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Update: lmao

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

Welp. Lol.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

“Borders are made up but people are real. If you imagine the violent killing of a person you know, nobody has to explain to you that this atrocity cannot possibly be justified by the machinations of faraway politicians that you have no influence over.”

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

submitted 1 day ago • 407 comments

ABC earlier called this a “risky move” by the president and I nearly broke the TV Absolutely insane rhetoric, man

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

I was a young’in in the lead up to the Iraq War—was the coverage of this shit equally as horrifying? I’m losing my shit at how..brutal it is

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

I can’t fucking believe we’re doing this.

submitted 1 day ago • 624 comments

This is..something

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

This is an unjust, unprovoked war of aggression.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

submitted 1 day ago • 807 comments

No one fucking wants this

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Cheating on your real life girlfriend with an AI chatbot and then telling the news about it is some next-level absurdity

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

TRAINS BABY, LFG

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Literally doing the Lord’s work

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Several reporters (including myself) are suing the Department of Homeland Security and Noem. The ACLU is calling the preponderance of force towards press and demonstrators “unconstitutional violence.” Statement below. www.aclusocal.org/en/press-rel...

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Less than two hours into my five day drive back to LA and I hit a fucking deer lmao I’m okay, the deer ran off so it should??? Be okay??? Car was driveable enough to get back to the rental place Moral of the story buy the damn damage waiver when you rent a car

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

I’m never moving again, this is hell

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

NEWS: In one of the first major federal prosecutions of an LA protester, the DOJ has moved to dismiss the case. Jose Manuel Mojica was accused of assaulting officers, but came forward to Guardian to recount how he was brutally attacked by agents. “I feel a huge relief. The truth always comes out."

submitted 3 days ago • 90 comments

What were they actually gonna do here? Ask every brown-enough person for their papers to go to the fucking baseball game? This is the most slam-dunk, anti-American thing I can think of. You need a passport to go to a Major League Baseball game now? Malpractice not to make a huge deal out of this.

submitted 3 days ago • 212 comments

The party’s gotta furnish their own warhawks in these unstable times, after all

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

One of the worse kickers of all of this is they filmed a full fash propaganda slop video of the raid that induces absolute blind rage upon viewing

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

82 F, 66% humidity Couldn’t have picked a worse day to load up a moving pod

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Whether in scrubs or hard hats, immigrant workers are sent the same message: Stay quiet, don’t organize, don’t resist, Susan Naranjo writes. ICE tried to make an example out of David Huerta. Now is the time for unions to stand up for immigrant workers. prismreports.org/2025/06/16/d...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

UPDATE: The Los Angeles Press Club has filed suit against the city of Los Angeles and LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell in the Central District of California's federal courts over its actions toward journalists covering anti-ICE protests in recent days. /more

submitted 6 days ago • 31 comments

As long as immigration sweeps are happening in the communities that farm workers live in, farm workers will continue being detained and deported. Farm workers deserve REAL protections, so they can continue working without fear. www.npr.org/2025/06/16/n...

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Lavinia’s hands and tongue were cut off in order to prevent her from identifying her rapists, but yeah, sure, no need to discuss violent misogyny in Shakespeare

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment