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The media has repeatedly and disproportionately elevated voices who were wrong on Iraq, wrong on 2016, and wrong on pointing to the authoritarianism of this moment. Anyone wondering where the trust went might want to consider doing things differently and trying new voices/perspctives in the future.

submitted 22 hours ago • 14 comments

Today I saw all sorts of media types sitting around doing nothing for long stretches and the second anything close to a skirmish appeared, they'd holler for their camera folks and sprint over to catch it. This is called Manufacturing Consent.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

With the BET Awards happening in downtown LA, I was wondering who was going to say something first. Doechii really is that girl.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

Why isn't Trump's clear and open call for federal law enforcement to arrest a Democratic governor based on zero lawbreaking of any kind leading every single news site right now?

submitted 1 day ago • 133 comments

youtu.be/BE3OYFXW-Eo?...

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submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

The thing about sending 500 marines in to LA is it isn't nearly enough troops to do fucking anything but it sure does definitively announce the end of the constitutional regime. The number of unforced errors they have managed to make in 140 days is astounding

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

LAPD said in the summer of 2020 that they can handle one large protest of 10k but they cannot handle ten protests of 1k. Do with that information accordingly

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Cannot stress enough that this is a pitiful action by a weak, scared, pathetic group of insecure, wannabe authoritarians, and they should be mocked until the end of time for wanting to bring in the military over some people protesting them at a Home Depot.

submitted 3 days ago • 50 comments

So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be the story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

submitted 3 days ago • 316 comments

youtu.be/EEP3RyexXC4?...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser

submitted 3 days ago • 86 comments

I'm imagining ICE doing to NYC what it's doing to LA — and the people of NYC responding the way people are in LA — and it all happening under Mayor Cuomo. He'll side with ICE, DHS and, of course, the NYPD. This man, who hates the city and doesn't live here, can not become mayor. Don't rank him.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Phoenician Scheme was a lot of fun, despite the Wes Anderson fuckery of recent years. I laughed a bunch and they gave me a free t-shirt

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It's the Washington Monument in the background that really takes this to next-level dystopian

submitted 3 days ago • 381 comments

This is so jarringly unAmerican that I sort of hope it wakes some normies up. It is occurring in a context where military-style equipment is being used to enforce immigration roundups and conveys the notion that we are increasingly living in a police state.

submitted 3 days ago • 335 comments

What a shame. “DOGE affiliated staff, some of whom were responsible for pushing out thousands of federal workers, texted one another on Thursday about whether they would be fired next, according to administration officials.” www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

submitted 5 days ago • 155 comments

I never, ever want to hear again that women are too emotional to be leaders.

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BREAKING: French dock workers in Fos-sur-Mer refused today to load machine gun ammo destined for Israel's army

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

Waking up to another headline about Israeli soldiers killing desperate civilians at a food distribution site: “Dr. al-Farra said that most of the victims were children aged between 10 and 13, many with gunshot wounds to the head or chest”

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

Hell yeah. Fuck them. Keep this going.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Thunder gonna fuckkkkkkkk the Pacers up something gnarly

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Tiki torches getting lit in Indiana tonight

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

This is the happiest white people have been since Jan 6

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

ICE wants to spread fear. Instead, they're spreading resistance. Solidarity is our weapon.

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

This is how it’s done! FRIDAY: South Park, San Diego, neighbors weren’t having it. When ICE rolled up on an Italian restaurant in unmarked cars and started grabbing workers, the community hit the streets. (Sound up)

submitted 10 days ago • 1266 comments

How embarrassing to work for the organized kidnapping ring known as "ICE." Rolling out of bed every day to be a brainless goon. You are lower than a worm to me

submitted 10 days ago • 120 comments

As I've said before, what we're dealing with fundamentally here, and have been dealing with for some time, is evil. Our political norms and political media prohibit talking about a mainstream political faction this way. But it is the truth. It needs to be known and it needs to be said.

submitted 11 days ago • 71 comments

"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas. 'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”

submitted 15 days ago • 77 comments

Fuck everyone responsible for this horrible genocide - I hope they all rot in hell you fuckers youtu.be/7FIVwBq3g1Y?...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

"Despite the growing suppression of the movement, students have achieved multiple divestment victories and are pushing for more wins."

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Funny, ya didn’t see anything similar re:support for Israel when a Palestinian child was murdered in chicago, when a Palestinian college student was shot in a drive by in Vermont, or when 2 Israelis were mistaken for Arabs & shot in Florida. It’s all about framing. Meanwhile, genocide continues

submitted 18 days ago • 10 comments

Reggie Miller announcing a Knicks Pacers series is wrong on many levels

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

typical corrupt science

submitted 24 days ago • 165 comments

Why that Trumph dude wanna break the law so much

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

He didn't even say Israel. And, the students applauded and gave him a standing ovation. Once you lose the kids... www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/n...

submitted 25 days ago • 41 comments

25% of rap skits in the 90s was rappers being mad at cab drivers

submitted 25 days ago • 11 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/a...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Great, essential read here @mskellymhayes.bsky.social @sarahkendzior.bsky.social "The fascists want us to be consumed by self-preservation and self-concern alone, because that leaves us weak and isolated. That’s what empowers them. Our political potential is grounded in solidarity, now and always."

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

We have a govt that’s engaged in human trafficking, that’s openly allowing a gulf petrostate to bribe its leadership, that’s reshaping the refugee program in overtly racist terms, that’s almost ended American foreign aid entirely, that’s doing its level best to crash the economy from the rose garden

submitted 27 days ago • 67 comments

Mahmoud Khalil, who said, "Anti-Semitism and any form of racism has no place...in this movement [for Palestine]," and was specifically targeted for deportation, while a white Afrikaner and owner of a granite mine, who openly attacks Jews, has been given special refugee status.

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

One reason the fascists are using terror tactics, bellowing draconian threats and demanding compliance so loudly is because they have real weaknesses around numbers and capacity. Their grip is weaker than it looks and the resistance they're already getting scares them.

submitted 79 days ago • 21 comments

there's about six full minutes of audio from Rep. Menendez (D-NJ) giving a crystal clear, ultra-precise accounting of what happened, and it sure doesn't even sound like Mayor Baraka was "protesting." he was just there. what the Congressman describes is much darker than "arrested while protesting."

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

Whatever the Trump administration thinks they're accomplishing with this, I assure you it's the opposite. It only raises attention to what's happening across the country: increasing resistance to ICE and Trump's illegal deportation agenda. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/n...

submitted 32 days ago • 6 comments