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Still annoyed you people didn't move to Mastodon (@[email protected]). Retired Cali public policy guy, recovering academic. Cat dad, bread baker, beer drinker. #CarletonCollege grad. #UCSD #PoliticalScience #PhD No bio, no follow back.
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A U.S. citizen who is nine months pregnant was hospitalized upon her release from immigration custody after she was detained by federal agents in Hawthorne on Sunday. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/i...

Jan 6 was the starting point of this political violence, and it would have ended there if Trump had been convicted by the Senate. But they let him off and now, quite predictably, the political violence is back.

Here's the full Newsom address. It's great. (99% anyway, it's a tiny quibble but can we please stop reflexively adding "hard working" as the sole acceptable preceding adjective for immigrants) www.youtube.com/live/0n77NFj...

As Sauron invades Gondor, hobbits enter risky terrain. - Minas Tirith Herald

Gosh, I wonder what part of the MAGA base this caters to?

Nothing like celebrating traitorous slavers.

The natural end point of having masked police not in uniform arresting people nationally and holding the threat of arrest against bystanders for interfering as they work:

This an absolute insane and irresponsible way to frame a military crackdown on the freedom to protest.

"ABC claims it is motivated by the values of objectivity and impartiality. But what about the value of independence — or, for that matter, the value of truth?"

NYT: “How will Trump’s illegal military takeover of LA play for Democrats?” I’m just a political communication scholar standing in front of our paper of record asking for them to not strategy frame an authoritarian takeover. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

Tear gas can cause long-term health consequences by making people more susceptible to contracting respiratory illnesses, including COVID. The chemical agent can also hurt people inside their homes if it seeps into residential neighborhoods. What you need to know (published 2020):

I couldn't NOT do this.

I wish whenever Democrats did the boilerplate "Of course I believe that violent or destructive protesters should be arrested," they'd add, "Unlike our president who pardons them if they are beating on cops for him."

Completely bizarre to hear tv talk about sending in the military and then you see the actual pics of the protests and people are buying hot dogs and line dancing while the Nat Guard looks on in silent envy.

When we think about how elections in the US may cease to be fair, this is what it looks like. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/u...

Trump promised to deport violent criminals. Instead, he deported a 4-year-old cancer patient. Now he’s fueling chaos again. Don’t give him what he wants. If you’re showing up to protest with violence in L.A.—go the fuck home. Peaceful protesters have a case. Let them be heard.

A more accurate rendition of what is happening in LA if it had happened in any other country

Kentucky officials say two infants have died from complications of whooping cough in past six months; neither the infants nor their mothers received the recommended vaccines. nkytribune.com/2025/06/kent...

🚨Fascist alert🚨

⚠️ Warning: The Trump administration is circulating footage from 2020 to make the situation in L.A. appear more chaotic than it is. This is an intentional effort to manufacture a larger crisis. Stay alert. Pay attention. The propaganda machine is in overdrive.

Major General Randy E. Manner, former Acting Vice Chief, National Guard Bureau statement to Fox News: "This is an inappropriate use of the National Guard and is not warranted.”

Yes. They work for ICE.

@natasharsarin.bsky.social: Loss of insurance from GOP bill could mean more than 100,000 preventable deaths. Some estimates based on existing research on Medicaid effects on mortality: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!

Also a repeat of the idea that because of events in L.A., Congress should pass the wildly unpopular omnibus bill that cuts Medicaid, SNAP, energy credits, and so on.

I've said it before and examples keep rolling in. RFK Jr., and the anti-vax movement for which he is the face, are killing kids. And more will die.

"Nobody’s going to spit on our police officers," says Trump, who four months ago pardoned people who beat police officers with pipes, flagpoles, baseball bats and 2-by-4s at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

For anyone who thinks I'm joking here (and it's funny, but no) rumor is that the National Guard deployed in LA was sent under a 29 day order to avoid housing allowances, which means they have to fully pay for their own shelter. In LA. Zero notice. Durable fascisms don't shortchange the muscle.

This is unequivocally true. Whether you're in the UK or the US, immigration is a plus in every conceivable way. And until you acknowledge and celebrate this fact, the racists will continue to win.

ICE agents intentionally started the violence in LA.

“Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.”

As someone who lives in Los Angeles, don’t let social or mainstream media gaslight you into thinking there’s a violent uprising taking place here. The Trump administration is trying to punish this state and this city. He’s also setting a precedent to unleash troops on Democratic cities.

Trump is saving Los Angeles from big scary **checks notes** dancing flash mobs

"We see patients w miscarriages being denied care, bleeding out in parking lots. We see patients w nonviable pregnancies being told to continue them to term. This is not, maybe, what some people thought abortion bans would look like, but it's the reality" apnews.com/article/abor...

"Mass deportation" is the excuse and trigger for authoritarianism. As it was always intended to be.

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Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

This is Bukele-level, authoritarian b.s.

Watched the live feeds yesterday. Just a bunch of people milling around and then every thirty minutes or so the cops would shoot a bunch of teargas for no clear reason.

PLEASE spread this far and wide. Los Angeles is NOT out of control. The feds are. From Mayor Karen Bass…

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Appropriately dark representation of what’s happening to our nation. TW: police ultimately fire tear gas grenades at the woman waving the American Flag. This is happening in and around LA. God save us all. 🇺🇸 #ICE #LosAngeles #SoCal #DHS