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I'd *like* to be extremely concerned about the marines being deployed to an American city and the scientific committee that determines vaccine schedules being disbanded, but I'm gonna hold off until the Distraction Knowers give the okay

Oops.

Please follow local, community reporters from Los Angeles, not people who fly into the city and then dip out, never having to deal with the aftermath of their shitty coverage.

UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

@cnn.com is lying. Lauren Tomasi wasn’t “hit by a rubber bullet,” a cop intentionally shot her in the back from a few feet away while she was reporting.

Coverage of immigration raids that focuses on their impact on employment & the economy, & not on the actual people subject to the raids, only reifies the idea that immigrants are laborers and nothing else. As a reporter, I understand the aim of this kind of reporting, but I don't think it's helpful.

"Paedophilia not a deal breaker" Says World’s Richest Man as He Returns to Vocally Supporting Donald Trump

This is a whole lot of words for nothing.

I’d add this: Decades of studies have shown that large groups want to be seen as legitimate, and largely self-police yahoos prone to violence — *until* law enforcement starts using violence, at which point they unite against a common enemy. It’s a lesson too few PDs ever seem to learn.

I already have faith in vaccines. They're amazing. Top five invention of all time.

NYPD just grabbed a guy with a bike who was on the sidewalk.

"If confirmed, he will maintain the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without changes. CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism." youtu.be/yMD-bStAVLQ (5:47)

Breaking: The U.S. Supreme Court won't stop Florida from killing Anthony Wainwright on Tuesday. There were no noted dissents. Wainwright's execution is one of two scheduled for Tuesday, and one of four scheduled across the U.S. this week.

Right now, Dems are hiding in their offices, scrolling their phones fearfully, wondering "how are voters going to feel about the National Guard being deployed?" The right, meanwhile, is vigorously *attempting to shape* how voters feel about it, filling every medium with coordinated propaganda.

It should be a priority for these guys to be informed somehow that ICE gets hotel rooms. Where are the Marines going to bunk?

British photographer Nick Stern has undergone surgery on his left after being shot with a plastic bullet whilst photographing protests in Los Angeles. Stern had press ID and a large camera plus video camera. www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

A few hundred New Yorkers have gathered outside 26 Federal Plaza, which is barricaded entirely down the block and adorned by a smattering of precinct cops throughout. Radios began buzzing as the crowd moved, situ is calm at the moment. TARU present, SRG likely waiting in the wings.

To the extent Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign had a theme — it was "I am for free speech" and "the news media is evil and if you empower me I will destroy them."

Breaking - in an unprecedented move RFK jr removes all current members of the CDC vaccine advisory committee www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/h...

JFC I wish I were joking, but I can predict whom he will assign as new advisors. Andrew Wakefield Jenny McCarthy Aaron Rodgers Jim Carrey Sherri Tenpenny Meryl Dorey etc.

There are good reasons a government does not deploy troops to quell its own citizens. Any regieme that does so, delegitimizes itself in the process.

there really seems to be a strange “green lantern theory of fascism” that some people on this website have internalized, in which the white house’s desire for martial law — it’s desire for organized repression — is tantamount to a guarantee that it will happen

This story is horrifying. Scammers got people to pay thousands of dollars to hire a fake lawyer. To keep the scam going and keep the money flowing, the scammers also set up fake USCIS appointments, fake ICE check-ins, and fake court hearings. Worse, they told one guy to skip his real court hearing.

this is literally the same thing southern segregationists said about the civil rights movement.

The professional agitators are ICE.

the thing about this is that these guys don’t actually want blunt talk; blunt talk would be things like “you’re a sexist and a bigot whose contributions to culture have been overwhelmingly negative, and you frequently respond to mild criticism like a child”

Online communities dedicated to the use of a toxic bleach solution to treat everything from cancer to autism believe Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is interested in their cause. www.wired.com/story/chlori...

WTF

The legal risk of violent protest has gone up in ways the public doesn't widely appreciate. I recently was a prosecutor in the Philly DA's office. I spent a lot of time reviewing pole camera video, footage from police street surveillance cameras. THOSE CAMERAS ARE POWERFUL. THERE ARE MANY OF THEM.

I doubt this cop will ever pay a price for this crime yet we continue to put our faith in police departments that won't hold their own people accountable.

Spanking does not produce good behavior. Authoritarian violence -- and make no mistake, that's what it is when you hit your kid, even if you tell yourself it's "just a swat" -- produces little authoritarians, full of fear & suppressed anger. (I know Kendra knows this.)

Nope. Everything about this makes me think that people are going to get killed, and anyone who encounters them should be aware of that possibility.

📣A VICTORY FOR PERSONAL PRIVACY!📣 In our case against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and DOGE, A NY federal district court judge has granted a preliminary injunction. (1/6)

Unprecedented crimes & constitutional violations happening right in front us, on an hourly basis.

Eyidi Ambila, originally from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been in ICE custody for eight months since completing a sentence for two misdemeanor charges.

We are fast approaching the unlawful policing of the American public zone.

We hosted a live chat for @washingtonpost.com readers last week about DOGE and federal workforce issues, and we got a question about how sourcing works. Let me explain:

Sorry not sorry, Brad Bondi.

Pam Bondi's brother lost the D.C. Bar election in a blowout: www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

I, for one, am SHOCKED that a consulting firm part-owned by Jerry Jones of the Dallas Cowboys and Hank Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees would be anything but scrupulously rigorous in its assessment of the economic impact of professional sports teams on their communities.

📄 NEW: The Trump-Musk conflict represents a much larger set of interests that runs from Kyiv to Los Angeles, and will become a major issue as Russia struggles to achieve its strategic war goals. My latest. america2.news/the-trump-mu...

Here’s the thing about social media platforms: for the vast majority of people choosing one is a matter of entertainment, interaction, and information, not of “work.” It’s perfectly reasonable to stay away from platforms that suck for you and stick with ones you enjoy. /1

Today’s Russian press on the rupture between Donald Trump & Elon Musk: * “There isn’t room for two narcissists in the same lair.” * “It’s a sign of the growing crisis with Trump’s policy direction” * “When you chop Elon, the chips fly.” #ReadingRussia

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State troops sent to Los Angeles by the Trump administration, without the approval of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, were expected to sleep on floors or outdoors, a source told the Chronicle.