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Oh you came here for an argument? Sorry mate you’re in the wrong room. That’s down the hall and to the extreme right. Big X on the door. Stands for Xitter - pronounced shitter - and smells the same.

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Welcome to the Brave New World where down is up and anyone who says otherwise is a fake news reporter

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Friends of ours came on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla — with medicine, hope, and love. Egypt didn’t let them in. They deported them. Gaza is still under siege. Even peaceful help is blocked. This breaks my heart. Please don’t look away.

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This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous. prospect.org/justice/crie...

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Ah the good old days when all travelers had to do was take off their shoes to get through security

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Kat Abughazaleh nails exactly how Americans need to address the dangers of #ICE raids happening now‼️

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Fascists violate human rights, democracy, freedom, dignity, privacy. They're the criminals.

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says violence amid anti-ICE riots was “provoked by the White House” and claims “maybe we are part of a national experiment”

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This doesn't surprise me. I'm a birder and one of my regular spots now has a massive solar farm on it which had been the subject of a lot of NIMBY objection (I was prepared to wait and see - no birds on a dead planet and all that). Obvs this is anecdotal but I think it's been good for birds...

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YES. More solidarity!! (And less scolding)

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The most important part of the BIG BIll is the part that piece that basically says he does not have to follow the direction of the courts. This is why they want it done by Saturday. #revolution2025 better call your lawmakers

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Hitler’s favorite film propagandist is as vile as ever, despite efforts to sanitize her. The ref to Leni Riefenstahl in today’s media landscape is perfectly on point.

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My relatives keep asking me how we're doing in the riots. I say, you mean the police riots? Cuz no one else is rioting.

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I keep coming back to this: a lot of people out here demanding more foresight and self-restraint from people facing down armed agents of the state than they demand of themselves in between their work email and Pornhub browser tabs

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It should be a no brainer for any self-professed defender of science to not choose the side of the history books that write about you supporting and being the mouth piece of cuts to cancer, vaccine and HIV research. It should be a no-brainer but a alas it isn't. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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A woman walking home alone was shot point-blank with “non-lethal” rounds fired by officers in Los Angeles. A neighbor filmed the assault and rushed to help only to be fired on and ordered back.

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“We’re not going to deal with the climate emergency or the fracturing of the foundations of democracy unless we can reassert a confidence in human thinking and judgment. And everything in the AI world is working against that.”

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Funny how there’s always more outrage in the media when a shop window gets broken than when people get kidnapped & sent to a gulag.

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RFK Jr., who's supposed to be all about "facts and logic," is out here removing members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee?!? Y’all, these aren’t political appointees. These are public health experts—people who’ve spent their careers working to keep Americans safe from disease.

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For decades the NRA and other gun nuts told us that their guns were to protect us all from a tyrannical government. So a tyrannical government is here, they are all sitting on their asses, and the people who want gun control have taken to the streets to defy the tyrannical government instead.

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My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:

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@brontyman.bsky.social

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This is good, and I hope it spreads exponentially. No borrowed holding facilities, no hotels to stay in (keep it up Pasadena), no restaurants in which to eat. There is no need to make unconstitutional kidnappers welcome in OUR state.

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Every report from LA is like "small and mostly peaceful protests continued through the evening and into the next day" and yet to here the administration and some commentators describe it it's like...mass violence on a scale we've never seen before.

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This is the spirit of Los Angeles. This is California. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. #FreeDavidEndRaids

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“Especially at a time when we feel that the entire world has turned its back on us and accepted the genocide. To know that there are those out there who are not only speaking out for us, but willing to take a risk to break the siege, is beyond words.”

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On the White House lawn when talking to reporters, Trump just said that if he were Tom Homan, he would arrest Gavin Newsom. He also falsely called LA protestors "insurrectionists," clearly trying to lay the groundwork to invoke the Insurrection Act. Blatant authoritarianism.

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@professorshaw.bsky.social

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Call it what it is: fascism.

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This is blatant fascism. Attack the press to intimidate them. Then kill them if they dont submit. Also, see my previous post on journalist hit in the eye during “race riots” who is now dying.

Oh you came here for an argument? Sorry mate you’re in the wrong room. That’s down the hall and to the extreme right. Big X on the door. Stands for Xitter - pronounced shitter - and smells the same.

Welcome to the Brave New World where down is up and anyone who says otherwise is a fake news reporter

Friends of ours came on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla — with medicine, hope, and love. Egypt didn’t let them in. They deported them. Gaza is still under siege. Even peaceful help is blocked. This breaks my heart. Please don’t look away.

This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous. prospect.org/justice/crie...

Ah the good old days when all travelers had to do was take off their shoes to get through security

Kat Abughazaleh nails exactly how Americans need to address the dangers of #ICE raids happening now‼️

Fascists violate human rights, democracy, freedom, dignity, privacy. They're the criminals.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says violence amid anti-ICE riots was “provoked by the White House” and claims “maybe we are part of a national experiment”

This doesn't surprise me. I'm a birder and one of my regular spots now has a massive solar farm on it which had been the subject of a lot of NIMBY objection (I was prepared to wait and see - no birds on a dead planet and all that). Obvs this is anecdotal but I think it's been good for birds...

YES. More solidarity!! (And less scolding)

The most important part of the BIG BIll is the part that piece that basically says he does not have to follow the direction of the courts. This is why they want it done by Saturday. #revolution2025 better call your lawmakers

Hitler’s favorite film propagandist is as vile as ever, despite efforts to sanitize her. The ref to Leni Riefenstahl in today’s media landscape is perfectly on point.

My relatives keep asking me how we're doing in the riots. I say, you mean the police riots? Cuz no one else is rioting.

I keep coming back to this: a lot of people out here demanding more foresight and self-restraint from people facing down armed agents of the state than they demand of themselves in between their work email and Pornhub browser tabs

It should be a no brainer for any self-professed defender of science to not choose the side of the history books that write about you supporting and being the mouth piece of cuts to cancer, vaccine and HIV research. It should be a no-brainer but a alas it isn't. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A woman walking home alone was shot point-blank with “non-lethal” rounds fired by officers in Los Angeles. A neighbor filmed the assault and rushed to help only to be fired on and ordered back.

“We’re not going to deal with the climate emergency or the fracturing of the foundations of democracy unless we can reassert a confidence in human thinking and judgment. And everything in the AI world is working against that.”

Funny how there’s always more outrage in the media when a shop window gets broken than when people get kidnapped & sent to a gulag.

RFK Jr., who's supposed to be all about "facts and logic," is out here removing members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee?!? Y’all, these aren’t political appointees. These are public health experts—people who’ve spent their careers working to keep Americans safe from disease.

For decades the NRA and other gun nuts told us that their guns were to protect us all from a tyrannical government. So a tyrannical government is here, they are all sitting on their asses, and the people who want gun control have taken to the streets to defy the tyrannical government instead.

My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:

@brontyman.bsky.social

This is good, and I hope it spreads exponentially. No borrowed holding facilities, no hotels to stay in (keep it up Pasadena), no restaurants in which to eat. There is no need to make unconstitutional kidnappers welcome in OUR state.

Every report from LA is like "small and mostly peaceful protests continued through the evening and into the next day" and yet to here the administration and some commentators describe it it's like...mass violence on a scale we've never seen before.

This is the spirit of Los Angeles. This is California. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. #FreeDavidEndRaids

“Especially at a time when we feel that the entire world has turned its back on us and accepted the genocide. To know that there are those out there who are not only speaking out for us, but willing to take a risk to break the siege, is beyond words.”

On the White House lawn when talking to reporters, Trump just said that if he were Tom Homan, he would arrest Gavin Newsom. He also falsely called LA protestors "insurrectionists," clearly trying to lay the groundwork to invoke the Insurrection Act. Blatant authoritarianism.

@professorshaw.bsky.social

Call it what it is: fascism.

This is blatant fascism. Attack the press to intimidate them. Then kill them if they dont submit. Also, see my previous post on journalist hit in the eye during “race riots” who is now dying.

Reposting for the ascii art. I miss those days.

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