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Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

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New from 404 Media: Delta, United, American etc don't want you to know they sold your flight data to DHS. The country's airlines sell bulk names and flight itineraries to DHS to be searched without a warrant. Contract tells DHS to not reveal where this data came from www.404media.co/airlines-don...

submitted 7 hours ago • 53 comments

Durbin to Bhattacharya: "I can't understand it. I disagree w/ this admin on so many things. But this is the one that really gets to me personally. To think this nation would walk away from medical research. For God's sake...cancer, your budget requests a 38% cut to the National Cancer Institute"

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Look, I'm a well-off middle-age cis white guy with four law degrees, three in commercial law fields. At this point, even I can see that key institutions have failed at the moment they were most needed because we have permitted the development of a largely unregulated and untaxed oligarch class.

submitted 17 hours ago • 18 comments

I was a medic at the Santa Ana protests in OC today. I watched police fire tear gas, flash bangs, & rubber bullets into crowds of men, women, & children. Other medics and I were clearly marked with red crosses, and the police were targeting us. One of the most fucked up things I’ve ever seen.

submitted 17 hours ago • 116 comments

Between the fires and these protests, I hope this year teaches everyone that most of the shit talking you hear about California and more specifically, LA, comes from racists and gentrifying transplants. Most people love living here and would do anything to protect it.

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As I wrote at Law Dork on Sunday: "Say there’s a problem, create new rules or restrictions, and justify future escalations based on opposition to the new rules." www.lawdork.com/p/trump-is-s...

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Just putting this interesting video here for no reason. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpqE...

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

In light of Il Douche calling for the arrest of everyone wearing a mask (yes, we all acknowledge the irony), please- if you have stopped masking, start again. This is going to be a little bit of a thread. Stick with me.

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NEW: Hegseth is deploying Marines against U.S. citizens. Mayor Bass says to know your rights :

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"From coordinating wildfire relief to blocking ICE buses, community organizers say Los Angeles County residents keep proving that in a city of strangers, nobody fights alone." lapublicpress.org/2025/06/ice-...

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

I want to report some good news from LA: ICE picked a hotel in Pasadena to be their headquarters for this side of the city. The residents of Pasadena (myself included) would not stand for this and protested all yesterday in front of the hotel until, eventually, the hotel kicked out ICE!!

submitted 1 day ago • 602 comments

Lots going on, but this is big. White House Pushes Texas to Redistrict, Hoping to Blunt Democratic Gains www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/u...

submitted 18 hours ago • 62 comments

CNN’s reporter on scene in Los Angeles: I’m being detained..

submitted 16 hours ago • 813 comments

The people at @smartelections.bsky.social are moving forward with a major lawsuit in NY over this obvious instance of fraud that took place in the 2024 Election... [ Reposted from @realdlhughley.bsky.social on Instagram ]

submitted 17 hours ago • 614 comments

she’s like 15 feet away. absolutely that man’s whole thought process was: “I’m gonna shoot that woman”

submitted 1 day ago • 292 comments

For anyone who thinks I'm joking here (and it's funny, but no) rumor is that the National Guard deployed in LA was sent under a 29 day order to avoid housing allowances, which means they have to fully pay for their own shelter. In LA. Zero notice. Durable fascisms don't shortchange the muscle.

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

It is completely unlawful for ICE to turn away members of Congress like this. The law could not be more clear; no member of Congress may be denied access to a facility where ICE is detaining someone, and they cannot be required to schedule in advance. Surprise inspections must be surprise.

submitted 1 day ago • 227 comments

what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!

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This is sort of what happened with DOGE. They were convinced there was a mountain of easily-detectable waste and fraud that a handful of folks equipped with "common sense" could root out & eliminate in a manner of weeks. And there wasn't. But they had promised headlines about big cuts...

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

Really Cool how nobody wanted to take this shit seriously

submitted 1 day ago • 365 comments

Polite request to please credit the photographers whose L.A. photos you’re sharing. They’re out there risking getting their shins exploded by police munitions to get those shots.

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

Purposely shooting journalists is end-of-democracy stuff.

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hey don't forget to turn off biometric access to your phone and if you did happen to forget, in an emergency, pressing the power button 5 times on your iphone will lock it & it can't be unlocked again without the passcode even if you were silly & left face ID on 🙂

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

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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 2 days ago • 84 comments

This is really key. Scream at them, berate them, try to find ways to hurt their feelings and play on the insecurities that cause ICE agents to get jobs like that in the first place. That’s all peaceful.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Huh. Another violent, attention-grabbing incident happened right when the Internet was full of reminders that Trump is in the Epstein files.

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👇🏻

submitted 2 days ago • 246 comments

Keep the sequence of events clear in your mind: ICE was preparing to snatch day laborers from a Home Depot in order to meet deportation quotas set by Trump. Community members protested. ICE responded with flash-bangs and tear gas. ICE started it and ICE escalated it. Period. #LosAngeles

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

Hey, Los Angeles! One of several No Kings protests will be at Hollywood and Vermont from 11:30-2:30. Bring sunblock and your patriotism.

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To be clear, this is what an insurrection looks like:

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Deploying the military on U.S. soil as law enforcement against Americans was on page 555 of Project 2025. So don’t say “I didn’t vote for this,” because you did. This isn’t a response. This was always their plan.

submitted 2 days ago • 329 comments

www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-d...

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Your oath is to the Constitution. The President violates the Constitution. If he orders you to violate the Constitution… Your oath remains to the Constitution.

submitted 2 days ago • 100 comments

Mass protest tomorrow in Los Angeles!

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support. You don’t have to go through with it. 877-447-4487

submitted 2 days ago • 178 comments

ER doctor here! Please seek medical attention (go to the ER) if you are hit in the head with a ballistic. “Less lethal” weapons kill people all the time, in addition to causing permanent disabilities. If you don’t feel safe disclosing that you were protesting just say you were hit in the head, etc

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I will remind everyone that tear gas is an abortifacient and hormonal disruptor. In 2020 we were trying to conceive. The day after getting teargassed, I bled worse than I ever had in my entire life. My periods were not regular for about 6 months after.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Tell me your pet's name with a gif:

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If Todd wants us to see ICE agents as real people, maybe they should treat their targets as real people, wear clearly visible ID, and not pull their neck gaiters up to their sunglasses. Just spitballing here.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.

submitted 3 days ago • 203 comments

Last night ICE hit Chinatown. They pepper bombed civilians while the country was watching LAPD fire rubber bullets and tear gas downtown.

submitted 3 days ago • 123 comments

In the 42 years since the start of the Reagan revolution, bought-off politicians have so altered our tax code that fully $51 trillion has moved from the homes and savings of working-class Americans into the money bins of the morbidly rich money hoarders. https://trib.al/O1jiyie

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