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Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

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📚Two standout novels —Laila Lalami's near-future dystopia in “The Dream Hotel” and Adam Haslett's real-world immigration purgatory in “Mothers and Sons”—explore how lives are forever altered in five-minute hearings. @pantheonbooks.sky.social @lailalalami.com @littlebrown.bsky.social #Booksky

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"As Israel strikes targets across the Iranian capital...it hits civil-society figures associated with the country’s protest movement alongside officials...Parnia Abbasi, 23, a poet and an English teacher, was killed together with her parents and brother on the first day of the air campaign..."

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Is it that many New Yorkers find the field disappointing per NYT or rather NYT finds the preferences of many voting New Yorkers disappointing?

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Bill Ackman just donated another $250,000 to the pro-Cuomo super PAC. He's now the third-biggest donor to Fix the City. 1. Mike Bloomberg: $5,000,000 2. Doordash: $1,000,000 3. Ackman: $500,000 4. Daniel Loeb: $350,000 5. Matthew Hulsizer: $300,000 www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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Don’t rank Cuomo.

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The Los Angeles Press Club says law enforcement officers have violated press freedoms of reporters covering anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles more than three dozen times. https://n.pr/3Zw0tPg

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Impunity is fuelling Israel’s spiralling aggression 🌎 Ben Reiff

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I ❤️ Los Angeles.

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If the Democrats don't shut down the Senate. I don't want to hear anything. If any of you whine in my mentions saying 'they can't do that' you will be blocked. Schumer has been in the Senate for 90 million years he knows what to do.

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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.

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Shut the Senate down now Shut it the fuck down No collaborating with fascists

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More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.

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John Fetterman, Tim Kaine, Andy Kim, Gary Peters, Jeanne Shaheen, Elissa Slotkin. If these are your senators, call and let them know what you think.

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It's impossible to believe they didn't recognize the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety, but the fact they're going with this explanation shows they know they screwed up. This is weakness, not strength. They can be beaten.

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This totally outrageous and unacceptable. Padilla represents the people of California and he is there to ask questions.

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Megabill would cost poorest households $1,600 a year, boost richest by $12K, according to Congress’ nonpartisan scorekeeper.

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It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

submitted 6 days ago • 531 comments

Protesters by the thousands marched through Chicago on Tuesday, stopping traffic in the downtown Loop and chanting anti-Trump slogans as they denounced immigration raids in Los Angeles, Chicago and other cities.

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We feed you. They hunt us.

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These 75 Democrats joined Republicans to "express gratitude" to ICE agents and call for greater local and state collaboration with ICE. jonathancohn.medium.com/a-tale-of-tw...

submitted 7 days ago • 685 comments

Ted over here redefining the freedom of speech, assembly, and protest as the freedom to “observe.”

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Veterans lead demonstration at Camp Pendleton against potential LA military deployment. Veterans urge Marines to consider the legality of potential orders. www.cbs8.com/article/news...

submitted 9 days ago • 25 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 9 days ago • 898 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 9 days ago • 108 comments

They came masked and armed to the teeth to protect us all from the horrible problem of a few dudes outside the Home Depot looking for good honest work.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

This is an incredible document in which #Trump claims ICE protests “constitute a form of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States” and authorizes Pete Hegseth to deploy “regular Armed Forces” against protesters—anywhere in the US. (Notably, CA isn’t mentioned anywhere.)

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Just to recap, Trump has taken the extraordinary step of federalizing 2000 member of the California National Guard — over the objections of the state’s governor — in response to a protest that currently involves A FEW DOZEN PEOPLE AT A HOME DEPOT

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Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many federal employees dismissed under DOGE’s staff-slashing initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process.

submitted 11 days ago • 163 comments

The president of Chad, Mahamat Idriss Deby Itnoo announcing a reciprocal travel ban on Americans: "Chad has neither airplanes to offer nor billions of dollars to give, but Chad does have its own dignity and pride."

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Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

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You gotta laugh (before you cry.)

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this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

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I want to remind everyone that without Elon Musk, we wouldn't be in this situation where our academic institutions, science enterprise, and democracy are being dismantled, and millions of additional people around the world are going to die. We want both of them to lose horribly in this fight.

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🚨🚨🚨 In the last two hours, the Trump admin: - Banned all immigrant visas from 19 countries, including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela - Banned all student and researcher visas to Harvard - Colluded with Texas to kick 20,000 undocumented college students off of in-state tuition.

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Abducting people at work sites - meaning they have jobs. Capturing them at court dates - meaning they're following the law. Blocking them from accessible higher education - meaning they're striving for more. And peddling lies about jobless, lawless, driftless.

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Reem Zaidan, a mother of 8, was killed while waiting for aid in Rafah. Her children mourned her at Nasser hospital. Israel killed 27 Palestinians near a food line — the third attack in as many days. UN says blocking aid may constitute a war crime. #GazaFamine #AidMassacre

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Save Laila. Free Alaa.

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“Tomorrow!” cried Toad. “I will do it all tomorrow!”

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headline construction masterclass

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For anyone that wants to read an engrossing novel about what kind of future this is we’re possible living and moving towards, check out @lailalalami.com ‘s Dream Hotel. Then get offline, maybe forever…

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“If you ask people about their dreams, you’re going to hear all kinds of stories that science cannot explain.” Emily Doyle interviewed Laila Lalami about her new novel, The Dream Hotel. @emilydoyle.bsky.social @lailalalami.com‬ worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/pun...

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Hey, if you're at Society of Novel Studies in Durham, come to my panel _I Am (Not) a Robot_! It's on Friday, May 30 from 2:30-4:15. I'm presenting on @lailalalami.com's newest novel The Dream Hotel!

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Saddened to hear that Ngũgĩ' wa Thiong'o has passed away. I remember coming across The River Between in a literature class in Morocco three decades ago, and feeling an immediate sense of kinship and recognition. His work gave me permission to dream, to speak, to write. RIP to one of the greats.

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New FOREVER WARS is about question I can’t get out of my mind since I saw the little girl in the burning school yesterday.

submitted 21 days ago • 7 comments

my most Gen X coded belief is that cities and the culture at large suffer profoundly for the near-complete death of alt-weeklies

submitted 21 days ago • 78 comments

A looming disaster for universities in the U.S. College presidents need to form a strong and united front before it’s too late!

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