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the thing about Zuck is how at this point he has decided that he is the model who should be in all the advertising and all the public facing material, its basically impossible to see anything that company does and not see his face plastered on it, guy has legit decided he is the product ppl want

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Day by passing day, we are watching what amounts to a national police riot by ICE. But what worries me is that what we are witnessing is not the actions of an agency that believes it will ever be subject to meaningful oversight or legal authority ever again. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-believ...

submitted 15 hours ago • 53 comments

NEW: Meta CTO Andrew "Boz" Bosworth and leaders from OpenAI and Palantir have joined a detachment intended to make the US Armed Forces "force leaner, smarter, and more lethal."

submitted 15 hours ago • 42 comments

hi, cis folks! check this one from @ericmgarcia.bsky.social detailing coy, deliberately obtuse dems statements about challenging the ban on trans care in the budget. then tap the thread. call. evidently they still worry this will hurt them. tell them standing for trans people is a winning issue.

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

After appeals court ruling, Trump now promising to send troops wherever there are protests - ominous www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/u...

submitted 15 hours ago • 29 comments

New at Can We Still Govern: Trump hates DEI and loves unitary executive theory. @johnadearborn.bsky.social traces one of rhe first early articulations of the theory in the Reagan-era assault on affirmative action, featuring a couple of current SCOTUS justices. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

submitted 18 hours ago • 10 comments

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submitted 18 hours ago • 215 comments

The Trump-backed tax bill would raise incomes for the wealthiest households by thousands while cutting income for the poorest Americans. According to CBO analysis, the top 1% would gain over $12,000 on average, as the lowest earners see net losses.

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A new documentary on PBS shows what it's like to care for adult family members and recounts the history of caregiving policy in the U.S. revealing why those caring for family are often on their own.

submitted 18 hours ago • 26 comments

If you took the $1.1 trillion earned by just 100 billionaires last year and mailed every household a check, it'd be $8,700 each. The thing is most billionaires don't actually pay taxes anymore. What the GOP bill is really doing is selling off public lands and cutting Medicare to pay off oligarchs.

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

Just a goofy amount of tacticool gear, like buddy hit every option on the create-a-goon menu and hit save

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

I'm sorry I know this is supposed to be a feel-good story but I don't feel good about centrist military-industrial complex stans, especially in states that have some true progressive fighters www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

I talked to News Over Noise about tech billionaires, the media, and OWNED.

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Even a good article about how Trump refuses to fight the terrorism of his supporters anymore stops short of saying that Trump freed (and in one case, pardoned ) a number of adjudged terrorists convicted for Jan6. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Reminder: Elon Musk, whose Starship just blew up on the test stand (with extra fuel tanks piled beside it), was allowed for THIRTY YEARS to lie about his training in science. He started lying in 1995, got trapped in the lie - and suffered no consequences. But physics itself has consequences. 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

Nothing new under the sun

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My painting BLUE VESPA

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The former interpreter, who reportedly risked his life to aid American troops, was detained by masked immigration officers at his asylum hearing. https://trib.al/VahMx5c

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

Pasadena: Plainclothes federal law enforcement officer at a stoplight jumping out of his vehicle and drawing his gun on a person attempting to photograph his license plate.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

“A U.S. citizen!” And now he’s missing. Adrian Martinez tried to defend a man ICE was harassing. Video shows six agents swarming him. He struggles but doesn’t lay hands on them. They take him to the ground & shove him into a CBP vehicle. Abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop. (1 of 2)

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UK sickle cell patients ‘get worse care than sufferers of similar disorders’

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ICE took a huge armored vehicle to a raid in Compton www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjWaPxmv/

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I spoke with Jade Hindmon, host of @kpbssandiego.bsky.social Midday Edition, about the consequences of the current administration’s cuts to science funding. Please share to help spread the word and raise awareness. www.kpbs.org/podcasts/kpb...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Brutal.

submitted 2 days ago • 394 comments

Protests at Palantir www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjWaVDpc/

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Insurers’ denial rates are a critical measure of how reliably they pay for customers’ care. But they remain mostly secret to the public. Federal and state regulators have done little to change that. (Published 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

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The license plate thing is actually something I’d been having questions about (were they using government plate, for example). Knowing that there’s actually none at all makes it much worse.

submitted 2 days ago • 65 comments

Woody Guthrie: “This land is your land. This land is my land.” Trump: “This land is my land. This land is my land.”

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Keep in mind public land is land owned BY YOU, the taxpayer. Republicans want to sell it off so they can pay for their tax cuts for billionaires and corporations.

submitted 2 days ago • 55 comments

💰 Trump signs an ICE deal with @CoreCivic — the private prison company with high death rates that fails every audit here in Tennessee. A reminder what they’re doing to immigrants isn’t just cruel, it’s also big business. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

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US ally Israel's tanks fired at hundreds of unarmed civilians lined up for food from aid trucks in Gaza, they massacred least 59 people and injuring at least 200 more. Hundreds have been killed trying to get aid in past three weeks. US politicians say they stand by Israel.

submitted 2 days ago • 97 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled all transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds. While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.

submitted 3 days ago • 100 comments

Helicopters. Armed troops wearing masks. All for a freaking military-grade raid at a flea market that appears to have resulted in two measly arrests. DHS and ICE are out of control. ktla.com/news/local-n...

submitted 3 days ago • 307 comments

In case it's not clear, ICE is going to be turned on all of us, any of us, who exhibits any degree of conscience or even interest in the law, not just immigrants or their advocates. And ICE and the police are multicultural. Diversity in the Repressive State Apparatus isn't going to save us.

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Example: where's Schumer and Jeffries right now? How come they're not louder than Massie and Tucker with Trump potentially leading us to WW3 for Netanyahu?

submitted 3 days ago • 76 comments

For those who read French--journalist/novelist Doan Bui translates my Financial Times piece on "The Struggle for Los Angeles" and mixes in a bit from my Nation article on El Salvador, prisons, and deportations. www.nouvelobs.com/monde/202506...

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NEW: A far-right ‘Appeal to Heaven’ flag was flown above the Small Business Administration's headquarters in DC. The flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists, was waved by January 6 rioters and spotted at Justice Samuel Alito's vacation home. from me and @telliotter.bsky.social:

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Very cool that several people who used to yell at me in DMs for being too mean to Facebook are now running some sort of extralegal posse informally deputized by the actual United States Army.

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Trump's new focus on "remigration"—an idea borrowed from the European ultra-right that means forcing non-white people, even legal citizens, out of the country—portends something sinister. I discuss with @gregsargent.bsky.social on the Daily Blast podcast: newrepublic.com/article/1968...

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MY GOD President Trump just posted “everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran.”

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When I tell you Los Angeles is an occupied city/county, this is what I mean… Yesterday, ICE agents showed up to a regular Saturday swap meet with armed Marines and a military helicopter overhead, like it’s a fucking war zone.

submitted 5 days ago • 498 comments

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Wow, it’s almost like they’re setting up eugenics as healthcare based on social Darwinism where they get to kill anyone they see as not worthy. If only only people on the academic and research side of countering authoritarianism and fascism had pointed this out repeatedly over the last month. Wait

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