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One person was shot at the protest in Salt Lake City and is currently in critical condition. One individual is in custody. Please keep the victim in your prayers.

submitted 13 hours ago • 71 comments

If, after all these images of joyful protest that I've shared, you're curious how the parade is going in DC, my colleague @dfriedman.bsky.social (who's also done amazing reporting on the Jan 6 figures being paid to organize Trump's birthday party) is there, and "desultory" is a word that came up.

submitted 16 hours ago • 9 comments

Literally the Russian flag in the post. Two of them

submitted 17 hours ago • 1131 comments

The parade is neither a roaring call to patriotism or tyrannical show of might. It's something much worse--boring

submitted 18 hours ago • 204 comments

a 21 year old drove an SUV intentionally into a crowd of protesters at a No Kings rally in Virginia www.fox5dc.com/news/man-dri...

submitted 19 hours ago • 157 comments

They launched a coup, suffered no consequences for it, won back power, and have used the power to pardon everyone involved while remaking the country through violence and intimidation. It’s just ridiculous to talk about the political violence of yelling at ICE agents within that context.

submitted 23 hours ago • 203 comments

Nothing says "250th Army Celebration" like arresting a group of veterans… www.yahoo.com/news/police-...

submitted 1 day ago • 88 comments

In context of the 3,000 arrests/day mandate, this means turbocharging arrests in construction, child&elder care, delivery services, transport, manufacturing. It also means desperate ICE agents prowling the streets for victims. Courts, check-ins, and interviews will be ground zero for arrests...

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

“Suspect is white male, brown hair, wearing black body armor over blue shirt and blue pants and may misrepresent himself as law enforcement.”

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

In all six tests of self-driving mode, the car "blew through school bus stop signs at full speed, running over the manikins and driving off — completing a hit-and-run."

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

This is what Elon referred to as "safety paranoia" that was delaying Tesla's launch of this program. Yeah it's "paranoid" to be worried about your robo-cars running down humans and leaving them for dead, because tests have shown that they absolutely would.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

US Veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military birthday parade arrested at Capitol Hill. This is the moment a 80+ year old US veteran is taken away in handcuffs for practicing his 1st Amendment right. #3E #NoKings #NoKingsProtests (🎥 @gregjstoker.bsky.social )

submitted 1 day ago • 1482 comments

Voice of America’s Farsi-language broadcast, dismantled under Trump and DOGE, was abruptly reactivated today, recalling dozens of staff from paid leave as tensions between Israel and Iran escalated.

submitted 1 day ago • 110 comments

From a dear comrade who was kind enough to let me share their video. Veterans stage a sit-in on the US Capitol steps and say, “Military off our streets!” Hell yeah!

submitted 1 day ago • 568 comments

🚨🚨🚨 I’ve recently learned that several federal law enforcement agencies are soliciting for volunteers from inside to be cross-trained in riot control and to also serve as protective officers for federal facilities. This isn’t new, per se. The federal government has done this before… 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

They lie about everything

submitted 2 days ago • 1200 comments

here's some new last minute art for you.

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

This is insane and also I hope that seeing a US fucking senator thrown to the ground and cuffed for asking a question will help some of the people who still aren’t getting it to recognize that THE POLICE ARE THE SOURCE OF THE VIOLENCE

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Investigations are now underway into officers and ICE agents who fired crowd-control munitions at dangerously close range. In case after case, the situation only escalated when force was used against peaceful protesters.

submitted 3 days ago • 536 comments

"In a May 21...recording..., Provost Robin Forman said that when Tulane leadership met with elected officials in April, they were pressed as to why “‘Tulane has taken a stand on the chemical industry as harming communities’,” and this “left people feeling embarrassed and uncomfortable.” "

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

The entire board tasked with overseeing the State Department's Fulbright Program has resigned — claiming political interference from the Trump admin. The Board voted "overwhelmingly" to resign "rather than endorse unprecedented actions … impermissible under the law." substack.com/home/post/p-...

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

a borderline-senile angry guy who aspires to be a dictator in charge, surrounded by grifters and absolute right-wing freaks who don't believe in "science" or "medicine" or "equal rights for anyone who isn't a straight, white man", what could possibly go wrong. I'm sure this will all work out great.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Jesse Watters' chyron last night: "Terry Moran get's 86'd by ABC." Jesse Watters last month: "Any cop, any prosecutor knows the code for homicide—86."

submitted 4 days ago • 225 comments

Trump appointees at the State Department are illegally blocking nearly 200 Fulbright scholarships, awards meant to send American professors and researchers abroad for educational exchange.

submitted 3 days ago • 77 comments

Agree with Sen Hawley that we should look into people who offer support to violent insurrectionists

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

As the US Army celebrates it 250th birthday, Trump is celebrating the enemy that tried to defeat it.

submitted 4 days ago • 77 comments

RFK Jr justifies firing scientists on the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee due to “conflicts of interest.” Yet RFK Jr made almost $100K a year from anti-vax lawsuits and almost $90K a month from his anti-vax nonprofit. The person with the biggest conflict of interest at HHS is the one leading it.

submitted 4 days ago • 56 comments

The networks have been informed of the Marines deployment - but the LAPD has not. Incompetent Kegseth shitshow looms.

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

“This is a chilling statement. Even if it were a joke, it was clearly designed to make the public afraid to exercise its First Amendment rights to protest and to hold government officials, including LAPD officers, accountable for their actions.”

submitted 5 days ago • 78 comments

Militarized police on the streets of America will NOT make us great. Single-payer healthcare will make America great. Universal childcare will make America great. Housing for All will make America great. Tuition-free college will make America great.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Wow. RFK announced via a Wall Street Journal opinion piece that he is removing all 17 members of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices, which is the expert panel at the CDC that decides who is eligible for vaccines and whether insurers should cover them.

submitted 5 days ago • 32 comments

the Uber CEO tells Trump his company supports the MAGA reconciliation bill (that will strip millions of healthcare and food support)

submitted 5 days ago • 542 comments

Senator Ted Cruz posted a dramatic video of LAPD cars on fire with the caption “this… is… not… peaceful.” What he didn’t mention? The footage was from 2020, not 2025. His post on X falsely implied it was current, part of a broader effort to spread lies and manufacture a crisis.

submitted 6 days ago • 1476 comments

If your response to this video is, “That’s what I voted for”— Fuck you. Fuck you very much. You’re heartless.

submitted 6 days ago • 1705 comments

I just watched this go down. Police continue to be overly aggressive

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

It’s almost like someone in a position of great power and influence has encouraged Americans to think of the press as “the enemy of the people.”

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

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

submitted 6 days ago • 3075 comments

It’s designed to play into a delusional fantasy held by people who not only have never been to LA, but loudly and performatively refuse to visit them because of “the crime.” It’s for people who treat Escape from LA as a documentary.

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

Education research is a public good. It can benefit all students; the positive externalities benefit all of us. It's been three months since DOGE tore into IES and I'm still hearing about new layoffs and grant terminations. www.brookings.edu/articles/cut...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Trump has federalized at least 2,000 National Guard forces and reportedly plans to deploy troops to Los Angeles over Governor Newsom’s objections. If that happens, it will be the first time since 1965 that a president has sent troops into a state without a state request. 1/19

submitted 7 days ago • 63 comments

Just like in the parks, safety comes first. - Stay with your group - Follow the signs (or in this case, the facts) - Leave no one behind - Document everything - Don’t engage alone

submitted 7 days ago • 116 comments

ICE terrorizes our communities. People protest, and now Trump is sending 2,000 National Guard troops into Los Angeles. This is how martial law begins in the so-called land of the free.

submitted 7 days ago • 181 comments

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

submitted 7 days ago • 886 comments

All of this is absurd "In a statement, the University of Michigan said it had not received any complaints about the investigators. It did not deny the surveillance" it shouldnt take a complaint to know this is wrong, & how you even supposed to make a complaint about people following you secretly?!

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment