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It's somehow ALWAYS the job of the protesters to de-escalate as if we're the ones with the tear gas, rubber bullets, tanks, and a proven record of murder. Cops however are ungovernable rabid dogs, who collect salaries from us but over whom we have absolutely no control. Good deal huh?

submitted 18 hours ago • 39 comments

Probably don't need to worry too much about finding the appropriate form of anti-fascist protest because there is no form of protest that fascists will find acceptable

submitted 11 hours ago • 22 comments

the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

submitted 21 hours ago • 267 comments

I never in a million years thought that my politics would start moving toward Marxism, but the current situation in the US really and truly is a class war.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options: 1-877-447-4487

submitted 1 day ago • 88 comments

The unrest that Trump is causing in LA sure feels like it's going to be his attempt at a "Reichstag Fire" event.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Criticism of Israeli policies is not antisemitism. Defacing a Holocaust memorial is absolutely antisemitism. Horrible.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I agree with this 💯 The racists are having their revenge.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

Paul Verhoeven couldn't even make something so blatantly satirical

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

I believe nonviolent protest is critically important and in fact the single most effective driver of change (that doesn’t come with an indefensible body count) I also believe the time to lecture protesters on protest tactics during a fascist incursion is after you got arrested with them

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

full blown police riot in progress. never let them reframe this.

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

Don't forget it

submitted 2 days ago • 188 comments

What happened last night and today was manufactured propaganda by the Trump admin to justify using the military against Americans. Let us be clear: the military should never police civilians without a request from the state. So much for the so-called party of states’ rights and law and order.

submitted 2 days ago • 63 comments

reminder that abolish ICE was the moderate position

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Moral of the story is: keep pushing & keep doing things with others.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The feds kidnapping and trafficking people is a violent crime. Protesting it is fighting back against abuses of power. The government claiming protestors started the violence is DARVO—Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender. It’s what abusers do when they face consequences.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

If you do get teargassed, BAG YOUR CLOTHES. Wash them as soon as you can, or throw them out.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Getting some early excitement to attend FLAG Con 2025, the local tabletop gaming convention in my town! And I live walking distance to where it'll be held. The con isn't until November, but volunteer spots open in a week. Follow them here on BSky: @flagconithaca.bsky.social www.flagconithaca.com

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

And people ask why kids don't go out more these days and parents don't make them anymore... These kids were allowed to walk a couple blocks over to the store. That's it. That's why these parents were torn away from their other child (who saw his brother die) and denied attending the funeral.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

submitted 4 days ago • 349 comments

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

submitted 5 days ago • 534 comments

🔊 There ain’t no kings in the USA! While Trump has tanks rolling through DC for his authoritarian parade on June 14, we’re gathering everywhere else for No Kings Day. Let’s show the world what democracy really looks like — find an event near you: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

submitted 8 days ago • 64 comments

Trans people deserve better. You deserve better. The world deserves better.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

More of this please

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

this & every story like it is an advertisement. "AI" has not done and cannot do any of these things, you could make a stronger claim that some video game enemies are alive because they take cover when shot at

submitted 7 days ago • 41 comments

I don’t want to live in a world where people are in jail and barred from work for smoking weed but an unelected man actively abusing ketamine faces no repercussions for illegally seizing all of our data and making decisions that kill hundreds of thousands of people

submitted 11 days ago • 110 comments

been trying to figure out the feeling of the forced march to AI, a thing that no one wants or needs and will almost certainly make the world worse—the way it's being imposed from every direction, like someone just flipped a switch without asking—and I think I've settled on the leadup to the Iraq War

submitted 11 days ago • 18 comments

Let whoever posted this run the party.

submitted 11 days ago • 85 comments

The more people who are denied care and left to die, the more profitable it is for health insurance companies. Your reminder that for-profit healthcare isn't healthcare. It's an exploitation of sick people and transfer of wealth from the working class to the mega-rich.

submitted 15 days ago • 345 comments

I've never seen it so well put before.

submitted 18 days ago • 81 comments

I actually want to say this really loudly because I am not seeing other non-Jews say it enough. The Israeli diplomat shooting was an antisemitic hate crime. Yes, most allegations of antisemitism within the anti-genocide movement are bullshit. THIS was antisemitism parading as anti-genocide.

submitted 18 days ago • 66 comments

"Once you stop taking Elon’s words at face value, you can never see or hear him the same again."

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Noem is a fascist who serves a fascist president.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Republicans are trying to rip health care away from babies, disabled children, and seniors. It’s not efficient. It’s just plain cruel. We need your voice in this fight. Please call 202-224-3121 and tell your representative to vote NO on cuts to Medicaid.

submitted 21 days ago • 13 comments