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Trump’s DEI Purge Is Erasing Civil Rights History Across the South

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

Maybe they really were ICE officers. Or maybe they were a band of vigilantes, arbitrarily snatching brown-looking people off the street. All eyes are now on LA, but secret police are descending upon smaller towns nationwide too. Masked and armed, they refuse to show IDs or warrants. wapo.st/4kIGFke

submitted 11 hours ago • 116 comments

This is the violence in LA.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

This is a really excellent statement by James Mattis that recognizes the stakes of the moment. It is a model for other public figures. We must reject any thinking of our cities as a "battlespace" that our uniformed military is called upon to "dominate." substack.com/home/post/p-...

submitted 11 hours ago • 9 comments

Trump has wanted a police state with himself sitting at the top as its undisputed boss since his first administration. The standoff in L.A. shows how truly eager he is to turn America’s vast warmaking powers inward on his domestic foes and critics. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

Only gonna say this once (who am I kidding, I'll probably have to say it a dozen times), that stupid Trump stunt with the specially selected soldiers clapping along to his bullshit remarks does not in any way represent the military officially throwing in with Trump on an authoritarian takeover.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

from "Classical Studies memes for Hellenistic teens" on FB

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

This thread is horrific. Recommend reading the whole thing. Border violence takes many forms, including the harassment Alissa has endured just trying to travel:

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It's always just Until the last moment When the smile Cuts through the heart of you

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Video of an ICE caravan just ramming people

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

Yes! It is very baffling to me that people seem to think there is a debate over the efficacy of masks. There isn't! Masks work at the individual level to prevent the spread of COVID. There's a debate about mask mandates, the efficacy of which mostly comes down to compliance.

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

once again I must tap my own sign

submitted 6 days ago • 236 comments

Ugh, he just gets better. 😩

submitted 7 days ago • 370 comments

So many people have lived in this country and been great citizens. Raised families. Started businesses. But called criminals for overstaying a work visa? We need a pathway to citizenship for these people. They are our friends and neighbors.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

This is what they want. This is why they are publicly going after people right before a weekend dinner rush. They are trying to cause violence to justify martial law. Keep resisting peacefully. Keep shaming them. open.substack.com/pub/jennbudd...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Honestly terrifying. Meteorologist on the "multigenerational impact" of cuts to American science & specifically the National Weather Service & NOAA. "What you need to do is call your representatives & make sure these cuts are stopped." Find your Senators: senate.gov Reps: house.gov 202-224-3121

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

How many more disgusting acts like this have to happen until the lid blows off & they have actual death on their hands? To treat mothers, sisters, daughters, sons, children & families with this level of inhumanity is beyond comprehension. They’re non-violent families being ripped apart #Resistance

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Blue states governors and Democratic mayors and councils need to mobilize their own National Guard units and police departments to protect residents from armed, masked federal agents. If they don't trust their Guard or law enforcement leaders to do that, then they need to remove them.

submitted 11 days ago • 14 comments

A Southern elephant seal makes a surprise visit to the residential neighborhood of Gordon's Bay in Cape Town, South Africa, and triggers an almost nine-hour rescue effort to return him to the coast.

submitted 13 days ago • 307 comments

I downloaded a free trial of the Citizen app because I wanted to know why there'd been a million cops on my block (guy barricaded himself in a weed store, nothing serious happened) and I got a glimpse into the mind of a regular user and if I took it seriously, I'd be terrified literally all the time

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

It is fascinating how whenever anything has a leftist bent to it, be it a political party or website or television or radio station, they are always told that they must invite and applaud everyone else to find prosperity, while rightwing versions of those things grow by explicitly doing the opposite

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

This just in, bluesky users beginning to suspect they may actually be on the internet.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Sam Neill is a guy who can convincingly act with a great sense of arrogance and pretension and cruelty and in real life is the world’s chillest nicest guy who spends every day drinking wine with his pigs

submitted 18 days ago • 37 comments

ICE attacks a US citizen, disregards his REAL ID, roughs him up, humiliates him, lies about him, and arrests him. If you like this kind of thing, you're going to get a 500% increase when Congress passes the Papers Please Police State Act that just passed the House.

submitted 18 days ago • 19 comments

Kady Grass, a lesbian teenager in Illinois, was severely beaten after trying to use the bathroom in a McDonald's. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

submitted 18 days ago • 231 comments

Why Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ Won’t Shield the U.S. from Nuclear Strikes | Scientific American Trump’s $175-billion plan to protect the U.S. from nuclear annihilation will probably cost much more—and deliver far less—than has been claimed, says nuclear arms expert Jeffrey Lewis

submitted 18 days ago • 11 comments

In "Doonesbury," Andy Lippincott died 35 years ago, on May 24, 1990. Andy was not only the first openly gay character in newspaper comics but also the first one to die of AIDS. Here is that strip and the ensuing sequence:

submitted 18 days ago • 14 comments

As a Floridian, the most doomerizing thing for me is just how much cognitive dissonance people have around climate change. Like people who've lived here their whole lives would rather believe hurricanes are made by a government machine, because then it can be switched off.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

"[Y]ou can't kill 15,000 kids, and you can't be about to let 14,000 kids starve ... What[] is keeping you from standing up for these kids, who don't have food and medical care and who have had amputations without anesthesia, what[] is keeping you from saying it, it's not greater than your humanity."

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

just found out they're making borderlands 4

submitted 22 days ago • 23 comments

When I think of the brutality of the junta & its militias, I think a lot about the horrific murder of Phoe Tay and Thar Htaung. After they were killed, supporters of the revolution shared images (presumably AI generated) to remember them & be used instead of the horrific videos of their death.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Excellent information in this 🧵on hurricanes and preparing for other disasters Thank you @emilylhauser.bsky.social

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Where we are with the courts

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

NEW — Kelvin Membreño will be deported to El Salvador by ICE tomorrow. He’s the birth father of three US citizen daughters and has become an important part of their lives. Here their adoptive mother makes a last ditch plea to let him stay in the same country as the girls. A gutting guest essay:

submitted 20 days ago • 33 comments

how many ibuprofen to complete ego dissolution

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