating unchecked under Obama and Biden is part of how we got to now. Sorry if this upsets you.

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The Insurrection Act is sweeping. It’s a huge grant of power to the President. It is also very expressly for conditions that do not exist in California. And if you’re hypothetically the governor, you should be saying so.

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Of course everyone, including myself, is an instant expert here, but one would have thought senior US journalists who know more about the command and control of US national guard units that an Australian with the ability to read Wikipedia. Or know enough not to opine openly until they had read it.

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What the fuck is the point of paying money to a police department if they won’t protect people from hostile masked kidnappers?

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This guy has powerful Malcolm Turnbull levels of ‘if only there had been someone who could have done something to stop these things happening — things that of course I totally oppose’ vibes

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I don’t want to stomp on any particular accounts, but this idea that USians have that it’s a relief to find out the rest of the world can see how unstable Trump is, is sort of hilarious. The rest of the world saw it well before you did, and WE didn’t elect him twice FFS.

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Hope other countries are excited for the LA Olympics!

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"Cocaine doesn’t make you a business genius — it just makes you think you’re a business genius. Same for AI." Genius 🤣

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These are one sentence apart. Words, what do they mean. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/o...

submitted 9 hours ago • 44 comments

The speed in which we have decayed into an open oligarchic kleptocracy is astounding

submitted 10 hours ago • 233 comments

The Trump administration would love to use war-style brutality and violence to attack all protestors. About 35% of the country would cheer it. Remind me why I should feel any community, any common humanity, any need to connect with those people.

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Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department are calling this a warzone. One side is in military gear, with rifles, throwing flash bangs and tear gas.

submitted 7 hours ago • 57 comments

Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.

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You know the police state that you've heard about your whole life? That might come to pass one day? Look down. Look around. You're standing in it.

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This is a recurring thing where the second a former appointee says something mildly critical, Trump goes on a tear about how incompetent & traitorous they are. It never seems to occur to him that he’s announcing he’s unfit for his job.

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It's the Washington Monument in the background that really takes this to next-level dystopian

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Trying to figure out how fishing might be something where trans women have a competitive advantage, and all I've got is that the chemicals that make the frogs gay also make fish into chasers.

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These are masked men, with weapons, no warrants and this is extrajudicial abduction, and with local police aiding and abetting this thuggery. It is illegal under international human rights law. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/u...

submitted 7 hours ago • 27 comments

Was just thinking of writing something about why panic over transgender athletes serves as the perfect on-ramp to racism, namely because a discussion about "inherent advantages" fuses dominant beliefs about biology, essentialism, and merit

submitted 13 days ago • 30 comments

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

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While the media drone on about how hard it is for people with most than $3 million in super to lose some of their tax breaks, in reality the vast majority of Australians have less than $200k in super. The median for a 60 year old woman is just $158k, which means half of women have less than that!

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Whilst Rex Patrick is right that someone who has done the reprehensible things Morrison has done should not be getting any honours, I also think that no average Australian has given a tinker’s cuss about these thoroughly corrupted prizes handed out by political elites to their mates for decades.

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"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...

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Personally I'm not surprised that a newspaper with a liberal internationalist lean takes a more humanitarian approach than whatever the hell the NYT has become

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We’re at the “Then they came for the trade unionists” line of the poem

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one thing that always gets to me is do any of the people treating AI as a free replacement for labour have any plans for what they're going to do when all these various prompt services stop operating at a one trillion percent loss?

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Step 1: NYT reporter posts own story to B'sky to farm clicks from a literate, politically engaged audience Step 2: dozens of people offer harsh criticism of the story Step 3: NYT reporter spends hours replying with affected snarkiness that fails to conceal a deeply wounded ego ... and repeat.

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