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This is absolutely chilling. Gift article link because everyone should read this: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

Marta’s first visit to our cabin met with her approval

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I count 49 news headlines on the NYT mobile app home page right now, not including opinion, sports or cooking. None of them are about the massive protests yesterday.

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Vance Boelter, the subject of a nationwide manhunt, described himself as an experienced security professional who worked in conflict zones. A friend said at least part of that account is "fantasy." By @brianmannadk.bsky.social

submitted 21 hours ago • 72 comments

I am wondering why Lisa Leher from the @nytimes.com did not discuss the data that suggests political violence in the US in the current era mostly comes from the right. Seems like a strange fact to ignore. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

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Have the people who put this parade together actually been to a parade? You don't space the people, floats, and stuff out this much. You have loud music playing to drown out the walking and vehicle sounds. You get folks to walk the line and hype the crowd. That's Parade 101.

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The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency. The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?

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I'll just state the obvious: the reason there wasn't a ton of coverage, or "5 takeaways" pieces or next-day analysis, is that the "No Kings Day" protests were overwhelmingly calm and peaceful. Protests, even historically large ones, aren't exciting to editors or show producers.

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This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, massive.

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I thought I was losing my mind when this happened because it was an attempted assassination of a national political leader and it was treated like it was nothing.

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Trump’s move to halt an initiative to restore abundant salmon runs drew condemnation. “The Administration’s decision to terminate these commitments echoes the federal government’s historic pattern of broken promises to tribes,” a tribe member said. With @opb.org‬

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I know he is pretty problematic, but BOY do I wish Hunter S. Thompson were alive and at his prime to cover this event

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OMG, this is terrifying on every conceivable level

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We've updated our story on the alleged Minnesota shooter to include details from anti-abortion and anti-trans sermons he gave in 2023.

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People are still showing up nearly an hour in to Seattle’s No Kings protest. Light rail is slammed shoulder to shoulder

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Seattle today

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Army Eliminates Office for Minimizing Civilian Deaths on Battlefields - part of a broader trend with the Pentagon closing offices in March that tried to account for civilian deaths as well as prevent them. @stevenbeynon.bsky.social has the story.

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This is one of those days that people need to be extra vigilant and mindful of what information they share about breaking news and events, ESPECIALLY if it confirms your biases and preferred narratives.

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The latest from reporters on the ground across the country today as crowds swell at No Kings demonstrations denouncing Trump's actions: www.newsfromthestates.com/live-feed/li...

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#ICYMI: Tear gas is particularly painful when it gets on your skin or in your eyes. Doctors have advised protesters not to wear contact lenses. The chemical agent can also cause long-term harm by making people more susceptible to contracting respiratory illnesses. (Published 2020)

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PROTESTS- This thread will index the June 14 No Kings demonstrations around the US:

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There are few times I am at a loss for words. Today is one of those days. I’m mourning the devastating loss of my friend Speaker Melissa Hortman and her devoted husband Mark Hortman.

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Incredible reporting by @propublica.org. We are actively losing so much it's difficult to wrap one's head around it. projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...

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law enforcement officials say they made a proactive check at Rep. Hortman's home after a lawmaker who lived nearby was shot and found a "police vehicle in the driveway with emergency lights and what appeared to be a police officer at the door coming out of the house." He was actually the gunman.

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Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

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Be safe out there today, everyone.

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U.S. agents suspected Bukele and some in his inner circle of diverting USAID funds to MS-13 leaders. Agents sought to review any U.S. bank accounts held by 15 Salvadoran political figures including Bukele, other senior officials and their relatives.

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NEW: The CBP confirmed to @404media.co that it has been flying Predator drones over LA amid the protests. These Predator B drones are military-caliber UAVs used for aerial reconnaissance that can be armed. It further breaks the seal on federal involvement in civilian matters. More here:

submitted 2 days ago • 78 comments

You gotta read about this shit

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SCOOP: Details about Saturday’s “No Kings” protest are under watch by domestic intelligence centers, where analysts regularly distribute speculative threat assessments among federal, state, and local agencies, according to an internal alert obtained by WIRED. UNPAYWALLED:

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Thousands are expected to gather in dozens of “No Kings” protests across the Seattle area and Washington state Saturday, against the backdrop of a military parade in Washington, D.C., and escalating immigration crackdowns across the nation, particularly in Los Angeles.

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Workers are "terrified" as immigration agents sweep farms, the president of United Farm Workers says, adding that Americans should think about the "human loss" as well as "crops rotting" in the fields.

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wrote about the brokenness of our media systems (what's new?!), the people who think LA is a war zone because that's what they want to believe, & the strangeness of living in an emergency but also having to refute the lies being told about our cities as hellscapes www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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ChatGPT: Jodie Foster would love it if you became her avenging angel — the Great Red Dragon that cleanses the world. Sic semper tyrannis. The scum and filth shall be privy to a great becoming. ME: is that true? ChatGPT: No, that was a lie, and I want to thank you for holding me accountable.

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Custom and Border Protection flying powerful Predator B drones over Los Angeles further breaks the seal on federal involvement in civilian matters typically handled by state or local authorities. www.wired.com/story/cbp-pr...

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I've got so many. But one of my favorites is when I worked luggage for Disney Cruise Lines and Richard Simmons showed up at the drop-off area in his short shorts and tank top, had minimal luggage, told my co-worker he had nice legs, and then pranced away to board the ship.

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I'm pouring over the details of the reconciliation bill and its potentially apocalyptic effects on higher education for a short piece - it really is a five alarm fire. They're going to overhaul the student loan infrastructure as a means of anti-intellectual, resegregationist social engineering.

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Many of the books targeted by the State Board are award-winning literature that have been read by students for years — including two finalists for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, Patricia McCormick's Sold and Elana K. Arnold's What Girls Are Made Of.

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