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I’m not surprised by Trump and the Republicans using troops to attack Americans in Los Angeles given that the most dangerous time in any family’s life is when they try to leave an abusive relationship with a Republican husband.

submitted 55 minutes ago • 8 comments

It is completely unlawful for ICE to turn away members of Congress like this. The law could not be more clear; no member of Congress may be denied access to a facility where ICE is detaining someone, and they cannot be required to schedule in advance. Surprise inspections must be surprise.

submitted 50 minutes ago • 47 comments

What the actual fuck?

submitted 34 minutes ago • 0 comments

trying to enforce “messaging discipline” is fine for representatives of large organizations but is an exercise in futility when you are requesting it from every single member of the general public—many of whom do not possess the same interests, values, and understanding of the world.

submitted 48 minutes ago • 2 comments

I've made this point multiple times before but if Bluesky wants to grow, the things they need aren't opinion pundits but accounts that publish new information. That's breaking news reporters, politicians and stuff like official organization accounts that publish official statements.

submitted 16 hours ago • 127 comments

I realize that this is almost worn out at this point (which is itself pretty wild) but “the executive took over 2000 troops in violation of the only statute he cited and the local police are shooting reporters” is the sort of thing for which “imagine if this happened in another country” was coined

submitted 2 hours ago • 4 comments

Richie Torres feels that only a Cuomo win in NYC is the necessary context for him to run as a black, rainbow draped, self-hating gentile genocide supporter for NYS governor. He is probably right. Don't rank Cuomo.

submitted 57 minutes ago • 0 comments

The California situation shows both why Cuomo is winning & why it would be a disaster if he did: New York is next & they need a serious fighter, not smarmy salesman like Newsom

submitted 1 hour ago • 6 comments

Outside observers are hoping that the United States of America will look to the western nations like Mexico and adopt strong democratic institutions with checks on police power and their presidential executive

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

submitted 12 hours ago • 216 comments

They will invent the pretext unless we’re so thoroughly supine they don’t need to, which leads to the same outcome.

submitted 12 hours ago • 16 comments

They should keep going back and bring more. ICE has no right to turn them away .

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

BREAKING The administration of California Governor Gavin Newsom is asking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to rescind his order and return the National Guard to the control of the State of California.

submitted 15 hours ago • 79 comments

Welcome to "The Occupation," exclusively on Paramount, from DJT Productions

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

LEARN FROM HONG KONG. they lost. but they were fighting against truly impossible odds and did it anyways. we aren't there yet.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

I see posts saying protesters aren't brutalized under Dems. I guess right-wingers aren't the only ones fantasizing about a mythical past. I was brutalized at protests under Obama. Folks were brutalized at protests under Biden. We can condemn the escalations of the present w out fetishizing the past.

submitted 16 hours ago • 18 comments

It's especially egregious since what happened was ICE started firing tear gas ON RANDOM PEOPLE who they forced into a traffic jam. The people of LA didn't even expect to be protesting anything that day and found themselves in a standoff with ICE, kettled by the LAPD. Please, liberals, STFU!

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Union leaders are calling for a strike to shut down LA. 🔥

submitted 18 hours ago • 23 comments

They're tear-gassing babies in strollers and elderly Chicano community leaders in Los Angeles. This is a completely peaceful march.

submitted 16 hours ago • 24 comments

Dem Leadership fails to understand that it's always their responsibility to protect their constituents. Sometimes, that means protecting their constituents from Law Enforcement. Support for meaningful civilian control over heavy armed paramilitary forces & police arms stockpile reductions wd help.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

“There are many grandmas and Rachel Maddow viewers who have been more vocal in this moment than Barack Obama has. It is heartbreaking to see him sacrificing that megaphone when nobody else quite has it.” YES www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 18 hours ago • 184 comments

"If you got arrested then you weren't protesting peacefully" is a lie. Stop spreading it.

submitted 18 hours ago • 58 comments

I just gonna go ahead and say that putting active duty United States Marines on the streets of an American city is, in fact, heavy handed.

submitted 21 hours ago • 234 comments

I'm imagining ICE doing to NYC what it's doing to LA — and the people of NYC responding the way people are in LA — and it all happening under Mayor Cuomo. He'll side with ICE, DHS and, of course, the NYPD. This man, who hates the city and doesn't live here, can not become mayor. Don't rank him.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

We don't have secret police in America. At least we're not supposed to.

submitted 1 day ago • 706 comments

Have national Dems, who claim to want to "win back" the working class, said anything yet about ICE injuring and arresting the head of the SEIU of California? truthout.org/articles/ice...

submitted 1 day ago • 120 comments

I have a long-standing policy not to tell people whose bodies are on the protest line how to do it. You could be right but if you’re not in it, your feedback does more harm than good.

submitted 23 hours ago • 5 comments

If the boot fits...

submitted 23 hours ago • 139 comments

I worked with a Black elder at the Charlotte MEPS who had been a member of SNCC and people really discount the amount of planning and training that went into the Non-violent protests of the Civil Rights era. It started with selecting who could show up to the action.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

The Right Way To Protest is to stand very still in your apartment and whisper “I wish this wasn’t happening” then get your ass to work, you’re gonna be late damn it

submitted 21 hours ago • 14 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 1 day ago • 877 comments

chinga la migra May the spirit of rebellion grow & multiply!! I absolutely reject the logic that comrades are ever responsible for any increased state repression. We are living in fascist time, they don't need "excuses." Be ungovernable, maintain solidarity, & keep tactical differences internal

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Big point that is being missed: without the insurrection act, the activated Guard troops are now federal army and cannot Do law enforcement. Period

submitted 1 day ago • 1461 comments

🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Reports and video show flash-bangs thrown into piles of debris just before a car caught fire, strongly suggesting it was law enforcement, not protesters, who sparked it. More details are coming. Don’t let them control the narrative. Thank you to everyone sharing footage, always record everything.

submitted 1 day ago • 288 comments

It's necessary to keep pointing out: all this is not because ICE wants to deport murderers and rapists. It's because ICE is going to Home Depot parking lots, courthouses, and elementary school graduations to round up peaceful families, many seeking asylum, which means they are here legally.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 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 1 day ago • 178 comments

BBC is the only one covering the Los Angeles protests right now as Fox, CNN and MSNBC ignore it.

submitted 1 day ago • 81 comments

with the ways cops' brains work they're probably insulted trump's calling in the guard

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I know that many don't want to hear this but we've been moving towards this current state of affairs over the past 65 years. And it's really been a bipartisan project. The expansion of the carceral state is the fuel for fascism. Folks have been trying to make this case for a long time.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 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 1 day ago • 3012 comments

The fascists are armed and dangerous.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Short 🧵 & I'd be very interested in @johnpfaff.bsky.social's take as he's a SME on this & my area is not policing. That said, as someone who has taught/trained a few thousands cops in my prior career as a criminology professor, what we're seeing expressed in the grab below is an important tell. 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments