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Immigrants and refugees make LA and the USA great. Sending militarized and masked police and ICE to arrest them makes the USA worse. And sending in the National Guard and threatening to use the Marine Corps and holding a military parade to glorify a president…that’s fascism.

White House: "Violent mobs have attacked ICE officers and Federal Law Enforcement Officers." LAPD: "Today, demonstrations across the City of Los Angeles remained peaceful."

Los Angeles: if you get tear gas or see other people who have been and someone calling themselves a medic tries to use milk to wash their eyes out SLAP THAT MILK JUG OUT THEIR FUCKING HAND. MILK DOES NOT WASH OUT TEAR GAS. Just use bottled water please.

FOX calling Homeland Security ”the bad guys” on their livestream of deportation riots in LA June 7 2025.

“92 minute read” yes…ha ha…YES!

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

Political reporters across the nation sigh with relief that they no longer have to cover the fact Trump is a pedophile now that Musk has deleted the tweet.

This is so jarringly unAmerican that I sort of hope it wakes some normies up. It is occurring in a context where military-style equipment is being used to enforce immigration roundups and conveys the notion that we are increasingly living in a police state.

CATT DAMON #caturday

“Chat I’m starting to feel funny about my private prison.”

The right are just learning about the Tulsa Race Massacre and genuinely think it's a fabricated historical event due to a tv show

LAPD shot him with a stun grenade made by Defense Technology LLC, a subsidiary of Cadre Holdings aka Safariland. Cadre Holdings munitions are also used by the Israeli military against Palestinian children in the West Bank and Gaza. Their CEO is multimillionaire Warren Kanders of Greenwich, CT.

“ICE ISN’T PROFITABLE/ IMPERIALISM ISN’T PROFITABLE” They are using your money! Not theirs! They don’t care how much they use!

we used Klarna for grocery orders a couple of times and what it said about our economic position was that we did not have enough money to eat, it's pretty simple

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.

good for him, he got about as high as it's possible to get on the Autopilot team without catching a deposition... call that Tesla career blackjack

WOW. Breaking news from ABC that has the potential to cast serious doubts on today’s indictment of Mr. Abrego Garcia.

New shirt lol

University of California system sitting this one out…?

French play calling has awakened in me a raison d’etre

Protect the kids, protect the dolls. Prevent these hate mongers from getting near story time and let’s support our queens 💪🏽

Shot by whom

Glad that “administration” is added to the headline. Unless there’s a photo of Trump in the Oval office hunched over an Excel spreadsheet, headlines shouldn’t be implying that he’s personally stressed out

This is the kind of dogshit you’d expect from a powerpoint middle manager. That a supposed “elite” and experienced coder (and tech CEO) was this cavalier + ignorant about using AI — goes to show that the strenuous pushback against AI hype from “Luddites” is completely justified

A DOGEr with no government or contracting experience used an LLM to identify contracts for cancelation — or “munching,” in his terms — at the VA. It did not go well. We have the scoop: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

I need people to understand the preliminaries for this started in 2021 and Pete Buttigieg protected Elon by putting them on the backburner at the NHTSA because he wanted to use Musk as his megadonor for his 2028 run. That's why the NHTSA investigations did not OFFICIALLY start until Musk backed DJT

When Sonic is about to land on a spike

i’ve been sent this footage of an MPD officer on east lake st during the federal action on 6/3 turning around and shoving a person who was filming him

8. Financial sanctions 7. Politicized investigations 6. Election interference 5. Social media ratios 4. SpaceX debris over Mar-a-Lago 3. Ribald name calling 2. Charley horses 1. Tiddy twisters #SavedYouAClick

When you went to the Iowa Writers Workshop but ended up in journalism

Voters in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election might have saved our democracy 🫡

The entire internet right now.