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@msnbc.com reporter at the 1:15 mark. “The chaos you’re seeing is not the result of peaceful protestors, it’s the result of actions of law enforcement, specifically the Los Angeles sheriff’s department.” #nokings

There are a couple of kids in my nephews's class who weren't born in the US, and the class has decided (w/o teacher input) that if ICE shows up in they're all going to pretend not to speak English. 10yos reinventing "I am Spartacus" because they don't want their friends to get disappeared.

Huge endorsement for Zohran news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

ICE is going to parks in Los Angeles and kidnapping nannies who are caring for small children The children are witnessing these kidnappings and being held in custody until their parents are contacted Women and children in parks

I wept for the both for you and for me From “the Extinguished Star” The Iranian poet, Parnia Abbasi, and her family were killed by Israel in its bombing of Tehran. All were reportedly civilians. www.pamenarpress.com/post/parnia-...

I can't tell you how invigorating and inspiring and hopeful it is to be in a crowd of people who also care. Took a group of teens to the last big protest and they were most struck by no longer feeling alone. If you're able to go, I encourage you to try. Get a group of friends & go together.

Finally someone who will stand up for landlords

Really something to see people act like Israel attacking Iran unprovoked is somehow justified because Iran might have a nuke someday. They’re hitting civilian airports. These are normal human beings with families and friends like yours.

If Zohran wins, it will be ENDLESS NYT articles about how he needs to include "moderates" and Republicans, if Cuomo wins the NYT will be FUCK THOSE RADICAL Leftists. The editorials write themselves. No need for any rapprochement.

Since mispronouncing mayoral candidates' names is in the news, I want to make sure I get it right: This hedge-fund guy who's running for mayor, is his name Whitey Tilson?

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

🚨 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...

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

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!”

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

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.

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

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.

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."⬇️

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.

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

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.

They hate us for our freedoms.

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—

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.

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...

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.