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The Paramount-Skydance merger is corruption in plain sight. These corporations paid $36 million to Trump in bribes. Then they had CBS cancel Stephen Colbert’s show for criticizing Trump. The Trump regime is a criminal enterprise, and billionaires are buying into it. Boycott Paramount & Skydance.

This is what it looks like without a United States Congress.

“If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived. The question, now, is whether Americans who hate tyranny can be roused to respond.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

So many emptying or dying towns across so many countries determined to keep out migrants. It was great to see one mayor at least try something different and succeed, even if his country turned on him. Maybe someday Lucano's leadership in Riace will be recognized. www.bbc.com/news/in-pict...

Something worth noting is how the press is leaning into the framing that what’s happening in LA is a both sides issue or that they are riots. Even when the LAPD is saying it’s under control, suddenly for the first time in their lives the press is willing to ignore them

Just to be clear: the President has mobilized the Marines on American soil because people are protesting masked, secret police kidnapping people with no due process and shipping them to foreign death camps. It’s not a misunderstanding or an oversight. That is all it is. There is no other side.

There are now more U.S. troops deployed to Los Angeles than in Iraq & Syria. There are 4,800 activated Guard and Marine personnel in LA, compared to the 2,500 troops in Iraq and 1,500 in Syria.--ABC News

ngl this map of scheduled protests for this weekend is *wild*

HAPPENING NOW: Aerial coverage of a crowd of protesters peacefully demonstrating in Downtown L.A to protest ongoing ICE raid operations, Trump’s federalization of the National Guard, and the mobilization of 700+ Marines to the area 📍Los Angeles, CA

Re-posting this for the prose. 🙏🔥

BREAKING: Massive Anti ICE crowd in Chicago marches to demand an end to mass deportations and show solidarity with LA “Nobody is illegal — all power to the people!”

BREAKING: We're asking a court to stop the Trump administration's fast-track deportation policy. ICE should not be able to arrest people at their immigration appointments and deport them without any due process.

Protestor shot in the head by the LAPD today and they wouldn't call an ambulance. Notice how few protestors there are.

Stephen Miller ordered ICE to ramp up arrests—focusing not on violent criminals, but anyone they could grab. Home Depot raids, protests, and military escalation followed. This isn’t law and order. It’s chaos by design. Dangerous, deliberate, and disgraceful. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

This might be the most batshit insane one I've seen yet. LAPD point-blank shoots a woman trying to walk home, no one else around.

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In the West Bank, Palestinian unemployment is now Israeli policy - https://www.972mag.com/west-bank-unemployment-permits-israel/

Just saying.

Amazing strategy to silence all public health communications riiiiiiiiigggghhhhhhtt when we might have some bird flu to talk about

"Basically, the early, default configuration of a human foetus is female. If we were to assign a sex at conception as per Trump's executive order, all of them would be female."

We know all this already, but there’s a thread on X with what perports to be this letter from an X employee ( presumably now no longer employed there)…. I have no way to verify this. It’s just bracing if it’s authentic—even if we know we know this.

Four years ago, officers of the law stood their ground to protect Members of Congress and staff as violent insurrectionists stormed the Capitol. These brave officers were beaten, crushed, bear sprayed, maced, and left to defend democracy with their bare hands.

I never want to hear that the GOP is the party of law & order again… ever.

Where are our Democrats? Where are the Congressmen and Senators who should stand up and be heard right now about everything from the Musk's Nazi salute to Trump's ongoing attack on reproductive rights? That he just took down reproductive rights.com? Where are the voices? The leaders?

Brilliant move by those who withheld vote or voted Trump on behalf of Gaza,or to“punish”the genocidal policies of the US which are only going to get so much worse. Plus u get the bonus of all the EO’s!! Drilling! Huge hike on drug prices!Dismantling of lgbtq rights!etc www.ft.com/content/d4ff...

This is a remarkable moment. Trump and Vance sit there in silence, as a bishop pleas with them to lean on their better angels and not follow through with their depraved campaign promises that target the LGBTQ+ community and immigrants. Never seen anything like this.

The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire

Going into the New Year singing scat at The Zinc Bar. Laura Anglade.

Holy Smokes. The only thing better than reading a Jorie Graham poem is reading Jorie Graham on the subject of poetry: "A poem is an undergoing—you step into its river at one point in time, in one state of existence, and you exit it in an altogether other."

Well shit.