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3'd gen. Union member, retired public servant, current non-union factory employee, Progressive.
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I stayed up nights for years programming Waymos to feel pain but it was worth it

submitted 2 hours ago • 6 comments

“Santa Monica, not far from downtown Los Angeles” is the most hilarious phrase you can say to an Angeleno

submitted 2 hours ago • 25 comments

They detained Greta Thunberg for standing with Gaza. They seized the Freedom Flotilla—carrying food, not weapons. They arrested peaceful ICE protesters in LA. None of this is normal. All of it is authoritarianism in plain sight.

submitted 2 hours ago • 9 comments

LAPD Chief McDonnell when asked if National Guard is needed: “This thing has gotten out of control.” Everything Trump touches...

submitted 2 hours ago • 23 comments

Joined LAPD, LASD, and state emergency officials in LA as we respond to protests provoked by chaos from Washington. We’re here to keep the peace — not play into Trump’s political games.

submitted 6 hours ago • 200 comments

submitted 3 hours ago • 62 comments

#ICE protest in downtown LA.

submitted 3 hours ago • 31 comments

When he's right, he's right: we gotta arrest all the ICE agents

submitted 3 hours ago • 15 comments

This is the Gavin Newsom we need. DJT get out of our state #California #ICE

submitted 3 hours ago • 11 comments

I agree, Mr. President. Arrest ICE now.

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

You’ll never see ICE-Gestapo sent to MAGA owned farms and businesses or to crime hub Mar-a-Lago, there’s a reason for that.

submitted 3 hours ago • 20 comments

Senator Ted Cruz posted a dramatic video of LAPD cars on fire with the caption “this… is… not… peaceful.” What he didn’t mention? The footage was from 2020, not 2025. His post on X falsely implied it was current, part of a broader effort to spread lies and manufacture a crisis.

submitted 4 hours ago • 572 comments

LAPD when they think no one’s looking

submitted 3 hours ago • 249 comments

Stupid of ICE to fire on a Channel 9 reporter. Australian corporate news will let you get away with just about any fascist bullshit if you let them. Even the ABC barely warrants the truncheon these days

submitted 3 hours ago • 6 comments

Trump is trying to instigate a civil war. Sending troops to Los Angeles is just the beginning.

submitted 3 hours ago • 14 comments

CALL IT WHAT IT IS: This is Trump's Terrorist Attack on L.A. and his terrorist threat to the rest of us He sent the Guard to provoke, to terrorize protestors and migrants - and America BUT NEWSOM HAS A WAY TO STOP HIM: state-led Tax Strike THE NEW COUNTDOWN PODCAST NOW LIVE: tinyurl.com/42pjy6kc

submitted 3 hours ago • 26 comments

Proud to be an Angeleno ✨🇺🇸 #LosAngeles #ICE #NationalGuard

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

Los Angeles is not a war zone. We are not descending into chaos and lawlessness. We’re a great city full of good people. We don’t need the National Guard.

submitted 4 hours ago • 32 comments

California Governor Gavin Newsom refers to Elon Musk as the “sycophant of sycophants.”

submitted 4 hours ago • 10 comments

Los Angeles: don’t take Trump’s bait. Trump wants chaos and he’s instigated violence. Those who assault law enforcement or cause property damage will risk arrest. Stay peaceful. Stay focused. Don’t give him the excuse he’s looking for.

submitted 4 hours ago • 198 comments

In itself it's not the biggest thing but Congress specifically passed a law requiring ICE to allow access to members of Congress because of Trump's antics in the first term. This isn't even norms. It's violating black letter statute law.

submitted 4 hours ago • 55 comments

One in 35 Americans live in Los Angeles County. Los Angeles is America.

submitted 4 hours ago • 42 comments

If there's one thing I've learned in my 44 years, it's that everything starts on the West Coast as the weirdest shit you've ever heard in your life--and within 15-20 years, it's just mainstream US culture. So, thank you, Los Angeles, you beautiful bastard. You are America.

submitted 3 hours ago • 12 comments

Four LAPD officers on horseback surround a man laying on the ground, trample him, and beat him with their polycarbonate "saber" batons.

submitted 3 hours ago • 233 comments

This is an important reminder: even the LAPD acknowledged yesterday that everything was peaceful. Then Trump brought the chaos. He is responsible.

submitted 5 hours ago • 143 comments

PLEASE SHARE: the most effective way to neutralize a tear gas canister. From protests in Hong Kong. Water-cone-water. Take note. #ICE #NationalGuard #DHS #LosAngeles

submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

EXCLUSIVE: California Gov. Gavin Newsom addresses immigration protests in Los Angeles. "Donald Trump has created the conditions you see on your TV tonight ... His mess — we're trying to clean it up," Newsom said.

submitted 4 hours ago • 65 comments

Like you I am focused on Los Angeles. But we better learn to multitask. Because we need to also stay focused on this: Trump turned over the staffing, funding & inner workings of our federal agencies to a man who attacked his Treasury Secy & who he tells us is a drug addict.

submitted 5 hours ago • 54 comments

Watch as this LAPD cop takes deliberate aim at an Australian reporter, then shoots her at close range. I would fire the police chief over this. Inexcusable thuggery.

submitted 4 hours ago • 80 comments

I hear the ICE pigs had their tires slashed in Pasadena, then the tow truck service showed up to repair ICE's tires but the crowd convinced the tow truck driver to turn around, so ICE was out there trying to inflate their tires and duct tape them to escape after the hotel asked them to leave.

submitted 4 hours ago • 102 comments

Newsom responds to Homan statement on possibly arresting him: He's a tough guy. Why doesn't he do that? He knows where to find me. Lay your hands off four year old girls that are trying to get educated. Come and arrest me. Let’s just get it over with tough guy. I don’t give a damn

submitted 4 hours ago • 293 comments

I’m going to say if Gavin Newsom sees a political edge on taking on Trump so forcefully, the ground is shifting.

submitted 4 hours ago • 15 comments

The Hunt | She wanted a turnkey 4 bedroom in a major metropolitan area. He wanted a house large enough to rent out to ICE as a detention center. Which did they choose?

submitted 4 hours ago • 5 comments

Trump is deploying the National Guard to LA on the day of the Pride parade. The soldiers must smack those naughty men and boys with their billy clubs. by Pete Hegseth, Mike Johnson, Mike Pence, Matt Schlapp, Tim Scott, Josh Hawley, Jack Posobeic, and Lindsey Graham

submitted 4 hours ago • 21 comments

My statement on what's unfolding in Los Angeles.

submitted 8 hours ago • 367 comments

Things are escalating fast on the freeway in Los Angeles. Tear gas canisters are being kicked back and forth

submitted 7 hours ago • 491 comments

Groups of lawyers have gathered outside the #LosAngeles #DHS bldg and beyond but are being kept from clients—this is illegal. Worse, groups of lawyers outside are literally chanting basic rights in the hopes detainees will hear—but #ICE blares their horns/sirens in-time w/the chants to drown us out.

submitted 7 hours ago • 11 comments

Breaking: mayor Bass is giving a press conference right now on what is happening in Los Angeles. It’s on MSNBC if anybody has that channel

submitted 7 hours ago • 11 comments

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

submitted 9 hours ago • 2537 comments

The California National Guard and Trump's ICE regime forces attacked unarmed US citizens, protestors and media, with tear gas, smoke grenades, and pellet rounds. They pushed them into the street and declared a 'unlawful assembly', a violation of people's first amendment. #StopICE (📹@JamesQueallyLAT)

submitted 9 hours ago • 103 comments

Hi, I’m God. How would Jesus feel about ICE? What would Jesus do? What would ICE do to Jesus?

submitted 9 hours ago • 280 comments

LA Mayor Karen Bass: "It's a feeling here of intentional chaos [...] it is as though troops were rolled out in a provocative manner, and I do not see how that is helpful to Los Angeles right now."

submitted 8 hours ago • 20 comments

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

submitted 8 hours ago • 248 comments

I love L.A., fully and unironically, even with all its many flaws - and absolutely none of those flaws have to do with it being a city of immigrants. That’s one thing that makes L.A. a miracle, vital, a delight. Sending love to my friends there and curses to all ICE goons and their nazi bosses.

submitted 8 hours ago • 11 comments

We found out that ICE is staying at the AC hotel in #Pasadena and now there's a couple of hundred people protesting #NoICE

submitted 9 hours ago • 356 comments

You know when things were pretty quiet and peaceful in L.A.? Before ICE started arresting residents who were bothering no one and going to their jobs. And before DHS and National Guard troops showed up and made the situation worse. Of course Trump and Stephen Miller want the situation to get worse.

submitted 9 hours ago • 121 comments

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 8 hours ago • 78 comments

Breaking: California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he has formally requested the Trump admin rescind their "unlawful deployment" of troops in Los Angeles and "return them to my command."

submitted 8 hours ago • 71 comments

Ca Gov Gavin Newsom: “ - Inciting and provoking violence - Creating mass chaos - Militarizing cities - Arresting opponents These are the acts of a dictator, not a President.”

submitted 8 hours ago • 37 comments