Bryne Rasmussen

Timelapse of Chicago’s No Kings rally. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Watching our mad king don his AI slop crown and publicly fantasize about rage shitting on our moment of collective power is the perfect counterpoint: he's the one isolated in his impotent fury, clinging to the online simulacrum while we primally express and experience our very real strength.

The regime tried to scare people and failed. That's good.

We wanted to understand how young New York City voters feel about Zohran Mamdani. So we talked to three retired cops at an Outback Steakhouse in Staten Island.

Our dedicated reporters continue to provide on-the-ground coverage of the ongoing immigration raids that have devastated L.A. communities.

Now we’re ready to take the next step by bringing those stories to life in a documentary series: givebutter.com/lataco_october

Feds use tear gas in Chicago

Another good time to remind people that “tear gas” is a term of copaganda that police, the military, and its manufacturers use to obscure that it is a dangerous chemical weapon internationally banned for use even in warfare.

“Military occupation doesn’t make our city safer. Resources and investment makes our city safer.” thank you Bri and all the other protestors who took the time to speak with me last night in Chicago.

Michigan Avenue right now.

Cops lie. Cops lie. Cops lie.

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

Trump and the GOP are gearing up for Martial Law.

Suspending our rights, punting the elections, crushing critics, and elevating Trump into Supreme Leader.

Every week, they're searching for their Reichstag Fire or trying to create one.

"We've been forced into a 'free speech zone.' Its very existence implies that everywhere else is a non-free speech zone, that there are places where our First Amendment rights do not apply."

I am just so fucking proud of her.

“In our house, we have a strict ‘no hallucinatory parasocial relationships after 9 p.m.’ rule.” Shannon Curran, Systems Analyst

OpenAI Introduces Parental Controls
https://theonion.com/openai-introduces-parental-controls/

The children are the future

What you are witnessing is weakness performing as strength.

Trump knows his coalition is fracturing over Epstein, Israel, the economy, and now the FBI investigation of Kirk's murder.

The majority has abandoned him.

He's old and decaying.

Only way to stay in power is cheat.

What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart

An anti-ICE flyer hanging in the window of the bookstore.

Attn all ICE agents! Here’s an announcement from our front window: Chicago hates you, and you are not welcome here!

Ok, if he is not dead though? I really love the idea of all of us being the grim reaper for halloween.

Ground the choppers The LAPD's helicopter mania is both a policy disaster and a symbol of our malignant, badly functioning surveillance state.

LAPD choppers are a malignant nuisance. They're harbingers of surveillance, operated *continuously*—yet 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.

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

Finally, I said years ago, and folks who have followed me for a long time know this is true, that defunding the police was a moderate demand that is actually the basement in terms of what's needed. I said that liberals will be deeply sorry that they turned that demand into some kind of bogeyman.

The problem with the strategy using state cops to rein in fascists is similar with the problem with trying to get Hannah Montana to fill in when Miley Cyrus is sick.

an @lataco.bsky.social x @msnbc.com crossover is something I've been wanting to make happen for months. so much respect and admiration for what @eltragon.bsky.social and the team have been doing all summer documenting ICE raids in L.A. honored to have him on while I'm filling in for Steph this week.

YouTube video by Zeteo Watch D.C. Residents Push ICE Out Of Their Streets

Watch D.C. residents chase federal agents out of the Columbia Heights neighborhood.

Meanwhile, we spotted FBI and Homeland Security agents appear to respond to a *fare evader*.

@premthakker.bsky.social reports.

zeteo.com/p/watch-prem...

youtube.com/shorts/99A29...

The leadership of the Democratic party is not anti-fascist. I think that it's helpful to keep this in mind at all times.

Way too many Liberals think making and sharing AI memes is "resistance".

It's not resistance. It's compliance. Every time you use AI for some entertainment bullshit you're lining the pockets of the oligarchs who support Trump. You are passively supporting Trump with your AI slop.

Do the work.

EXCLUSIVE: From an undisclosed location, three Black Texas Democrats on the run describe how they're prepared to defy their Republican colleagues to protect democracy.

"To cut our representation, literally in half...it takes away a voice to make sure our communities have the resources we need."

It’s Not That Complicated. Cancelling Student Debt Is Good. The argument that we shouldn’t cancel student debt because it’s unfair to those who have paid off their loans doesn’t hold up. Don’t overthink it: we should cancel all student debt and make public universities, community colleges, and vocation schools tuition-free.

The argument that we shouldn’t cancel student debt because it’s unfair to those who have paid off their loans doesn’t hold up.

Don’t overthink it: we should cancel all student debt and make public universities, community colleges, and vocation schools tuition-free.