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Masks are under serious threat at being banned widely due to politicization. This would be a public health disaster. If you are only wearing a mask at protests, please consider also wearing them elsewhere. The more people mask, the more we normalize masks and protect them against bans.

submitted 20 hours ago • 36 comments

This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, massive.

submitted 22 hours ago • 414 comments

There's a thread on AskReddit asking, "People who have had to drain their life’s savings on a single event, what happened?" 99% of the answers are depressing American stories about medical bills, 1% is an Australian who found a wombat burrowing under their house.

submitted 9 hours ago • 139 comments

my daughter made a chart of birth month pastries and asked me to share it with the internet

submitted 20 hours ago • 46 comments

assassinations, handcuffing a senator at press conference, marines detaining a civilian, and a military parade for the president’s birthday. rough week for democracy.

submitted 1 day ago • 94 comments

Barber: A would be king has ordered U.S. troops to occupy Los Angeles and parade down the streets of Washington DC. We are here to say that is not who we are

submitted 1 day ago • 171 comments

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

submitted 1 day ago • 156 comments

We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again

submitted 1 day ago • 231 comments

We should make June 14th No Kings Day permanently.

submitted 1 day ago • 375 comments

One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup

submitted 1 day ago • 464 comments

Andrea King Waters: Is this America when tanks roll through our neighborhoods, but health care doesn't?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I don’t really have words to explain how it feels to see Kristi Noem standing on a street in East LA that looks like the street I grew up on in East LA with an invading military force trying to kidnap people who look like the neighbors I grew up with. It stays with you, spiritually.

submitted 2 days ago • 183 comments

NYT found the “big beautiful bill” would be the largest transfer from the poor to the rich in a single law since at least 1990. In fact, it would be the largest transfer ever. Reagan’s low-income cuts were MUCH smaller - and his tax cuts were done separately. And before him, nothing comes close.

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

""It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy," said Simon..." www.wnep.com/article/news...

submitted 2 days ago • 398 comments

I mean yes. The entire point of peacefully protesting is so that when shit like this happens, people get rightfully outraged. This is going viral precisely because of how much of an overreaction it was.

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

This is so important it hurts. This is the tiny area of a massive sprawling city that Trump is attacking and the entire propaganda machine is churning to make us believe more is happening. Don’t fall for the lies.

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

NEW FROM CBO: brutal distributional analysis of House GOP "Big Beautiful Bill" On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP bill Avg gets little - and are worse off if you include tariffs This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

submitted 3 days ago • 61 comments

When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.

submitted 3 days ago • 290 comments

Seems noteworthy to me that they're admitting that they're sending in the military because of the state government's ideology!!!

submitted 3 days ago • 154 comments

Are we really fucking doing this. Had nothing happened to Senator Padilla at all, what she was describing is a federal takeover of a major city by military force with no specified end-date, with no legal authority. Do not let the fascists talk their way out of that.

submitted 3 days ago • 51 comments

In the past week, a union leader has been arrested, a U.S. Rep charged with a crime, a U.S. Senator violently handcuffed, and reporters shot with rubber bullets and detained. There is no ambiguity. This is a regime operating as an authoritarian. Americans who believe in liberty must oppose it.

submitted 3 days ago • 393 comments

A great way for Senate Democrats to protest what’s going on is to not have almost 40% of the caucus keep voting to advance a money laundering bill.

submitted 3 days ago • 41 comments

Also cannot be emphasized enough: Barack Obama successfully negotiated the shutdown of Iran's nuclear program. It exists today because Trump deliberately tore up that agreement. The deaths happening right now can be laid at his door.

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

This is how. Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.

submitted 5 days ago • 73 comments

What would you say if you saw it in another country? A senator from a coequal branch of government dragged away by security from asking a question of a Cabinet official

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

Conservatives believe every city is completely on fire all the time and there is no level of protester discipline that can make them stop believing that

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

DING DONG!! DING DONG!!!

submitted 4 days ago • 67 comments

submitted 64 days ago • 4 comments

Met an active duty member of the military yesterday who filed conscientious objector paperwork in response to deployment of military on U.S. soil. Was told multiple Army have filed, unknown quantities in other branches.

submitted 5 days ago • 474 comments

We’ve leapt over a lot of red lines in the last week. But one I find most worrying is Trump/MAGA/ICE have ceased even pretending to claim some criminal pretext for cracking down on protected speech. It’s just straight up “if you criticize us, you’re getting throttled/arrested/disappeared.”

submitted 5 days ago • 57 comments

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

submitted 5 days ago • 581 comments

"A society can't allow EVERYBODY to have free speech!" is a helluva take.

submitted 5 days ago • 234 comments

Don’t forget to breathe. Breathe in for 4, hold for 7, exhale for 8. It signals safety to your nervous system and helps bring you back to centre. No matter the situation, we need to be regulated to think, to act, to not freeze.

submitted 6 days ago • 8 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 7 days ago • 163 comments

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

submitted 7 days ago • 264 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 7 days ago • 897 comments

Also point this out to anyone you can. These were not planned protests. These were normies getting the supplies for their weekend projects or at a restaurant and saw their servers getting hauled off and were like this is some bullshit.

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

1 in 12 Americans live in California. 1 in 35 Americans live in LA County. LA is America

submitted 7 days ago • 119 comments

not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser

submitted 8 days ago • 86 comments

Anecdotal, but I'm definitely noticing an uptick in advocacy for violence here. About which I'll say only this: Promoting violence on social media is the work of trolls and fools, those eager to bait others into implicating themselves in the age of surveillance or fools rushing to the gulag.

submitted 91 days ago • 481 comments

ICE is a criminal organization willfully carrying out illegal orders and the people of California are right to resist this. respect to the fighters and power to the people

submitted 8 days ago • 164 comments

the literal mascot of the whole country is the statue who greets immigrants

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

Feels like a uniquely American brand of stupidity to try and mobilize troops for the battle of Home Depot

submitted 8 days ago • 232 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 8 days ago • 360 comments

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

submitted 8 days ago • 102 comments

Omfg

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

"The clear message here is that these are two distinct constructs, they mean different things, and they should not be used interchangeably”

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

everyone deserves human rights. trying to carve out exceptions because 'its complicated' is just trying to subvert the principle. either everyone gets them or no one has them. i accept that life is complicated and there are many difficult situations and nuances. but core ideas are simple

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

Dandelions Rejoicing Richard Calver 1989

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment