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i've seen this going around and i'm, well, a gentle way of putting it is "no great defender of gavin newsom," but i don't understand what authority he would have invoked? i'd have appreciated a more vocally outraged response, but that's not the same thing
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For maybe a century California has embodied one or another possible future for the rest of the country, and right now it’s a future that fascist putschists find intolerable.
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It's just another summer night in North Long Beach. We're down the road from Paramount. I remember the LA Riots vividly, shops were looted, and burned blocks from where I was standing. There's nothing happening worthy of a National Guard response. Keep up the good work on #LegalAF
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the short version is that the insurrection act is an exception to the posse comitatus act, title 10 allows the national guard to support law enforcement in their operations, insurrection act allows the military to perform domestic law enforcement itself
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yeah i've seen it going around lol
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it is not the insurrection act, don't mean to be pedantic but this is legally meaningful, it's title 10 national guard mobilization
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LASD firing multiple rounds at a group of protesters behind a makeshift barrier that includes a refrigerator
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riots. just absurd lol. a lie, in effect if not in intent
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like i don't want to give the impression that i'm making any claims about the legitimacy of protest tactics here, but this is not an aggressive protest response, as a simple matter of fact. it is less destructive than a city sports title celebration
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lmao not tim nichols
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ask about his operations and involvement, what is expected in the next few days, but 8 minutes of a soapbox to say "look at this chaos in downtown" over literal live video of a few dozen people standing halfway down the block from police is absurd
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lapd going "eh it's really not that serious" i mean come on lol
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certainly possible, but the conditions out there right now do not make it very likely, to my mind lol. 100, 200 people, a handful of whom are armed with, what, fireworks? i could be wrong but i don't see it
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i've lived here my entire life and at its single tensest moment the events of this weekend did not look like Los Angeles In a State of Unrest
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cannot stress enough the obvious, pathetic absurdity of local news anchors talking about marines at camp pendleton fidgeting in their combat boots, fingers on the trigger, and cutting to on the scene reporters standing in front of a few people walking around with flags amid normal weekend traffic
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hegseth now saying the marines are on "high alert" like i'm sorry i don't mean to dismiss the possibility of this administration attempting to commit violence against protesters but this is extremely goofy, it is comms crisis clown shit
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it is a bit odd (and why i threw on cnn lol)
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i don't doubt that trump loyalists will cheer the ostensible owning of the libs via fatigues and guns milling around but i do not think this will look much like strength, either
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there really aren't that many people out at this point, best i can tell. they're gonna line the federal detention facility like armed hedgerows lol
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not particularly far within the full scope of greater la!
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the two main protests you are hearing about this evening are half an hour away from each other on 65mph freeways
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And those ads are costing hundreds of millions as they try to pass a bill that strips 2/3 of snap benefits from people and kicks at least 8 million (probably more like 13) off of Medicaid
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"again, we asked the question at 5 o'clock: is this making our city safer, if you look at the scenes that played out today, versus taking day laborers off the streets at our local home depots?"