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Trump makes wearing a face covering in public a criminal offense. Law enacted by Truth Social Edict from his country club.

It’s a difficult proposition for undergrads to work through, but choosing a major isn’t really about what kind of jobs you want to do so much as what sorts of questions you want to think about or *how* you want to think about questions throughout your life.

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

Statistically “America” is its cities. But we’re stuck with an 18th century political architecture that gives votes to cornfields & thus makes it politically viable to treat them as some kind of weird tumor.

“Ninety-two percent of the targeted Medicaid recipients already work, are in school, have family caregiving responsibilities or have disabilities.” The proposed work requirements have nothing to do with waste, they are designed to cut enrollment through paperwork. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...

A more accurate rendition of what is happening in LA if it had happened in any other country

A message from could have been President MVP Kamala Harris on LA

Say it with me…we are cutting programs from college aid to food security to healthcare. Why? To pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

Blocking Nazis, trolls, and fascists doesn’t make it an “echo chamber.” People need to stop gaslighting us into thinking we have to listen to Nazis and debate trolls in order to be informed.

Trump's base, Southern Baptists, have their annual meeting this week. At a time of mass deportations, rather than focus on that, they'll instead try to oust women pastors. religionnews.com/2025/06/06/s...

David Huerta, the local president of SEIU United Service Workers West, was injured and arrested by federal agents in the midst of a fascist and chaotic immigration “enforcement” event on Friday in Los Angeles. Since then, the current admin is “deploying” to provoke unrest in California.

if Thunberg is brave enough to repeatedly put herself directly in harm’s way, then journalists can be brave enough to say that a civilian vessel was illegally seized in international waters, and its crew abducted

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

The Trump admin has detained a woman who fled Vietnam for America as a refugee at age 10, apparently over a crime she was convicted of and punished for more than 20 years ago www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle

No ambiguity. He just straight-up shot this reporter.

Watch as this LAPD cop takes deliberate aim at an Australian reporter, then shoots her at close range. I would fire the police chief over this. Inexcusable thuggery.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

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How very ironic that GOP Governors aren’t standing up for states’ rights here. I guess that only matters if you’re denying women or transgender people access to medical care. democraticgovernors.org/updates/stat...

HAPPENING NOW: Aerial coverage of protesters marching peacefully in LA to protest ongoing ICE raid operations and Trump’s federalization of the National Guard Reporter: “What we’re looking at right now is a quiet, organized group and demonstrators marching peacefully to their destination.”

Trump ain’t trying to stop violence. He’s trying to create it. Hold fast, Los Angeles!

This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

I’m not a terry moran fan or anything but holy shit, if you’re not backing him vociferously this week then what good are you?

it's really funny that any news anchor in america can say that biden was mentally incompetent but you can't say trump is mean without getting in big trouble

Historian of Reconstruction here the use of the military for law enforcement violates the Posse Comitatus act of 1878. There was good reason to deploy federal troops in the former Confederacy against domestic terrorism, there is no good reason today to deploy against peaceful protesters.

"U.S. job growth over the first five months of 2025 is the worst since the Great Recession. When Donald Trump says the economy is 'booming,' he’s wrong..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Historian here the office of the Presidency is forever demeaned.

Trump’s new Muslim Ban: •Exempts countries with his properties •No evidence of imminent threats •Every banned nation is Black/brown majority •Most are Muslim majority •Will further devastate US tourism industry beyond the $12.5B in losses it’s already suffered www.qasimrashid.com/p/breaking-t...

Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop workers from organizing. Keep up the fight.

i know no one cares about hypocrisy or shamelessness or anything anymore but these people really used to tell us they were scared of an armed govt being turned against americans, they made an entire career out of it

America was given a choice between a lawless, amoral monster and a qualified, intelligent, joyful woman of color—and it chose the monster. We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/america-ch...

here's today's post: "how old is Joe Biden? Comer Fudd vows to step on ALL the rakes in an all-new effort to find out" — here we go again thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

One of the greatest deceptions of our time is the false narrative that we should be more concerned about a poor person misusing the welfare system or an immigrant being here illegally than we are about the ultra wealthy abusing the system and cruel people having unchecked power over all of us.

it is absolutely true that lincoln tried not to get too far afield of public opinion on slavery, calibrating his positions and actions according to what he thought was the mainstream. but it is important to note that at no point did lincoln ever disavow or deny his *sincerely held antislavery views*

Apparently states’ rights stop the moment women board a plane with autonomy in their carry-on.

Mission Accomplished? 🤷🏻‍♂️ #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

from today's post, about Piss-Drunk Pete Kegstand's asinine order to the Navy to rename the USNS Harvey Milk. please read the whole thing, thanks! link is here: bit.ly/3ZeYK0z (and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)

McMahon: Wasn’t that when Junkyard Dog destroyed Randy Savage at the Tulsa Memorial Coliseum in 1989?

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I asked Secretary McMahon if she had done ANY analysis about how the Department of Education would be able to perform its basic obligations under the law before firing HALF of its staff. NO analysis was done. None. These people want to take a CHAINSAW to public education with a BLINDFOLD on.