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The Marines and National Guard in LA are equal in cost to TWO Chandra X-ray telescopes! đź”­

There is no anarchy in Los Angeles. Fetterman is a liar and a fraud who betrayed everyone who campaigned and voted for him. He should resign in disgrace.

And if you add in protests from Friday/Saturday, the entire weekend would look like this.

yeah you could see this shit coming from ten miles away

ICE Releases Gavin Newsom Beheading Video

These people don’t want to make housing or health care more affordable, they don’t want to raise wages, they want to never again see kendrick lamar at the superbowl, ibram kendi on the bestseller list, ryan coogler at the oscars or ketanji brown jackson on the supreme court bsky.app/profile/kati...

Democrats should introduce articles of impeachment for RFK jr Even if it doesn’t work, which it probably won’t, democrats need to make clear that he’s not gonna get away with it

Absolutely right.

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

In one study, 45% of vets with PTSD who did MDMA-assisted therapy at the VA went into full remission, says Dr. Elnahal.

“Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken the extraordinary step of firing the expert panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, saying the action is needed to restore faith in vaccines.” www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...

Well That's bad

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

Qataris Buy Trump’s Tesla for $400 Million www.borowitzreport.com/p/qataris-bu...

At no point in this entire article of 16 paragraphs does ABC mention that another cop killed this cop by shooting her in the back. Nor does it mention the name of the cop who killed this cop. Nor does it mention that the civilians involved never fired at them. ABC might as well be state media.

People say it’s unfair to compare the Trump administration to Hitler’s reign. And it’s true that there are important differences. For example, Trump is moving MUCH faster.

From February…

I think it's important to continuously reiterate that federal science funding grants in the US (and elsewhere) are made because the government, with the input of panels of independent experts, have concluded that the work being done is IN THE INTEREST OF THE NATION.

This means no grocery shopping, no going to work, no taking kids to the park, no nothing that is good for the economy or the soul. This is complete shut down of one of the largest cities in the United States.

Just come out of surgery where they removed a 40mm less lethal round from My leg. One like this.

I didn’t know a city could do this.

The thing about the campaign is that Harris regularly said what people wanted her to say. She wasn't a perfect campaigner, and she was operating under considerable constraints. But she did the thing.

Really Cool how nobody wanted to take this shit seriously

"Everything points to an effort to effectively destroy U.S. science — not gradually as part of a long-term plan, but over the next year or two." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/nobody-exp...

Where are these guys sleeping? After Jan 6, a true domestic terrorist attack, Nat'l Guard soldiers slept everywhere from parking garages to hallways. LA has less affordable places to stay than DC after the wildfires. This is just disrespect for political theatre.

Study: 83% Of Web Content Unfit For Human Consumption theonion.com/study-8...

Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses. Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

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

We always knew where this was going

To be clear, this is what an insurrection looks like:

New article in Rolling Stone www.rollingstone.com/p/trump-dest...

FEMA Chief Confused By Wind theonion.com/fema-ch...

I’d like to live in a country where immigration officials don’t have any need to insist that they totally aren’t a buncha Nazis.

Absolutely wild that LA has deployed LAPD, DHS has deployed both ICE and CBP, now the white house is calling in the national guard. You'd think the wildest riot in history was going down in LA right now, but it's actually just a bunch of protestors mostly just standing around holding signs.

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I keep seeing Stephen Miller tweets and every single one of them makes him sound like the most overdramatic little wizard in an anime for dumb babies

Please read Col Fram’s post below. She represents the leadership we want and need and what this SecDef and admin is doing is so fucking wrong, stupid, and cruel. Thank you for your leadership, character, and visibility, ma’am!

ICE is just a different way to spell NAZI. Get out of California.

THIS. If you know this kid... no, you don't