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kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

submitted 12 hours ago • 103 comments

BREAKING: please, everyone, turn on local news. there is NOTHING going on in LA. Its over, the protest broke up hours ago. Local news helicopters are trolling for trouble and there's none. Just some LAPD/LASD road blocks. If they 'send the Guard' now, its just because they really really want to.

submitted 6 hours ago • 38 comments

A large element of this is indeed spectacle, part of the reality TV program Trump is producing for his cult and for the right-wing media content machine. My sense is that the response will (1) continue to be incompetent overkill and (2) will backfire with the normies.

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

Do you know how bad things have to be for LAPD to look like they're restrained?

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

something noteworthy is that the hyperreal information bullshit highway that the american right wing has used, for over a decade, to derail and degrade institutional politics by overwhelming average voters is that... it goes both ways. They can declare a state in active rebellion but who cares?

submitted 5 hours ago • 4 comments

Here’s the “Presidential Memorandum”: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... There’s no Insurrection Act invocation; Trump is federalizing 2000 CA Nat’l Guard personnel only to “protect federal functions.” *Without* invoking the Insurrection Act, anything more would violate the Posse Comitatus Act.

submitted 5 hours ago • 137 comments

nextdoor has taken a turn against ice, which is probably not a good sign (for ice)

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

submitted 7 hours ago • 12 comments

Guys the authority invoked is not the Insurrection Act don’t let ppl tell you it’s the Insurrection Act ok

submitted 5 hours ago • 39 comments

“Donald Trump has learned from better rulers that strongmen sometimes deploy troops against their own people, but he has not yet learned why.”

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

Remember this iconic photo from Ferguson? This is Edward Crawford, throwing back a tear gas canister to protect some nearby kids. Like many identified Ferguson protesters and organizers, he was "found dead" a couple years later and neither the cops nor the media will ever investigate.

submitted 6 hours ago • 16 comments

ICE melting

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

It’s quite clear that whatever they thought would go down in LA things didn’t go as planned. It’s also quite clear local law enforcement couldn’t be bothered with this shit show. To be blunt: DHS should have been much better prepped than this. This is why they don’t do showy raids.

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

Excited to learn that we all get to become experts in the National Guard's authorizing statutes

submitted 7 hours ago • 41 comments

submitted 6 hours ago • 7 comments

Only in LA would protesters think to tag the ground so it’s visible in helicopter shots.

submitted 9 hours ago • 56 comments

This is the second day in a row that federal agents shot us both

submitted 8 hours ago • 14 comments

I keep thinking about the bewildered special forces guys wandering around the National Assembly with huge guns and clearly perplexed that they'd been asked to arrest the opposition party

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

Musk’s DOGE Goons Surreptitiously Transmitted Reams of White House Data www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-d...

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

"And remember, we are not descended from fearful men "Not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend the causes that for the moment were unpopular "This is no time to keep silent..." —Edward R. Murrow (1954) Good Night and Good Luck youtu.be/vEvEmkMNYHY?...

submitted 9 hours ago • 6 comments

I think Newsom sucks but if Trump federalizes the CA National Guard then Newsom does not control it anymore, George Wallace didn’t suddenly get woke on June 11, 1963

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

In their efforts to do everything we inveighed against King George for, we're about to reach "For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us".

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

“No civil police force could hold out against an irate and resolute population. The trick is not to let them realize that.” - Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals

submitted 6 hours ago • 21 comments

"We’re very clearly entering a moment of grave danger. My main thought about this is to remember – as we’ve said in other contexts – that the fight to preserve the American republic remains fundamentally one over public opinion."

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Tacticaul

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

I, for one, welcome the upcoming flood of Third Amendment litigation as this lonely amendment has been historically under-litigated

submitted 6 hours ago • 10 comments

This thread explains so much

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Just to make it clear to you guys- having to yoink the NG away from the governor and dispatch them at platoon strength because 400 zoomers are camped out in a Home Depot parking lot is regime *weakness*. In indicates how little power you actually have.

submitted 7 hours ago • 10 comments

Let's be clear: the LA story is absolutely the more urgently important story. The Musk story (and specifically, the Miller angle) is just ALSO important because it helps us understand why they might jump the gun in LA in a way that is otherwise strategically perplexing.

submitted 6 hours ago • 10 comments

I always think of this 2018 oral history of Stephen Miller’s high school years, in which almost all his peers remember him as loathsome, racist, oppositional, inaccurate, and constantly playing the victim card lamag.com/politics/ste...

submitted 6 hours ago • 42 comments

This is the only meme you need.

submitted 7 hours ago • 30 comments

BE LIKE BOBBY BUDNICK

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Los Angeles is not downtown LA. LA is a sprawling metropolis. This is like someone saying you could militarily occupy all of NYC ... no problem... thinking NYC is like just downtown or some shit. No baby, no.

submitted 7 hours ago • 21 comments

I'm imagining ICE doing to NYC what it's doing to LA — and the people of NYC responding the way people are in LA — and it all happening under Mayor Cuomo. He'll side with ICE, DHS and, of course, the NYPD. This man, who hates the city and doesn't live here, can not become mayor. Don't rank him.

submitted 10 hours ago • 11 comments

Now the writer’s room is just showboating.

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

Didn’t expect this from Scientific American but here we are. (Article from 2020 but everything still relevant including COVID precautions)

submitted 11 hours ago • 8 comments

I think today is a good demonstration of why Trump invoking the insurrection act will be a total disaster for him, actually which isn’t to say a lot of people won’t get hurt, but it’s not going to go the way they want in the end

submitted 8 hours ago • 25 comments

If you are arrested during a protest or action against ICE or CPD in Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. (This is an offer for criminal defense; I unfortunately don't do immigration law.)

submitted 9 hours ago • 20 comments