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The spin has already started as if our entire city is in chaos. I went from Burbank all the way over to Koreatown on surface streets tonight and jackshit was happening. The CNN coverage makes it look like world war 3 and that’s what Trump wants so he and his fucking goons can come shoot Angelenos.

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Tonight in LA, there are people hiding in garages, attics and basements because they're scared to be rounded up by ICE, denied due process, and transported to concentration camps. Sound familiar?

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"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear."

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The people standing up to those Nazi fucks in LA are heroes.

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Politico has a piece claiming that the Musk Trump spat is about immigration. I think the analysis is wrong (it's far less rational than that), but I think it's a USEFUL wrong piece right now. Don’t Be Fooled: The Musk-Trump Blowup Is Really About Immigration www.politico.com/news/magazin...

submitted 3 hours ago • 12 comments

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

submitted 5 hours ago • 400 comments

Rittenhousing.

submitted 4 hours ago • 29 comments

Ah yes, send armed militants to attack your own citizens. That will surely get your country to respect you.

submitted 7 hours ago • 128 comments

Trump will distract from the chaos by adding more chaos until there is nothing but chaos. MAGA is drunk with power, arrogance, and incompetence right now. They really are itching for a massive civil war and fascist crackdown, but they haven't gamed this out properly. Their own base will turn.

submitted 3 hours ago • 42 comments

Perhaps Newsom should have spent less time chumming around with authoritarian buffoons on his podcast and more time preparing and strategizing for the entirely predicable thing that is happening in his state right now.

submitted 4 hours ago • 51 comments

Me @ every single little treat I have bought myself this year to stave off The Everything

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I wish there was a Magical Girl Show where they tackle Problems like Union busting, wage theft, The Rental Crisis, police corruption etc. Good Luck #LA

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Los Angeles can become ungovernable a lot faster and a lot easier than almost anywhere else in America and it was extraordinarily stupid to try and start their little Pinochet Putsch here...

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ER doctor here! Please seek medical attention (go to the ER) if you are hit in the head with a ballistic. “Less lethal” weapons kill people all the time, in addition to causing permanent disabilities. If you don’t feel safe disclosing that you were protesting just say you were hit in the head, etc

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some resources for protestors A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions and how to defend against them crimethinc.com/2021/01/04/a...

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"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." - Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica

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The National Guard & military police were both sent to terrorize Water Protectors at Standing Rock. Obama just said "let's wait & see how it plays out" They used chemical weapons on Water Protectors, shot them with water in freezing temps, locked them in cages, shot them with rubber bullets, etc

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

There needs to be a splash screen that shows a quick 45 second video explaining the difference between Los Angeles the municipality, Los Angeles County, and the differing role and jurisdiction of the LAPD and LASD so everyone's on the same page about this before reading posts.

submitted 5 hours ago • 10 comments

So do we get why I was banned from speaking about Pinochet at the Naval Academy now?

submitted 5 hours ago • 79 comments

Abolish ICE. Protect immigrants. Stand up for trans people. "whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me." Matthew 25:40

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Just FYI to LA folks: If you see ICE in your community, call the LA Rapid Response Network Hotline at 1-888-624-4752 to report it.

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Kash Patel says the FBI won't release certain Jeffrey Epstein videos because "We're not gonna re-victimize women."

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Riley Gaines is comparing teenage trans girls to rapists. This vile coward defended her own swim coach after it was revealed he sexually assaulted her teammates. Simone Biles stood up to the man that systematically sexually abused her and her teammates.

submitted 19 hours ago • 38 comments

My obligatory “Murder, She Wrote” comment is that, at least half the time, Jessica Fletcher is compelled to figure whodunit because some idiot detective or sheriff is getting it all wrong We’ve talked about this before: This was standard even on “Perry Mason,” a stalwart from the 50s-60s!

submitted 19 hours ago • 9 comments

Maybe it’s not people speaking truth causing outrage…maybe it’s the actual outrageous tactics being used for mass deportation 🤔

submitted 19 hours ago • 28 comments

seems a lot of the reaction to new mario kart is "this is good but it's not what i'd consider a system seller" and to the people invested in capital G Games, this is correct. to the audience i imagine nintendo was actually aiming for, 300 million parents and their kids, it's solid gold

submitted 19 hours ago • 9 comments

Exactly and the level of cultural brain rotting in the general population was proceeding anyway independently of Trumpism. But the acceleration and the nefarious planning is definitely there.

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"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

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AG Pam Bondi: Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a human smuggler as a full time job. The Grand Jury found he made hundreds of trips. (None of this is true.)

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Society went wrong when pop culture stopped making dipshit cops the baseline depiction. Barney Fife, Rosco P. Coltrane, things of that nature. Dick Wolf is a fascist.

submitted 20 hours ago • 17 comments

ICEtapo

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I, a trans woman, apparently knows nothing about youth gender dysphoria. Not like I wasn't putting on my mom's makeup at 7 and getting put in detention in 3rd grade for talking about wanting to be a girl. Just breathtakingly stupid.

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Tapping the sign.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Welcome to the slate Michael Blake @blakefornyc.bsky.social!

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I'm not sure I've ever seen so many layers in a single tweet.

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1. The NYT has released its newest anti-trans podcast. I listened to it all so you don't have to. The most striking part is when they found the first PB patient, who is living his life as a normal, happy dude. It's such a contrast to the rest of the podcast. Subscribe to support my journalism.

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I swear, the far right lives in a fever dream of esoteric, mystical “truths” and pure woo the likes of which most new age crunchy granola crystal-gripping hippies would find to be extremely far-fetched.

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Happy National Sweden Day 💕

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Cuomo is just another Trump. If you bend to him, you get kicked in the head. Don’t rank him or Ramos. They’re done.

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Urd ✨️🌬 #ohmygoddess #anime #animefanart #drawing #digitalart #art #illustration

submitted 118 days ago • 3 comments

just realized the actual not "annoying the fuck out of other people in public" use for those hip attached bluetooth speakers is "have music with you at same volume at all times as you walk around the house doing chores"

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A slightly noir Longin 🤭 #ocsky #artsky #scifi #cyberpunk #cyborg

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“a sex pest beholden to billionaires who doesn’t even live here will fix this city” is helluva message, Jessica.

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not my screenshot but literally actually this

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UAW just unendorsed Jessica Ramos.

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‘BIG SHORT’ INVESTOR: “The deficit is Wall St’s version of virtue-signaling… I don’t take it that seriously.” Steve Eisman points out politicians have pretended to care about the debt for decades. We are not “broke”. Government deficit = Economy surplus. Worry about inequality, not the debt.

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Me this summer:

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Edith, sketch 🥀 ⛓️ #oc #cyborg

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A reason centrist arguments against "Leftist idealism" disintegrate when interrogated is that most people prefer someone sincerely trying but failing to improve their lives over someone not even trying and lecturing them for asking

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