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There’s a point where I think all of us, senators to nobodies, have a decision to make. If we use whatever voice we have, whatever power we have, to oppose what’s happening now, it might damage our future. Might land us in a prison. We accept that risk, or we don’t. I submit that point is here.

submitted 18 hours ago • 18 comments

booker ready to do anything other than vote no on republican legislation

submitted 18 hours ago • 63 comments

Adam Schiff is on the Senator floor right now talking about the "vandals and miscreants" committing "vile acts" in L.A. that he argues should be subdued only by local police rather than the military. Good lead up, senator. You're truly one of the worst elected Dems.

submitted 17 hours ago • 126 comments

We’re going to need so many Nurembergs

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

This is the most straightforward thing they've said so far. They're using the military to "liberate" Los Angeles from its mayor and governor.

submitted 17 hours ago • 261 comments

This is awful on several levels. But Noem’s statement that they are using the US military to “liberate” Los Angeles from its elected governor and mayor is straight up evil and fundamentally unAmerican. She should be impeached as soon as patriots win back Congress next November.

submitted 19 hours ago • 10 comments

THIS A UNITED STATES SENATOR ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA BEING PHYSICALLY SHOVED OUT OF A MEETING ABOUT WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS DOING TO THE BIGGEST CITY IN OUR STATE.

submitted 19 hours ago • 277 comments

Maybe I’m naive or stupid, but I don’t feel particularly threatened by undocumented immigrants, whether they live next door or across the country. I feel much more threatened by young white male malcontents fed on a diet of “alpha male” bullshit and grievance culture in a country awash in firearms.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

submitted 1 day ago • 528 comments

New euphemism for authoritarian lawlessness just dropped

submitted 1 day ago • 343 comments

“There are now more troops in Los Angeles than serving in Iraq and Syria” politicalwire.com/2025/06/12/t...

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

submitted 2 days ago • 311 comments

This just shows MAGA are Neo-Confederates and traitors www.axios.com/2025/06/10/t...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

"nullification of the election results" = "winning imbued trump with sovereign authority and so all opposition to him is illegitimate and illegal"

submitted 2 days ago • 175 comments

Need an American Tank Person

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Agree with this. Either a majority or big plurality are already unhappy about this needless troop deployments. Now setting up for a boffo totally unprecedented domestic display of military power and priming to unleash troops on anyone who says it’s not awesome.

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

Incredibly chaotic scene Los Angeles as LAPD is pushing forward a skirmish line and violently arresting anti-ICE protesters. You can also hear me grunt when police shoot me in the abdomen with some kind of projectile.

submitted 3 days ago • 246 comments

what i like about this post is it is an illustration of one of the most distinctive qualities of williams' work and mainstream punditry in general, which is a belief that history began a decade ago

submitted 2 days ago • 127 comments

Whenever someone says they’re afraid of downtown in American cities, I’m always like, brother, that’s where the Fogos de Chão are.

submitted 2 days ago • 75 comments

👀

submitted 2 days ago • 548 comments

This is insane.

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

LA protesters are getting violent and causing damage! Oh wait...

submitted 3 days ago • 59 comments

This is the spirit of Los Angeles. This is California. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. #FreeDavidEndRaids

submitted 3 days ago • 378 comments

I just drove by a big LAPD staging area with lots of SUVs on the 110 north on ramp from grand. Be aware.

submitted 3 days ago • 94 comments

THERE ARE NO RIOTS Guys. I'm in LA. I'm going to a variety show tonight across town. There are not riots happening. There are peaceful protests being fired upon. Peaceful means nonviolent hut it does not mean sedate. No rioting, no looting is happening. LA is protecting neighbors.

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

the point of protests is that they are inherently "illegitimate" expressions of dissent in a society where "legitimate" expressions of dissent are either impossible or so insufficient that they become a joke

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Man I need to finish S02 of Andor before it gets spoiled for me by real life

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Fuck I.C.E. I.C.E. Baby

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

@curtisherbert.com dude grats on the keynote callout

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Fight the Empire.

submitted 3 days ago • 248 comments

For those who live elsewhere, this is the heart of downtown #LosAngeles. My friends are here. My union is here (sup @wgawest.bsky.social). My teenager is here. People are passing out pastries & singing & praying. All we want is for our neighbors not to be kidnapped off the streets.

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.

submitted 3 days ago • 222 comments

In other not terrible news, I'm cautiously optimistic about the second coming of Frutger Aero in Apple's new Liquid Glass design aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Frutige...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Look at these insurrectionists

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The situation in DTLA to which 700 Marines have been deployed is a couple dozen interfaith clergypersons leading a small crowd in prayer.

submitted 3 days ago • 110 comments

The professional agitators are ICE.

submitted 3 days ago • 103 comments

this is genuinely insane. we’re going to need to jail people involved with this administration

submitted 3 days ago • 513 comments

Non-violent resistance to fascism is necessary. But the goal posts will always shift until eventually peaceful protest becomes the same as "violence".

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

California’s National Guard arriving in Los Angeles County like there are deep substrate foliated kalkite deposits under it:

submitted 4 days ago • 4 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 days ago • 1474 comments

I want to report some good news from LA: ICE picked a hotel in Pasadena to be their headquarters for this side of the city. The residents of Pasadena (myself included) would not stand for this and protested all yesterday in front of the hotel until, eventually, the hotel kicked out ICE!!