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www.politico.com/live-updates... “The Army would better spend the cost of the parade on services for military families, such as child care and tuition reimbursement, Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), a veteran, argued at the hearing.”

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Perhaps Newsom should have spent less time chumming around with authoritarian buffoons on his podcast and more time preparing and strategizing for the entirely predicable thing that is happening in his state right now.

submitted 9 hours ago • 60 comments

Hey everyone, you want to know a fun factoid? Almost all of the federal agents currently in LA aren’t local, which means they’re staying at a hotel somewhere. Hotels have fire alarms. Wanna know another fun fact? If protests start popping off in other states, they can’t be everywhere at once.

submitted 12 hours ago • 73 comments

Another problem with this country is it’s being run by middle aged men on a comical level of steroids. Which are famous for making people insane.

submitted 17 hours ago • 54 comments

President Trump's deployment of federalized National Guard troops is unnecessary, inflammatory, and an abuse of power. The Trump administration is putting people in LA in danger and undermines the democratic principle that the military should not police civilians. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

submitted 10 hours ago • 53 comments

Los Angeles protest tomorrow (Sunday): ICE out of Boyle Heights

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

Here is the deal: LAPD at least has some training in crowd control. DHS, ICE, and CBP absolutely do not. So, when faced with people peacefully protesting, they (DHS, CBP, and ICE and presumably whichever low skilled knuckleheads they have deputized to help them) overreact and say it’s a riot.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Tonight in LA, there are people hiding in garages, attics and basements because they're scared to be rounded up by ICE, denied due process, and transported to concentration camps. Sound familiar?

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

It's California tonight. It could be New York tomorrow. Michigan on Wednesday. Blue States need to mobilize their guards NOW to pre-empt Trump and declare ICE banned from their borders.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

There are ZERO riots. I am in downtown Los Angeles. There are live feeds of everything that was here and what went down in Paramount. Dudes on mini bikes making noise and people holding Fuck Ice signs etc. But no violence from protesters. None. Cannot say the same about the opposition.

submitted 10 hours ago • 20 comments

I think it’s an especially important time to to organize around the reality that it’s all connected: the ICE raids, the crackdown on campus speech, the Zionist insistence we not trust our eyes, the corporate overlord insistence that AI is actually…good. Say no. Fuck no.

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen. This would help our bees " via I Love Bees

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

We don't have secret police in America. At least we're not supposed to.

submitted 16 hours ago • 646 comments

The military isn’t being employed to carry out an immigration policy. The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.

submitted 11 hours ago • 273 comments

Kelly Loeffler:

submitted 11 hours ago • 24 comments

Your safety is the top priority. Peaceful protesters have already been harmed for doing nothing. The story they’re selling isn’t legit. Please film everything, document everything.

submitted 11 hours ago • 183 comments

If this ignorant motherfucker thinks United States Marines are going to violate their oath to the Constitution and follow illegal orders, he's in for a fucking shock.

submitted 11 hours ago • 38 comments

if the LAPD says that the protests today were peaceful, then maybe the media should report that Trump and Hegseth are LYING when claiming that there has been looting, riots & violence that necessitates calling in the National Guard and the Marines

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

Ahem.

submitted 14 hours ago • 347 comments

The Marines at Camp Pendleton are on high alert, because Trump might deploy them. This is nuts 🤦🏽‍♂️

submitted 11 hours ago • 158 comments

Of course the LA Times makes it look like a full on riot instead of showing that the mostly peaceful protesters were literally and constantly assaulted by ICE agents. The majority of fires that were started weren’t by the public but by ICE firing into the crowds and canisters starting fires. 🧵

submitted 12 hours ago • 200 comments

As Trump makes use of the LAPD to carry out fascist attacks on LA residents, it might be worth remembering how we got here and how it should affect how we talk about budgetary decisions. time.com/6208047/poli...

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www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

submitted 11 hours ago • 42 comments

"If you have the courage to speak, we are saved. If you fall silent, the country is doomed." Scott Pelley had some strong words to share on tonight's CNN special after the telecast of "Good Night, and Good Luck." I wrote up the highlights here >>> www.cnn.com/2025/06/07/m...

submitted 10 hours ago • 13 comments

Smart move by the LAPD—they need to stay ahead of this wag-the-dog operation Trump and Hegseth are running.

submitted 10 hours ago • 29 comments

“A fascist society is one in which some people are deputized to do violence, and everyone else is forced to defend themselves.”

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Cannot stress enough that this is a pitiful action by a weak, scared, pathetic group of insecure, wannabe authoritarians, and they should be mocked until the end of time for wanting to bring in the military over some people protesting them at a Home Depot.

submitted 10 hours ago • 46 comments

Fuck everyone who stayed home and couldn’t vote for the well-qualified black woman. This is on you. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/u...

submitted 13 hours ago • 68 comments

and this has caused the US President to nationalize the CA National Guard and send 2,000 troops to LA.

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

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submitted 16 hours ago • 12 comments

I see a bunch of folks insisting Newsom is just making a statement but didn't invoke some formal procedure to officially object or something to that effect, but that's not how it works, there isn't any such procedure. That's the whole point of federalization, it cuts him out of the chain of command.

submitted 12 hours ago • 24 comments

Passing it on:

submitted 14 hours ago • 8 comments

@usarmy.bsky.social @usnationalguard.bsky.social Are you really going to betray your oath to the constitution? For a Donald Trump? A felon already defying SCOTUS? Heroic soldiers fought the great wars against fascism for our freedoms. We are the United States of America. 🇺🇸 Do not do this.

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Re-upping this “One First” post from April asking—and trying to answer—five questions about the domestic use of the military:

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The 1939 Hatch Act prohibits government employees from using their position to engage in partisan activity. The Trump White House is bringing loyalty oaths back. https://trib.al/fUwPy73

submitted 13 hours ago • 12 comments

This is gonna hit different after a week of Miller and Homan playing soldier

submitted 14 hours ago • 66 comments

Read this now. So clarifying.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 15 hours ago • 62 comments

The true consequences of this equation will show up 10 and 20 years from now, when our once-great democracy faces health, climate, and other crises that might well have been avoided. https://trib.al/f8KU3yX

submitted 14 hours ago • 15 comments

MAGA: It’s not fascism America: Rapidly turning into military war zones

submitted 14 hours ago • 45 comments

California Protesters throw rocks at ICE

submitted 14 hours ago • 685 comments

Wait. Is this THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA???? What the fuck??????? www.instagram.com/reel/DKljnx2...

submitted 16 hours ago • 29 comments

Human sensibility is boundless. Machine-learning is also boundless. But having a body and feelings and cognition is an unfathomable blend that cannot be simulated. Machine learning cannot replicate human development, identity, sexuality, the feelings of trying and failing and trying again.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

It took just a few hours after Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s vicious feud began on Thursday for $152 billion of value from Tesla’s market cap and more than $100 million in value from TrumpCoin to be wiped.

submitted 20 hours ago • 24 comments