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Newbie photographer and dilettante birder in Los Angeles
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That third shot in particular is perfect.
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The 250th anniversary of the Army is marked by it turning on its own people.
America has a long, long way to come back from all this.
Authoritarian dictatorship & fascism. Unfolding right in front of our eyes.
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There is very little the police can do that can’t be accomplished by someone in community saying, “hey, can I help?”
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I will still never trust him, but I will be very happy to live in a world in which he decides that's the smart course of action.
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We are no longer a nation of laws.
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Folks -- We've updated this piece, with a new headline too, to more accurately get at how dangerous this bill is re: letting Trump skirt the courts.
The contempt provision is gone, but the GOP is now trying to price ppl out of being able to sue the govt at all. www.huffpost.com/entry/senate...
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While the contempt language is gone, Senate GOPers added new language that is also very bad.
Under this bill, any plaintiff seeking a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction against the federal government would have to cough up potentially millions or billions of dollars to sue.
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I offer you this Scottish antifascist gem: youtu.be/OLkPwxcIji0
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Updated story: In a late-night ruling Thursday, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals paused a court order that would have required President Trump to return control of the thousands of California National Guard troops on the ground in Los Angeles to Gov. Gavin Newsom www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
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Soldier Moon
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But that leaves five more days of a lawless and dangerous military occupation of my city.
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the fun part is that people whining about bluesky bubbles are mostly uncomfortable and disoriented because they exited the biggest bubble to ever exist in public discourse and U.S. media (again, center-right white patriarchal pro-business), but lack the self-awareness to understand the irony
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The white male affluent center-right, pro-business contingent (again, the dominant position across the ENTIRETY OF MEDIA) comes to a place like this where academics and artists and journalists flourish and OF COURSE they want to whine that you're suddenly not being ideologically diverse
it's a con