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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 12 hours ago • 392 comments

The other side, shout out to my guy Nemik

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Waiting for White House to blame Biden for the parade planning.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Photo Gallery: No Kings Day, Orange County, CA Full gallery here: socaljourno.com/photo-galler... #NoKingsDay

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

submitted 1 day ago • 218 comments

Genie: ok what do you want for your birthday Trump: a military parade, oh, and also millions of people on the street chanting my name Genie: okie dokie

submitted 1 day ago • 63 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

Any person in uniform wearing a mask and refusing to be properly and reliably identified should be assumed to be the same kind of murderer we’ve seen in Minnesota.

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

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. 🧵

submitted 3 days ago • 39 comments

Regarding recent immigration actions and the Club World Cup.

submitted 2 days ago • 227 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

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 5 days ago • 323 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 6 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 7 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"

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

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 6 days ago • 244 comments

🧵

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

submitted 7 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 7 days ago • 62 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 8 days ago • 333 comments

🧵

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

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 11 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 11 days ago • 135 comments

headline construction masterclass

submitted 15 days ago • 489 comments

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

submitted 15 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 17 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.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

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 18 days ago • 1 comment

holy shit lolololol

submitted 22 days ago • 24 comments

Top tier troublemaking of good trouble.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

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 23 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 23 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 23 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.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

@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?

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

"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 37 days ago • 631 comments

Disappearing an elected official.

submitted 37 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 38 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 38 days ago • 47 comments

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

submitted 40 days ago • 12 comments