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Let’s take care of each other with an eye towards a better future while we fight these stupid fascist assholes until they are relegated to the cybertruck dustbins of history Design & Type | Basketball nerd | Long Covid advocate | Cat owner
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More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.

Eugenics & fascism go hand in hand. They also wear you down. So much in society happens at the expense of disabled lives People wanted to go “back to normal” with respect to Covid, so they threw us under the bus They want the right to die, but don’t care if it means we don’t get the right to live

Yes he’s a dictator. No he doesn’t have to remove elections to prove that. He just hasn’t done it yet.

Me literally holding up my water glass and saying “SALUD!”. @carbajal.house.gov

"They took her in a car, in essence kidnapping her ... I met another young woman whose husband has quite literally disappeared" -- Newsom shares harrowing details of specific cases of ICE terrorizing immigrants in California

Spotted in Houston today

Perfection.

NEWSOM: "It's a vulgar display. It's the kind of thing you see with Kim Jong Un, Putin, dictators that are weak… How weak do you have to be to commandeer the military for your birthday?“

The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20. (Via Christopher Hale)

see what you need to understand is that they’re coming hard at california bc if they can take us down then it tells the smaller states there’s no point in fighting. we’re the bellwether. that’s why it’s so important we stop this shit NOW.

BREAKING: Trump’s National Guard deployment in LA is illegal, a judge ruled. The judge’s order instructs Trump to return control of the troops to Newsom. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Yeah it's really something to see a U.S. senator being hit with the same impossible compliance demands that the cops scream at people before shooting them during a stop

America has fully fallen down the fascist cliff this week. So much anger and a hunger for violence by cops and the right now being said publicly on an hourly basis across their country. It’s now only a matter of time before the killing starts and then the disappearing of political opponents starts.

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

Boebert: What we’re seeing in LA is an insurrection Pritzker: You don’t know understand what insurrection is. It is outrageous that you are asking that when you are the one condoning the pardoning of people that attacked police.

Proud Boys with badges.

Worth considering that one reason Bluesky doesn't always feel super fun is that current events are relentlessly horrifying and bad

Phil is an old friend. He gave permission to share this. Fuck ICE, fuck the LAPD, fuck everyone who didn’t vote for Hillary in 2016.

We need to see more instances of the words “COVID” and “organ damage” in close proximity to one another. Because that’s one of the things COVID does: It damages organs.

Important that this "interruption" came after the secretary had literally declared war on Californians' right to self governance

The head of the FDA tells us they're taking a look at the dietary guidelines and that the food pyramid is out. The food pyramid has not been in use since 2011 when MyPlate replaced it.

The only good news today/week/month/year

Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city." Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!

This is insane. These are Alex Jones level rantings

In the past week, a union leader has been arrested, a U.S. Rep charged with a crime, a U.S. Senator violently handcuffed, and reporters shot with rubber bullets and detained. There is no ambiguity. This is a regime operating as an authoritarian. Americans who believe in liberty must oppose it.

Rep. Lynch: "In late March, ICE agents wearing masks detained Rümeysa Öztürk. And those of you who watched that abduction, when you compare the old films of the Gestapo grabbing people off the streets of Poland ... it does look like the Gestapo."

Booker: He was made to kneel before the authority of the executive… They treated a member of the United States senate violently after he identified himself, dragged him out of a room, threw him upon the ground, and put him in handcuffs

Everyone keeps talking about Stephen Miller's hairline in high school, but one time my friend went with him to Disneyland and his dad had to stuff a bunch of folded napkins into his sneakers just so he could ride with his friends and I feel like that explains a lot more about this whole situation.

SEN. PADILLA: “Saying I lunged is a lie, but that’s par for the course for this administration… I was behind the cameras listening, and at a certain point hearing Noem say they had to rescue LA from the Governor and Mayor was too much to take. So I raise my voice to ask a question.”

Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.

Padilla: “We will hold this administration accountable”

"You look like your wife gives unenthusiastic handjobs!"

Pulitzer prize for this Jay L. Clenendin image of LAPD stormtroopers in front of Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)"

Dystopian.

I say this with love: I understand that a lot of people didn't expect the fascists to militarily occupy an opposition stronghold. And yet, it is what people SHOULD have expected. It is what Trump tried to do in 2020, when institutionalists held him back. Those institutionalists are gone.

Mexico should just say "It's called Tejas", then the whole world follows suits and calls it Tejas, then Google Maps renames it "Tejas", and the AP Press Corp refuses to alter their style guide and keeps calling it Texas. Voila, APNews is back in the Press pool at the White House!

Death cult

BEYER: Isn't this embarrassing? BESSENT: You seem not to have seen the economic data. GDP growth has been quite substantial BEYER: GDP growth is half what it was last year, sir BESSENT: Job growth is solid BEYER: Job growth is a third what it was last year, sir

It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

If you haven’t heard of Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove… you have now. When she stepped out from the back without missing a beat, I knew it was on🔥 @kamlager-dove.house.gov

This video speaks for itself...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — National Guard troops are now protecting ICE agents as they make arrests in LA.

pop tart is short for popular tart

You can grab my recent book for a steep discount over at Amazon. Critical social theory for the people!

HEGSETH: The mission in Los Angeles is about maintaining law and order REED: Excuse me. Law and order is a civil function under the Constitution of the United States

Bill C-5 lets decision-makers ignore a project’s environmental impact when judging national interest. @canrac.bsky.social warns it threatens democracy, the environment, and Indigenous rights. climateactionnetwork.ca/bill-c-5-jeo... #ClimateChange #CdnPoli

Environment and Climate Change Canada released its summer forecast today, predicting warmer than normal conditions across most of the country. Notably, "normal" is considered 1991-2020, which for Canada is ~1-2 C warmer than the pre-industrial climate.