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The most vital thing you can do right now is spread this message offline to normies. There is no "unrest", there's a protest. It has 400 people. LA does worse when the Lakers come in 3rd in a season.

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State repression of peaceful protests can subject activists to injury and even death but—when broadcast to the world through media—often turns mass opinion against the state. bsky.app/profile/owas...

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I’m reminded of Louis Philippe (king of France 1830-48). Brought to throne by a revolution, this supposed “constitutional monarch” perceived all reform movements as potential revolutions. Reign was one repressive measure after another but when he banned a big political banquet, that was the end.

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What’s happening in LA right now is a sign of the Trump regime’s brittleness. They’re dangerous but they’re losing. To a large extent they’re dangerous BECAUSE they’re losing.

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White House: "Violent mobs have attacked ICE officers and Federal Law Enforcement Officers." LAPD: "Today, demonstrations across the City of Los Angeles remained peaceful."

submitted 8 hours ago • 27 comments

Sometimes you see the most courage in the smallest groups.

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DHS is breaking the law by blocking me and Reps. Rivas, Torres, and Correa from conducting oversight. That’s not a misunderstanding—it’s a violation of federal law. I’m demanding #SecNoem launch an immediate investigation. If her agency won’t follow the law, she needs to answer for it.

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ANTI-ICE protesters attempt to stop vehicles belonging to ICE from leaving. Checking if any detainees are inside. Quickly the NYPD rush the crowd and escort the feds to quickly speed away. Two people were arrested.

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“One day, the grocer doesn’t put the [government propaganda] sign in his window.” Vaclav Havel, “The Power of the Powerless” (1978)

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it sounds like some people are saying you shouldn’t protest because it plays into Trump’s hand and I’m not really sure what they think sitting at home is doing

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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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We don't have secret police in America. At least we're not supposed to.

submitted 13 hours ago • 621 comments

Includes Indiana

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"A capacious state is not the state that dominates private markets; it's the state that knows how to direct and shape those markets in a way that benefits everybody in the long run.” @stomarova.bsky.social with @ranaforoohar.bsky.social @toddntucker.com youtu.be/d3zGgPCLJDA #BeyondNeoliberalism

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HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 Is your city celebrating? Let us know down below! Our lists are constantly being updated. #Pride #queer #gay #lesbian #lgbtqia #lgbt #lgbtq #asexual #bisexual #pridemonth #Indiana #hoosier #bluesier #bloosier #loveislove #democracy #fiftyfiftyone #pansexual #protest

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"effects of Trump Administration’s crackdown on immigration greatly impacting their international student populations. Clark was ranked 9th in the nation most dependent on international students by NYT, higher than Ivy League schools Harvard, Princeton,Brown." www.wbjournal.com/article/clar...

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Great thread--read the whole thing. Commercially-produced AI is almost entirely a plague on education: it does almost nothing useful and is playing a big role in sabotaging the development of the expertise and knowledge required for the few modestly helpful applications of generative AI.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Coming up next Saturday—a week from tomorrow.

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By the way a military parade when we’re not celebrating a war victory is something a dude who never served would do.

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Love to live in a time when all previous certainties are under attack, institutions are discredited, experts are widely loathed, climate change is accelerating and viruses keep evolving. NOT. Except maybe it portends new and better certainties, institutions, and experts to come.

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The videos coming out of the Gestapo terror raid in Los Angeles today are absolutely horrifying and really should wake you up to the new reality of American fascism. It’s here it’s coming for us all and unless we fight for one another we will not survive.

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live from the huge spontaneous anti-ICE protest after the agency used military-style tactics during a series of raids in Los Angeles today.

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If you're wondering what the tech bros are planning for the world, you might want to check out my conversation with @gilduran.com of The Nerd Reich today at 5:00 on my YouTube channel and Facebook. Gil has been studying their ideology for years now, and can walk us through it.

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Yes. Anyone who has studied France under Louis XIV or XV knows that dramatic changes in “policy” (not sure that word is applicable but can’t think of the one I want) resulted from who was in/out at court. Personalist rule works this way. Republics aren’t supposed to!

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In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

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Why are Trump and certain tech billionaires trying to build new dystopian cities and democracy-free "zones"? It reflects a scary tech idea called "The Network State." For @techpolicypress.bsky.social, I wrote about why you should be deeply concerned 👇 www.techpolicy.press/trumps-gaza-...

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i know everybody is focused on the Epstein files but THIS is the one we should be focused on...rigging an election. Rigging THE election.

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Yes. Anyone who has studied France under Louis XIV or XV knows that dramatic changes in “policy” (not sure that word is applicable but can’t think of the one I want) resulted from who was in/out at court. Personalist rule works this way. Republics aren’t supposed to!

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The recording of our 6/5/25 event is now up: youtu.be/t7Khs05XP6s?... thank you again to Michael Berry @bairuiwen.bsky.social for convening us and the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies for hosting

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Congress is about to let tech moguls issue their own currencies - and force you to use them as they skim fees off everyone's transactions. LEVER TIME's new episode tells you exactly what's going on. Subscribe in your podcast app - and share: LeverTimePod.com

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Re-upping since everyone is talking about Indiana(polis) right now.

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Daily bunny no.2977 crossing the mountains

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When I taught 19C Europe more frequently, I had a great little lecture riff on the popularity of the Paris sewers in the 1860s-1870s. Modernization, washing away the detritus of the past, etc. etc, but I never knew about this, most obvious, attraction

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It took just 15 years to get from Citizens United to this

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I'd put this a bit more sharply than @steveinskeep.bsky.social probably can: Trump simply does not understand any boundary between himself and the government. He has no sense of the public interest and believes the government is an extension of himself personally. open.substack.com/pub/steveins...

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I wasn't going to share anything about the distraction going on in DC right now, but then this graced my feed. 😂🏳️‍🌈 #HappyPrideEveryone #OKNoMoreDistractions #UnlessTheyreFunny

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