Profile avatar
djl.bsky.social
aka @dloehr on the bird site Writer & performer, The Incomparable Radio Theater Co-creator, Where or When? Panelist, The Incomparable Host, Afoot Co-host, Magnum, podcast Playwright, podcaster, father, cat bed, he/him davidjloehr.com/links/
11,149 posts 2,955 followers 2,133 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 25 Comments 25

LAPD STATEMENT: “The protests remained peaceful… without incident…”

submitted 5 hours ago • 69 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 5 hours ago • 60 comments

These are the proactive steps states need to be taking right now. Another thing: every Democratic governor needs to have a sit-down now with the state adjutant general to carefully review that person's understanding of their responsibilities to their state, its citizens and the federal constitution.

submitted 47 days ago • 82 comments

Head’s up. The Insurrection Act has not been invoked. This is against the will of the State of California #NationalGuard #USArmedForces

submitted 5 hours ago • 38 comments

Winners don’t need to escalate.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

slight correction yelling at *EVERYONE*

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 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 6 hours ago • 482 comments

Sending 2,000 troops to Los Angeles is the same thing as sending a few dozen random people to a gulag in El Salvador, they're doing this because it's a thing they've always wanted to do, not because of any broader goal or coherent plan. Subordination of strategy to tactical planning.

submitted 6 hours ago • 39 comments

Working on a No Kings art idea. #skreeeee

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

Los Angeles can’t function without our undocumented community, which is no different from how it works in the rest of the country, but the salient distinction is, in LA citizens are aware that’s how this whole thing works. I know Republicans who’ve paid to help their gardeners cross the border.

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

My hunch is that, as we saw with Lafayette Park, National Guard troops are not going to be as compliant as this administration thinks. It’s one thing to unleash cops consumed by warrior cop culture on neighborhoods. Quite another to send reservists who are also accountants, barbers, and teachers.

submitted 8 hours ago • 157 comments

All, please be aware. The WH is going through with it.

submitted 6 hours ago • 18 comments

interesting to note that 400 protesters have monopolized all of LASD’s enforcement power because they tried to help ICE arrest half a dozen guys working at a Home Depot if you’re scoring on efficiency, the protesters are winning

submitted 7 hours ago • 24 comments

This is literally true for abusive narcissists in general. They try to punish to assert control, they escalate quickly, often going to the extreme as a first step, and they cannot cope with pushback or resistance.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

submitted 13 hours ago • 223 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 7 hours ago • 566 comments

They're totally underwater if this is what it takes to hit a single Home Depot once

submitted 9 hours ago • 15 comments

Watching "Good Night, and Good Luck" live, and already I will say that they could have learned from National Theatre Live how to shoot a live play.

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

So much for states' rights, cont'd.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

The National Guard is deployed by the governor, not the Federal government. If they do come in, Newsom authorized it. Either way, Tom Homan can fuck off into a black hole.

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

These are crimes. They're committing crimes. And when people understandably protest the fact that they're committing crimes, they're shooting flashbangs at them.

submitted 9 hours ago • 28 comments

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.

submitted 9 hours ago • 89 comments

The police don’t protect people. The police protect power. That’s why we didn’t want to militarize them.

submitted 11 hours ago • 33 comments

C+ Santa Monica fascist Stephen Miller wants us to believe that peaceful protest, guaranteed by our constitution, is an insurrection. C+ Santa Monica fascist Stephen Miller can get fucked. Never forget, and never forgive the people who voted for this horror.

submitted 11 hours ago • 28 comments

Even if you use an LLM for retrieval-augmented generation, IT’S STILL AN LLM and is still designed to produce LINGUISTICALLY correct responses not FACTUALLY correct ones. That’s why Lexis and Westlaw AI still hallucinate. You’re better off with good ol’ Boolean searches.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments