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The most striking thing about the LA protests is how many people just dropped everything to show up and yell at federal agents. There are people in suits, and carrying dogs, and wearing flip flops or bike helmets. These are not people who planned to do this today. But there they are.

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On the East Coast NYPD are starting a brutal crackdown on an ice protests by civilians in the city

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Anti-ICE protests continue to escalate in Los Angeles, as more residents take to the streets. photo via AP www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/u...

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Amazing article. USAF officers were told we had alien tech as a possible hazing ritual–many believed it for the rest of their careers. And the story of UFOs disabling nuclear missiles? Secret EMP test. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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“the virus I’ve described - one that is often asymptomatic and evades vaccines - requires ongoing mitigation measures above and beyond what our political leaders were willing to provide, so the realities of the virus were….softened. Whittled. Reshaped.”

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ICE vans ran through a crowd of anti-ICE protesters in Paramount, CA, at least two with extreme injuries, per @acatwithnews.bsky.social A major fire is burning in the middle of the street, per Sean.

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Protesters turn out across L.A. against immigration raids — www.nbclosangeles.com/on-air/prote...

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Fascinating new article from the Wall Street Journal about how the Pentagon has historically created disinformation about the existence of UFOs to hide secret tech

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"And implying that you can know when you have COVID, implies that if you feel well, you don’t have COVID, don’t need to mask, and don’t need to test- which is precisely why we find ourselves in a never-ending series of COVID waves." That's the problem. 👆

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woke dei financial times

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To be clear, people didn’t just take to the street spontaneously. Organizers got the word out, had the local politicians on speed dial, and had the trucks, speakers, signs, PA, and safety signals ready to go. I’m a neighborhood rando. Those guys rule.

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Me in @nytimes: “Lindsey Boylan, the first of Mr. Cuomo’s staff members to go public with complaints that he had harassed her, said that whatever gestures he made toward contrition, including his resignation, were motivated by politics. “He knew that it was the way to salvage his future,”

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When Trump encounters a demographic he doesn’t care for, he “disappears” them–in many cases, the very record of their existence. Meet America’s new “missing persons," and the govt campaign to delete statistical evidence of anyone who doesn't fit Trump’s idea of our new golden age. w/ @ashendruk.com

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The blockbuster horror film "Sinners" features the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in a short, impactful scene. For some Choctaw, it is the first time they've heard their language and seen their culture accurately portrayed on screen.

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been workshopping a new way to stand that will make me seem more normal

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A protest against the detainments of immigrants at 930 e towne in LA beginning to escalate. Detainees are being filed into trucks. Large protest is here. Tear gas has been deployed. More to come.

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Btw, this is a major reason for the helicoptering and excessive screen time. Where are kids going and what can they do that doesn’t cost a ton of money/isn’t criminalized? And,the monstrous racist carcerality that it takes to be the prosecutor who does this to grieving parents? Cursed.

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“The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations, the Guardian has learned”

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Commentary: Study finds removing school mask mandates contributed to 22,000 U.S. COVID deaths in a year www.latimes.com/business/sto...

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if the wheels had come off this thing any faster it'd be a Cybertruck

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I was so scared that when it happened it would be anticlimactic or quiet and, gang, it's nice to have a pleasant surprise!!!!

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Such beauty in life

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This is a level five Goof Situation, all users report to Riff Stations

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www.teenvogue.com/story/privat...

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“Taken together, proposed changes and the expiration of the subsidies could threaten the viability of the Obamacare markets themselves… “This bill poses a seriously existential threat to the future of the Affordable Care Act marketplaces in a way that we haven’t seen since 2017”

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22-year-old Māori lawmaker Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke was just suspended for 7 days over the haka she initiated in New Zealand’s Parliament last year. “The rules of Parliament don't really see or fit Māori people,” she told @teenvogue.com, in the profile we ran just last week.

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the masked cops thing feels very jarring, it is clear and it's scary, but also the masks also feel like just the most obvious demonstration of how police are already a near-total black box into which public information disappears and that's just routine

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I remember this incident vividly. So many white people posted that this was somehow going to "change things" re US policing. Other people knew it would not. I'm so sorry Martin was so badly hurt.

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"To me, it’s clear that this isn’t a story about bad choices. It’s a story about survival in a world that too often mistakes coercion for consent." Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/cassie...

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The UN has called the food distribution points 'death traps' This is genocide.

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"Having a loved one in prison or jail is estimated to cost families across the country nearly $350 billion each year — about four times the amount the federal government estimates it costs taxpayers annually to operate the nation's prisons and jails."

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Peru’s Supreme Court has upheld the land rights of the Kichwa people, affirming their legal claim to ancestral territories in the Amazon. The case is a major precedent for Indigenous land tenure and will protect thousands of hectares of primary rainforest. buff.ly/zpNKo4o #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Coverage of student walkout in support of Marcelo Gomes, the high school junior that ICE kidnapped on his way to volleyball practice Saturday morning. I'm pulling the photos out in the comments bc I want to make sure you guys can see the signs & shirts that these kids made.

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The heartbreaking statement from Jonathan Joss’s husband about his death.

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i've never gotten into short form video or chatgpt and im so hyped to eventually be one of the last remaining people with attention span and analytical skills, i think it's really going to increase my value to enterprising warlords during the water wars

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ICYMI: I wrote about ongoing Republican attacks on COVID vaccines, which make use of years of state propaganda claiming COVID is mild, COVID is over, Long COVID isn't real, and that healthy people have nothing to fear from COVID. www.thegauntlet.news/p/republican...

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You Might Think Trump Has Destroyed Gay Pride in Conservative America, It’s Quite the Opposite. Against all odds, small-town Prides are multiplying and thriving—even in the country's most conservative areas. slate.com/life/2025/06...

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"Harriet Tubman, along with Black soldiers, took part in a daring Union raid of Combahee Ferry near Beaufort, South Carolina. She became the first American woman to lead a major military operation when she and at least 150 Black soldiers helped to rescue more than 700 Black Americans..."

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WSJ: “Support for law firms that didn’t make deals has been growing — At least 11 big companies are moving work away from law firms that settled with Trump or are giving more business to firms that have been targeted but refused to strike deals…” www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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A memorial and jazz funeral honored 19 Black Americans, whose remains were recently repatriated from Germany where they were used for racial research in the late 1800s.

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www.whec.com/local/protes... - people in motion.

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The FDA has updated an ongoing recall of tomatoes distributed in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina to its most severe warning, saying there is a higher probability that potential salmonella contamination could lead to “serious adverse health consequences or death.”

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FBI agents are now visiting Charlottesville’s public defenders at their homes. It’s naked intimidation of our justice system.

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A community-led initiative has implemented 150 green infrastructure projects across New Orleans, making the city more 'spongy'. These affordable solutions collectively retain around 720,000 litres per storm, and give the city's drainage system time to catch up. buff.ly/B52ezKu #ShareGoodNewsToo

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