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If you're a gringo invading a city with the Spanish name "Los Angeles," you are invading traditionally Hispanic land, which they took from Native Americans, instead of Hispanics invading YOUR land.

cost of national guard and marine deployment ot los angeles: ~ $134 milion -bryn macdonell, special assistant to pete hegseth

CNN’s Jason Carroll was zip-tied and escorted away—for reporting the news. But they claimed he wasn’t under arrest? Why are they shooting rubber bullets at and silencing journalists? We still have a First Amendment.

jesus that’s like three birthday parades

Start with them.

i'm so old i remember when tech companies invested in stuff that wasn't just competing with every other big tech company for The Official Next Big Thing™

The Steelers All-Pro edge TJ Watt, seeking a new deal, is not in attendance at mandatory minicamp, per me and Mike Garafolo. No progress on a long-term deal.

When private equity owns your doctor, you pay MORE for WORSE care. Their priority is profit. Governor Kotek just signed into law the strongest protections against corporate profiteering in health care. Congress should follow and get private equity out of health care nationwide.

The situation in Los Angeles looks so bad Oklahoma has already banned it from being taught in schools.

That Gabbard video: using trashy animation of the Golden Gate bridge being consumed by a nuclear explosion... I wouldn't have done that, because it doesn't help anyone understand the stakes, it provides inspiration for the enemies of America, and it's just karmically a bad idea

Bravo, Governor.

BREAKING: DOJ is appealing last week's decision that people sent to El Salvador's CECOT prison on March 15/16 under Trump's Alien Enemies Act proclamation had their due process rights violated. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/judge-boas...

Evil, evil people.

🧵 Via the New York Times today, there is the news that Meta has launched a new AI lab focused on developing "superintelligence." We've had a number of pieces that address the near religious fantasies driving such moves. Here's one from Tech Policy Press fellow @eryk.bsky.social:

Donald Trump wants violence brianjkarem.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

Philly local tv station reporting that a man allegedly posed as an ICE agent in order to rob a car repair business office. How many other criminals might be getting this idea right now, given that actual ICE agents are refusing to show IDs, warrants, badges?

Good article on our new JAMA Pediatrics article on pediatric firearm mortality. www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/h...

Earlier Trump refused to transfer 20,000 missiles to Ukraine to fight the Shahed drones raining down on civilians. The United States and Ukraine had already agreed on the transfer when Trump decided to skirt the deal after his conversation with Putin. These scenes are Trump and Putin's fault.

🚨Secret police! Do you accept secret police? My family fled from Argentina where secret police jailed my grandfather & killed my dad's best friend's father as well as about 30,000 other Argentinians. When people conceal their identities, no one's safe! Anyone could be taken, even me and you.

In @chron.com Southern Baptists to take on abortion pills, porn and sports betting in Dallas The SBC plans to vote on acting to overturn the Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay marriage. www.chron.com/culture/reli...

Incarceration rates— ⚖ Los Angeles: 309 per 100,000 people ⚖ South Dakota: 370 per 100,000 people Sources: brookingsregister.com/stories/stat... www.ppic.org/publication/...

Let's all take a moment to read the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. It's only one sentence.

Out here for round 2! We don’t leave until ICE leaves.

I was tear-gassed in Istanbul by Erdogan's goons. It sucks. You're going to see a lot of international solidarity this week as protestors from around the world and America advise folks in LA and other cities on how to safely resist the US military cracking down on its citizens.

If you’re watching @maddow.msnbc.com’s A Block you understand that people who stand up for other people can change the course of those people’s lives & our history. We have the power to refuse Trump’s path forward. Protesting actually works. Let’s go.

newrepublic.com/article/1579...

Depictions of extreme wealth are everywhere on television of late and, well, it’s all quite boring, writes @sophiegilbert.bsky.social: https://theatln.tc/vK8BFn58

In March, VA officials across the US warned that their cancer-tracking databases were no longer being updated. Officials in the Pacific Northwest noted DOGE had marked its contract to maintain a cancer registry for “immediate termination.” By @ericumansky.bsky.social‬ @vernalcoleman.bsky.social‬

Trump invoked a rarely used provision that allows for the deployment of the Nat Guard if there is a rebellion against the U.S. gov. @nytimes.com: “No such rebellion is underway. …Americans in cities routinely cause more property damage after their sports teams win or lose.”

Oopsie

New logo for The Left Hook, courtesy of artist Bilal Hassam. Dig it?

A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction restricting how the Department of Government Efficiency can access Office of Personnel Management databases.

Don’t forget. Trump has betrayed law enforcement.

I don't think they have gift links. or i couldn't find out how. but you can see the headline. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

🚨BREAKING: California sued President Donald Trump Monday, accusing him of illegally seizing control of the California National Guard to suppress protests in Los Angeles — without the governor’s consent. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The #BETAwards are happening tonight a few miles from the L.A. protests. Doechii used her acceptance speech to say "I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us"

Martial law? When I get back to my house in LA I will be adding an attic.

The NYPD has suddenly called in “SRG”, a unit with frequent police misconduct and violence. Anti-ICE protesters have been chanting the entire duration of the protest. A few arguments but peaceful. Seems Eric Adams need the protest shutdown.