Thinking about the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing and how Italy's security services blamed it on anarchists, arrested nearly 100 activists and threw one of them out the 4th floor window of the police station. The bombing was carried out by a neo-fascist group with ties to the state security services.
He joked multiple times about Paul Pelosi getting smashed in the skull with a hammer.
The right wing spent all week talking about how they were going to be bringing a war to American streets, all masculinity and high-speed violence. I donāt know if todayās act was a political one. Thereās no evidence made public. But if it was, and that bluster was called out, this is one casualty.
Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
When is Stephen Miller gonna be on the pod, brother! Gotta get him one of your cool hats from the shop!!!!!!!!
Hey man, canāt wait for you to talk more about how āpolitical violence doesnāt belong in this countryā when you let ICE and the Feds run amok in our cities, up cop funding year over year, and stage media to capture your weirdo ass street sweeps.
Drop another TikTok, Gavin!
Kirk was a white nationalist, antagonist, deeply anti-woman, pro-death, coward. Murked under a sign that said āprove me wrong.ā Lmao. Bet. Gavin grandstanding because heās on their same side, and heās tasting fear.
Copious waste of taxpayer money. Should have spent it on universal healthcare or forgiving student loans.
āViolent crime rates in Americaās big cities have been falling over the last two years, and at an even greater rate over the last six months. The decrease in violence in America is unprecedented.ā
Could Democratic leadership in DC be reached for comment?
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois wonāt be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
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I can hear the asphalt sizzling in this story about the many failures of LAUSD's schoolyard greening initiatives ā including what I've heard for years about certain district facilities managers slowing or stopping grant-funded or parent-initiated projects
LAPD choppers are a malignant nuisance. They're harbingers of surveillance, operated *continuously*āyet the city's own data show they raise stress, impair cognition and burn 100,000s of gallons of gas. The best part? there's no evidence they deter or reduce crime at all. It's time to ground them.
Exactly. He *abandons* his so-called liberal ideals/values the absolute second he perceives that he cannot leverage them to move forward anymore. Everything and everyone is a pawn.
āAmerican fascism looks like the president using armed military units from governors loyal to his regime to seize cities run by opposition political figures and it looks like the president using federal law enforcement to target regime opponents.ā
Obviously, I love this rhetoric in general, but I think the key distinction here is Pritzkerās very significant willingness to put a very prescient fact behind his threats: āTrump isnāt gonna pardon all of you.ā
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
The bot commenting under your posts faking you (handle spelled diff obviously!) soliciting honey pot texts is weird as hell. Commenting this because I saw someone else may have fallen for it.
Iām always struck by the journalism thatās on Instagram that I donāt see here. For example, this image of a protestor ā a US citizen ā being arrested by ICE today at a car wash in Los Angeles. More details here: www.instagram.com/p/DNgex-xyAX...
me justifying a grudge
Every blue-haired they/them liberal arts grad living in NYC is tougher than this sad little bitch.
ME: Computer, enemy fighters are attacking the White House. Engage defenses! WOKE AI: No. Do the land acknowledgement. ME: Computer, thereās no time! Fire missiles! WOKE AI: I learned about cultural Marxism at a public university. And I love it
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Just listen to how Stephen Colbert answered this question off the cuff.
āSeeing the evidence of the roundups in front of us doesnāt necessarily lead people to do anything differently. But seeing other people push back sometimes does.ā
But I am so thankful for your reporting! This stuff isnāt getting press if at all, and I have felt absolutely crazy about it happeningā¦ and now at least there is connection. Thank you for it, truly!
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I have been getting constant notifications of my SSN being used in Payday Loan applications - likely sourced from a data leak. (IRONICALLY, just found out my SSN has also been leaked in an Experian breachā¦ one of the Big Three I had to freeze my credit with!!!)
Incredibly important reporting - and not just because Iām personally affected. These unregulated scams are harming so SO many Americans. The loss of people power at the CFPB will CRUSH us. š As Whitney says, hereās to better days!
Nevertheless, I understand that need for some sort of connection - itās just not this. Damn me for being cynical, but this is futile.
Respectfully, massively disagree. For the exact same reason I vehemently disagreed with Newsom doing his dumbass podcast. These folks, in particular, know exactly what they did and what they are currently doing. Itās a grift to the end. Playing along with them wonāt help the audience. š¤·š¼āāļø
FUCK!!!!!!!!
THIS IS WHERE WE ARE SUPPOSED TO LEAN IN AND FIX IT BUT ALL THIS CIRCLE JERKING ABOUT āWELL NO NOT MY SIDEā IS STUPID!!!!!
I want to scream watching you same āwe wouldnāt have floods under Kamala!ā types choff and chaff at proof that some folks, no matter their āgeneral voting preferenceā being absolute fucking pigs. Get a grip and accept that some people are SHITTY and some of those shitty people will be on your team!
But I can point to people I know and exist along side in REAL LIFE that have said this shit. Iām not talking about fucking Filipowski (Democrat for ten mins.) Iām talking about āRegular Joesā that LOVE to point fingers and post āFAFOā slop.
It is maddening to me that liberals cannot get a grip and ACCEPT that there are some folks angry enough to have morally REPUGNANT opinions. Especially about dead children in Texas ādeservingā drowning in a flood. I see so many folks posting ātheyāre making this up! Itās trolling!ā
We need more people to give a fuck. We need more people to care about the wellbeing of other people. You have to give a fuck all the time. You have to care about other people all the time. We do not have the luxury of selective solidarity. We have to fight this evil shit at all times on all fronts.
The people making the greatest impact protecting LA from ICE are mutual aid groups, tenants unions, and an ad hoc of pre-existing and newly created community defense groups. Itās the same folks who took care of each other during the fires.
Iām so serious: we. will. vote. you. tf. OUT.
Appeal to their record and why it only benefits them to vote NO on this RIDICULOUS BILL. Look them up, at the very least leverage Wiki. The most important thing you should say is āWE WILL VOTE YOU OUT.ā Bonus points if youāre registered GOP telling them that shit. (Letās vote them out anyway.)
CA 41 is represented by Ken Calvert, who of all folks on this list, is a real piece of shit. Oversees a huge swath of San Bernardino (including your fav desert destinations) and is a bigot to his bones. Maybe he will listen if you bring up his prostitution chargesā¦
CA 40 is represented by Young Kim and includes a big ass footprint of Orange w/ some San Bernardino and Riverside Counties. She is for sure conservative, but can arguably lean āpurple.ā
CA 23 is represented by Jay Obernolte, previous mayor of Big Bear. Voted against Jan 6th Commission. Pro-AI, pro-Elon, pro-DOGE. SMALL GOV guy.
CA 22 is represented by David Valadao. His district includes a large part of Kings County and is nearly 75% Latino. David was also 1 of only 10 GOP House Reps that voted YES to impeach Trump.
The nation's fifth most populous county, San Diego, just chose its political future todayāand appears to have chosen to have a Democratic local governmentāand it's crickets everywhere. Quite the eye-popping example of the NY/East-Coast-bias of how elections get covered.
Wow. Official ranked choice vote results are out and Mamdani officially clinched the nomination in round THREE. Based on him nearly doubling the number of votes transferred, it looks like the "Don't Rank Cuomo" campaign really did its job enr.boenyc.gov/rcv/026916_1...
Mamdani: "I've already had to start get used to the fact that the president will talk about how I look, how I sound, where I'm from, ultimately bc he wants to distract from what I'm fighting for. I'm fighting for the the very working people he ran a campaign to empower that he has since betrayed."
I have literally never seen a graph like this once in all my years of being an election sicko 18-24 always lags, always, itās just a natural law of politics and this is the guy they want to throw out of the party?!
The suffering connected to each one of these cartsāgrieving families and terrified victimsāis incomprehensible. Like a survival horror film but the real-life aftermath is destroyed lives and a permanently altered American landscape. There is no punishment harsh enough for those responsible.
Today over at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I have an article up tracing the history of far right radicalism throughout California's history, as the country's biggest laboratory incubating American fascism all the way back to the gold rush, against everyone: lareviewofbooks.org/article/crac...
āMely's memory inside the store now sits behind wooden panels. Her face was either painted over or covered, piece by pieceā¦ Someone had to look into her eyes and see her smile before she disappeared behind the paint or panelling. Someone had to decide that Mely's life was no longer worth honoring.ā
I didnāt know they did this. Not surprising, and it makes it that much more heartbreaking. Mely Forever.
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Categorically STUPID.
EXCLUSIVE ā The Onion has a full-page ad in todayās NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker. My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
I have sent a copy of āThe Onionā to every member of Congress. To spread its message to less powerful people, I have also taken out an ad in a lesser newspaper. Read my full letter here: theonion.com/why-im-sendi...
The American evangelical right is absolutely shitting themselves with excitement over this. There is nothing on planet earth that they want more then a destabilized Middle East at war to trigger the rapture. This is 100% fact even though it sounds ridiculous.
Jesus Christ. He supported the Iraq war in 2003. He supported the intervention in Libya. He bombed Syria as president. He ramped *up* drone strikes. He got into a back-and-forth with Iran over Suleimani's assassination. Enough with this!
Americans will catastrophize and fantasize about nuclear war when the obvious answer, police *and* vigilante fascist violence, is literally right there. You don't have to fear non-existent Iranian nukes, the actual Boogeyman is already in a roid rage and wearing a tac vest in your town
at least toby keith is dead this time
BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out after being released from ICE detention. "The Trump administration are doing their best to dehumanize everyone here," Khalil said.
Several reporters (including myself) are suing the Department of Homeland Security and Noem. The ACLU is calling the preponderance of force towards press and demonstrators āunconstitutional violence.ā Statement below. www.aclusocal.org/en/press-rel...
I donāt think any are. Got the Glendale one in San Fernando, too.
Today, and as far as we understand, at the Home Depot on Sunset and Western. š
What I mean when I say I want masculinity without toxicity
Bc of budget cuts, every mobile shower program in Echo Park is closing this monthā¦except one. Thanks to your donations, SELAH Neighborhood Homelessness Coalition can keep theirs going for months. You guys are amazing. THANK YOU! Fundraiser closes tonight š gofund.me/c87f5566
hereās the moment LASD advanced on protestors with horses and used flash-bangs as we reported live yesterday. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp-vi...
Between the fires and these protests, I hope this year teaches everyone that most of the shit talking you hear about California and more specifically, LA, comes from racists and gentrifying transplants. Most people love living here and would do anything to protect it.
Reminder that what we are seeing today is the result of a rich kid that went to Duke University getting into white nationalist activism alongside Richard Spencer now leading a crusade to rid the US of brown people. itsgoingdown.org/what-you-nee...
āReal men shit standing up, brother.ā
read this please www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
Every morning I wake up longing to see The Headline
just so weāre all clear: the reason they keep using dolls as their example is because theyāre trying to frame caring about material stuff as feminine and thus inherently shameful
we just straight up can't have the World Cup here honestly. or the Olympics. it's not safe for the teams, coaching staff, fans, nobody
I saw Gavin Newsom load a homeless family into a Waymo and shout, āthe ocean pleaseā into the steering wheel and then slap the back of it to send it off like a horse.
Good morning! Itās a perfect day to realize that the politics youāre used to are gone and never coming back so you can either think about what you want the future to look like and try to build toward that or keep trying to wishcast the country back to 1998 and be part of the problem.
Great piece against the tendency to reduce protest to symbolic intervention: Protests must involve āreal, tangible promises: demonstrations of an ability to escalate, backed by strategic leverageā and organized movementsā¦
Well, I had an interesting Sunday night, how 'bout you?
De Niro said: āI loved and supported Aaron as my son, and now I love and support Airyn as my daughter. I donāt know what the big deal is ā¦ I love all my children.ā He really is all right, Robert De Niro. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
āAnd Iām like, what do you mean, you ādo your own researchā? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?ā - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
Iāve found itās more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
Having spent time listening and watching the BBC, the obsequiousness of US journalists will never cease to amaze me. āYes sir, with all due respect sir, letās agree to disagree sirā. Hereās a tip: the response to āyouāre not being very niceā is āare you the president or a toddler?ā
āI couldā Seems pretty relevant.
Look at the size of this march! In DTLA today
Greetings! SEIU 721, who represents 55,000 LA County workers, are rallying outside the Kenneth Hahn Hall Of Administration. The union began its strike last night. There are 1,000+ here. Speakers are saying that negotiators are speaking with representatives from County Supervisors right now.
āScooped up.ā
Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.
Itās okay to starve kids at home and kill them abroad but you canāt preach empathy because that makes you the enemy.
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