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Bibi Netanyahu, in 2002, urging the US to invade Iraq: "If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region." The US listened then, and we saw what happened. 23 years later, here we are.

submitted 11 hours ago • 51 comments

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

submitted 17 hours ago • 811 comments

It’s amazing. The article recounts Noem’s take on things—that Padilla didn’t ID himself—without noting that there is clear VIDEO SHOWING HIM DOING SO. It feels like a literal “don’t believe what your eyes saw” moment. A total failure in coverage.

submitted 9 hours ago • 34 comments

Huh wonder what gave Israel the idea that it could do whatever it wants without consequence

submitted 12 hours ago • 10 comments

More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.

submitted 18 hours ago • 16 comments

Y'all. Y'ALL. FB suspended REBECCA SOLNIT. I...

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California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office posts a video of Emperor Palpatine reciting Donald Trump’s Truth Social post about L.A. via @swholocron.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 341 comments

Amazing how hard it is to write: “Police shoot at journalists.”

submitted 2 days ago • 85 comments

It's a shame the Democratic Party is systematically degraded every communication channel it has with its public in the name of fundraising.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Stephen Colbert just riffed on this incident, saying “Strong man go boom,” and then referred to Trump as Benito Boopsolini, Adolf Trippler, and Joseph Fallen.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

🚨 Support Los Angeles immigrant communities 🚨 Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs: Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate LA Jail Support / Bail Fund: account.venmo.com/u/jailsuppor... Unión del Barrio: uniondelbarrio.org/main/support...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 3 days ago • 102 comments

Like @gregpak.net said: “this is a legitimately fantastic campaign video great gimmick, great message, genuinely funny as hell IF YOU LIVE HERE, REGISTER TO VOTE IN NYC, FRIENDS!”

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This election is in your hands. But only if you’re registered to vote in New York City. The deadline is Saturday. zohranfornyc.com/vote

submitted 3 days ago • 41 comments

As of June 1, nearly 25% of the people arrested by ICE in the interior and sent to detention had NO CRIMINAL RECORD. Data from the last six years, including 1.5 years of Trump's first term, reveals how this is completely unprecedented. It also helps explain the growing backlash.

submitted 3 days ago • 74 comments

from the NY Immigration Coalition (@thenyic.bksy.social): “Bring everyone you know.”

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Bless this man for standing up for immigrants, for freedom of speech, for due process, and for the Constitution of the United States. Vote for Mamdani, friends. Please make sure he's one of your five - and Cuomo is not.

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How extreme is the June 7 Memorandum on federalizing the National Guard? One of several issues: It has NO geographic limit. None. No mention of California or any other state. It's open-ended. Now this from President Trump: "Well, we're going to have troops everywhere."⬇️

submitted 4 days ago • 268 comments

To be in public office right now is to constantly ask yourself: How do I make sure I'm standing on the right side of history? There's a simple answer. The wrong side of history will always tell you to be afraid - the right side of history will always expect you to be brave.

submitted 4 days ago • 119 comments

So surreal I made this #abolishice Dodgers logo over half a decade ago.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Exactly this. I am sitting in the peaceful garden of my mom’s memory care center in LA —where many of the hardworking and excellent staff were born born in other countries. Trump is describing a city that exists in his head, not reality.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

They hate us for our freedoms.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

To the guy next to me, as we both face the wall: I think Trump is doing this to us because he wants to distract us from how the price of groceries for working families—

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Street action to block ICE from illegally and violently invading residences and businesses is as peaceful as it gets. If the formal political system, including courts, cannot stop this violence, the final check on abusive power is mass action.

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The arrest of union leader David Huerta is galvanizing a new element—solidarity: “Right now, just in the last 14 hours, labor unions are joining together from far and wide, communities are reaching out in ways I’ve never seen,” Orr told me. “Something is different.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

While Jessica Ramos went running to Cuomo the moment she got snubbed by AOC's endorsement, this is how Brad spent his day. Some people are able to put their ideals ahead of personal grievance. That's the difference between real movement people and grifters.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

A clear-eyed take on why Ramos is betraying her constituents & the city (read the whole thread):

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People are so conspiracy-brained that they can’t make sense of the Ramos move without assuming someone’s leaned on her or bought her off, and yeah, I’m sure she’s been offered a job in the administration, but it’s not like that’s such a plum deal she simply couldn’t say no. It’s bitterness.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Jessica Ramos once told me “the world so readily apologizes for sex pests.” And if that ain’t the fucking truth….

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

What I saw at immigration court this morning is unfathomably cruel. The judge dismissed several cases—including that of a dad and his 2-yr-old son. Now subject to expedited removal, he expected to be arrested by ICE outside. Luckily they made it home. We can't be a city that tears families apart.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

For the record Ackman is funding Andrew Cuomo. That’s reason enough NOT to rank Cuomo in the primary, and to keep him far from NYC.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

"Landlords in New York City have apparently picked their champion in the mayor’s race: Andrew M. Cuomo."

submitted 7 days ago • 162 comments