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Michigan Democrat, trans-inclusive feminist Comms Chief for MI Secretary of State Whitmer, Stabenow, Durbin alum
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for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle

I am on the other side of the world from Los Angeles and I just heard a news grab on our national radio station of Maxine Waters telling a cop "Are you gonna shoot an elected representative? If you shoot me, you better shoot straight" and she remains one of the best to ever do it

Welp, trying to imagine going back in time to tell my 8th grade Les Miserables obsessed self we'd see barricades in American streets in our lifetime

Yes. Finally. More like this.

This is the kind of shit that's *rightly* going to drive boycotts of the World Cup and Olympics. Hit us where it hurts

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.

It is truly amazing how much Trump says “I have an unfettered right to rule” and how much the Constitution says “nobody has the right to rule; the people govern themselves” and nobody with any kind of platform or power points out the problem with this

That fall popped all his neck rolls out and everything. Tough day.

Still waiting for the article that’s like “these right wing militia members are in a bubble and it would be healthier if they exposed themselves to left wing ideas”

The weird, often whitewashed way the civil rights movement is taught (or not taught) seemed to convince a lot of people that nonviolence was met with nonviolence, instead of you know, dogs, hoses, beatings, death, etc

Regular liberal people must come to understand that there is no way you can appease Nazis and especially that there is no way that you can shrink yourself so they won't hurt you. Their main goal is to hurt you.

ICE tear gassed people who were stuck in their vehicles because ICE blocked the intersection. They were not even protesters. They were just stuck there due to ICE blocking them. As the helpless car passengers watched, ICE, unprovoked, began firing gas canisters upon the cars.

seems like a military response in search of a riot

Christ what an asshole

I swear to you I will be there

If god is real I bet he does this a lot

I actually spit on my phone laughing holy shit

It’s not important who wins or loses, it’s how god damn hilarious this is.

America rn:

This is a level five Goof Situation, all users report to Riff Stations

Trump sad Nazis lost WWII

lol how dare

That's the spirit!

It's a sad song It's a sad tale It's a tragedy It's a sad song But we sing it anyway #Hermes

🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

Lol

Omg "Business Idiot" is SO good I wish I came up with it

i’m here you fuckaas bitch

Jocelyn Benson says if elected governor she would prioritize a light rail network w/ possible routes including Detroit to Traverse City, with stops in Flint and Saginaw, telling the Michigan Advance public-private partnerships would be key to making it happen Story from @roththereporter.bsky.social

some of the doge bros, drunk on decades of libertarian, republican, and corporatist kool-aid, are discovering the federal government does, in fact, do many important things, sometimes even competently!

Hard work is hard who knew?

Yes it's exhausting