Yeah, apparently the plane crashed into the dining hall for a medical school, so a ton of potential first responders were likely among the injured. It’s kind of hard to imagine how this could have turned out any worse.

I worry RFK is going to use a combination of being exactly who we thought he was, moving just slowly enough for people to lose interest, and his boss’s tendency to demand all of our attention to do some truly awful stuff, and by the time we realize how awful it is it will be way too late to do anything about it

TBF, seeing Trump treat someone else like shit, empathizing with their experience, and realizing how it could happen to them is really hard for Republicans because they’re morally and intellectually defective

being strong enough to quit refuse unlawful orders and use your own common sense and basic decency to resolve conflicts in the field and deal with the court martial.

Hundreds of years ago they were a mixed bag, but with the advent of germ theory (and fire codes) cities rock and like 95% of humans should live in one

But that doesn’t mean CAFOs are a good idea, because their number one economy of scale trick is a) ignore all the environmental regulations to create more profit per unit b) have enough units makes the cost of fines/litigation/lobbying a manageable business expense

The curfew was ordered by the mayor

If you’re donating to a local station, the donation goes directly to the station itself, who may or may not use some of that donation to purchase NPR programming. Some people may choose to give to NPR directly instead, but that’s usually big organizations like the MacArthur foundation or other big charitable trust funds.

These deaths came during the same period that Portland began a two-pronged response to public pressure over homelessness. City leaders began moving homeless people out of public view by removing tents at a rate far surpassing those of its West Coast peers. Since 2021, it carried out 19,000 sweeps, and it dismantled over 20 encampments per day in 2024, according to city records.

At the same time, the city reduced money for stable permanent housing while dramatically increasing its investment in temporary shelters. The city spent $19.4 million to house formerly homeless Portlanders in 2019, according to the city budget. By 2024, the city budgeted $4.3 million, which housed 391 people.

They got what they paid for

Seems like it would be more effective to just tell your local stations to stop carrying NPR programming if that’s how you feel. If this goes through NPR will be fine and just keep on reporting the same as they have been because they’ve got tons of big foundations and corporations that donate to them directly and they’ve got a bunch of the most popular podcasts in the country they’re running advertisements on besides. It’s the little regional TV and radio stations that carry NPR shows alongside local reporting are going to have a lot harder time making their budgets.

Yeah, also even though it’s “almost half” there’s more people saying disapprove than approve, so there’s a large number in the “unsure” category right now, and the more we find out about who’s being deported and how and what the cops will do to suppress these protests the more that disapprove number will go up

So, per your own comment, protests in that area are being suppressed by California law enforcement who are claiming “looting” as an excuse

Also, per that recent incident where an LAPD officer said from a helicopter that they were taking pictures and would arrest protesters at their homes, it doesn’t seem like they’re going to limit their suppression activities to that one area

a) that number was provided by an LAPD spokesperson and the LAPD lies all the time

b)

The number of arrests was likely to rise as law enforcement worked to remove the remaining protesters from the area, the newspaper said.

e; Forgot a >

Also, all the Republicans who don’t work for this administration. Not like they just became fascist scum overnight, they’ve been headed this direction since the 60s maybe even since the 30s.

I mean, the fact that he didn’t say “OK, sir” probably makes him the most muckraking CNN journalist these days

I think it’s a way bigger problem how some adults refuse to ever consider that the system is at fault and think every single problem in the world must be reduced down to an individual failing instead of a badly designed system that makes it easy for individuals to fail for stupid reasons

I don’t think there’s anything special about Americans that makes them worse or better than anyone else. I think our problem is that we’ve got a heavily corrupted political system with a right wing propaganda machine that distorts a lot of people’s worldview and lawmakers who almost always find a way to just ignore their voters whenever they do manage to push for something progressive.

I’m a little wary of electing judges, but on the other hand I don’t think voters can do any worse than our unelected bar associations and law enforcement lobbying has done in creating a judiciary that actually cares about justice, so I’d be open to electing more of our judges.

Weird coincidence how this memo was written shortly before the national guard was deployed to these protests, don’t know if they’ve done any kidnappings since getting there tho

The fact that this person is a state senator is ridiculous, she’s clearly way way way too stupid to be having opinions anyone else listens to if any of what’s happening now is a surprise to her

She’s determined to get puppy killing off her top 10 worst moments list, I’ll give her that

Yeah, I guess I was thinking of this from the top down constitutional perspective of it (and even then I probably should have said taking ICE’s side or the federal government’s side), but meanwhile on the ground the LAPD is doing the LAPD thing and the National Guard is doing the National Guard thing