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PHILLY: Man posing as an ICE agent robs car repair business, ties up and manhandles a woman from the Dominican Republic — “He kept saying he is immigration officer.” It was only a matter of time before these masked vigilantes breed impersonators. www.fox29.com/video/1501153

this is good

A few words about “peaceful protests.” 1. At least 5% of people are uncontrollable assholes and will behave badly in any situation, let alone a high-tension one. So a large protest without ANYONE throwing shit, yelling slurs or for violence, etc. is likely not achievable. /1

see, the thing *i’m* genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines

Three things about this comment: 1. Homan is a White House adviser who doesn't have the power to arrest anyone. Neither does Trump. 2. Trump once again acts like he's not in charge. "If I were Tom, I'd do it." Uh, doesn't he work for you? 3. THREATENING TO ARREST A GOVERNOR IS A FIVE ALARM FIRE

What the absolute fuck.

All members of vaccine advisory panel will be retired, US Health Secretary Kennedy in WSJ oped reut.rs/4dZJzhQ

So...the ICE agents?

The situation in DTLA to which 700 Marines have been deployed is a couple dozen interfaith clergypersons leading a small crowd in prayer.

SD-17 Sen. Howard Marklein has voted against Medicaid expansion three times, so it's no surprise he and his colleagues aren't considering the horrible consequences for their constituents if Republicans in DC, like #WI03 Rep. Derrick Van Orden, gut Medicaid funding for Wisconsin.

The professional agitators are ICE.

BREAKING: Marines from Twentynine Palms have been deployed to Los Angeles. California will file a lawsuit against President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to confront protesters, the attorney general said, arguing the president had “trampled” the state’s sovereignty.

@natasharsarin.bsky.social: Loss of insurance from GOP bill could mean more than 100,000 preventable deaths. Some estimates based on existing research on Medicaid effects on mortality: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The administration has been hitting the “invasion” rhetoric and portraying the protests as being driven by immigrants because, as in the Alien Enemies Act cases, they want to use wartime and battlefield measures. Don’t let the rhetoric go by uncontradicted.

I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.

Law enforcement injure at least 4 journalists covering protests in California amid federal crackdown cpj.org/2025/06/law-...

this is genuinely insane. we’re going to need to jail people involved with this administration

Important thing to beat people over the head with: Trump has turned American cities into warzones and for fucking what? Prices are way up, jobs will be way down, the dollar is worth less, and now the highway is blocked off by cops. Maybe the Great Mythical Immigrant wasn’t the problem after all.

⚡️Ukrainian opera tenor and volunteer killed in Sumy Oblast. Vladyslav Horai, a renowned tenor and soloist of the Odesa National Opera, was killed in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy Oblast while on a volunteer mission, the opera house reported on June 8.

How on earth can this country still hold the World Cup and Olympics next year??

New @budgetlab.bsky.social analysis of Big Beautiful Bill: In the short run, bill would modestly boost GDP growth (0.2 %age point/year 2025-2027) After that it SLOWS growth. By 2054, GDP level is nearly 3% smaller than it would have been if the bill were not passed budgetlab.yale.edu/research/lon...

Still true

Really Cool how nobody wanted to take this shit seriously

> @bloomberg.com ⛽️

I’m not a terry moran fan or anything but holy shit, if you’re not backing him vociferously this week then what good are you?

Huh

This is not just revisionist history, it's ignorant of reality. Activists didn't leave Twitter because they "thought they would be more effective" somewhere else, they left because Elon made it clear that he would *deliberately undermine their influence." Why make shit up?

Keep protesting. Don’t light cars on fire. Distracts from a situation in which Trump looks bad for over the top raids that spurred the crisis and his obvious exploiting of the crisis he started. Really nothing is more counterproductive. Just throwing him a lifeline.

ICE agent smashes car window to grab somebody without warrant www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjguDNwJ/

Four LAPD officers on horseback surround a man laying on the ground, trample him, and beat him with their polycarbonate "saber" batons.

SWAT shoot at a woman for filming them.

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

Watch as this LAPD cop takes deliberate aim at an Australian reporter, then shoots her at close range. I would fire the police chief over this. Inexcusable thuggery.

Rep. Gomez: LA County alone is 34% foreign born, 34%. So when he says they're going to liberate us, who is he going to liberate us from? Ourselves?

Shocked that all it took was a fascist stunt for Trump to get Elon kissing his ring again.

In itself it's not the biggest thing but Congress specifically passed a law requiring ICE to allow access to members of Congress because of Trump's antics in the first term. This isn't even norms. It's violating black letter statute law.

LAPD assisted by the Huntington Beach Police just came in full force firing munitions and with Horse support. Someone was trampled. Another has a serious head injury.

It is pathetic how easily network news executives let right wingers manipulate them. Terry Moran rightly calls Stephen Miller a hater driven by bile, and ABC News accepts the idea that this is “unhinged” behavior. Critiquing people abusing their power is the JOB of journalism.

Federal lawmakers say they have been denied access to an ICE facility in CA

1/ As a white person who has lived in CA for 20+ years can I explain a few basic facts to white people living elsewhere? A Chicano/Mexican accent doesn’t mean you’re undocumented or even an immigrant at all. Mexican flags at protests/events/businesses…it’s like the Irish flag or harp.

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

the fact that it's essentially impossible to hold a federal agent responsible for their unconstitutional behavior should be a bigger deal while federal agents are assaulting a city

NEW: Trump is spiraling. We face the consequences. Where are the other branches? James Madison expected more from the other "departments," as he referred to them Tonight, at Law Dork:

This is an “insurrection” to the trump White House. They aren’t satisfied with protests being peaceful, they don’t want them to exist at all

Again, if we make it through this, every one of these Cold War era loopholes in laws that enable an imperial presidency needs to go (as with tariffs 👇). They were based on the assumption of no fascists & only sane pro-democracy parties, & we don’t live in that world anymore bsky.app/profile/mcop...

“But if people don't think it is dangerous criminals who are the focus of the deportation effort, support drops dramatically. The survey was completed just prior to Saturday's protests and events in Los Angeles.”