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submitted 6 hours ago • 10 comments

Tear gas can cause long-term health consequences by making people more susceptible to contracting respiratory illnesses, including COVID. The chemical agent can also hurt people inside their homes if it seeps into residential neighborhoods. What you need to know (published 2020):

submitted 10 hours ago • 53 comments

Full riot gear, massive line of them, armed and trigger happy: all scared shitless of a woman in shorts trying to get home. Disgusting.

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

Every major Dem politician needs to realize that, in this environment, they can schedule a "speech to the nation," like Newsom did, and get tons of media coverage. Just do it.

submitted 7 hours ago • 228 comments

ngl this map of scheduled protests for this weekend is wild

submitted 13 hours ago • 139 comments

It took protesters to whoop Trump’s ass the last time he was in office, and it looks like protesters are the only ones up to the task this time too.

submitted 7 hours ago • 40 comments

It is completely necessary to support Newsom as a governor fighting an authoritarian president and keep in mind that he has shown himself with incredible clarity to be an individual unworthy of trust who broke the sound barrier in normalizing authoritarianism for personal gain.

submitted 9 hours ago • 51 comments

Lots of folks are expressing dismay over having to cheer on Gavin Newsom. So remember: We are loyal to the policy, not the politician. Oppose those who do the wrong thing, even when they are otherwise good people. Support those who do the right thing, even when they are loathsome shit weasels.

submitted 1 day ago • 127 comments

They are good in many other ways also.

submitted 9 hours ago • 7 comments

This protest movement is going to spread. People are going to need to get comfortable with discomfort. There are going to be inconveniences. There are going to be tense moments. There’s going to be violence. None of this is easy. We didn’t ask for this fight but the fight is here.

submitted 9 hours ago • 10 comments

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the Democratic Party has lost its way because it is "disconnected from kitchen table issues" and also criticizes Zohran Mamdani for wanting to raise taxes on the wealthy in order to provide more services for working-class people. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 20 hours ago • 272 comments

NOW — I’m at the ICE OUT OF NEW YORK protest in Foley Square.

submitted 14 hours ago • 36 comments

Trump, talking at Fort Bragg right now about Los Angeles, is doing something I'm not sure I've ever seen a president do: he's actively maligning people in Los Angeles — an American city — in front of U.S. troops. And the troops are applauding. As an Army brat myself, this strikes me as very new.

submitted 15 hours ago • 399 comments

This is unbelievable. Cathy Young -- the abysmal corporate shill who runs Seattle city council -- says that whiny NIMBY single-family homeowners aren't being listened to enough. I genuinely can't think of a group of people who have been indulged more, for longer, to worse effect.

submitted 16 hours ago • 21 comments

This was always clearly the objective and many in the media also insisted on treating anyone who said so clearly like they were some kind of lunatic bsky.app/profile/carn...

submitted 1 day ago • 107 comments

This is future YIMBYs want!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

If you’re a member of the U.S. military, remember that you have a duty not to follow unlawful orders. Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), the “superior orders” defense does not apply to orders that violate the law.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

In the middle of all of this, I have been so heartened by the dedication of the principals and teachers at our LAUSD schools, who have taken every opportunity to reiterate loudly and firmly that they are here for all our kids.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Democratic politicians and liberal pundits bemoaning the LA protests need to understand that as their failure. None of this would be happening if they had offered effective resistance to mass deportation (extraordinary rendition, in truth) instead of considering undocumented people expendable.

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

This was four weeks before the election:

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Based on videos I have seen from LA, it is now the norm for law enforcement to shoot "non-lethals" at people protesting if there is no obvious basis for doing so. And they are also intentionally shooting at the press covering the event. Does the First Amendment exist in the US anymore?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

From CBS's write-up: "But if people don't think it is dangerous criminals who are the focus of the deportation effort, support drops dramatically."

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling. Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.

submitted 1 day ago • 143 comments

I would ask Thomas this directly, but he's turned off quote posts and replies for those who don't follow him — not missing much there — so I suppose I'll have to ask it here: Who won the 2020 presidential election?

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments

Good morning. Immigrants are #HereToStay.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

So I guess Trump says he’s now figured out how to deploy the National Guard without having to ask for Nancy Pelosi’s permission.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Anyone even remotely playing devils advocate for, much less defending, ICE or cops is getting hard blocked. That’s just how it’s gotta be, you’ve shown you can’t be trusted.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

We are governed by cowards

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments