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There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

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at a party with smart people who are discussing foreign affairs and praying someone asks what's the population of iran so i can chime in

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A Cedar Waxwing gathering nesting materials

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End-to-end encryption for the contents of your communication are great, but never forget that metadata matters.

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This wouldn't be happening if Trump were president.

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The advice in this article simply isn’t true in our current environment. The expert quoted here: “And there’s nothing wrong with asking for some identification. A real-life police officer is going to be more than willing to take that extra step to identify themselves.”

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This is a distraction [dies in nuclear war].

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theonion.com/this-war-wil...

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I have seized every good and have taken control of the Global Supply Chain. All trade will now be shipped to Ogdensburg, NY via the St. Lawrence Seaway and taken into the mountains to create my Adirondack Metropolis. I have installed a moose as emperor

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Made the kids watch Sneakers with me for Fathers' Day last night and man does it hold up. Criminally slept-on film.

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I do get into it… v.cameo.com/e/DWVir57EfUb

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I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

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What we learned yesterday. The Times They Are a-Changin'

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political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics

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I'm going to restrict myself to one (two part) comment, which is: 1) the entire range runs from execs making 290x what their workers make to execs making 350x what their workers make, and 2) this should frame everything else such execs encourage you to be mad about

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One thing I have not seen much grappling with: the Trump Administration has acted illegally with respect to the National Guard & Marines in LA plus the whole parade nonsense is a federal show of power, but cops ostensibly controlled by local governments in blue cities attacked protestors yesterday.

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here’s the moment LASD advanced on protestors with horses and used flash-bangs as we reported live yesterday. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp-vi...

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The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

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Protestors aren’t the ones who need to be advised on being peaceful.

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Cedar Waxwings in the midst of their courtship ritual. A berry is passed back and forth, with one bird hopping away with the berry, and then hopping back to pass the berry back. This continued until the Cedar Waxwing on the right ate the berry.

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As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.

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Critically important reading from @kashhill.bsky.social . Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

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Sowing, reaping

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Even though it's tiring, I think it's essential to consistently point out that this is illegal.

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more crime in america

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My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

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A Red-tailed Hawk nestling with a big wing stretch.

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Yeah it's really something to see a U.S. senator being hit with the same impossible compliance demands that the cops scream at people before shooting them during a stop

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When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.

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this is a good wake up call for elected Dems to realize what’s happening and what’s going to happen not generally, not in the abstract, but to them personally shut it all down and start acting like you’re in immediate danger, because you are

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Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

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In my time in the Senate I've never seen a Senator treated this way. @padilla.senate.gov is carrying out his constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight and defend the people he represents. Absolutely shocking and disgusting way to handle a sitting member of Congress.

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Ken Burns Presents: A Soldier's Dispatch from the Front Lines in L.A.

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Folks, @resnikoff.bsky.social is right

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It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

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Let’s Be Clear: The Rioting In LA Is By The Cops, Not The Protestors I already wrote about the GOP’s bloodthirsty desire to use the military on Americans. They manufactured a nonsense “crisis” by over-aggressively sending in ICE agents to grab people off the streets, leading to protests, which…

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