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Spending more time here than there. Hoping that soon the above won't make any sense. You have 10k followers and 5 posts? Nope, don't waste my time. Not looking for thirst trap accounts and no need to DM me. You can just as easily say "hi" in main.
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Sometimes I think the “this is just a distraction” crowd just can’t handle the chaos, and that’s their way of cooping. But this is our reality. All of it. We don’t get to pick one crisis at a time. Walk and chew gum.

The area outlined in black (& filled w/ colored boxes) is the city of LA. Outside are cities w/in the county of LA; Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, the Valley, etc. They're all part of what's considered LA. That tiny red circle? That's what Trump's just called in 700 marines to "control." Get it now?

Who talks about their fellow Americans like this? More than 1 in 40 of us live in Los Angeles County

"Were treated like dogs. Theyre making us lay on the floor. Were here to help Waymo" Its ok grandpa. The war ended 40 years ago. Go to sleep

Governor Newsom calls President Trump’s takeover of the National Guard an “illegal act” and announces Trump’s order will challenged in court tomorrow: Under his executive order, it notes they have to coordinate with Governor, they never did

UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

In other news, any Democrats that is incapable of speaking up passionately and directly against this fascist Trump regime should not be taken seriously as a present or future leader. The age of timidity and complicity and fecklessness is over. There's a vacancy for leadership and fighters.

Oh, and by the way, there's no massive fraud in Social Security either. There's just demographics.

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple.

My statement on the arrest of California SEIU President David Huerta.

This clip is for all my L.A. friends who texted me tonight saying things like "I'm sure you know this, but 99.9% of LA is going about their Sunday normally"

My producer sent this to me and off the headline I was like "oh right, so she got hit by a loose round"... but then when you see it... like, that officer saw she was a reporter and shot her ~on camera~. Absolutely wild. Hope @laurentomasi.bsky.social is ok.

there are so many thoroughly antisocial behaviors that would shock and disturb you coming from any other human being but are completely standard for cops

the nytimes doesn't get LA and never will

Newsom: We talked for 20 minutes, this issue never came up. I kept trying to talk about LA, he wanted to talk about all these other issues. He never once brought up the national guard. There’s no working with the President. There’s only working for him. I will never work for Trump

This is not just revisionist history, it's ignorant of reality. Activists didn't leave Twitter because they "thought they would be more effective" somewhere else, they left because Elon made it clear that he would *deliberately undermine their influence." Why make shit up?

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

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

Did you know that when Pam Bondi said "We presented El Salvador with an arrest warrant and they agreed to return him," she was admitting she failed to follow the extradition process, proving he could have been returned at any time? My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/abrego-gar...

I notice people calling what we’re seeing these last couple of days “riots.” I was here during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. That’s not what this is. Local police can handle this, but ICE needs to back off—especially with these amateur hires who don’t know what the f*ck they’re doing.

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

Trump clearly want to instigate catastrophic situations so he can declare martial law. Too many people talking about how he’s all over the Epstein list.

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

you can scare a chud with bricks in the same way you can scare a cat with a cucumber

ICE is raiding Home Depots in LA because nothing says “national security” like cracking down on people buying mulch.

Bad shit happens when the military comes into to a volatile situation. This reminds me of a story from the 1992 riots in Los Angeles, to which some Marines deployed. I knew one of them and he told this story I also saw elsewhere — absent his telling it I would have assumed it was apocryphal. /1

And there you have it. ICE didn't target migrant workers in Kristi Noem's farms or Sarah Huckabee Sanders' meatpacking plants because they wanted to create a riot in LA as a pretext to declaring martial law. They don't care about undocumented migrants, they only care about controlling US citizens.

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.

The best place to get coverage of the protests in LA is from video from individuals on the scene. The totalitarian government is lying about them and the traditional media is largely unreliable — complicit or fatuously both-sidesey.

Imagine that. www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...

LIVE Tear Gas Fired at home depot ice raids in Paramount CA Compton #news #breakingnews www.youtube.com/live/0a0EIr9...

Protesters have surrounded the federal detention center in Los Angeles. California isn’t backing down, this is a full-blown standoff with the feds. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

"So here's the plan -- we impose massive tariffs on the nations that sell us food." "Hmm." "But it's OK, because we just rely more on states like California that grow a lot of the same things." "Oh, I guess that ..." "And then we go to war with California."

cats don't obey in advance and no one else should, either

ICE is the January 6 insurrectionists all over again. Only instead of attacking law enforcement, they are pretending to *be* law enforcement. And instead of just terrorizing at the Capitol, they are doing it EVERYWHERE.

Los Angeles Police Department says anti-ICE activity on Saturday "remained peaceful, and we commend all those who exercised their First Amendment rights responsibly" x.com/LAPDPIO/stat...

Remember all the enablers and normalizers of the Trump regime, especially those in power and within the establishment - the media, law firms, the billionaires, the donors. All are complicit, including feckless Democrats who didn't put up the fight for sake of their own safety.

Cannot stress enough that this is a pitiful action by a weak, scared, pathetic group of insecure, wannabe authoritarians, and they should be mocked until the end of time for wanting to bring in the military over some people protesting them at a Home Depot.

California representatives did a check in where migrants were being detained. They found no beds, no food and no water. Children were among the detained.

When the LA police says you are overreaching, you are overreaching.

Trump’s troops are literally unloading ammunition in LA in preparation for the MAGA Civil War they’re starting tonight. (Note the Home Depot parking lot where the “riot” is supposedly happening is empty when they pan over to it).

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

How much r the ICE puppets getting paid to snatch 3000 a day? #notofascism

So do we get why I was banned from speaking about Pinochet at the Naval Academy now?

Well, I mean, in a way he’s following him

Wow. What a sign that criminal case against Abrego Garcia may be politically cooked up. "Schrader’s resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons" Schrader spent 15 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville and was chief of the criminal division

BREAKING The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.