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ICE shot a reporter... "Nick Stern, a British news photographer based in Los Angeles, is set to undergo emergency surgery for a wound sustained during the standoff between police and anti-Ice protesters in Los Angeles on Saturday."

Yeah I guess LeBron putting up a 22.6 PER is pretty special, but it's not that impressive when you compare him to people rolling out of bed and firing off something like this at age 86.

"Gaines has publicly lobbied for Biles and Caitlin Clark to support her in her hate which, again, is a laughable idea to anyone who has followed Biles’ illustrious career." Great piece by the always fantastic @nrarmour.bsky.social. www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

It’s outrageous to suspend @terrymoranabc.bsky.social. More capitulation by ABC…

The Los Angeles Police Department has stated that demonstrations in the city have remained peaceful. Let that sink in.

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I would sooner cut off a finger than accept this policy as an instructor

Mural of Hind Rajab in Dublin, Ireland. Artist: Emmalene Blake

I have to hope at least some of those National Guard troops are wondering what the fuck they’re being asked to do. We need to encourage them to walk out and refuse to participate in this lawless bullshit.

Trump just said, “We’re going to have troops everywhere.” When asked, “What is the line where you’d send in Marines?” he replied, “It’s whatever I think it is.”

True story…

I once had someone on here lose their shit at me for taking my mask off for lunch indoors- because I couldn't go outside to eat in *checks notes* January. In Massachusetts. Of course it's not perfect, but it's better than no mask at all. Harm *reduction* y'all.

Entropy: noun en·tro·py/ ˈen-trə-pē The degradation of the matter and energy in the universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformity Entropy is the general trend of the universe toward death and disorder. —James R. Newman

Y'know, I'm glad she's speaking out against the deportations but geez the cognitive dissonance here is strong enough to support the core of a neutron star

you mean violence from ICE, the National Guard, and Border Patrol, right? because that’s the violence we’re seeing right now

The violence is being perpetrated by ICE et al. Focus on that.

"If you got arrested then you weren't protesting peacefully" is a lie. Stop spreading it.

This is beyond delusional insanity, it needs its own new terminology for how devoid of reality it is. This man is a deranged lunatic. I live in L.A., am out doing errands. L.A. is exactly like it is on any other day, with a few hundred protestors in a couple of spots in a city of nearly 10,000,000

Until this changes, he'll continue to escalate.

The last few years for Pentecost we've covered the pulpit railings with origami birds and I'm not gonna lie, I think it's one of the cuter things we do at St Nick's.

To anyone who wondered, what could go wrong if we elected as president a highly volatile, deeply dishonest, simple-minded cretin with a revenge fetish, the answer is THIS. All of THIS.

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Ezra Klein and his fans are part of the West Wing fandom problem that infects the Democratic Party from the top down. This ridiculous notion that we can engage in rational debate with people who want black people on the plantation, women as breeding wombs, and trans kids dead.

Is this just kind of like repeat it until you believe it yourself? Your boss pardoned everyone who assaulted law enforcement on January 6th. Ass!!!

Democrats operate on the notion that we can all be pals “when this is over.” Republicans want us in mass graves so this can be over. It’s a massive difference in outlook.

the protesters should [redacted] them

So let's get this straight. Taxpayers spent $34 billion on the TMX pipeline because no private company would take the risk. That's $1200 per household. We subsidize every barrel down the pipe by 50 cents on the dollar because Big Oil won't pay. And now they want another one. As the planet burns.

I wrote about it in the Fri newsletter A special technology to counter Shahed drones was promised to Kyiv by the Biden admin. Zelenskyy emphasized that it wasn’t an expensive project, but it was critically important for Ukraine. U.S. handed everything over to its own forces in the Middle East.

I say this all the time: confronted by the disappointment of 2000, a generation white Democrats decided to withdraw into “West Wing” and “Daily Show” as a parallel universe where they could simply pretend the Bush years didn’t happen.

President Zelenskyy: We counted on 20,000 missiles for #Ukraine to fight Shahed drones [promised by the previous US administration]. The United States now moved them to the Middle East."

Stay Lucid: Healing ego-injury of Leader after Musk debacle is part of the timing of this. So is shutting down scenes of public solidarity with the vulnerable. Authoritarians fear that.