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A 49 year old Canadian has died while in ICE custody.

submitted 4 hours ago • 440 comments

Jessica Ramos basically admitted to Brian Lehrer that she thinks Trump will punish and single out NYC if Mamdani wins and that's her justification for backing Cuomo First off, STOP MAKING DECISIONS BASED ON FEAR. Second, stop giving that man more power by rewarding his racism with cowardice. FFS

submitted 3 days ago • 123 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 5 days ago • 1230 comments

Consistent, again and again, with the theory that the U.S. is secretly aligned not with its historic allies but with Moscow.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

now i’m no law professor but

submitted 5 days ago • 110 comments

Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

submitted 9 days ago • 540 comments

Adriana Smith did not give birth to a baby. She was used as an incubator, cut open, and a baby was taken out of her lifeless body. A Black woman was used as a science experiment.

submitted 8 days ago • 171 comments

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant. This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.

submitted 9 days ago • 150 comments

Arthur Folasa Ah Foo, also known as "Afa", was a local fashion designer known for his work in the Pacific Islander community. Ah Foo was identified as the victim killed in yesterday's shooting.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

One of the reasons it’s important to explicitly condemn right-wing terrorism, and not just all terrorism, after a right-wing terrorist attack is that it might help people understand that the vast majority of political violence in the US comes from the right.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

They hate science and academia but still want to claim their legitimacy

submitted 10 days ago • 49 comments

The danger right now is not just that Schengen collapses, but that it transforms into a stable system of racialized mobility where freedom of movement is still guaranteed for white (passing) people but there remains a hard border for minorities.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it

submitted 11 days ago • 159 comments

I thought I was losing my mind when this happened because it was an attempted assassination of a national political leader and it was treated like it was nothing.

submitted 11 days ago • 96 comments

In my opinion, Trump's shift on this issue ("stop raiding farms and hotels") demonstrates the US needs to have an honest conversation about the role of undocumented immigrants in this country. And who constitutes this population. I'm afraid the rhetoric has already poisoned the well.

submitted 12 days ago • 81 comments

I just got back home to finally sit down and watch the parade footage and it’s 100x more embarrassing than I expected. I totally forgot the weak nations that do these spend decades perfecting them. It looked like if Fyre festival did North Korea.

submitted 11 days ago • 222 comments

Why is there a curfew if the protests were peaceful and powerful? Why deploy cops at all? Bad actors? Look how easy it is for the supposed progressives to use the propaganda of the right. Get the fuck outta here.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired

submitted 11 days ago • 183 comments

Have enough fucking journalistic integrity to call quackery "quackery", rather than trying to normalize fascism, okay NPR?

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I am heartbroken beyond words that Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark have died in a violent and politically motivated shooting. Melissa was an exceptional public servant. She was smart and funny and so dedicated to making Minnesota work better for all of us.

submitted 12 days ago • 76 comments

assassinations, handcuffing a senator at press conference, marines detaining a civilian, and a military parade for the president’s birthday. rough week for democracy.

submitted 12 days ago • 93 comments

law enforcement officials say they made a proactive check at Rep. Hortman's home after a lawmaker who lived nearby was shot and found a "police vehicle in the driveway with emergency lights and what appeared to be a police officer at the door coming out of the house." He was actually the gunman.

submitted 12 days ago • 1166 comments

There's a link between this and white women who swore they and their children were about to be snatched and trafficked from parking lots because a man looked at them. Now that its happening in real life it doesn't count because the main victims aren't the right demographic

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

If you stop thinking that Germany's response to anything Israel is about Holocaust guilt and instead about rewriting German history, you'd understand German politics better. 🧵

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

submitted 14 days ago • 838 comments

🔥 It's happening! Disney and Universal are suing Midjourney and they cited mine and Gary Marcus' work exposing their infringement in their filing. LET'S GO! 🔥

submitted 15 days ago • 91 comments

This one is major: www.wired.com/story/disney...

submitted 15 days ago • 10 comments

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

submitted 16 days ago • 1028 comments

My strong instinct is that Trump's threats against Americans' first amendment right to peaceably assemble is going to massively juice attendance at Saturday's protests. www.nokings.org

submitted 16 days ago • 349 comments

We found that AI tools - both general like #ChatGPT and research-specific like #Elicit - lack the reliability, relevancy and accuracy to summarise research for teachers. This is important because we have been sold the idea that AI will make research more accessible.

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

BREAKING: Several people are reported to have been killed in a suspected shooting at a school in the Austrian city of Graz aje.io/6hl9b3

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Emerging: Protest against ICE underway in Dallas, Texas.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

it’s truly so wild to hear electeds talk about ICE like it’s in the goddamn constitution when it’s been around for less than half my life and they’re older than I am

submitted 16 days ago • 11 comments

As expected, RFK Jr. was lying during his confirmation hearing and now is ratfucking the vaccination system in the US. The vast majority of the public does not want this and yet again it’s clear that the Republican administration does not serve the electorate.

submitted 16 days ago • 33 comments

Don’t go grabbing tear gas grenades. Some burn at over 750 C and you can’t tell just by looking

submitted 17 days ago • 14 comments

The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.

submitted 17 days ago • 205 comments

Integrating ChatGPT into the teaching curriculum is necessary because students already use it anyway. I understand many undergraduates also drink heavily, so, on similar grounds, we must incorporate alcohol consumption into our pedagogic practices.

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

2 hours in its just the national guard standing in a parking lot as people stare at them like they're tourists lost at Venice beach. Occasionally Maxine Waters stops by to tell them they're idiots. Los Angeles.

submitted 18 days ago • 36 comments

Yeah I guess LeBron putting up a 22.6 PER is pretty special, but it's not that impressive when you compare him to people rolling out of bed and firing off something like this at age 86.

submitted 18 days ago • 112 comments

The administration gets closer to using the military to crush civilian dissent. Expect deaths, disappearances, and lawless detentions.

submitted 18 days ago • 394 comments

submitted 19 days ago • 63 comments