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It is pretty incredible to witness them cloud seeding "if a terrorism happens it's Biden's fault" in real time

submitted 8 hours ago • 41 comments

A man was shot near Heartwell Park early Sunday morning, police said. Read more from @apignataro.bsky.social on the Watchdog. lbwatchdog.com/man-shot-nea...

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

It’s going to be real tough to discuss Japanese American internment without saying something negative. All national parks now have this sign. Sanitizing crimes and erasing memory is one more step towards a white supremacist version of history.

submitted 8 hours ago • 11 comments

A man died after being hit by three cars near Alamitos Beach, authorities said. Read more from @apignataro.bsky.social on the Watchdog. lbwatchdog.com/man-dies-aft...

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

"getting on board with war with Iran" is a fringe position in American politics; it has no broad-based support, last numbers I saw revealed that even a majority of Republicans were against it the thing to remember about Van is that he plays a character on teevee, he's not an authentic anything

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

Excited for this screenshot to be used to blame feminism for the war.

submitted 10 hours ago • 6 comments

If people really find this to be such an easy conclusion, then Congressional authority should be easy to get. So why don’t they insist on a vote? They know this isn’t “progressive” resistance. They want to marginalize it as such because on top of this war being ILLEGAL, it’s also deeply unpopular.

submitted 10 hours ago • 385 comments

This is the exact thing— these people are just going for broke and achieving personal hatred goals because yolo? They can fuck all kinds of shit up & walk away smiling because we don’t do consequences for government people here

submitted 22 hours ago • 90 comments

Those of you who weren’t engaged during the Iraq war get ready for the mainstream media to go into bullshit overdrive. Their wargasms make “Hillary emails” and “Biden is old” seem quaint by comparison. Buckle up.

submitted 21 hours ago • 11 comments

From @aoc.bsky.social, what we should have heard from Jeffries and others in the Democratic leadership

submitted 21 hours ago • 9 comments

I wonder which war we’re going to lose first: Iran or LA

submitted 21 hours ago • 43 comments

Correct. When Trump withdrew from the JCPOA in May 2018, he made it the policy of the United States that every country should have an active nuclear weapons program. Today he made it clear they need to develop functional nuclear weapons as soon as possible. Nothing else can prevent a U.S. attack.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Underrated how much the draft and other forms of “honorable” male sacrifice inculcate men’s gendered resentment against women.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

The American evangelical right is absolutely shitting themselves with excitement over this. There is nothing on planet earth that they want more then a destabilized Middle East at war to trigger the rapture. This is 100% fact even though it sounds ridiculous.

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

submitted 1 day ago • 441 comments

Donald Trump is an extremely stupid man with very few real policy preferences who has simply done what mainstream conservatives have wanted 80-90% of the time since he has entered politics. They have wanted to bomb Iran. He bombed Iran. Pretty straightforward.

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments

The only appropriate response to what Trump is doing is impeachment and removal from office. Elected officials who are not working toward this goal with urgency are helping to destroy the constitution and the rule of law.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

I would suggest starting with sheriffs

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

We still have no idea who the ICE agents are. They could be insurrectionists, extremist militiamen or criminals themselves, chasing law-abiding citizens down the street for recording their kidnappings. The odds they aren't are low. Congress must raise hell about this. A masked gang runs our country.

submitted 1 day ago • 1227 comments

Even though they’re in the minority, Congressional Democrats have a lot of tools they can use here. In addition to showing up at detention centers etc, Dems can grind the Senate to a halt, push impeachment articles against Noem in the House, and more. Flood the zone.

submitted 1 day ago • 111 comments

The shrugging. The pulling the guy up by his collar after learning they fucked up. The masks and anonymity ensuring they’ll never be held accountable (not that it was likely, anyway). We are turning into a “papers, please” country. And it’s the banality and nonchalance that’s most terrifying.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

one of the weird things about living in this country in 2025 is that basically half of the population has memory wiped most of 2020-2021 and when you try to remind them they just say “no I’m pretty sure I would remember that” and they include the NYT and most of the democratic leadership

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

A rally Friday at the Ralphs in Marina Pacifica comes ahead of a potential strike that could affect Albertsons, Pavilions, Ralphs and Vons stores across the Southland, including 13 in the Long Beach area. Read more from @brandonrichardson.bsky.social on the Watchdog. lbwatchdog.com/dozens-of-gr...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

honestly this was very predictable if you could a) accurately recall the political consequences of the 2020 protests and b) take public opinion as it actually existed in 2025. impossible difficulty for a non-trivial portion of the professional political commentary class

submitted 2 days ago • 78 comments

A Virginia guy hunted a Latino man, cornered him, questioned him, and then shot him and his friend, because he assumed the guy was an undocumented immigrant. He was radicalized by Fox News etc. and, of course, Trump. www.wric.com/news/local-n...

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

I spoke with day laborers outside an Anaheim Home Depot this week. “If they take us, ni modo,” one man said. The next day, federal agents raided and arrested day laborers seeking work there. Meanwhile, Latino OC is a ghost town. www.latimes.com/socal/daily-...

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During the days leading up to the Fourth of July and for a few days after, shelters fill up with terrified lost pets. Read more from @lastwhomstanding.bsky.social on the Watchdog. lbwatchdog.com/scratch-this...

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I just learned that some people have carpet in their kitchens. I don’t want to be dramatic but I think you people are sociopaths.

submitted 2 days ago • 69 comments

And yet the odds are most people will not associate these positions with the Democratic Party. Just because people oppose a thing Republicans do doesn’t translate into a positive for Democrats unless they make the link in the mind of the public

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

A thing that regularly nags at me is how these guys do what they’re doing and it never crosses their mind that they’re the villains in every book they’ve ever read and every movie they’ve ever seen.

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

If nothing else about morality and law and basic human decency gets to them, you'd think at least some ICE agents would grasp they're being ordered to act in a way deliberately calculated to get one of them killed because that's what the administration wants.

submitted 2 days ago • 83 comments

Police say they’re investigating a stabbing in Central Long Beach that left a man hospitalized Wednesday evening. Read more from @apignataro.bsky.social on the Watchdog. lbwatchdog.com/man-stabbed-...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This is what happens when the most action you’ve taken against an authoritarian regime is to say the banning of gender affirming care for minors is a distraction

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Well, hold on now. Before we can determine if robot therapists are bad, we need to know whether or not it's standard practice for a human therapist to provide a suicidal person with a list of bridges.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

I just have to say, as a historian of the Reconstruction-era Klan, that masked paramilitaries are very bad and masked vigilantes are even worse and there are causal links between the two and none of this is good for democracy.

submitted 3 days ago • 114 comments

Or, more likely, the military has ruled it out, or at least is not seriously considering it. Because attacking any country with whom we are not at war with any nuclear weapon would be a war crime and legitimize nuclear warfare, likely destroying any chance we have of stopping nuclear proliferation.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

ICE agent points gun directly at the head of innocent civilian—just for taking picture of his license plate. He drew his gun with one hand—while fumbling to open the car door with the other. The "agent" did not seem to be aware someone else was already recording his vehicle. Pasadena, California.

submitted 3 days ago • 270 comments

AOC played ball and did everything Pelosi told her and was rewarded by being passed over for a 75-year-old who died four months later. There have now been four House votes this year where Dems lost by the margin of members who died in office. No one has more right to say this than her

submitted 7 days ago • 45 comments

In addition to all the evil ICE commits: they are, to a man and to their cores, complete cowards. They are humiliated right now and lying like six year olds over who ate the snacks.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Love how this administration talks about LA like it's fucking Dresden in 1945. Let me go instead, you babies. I've been craving a jalapeno egg burrito from the Tacos Por Favor on Olympic for like six months now.

submitted 3 days ago • 194 comments

A man has died after being run over by his own semi-truck at the Port of Long Beach, authorities said. Read more from @apignataro.bsky.social on the Watchdog. lbwatchdog.com/man-dies-aft...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

What were they actually gonna do here? Ask every brown-enough person for their papers to go to the fucking baseball game? This is the most slam-dunk, anti-American thing I can think of. You need a passport to go to a Major League Baseball game now? Malpractice not to make a huge deal out of this.

submitted 3 days ago • 212 comments

Exactly. Please put the montage together @thedailyshow.com.

submitted 3 days ago • 59 comments

Zohran should propose the city seize assets of people earning over $1m with New York residences that go unlived in for more than 120 days

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

right-wingers will often say that America deserves credit for ending slavery rather than blame for having slavery. but then we made a holiday to commemorate the end of slavery and they still got mad, which should tell you what their real objection is.

submitted 3 days ago • 65 comments

The hypocrisy is staggering. Israel has deliberately targeted hospitals, universities, schools, apartment buildings, and civilians. Let’s be clear: attacking any of these targets is wrong no matter who’s doing it. But Israel has no moral authority here.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

the republicans hate the crowning achievements of their party: the destruction of chattel slaver and the reconstruction amendments

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

I will never again see an ICE agent without assuming they're from Proud Boys or Oath Keepers, a pardoned Jan 6 rioter or a member of the KKK.

submitted 4 days ago • 738 comments

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

submitted 3 days ago • 181 comments