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submitted 2 hours ago • 3 comments

republicans have projected confidence about literally everything my entire life

submitted 2 hours ago • 17 comments

the account in the meme is a race-science account that approvingly retweets extremely open nazis

submitted 2 hours ago • 8 comments

WASHINGTON (AP) - National Guard members already have temporarily detained civilians in the Los Angeles protests, commander says.

submitted 4 hours ago • 96 comments

We need to hear the Dems standing strong and firm with Rep. McIver.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

This reminds me of a line in Mel Brooks' "The Producers": "Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer."

submitted 3 hours ago • 16 comments

Had some more to say on the "riots" and "invasion" in LA. If it’s a "riot," it’s the police who are rioting. If there’s an “invasion” of LA, it’s the US military that is invading.

submitted 3 hours ago • 7 comments

The only reason people think LA is a postapocalyptic nightmare is because of the X algorithm. An unreality machine.

submitted 3 hours ago • 140 comments

man, what are we doing here

submitted 2 hours ago • 8 comments

Read this thread.

submitted 2 hours ago • 6 comments

the single biggest reason Trump did not pay an election-losing price for 1/6 is that he did not face the consequences that attempting an insurrection should have carried. a lot of people are at fault for that, but it's a lesson that has to be fucking learned.

submitted 2 hours ago • 5 comments

Amidst everything that is happening, my youngest son, over the past several weeks, has mastered the art of walking. My premature boy with a rare disease, who cackles with delight as he learns how to navigate his environment. I will do everything in my power to protect that joy of possibility.

submitted 22 hours ago • 26 comments

The Washington Post, which silenced its Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist and reduced its opinion pages to a defense of “free markets and democracy” alone, would like to lecture other people on the importance of a free and full exchange of all ideas.

submitted 12 hours ago • 46 comments

Well at least there wasn't a measles outbreak during all this chaos or anything.

submitted 5 hours ago • 7 comments

Trump underwater in literally every single issue. 38% approval overall. 27% approval on his spending bill. 40% approval on deportations. Musk also at 30% approval. 38% approval for RFK Jr. 35% approval for JD Vance. Nobody fucking wants any of this. poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

submitted 6 hours ago • 240 comments

Every major Dem politician needs to realize that, in this environment, they can schedule a "speech to the nation," like Newsom did, and get tons of media coverage. Just do it.

submitted 20 hours ago • 482 comments

When he says "huge swaths" of Santa Monica look like "failed third world nations" what he means specifically is that there are brown people out in public

submitted 9 hours ago • 49 comments

Miller says he wants to demographically cleanse "huge parts" of Los Angeles until everyone in the city knows each other, and it's not a "society of strangers" anymore. We are talking about dystopian nightmare here. He's the apocalyptic prophet with an army.

submitted 1 day ago • 168 comments

If you live in LA, please post videos and photos of reality as much as you can because the Fox News Cinematic Universe is working hard to sell this dystopian fiction.

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

Imagine kidnapping people off the street in broad daylight and thinking you're the "good guys". People who are at work, at their kids' school or otherwise minding their business. Imagine shooting people with rubber bullets because they want it to stop and thinking you're the "good guys". 🤔😑

submitted 12 hours ago • 130 comments

I seen Flavor Flav trending on the other place and was like I hope he’s ok 😳😒 BUT YOUR BOY IS STILL HERE,!! This is the second time I found out that I died. 🤣🤣🤣

submitted 20 hours ago • 250 comments

Musk and the other bad-faith free speech bros are not at all interested in free speech. They want reckless speech and far-reaching censorship of their enemies. badfaithtimes.com/the-free-spe...

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

I’m not blogging at all this month (revising the book manuscript), but if I wasn’t on blogging-hiatus, here’s what I’d be writing: (1) An awful lot of centrist pundit-types built their careers in the ‘10s around writing takes that perform well on algorithmic media.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

My work here is done

submitted 12 hours ago • 231 comments

I’ve thanked SPED teachers and therapists for what they do, but a special shout out to the staff who look out for our kids. We’ve had amazing librarians and nurses here. And the security guys at my son’s school make him feel like a king and I absolutely love them for it.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

This is a hopeful update in Heidy's case that I have been closely watching. The Trump Administration's cruel actions will not be forgotten and I will continue to utilize every avenue I can to right these wrongs. en.cibercuba.com/noticias/202...

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

The founding fathers did not live and die to see this moment. It’s time for all of us to stand up peacefully.

submitted 22 hours ago • 807 comments

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

submitted 8 hours ago • 474 comments

Mafia politics bleeds into mafia business.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Rewording my earlier post. RFK Jr will be testifying before Congress. I am interested in what experts and others think would be the best way to leverage this time and opportunity for the public good. If you were behind the dais for this hearing, what would you do? What do you want to see asked?

submitted 9 hours ago • 3256 comments

My grandmother came to the US the "right way" because Congress created legislation to allow her & tens of thousands of other war brides to immigrate after WW2. We solve the immigration "crisis" by creating legal pathways for people to come here not by criminalizing people for wanting a better life.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

When this was supposedly happening it was the greatest threat to freedom of thought and speech that had ever existed. But now that the extreme right is doing it’s fine bsky.app/profile/katt...

submitted 11 hours ago • 12 comments

the right won't tell you this because they want your money, but the best way to get a girlfriend as a young man is to be a straight guy who likes musical theater.

submitted 9 hours ago • 155 comments

I talked to @haaretzcom.bsky.social about Palestine and Israel, generational trauma, and how the far-right is trying weaponize Palestinian, Israeli, and Jewish pain for its authoritarian own agenda: www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

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When Stanley Nelson investigated unsolved KKK killings, some of his best sources were the spouses and children of the Klansmen. The men who would torture and kill were often abusive to their family at home--and those spouses and kids talked. My expanded story for npr.org. www.npr.org/2025/06/07/n...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

quick question, david: why isn’t he governor anymore?

submitted 10 hours ago • 22 comments

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 10 hours ago • 16 comments

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

submitted 12 hours ago • 102 comments

To clarify, I'm not worried because this tells us something about the political views of "The Troops." I'm alarmed because of how many times/places professional norms had to break down for this to happen.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

🤬😡🤬 💙✊💙✌️💙🦋

submitted 1 day ago • 224 comments

You have no obligation to defend or explain the behavior of random street protesters. We have a lawless government that is flagrantly violating its legal, moral, even philosophical obligations to us. Everything else is secondary

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

"The HHS FAQ represents more than just flawed policy—it demonstrates a concerning pattern of cherry-picking data, misrepresenting studies, and bypassing established scientific processes."

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Yup. Same.

submitted 19 hours ago • 13 comments

NEW: With two weeks to Primary Day, Andrew Cuomo's lead has shrunk, with Zohran Mamdani on the verge of a historic upset. My thoughts on the impending showdown between new movements and old institutions, and why Team Cuomo should be worried: www.michaellange.nyc/p/andrew-cuo...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Even still these edgelords can’t be honest. They like Lee because he fought for slavery and they think slavery was good. bsky.app/profile/kevi...

submitted 12 hours ago • 19 comments