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How on earth can this country still hold the World Cup and Olympics next year??

submitted 2 hours ago • 645 comments

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

submitted 5 hours ago • 187 comments

Hi, certified Oleoresin capsicum instructor here. Cold running water. That’s it. Everything else is a wives tale. And for fuck’s sake don’t degrease your eyeballs with dish soap.

submitted 12 hours ago • 8 comments

Whenever law enforcement agents are given a quota of a specific number of people to arrest or detain, especially with the WH policy director screaming at their superiors to hit those target numbers, bad things are going to happen. Quotas always result in civil rights violations.

submitted 9 hours ago • 404 comments

If you really want to drive the point home about how fucked up ICE is then people should start forcing Star Wars themes on ICE. Protesters should start playing the imperial march whenever ICE shows up and should also start dressing like the rebel alliance.

submitted 8 hours ago • 534 comments

LAPD STATEMENT: “The protests remained peaceful… without incident…”

submitted 19 hours ago • 97 comments

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

submitted 1 day ago • 1115 comments

The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.

submitted 22 hours ago • 2988 comments

ICE arrested former Afghan Nat'l Army soldier—our ally against Taliban—at his home in TX. He entered legally and atty says he has no criminal record. Was applying for asylum. Appears to be casualty of Trump decision de-documenting legal Afghan immigrants www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...

submitted 1 day ago • 176 comments

One thing is for certain after this week: Local cops in sanctuary cities—Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York—are working in lock step with DHS and ICE.

submitted 1 day ago • 136 comments

A father screams for his child from a tiny interview room within a basement waiting room inside LA federal building. The space is not a holding area. No food. No water. No diapers. Those initially detained include a 2-year-old US citizen and a woman with high-risk pregnancy.

submitted 1 day ago • 84 comments

"So here's the plan -- we impose massive tariffs on the nations that sell us food." "Hmm." "But it's OK, because we just rely more on states like California that grow a lot of the same things." "Oh, I guess that ..." "And then we go to war with California."

submitted 1 day ago • 325 comments

Eye-opening analysis of WNBA players’ pay relative to the NBA, adjusting for the leagues’ relative sizes and season lengths, by Nobel Prize-winning economist Claudia Goldin: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/o...

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing. ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him. seiuca.org/press-releas...

submitted 2 days ago • 325 comments

FEMA Chief Confused By Wind theonion.com/fema-ch...

submitted 3 days ago • 335 comments

I don't live in New York, but this is visually catchy (and accurate).

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

If you’re overstimulated, please report to the Bluesky cooldown tent where we have orange slices and someone who doesn’t understand the concept of jokes waiting for you

submitted 3 days ago • 128 comments

this is just like the parable of the scorpion and the scorpion

submitted 3 days ago • 83 comments

Indiana has come back from down 15 or more FIVE times, the most such comebacks in a single postseason in the play-by-play era (since 1997). Pacers are 5-3 when they go down by 15 or more this playoffs.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

I love the AP.

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Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

submitted 2 days ago • 349 comments

Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now

submitted 3 days ago • 233 comments

I cannot stop wheezing

submitted 3 days ago • 2294 comments

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

submitted 3 days ago • 644 comments

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

submitted 3 days ago • 1700 comments

Germany’s Chancellor Merz presented Trump the birth certificate of his German grandfather, Friedrich Trump. It was a clever jab to remind Trump he’s a German immigrant.

submitted 3 days ago • 469 comments

This feels like Alien vs Sexual Predator

submitted 3 days ago • 147 comments

“In a paper published in Nature Communications, the researchers have shown for the 1st time that mRNA can be delivered into the cells where HIV is hiding, by encasing it in a tiny, specially formulated fat bubble. The mRNA then instructs the cells to reveal the virus.” The virus can no longer hide!

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

four. different. ampersands. !!!! & they all illustrate the origin of the ampersand in the ligature of the latin conjunction “et” (“and”). 222050 • @folger.edu

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

BREAKING: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds that those people sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15-16 had their due process rights violates and certifies them as a class. He orders that the government "facilitate" the ability for them to seek habeas relief.

submitted 4 days ago • 384 comments

applying for jobs again

submitted 34 days ago • 147 comments

There’s probably not an open bar. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 4 days ago • 822 comments

What a line from Warren Buffett this morning: “Be kind, and the world is better off. I'm not sure that the world will be better off if I'm richer." [applause] 🙏🏼

submitted 36 days ago • 526 comments

Darren Beattie - the State Dept official who dismantled the US government's main center for fighting Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world - turns out to have personal ties to the Russian elite. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

submitted 5 days ago • 173 comments

Dang.....

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Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?

submitted 5 days ago • 96 comments

Another dumb gross irony here is Harvey Milk served in the Navy and Donald Trump's Navy secretary didn't www.military.com/daily-news/2...

submitted 5 days ago • 101 comments

We hope you don't find the etymology of 'tawdry' morally sordid, base, or distasteful.

submitted 5 days ago • 70 comments