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Still true

submitted 1 hour ago • 6 comments

From the brink of what, boot boy

submitted 3 hours ago • 11 comments

This sort of thing happened over and over during the Minneapolis uprising in 2020, and it will continue until American cops are demilitarized and defunded.

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

Important thing to beat people over the head with: Trump has turned American cities into warzones and for fucking what? Prices are way up, jobs will be way down, the dollar is worth less, and now the highway is blocked off by cops. Maybe the Great Mythical Immigrant wasn’t the problem after all.

submitted 14 hours ago • 113 comments

This is like suspending somebody for saying David Duke is a racist. Just absolute cowardice

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

"it's not peaceful for people to be on the highway" -LA Mayor Karen Bass right now. This is what I mean when I say the word "peaceful" as applied to protesters is about prescribing placidity, not nonviolence. Calmly marching on a freeway is pretty inarguably nonviolent. " Peaceful" you can debate

submitted 13 hours ago • 140 comments

I've been seeing this with businesses' contributions to community and nonprofit groups this spring as well. We talked with a number of local for-profits that were enthusiastic about making significant donations, but were forced to pull back hard the moment the tariff war started.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

Also point this out to anyone you can. These were not planned protests. These were normies getting the supplies for their weekend projects or at a restaurant and saw their servers getting hauled off and were like this is some bullshit.

submitted 14 hours ago • 9 comments

I realize LA has a lot going on right now, but once they've defeated the fascism, I do feel like they should consider coming up with a civic shrinking plan.

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2800 comments

Dem senator: Please, protestors, there are better ways to oppose the president Voters: Like not voting for his nominees? Dem senator: haha no no no. No. What I mean is we are writing a rap

submitted 15 hours ago • 52 comments

I think there’s something to this. Most people really do believe that they are the good guys, even when they’re in the middle of doing terrible things, and nothing will pop that bubble faster than realizing that the person you’re taking your orders from is a Stephen Miller-level Nazi.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

LOL, they're so mad that someone made a website where no one cares about them or venerates their opinions.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Now Mark. Diversity of thought isn’t defined as a group of people who want to have the conversations that interest you. And people talk about healthcare on here all day, every single day.

submitted 17 hours ago • 19 comments

I'm trying to reserve judgment because I do understand what the league is attempting to do, but this process really has felt like a gigantic fuck you to the original six fan bases.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

“Hurting usage” implies that the goal is for everyone in the world to use this app. It is not. When you have a busy bar, ejecting Nazis doesn’t “hurt volume” it preserves the place as exactly what it is intended to be. A non-Nazi bar.

submitted 17 hours ago • 8 comments

Oh, you don’t say.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Oh you don’t say

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

i sincerely think a lot of you believe that the people who join the service are robotic psychopaths who will mindlessly listen to whoever is in charge, and there is nothing i can say to disabuse you of that frankly delusional belief

submitted 1 day ago • 310 comments

Anyway, it's 7am so I need to start cooking up a big pot of stew to bring for volunteers' lunch at my workplace. It turns out that the world continues turning no matter how many times people online want to tell you that it's stopped.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I am so tired of this shit. If you're so convinced that we'll never have an election again, just go crawl under a rock and do nothing. Posting "lol this guy thinks we're still gonna have elections" every time someone mentions them is such weak sauce.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Literally the last time Americans turned out in huge numbers to oppose fascist law enforcement in the streets, the Democrats swept the ensuing elections.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

My hunch is that, as we saw with Lafayette Park, National Guard troops are not going to be as compliant as this administration thinks. It’s one thing to unleash cops consumed by warrior cop culture on neighborhoods. Quite another to send reservists who are also accountants, barbers, and teachers.

submitted 1 day ago • 177 comments

These are crimes. They're committing crimes. And when people understandably protest the fact that they're committing crimes, they're shooting flashbangs at them.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

Fun thing about following a protest online now is I can check Twitter and have zero idea which photos are real, which are from past protests, which are staged, and which are generated on command by a bullshit machine that every user has immediate access to

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Well, this was a less than relaxing way to spend my last true day off until late August, but at least shit got done.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

They passed special laws in America to allow to-go "open containers" of alcohol and directly pointed people to go to public parks to hang out. A literal national "touch grass" moment and most of these books are projections of who didn't like what they found out about themselves in that moment.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The most striking thing about the LA protests is how many people just dropped everything to show up and yell at federal agents. There are people in suits, and carrying dogs, and wearing flip flops or bike helmets. These are not people who planned to do this today. But there they are.

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

QTing a rapist to say this is the cherry on top

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

If the second largest city in the country can’t handle like 400 protestors, how are the police supposed to implement martial law at the behest of the Trump administration? The numbers don’t add up.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments