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Feds Flew Predator Drones Over LA Protests 🔗 www.404media.co/dhs-flew-pre...

If you're out protesting, please photograph and document ICE agents. They are building a database of confirmed ICE agents. Help them and spread this message crustiandaily.com/ice-list/

In the next civil war, "the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other." - Ulysses S. Grant, 1875

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...

jesus lordt

Gov. Gavin Newsom made the case in a televised address Tuesday evening that President Trump’s decisions to send military forces to immigration protests in Los Angeles have put the U.S. at the precipice of authoritarianism. https://trib.al/EpbF098

WATCH: “Holy f*ck — They literally just shot her point blank… I live here…” @lapdhq shoot a woman trying to get to her apartment at point blank range with a rubber bullet. Alexandria’s page (the woman who helps her): www.tiktok.com/@labyrinthlo...

NEW IN ARIZONA: Former AZ state Rep. Austin Smith, a leader of advocacy group Turning Point Action, was indicted on charges that he forged voter signatures on the nomination petitions he submitted for his re-election campaign last year. LINK TO FULL STORY/INDICTMENT: www.votebeat.org/arizona/2025...

I wrote in February that objective control and dual loyalty was dead but I think unless there are resignations within the next 48 hours, the military ethic and basic tenants of professionalism are also dead

"Should ICE agents be required to wear uniforms while making arrests?" Yes: 68% No: 18% YouGov / June 9, 2025

CNN is now slightly to the right of Fox but most of middle America doesn’t realize it and is taking them credibly. It’s a huge messaging problem.

The purpose of the chaos being incited by the regime is twofold: first, to incite their supporters to kill and second to convince the neutral 1/3 or so of the country to stay neutral by muddying the water enough to give cover to their cowardice. If it works on those groups, it works enough.

the thing about sending the guard and ICE goons and the marines to six different cities is that it becomes much harder to maintain the fiction that all of these cities suddenly exploded into crime simultaneously out of nowhere

“‘If a fire occurs in the cabin, if we land on water, don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off," one flight attendant was told. “It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,” said another. (Published April 2025)

I don’t think you should overreact to one speech but the accumulation of events in the last 24 hours is the wild part; marines “deployed” to LA, DHS doing photo ops with NG soldiers in the background, and Trump given a partisan speech with soldiers cheering the background is not great lol

look who learned what 86 means

“If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived,” writes NY Times columnist Michelle Goldberg.

Clash between protesters and federal agents at ICE raid in Omaha

Paging @jsphctrl.ft.com

Billionaires are consolidating around Cuomo because they know he will preserve the broken status quo. New Yorkers are rallying behind our campaign because they're ready for change. In two weeks, we will shock the political establishment and win a city we can all afford.

There are 19 states that allow recall elections. We can’t wait for the midterms.

This is my friend's video from Santa Ana, CA in OC. The Santa Ana PD had this situation totally under control. It was peaceful. Then ICE came in to provoke & attack. ICE is a terrorist secret police Gestapo-style band of thugs, posers, mercenaries & miscreants Speak up Call Congress: 202-224-3121

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

this is useful context (and ah, of course, they only want *hot* soldiers)

Again, this is a deliberate escalation not being done for law enforcement purposes.

when you read that headline, you should also keep this one in mind

RINO traitors.

Washington DC

This is deliberate escalation designed to crescendo near the parade with…something. Insurrection Act, perhaps.

From my undergraduate lecture notes on the Weimar Republic's collapse

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @deadder.bsky.social ) 🇺🇸

BREAKING: ICE is preparing to deploy tactical units to five cities run by Democratic leaders, according to two sources familiar with the planning of future ICE operations.

Fox is airing aerial footage of U.S. Marines practicing how to subdue and arrest people as they prepare to deploy in L.A.

Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

Something worth noting is how the press is leaning into the framing that what’s happening in LA is a both sides issue or that they are riots. Even when the LAPD is saying it’s under control, suddenly for the first time in their lives the press is willing to ignore them

The Democratic Party is actually pretty effective under strict institutional norms and rules. They whip votes and submit to leaders despite a big tent and diverse base When the norms and rules don’t apply (like now), the Democratic Party is a deer in the headlights

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House and Senate leaders should demand resignations from both Major General Pat Work, the 82nd Airborne Division commander, and Colonel Chad Mixon, the Fort Bragg garrison commander. This was possibly the most partisan speech ever delivered by a commander-in-chief to U.S. troops.

Kim Jong Trump's not gonna like this one but 76% of Americans oppose his military parade this weekend, including 80% of independents and 52% (!!) of Republicans according to a new poll. prri.org/spotlight/mi...

Just beyond the pale, absolutely dangerous and corrosive. President basically rallying active duty US military for war against fellow Americans in an openly partisan way via @atrupar.com

Protesters on the move up Empire St. in Providence at 6:40 pm tonight…

Aside from the questionable conclusion of this answer, which is both stupid and dangerous, Mike Johnson was literally a constitutional lawyer before becoming a lawmaker.