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👇 Hearing the same from a lot of friends and family in LA

submitted 11 hours ago • 189 comments

Things are escalating in downtown Los Angeles

submitted 10 hours ago • 20 comments

I know Trump would love to declare martial law, but the fact is, he doesn’t have the troop strength to subdue 340 million Americans. Unless… he hires undocumented workers to do it???

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

"no masks !¡!" This guy still doesn't understand he does not make law nor do the armed services. Unless the local municipality or state has an anti-masking law, they can go fuck themselves.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Something something authoritarians have to manufacture the consent of the governed via violent suppression of dissent something something

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Tom Nichols and Rick Wilson and David Frum are why we have Donald Trump today. They are the conservatives who cheerleaded the abuses under George W Bush that paved the way for Trump and they’re the ones who couldn’t stop him in their own party/movement. Why would you listen to Frankenstein?

submitted 8 hours ago • 13 comments

They will invent the pretext unless we’re so thoroughly supine they don’t need to, which leads to the same outcome.

submitted 8 hours ago • 17 comments

Worth reading the letter – Newsom is noting that the powers Trump invoked last night don’t federalise the National Guard, meaning everything should be going through the governor’s office. He explicitly says the deployment is thus unlawful. About as direct a states’ rights case as you’re gonna get.

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

They don't need an excuse. They will create one.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

protect your eyes, protect your head. "less lethal" munitions are lethal when fired directly at a human being and cops love to use them this way. pepperballs will take your eye out, a tear gas canister can fracture your skull. cops will kill you on purpose and by accident, all with impunity.

submitted 11 hours ago • 33 comments

Hey look at that someone read the statute! Just to put a sharper point in it, this means everything that’s going on with the national guard right now in Cali is illegal as well as horrifically unnecessary and harmful

submitted 10 hours ago • 8 comments

When Joe Biden did stuff like this, Fox would play the clips over and over like it was as significant as the moon landing

submitted 13 hours ago • 309 comments

The fires are so extensive across Manitoba, Saskatchewan & Ontario currently that there are not enough air crafts to rescue remote Native Canadians. I am sending an SOS to every nation to help save the lives of people who are going to burn alive. Literally. Canada needs evacuation assistance.

submitted 19 hours ago • 177 comments

No, no, no. As the political media often reminds us, the far right exists as a pure natural state of being and the rest of the universe must accommodate itself to their reality. Are they wrong? No, you are, and you need to change your ways. It's just basic science.

submitted 12 hours ago • 23 comments

The weird, often whitewashed way the civil rights movement is taught (or not taught) seemed to convince a lot of people that nonviolence was met with nonviolence, instead of you know, dogs, hoses, beatings, death, etc

submitted 16 hours ago • 260 comments

via @acyn.bsky.social @juliettekayyem.bsky.social: "Active duty Marines for this? I mean, we were just reporting on it. There's music. The traffic is moving. Most people in L.A. probably don't even know that this is going on."

submitted 17 hours ago • 79 comments

"two months later, authorities have yet to provide any evidence that the more than three dozen people they arrested that night have connections to the gang..." www.texastribune.org/2025/06/04/t...

submitted 15 hours ago • 179 comments

The astounding contribution of US academic science to new medicines www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

One of the reasons I think “defund the police” is a great slogan is that you get to repeatedly tell people that studies show that police don’t actually solve murders, and in fact one-third of stranger-murders are committed by police.

submitted 16 hours ago • 63 comments

We are about to enter into a propaganda war against the Right. Over next few weeks, RW propagandists will flood media with stories of mayhem & destruction to frame public opinion to paint Dems as the enemy. But we must remember their history of lies #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

submitted 20 hours ago • 74 comments

I think the way the party is reeling from his mild suggestion that we elect young people is kinda proving his point.

submitted 18 hours ago • 13 comments

Zelenskyy: "Trust me, we understand the Russians much better, the mentality of the Russians, than the Americans understand the Russians. I know for sure Putin doesn't want to stop the war."

submitted 18 hours ago • 384 comments

Whenever law enforcement agents are given a quota of a specific number of people to arrest or detain, especially with the WH policy director screaming at their superiors to hit those target numbers, bad things are going to happen. Quotas always result in civil rights violations.

submitted 20 hours ago • 456 comments

1/ If accurate, this is almost certainly a conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement, including the National Guard if they are federalized.

submitted 1 day ago • 630 comments

Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses. Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

submitted 1 day ago • 102 comments

“Firing back”

submitted 20 hours ago • 112 comments

I… huh? What are the police firing back at

submitted 20 hours ago • 75 comments

Fascism cannot be reasoned with. Hypocrisy will never matter to the fascist right and their supporters.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

The irony of this CBC article on potholes being loaded with ads for unnecessarily enormous trucks and SUVs, while not even raising increased vehicle weight as a factor in pothole frequency: www.cbc.ca/radio/costof...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

"hundreds of those imprisoned for arriving in the UK on small boats since 2022 were refugees and victims of trafficking and torture, in breach of international law. It said at least 17 children had been arrested and charged with “facilitation”, for having their hand on the tiller of a dinghy."

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

And one way to reduce such exposure ..... #CRBox w/ Clean Air Delivery rates greater than nearly all commercial HEPA air cleaners (both at high flow) for wildfire particles @ 1/3rd to 1/7th the initial cost and generally lower filter replacement cost. IT;s not rocket science, folks, and it works!

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Reports and video show flash-bangs thrown into piles of debris just before a car caught fire, strongly suggesting it was law enforcement, not protesters, who sparked it. More details are coming. Don’t let them control the narrative. Thank you to everyone sharing footage, always record everything.

submitted 21 hours ago • 284 comments

What's going on in LA should be a real wakeup call for folks who don't already know that a fully liberal government can still wind up a police state and without some major change to the way we talk about the militarization of policing, nothing will get better

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

For LA PD to not be cooperating and maintaining their statement that protests were peaceful....is bonkers to me.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

The fact they chose California as the flash point is also an indicator that they don't think these things through LA has like 4M+ people. Sending every single ICE officer is ~20K, LAPD is 9K, LASD is 10K. Going in at 100:1 manpower – leaving zero bodies for literally anything else – is foolish 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 227 comments