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The most consequential Speaker in state history.

submitted 3 days ago • 804 comments

Reminder that most "red" states have a sizable population who're gerrymandered out of power. Support those who resist!

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Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

submitted 6 days ago • 842 comments

Notice she's not talking about "criminals" anymore. Now they're onto who they perceive as their enemies, including the people we elected. They want to use L.A. to show they can force liberal cities into submission.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

You hate us for what we are; we only hate you for the things you do

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Sources said that even at the start of his second term, Trump was discussing with multiple advisers where & when it would make sense to send in federal troops, either for supposed crime control or in response to larger-scale public activism against his agenda. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 8 days ago • 163 comments

A developing situation here in MN: lots of people talking about it over on IG but not seeing it on here: looks like local poet and activist Isa Lopez got snatched by federal agents. Georgia Fort is reporting on it too. For now, just re-sharing the call(s) to action that Jeremiah Ellison shared:

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Every institution that is run by people with actual wealth, power & privilege are bending the knee and licking boots, and it's those of us with, like, $32 in our bank accounts and everything to lose actually fighting back. If that's not proof of who the real enemy is & has always been, nothing is.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

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submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

I need y’all to come to terms with the fact that this isn’t going to be pretty. It’s not going to be permitted protests and pussy hats. This is a war against a violent fascist regime. And if everyone’s biggest concern is the property damage, we’re going to lose.

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.

submitted 9 days ago • 205 comments

this is something to keep in mind: the fascism playbook doesn’t say “bait your opposition into doing what you want so that you can do more of what you want” it says “do what you want, invent a justification when needed, blame it on your opposition if useful”

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

If you are arrested during a protest or action against ICE or CPD in Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. (This is an offer for criminal defense; I unfortunately don't do immigration law.)

submitted 10 days ago • 31 comments

One thing is for certain after this week: Local cops in sanctuary cities—Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York—are working in lock step with DHS and ICE.

submitted 11 days ago • 136 comments

I'm losing track of the videos of stand-offs between everyday people and militarized ICE agents & associates. It's all simmer until it boils over. Or, to mix my metaphors, fascism is flicking lit matches into dry grass.

submitted 11 days ago • 19 comments

Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today

submitted 11 days ago • 644 comments

The videos coming out of the Gestapo terror raid in Los Angeles today are absolutely horrifying and really should wake you up to the new reality of American fascism. It’s here it’s coming for us all and unless we fight for one another we will not survive.

submitted 11 days ago • 20 comments

TRUMP-MUSK MELTDOWN: IS IT NAZI? Okay, okay, I realize the end of the #Trump #Musk #Bromance doesn’t seem like Nazi fascism so much as a bitchy break-up. But once again, there are parallels from history that can tell us a LOT about the present. brandy-schillace.medium.com/trump-musk-m...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Taking off my shitposter: the reason we are being SO jokey is we clearly see these terrifying people shouldn't be in charge of everything, are destroying and stealing the entire country, we are powerless to stop it because even the Democrats hate us, and one day people will say no one saw it coming

submitted 12 days ago • 22 comments

Elon Musk believes that a majority of the base for the Democratic Party is subhuman. This cannot be squared. Ever. There's no common ground.

submitted 12 days ago • 20 comments

I know everyone is loving the Musk schadenfreude but we have to stay on the alert for the possibility that Musk is going to turn his sights to those centrist dem conventions going on and further entrench transphobia and anti-immigrant sentiment. And they would easily work with him.

submitted 13 days ago • 142 comments

Good read. Musk is detrimental to neurodiversity. While he might lack empathy, autistic people tend to be highly empathetic and champions for doing the right thing. Musk might think he’s being superior, but what he’s doing is perpetuating a harmful stereotype. #musk #wtf #neurodiversity #autism

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Health experts came out with a new analysis yesterday concluding the MAGA murder budget will lead to 51,000 preventable deaths from its health care cuts - every single year.

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

For the July/August issue of @motherjones.com, I dived into Elon Musk's relationship with Aspie supremacy and how it's promoted online. This ideology, coined by the late autistic blogger Mel Baggs, also dehumanizes autistic people with high support needs. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

If you can't see the connection between these two things, I don't know what to tell you.

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

This is why my favorite festival is Summerfest in Milwaukee. Working hours are dedicated to children's entertainment and local bands. 5-6pm is when the touring bands start playing. Single day tickets are reasonable so come for as many or as little of the 9 days you want.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Like damn I love it, but this an insult to Inter Milan. I feel so bad for their backup goalie.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

No one asked for this, and I don't see Doctor Who discourse on my feeds, so this might be going into the void but here's my take on that finale. And the Disney+ era for that matter... These last two seasons had some of the most clever plotting and were the deepest thematically of the modern era. 1/

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