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And there you have it. ICE didn't target migrant workers in Kristi Noem's farms or Sarah Huckabee Sanders' meatpacking plants because they wanted to create a riot in LA as a pretext to declaring martial law. They don't care about undocumented migrants, they only care about controlling US citizens.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1001 comments

Without these credits Tesla is unprofitable today. They would have been $200 million in the red for Q1. With sales falling ~20%, even these credits can't keep Tesla in business. All those billions in subsidies were for nothing.

submitted 6 hours ago • 9 comments

2002 me stares in disbelief as I repost this guy, but here we are

submitted 9 hours ago • 21 comments

I have nothing but contempt for dem elected and commentators using this moment to primarily finger wag at protesters or to tell them not to make Trump mad

submitted 6 hours ago • 41 comments

The most vital thing you can do right now is spread this message offline to normies. There is no "unrest", there's a protest. It has 400 people. LA does worse when the Lakers come in 3rd in a season.

submitted 18 hours ago • 18 comments

It's like this in every country, in every conflict. You'll have a pitched battle taking place downtown, with fires burning and people screaming, like a mile-and-a-half away from people holding a kid's birthday party at the playground. This is how it is.

submitted 15 hours ago • 8 comments

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1105 comments

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

submitted 20 hours ago • 813 comments

Trump’s at a UFC fight tonight (i guess things aren’t so serious on the domestic front,) so expect him to come back to his postings all hot and bothered to act violent and play the tough guy for the next day or two.

submitted 15 hours ago • 14 comments

Just to recap, Trump has taken the extraordinary step of federalizing 2000 member of the California National Guard — over the objections of the state’s governor — in response to a protest that currently involves A FEW DOZEN PEOPLE AT A HOME DEPOT

submitted 18 hours ago • 198 comments

The spin has already started as if our entire city is in chaos. I went from Burbank all the way over to Koreatown on surface streets tonight and jackshit was happening. The CNN coverage makes it look like world war 3 and that’s what Trump wants so he and his fucking goons can come shoot Angelenos.

submitted 16 hours ago • 95 comments

Reminder: it was a Trump supporter who tried to assassinate him. Wait until they lose jobs, medicaid, social security, and their towns become ghost towns because immigrants have left and stopped doing the work.

submitted 15 hours ago • 18 comments

JULIETTE KAYYEM: “Active duty Marines for this, Hegseth? 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 this is going on.”

submitted 17 hours ago • 191 comments

Doesn’t sound like we need the national guard. 🤔

submitted 16 hours ago • 135 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 18 hours ago • 97 comments

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

submitted 15 hours ago • 129 comments

Because it's 2025, and most people in the US still don't know what their own military looks like... ~1 in every 7 US Marines nationwide, is from California. ~1 in every 4 US Marines nationwide, is Hispanic or Latino.

submitted 16 hours ago • 32 comments

they're doing this because the Insurrection Act sounds cool and edgy but they can't actually justify using the Insurrection Act. it's a silly action by an insecure administration desperately to seem manly and powerful. it should be criticized relentlessly, but it should also be laughed at.

submitted 18 hours ago • 73 comments

A less lethal munition started a fire in a dumpster and the LASD continued firing at the car in front of it. In the car is handicapped individual.

submitted 15 hours ago • 45 comments

I'm just a simple political scientist but it sure seems like an unpopular president taking power when there were no riots and then there being riots probably will become more unpopular

submitted 17 hours ago • 10 comments

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

submitted 16 hours ago • 662 comments

One of these photos is how HBO's The Watchmen depicted a fascist police force back in 2018 The others are real photos of the ICE agents who are rounding people up and disappearing them in Boston, Denver, L.A., and elsewhere

submitted 15 hours ago • 60 comments

California Governor Gavin Newsom refers to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s threat to deploy US Marines to the LA area as “deranged behavior.”

submitted 15 hours ago • 93 comments

PETE HEGSETH IS THREATENING TO SEND MARINES INTO LOS ANGELES. This is in direct violation of the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act. It is an illegal order! You can reach the Marine Inspector General Hotline at 1-866-243-3887. www-irishstar-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.iris...

submitted 15 hours ago • 79 comments

LAPD officer and wannabe tough guy Zachary Adler is completely unhinged right now. He was putting his hands on people all night and now he’s walking up to people threatening to shoot point blank. Fuck these pigs.

submitted 1 day ago • 70 comments

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

submitted 18 hours ago • 754 comments

The thing about Elon Musk is that he spent $275 million to elect a man he knew to be on the Epstein client list

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

DOJ as we have known it, as a place where prosecutors from the AG on down do the right thing, for the right reason, in the right way, is over.

submitted 1 day ago • 734 comments

one of the remarkable things about the increase in raids at courthouses, schools etc by ICE is how shortsighted it is. We want people - all people! - to send their kids to school and pick them up safely, to attend and obey their court appointments, etc. Putting a chill on those activities is madness

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

HSI / ICE raid happening in downtown Los Angeles right now. They’ve locked the doors & holding employees inside - 940 Towne Ave

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

So are we just teaching our kids they have to obey anyone with a mask and an unmarked car and an oddly-fitting vest and zip ties now and go with them? Is this where we’re at?

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One striking thing from this (excellent) report on a DOGE employee's use of AI is that everything about it is antithetical to sound software engineering practices—an engineer hurriedly deploying an unfamiliar tool to meet an impossible deadline for a problem domain in which he has no expertise.

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.

submitted 2 days ago • 840 comments

It is, uh, not great to find out that a ton of american politicians really crave having secret police.

submitted 2 days ago • 63 comments

I wonder what Mike Johnson would do if he was, say, driving down the interstate and got pulled over by an unmarked car. And then a couple of big guys hiding their faces behind masks and wearing no badges or other ID demanded that he exit the vehicle.

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

wat

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

A new MAGA talking point in the Trump-Musk feud is blaming the whole thing on Elon possibly being on the spectrum. On the show I was on this morning, they spent a surprising amount of time talking about him having Asperger's—as if that explains accusing Trump of being a pedophile. Not great.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

They're arresting immigrants at a federal building and taking them to the basement. "A couple and their two children, one of whom is a U.S. citizen, spent the night in a room with no beds and limited access to food and water." www.cbsnews.com/news/immigra...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

We could just house people instead.

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

bluesky needs to extend its character limit so i can add more Ls to the lolllllll required here

submitted 2 days ago • 425 comments

What’s striking about this is that Jennings feels so confident that his argument has won this debate that he doesn’t actually debate it. Which he’s justified in thinking since the other side is so rarely defended.

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

I've been watching Tesla YouTubers today, and it's been fascinating. Even within the community itself, I sense some are realizing that others they have been treating as normal, analytical types with strong conviction, are actually conspiratorial nut-jobs. Lot of people getting shook today.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows

submitted 2 days ago • 84 comments