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Still annoyed you people didn't move to Mastodon (@docbrianS@mastodon.online). Retired Cali public policy guy, recovering academic. Cat dad, bread baker, beer drinker. #CarletonCollege grad. #UCSD #PoliticalScience #PhD No bio, no follow back.

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This is 1/4 of Israel's ENTIRE population, including children. On the streets.
Think how many protests you agreed with but didn't join in on.

Israelis REJECT Netanyahu's war. They want the hostages back and the genocide and starvation over.

18.08.2025 01:34 β€” πŸ‘ 408    πŸ” 121    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

ICE just posted this video taking down the sign in Mount Pleasant on Twitter.

17.08.2025 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3429    πŸ” 1067    πŸ’¬ 433    πŸ“Œ 415

For most of the last decade, our media and political class has panicked over the idea that progressives were intruding on free speech rights by loudly criticizing people with unpopular views.

Anyway, here's far-right federal paramilitaries advertising that they'll rip down pro-immigrant messages.

18.08.2025 00:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3371    πŸ” 981    πŸ’¬ 79    πŸ“Œ 41
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Newβ€” Nazis with giant swastika flags marched in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday with two police escorts. They shouted β€œwhite power” and said to the woman who took this video (reshared here with her permission) β€œfuck you, n***** bitch.”

Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.

18.08.2025 03:25 β€” πŸ‘ 7282    πŸ” 3805    πŸ’¬ 671    πŸ“Œ 794
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Israelis protest Netanyahu's genocide on Gaza.

18.08.2025 04:41 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Piles of unsold wheat are now a frequent site in eastern WA. Farmers used to contribute wheat to USAID to feed starving children. Trump, evangelical Christians' chosen President, killed the program. Musk decided to let the poorest children starve w/ the support of these evangelicals."
-S Polda

18.08.2025 01:45 β€” πŸ‘ 80    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 4

From the MAGA perspective of course, this hit to the DC economy is a *win*: ruin LGBT owned business, throw immigrants out of their hospitality jobs, make life unpleasant for young educated professionals

17.08.2025 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 592    πŸ” 134    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3

Jesus. Fucking thugs.

17.08.2025 03:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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17.08.2025 02:23 β€” πŸ‘ 4135    πŸ” 1131    πŸ’¬ 153    πŸ“Œ 59
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a close up of a person wearing an orange jersey with the number 20 on the back Alt: a close up of a person wearing an orange jersey with the number 20 on the back
17.08.2025 03:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bankruptcy. It happens slowly, then all at once.

17.08.2025 03:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Holy shit. And that signature! It's in the Donald J Trump font!

17.08.2025 03:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I thought McConnell threatened him if he went public with it before the 2016 election?

17.08.2025 03:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Standard mob tactics.

17.08.2025 01:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Apart from firearms, the part of training we spent the most time on (if I am recalling correctly) was legal instruction. Now the FBI is hiring people with no college degree and slashing training time in half (reducing academics, guessing ethics also). Absolute disaster www.nysun.com/article/fbi-...

16.08.2025 23:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2745    πŸ” 911    πŸ’¬ 160    πŸ“Œ 91

the message from the white house is that you live in a city run by people the president doesn't like, you will be occupied like you are an enemy of the state.

17.08.2025 00:59 β€” πŸ‘ 4158    πŸ” 855    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 24
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Today: Anti-Trump protesters marched in Washington, all the way to the White Houseβ€”peaceful, defiant, rejecting his occupation of D.C.

16.08.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 8106    πŸ” 2290    πŸ’¬ 136    πŸ“Œ 90

There’s no longer any pretense this has anything to do with crime (there are cities or parts of cities in SC and Ohio that have higher crime rates than DC β€” send the troops there!). This is about establishing a precedent for Trump seizing control of the nation’s capital when he wants to.

17.08.2025 01:15 β€” πŸ‘ 8016    πŸ” 2583    πŸ’¬ 298    πŸ“Œ 124

So if a group of men -- all of them wearing masks, with no uniforms or badges visible, driving unmarked cars -- approach anyone on the streets of DC, they're just supposed to submit?

17.08.2025 01:00 β€” πŸ‘ 11274    πŸ” 2770    πŸ’¬ 598    πŸ“Œ 197

This summer I hear the drumming

17.08.2025 01:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hand out copies of the Declaration of Independence to the feds with parts highlighted:
"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

17.08.2025 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sumter, of course, was famous for promising Loyalist-owned slaves as recruiting bonuses to join his SC regiments.

17.08.2025 01:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

164 years later, South Carolina finally occupies Washington.

17.08.2025 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 5608    πŸ” 1409    πŸ’¬ 130    πŸ“Œ 42

If this was happening in any other country, it would be covered as β€œpedophile warlord sends troops into national capital for no reason”

17.08.2025 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1819    πŸ” 483    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 11

It's Anson Mount's dim cousin!

17.08.2025 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"majority"? WTF? Isn't that very nearly Lesson 1?

15.08.2025 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I dunno. Running in DC these days might get you gamg-tackled by Federales.

15.08.2025 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is not a massive decision or any kind of change. Costco has never carried mifepristone in its pharmacies. An anti-abortion group is taking credit for something that didn't happen, possibly to generate disingenuous left-wing ire against one of the few corporations that hasn't gone MAGA.

14.08.2025 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 7963    πŸ” 4129    πŸ’¬ 101    πŸ“Œ 140
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He really is a toddler.

15.08.2025 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
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Massive and growing protest in Anchorage against President Trump and Putin meeting tomorrow on Ukraine without Ukraine.

15.08.2025 01:03 β€” πŸ‘ 250    πŸ” 103    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 9

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