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Analytic philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah strikes again

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Honestly I think if this place was actually irrelevant we wouldn’t have to deal with the same freaking editorial every week for an entire year and a half

submitted 5 hours ago • 117 comments

Also I struggled with the “back” in “firing back” in this update

submitted 9 hours ago • 11 comments

Saying this after seeing what happened in the wake of Luigi Mangione's actions is incredible btw lmao

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Everyone should say it: The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism. Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that's not what's interesting about Miller. It's not brains. It's bile.

submitted 2 hours ago • 347 comments

Every time something awful happens, white people like to say: tHIs iS NoT aMERicA. Uh, yes, it is. Please diversify your friend circle. Then listen to our stories.

submitted 4 hours ago • 29 comments

yet another article in a major publication about how bluesky is irrelevant

submitted 5 hours ago • 18 comments

It is difficult to overstate how much I loathe such selfish dumbasses:

submitted 4 hours ago • 656 comments

"Liberals, emerge from the Bluesky bubble" is the new "debate me, you cowards": a demand that I waste my time taking demonstrable unseriousness seriously, and nothing more.

submitted 3 hours ago • 5 comments

These militarist ICE raids are the actual government oppression that right wingers dreamed was happening during Covid. They are not up in arms like they were about masking, go figure.

submitted 9 hours ago • 98 comments

"regardless of where one attributes blame" lmao

submitted 5 hours ago • 22 comments

At a raw, practical level, they’re just men with guns. Law enforcement is supposed to be different because of law. Because they are supposed to be restrained by warrants and rules and due process and and people’s rights. But once they discard all that, they are, fundamentally, just men with guns.

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

submitted 2 hours ago • 1627 comments

Dr. King used nonviolence strategically to dramatize the contradiction. Consider how best to dramatize the contradiction under present conditions.

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

You are completely and utterly brain dead

submitted 6 hours ago • 43 comments

Ordinary people used twitter because they could hear directly from celebrities, athletes, politicians, their local brewery, whatever. It wasn't to read artificially boosted right wing filth

submitted 3 hours ago • 67 comments

Almost verbatim, unbelievable

submitted 5 hours ago • 97 comments

it really doesn’t matter if someone is in america illegally or not. who cares, grow up

submitted 8 hours ago • 326 comments

More friendly advice from your mortal enemies.

submitted 6 hours ago • 766 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 7 hours ago • 204 comments

Still waiting for the article that’s like “these right wing militia members are in a bubble and it would be healthier if they exposed themselves to left wing ideas”

submitted 3 hours ago • 116 comments

now is a good time for everyone to brush up on GUERILLA TACTICS by who? my late liege lord CHE GUEVARA

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Because it's 2025, and most people in the US still don't know what their own military looks like... ~1 in every 7 US Marines nationwide, is from California. ~1 in every 4 US Marines nationwide, is Hispanic or Latino.

submitted 20 hours ago • 32 comments

As someone raised to believe faith should make you a more compassionate human being, the saddest thing about the government-sanctioned hatred, legislated terrorism, and human rights erasures we're seeing right now is that none of them would be possible without white Christians.

submitted 22 hours ago • 65 comments

There are thousands of retired cops on fishing boats at this very moment who were able to afford those boats because of pension-setting overtime they booked in 2020 during the George Floyd protests. This, not anything else, is the primary thought running through current cops' minds right now.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I remember when a ton of people called the Left insane for saying we should abolish ICE. It wasn't even that long ago.

submitted 22 hours ago • 14 comments

White folks watched a bunch of white folks sack the Capitol and then most of them be pardoned by the head of the white identity party and now we're supposed to listen to other white people pontificate about non-violence...

submitted 20 hours ago • 29 comments

Breaking news: liberals still think protestor being harmed is good. The difference is they think it's good in a useful way.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

Begging liberals to let what’s happening in LA radicalize them.

submitted 23 hours ago • 11 comments

This kid is rad as hell but the amount of ordinance unloaded here would be comical if it weren't so evil

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

“Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.” — Ice-T

submitted 1 day ago • 106 comments

What's going on in LA should be a real wakeup call for folks who don't already know that a fully liberal government can still wind up a police state and without some major change to the way we talk about the militarization of policing, nothing will get better

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha no.

submitted 15 hours ago • 644 comments

Newsom: The Secretary of Defense is now threatening to deploy active-duty Marines on American soil against its own citizens. This is deranged behavior.

submitted 19 hours ago • 296 comments

CA is the 4th largest economy in the world. CA does not need the US, but the US needs CA. It's definitely time for all eyes on LA.

submitted 21 hours ago • 15 comments

Trying and failing to come up with the right words to describe what we are witnessing unfold in LA right now. Your resistance is here, support them

submitted 1 day ago • 127 comments

the people in LA putting their safety on the line right now to try and stop ICE are the bravest people we have got

submitted 1 day ago • 105 comments

why do you phrase this like a 3rd party observer

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

DEVELOPING: No warning. No reason. NYPD officers rushed into the crowd and tackled a protester this weekend. His body was limp. He couldn’t move. He said, “I can’t feel my legs.” He might never walk again. For showing up. This is brutality. This is America.

submitted 14 hours ago • 850 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

California representatives did a check in where migrants were being detained. They found no beds, no food and no water. Children were among the detained.

submitted 20 hours ago • 265 comments

We could have had her, America.

submitted 14 hours ago • 375 comments

We’re gonna see a lot of state power that is supposed to be deployed against Black people and white people who ally with Black people be deployed with very few negroes in sight and I am, I confess, genuinely curious what that does to American politics.

submitted 21 hours ago • 7 comments