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one of the biggest advances in technology over the last twenty years is a shift in focus from “how can we make things better?” to “how can we make things worse?”

submitted 1 hour ago • 3 comments

I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.

submitted 2 hours ago • 544 comments

Four LAPD officers on horseback surround a man laying on the ground, trample him, and beat him with their polycarbonate "saber" batons.

submitted 15 hours ago • 280 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 18 hours ago • 804 comments

Another thing to mention for people who don't live in LA. Most of LA is very chill and peaceful right now. There's a huge Pride fest going on, countless farmer's markets, tourists walking around, families at the parks, people walking their dogs. It's a big place.

submitted 17 hours ago • 67 comments

cops doing crime on camera. as @chadloder.bsky.social has been pointing out all day, this is totally illegal. cops doing crime. on camera. adjust your stupid headlines accordingly.

submitted 17 hours ago • 138 comments

she’s like 15 feet away. absolutely that man’s whole thought process was: “I’m gonna shoot that woman”

submitted 16 hours ago • 276 comments

Rep. Gomez: LA County alone is 34% foreign born, 34%. So when he says they're going to liberate us, who is he going to liberate us from? Ourselves?

submitted 19 hours ago • 499 comments

Yes every conservative social media site becomes a tropical rainforest of school shooters and Ponzi schemes but did you know that there is a left-wing social media site where people are rude to the nation’s center-right political pundits

submitted 18 hours ago • 67 comments

A reason im not moved by the “don’t give the trump administration the pretext they’re looking for” is that we would not dare say that about any anti-authoritarian protest movement in literally any other country

submitted 18 hours ago • 106 comments

My statement on what's unfolding in Los Angeles.

submitted 19 hours ago • 405 comments

The weird, often whitewashed way the civil rights movement is taught (or not taught) seemed to convince a lot of people that nonviolence was met with nonviolence, instead of you know, dogs, hoses, beatings, death, etc

submitted 1 day ago • 299 comments

There is no mass-deportation campaign going on right now. Deportation is a process. This is kidnapping and human trafficking.

submitted 20 hours ago • 307 comments

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

submitted 21 hours ago • 2963 comments

Important thing to beat people over the head with: Trump has turned American cities into warzones and for fucking what? Prices are way up, jobs will be way down, the dollar is worth less, and now the highway is blocked off by cops. Maybe the Great Mythical Immigrant wasn’t the problem after all.

submitted 20 hours ago • 118 comments

"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated. “I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 23 hours ago • 541 comments

How do you know when something is irrelevant? When people are writing opinion columns over and over again, week after week, stating it is irrelevant

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

the fact that it's essentially impossible to hold a federal agent responsible for their unconstitutional behavior should be a bigger deal while federal agents are assaulting a city

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

How on earth can this country still hold the World Cup and Olympics next year??

submitted 23 hours ago • 1083 comments

She is a tourist from Chile, and these cops left her teenage daughter on the streets of New York City alone. Why anybody would come to this country right now blows my mind.

submitted 5 days ago • 177 comments

It’s obvious but worth drawing out what raids of Home Depot’s of all places is about. It’s rounding up people who are really eager for work and for whom there is work, peoples whose labor is in demand. We know this but shows just how far it is from rounding up just the bad guys.

submitted 22 hours ago • 399 comments

Still waiting for the article that’s like “these right wing militia members are in a bubble and it would be healthier if they exposed themselves to left wing ideas”

submitted 22 hours ago • 162 comments

Elon Musk perfectly laying out the case against privatization in a single tweet

submitted 22 hours ago • 178 comments

The most bizarre thing about the COVID School Closure Discourse is how commentators take it for granted that closing schools had no effect on transmission or deaths but that's not at all what the evidence says.

submitted 21 hours ago • 38 comments

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) pleaded with National Guard troops not to use their weapons against protesters.

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

My 9 yo saved up and bought a Gatling gun. The nerf arms race has really escalated since I was a kid

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

Less than 45 minutes after President Donald Trump thanked the National Guard "for a job well done!" Mayor Karen Bass clarified on social media "the National Guard has not been deployed in the City of Los Angeles."

submitted 1 day ago • 144 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 1 day ago • 113 comments

One of these photos is how HBO's The Watchmen depicted a fascist police force back in 2018 The others are real photos of the ICE agents who are rounding people up and disappearing them in Boston, Denver, L.A., and elsewhere

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments

The military isn’t being employed to carry out an immigration policy. The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.

submitted 1 day ago • 360 comments

Rest and relaxation on this #caturday! 😻

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

Today: Tanks are being moved en masse into DC. Trump is deploying a state national guard over a governor’s objection to police protests. Trump threatened a major donor with “severe consequences” if they support his political opponents. If you’re still wondering what time it is, read this again

submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments

Have national Dems, who claim to want to "win back" the working class, said anything yet about ICE injuring and arresting the head of the SEIU of California? truthout.org/articles/ice...

submitted 1 day ago • 121 comments

So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be the story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

submitted 2 days ago • 316 comments

Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.

submitted 2 days ago • 203 comments

"So here's the plan -- we impose massive tariffs on the nations that sell us food." "Hmm." "But it's OK, because we just rely more on states like California that grow a lot of the same things." "Oh, I guess that ..." "And then we go to war with California."

submitted 2 days ago • 330 comments

These are one sentence apart. Words, what do they mean. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 75 comments

ICE isn’t rounding up migrants at Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ meatpacking plants. They're provoking riots in Los Angeles. I wonder, is this provocation laying the groundwork for a pretext to declare martial law? And then I remember all those many tanks shipped to DC, the home of so many protests.

submitted 1 day ago • 492 comments

Oh, Canada.

submitted 1 day ago • 228 comments

Greetings! A large immigration operation and subsequent protest in Paramount, CA has led to a large amount of gas and “less lethal” munitions. Situation ongoing. Will update as I can.

submitted 2 days ago • 77 comments

“We have observed approximately 90% of the workers targeted for terminations due to a perceived association with diversity, equity and inclusion efforts are women or nonbinary,” said an attorney representing federal staffers. By @davidmcswane.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Sean just took a fucking headshot and is en route to the emergency room. Thousands of you have shared his work today. Pay the man:

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Hell of a photo

submitted 1 day ago • 407 comments