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My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

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Regarding recent immigration actions and the Club World Cup.

submitted 16 hours ago • 217 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.

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Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

submitted 3 days ago • 314 comments

"If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived."

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

Dictator shit and I sincerely hope our national media treats this as the terrifying thing it is. Blaring headlines and what not. But since Trump and the media have normalized this language for a decade, I am not sanguine.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Los Angeles is the second largest (and second most populous) US city and the US attorney general is calling it a "city of criminals"

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At no point in this entire article of 16 paragraphs does ABC mention that another cop killed this cop by shooting her in the back. Nor does it mention the name of the cop who killed this cop. Nor does it mention that the civilians involved never fired at them. ABC might as well be state media.

submitted 4 days ago • 244 comments

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The Speaker of the House endorsing the administration's militarized response to domestic political opposition.

submitted 5 days ago • 83 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 6 days ago • 63 comments

This is so jarringly unAmerican that I sort of hope it wakes some normies up. It is occurring in a context where military-style equipment is being used to enforce immigration roundups and conveys the notion that we are increasingly living in a police state.

submitted 6 days ago • 333 comments

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Biden failed at many things but he made a major break with Clintonite free trade and especially Obama's pint-sized stimulus policy and got basically no credit for it. Not Great for the prospects of future full employment

submitted 9 days ago • 53 comments

Running a successful business with warehouses and hub distribution and HR and lawyers and salespeople and staff and happy customers... MAGA: "is this communism?"

submitted 9 days ago • 135 comments

headline construction masterclass

submitted 13 days ago • 489 comments

Why is this not front-page news? Where is the outrage and alarm?

submitted 13 days ago • 58 comments

On Earth 2.0, folks on the other side of the aisle would say loud and clear that if "everyone involved in the deal understand the payment as the price of merger approval" then it is a bribe, and all of those people should expect to go to prison if it goes ahead in the next administration

submitted 16 days ago • 25 comments

Don’t fall for this crap and don’t let people you know fall for it either. He’s committed dozens of serious crimes he needs to be prosecuted. It may take until 2028, but it’s going to happen.

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Enjoying the European Gymnastics Championship Mixed Team finals! It’s an interesting format with lots of potential for strategic depth. There are 3 rounds, gymnasts choose which apparatus in each (no repeats). First round, the top 8/16 teams advance, then scores reset. Second determines 1/2 & 3/4.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

holy shit lolololol

submitted 20 days ago • 24 comments

Top tier troublemaking of good trouble.

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This guy is like one of 4 Americans who actually went and got their REAL ID and immediately they said it was a fake. Just so everyone knows when they toss your ass in a truck it won't matter what passport or identification you have they'll throw it in the street and you're gone

submitted 21 days ago • 369 comments

The man told Noticias Telemundo that authorities took his ID from his wallet and told him it was fake before handcuffing him.

submitted 21 days ago • 237 comments

The political theory behind IRA was roughly as follows: We have lost control of the information landscape and can no longer win rhetorical or purely political battles; however, if we make substantive policy progress that directly touches voters' lives, they will notice and reward us.

submitted 21 days ago • 106 comments

It's only a gestapo if it comes from the Staatspolizei region of Germany. Everything else is merely sparkling secret police.

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@tantacrul.bsky.social I just watched your video about Dorico from 5 years ago and was struck when you said that you reached for Sibelius for a commission. I wondered if, after 5 years of doing design for Musescore, what software would you use if commissioned today? If it’s changed, when?

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"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

submitted 35 days ago • 631 comments

Disappearing an elected official.

submitted 35 days ago • 100 comments

Amazing. UHC shareholders are suing because after the CEO shooting, the company was “no longer willing” to use “aggressive, anti-consumer tactics” to generate the profits they were promised. A gift from the content gods.

submitted 36 days ago • 91 comments

ah, an exactly wrong take the reason mon mothma becomes the figurehead of the rebel alliance and that the alliance gets catalyzed is because Ghorman protesters are radicalized and armed and pushed into accelerationist action by a terrorist leader this isn't subtext it's text

submitted 36 days ago • 47 comments

I mean, this is genuinely ridiculous. It's a novel being played out live on a football pitch.

submitted 38 days ago • 12 comments

I like this analysis but I think the reason is just that some people like the attention they get from having dumb takes.

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments

Breaking: federal district court orders North Carolina to certify state supreme court election for Democrat Allison Riggs & rejects Republican attempt to overturn election and throw out thousands of votes. Huge victory for democracy & fair elections www.courtlistener.com/docket/69489...

submitted 39 days ago • 45 comments

Just passing along some friendly advice on how to approach potential changes to the Australian health care system @drruthmitchell.bsky.social

submitted 40 days ago • 107 comments

Stripe already has a way for iOS developers to dodge Apple’s payment system

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This is a big deal—not just a process-based ruling, but a holding that Trump’s Alien Enemy Act proclamation is substantively invalid on its face. This will obviously not be the last word, but it’s a really important step in the AEA litigation.

submitted 43 days ago • 62 comments

Somewhere along the way, The Verge stopped being a great tech news site and became one of America's most important news outlets, full stop.

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Yes, this is a genuine 1949 DC Comics illustration printed on book covers distributed to schools in the US.

submitted 44 days ago • 14 comments

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

submitted 45 days ago • 1330 comments

Providence City Councilor Justin Roias: “Yesterday, ICE tased & detained a Providence resident with a pregnant U.S. citizen wife & a green card interview that same day.”

submitted 48 days ago • 77 comments