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Even the LAPD is like… nah. We cool. Don’t send the guard or you’ll look like clowns.

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

UNREAL. ICE implies in a sworn declaration that MOST of the Venezuelans sentenced to hard labor in a brutal Central American prison without charge or trial or so much as a cursory hearing had never been convicted or even charged with ANY CRIME whatsoever, not even a trivial one, anywhere, ever!

There were a few hundred people protesting the ICE actions in California today. Most probably lived in the neighborhood that had been raided by armed, uniformed men who looked like soldiers and not police. The idea that the response to this 2,000 National Guard is fucking insane.

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.

A truly sad sight. Trump’s America. 🇺🇸

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he may deploy active duty US Marines from Camp Pendleton in Southern California.

so…ICE needs the National Guard to protect them from all the people…calling them mean names?

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.

Absolutely wild that LA has deployed LAPD, DHS has deployed both ICE and CBP, now the white house is calling in the national guard. You'd think the wildest riot in history was going down in LA right now, but it's actually just a bunch of protestors mostly just standing around holding signs.

Vance is claiming that residents of Los Angeles protesting illegal and unconstitutional actions by ICE are a hostile foreign invasion that must be repelled by military force. Just so we’re clear.

The "Nationalist Right", as an intellectual and political movement, wants to make America poorer, less safe, more corrupt, more divided, and less free. That's not my editorializing, that is quite literally what they want. They hate that this country exists, they want it to be something different.

Look at these statements. These people push and push and push with their unlawful, totalitarian methods. They ignore the law at every turn and then throw the book at their opponents. We must be peaceful. We must try to be perfectly law abiding. But they will come for us anyway.

It’s quite clear that whatever they thought would go down in LA things didn’t go as planned. It’s also quite clear local law enforcement couldn’t be bothered with this shit show. To be blunt: DHS should have been much better prepped than this. This is why they don’t do showy raids.

My reading between the lines is that LAPD going "lol no" caught Homan, Miller, etc. Very off guard.

DHS UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter just dropped off thousands of rounds of impact munitions. There were several of these canisters on board.

The correct response to state violence is more protest, more people. Make it clear that a free people cannot and will not be oppressed.

If LAPD is telling you they don't want to take part in your fuckup you have fucked up in ways that defy human comprehension

I have serious doubts that the California National Guard is going to be more willing to crack skulls for fascism than the LAPD.

Hope other countries are excited for the LA Olympics!

Nazis.

MAGA: It’s not fascism America: Rapidly turning into military war zones

Let’s be very clear: Los Angeles is the perfect place for this to play out for the Trumpists. The Trumpists hate California and hate Los Angeles and a vast amount of their base feels the same — even the Trumpists here, who wallow in hating the place they live. /1

The administration gets closer to using the military to crush civilian dissent. Expect deaths, disappearances, and lawless detentions.

What keeps federal law enforcement agents safe isn’t masks and no name tags, it’s following the laws that everyone else agrees to follow.

L.A. is a Mexican-American city. The majority of the population is made up of racial and ethnic minorities. We are all happy living together and really do not want to see our friends, neighbors and families being terrorized by federal robo-cops. This is bullshit.

The most striking thing about the LA protests is how many people just dropped everything to show up and yell at federal agents. There are people in suits, and carrying dogs, and wearing flip flops or bike helmets. These are not people who planned to do this today. But there they are.

Skater dude for the win.

“We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight” This has the potential to turn real bad.

Tom Homan: We are making Los Angeles safer. Mayor Bass should be thanking us. She says they are going to mobilize—guess what? We are already mobilizing. We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight

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.