Let's fire all billionaires into the sun

"Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers, she said." I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Gonna remember this for my next city council meeting

Dudes who'd be way more normal if they learned to cry when they were sad.

The fact that this troll gives credence to the lie that Charlie Kirk and fascists like him just want to debate is further proof that centrists simply don't understand fascism.

Look if you don't like guns, fine. But this very specific carve out portends really bad future everyone. When they determine who is considered "mentally ill" to limit firearm access, the only ones left with the rights to have guns are the state and populations that historically loved lynchings.

Startups are a scam to steal money from the working class

This is the first time I've appreciated marketing.

RFK you're gonna love my DIY carbon fiber submarine.

Just because his social media team can tweet funny doesn't stop Gavin from being a ghoulish fascist

Reposting a rec I need to remember

Reminder, 2 shooters in US history were trans. 2. There have been around 200 shootings since the last one done by a trans person

This man speaks eloquently of our struggle.

LA has the best people and no one can tell me otherwise.

If you're looking to allow preventable disease run rampant to kill your enemies, you run a huge risk of the biological weapon (eg unchecked measles) getting wildly out of your control. From a war standpoint, you're just as likely to kill your own side. Also it's fucking ghoulish and horrific.

I want to be this cool when I grow up

I'm too broke so someone buy this and tell me how nice it is on your wall

This is Shlomo Filber, a Likud's pollster and former Netanyahu confidant, saying in February that Israel is about to impose a "hunger regime" on Gaza. Three weeks later Israel cut all aid to the strip. This is starvation policy, planned and implemented. Full tweet translation in alt-text.

Bringing my FREE STUFF thread over. Lots of archives, national film institutes, nonprofits and others have made collections of silent films available for free, no signup needed. I have the links

If you’re feeling uneasy, it’s probably because we now know we live in a country built on the blackmail of a dead pedophile who is Too Big to Fail, so Congress has to go home for a couple of months to figure out how talk about it without defenestrating the president and collapsing the economy.

I haven't seen Americans this much in agreement since they celebrated the death of a health insurance CEO.

No war but class war.

Mosquitoes used deliberately as physical and mental torture, and as a means of spreading disease among unwanted classes of people.

We've always run concentration camps. Our prisons have been functioning as such for years. Hitler learned from us.

Remember the Philosophy professor who ICE abducted? When ICE threw tear gas, a canister landed under the wheelchair of a bystander. Prof. Caravello was jumped trying to help him. A mensch. Two days later – Caravello is still disappeared. Is there enough known info to file a habeas corpus petition?

ICE is doing murder because their bosses want to meet quota.

NEVER. STOP. BULLYING. BIGOTS.

As more journalists are driven out of their jobs, I keep hearing this drumbeat of "it's ok -- they can start their own newsletter or publication." Some can. But becoming your own business is a huge job, and will eliminate many talented reporters from the public sphere. Here's why. (1/5)

The NYT's Zohran Mamdani hit piece crosses a line for me as a journalist. here's @lopatto.bsky.social's clear-eyed take on the genuine travesty of it all www.theverge.com/culture/7000...

Normalize taking over your workplace and not giving it back Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

look you can either just be an abolitionist now or you can spend your time on the internet splitting hairs about what’s a concentration camp and one of those is gonna reflect on you way better down the road so choose wisely

10 people were involved in an ambush shooting of ICE officers. They wore body armor and used assault rifles to shoot at ICE detention officers. They had a flag that said "Resist fascism, fight oligarchy." apnews.com/article/texa...

nyt op-ed: we cannot normalize the left’s brazen attempt to win voters by talking to them

A story that got less attention was the incredibly cynical primary of my amazing Councilwoman—the first Muslim woman ever elected to the NYC Council—by a billionaire, corporate-backed candidate also lobbing gross accusations of antisemitism. Anyway, the challenger got trounced. Hell yea.

Ironheart has some real Agents of SHIELD energy and I'm not saying that's a bad thing

Anarchists don’t practice de-arrest on the morning news. haters.noblogs.org/files/2024/0...

We need to do some serious narrative work here - we should be careful about inflating labor’s role in the uprising. Them and other nonprofits have steered people away from the actual contention points on the ground. It’s the young people of LA that are providing the spark. Not labor.

All right, I’m gonna start putting together some bits and pieces into a thread this evening. I don’t know how much time I will be able to put together things tonight, but I will try for a bit. Just out of the gate, these protesters look much more ready for whatever government forces throw at them

I'm sorry it's just monstrous to witness things like 13 year old children being handcuffed and have "don't give them a reason to get violent" be the first thing that comes out of your mouth on the topic.

1 in 12 Americans live in California. 1 in 35 Americans live in LA County. LA is America

More desperate financial engineering to try to cover up Zaslav's incompetence, this time likely torching the company that he ascended to power in, with all the jobs locked inside.

they never miss

Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.

Paramount, CA is putting out a call for environmental engineers to collect and preserve air, soil, and water samples from the tear-gassed areas for examination and documentation.

The LASD going into full riot gear mode in front of Randy's Donuts is just a bit on the nose, even for LA.

No. No one was shy. He didn’t care whether or not we women wanted his attention. The entire environment was to feed him, the predator, and if you tried to get away from it you were penalized. Senior folks couldn’t leave state govt unless he OKd it. You think we could get away from his harassment?