https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/criminalizing-masks-protests-wrong

Perhaps he could order Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport the weather.

The site shows rallies nearest to you:

https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/

The raids are part of a coordinated response across the U.S. after President Donald Trump vowed to instigate mass deportations of undocumented migrants.

Response? Response to what? It looks to me more like a military force invading a city and attacking civilians.

“Deputies will be defending themselves. I don’t think anybody expects our deputy sheriffs to take rocks and bottles without defending themselves.”

Raising a shield would be defending.

Retaliation is not defending.

Hurting random people because someone threw a rock is not defending.

Shooting a peaceful journalist is not defending.

I would like to see California boldly and forcefully repel this invasion, but I don’t know how it would work.

The California National Guard is part of the National Guard of the United States, a dual federal-state military reserve force.

When National Guard troops are called to federal service, the president serves as Commander-In-Chief. The federal mission assigned to the National Guard is: “To provide properly trained and equipped units for prompt mobilization for war, national emergency or as otherwise needed.”

The governor of California may call individuals or units of the California National Guard into state service during emergencies or special situations. The state mission of the National Guard is: “To provide trained and disciplined forces for domestic emergencies or as otherwise provided by state law.”

Role: Organized militia
Size: 24,000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_National_Guard

EDIT:

When I look at this as Trump and his gang deliberately inciting conflict with state/local governments in order to have an excuse to seize control from them before the next election, the situation becomes even trickier.

The use of “self-hosting” is a little confusing here. To be clear, he wasn’t self-hosting his video. It was published on YouTube, and the guidelines and procedures in question are Google’s.

Edit: I’m not defending Google’s actions. It’s just that the title gave the impression that a video he had self-hosted was somehow subject to “community guidelines”, which didn’t make sense.

Edit 2: Ten downvotes in less than an hour, on a clarification comment? Wow. I’m disappointed to see that level of targeted negativity here. What rotten behavior. :(

I don’t know all the ins and outs of this, but somehow I doubt that Trump has as much financial leverage against the fourth largest economy in the world as he apparently thinks he does.

As Lemmy is federated but not fully decentralised, continuation of communities hosted on a dead instance is not currently possible. (Compare this to Matrix, where a room can carry on even if its original homeserver dies, so long as at least one other homeserver participates in it.)

So that is indeed still a problem here, although not as severe, because I think the posts in those communities will still be available on instances that participated in them. Such communities would be forever frozen, though; carrying on from where they left off would require migrating to (or creating) communities on still-running instances.

Lemmy does allow you to export your own data and import it into another instance. That includes settings, subscriptions, and links to saved posts/comments. So I guess maybe you could save your own posts, export your data, and import it elsewhere to keep links to what you wrote on the dying instance. I have not tested this to be sure.

I haven’t been following Reddit events since I left a couple years ago, but if there have been recent ban waves for bad behaviour, it wouldn’t surprise me to see corresponding upticks in it here.

I wish more of us spoke up against rudeness, confidently incorrect ignorance, combativeness, tribalism, brigading, and other such stuff when it rears its head here. If all of us participated in moderation, I suspect it would be more effective and make our mods’ lives easier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

USDA links:

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/cattle/ticks/screwworm

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/cattle/ticks/screwworm/outbreak-central-america

The sad reality is that while there are a lot of great people on Lemmy, there are also some who use the platform to attack others, stir up conflict, or actively try to undermine the project. Admins are volunteers who deal with the latter group on a constant basis, this takes a mental toll. Please understand why our admins chose to step down, and be kind to the admins on whatever instance you decide to join.

There are also bluetooth adapters that plug directly into those older iPods’ accessory port (the slot on the bottom) instead of the headphone jack.

The main benefit of the one I used was being compact, with no wires. The main drawback was having to remove the adapter to charge the iPod. I guess a model with a USB charging cable might exist.

If we are to allow them to hold positions of extraordinary power over us, then we must also hold them to an extraordinary level of responsibility, and their actions must be subject to extraordinary scrutiny and severe consequences for wrongdoing. That is the only way it can work.

None of those are examples of people using firearms to stand against tyranny. Not even at a small scale, let alone a meaningful one.

(Note that racist organisations are not governments. They’re awful, but they are not fascism and do not constitute tyranny.)

Can you share a meaningful number of examples showing Democrats with guns standing up to neo-fascists?

Because while your comment has an air of sensibility, the news stories that I’ve seen over the decades give the impression that the Americans who choose to own guns to protect their rights are overwhelmingly supporters of the very fascists that are in the spotlight now. I would love reason to believe otherwise, but since I don’t have one, I am skeptical of your argument.

The host’s intro made me laugh out loud.

“If you’re anything like me, you’ll prob’ly be fascinated by a brand new game called… [looks down at notes to read the name of the game…]”

Seriously, though, I’m thankful that he put a spoiler warning right up front. I’ll have to save this for later.

Yes, that’s part of the ecosystem. :)

I recently started it.

Gameplay-wise, I find it bland at best: A world traversed entirely on rails, and JRPG-style combat with timed dodge/parry moves. These mechanics don’t excite me, but I’m still playing anyway, because…

As a work of art, I find it gorgeous. The operatic soundtrack, despite being a genre outside my usual preferences, is captivating. The voice acting is nuanced and immersive like I don’t think I’ve heard in any other game (so much that I can mostly overlook the terrible lip sync problems in the animation). A few of the facial expressions are… disarming. The environments are so beautiful that I sometimes find myself just staring at them for a while instead of advancing the story.

It’s too early to be sure I’ll stick with it, but I suspect that I will, just as I would a film that indulges the senses.