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As protesters in LA clashed with law enforcement over the Trump administration’s immigration raids, police employed military-style tactics, including using tear gas. These so-called “less-lethal” weapons can cause serious health effects—and, in some cases, lasting harm www.wired.com/story/what-t...

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it’s all sorts of bad data and a lot of correlation/causation but gotta admit it’s also an extremely funny 1-2

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Bottom 50% in China now have more average personal wealth than the bottom 50% in the US

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BREAKING: Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) was forcibly removed in handcuffs from a press conference in Los Angeles after attempting to ask Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem questions.

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I can't explain to you how wild it is to be in LA right now. National news is covering protests as riots, even though the violence is coming from the LEO side. It's chaos, but also totally quiet here in my neighborhood. Kristi Noem's saying she's gonna liberate us & they just arrested my Senator.

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When I was a kid we had Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books. Now we have Choose-Your-Own-Reality

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I don’t see any way in which social media was not a net geopolitical boon for autocracies, yeah. They can flood our information space with industrial scale bullshit, augmenting the already trust-eroding properties of social media and just block the shit at home. It’s extremely bad.

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and by "ready to respond" they mean "excited to tear gas people exercising their Constitutional rights if greg abbott hears about a frowny face being drawn on the ICE holding facility in washable marker" www.kut.org/politics/202...

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When I heard the mom of a trans girl say the night her daughter came out to her was the first time she'd ever seen her child happy, I knew it was a story I needed to share. These are the stories the public isn't hearing. An honor to get to report on 3 family's journeys for @teenvogue.com.

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Yeah I hope so

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BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

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Another article I wrote years ago that I have been thinking about a whole lot "In the retelling ... people sanitize the movement for public consumption, downplay its opposition and use the mythologized version to discredit its successors"

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i think it's really cool that like 50% of all municipal budgets go to fund guys who milk overtime to do this between 2 part time gigs body guarding where they also clock overtime when they're not playing candy crush on duty

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“I’m just a high agency alpha male, standing in front of a horrified nation, asking it to stop being mean to my nazi brownshirts.”

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

the people are out on the streets doing everything they reasonably can to try to resist the armed masked men assaulting their neighbors, and their feckless leaders keep telling them to stop because it makes the polling industry sad

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Trump is now targeting states he sees as "democrat". Trump is preparing to cancel federal funding for California, however, California sends more than $80 billion to the Federal government yearly to keep nearly a dozen Republican majority states from collapsing.

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A trans woman in Philadelphia was attacked with acid by multiple children on the first day of pride. www.inquirer.com/crime/acid-a...

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WATCH: @katmabu.bsky.social blows Jennings’ mind by saying “everyone deserves health care” Reminder: this is how it is in every other developed nation, where the cruelty of the Republican Party has not killed universal health care on behalf of the insurance companies. #MedicareForAll

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RIP NBA on TNT

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One of the most absurd examples was Buncombe County manager Avril Pinder snapping that county government "can't do everything" when locals demanded drinkable water after Helene.

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This is for all the "but if we fight back they'll do martial law" people. They already want the fight, they just don't want us fighting back.

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At least 31 gender and sexuality based resource centers have shuttered across 23 college campuses. Read the full story here ⤵️

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Minneapolis: the gestapo are using bearcats with LRADs

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Fuck the SBC, just utterly evil.

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One nice thing about Boston Dyke March being an anti-corporate pride that takes no money from corporations is: they have no veto power over our event. There’s nobody who can pull out on us or “back away” and kill the event. We’ve never needed them. Time to remember that.

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Confidential records obtained by WIRED & @propertyofthepeople.org show the ag industry deploying moles to infiltrate activist meetings, while functionally serving as FBI informants, in a shadow campaign to brand the animal rights movement America's biggest bioterrorism threat. My latest @wired.com:

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We’re four months in and masked paramilitary agents are using flash bangs on peaceful civilian crowds.

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students in a Ph.D. program on responsible AI turning in lazy AI-created assignments is... something

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"Senior officials at the US Department of Veterans Affairs have ordered that VA physicians and scientists not publish in medical journals or speak with the public without first seeking clearance from political appointees of Donald Trump, the Guardian has learned."

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A lot of people worried about outside agitators at these big protests would do well to learn more about the very idea of outside agitators and how it has been used historically to attack movements.

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hi, folks! KOSA’s back in congress. the project 2025 people want KOSA to pass & openly say they’ll use it to attack abortion & LGBTQ people. it's also got a lot of democratic support. 2 other censorship bills—IODA & SCREEN—are up, too. all must be stopped. long thread! call scripts at the end.🧵

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments

Yes, you did vote to deport moms.

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#MorningVibe Removing the chains of being safe & friendly can come with consequences. Freeing oneself from being overly safe & friendly might offer opportunities, but it also carries risks & challenges. Weigh the risks. Do it anyway.

submitted 13 days ago • 18 comments

Great. Now what?

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

imo mid girls should be part of lgbt. it’s so brave to be a girl and be mid

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people have forgotten this but many 'centrist' Democrats begged women's rights activists to push them less on abortion. they thought it was too divisive and a losing issue for them. So of course when they won 60 Senate seats in 2009, they passed no laws to codify Roe, despite Obama's promises.

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Every single trans person who called TERFs nazis, who said their "gender critical" movement was a white supremacist one, who warned that transphobia was just the tip of their fascist iceberg, we all told you exactly who they were from the beginning, and we were ignored.

submitted 18 days ago • 17 comments

Ah yea, the infamous “list of students” move

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It will be impossible to write the history of how something as insane and harmful as Trump happened in America without a heavy focus on legacy media sanewashing.

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There are only two possible options available for Gender Criticals: suppress research, or ignore research. No matter how many studies and trials they do it'll always show the same thing

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Hey folks, I have a HUGE request from the Trevor Project and would appreciate help getting the word out. Trevor is now recruiting for it's 2025 National Youth Survey. They need people 13-24, LGBTQ+, in the United States to take it. This research is critical to LGBTQ+ rights. Take it here:

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