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UFOs, sci-fi, modular synths, Zelda, weed, coffee. California-sober, Chicago-based, librarian, husband, dad. Whistleblower enjoyer. #woocrew
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submitted 29 minutes ago • 1 comment

Guardian piece on the Chicago organizations who have been working to throw sand in the deportation gears, ever since the ass's first term. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

David Graeber said this in 2012 about protests in New York City. Though this is increasingly what is happening this week in Los Angeles. davidgraeber.org/articles/con...

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

submitted 1 hour ago • 4 comments

my mom just called from israel because she’s reading about l.a. and is crying how she’s scared for us so i reminded her that no mobs ever showed up to stop the gestapo and that this should be giving her life because people are fighting back for the vulnerable and that trump is digging his own grave

submitted 3 hours ago • 6 comments

At no point in this entire article of 16 paragraphs does ABC mention that another cop killed this cop by shooting her in the back. Nor does it mention the name of the cop who killed this cop. Nor does it mention that the civilians involved never fired at them. ABC might as well be state media.

submitted 11 hours ago • 172 comments

“Currently, there is no plan for where everyone is sleeping tonight,” the source said, adding that there was an urgent need to find more portable bathrooms and dumpsters for garbage.

submitted 5 hours ago • 361 comments

on January 6th, while attempting to overthrow an election, multiple rioters wore Nazi paraphernalia. they declared their intent to murder elected officials. the right stood steadfastly behind them and are now more powerful than ever. you can stand behind someone waving a Mexican flag.

submitted 8 hours ago • 21 comments

Oh jfc

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

important note: the LAPD has figured out it can get footage from Waymos: www.404media.co/lapd-publish...

submitted 23 hours ago • 118 comments

just unlocked your phone's face ID with this corncob

submitted 9 hours ago • 45 comments

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

submitted 1 day ago • 250 comments

Even if Bluesky is a bubble, and even if it's not representative of the full range of politics, that's okay. Really. Especially if getting that full range in your social media would mean hanging around people who make you miserable. www.aaronrosspowell.com/p/echo-chamb...

submitted 22 hours ago • 6 comments

Being a bad pundit is kinda like being a bad weatherman except it’s a sweeter gig bc you can still pretend it’s raining even when your forecast is totally wrong

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

James Cameron is on record that he made the T-1000 a cop DELIBERATELY. Just saying.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Yes every conservative social media site becomes a tropical rainforest of school shooters and Ponzi schemes but did you know that there is a left-wing social media site where people are rude to the nation’s center-right political pundits

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

yes because there’s a lot of Californians who are proud of their Mexican heritage, you staggering ignoramus

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

it’s always two dumb bitches telling each other exactlyyyy

submitted 3 days ago • 60 comments

Since nothing actually happened to precipitate this in Los Angeles, there were no riots, there was no insurrection, no violence, it seems relevant to ask whether all of this is happening THIS particular weekend because Elon Musk is currently fucking Stephen Miller’s wife with his Ken Mound.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Radicalizing people who were not necessarily against them is very on-brand for this admin

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I've been wondering how ICE agents feel about some of these enforcement actions that may seem quite different from what they signed up for. If you're in this situation, I'd love to hear your thoughts. Confidentiality guaranteed. crampell[at]washpost[dot]com or Signal: crampell.13

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

Elon Musk’s goons at the Department of Government Efficiency transmitted a large amount of data—all of it undetected—using a Starlink Wi-Fi terminal they installed on top of the White House, according to a new report.

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

Since it's tear gas season again, I'm reposting my article on the radicalization of the leafblower archive.is/yCWCJ

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

I have nothing but contempt for dem elected and commentators using this moment to primarily finger wag at protesters or to tell them not to make Trump mad

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments