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Troops Deployed to LA Have Done Precisely One Thing, Pentagon Says The nearly 5,000 soldiers in Los Angeles detained one man, briefly. Was that worth $134 million and a constitutional crisis? theintercept.com/2025/06/16/l...

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The 2024 election cannot accurately reflect the will of the people, a forensic audit of the results is imperative to ensure the legitimacy of the outcome and restore public confidence.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

“Donald Trump has manufactured a crisis and is inflaming conditions.” - @gavinnewsom.bsky.social Trump Playbook 1. Intentionally create a crisis 2. Blame Dems, Biden & Obama 3. Abuses his power to claim VICTORY This strategy wastes tax-payers money & inflicts emotional terrorism on us all.

submitted 6 days ago • 64 comments

This is a superb speech by @governor.ca.gov just now. Clear. Strong. Simple. Direct. Angry—in a way that appeals to the best in people, not the worst. Seven plus minutes of the most effective rhetoric in response to Trump. This is how you want a leader to talk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=linJ...

submitted 5 days ago • 92 comments

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Sound familiar?

submitted 3 days ago • 414 comments

Sounds like our FBI has been gutted and torn down to almost uselessness. They haven't found the guy in Washington who murdered his 3 daughters, and now they can't find the guy who killed the politicians and shot others. Way to go moronic @GOP, keep taking away government workers.

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Such good news! Good luck @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social!

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Paywall limits readers = Fewer readers = Fewer dollars = Planned obsolescence Maybe rethink your paywall Please... Explain how an individual is supposed to manage scores -and soon hundreds- of subs to various news +opinion sources w/o going bankrupt or insane! #EndPaywall @rollingstone.com

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"Successfully applying past practices to today’s challenges requires learning about the cultures that put those tools to work effectively for so long." Read more: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/... [https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/cultural-knowledge-ancient-farms-peru-climate-change/]

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97% of extremist-related murders in the U.S. in 2024 were linked to right-wing extremists. It’s not a political movement anymore - it’s a hobby for failed men with too much testosterone and not enough brain cells.

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🐘 Elephants provide water not only for themselves but also for other animals by using their tusks and their great strength to dig water holes into the ground. Even their footprints serve as a source of water for small animals when rainwater collects in them. #SundaysForElephants

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These pix are from a big #nokings rally in #LagunaHills, #California that took place at the intersection of El Toro Rd & Paseo de Valencia. We must've had over 3000 people who lined all the streets and kept walking all the crosswalks. Almost every car that passed honked their support.

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If you ever wondered what you would do if something awful happened to other people in your country, how you would behave when that historical moment came, when your country needed you, stop wondering. It is happening now. You are living in that moment. Join a NO KINGS rally/protest on Sat 6/14!

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Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

submitted 9 days ago • 355 comments

Weather forecasting is predicting another heat wave for SoCali... please be prepared!

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Soo today, federal police physically forced 1 of my 2 United States senators to lie flat on the floor and handcuffed him—for annoying DHS Sec Kristi Noem. What a time to be alive. It’ll only get worse from here—of that, we can be quite sure. Anyone who actually comprehends Project 2025 knows this.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Trump promised peace through strength and all we got is new and escalating wars through weakness. But I have every confidence he will issue more very stern warnings on Truth Social to solve everything.

submitted 3 days ago • 79 comments

A few key points: - Senator Padilla is the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety - He identified himself as a Senator - Right before this happened Noem literally said she was there to liberate Los Angeles from its elected leadership

submitted 4 days ago • 85 comments

"We have to decide what type of future we think we deserve & what kind of people we want to be. Should we give the keys to a monarch and lock ourselves in a room advertised as clean & safe? (Yarvin) Or do we accept the amazing, scary, & wonderful task of learning how to be free together?" (Marsh)

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“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” - President Franklin D. Roosevelt, January 6, 1941

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www.commondreams.org/philadelphia... "Any criminal can now put on a mask, say he is from ICE, and conduct any crime," one group warned.

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It's just the concept of a plan

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The latest “agreement” in the US-China trade saga? Turns out it’s just the last non-agreement repackaged. Status quo anti.

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I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

submitted 5 days ago • 1472 comments

It’s so much worse this time. It might not be clear if you don’t live in LA, but the supposed “riots” are tiny. They’re nothing like George Floyd in 2020. Protests are happening in a few blocks downtown and as resistance to specific ICE raids. This is 100% pretense for fascist subjugation.

submitted 6 days ago • 53 comments

“Facing Trump’s increasingly undeniable fascist designs, the impulse to forge cross‑ideological alliances to defend what remains of the rule of law is understandable—indeed, essential. But the enemy of your enemy is not always your friend.” www.weekendreading.net/p/trumps-spl...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

We feed you. They hunt us.

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The Secret to Living Past 100? Scientists Say It Could Be Hidden in This Small Italian Village ->SciTechDaily | #Science | More info from EcoSearch

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You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work. You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules. Get your lies straight.

submitted 6 days ago • 735 comments

🧵 I argue that we can understand the functioning of democracy through 3 core ideals, verification, deliberation and accountability. While no democracy fully achieves those ideals, this thread explains how MAGA destroys all three and inevitably results in democratic regression into authoritarianism.

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This is pure fascism and if people don't rise up to go stop this, democracy will be lost permanently. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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All the people I still know in LA laugh and laugh when they hear that "Los Angeles is burning." I made a couple of maps to show just how tiny and localized the protests are. GOPers are working really hard to make an excuse for declaring martial law. People should be very wary of that.

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www.commondreams.org/news/califor... "Every governor, red or blue, should reject this outrageous overreach," said California's Democratic governor, who sued over the president's takeover of the state's National Guard. "We will not let this stand." "Let me be clear: There is no invasion.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

🚨🚨🚨 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did 🚨🚨🚨

submitted 7 days ago • 102 comments