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The Insurrection Act is sweeping. It’s a huge grant of power to the President. It is also very expressly for conditions that do not exist in California. And if you’re hypothetically the governor, you should be saying so.

submitted 12 hours ago • 44 comments

The Los Angeles Police Department has stated that demonstrations in the city have remained peaceful. Let that sink in.

submitted 8 hours ago • 289 comments

NEW VIDEO: Alabama is again appealing its long-running redistricting battle to the U.S. Supreme Court, two years after the high court already affirmed a district court decision that struck down the state’s original congressional map. Paige and I explain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXCt...

submitted 15 hours ago • 100 comments

Please sign to protect the Boundary Waters: sign.moveon.org/petitions/we...

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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 10 hours ago • 144 comments

Perhaps Newsom should have spent less time chumming around with authoritarian buffoons on his podcast and more time preparing and strategizing for the entirely predicable thing that is happening in his state right now.

submitted 8 hours ago • 58 comments

You must always be more disciplined than the forces brought against you. They're allowed to make mistakes. They make the rules. Your mistakes will be used as justification for your own repression.

submitted 7 hours ago • 12 comments

At ~6:15 p.m. tonight the Los Angeles City Attorney sent out a statement on the ICE raids. "The dangerous escalation of the tactics being used across Los Angeles undermines trust between our immigrant communities and government, and makes us all less safe." cityattorney.lacity.gov/updates/la-c...

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submitted 7 hours ago • 78 comments

Stay safe so you can reassemble. Don't let them use you for their propaganda. The people have the power.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

The military isn’t being employed to carry out an immigration policy. The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.

submitted 10 hours ago • 262 comments

This tweet alone warrants his impeachment and removal.

submitted 9 hours ago • 120 comments

Protesters must remain peaceful at all costs. Do not provoke the troops. That’s exactly what Trump wants.

submitted 7 hours ago • 9 comments

Gov. Gavin Newsom said on social media that California National Guard was being taken over by the federal government “not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle.”

submitted 9 hours ago • 247 comments

Goldman: Both of the issues Marjorie Taylor Greene raised—were widely publicized and thoroughly debated in committee and on the House floor. If you’re publicly admitting that you didn’t know what you were voting on and now regret it—you’re not competent or qualified to serve in Congress.

submitted 12 hours ago • 242 comments

When the LA police says you are overreaching, you are overreaching.

submitted 10 hours ago • 226 comments

All of these violent, lawless ICE officers terrorizing communities and hiding their faces weren't just hired this year. It's why dismantling ICE as an agency was so important and remains so. These people are unfit to be public servants if they hate the public.

submitted 12 hours ago • 70 comments

@governor.ca.gov If you don't want Trump to call out CA Natl Guard, then call them out yourself! Stop being so clever by half & TAKE CHARGE: IT'S YOUR STATE! If you only complain, don't de-escalate your own citizens, tell ICE to BACK OFF, you will only escalate it by your inaction! #Chamberlain

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

@governor.ca.gov Trump WILL ESCALATE bc he wants to. You do not want to look like Neville Chamberlain allowing Trump to use YOUR CA National Guard as he wants to. He wants violence so he can create his own putsch. It's YOUR National Guard!

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

We are literally counting on people to be moral. To do the right thing.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

Also a #MustWatch from @wajali.bsky.social

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

💥 BREAKING: ICE tries to raid Home Depot located at 6400 Alondra Blvd. Paramount, CA Protesters are able to successfully stop them. 6/7/2025 @12 pm #ice #raids #losangeles

submitted 17 hours ago • 620 comments

We will see what the Bar assoc is worth

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

1/ If accurate, this is almost certainly a conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement, including the National Guard if they are federalized.

submitted 11 hours ago • 563 comments

Remember US Lieutenant Calley at the My Lai massacre? Remember the Nuremberg Trials? Do NOT obey illegal orders.

submitted 10 hours ago • 19 comments

In a move to help access, Wisconsin’s health department announced that Wisconsin continues to recommend the current COVID vaccine during pregnancy and for every person 6 months and older, and that its state Medicaid program will continue to cover it. apnews.com/article/covi...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Join us for No Kings! ❌👑🇺🇸 mobilize.us/s/rhITUo

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

430 ppm: www.cbc.ca/news/science...

submitted 22 hours ago • 3 comments

The federal government is taking over the California National Guard and deploying 2,000 soldiers in Los Angeles — not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle. Don't give them one. Never use violence. Speak out peacefully.

submitted 11 hours ago • 2035 comments

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

submitted 11 hours ago • 41 comments

“Ocean With David Attenborough” is a brutal reminder of how little we see & how much is at stake. The film is both a sweeping celebration of marine life & a stark exposé of forces pushing the ocean toward collapse. Premieres Saturday on National Geographic in US, globally Sunday on Disney+ & Hulu.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

AIDS Memorial Quilt on display October 11-13 1996 on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Let us never forget.

submitted 15 hours ago • 158 comments

ICE waited until a woman’s lawyer went to the restroom then dragged her away. She fainted from stress and they dragged her unconscious body into the elevator, refusing medical attention.

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70+ Legal Experts Accuse Pam Bondi of 'Serious Professional Misconduct' www.commondreams.org/news/pam-bon...

submitted 11 hours ago • 11 comments

Ahem.

submitted 13 hours ago • 338 comments

LAPD helicopters are starting to buzz around again tonight. LAPD statements so far are vague and riddled with lawyer-speak, and our Mayor should order the police chief to provide full & live transparency regarding LAPD operations.

submitted 13 hours ago • 17 comments

🚨 ALERTA PHILLY 🚨 Hearing from a very credible local source that there may be ICE action tomorrow (Sunday 6/8) in the following areas: 5th and Washington Ave 7th and Snyder Ave 5th and McKean/Wolf Chinatown Let your neighbors know to stay safe and be vigilant. Be ready. Be water.

submitted 12 hours ago • 93 comments

Hell of a photo

submitted 13 hours ago • 344 comments

The situation in Los Angeles is about to plunge us into a national emergency, except the people that normally solve national emergencies are the ones creating it.

submitted 12 hours ago • 351 comments

Me five days ago. Even more worried now.

submitted 11 hours ago • 24 comments

Meiselas: As we wrote on the MeidasTouch account—Trump lit the match, poured the gasoline, and now wants to use the blaze he created as a pretext to burn it all down.

submitted 11 hours ago • 115 comments

1. we don't know if trump has invoked the insurrection act 2. *even if he has* the insurrection act does not unlock any new substantive powers for the president. it allows the president to send use the military to enforce existing law. that's it! the constitution is still 100% in force.

submitted 11 hours ago • 16 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 11 hours ago • 146 comments

The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2750 comments

PARAMOUNT, Calif. (AP) — Trump says he's deploying 2,000 California National Guard troops to LA immigration protests over governor's objections.

submitted 11 hours ago • 36 comments

NEW: Unbelievable. A seemingly endless line of tanks & other military vehicles arrive in DC ahead of next week's parade. They departed Texas 5 days ago. What a colossal waste of time, money & military resources. All for a President who has shown zero respect for service personnel. (🎥 DW)

submitted 20 hours ago • 1882 comments