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We still have no idea who the ICE agents are. They could be insurrectionists, extremist militiamen or criminals themselves, chasing law-abiding citizens down the street for recording their kidnappings. The odds they aren't are low. Congress must raise hell about this. A masked gang runs our country.

submitted 2 days ago • 1228 comments

"People's rights are being abused, people's rights are being violated... these are trial runs for what this administration will attempt to do to citizens." — Pasadena Pastor Rev. Mark Chase on unidentified masked men in unmarked cars hauling away six people from a bus stop.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

For people outside of LA I think it’s hard to fathom how intense things are here. The raids are everywhere - violent, without rhyme or reason - and people just disappear. I swear that you can feel it in the air.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Tomorrow's NYT front page is going to look like one of those satire ones from 2016 predicting the horrors of a Trump administration

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

This is what fascism looks like - using a conspiracy theory about a dehumanized outgroup as a pretext for seizing political power and wielding arbitrary authority. What you read about in the history books is happening right here, right now.

submitted 8 days ago • 77 comments

15,000 people showed up to the protest in Pasadena. It’s a city with a population of 133,000. #nokings

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The point here is you can be the whitest Connecticut brunchlord ever and if they decide to throw you on the truck it literally doesn't matter what the law says. This is for the Dem senators. You guys are getting scooped up soon enough. If you have any interest in self-preservation, do something.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Protests organized tonight at 10 hotels where ICE has been confirmed to be staying at in the LA area. Bring instruments, pots and pans, and your best chanting voice! 1/3

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

It’s blindingly clear at this point that the protestors in Los Angeles are in fact helping to prevent a fascist takeover, and the pundits who suggested that protest is counterproductive were being either stupid or actively malicious.

submitted 11 days ago • 14 comments

This is jmportant reporting and you should read it

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

ICE spotted in Pasadena at 9:30am. ACE Hotel, 19 S Madison Ave, Pasadena, CA 91101

submitted 15 days ago • 15 comments

the government is intentionally manufacturing the conditions for violence against its own citizens, grim stuff

submitted 16 days ago • 135 comments

Seeing a massive divide online between Angelenos of all political stripes who understand that the protests in LA yesterday were mostly peaceful and any violence was ICE-initiated and East Coast establishment liberals lecturing “the left” on how riots just amplify right wing talking points.

submitted 15 days ago • 84 comments

Can a reporter worth their salt get Newsom on the line and ask “Are you authorizing this?” It’s a yes or no, and will tell us a lot.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

When LA really pops off, in the way that LA does, neither DHS nor LAPD will be able to contain it. It's not going to happen tonight, but I suspect it's going to happen before long this summer. And once LA gets going, there's really no stopping the crowds.

submitted 17 days ago • 43 comments

Denzel Washington’s performance in Malcolm X is the greatest onscreen acting of all time.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

This passed 215-214. We're going to lose our healthcare because 3 senior Dems have died this year. We lost Roe because Ginsburg didn't retire. We lost the election because Joe ran for reelection. Our country is being destroyed because geriatric Dems can't retire and let go of power.

submitted 32 days ago • 181 comments

14,000 babies are being starved to death, and they’re saying that this guy is a terrorist.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

This is for opposing genocide. Absolute madness.

submitted 33 days ago • 21 comments

They’ve charged Mo Chara from kneecap with terrorist offences. Fuck that. Solidarity with Mo Chara and Kneecap. Calling out a genocide is a moral duty. Fuck any law or cunts says otherwise. #kneecap #speirgorm

submitted 33 days ago • 11 comments

The Emoluments Clause (Article I, Section 9, Clause 8) is explicit about accepting gifts from foreign governments. It's not written in some confusing legalese. The president accepting a 400 million dollar plane from Qatar does not "raise substantial ethical issues", it's a flat-out bribe.

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

submitted 43 days ago • 940 comments

It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts

submitted 47 days ago • 118 comments

The chaotic, disturbing scenes in Worcester, the unlawful arrest of a mayor who dared to question ICE - all of it keeps bringing me back to this passage from Solzhenitsyn about the regrets of folks who lived through something like this.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

A report from the scene of a horrifying kidnapping on the streets of Worcester, MA today by @billshaner.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...

submitted 46 days ago • 306 comments