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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 59 minutes ago • 37 comments

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

submitted 2 days ago • 643 comments

All of Bluesky right now.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Good god

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

the internet today

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I need you all to see the hype video that this person made to sell their 1994 Geo Metro

submitted 4 days ago • 374 comments

Doctors at the CDC say children should receive Covid vaccines. A disgraced ex-environmental lawyer who spent 20 years abusing heroin says they shouldn't. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

submitted 7 days ago • 40 comments

This is insane and is going to lead to worse outcomes while costing more.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

submitted 8 days ago • 188 comments

"To understand who is in control, observe who you are not allowed to criticize." -Voltaire

submitted 9 days ago • 67 comments

the modern information environment

submitted 9 days ago • 121 comments

there are sooooooooo many ways to drag stephen miller without getting weird with antisemitism

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

This guy is like one of 4 Americans who actually went and got their REAL ID and immediately they said it was a fake. Just so everyone knows when they toss your ass in a truck it won't matter what passport or identification you have they'll throw it in the street and you're gone

submitted 15 days ago • 365 comments

This is an awesome tourist ad campaign the U.S. is running. Stellar stuff.

submitted 14 days ago • 15 comments

apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"

submitted 24 days ago • 240 comments

Sorry to sound Woke but I don’t think the feds should be bragging on live tv about their abilities to disappear an elected public official, for fun

submitted 28 days ago • 248 comments

"...her critiques of our food systems and treatment of the environment can, if you just catch them on TV for a second, make sense. But what that translates to in practice seems to be that you personally need to figure out how to solve that for yourself..."

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

If you do something good for a while and then stop doing it that's okay, you still did something good for a while. Doesn't have to be forever. Then maybe there'll be a new thing that's good for a while

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

ANOTHER ONE!?

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Wow! Some trenchant analysis in an op-ed in the Vermont Digger this morning about a potential root cause of ballooning costs at rural hospitals.

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

Same! Who’s with me???

submitted 33 days ago • 19 comments

this is, by definition, not an "immigration crackdown"

submitted 45 days ago • 111 comments

My former neighbor accidentally turned an Uber safety feature and now I’m following every ride she takes on her trip around Japan

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

It never feels good sending money to the government but it has never felt as bad as it does today. I know I have paid to produce so much suffering I’m not an idiot but there was always a plausible deniability baked in. Like how they put blanks in one of the firing squad rifles.

submitted 53 days ago • 18 comments

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

submitted 50 days ago • 1736 comments

wake up grandpa. there's no such thing as "blue sky". you've been posting to live journal all along

submitted 397 days ago • 44 comments

Sir

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Shooting memorial cancelled because of a shooting is so very American.

submitted 51 days ago • 33 comments

An attack on women’s access to paid work.

submitted 52 days ago • 18 comments

Mayor Adams is wearing his “in god we trust” American flag shirt once again. But this time it’s written in Italian. He says it’s Spanish to honor the victims of a nightclub roof collapse in the Dominican republic last week.

submitted 51 days ago • 379 comments

The Trump administration wanted to control the most basic aspects of the university, including what is taught and who is hired. The wanted to turn Harvard into a fancy version of Trump University. And when Harvard said no, Trump used publicly funded research as a hostage.

submitted 54 days ago • 32 comments