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The "whoever he last spoke with" rule strikes again.

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ok so we have "no way to stop this", and the article linked below. What other evergreen @theonion.com political commentary articles exist out there?

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I love all the handwringing about Zohran’s lack of experience when a 19 year-old called Big Balls has recently been made a permanent federal employee with the title Senior Advisor at the GS-15 pay grade in the General Services Administration.

submitted 16 hours ago • 181 comments

reposting w link + text bc uhhh 'Extremely disturbing and unethical': new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans Department of Veterans Affairs says the changes come in response to a Trump executive order 'defending women' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Veteran photographer Michael Nigro was shot in the head with a non-lethal bullet while covering anti-ICE protests in LA. "It felt very very intentional," Nigro tells NPR, "a chilling effect to convince us to go away." Other reporters say they have been targeted too. My story below:

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Brand-new polling from YouGov out this AM finds Trump's actions re: LA underwater. Double-digit disapproval on sending in Marines. This should be a reality check for those people arguing the protests inherently help Trump bc his immigration approval # is positive. today.yougov.com/topics/polit...

submitted 6 days ago • 150 comments

BREAKING: Armed man arrested at Nashville's 'No Kings' protest had long fascination with Nazis, mass murder www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

submitted 5 hours ago • 88 comments

Spitting FIRE holy shit 🔥

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Hey there Scott Walker. I noticed you deleted this after learning that in fact the shooter was from the right. I don’t think it matters either way, violence is violence, so I’m waiting for you to tweet the same thing with corrected facts? Cuz you’re uh, to use your words, “being silent.”

submitted 13 hours ago • 1993 comments

Infants can literally just stop breathing and die with no warning from “whooping cough” (pertussis) infection. They do not necessarily even get the infamous cough that older children and adults get (and can be severe enough to break ribs). Do not let unvaccinated people around your newborns (or you)

submitted 1 day ago • 91 comments

From xkcd.com/radiation/ (h/t @realitybased1.bsky.social)

submitted 23 hours ago • 34 comments

Had such a fun time with Betts, @kimrhodes.bsky.social, and Briana talking about the SPN episode/pilot we helped create, Wayward Sisters. Such a wonderful time that I miss so much. Check it out for behind the scenes tidbits (and lots of space vagina jokes): season14podcast.libsyn.com/1310-wayward...

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The stupidest people are in charge because we couldn’t prosecute a political crime because it would look too political.

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The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.

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A reminder that 1) the military is doing almost nothing beyond standing around LA 2) ICE is terrorizing people with little ID, including ramming cars in Boyle Heights and 3) the LAPD and LASD has been attacking peaceful demonstrations for the last 9 days.

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Moment of Gratitude: CloudFlare CloudFlare saved the Internet Archive servers from a DDOS yesterday. Max rate of this DDOS attack was 525 Gbps (44.93 Mpps) of a "TCP flood" @archive.org does not have enough bandwidth to fend off that kind of attack = wouldbe bad saturday. Thank you #CloudFlare

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I know a lot of folks like this account. But this is a wild, and unhelpful, exaggeration--it's a resistance version of sean spicer. It veers into #resistanceporn and trades accuracy for clout, like other "blue maga" grifters on here. Pls consider finding other sources of inspiration/news/motivation

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felt like a good time to post this chestnut knock-la.com/tradition-of...

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This is the group I've recommended to several people. They should have some results in a few days.

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It is firmly in the “somebody’s making an active decision to downplay this” territory.

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Once again the correct response to this is to immediately push for a huge amnesty bill. If farm, hotel, and restaurant workers are so vital to the country that even donald trump can admit it, they should all be getting green cards now

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

Omg I love forgetting entirely about things and then remembering them again many years latter with the same immature joy as the first time

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Protests big: defector.com/protests-big

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Good morning to those USA military personnel who are looking to file as a conscientious objector. You don't have to obey unlawful orders, and in fact you must not. There's a website for you. I hear the phone line is pretty tied up right now, because you are not alone.

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From a new interview with @chenoweth.bsky.social, who coined the "3.5% rule": "Most of the movements in our database never got to that threshold and still won with like 1.8% or something like that." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Just an appreciation post for Jacob being on the scene. In the absence of this reporting it would have been he-said/she-said. The sheriffs attacked peaceful protestors including kids with flashbangs, tear gas, and rubber bullets. We need more peaceful protest and more documentation on the ground.

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Before the cops in LA started escalating things for no reason it was funny how my main takeaway was how much people were looking out for each other in really helpful ways. I’ve never seen so many people with carts giving away free water, sunscreen, snacks, and masks to total strangers.

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This is a reference to the iconic, Pulitzer-winning image of a Vietnam War protester. He later moved to SF, renamed himself Hibiscus and formed a drag troupe called the Cockettes. Happy Pride!

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A solider in uniform is handing out free cans of Phorm Energy, an America250 sponsor co-owned by Dana White. A rep from the company was taking a selfie with the soldier handing the products out.

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This is an incredible read of what happens when fantasy and lies meet reality: republicans begging Trump to "just go after criminals" and "spare the agri, hotel, and restaurant" sectors from ICE raids. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

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The number of people arguing with this number because “Alt National Park Service said it was 11 million” is kind of staggering to me. Folks, Alt NPS is not real, okay? None of the “alt” accounts are. They don’t have special knowledge. They pulled that number out of thin air/their ass

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AOC during Zohran for Mayor rally: "There are people out there who say, 'If you go out and make this endorsement, your political career will be over.' And to that I say: I don't care. We will never get to a better place if everyone is just worried about themselves. If it's over, so be it."

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Looks like the reliable estimate of the #NoKings protest here in Philly was 80,000. It was hard to see — I was close to the front of the crowd — but aerial shots are pretty spectacular. www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/n...

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Maybe drop a line to @nbcla.com and let them know you appreciate David Noriega's reporting. We are going to need journalists like this who aren't afraid to tell the truth and a lot of them are getting fired. 📞 818-684-4444 💻 Email: www.nbclosangeles.com/send-feedback

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Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

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Ok, this is best comparative stat, members of media: The DC Pride parade one week ago had a bigger turnout.

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

One more time, here is EFF/Freedom of the Press' guide for journalists securing their devices to cross the US border. Stories like Alistair's help us understand the real threats on the ground and allow us to threat model more accurately. freedom.press/digisec/blog...

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scholar of partisan violence/Latin American Dirty Wars here: there is nothing to distinguish this from how people were taken in Argentina, Guatemala, Chile, etc, except that it's all on camera

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Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

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it is Illegal to not enjoy this. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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We are now tallying 2.6m attendance for No Kings Day events today, with 700 out of 2,100 records. The projection is that we'd be able to count somewhere between 4 and 6.5m people, if all sites reported. (The goal is to provide a good initial est., not a complete one.) docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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“The chaos you’re seeing is not the result of peaceful protestors, it’s the result of actions of law enforcement, specifically the Los Angeles sheriff’s department.” @msnbc.com reporter #nokings

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I reverse my earlier position on tubas

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Official estimate: 5 million attendees at #NoKings, up from 3 million for #HandsOff

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A Democratic Mayor arrested. A Democratic Congresswoman indicted. A Democratic Senator tackled and detained. A Democratic State Representative killed. A Democratic State Representative in critical condition. We can all see where this is going.

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hey remember that speech Eliot gives about the sheriff in the small town mayor’s court episode this year? Yeah. And go read @jesspish.bsky.social book.

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MSNBC reporter on ground in LA right now saying that from what he has seen the protestors have been peaceful but the LA Sheriff’s Dept in particular has been off the chain, quick to use tear gas and rubber bullets in an exceedingly aggressive manner

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More than 2,200 people lined one of the Yakima Valley’s busiest intersections Saturday to protest President Donald Trump and voice their support for democracy. Coverage from @donaldwmeyers.bsky.social‬ at the Yakima Herald-Republic.

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LAPD and LA Sheriffs tried to prevent two large protests from joining together in downtown and both departments ended up hitting EACH OTHER with impact munitions from across the same interesection.

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