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Coming up: Gov. Tim Walz and state officials are scheduled to hold a press conference to provide updates on the shootings of two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota. Watch live at 9:30 CT/10:30 ET: www.youtube.com/live/VHtHNAb...

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I will provide an update on last night’s targeted shootings shortly: youtube.com/live/VHtHNAb...

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California national guard troops and marines deployed to LA to help restore order have told friends and family members they are deeply unhappy about the assignment and worry their only meaningful role will be as pawns in a political battle they don't want to join. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 4 days ago • 478 comments

THE SEA HAWK, 1940

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It’s not like Alex Padilla *did* anything. The fascist government did something.

submitted 5 days ago • 28 comments

They had no right to impede the U.S. Senator. I’m guessing these clowns violated state law with regard to assault. Anyone that laid hand on the Senator should be brought to justice. And the faces of these thugs should be known. #ImpeachNoem

submitted 5 days ago • 129 comments

Damn right!! 👊

submitted 5 days ago • 223 comments

This is CA Senator Alex Padilla being illegally detained for asking a question of DHS Director Kristi Noem. This is from earlier today. Our Trump led totalitarian state is officially going from the soft opening of fascism and onto the hard launch. This is not a drill.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Democratic US Senator Padilla detained and restrained on the floor for asking question of DHS fascist Noem…

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Bravo, Glendale. Bravo. More, please. And it's time for Democrats to loudly say, "Abolish ICE." Someone please stand up and have a spine.

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The National Guard has arrived in Los Angeles, but they were not requested by California. Both Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass made it clear that the state did not authorize or want federal troops deployed.

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submitted 9 days ago • 116 comments

Fascists want to provoke violence so they can justify crackdowns and get some good footage to distort for state propaganda outlets

submitted 9 days ago • 48 comments

Gov. Gavin Newsom said on social media that California National Guard was being taken over by the federal government “not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle.”

submitted 9 days ago • 308 comments

I've covered a thousand protests. I was in Charlottesville and at the Capitol riots. LA is NOT a violent protest. They didn't bring in the National Guard until Heather Heyer was killed after hours of rioting and they had guns

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Doesn’t sound like we need the national guard. 🤔

submitted 9 days ago • 156 comments

Just to recap, Trump has taken the extraordinary step of federalizing 2000 member of the California National Guard — over the objections of the state’s governor — in response to a protest that currently involves A FEW DOZEN PEOPLE AT A HOME DEPOT

submitted 9 days ago • 201 comments

BBC is the only one covering the Los Angeles protests right now as Fox, CNN and MSNBC ignore it.

submitted 9 days ago • 84 comments

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

submitted 10 days ago • 1158 comments

G work #sheepherding

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WATCH: “You stand in my church. You promised me.” A Minneapolis pastor confronts the chief of police about helping ICE

submitted 13 days ago • 754 comments

Folks run ICE, FBI, and cops off the streets of Minneapolis

submitted 13 days ago • 267 comments

I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE. Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it. Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.

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