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Bradley Smith, Melbourne, Australia
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The presidential memorandum never mentions Los Angeles or California. It’s a blank check for mobilizing National Guard and active duty troops to deploy anywhere to protect federal personnel or functions wherever protests “are occurring or are likely to occur.” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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LAPD when they think nobody is watching

submitted 6 hours ago • 622 comments

BREAKING: Kamala Harris issues statement on Los Angeles.

submitted 11 hours ago • 449 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypGU...

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🎯 #NeverForgetJanuary6th

submitted 17 hours ago • 422 comments

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

submitted 9 hours ago • 1896 comments

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7...

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Atmospheric evaporative demand (AED), impacts recent evolution of magnitude, frequency, duration and areal extent of droughts Study suggests that AED has increased drought severity by average of 40% globally, both dry and wet areas are seeing drying www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nature.com

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Short reel made while we were putting up the Boneyard exhibition by The Kudelka Shop’s social media manager Oskar Kudelka.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

never before has it been so transparent, the foolishness of concentrating great wealth and power, and responsibility, in the hands of individuals

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The Polish foreign minister, a writer and journalist who covered the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, clearly knows a thing or two about a patiently-timed response.

submitted 3 days ago • 233 comments

I've always thought they would get Trump elected and then bring him down and install Vance

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All the old hits coming out

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

the ways in which we can learn essential lessons

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Nice shirt!! 😂 Correct answer: d

submitted 7 days ago • 391 comments

I planned to have an exhibition during dark mofo. Unfortunately my latest mri showed new growth but the good news is it’s in an operable spot so I’m off to see a neurosurgeon this afternoon so I can’t plan an opening night, so we put up some stuff this morning. Link is here www.kudelkashop.com

submitted 7 days ago • 32 comments

Trump dismantles a 164-year-old history project. #TrumpWarOnKnowledge www.washingtonpost.com/history/2025...

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called the lack of healthy food options on Native reservations a “genocide.” But the Trump administration ended a program that helped provide fresh, locally produced food for tribal food banks, saying the program no longer aligned with its priorities.

submitted 8 days ago • 80 comments

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 9 days ago • 1304 comments

Forget about limiting global warming to 1.5°C. That's done and dusted. Looking like we will be close to 2°C by 2030. Remember the Paris Agreement said greenhouse gas emissions must peak before 2025 at the latest and decline 43% by 2030. YEAH NAH. Not happening.

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There are 7,591 words in the U.S. Constitution. Not one is "bible", "Jesus", "Judeo", "Christian" or "God". Separation of church and state guarantees ALL Americans the right to practice ANY religion. Or none. Which part of "religious freedom" is not as clear as a church bell?

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So the MAHA Commission used ChatGPT to write its dumb report. Perfect. Fucking perfect. www.notus.org/health-scien...

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