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“People came over to help and got me on the curb. A medic was called, who cut off my clothes. In my leg was what felt like a five centimeter hole with muscle hanging out of it and blood all down my leg. The medic put a tourniquet on it, and a journalist I was with took me to ER.”

submitted 15 hours ago • 31 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 9 hours ago • 510 comments

In the last 20 or so minutes I’ve seen LAPD officers shove women to the ground without provocation, rip a sign out of a man’s hand and then swing a baton into his leg and raise a less-lethal launcher to aim directly at a protester (which I’m 99% is a major policy violation.)

submitted 11 hours ago • 435 comments

rubber bullets have blinded people because law enforcement OFTEN fires them directly at protestors, rather than at the ground as directed. flashbangs have induced at least one heart attack when fired at protesters. an still unknown chemical agent was used on protesters in portland

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

We’ve been in touch with local law enforcement in LA. They have the resources they need to meet the moment, and we stand ready to assist should the need arise. There is no emergency and the President’s order calling in the National Guard is unnecessary and counterproductive.

submitted 1 day ago • 149 comments

almost 5 years to the day

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

The most vital thing you can do right now is spread this message offline to normies. There is no "unrest", there's a protest. It has 400 people. LA does worse when the Lakers come in 3rd in a season.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Letter in the paper #kiwi #newzealand

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

The spin has already started as if our entire city is in chaos. I went from Burbank all the way over to Koreatown on surface streets tonight and jackshit was happening. The CNN coverage makes it look like world war 3 and that’s what Trump wants so he and his fucking goons can come shoot Angelenos.

submitted 1 day ago • 101 comments

The deployment of federalized National Guard troops to California, without consent from local or state officials, is deeply troubling. These are tactics seen in authoritarian regimes, not in America. We want to be clear, the military should not be used to police civilians.

submitted 1 day ago • 369 comments

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

submitted 1 day ago • 711 comments

I LOVE PBS AND NPR. Don’t let Congress vote to defund OUR public media next weeek. Speak out NOW. It is URGENT. Visit protectmypublicmedia.org #pbs #NPR #protectmypublicmedia #publicmedia

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

There's so much to dunk on in this NYT piece and so little time, but I gotta start here: Some law profs at U Chicago did a study to see if the chatbots could answer questions based on specific materials and found, unsurprisingly, that they make shit up. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t... >>

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

they took a detour to rescue a boat full of migrants yesterday. this right here should be more popular than the goddamn stuck shipping vessel thing, this should be everyone's page-refreshing major event right now

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Pretty egregious error from this book: The authors say Swedish deaths fell by 2.3% during the pandemic, proving that the country's lax lockdown strategy worked. But they misread their source: Mortality is only down if you remove the COVID deaths. research.abo.fi/ws/portalfil...

submitted 2 days ago • 86 comments

Too often the political/bureaucratic/business elite nominate each other for top awards as part of their rations. If Scott Morrison gets an AC, it will completely undermine our honours system. He is a singularly most unworthy candidate. #BackScratch #auspol

submitted 2 days ago • 47 comments

"If the Big 4 does not survive this, it also spells the death knell for most printed sewing patterns like ours, since there will no longer be a printer capable of producing large-scale tissue sheets." I … did not know I should be worried I might not be able to get patterns ever again

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

One of the greatest deceptions of our time is the false narrative that we should be more concerned about a poor person misusing the welfare system or an immigrant being here illegally than we are about the ultra wealthy abusing the system and cruel people having unchecked power over all of us.

submitted 3 days ago • 181 comments

Avoidable if they had just turned the plane around (they stopped there on the way to illegal deportation to South Sudan)—this was DHS’s stupid idea to avoid doing so bsky.app/profile/davi...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Earthlings! This is why as @taniawaikatolawyer.bsky.social keeps telling us, we need to say in our submission "I oppose this bill", no matter what else we say, clarity is most important!!! #nzpol #rsb #tpb #submission #woke #civics

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This headline is hilarious because Israel of course originally backed Hamas to bolster opposition to the PLO. youtu.be/o7grSsuFSS0?...

submitted 3 days ago • 67 comments

When all is said and done, Azeen Ghorayshi at the New York Times will go down in history as helping to cause incalculable damage to an entire generation of trans kids. I hope advancing her career is worth dead trans kids. She's absolute scum.

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

AOC: The girls are fighting aren’t they

submitted 3 days ago • 901 comments

#RECALL: Midea recalls about 1.7 Million U & U+ Window Air Conditioners due to risk of mold exposure. Pooled water in the air conditioners can fail to drain quickly enough, which can lead to mold growth. Get refund or repair. CONTACT: www.MideaUrecall.expertinquiry.com cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025...

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

This👇. The implementation of UBI does not increase drug use, as some people have claimed. In fact, drug use falls because people often use drugs to self-medicate when life is stressful. Reduce the stress through UBI and drug use falls.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Stockdale is the very model of a crooked modern Liberal. He exploited Sideshow Jeff’s noisy government, quietly signing massive contracts with companies he somehow ended up “employed” by. A self serving bastard. The Liberal Party in one face. Oh, and a sexist dork too it seems. #AusPol

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

"Imagine what would happen if most climate science were done by researchers who worked in fossil fuel companies. That’s what’s happening with artificial intelligence." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month. Worked on novel antivirals.

submitted 4 days ago • 96 comments

just a reminder that the dem who ran this campaign unseated a 3x gop incumbent who had never won by less than double digits

submitted 4 days ago • 73 comments

Yeah so this is happening. Maybe It’s because TACO can’t read?

submitted 5 days ago • 166 comments

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... A genius - influential in my life.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Royal Air Force Group Captain Adolph Gysbert Malan, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar, "Sailor Malan", South African war hero and Anti-Apartheid organiser and politician.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Have successfully caught and liberated the frog that has been living in the studio loo bowl for a fortnight and feel such accomplishment! Can also now once again use the studio loo, which is its own reward!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

When a conservative talking point suddenly becomes a widespread topic of conversation in public life, you can bet it's because loads of money has been poured into promoting it. Another crucial exposure by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social : democracyforsale.substack.com/p/us-antiabo...

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments

The head of FEMA who said he didn't know there's a hurricane season is a white man with no prior experience managing natural disasters who got his job despite his lack of qualifications in large part because of his race and gender.

submitted 6 days ago • 60 comments

Key line in the FWC's decision

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

In destroying north Gaza's only surviving facility for kidney dialysis (no doubt claiming it was... Hamas), Israel has indirectly condemned to an agonising death countless patients. Another day another Israeli genocidal act. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Remembering Chevalière d'Éon for Pride. A transgender woman in the 1700s who was also a spy and who turned double agent, extorted an entire monarchy to get her gender marker changed, and lived her life as a woman in a time when such was thought impossible. We have always been here.

submitted 7 days ago • 275 comments

Your key takeaway from the brilliant Ukraine attack with small drones into Russia shouldn’t be “wow, small drones make it so easy to score huge hits,” it should be “wow, Ukrainians are insanely good at covertly planning and executing extraordinarily difficult missions of which drones are one part”.

submitted 7 days ago • 151 comments

I planned to have an exhibition during dark mofo. Unfortunately my latest mri showed new growth but the good news is it’s in an operable spot so I’m off to see a neurosurgeon this afternoon so I can’t plan an opening night, so we put up some stuff this morning. Link is here www.kudelkashop.com

submitted 7 days ago • 32 comments

This petition is asking women to stand in solidarity with trans people. Already it’s grown to 19,573 signatures. Please sign & share. Everyone deserves to be treated with dignity.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment