The first “expert organization” they talk to in this article published a “research study” last year saying DEI policies cause workplace hostility, this is propaganda bullshit

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

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.

The curfew was ordered by the mayor

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.

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.

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

Please do, I bet a lot more people saw that absolute garbage article than will see either of these because NBC has a way bigger reach than Mediate or the Empty Wheel blog so, so it deserves to be called out a ton

Okay, first I think it needs to be said that this is a complex and difficult situation that really doesn’t leave us with any good options either way, and I think both sides of this debate have people with good intentions behind them.

Second, this

Cops beat the shit out of compliant protesters all the time.

is true and something people need to be aware of.

However, third, it needs to be said that

Fight back

will absolutely get the shit beaten out of you unless you got an army in your back pocket I somehow haven’t heard about yet.

Fourth,

Fight back or run away. If you’re not capable of either then you’ve already missed your chance at contributing to the movement.

Bullshit. Every news story picture and video that shows protesters getting attacked and arrested is an incredibly powerful piece of evidence showing the consequences of rising fascism in America that’s going to be harder and harder for the people who are trying to ignore all this stuff to tune out. Even the selfish asshole centrist dipshits who don’t care about immigrant rights and just want everything to settle down are going to see that this unrest can’t be beaten into submission and efforts to do so just make the protests bigger, and that’s when those people are going to turn on the fascists and say “Look, I was willing to give up civil liberties for law and order, but you can’t even give us that.” (we’re already seeing talk like that out of Gavin Newsom).

Personally, I say if you’re in a protest and cops start attacking, run away if you can or sit down if you can’t, because I don’t feel comfortable asking people to just turn themselves over to the mercy of law enforcement who may very well do permanent injury to them, but I have nothing but respect for the people who do make that sacrifice for this movement, and the notion that people being arrested aren’t contributing is absolute bullshit.

Good to know anything we can about fascist infiltration into the resistance and agent provocateurs, but the implication that protesters can do anything to stop these plans seems incorrect to me. If a proud boy or whoever dresses up as a protester and torches a cop car or whatever, there’s nothing protesters can really do to stop it. The people who will need to be vigilant are the media and lawmakers who will be pressured into condemning the protests as a whole because of the actions of these infiltrator assholes.

Images captured by CBS News Los Angeles showed members of the National Guard using what appeared to be tear gas and firing non-lethal rounds toward some groups of demonstrators.

Australian journalist Lauren Tomasi got shot from behind with a rubber bullet while she was just standing there doing her job

Kinda, except that older sibling has permanently injured and killed people with their bullying in the past

“Nobody beats the shit out of unarmed protesters in Los Angeles but us!” - LAPD (basically)

There were six people and a Scotch terrier inhabiting the remote farmhouse Major Major called home, and five of them and the Scotch terrier turned out to be agents for the FBI.

Andrew Yang rn

Regardless of whatever bullshit the officials involve pedal, I’m going to believe this was one of Musk’s toadies trying to sabotage Stephen Miller’s passion project

Yeah, I really don’t think it’s anything nefarious from this outlet because they’re actually pretty great with a lot of their headlines, but the general practice throughout journalism and punditry and politics of calling police agencies “law enforcement” and just flatly referring to stuff they do as “law enforcement actions” without interrogating the fact that their “law enforcement actions” are actually breaking the law is a problem

For sure, I tend to be a bit sympathetic to journalists because they have a pretty thankless job and writing quickly about complex events filled with dishonest people pushing bullshit talking points is just always going to be a really hard thing to do really well consistently

But on the other hand what you’re saying is a totally fair criticism, and I’m glad to see it because you’re totally right about the importance of framing and how many bullshit things people in power do gets laundered by being written about in passive voice or as some kind of natural and inevitable outcome instead of as a conscious decision made by real people, and getting push back on it gives journalists at least some basis to change how they do things and say “I’m just responding to what my readers are telling me,” when people accuse them of being biased.