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MSNBC reporter in gas mask in Los Angeles: I think it was Sheriffs deploying CS gas, tear gas, pepper spray, and flash bang grenades in large numbers. Mounted units pushing against protesters.., every single gathering I saw today was 100% peaceful

Do not come up in my piece talking this bullshit coming from one of the groups that historically has continued to vote us into these awful times. And a double f-you on co-signing violence on innocent humans because you and your group vote shittily for always. How bout YOU wield power here👇🏽

I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

"We didn't cross the border, the border crossed us!"

Genuinely excellent to see journalists on major media platforms calling this out. Here’s one summary of years of work looking at how police tactics can kick off the violence they are officially there to prevent:

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

i'm surprised by how low energy and farcical that whole military parade situation was. I was expecting Moscow 1945 and we got Spirit Halloween instead.

Under President Harris they'd have given THEMSELVES a proper parade, as intended.

He looks like he feels sick to his stomach.

...oh dear.

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the strolling of the dudes They ambled up the street today before the crowds so few There wasnt much to see maybe an abram tank or two This parade is kinda mid Glory glory what a bullshit way to serve

Couple things I learned today: - Seniors are extremely fired up about this - "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now - People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA - We all we got, we all we need

i've seen bigger crowds for free samples at trader joe's

I got radicalized into a YIMBY at age 9 when my father demanded to know "why these assholes think it's okay for poor kids to have to live next to a landfill but not THEIR kids."

I got radicalized into a YIMBY when as mayor I would see some of my progressive neighbors and constituents organize against affordable housing. They wanted more housing, just not in their neighborhood.

Community Medical Center is shit anyhow. When I had my medication abortion in Missoula, the clinic specifically told me, "If you have any complications, go to St. Pat's (the Catholic hospital.) They'll take care of you." I later gave birth to my son at Community. They were f'ing monsters.

Montana is by no means "blood red"--it's a politically weird state, traditionally--but this is still pretty neat.

Do you know how badly you have to screw up as a Republican to get this kind of turnout in IDAHO? #NOKINGS

lmaoo never gets old

My mom died of a wierd like 5% thi g where she had lung cancer, but the cells came back on biopsy as pancreatic cells, but there was no tumor in the pancreas. She had chest x-rays BEFORE her biopsy. Her lungs were pure white. She was Stage 4. Diagnosed July, dead on T'giving. So fuck this guy.

There are a couple of kids in my nephews's class who weren't born in the US, and the class has decided (w/o teacher input) that if ICE shows up in they're all going to pretend not to speak English. 10yos reinventing "I am Spartacus" because they don't want their friends to get disappeared.

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Haha but also fuck this.

You have to hand it to them. 100% of the health care cost savings ideas right now are coming from the right:

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They launched a coup, suffered no consequences for it, won back power, and have used the power to pardon everyone involved while remaking the country through violence and intimidation. It’s just ridiculous to talk about the political violence of yelling at ICE agents within that context.

Despite warnings from the law enforcement not to attend today’s No Kings rally after this mornings shooting of Minnesota lawmakers with the killer on the lose, the No Kings Rally is happening at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.

Can you give us a fucking minute Whale Man

Parade steps off at 6:45, yeah?

The Biden administration prevented an operation by Iran to assassinate Donald Trump, shortly before the 2024 Presidential Election. www.cnn.com/2024/11/08/p...

the dichotomy between the actual vibe at protests today and the paranoid advice being given by people online is really something

if the other site goes all in on false flag stuff after this guy turns out to be a right wing freak, you think we'll still see "bluesky is an echo chamber" nonsense takes

hard to believe a guy with a company named "praetorian" might kill an official.

I was trying to figure out what this feeling today reminds me of. It reminds me of waking up on a Sunday morning to find out via LJ that Dr. Tiller had been murdered.

Anyone blaming Democrats for Democrats being politically assassinated gets an instant block.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

fascinating to me how people keep inventing *new* anti-semitic myths.

"wElL bUt wHy wOn'T tHeY tElL uS eVeRyThInG rIgHt nOw" Maybe because you're proving in real time on the daily that you are irresponsible and destructive with any information you ARE given.