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submitted 1 hour ago • 4 comments

I understand why people think this but it is simply NOT HOW IT WORKS. Most public opinion is not people reacting organically to events in an unmediated way, but reacting to what they perceive the consensus on what public opinion SHOULD be.

submitted 1 hour ago • 4 comments

The extent to which corporate implosions are because of stupid financial dicktricks for massive capital raises like acquisitions, instead of actually failing, is undersold. I'm a regulated market capitalist but some of these people should be hung at the revolution.

submitted 3 hours ago • 8 comments

What a quote.

submitted 3 hours ago • 23 comments

always struck by how everyone who screams “we’re full” citing the strain on services is also viciously opposed to the safety net

submitted 3 hours ago • 135 comments

Bluesky uses AI to help with moderation. Bluesky devs use LLMs to help accelerate development. Get off of Bluesky. I don't believe you actually have this hardline of a stance against AI if you don't.

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

Right now, Dems are hiding in their offices, scrolling their phones fearfully, wondering "how are voters going to feel about the National Guard being deployed?" The right, meanwhile, is vigorously attempting to shape how voters feel about it, filling every medium with coordinated propaganda.

submitted 6 hours ago • 577 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 14 hours ago • 458 comments

I'm wildly exhausted with how many people actively covered for these sociopaths. Aquiescence to power and status quo led people to say patently illogical statements that somehow Bobby wouldn't act exactly as he had for years.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

see, the thing i’m genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines

submitted 5 hours ago • 416 comments

President Trump is actively threatening the foundations of our democracy by calling for the arrest of a sitting governor simply because he disagrees with him.

submitted 3 hours ago • 6 comments

this is just a masterclass in why you shouldn’t believe news outlets reporting on police violence. just literally ignoring the most clear video evidence you could ask for. the only thing missing is the guy yelling “shooting specifically that woman now.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 19 comments

They figured out after 2020 that there's actually no real need for there to be riots for "omg there are riots!" to be a widely adopted reality.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Remember how an ABC reporter was just fired for speculating about the psychology of Stephen Miller?

submitted 22 hours ago • 32 comments

The best endorsement this place could possibly receive.

submitted 1 day ago • 139 comments

seriously, what what a piece of shit thing to do. imagine this idea forming in your brain & just following through. no impulse control. juvenile brain function. years of training telling you all your peers are totally down w/ what you're about to do. what a bad organization this guy's a part of.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

I think it’s a huge misconception we need a single app that grows infinitely and makes everyone happy. This is a “business” mindset. And that model has consistently failed. It’s also driven families apart. This is Threads model now and it’s a censorship machine. I’m good with the community we have.

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

ABC suspended reporter Terry Moran for a now-deleted tweet calling Stephen Miller a “world class hater.” They said it violates their standards. Here’s a thought…maybe your standards should allow calling out white nationalism and hate when you see it.

submitted 1 day ago • 131 comments

1 in 12 Americans live in California. 1 in 35 Americans live in LA County. LA is America

submitted 1 day ago • 115 comments

“How to stop an overflowing toilet” should not have a 30 second commercial before it on YouTube.

submitted 1 day ago • 259 comments

Grim to watch everything play out pretty much exactly how they said it would, and people still don't believe them.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Erasing history helps no one. "The numbers are staggering: in 1995, 1,400 immigrants were subject to nonjudicial removals, representing 3 percent of total deportations. By FY 2012 that number had sharply increased to 313,000 nonjudicial removals – an all-time high." www.aclu.org/news/immigra...

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

Megan McArdle has 104.4k followers on Twitter and is verified. Here are the engagement numbers for the three most recent tweets she added to her timeline:

submitted 22 hours ago • 37 comments

It’s obvious but worth drawing out what raids of Home Depot’s of all places is about. It’s rounding up people who are really eager for work and for whom there is work, peoples whose labor is in demand. We know this but shows just how far it is from rounding up just the bad guys.

submitted 1 day ago • 412 comments

Immigration is good. Also, every anti-immigrant party and politician, ever, has harmed its own country. Several anti-immigrant parties have destroyed their own countries. It’s a bad policy that always has bad effects.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

ICE has not had a Senate-confirmed director since Obama was president. The whole thing is rotten from the bottom to the top.

submitted 23 hours ago • 5 comments

No Murrow wouldn’t have a job at a major network. He’d probably have a substack or similar. There are tons of people willing to speak the truth about this administration. That’s just not how you get on TV at a major network.

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

congratulations assholes, you’ve bullied Gavin into getting off his right wing podcast circuit and back to pretending to care about his constituents again that’s a hell of a fuckup on your part

submitted 1 day ago • 105 comments

Newsom: "Arrest me. Let's just get it over with, tough guy. I don't give a damn ... Tom, arrest me. Let's go."

submitted 1 day ago • 1066 comments

It’s not just that it’s clearly intentional, it’s that it’s clearly intentional knowing that he’s being recorded. They know they can do whatever they want with complete impunity.

submitted 23 hours ago • 228 comments

This is not just revisionist history, it's ignorant of reality. Activists didn't leave Twitter because they "thought they would be more effective" somewhere else, they left because Elon made it clear that he would *deliberately undermine their influence." Why make shit up?

submitted 23 hours ago • 85 comments

I'm sorry but expecting civilians to follow the law when law enforcement is out openly committing crimes left and right is a joke. Either we have a system here or we don't. Pick one.

submitted 23 hours ago • 20 comments

And here in NYC today another shocking escalation by Trump. The law explicitly allows unannounced visits by congressmembers to federal facilities. This is yet another breach of democratic norms by an increasingly rogue administration. Don't normalize this.

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

this is wildly untrue. about half the country passionately hates Trump, and even if we attribute the entire vote swing in 2024 to inflation, it changed the minds of less than 5% of Americans

submitted 23 hours ago • 4 comments

REMINDER: Stephen Miller was born and raised in Santa Monica, California, and numerous reports from journalists—and people who knew him when he was growing up there—indicate he had a deep-seated disdain of immigrants, particularly Hispanic people. California has always been a target for him.

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

the issue is not just ICE. we can live free and safe. or we can have police like we have right now. we cannot do both

submitted 1 day ago • 124 comments

Once an extremely drunk/ill guy banged on our back door while I was at work and sent my wife running out of the house with our baby in her arms and she hid at our neighbors for the two hours it took LAPD to show up while he napped on my couch, so I guess I’m wondering where was this enthusiasm then.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

cops doing crime on camera. as @chadloder.bsky.social has been pointing out all day, this is totally illegal. cops doing crime. on camera. adjust your stupid headlines accordingly.

submitted 1 day ago • 140 comments