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one reason for this is how few US newsrooms are willing to interview and hire immigrant and international journalists due to legal costs for work visas, and how often non-white immigrant perspectives are considered 'bias' instead of expertise

submitted 6 hours ago • 8 comments

Let’s be very clear: Los Angeles is the perfect place for this to play out for the Trumpists. The Trumpists hate California and hate Los Angeles and a vast amount of their base feels the same — even the Trumpists here, who wallow in hating the place they live. /1

submitted 6 hours ago • 99 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 6 hours ago • 24 comments

If — god forbid — this turns into an actual insurgency, the numbers really aren’t in the government’s favor even with active duty and reserves because California accounts for roughly 10% of the US. They may be evil, but they have also really not thought this through one bit

submitted 8 hours ago • 8 comments

They're totally underwater if this is what it takes to hit a single Home Depot once

submitted 6 hours ago • 14 comments

If you’re doing actual counter hegemonic realism you should cheer when your rivals’ strategic bombers go up in flames. That so many in this admin are fretting instead about retaliation shows how far from ‘realism’ they have strayed

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The administration gets closer to using the military to crush civilian dissent. Expect deaths, disappearances, and lawless detentions.

submitted 6 hours ago • 357 comments

Okay, this side of the sign might be kind of a tone mismatch.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

A stain of dishonor for the United States military that it'll take generations to wash off. Will be decades before anyone overseas will ever want to help us soldiers again

submitted 7 hours ago • 13 comments

i wrote a little thread on this a few months ago but yeah the federal government simply does not have enough guys with guns to enforce its tyranny without pushing the big red military button federal law enforcement pretty much only exists to scoop up bad guys that local PD already handcuffed

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

Between this and the people impatiently explaining that Schumer is not cool enough to post jokes, we are not beating the "politics is just aesthetics for a lot of people" accusation I've been firing hourly for a few days

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

The fact they chose California as the flash point is also an indicator that they don't think these things through LA has like 4M+ people. Sending every single ICE officer is ~20K, LAPD is 9K, LASD is 10K. Going in at 100:1 manpower – leaving zero bodies for literally anything else – is foolish 1/

submitted 9 hours ago • 185 comments

Not even the first time

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

If confirmed, this would represent a version of Charlottesville, but where government officials are the ones driving into protestors

submitted 9 hours ago • 17 comments

Not to mention that MeToo was more or less a direct, delayed response to Trump winning the first time. Thermostatic opinion is real and it is not your friend if you’re trying to triangulate. People see what the results are when woke goes away and they fucking hate it.

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

One of the wildest things about reactionary psychology is that they seem genuinely hurt & dismayed when people react badly to their violent, stupid behavior.

submitted 13 hours ago • 89 comments

yes, tone deaf as hell, but read between the lines here. ICE agents being demons in their own neighborhoods, every operation turning into a massive flash point, etc.? It's how the agencies fall apart - people crack under this sort of pressure, especially when they can just quit and go elsewhere.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

I loathe Musk as much as anyone else but for a sitting president to openly threaten a private citizen over what political donations he or she chooses to make is a reminder of how authoritarian this country is becoming by the day - by the hour even!

submitted 13 hours ago • 205 comments

"So here's the plan -- we impose massive tariffs on the nations that sell us food." "Hmm." "But it's OK, because we just rely more on states like California that grow a lot of the same things." "Oh, I guess that ..." "And then we go to war with California."

submitted 11 hours ago • 289 comments

The knee always bends.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

ICE vans ran through a crowd of anti-ICE protesters in Paramount, CA, at least two with extreme injuries, per @acatwithnews.bsky.social A major fire is burning in the middle of the street, per Sean.

submitted 10 hours ago • 16 comments

It is very, very hard to last in a job where every day is like this.

submitted 10 hours ago • 9 comments

The consistent messaging drumbeat, for years, has been to call every protest, every slight pushback, every mild disagreement “an insurrection” to drain all meaning from the term (cf. “fake news”)

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

If you don't have LBJ's quote about the lowest white man essentially memorized you don't understand politics.

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

magical girls

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Chief of Nashville, criminal division resigns over decision to charge Abrego Garcia. That’s a big story and the details will likely be very damning for the administration.

submitted 1 day ago • 277 comments

the fun version of this is when you’re posting about some nerd shit and someone pops up in the comments like “actually I am a world renowned expert in this field and here’s how this works” easily the best thing that happens on social media

submitted 1 day ago • 95 comments

live from the huge spontaneous anti-ICE protest after the agency used military-style tactics during a series of raids in Los Angeles today.

submitted 1 day ago • 224 comments

my 'the president is not a pedophile, i checked with the pedophile king' post sure has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my post

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

So to review: 1. He never should have been deported. The admin admitted that. 2. The admin said he was an MS-13 member and also they couldn’t get him back. They lied. 3. They are now charging him with a crime that they did not mention until literally now.

submitted 1 day ago • 109 comments

Pam Bondi is making a lot of claims about Garcia that he isn't being charged with. If he smuggled weapons and drugs, why isn't that charged? if he solicited explicit child videos - why isn't that charged either?

submitted 1 day ago • 238 comments

Honestly loathe that abundance stuff is probably just gonna shape up into a left-punching pro-privatization donor pleasing soiree instead of state-capacity building labor liberalism

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments