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I mean there’s only a handful of roads leading to the stadium. Clearly they intend to be there harassing people going to the game.

submitted 9 days ago • 19 comments

Every Minnesotan is yelling at all of you to knock this off. Not competitive districts. Lege is not in session. You don't even go here. This is bad enough without the rest of the country parrotting this. Just. Fucking. Wait. For. Local. Reporting.

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

submitted 17 days ago • 1028 comments

I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.

submitted 18 days ago • 219 comments

Fight the Empire.

submitted 18 days ago • 247 comments

In case you're wondering, authoritarians use this strategy of escalation to manufacture crisis, provoke outrage, then use the reaction to justify repression. It’s not about restoring order, it's about creating a spectacle of chaos they can claim only they can control.

submitted 18 days ago • 82 comments

just that period reminder that content posted to Bluesky is public to *anybody*. if you don't want to see it used in a court of law, don't post it here. and DMs here are not E2EE, they can be subpoened. a great use for bsky DMs is to share secure comms and move the conversation there.

submitted 20 days ago • 20 comments

🤔

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

This analysis of the fraudulent MIT paper is fascinating, with evidence that the whole plausible-but-off thing could have been fabricated by AI. Raises serious questions about how we’re going to distinguish AI garbage from reality, in this and other fields

submitted 42 days ago • 14 comments

I realize I’m just shouting into the wind here, but: please, please, please stop posting screenshots without links, or summarizing breaking news events without links. There’s a serious problem with unsourced assertions all over the world right now, don’t be part of the problem.

submitted 49 days ago • 138 comments

Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.

submitted 59 days ago • 1958 comments

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

submitted 68 days ago • 1010 comments

There isn't a story on the BBC News site about today's trans rights rally at Parliament Square where it's estimated 20k attended. But they did have a story last week about the Let Women Speak transphobe rally in Bristol where 100 people attended.

submitted 70 days ago • 69 comments

This is like O.J. attending Nicole’s funeral (which he did, and for the same reason).

submitted 83 days ago • 55 comments

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

submitted 83 days ago • 2136 comments

— “Backbreaking work on turnip farms and factory lines is good for you, actually” — Destroying universities — “You don’t need so many things” — Elites attacking elitism — Hate/contempt for cities — “Suck it up for the greater good” Am I crazy, or is MAGA starting to sound kinda’ Mao-y?

submitted 83 days ago • 105 comments

They are now estimating 2.3 million across the country. Keep it going folks. #handsoff #50501protests

submitted 83 days ago • 128 comments

i believe in the indominable American spirit to hate one specific really annoying guy

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

Either you think passing the bill is good or bad. But these Senators think their voters, volunteers and donors are very gullible.

submitted 105 days ago • 47 comments

If your excuse as an elected official, here in 2025, for not doing something that is in the interest of Dems who elected you is that Republicans might weaponize it, you are not living in 2025. They are going to weaponize anything you do, either way. They have demonstrated this over and over.

submitted 105 days ago • 56 comments

you can fax anything you want. you can say “vote no on cloture and put your whole schumussy into it.” nobody can stop you from doing that.

submitted 106 days ago • 2 comments

*Jon Ossoff* just announced he's voting no. You think that happened out of nowhere? CALL YOUR SENATORS. 👇

submitted 106 days ago • 183 comments

Wow. Rep. Chuck Edwards is getting torn apart at a town hall in Asheville, NC. “I’m a veteran & you don’t give a fuck about me. You don’t get to do this to us!” Edwards orders veteran to be thrown out. We’re approaching a tipping point now. Anger across the country is going to boil over soon.

submitted 106 days ago • 1914 comments

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that Teslas are priced to move with $0 down and no payments for 48 months

submitted 108 days ago • 212 comments