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submitted 6 days ago • 64 comments

I was a medic at the Santa Ana protests in OC today. I watched police fire tear gas, flash bangs, & rubber bullets into crowds of men, women, & children. Other medics and I were clearly marked with red crosses, and the police were targeting us. One of the most fucked up things I’ve ever seen.

submitted 6 days ago • 146 comments

On Trump sending troops into LA, says @brianbeutler.bsky.social, Dems should have been "prepared for wide-spectrum confrontation with Trump, instead of brushing aside almost all hot-button issues as perilous distractions." www.offmessage.net/p/the-consul...

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

submitted 5 days ago • 1574 comments

Black and Latino representatives barred from accessing federal facilities in their districts; meanwhile white ones are whisked to El Salvador so they can literally do photo ops.

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process. So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel. Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

submitted 6 days ago • 1440 comments

she’s got a point

submitted 6 days ago • 162 comments

Donald Trump has killed at least 200,000 US citizens mostly elders through deliberate COVID disinformation and slow response, and in collaboration with Elon Musk at least 300,000 people, mostly children by cutting USAID. Altogether Trump has killed at least 500,000 people.

submitted 6 days ago • 126 comments

Not a doctor. Not a scientist. No. A longtime heroin addict and current steroid enthusiast who perjured himself in confirmation hearings in order to pursue a twisted agenda that will kill more Americans than Osama Bin Laden.

submitted 6 days ago • 670 comments

It's somehow ALWAYS the job of the protesters to de-escalate as if we're the ones with the tear gas, rubber bullets, tanks, and a proven record of murder. Cops however are ungovernable rabid dogs, who collect salaries from us but over whom we have absolutely no control. Good deal huh?

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments

LAPD out there like

submitted 6 days ago • 344 comments

Love this illustration of the Cybertruck's numerous flaws, but particularly the non-real-time back-up camera. Very useful! www.wsj.com/business/aut...

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

Democratic politicians and liberal pundits bemoaning the LA protests need to understand that as their failure. None of this would be happening if they had offered effective resistance to mass deportation (extraordinary rendition, in truth) instead of considering undocumented people expendable.

submitted 6 days ago • 51 comments

sending 500 marines to a county of nearly 10 million people to stand around holding their dicks with nowhere to sleep is not actually the sign of a successful declaration of martial law

submitted 6 days ago • 79 comments

UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

submitted 6 days ago • 631 comments

This is on all the Senators who turned a blind eye and voted to confirm. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

submitted 6 days ago • 1558 comments

I warned that this would happen. acasignups.net/25/04/22/sup...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

i personally do not think the administration is actually prepared for what happens if they are facing mass protests in every major city in the country

submitted 6 days ago • 358 comments

Watch. Listen.

submitted 7 days ago • 90 comments

¡Puerto Rico no se vende, ni tampoco NuevaYol! So much fun to join @aoc.bsky.social at the Puerto Rican Day Parade. Early voting starts this Saturday 🗳️

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

it me!!!!!!!!

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 A massive crowd is gathering in DC demanding that SEIU CA President David Huerta be freed. #FreeDavidEndRaids Find your event here: bit.ly/FreeDavidEnd... PASS IT ON!

submitted 6 days ago • 121 comments

Martin Phillip Fjellanger Let this man go viral Los Angeles

submitted 6 days ago • 28 comments

Lest we forget: this is the ear that was "blown off."

submitted 7 days ago • 37 comments

Newsom: "Arrest me. Let's just get it over with, tough guy. I don't give a damn ... Tom, arrest me. Let's go."

submitted 7 days ago • 1083 comments

Four LAPD officers on horseback surround a man laying on the ground, trample him, and beat him with their polycarbonate "saber" batons.

submitted 7 days ago • 287 comments

I dunno man, I'm having a nice time sans Nazis threatening to rape and murder me, so go back to the Nazi rapist bar if you want, no one is forcing you to spent you BillionaireTime™️ with us

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Three months ago today, plain-clothes ICE agents abducted Mahmoud Khalil in his apartment building lobby after they'd followed him home. Free Mahmoud.

submitted 7 days ago • 38 comments

The path to the end of Roe V. Wade was paved with abortion providers being killed, and clinics being bombed and set on fire.

submitted 7 days ago • 25 comments

Oh, honey . . . You can’t even get your wife back.

submitted 7 days ago • 1064 comments

In a few hours, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition's Madleen vessel is expected to enter its most dangerous phase: confronting the Israeli blockade face to face. This handful of activists are risking their lives to break the Israeli siege. (QudsNen)

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

The Israeli defense minister is openly threatening the life of GretaThunberg and other unarmed peace activists on an aid ship. Where the f**k are the world’s leaders? The world’s media?

submitted 7 days ago • 228 comments

Your occasional reminder that Stephen Miller is the re-animated corpse of Arnolt Bronnen, an actual, half-Jewish* Nazi, of the Hitler Nazis.

submitted 74 days ago • 6 comments

submitted 8 days ago • 232 comments

Law enforcement is violently targeting press at protests around Los Angeles, from easily recognizable "mainstream" outlets to freelancers and independents. ALL press have explicit legal protections in California. #JournalismIsNotACrime. This evidence thread may get graphic. 🧵👇

submitted 8 days ago • 56 comments

Let's be clear what is going on: After Elon correctly confirmed that the Big Ugly Bill would put a bigger hole in the deficit, Stephen Miller incited a panic he wants to use to pass the bill as a promise to impose martial law on Dem cities and states. www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/08/t...

submitted 7 days ago • 31 comments

There is a lot of organized messaging on Xitter. Much of it ALSO ties passage of BBB to this--tipping their hand that invasion of Home Deport and Los Angeles is abt attention management. But there are ALSO people noting that Trump encouraged assaults on cops. And ALSO still MoCs messaging there.