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

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.

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.

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!

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...

Really Cool how nobody wanted to take this shit seriously

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.

Purposely shooting journalists is end-of-democracy stuff.

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 🙂

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

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.

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.

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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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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Mass protest tomorrow in Los Angeles!

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

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

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.

Tell me your pet's name with a gif:

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.

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.

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

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

NEW: Conservatives on SCOTUS give DOGE the go-ahead. A one-two punch: DOGE gets access to your data, but the public is restricted from getting information about DOGE. Today, at Law Dork:

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio tried to give a press conference to announce his lawsuit against DOJ. Much to my surprise it turned out to be the greatest press conference of all-time.

Imagine putting on all this tactical gear and latching onto a military assault vehicle so you can storm a minimall on Sepulveda and apprehend a line cook at family restaurant.

There it is. Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) says Republicans’ next goal is to kick seniors off Social Security: “Get off of Social Security. Get back into the workforce.”

This guy consistently posts songs with incredible lyrics mere hours after events unfurl. This was a good one.

Very Well Said…..😊💙

For real though, is there anyone on the White House team who is capable of understanding and reacting to the fact that those little DOGE snots are still stealing data and sending it straight to Elon and assorted foreign agents?

I do not understand this tendency among journalists to reduce every political event to a prediction about whether it will be a lasting news cycle. On the merits, we have a billionaire who helped a fascist get into power and now believes he can dictate policy. That matters! A lot!

I just don't understand what went wrong between those two thin-skinned narcissistic megalomaniacs.

No more bottom for $TSLA now.

What a shame. “DOGE affiliated staff, some of whom were responsible for pushing out thousands of federal workers, texted one another on Thursday about whether they would be fired next, according to administration officials.” www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

Hahahahahahaha

I’m dispirited by this sign that Dems feel cued to say “we’re above this,” as they do Two of the worst people on Earth are slinging what seems like fairly accurate gossip at each other, just take it. Take the gift

BREAKING: Judge Burroughs grants a temporary restraining order blocking Trump’s effort to block foreign students from attending Harvard. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We must also sit down in solid, straight-backed chairs and pray that Trump and Musk don't get so mad that they just start releasing all the blackmail material they've been collecting on each other. May they act like the mature, restrained adults that we know they are.

Oh, gosh. I hope Trump doesn't try to seize Elon's assets or try to arrest all the DOGE kids for spying and data theft. That would be a terrible overreach, and you know how Trump hates those.

Someone please remind Trump that the showmanship will be better if he deports Kimbal first and then lets the tension build.