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It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

A total outrage. A judge needs to dismiss this at the first opportunity. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

the strongest force on earth is class solidarity

This is why many of us on the academic side said that if troops get deployed in to blue cities, they will be used for anything The federal government wants them to do no matter what and they will never leave once stationed in a blue city, it’s an occupation of what they see as enemy territory.

Megan Greenwell on living under and outside of private equity, the invasive species eating American life: defector.com/megan-greenw...

Question. Did democracy cease to function during the Whiskey Rebellion?The Great Railroad Strike of 1877? The May Day Riots? Let me put this another way, can you identify a single point in U.S. history where Americans exclusively expressed themselves in an orderly fashion along acceptable lines?

Trump is mobilizing 5000 military personnel in LA for at best a few thousand protesters. If a true uprising were to occur with tens of thousands protesters, there's no way they could contain it. They would need 100,000 troops to hold LA alone.

This is 100% the fault of ICE and the Trump admin, which has deliberately incentivized this behavior with their tactics. Their goal is to encourage white nationalist groups to dress up as ICE to attack minorities, and the increase in lookalike crimes is to them an acceptable byproduct.

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.

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.

Prof Stanley--who is an expert on fascism--says Stephen Miller is using "genocidal speech" to describe immigrants that is very similar to how the Nazis described Jews in 1930's.

"Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” has $185bn for ICE, which is more than the annual military budgets of the UK and France combined. Wherever ICE raids trigger protests, Trump can send in the troops." My column. www.ft.com/content/3d6c...

Setting the health policy of the United States against expert knowledge will cause Americans to die en masse.

why is the president the only person testing the limits of his power? everyone should see what they can get away with. what if zookeepers gave helicopters to gorillas? nobody has tried this

Doomers really need to dial it down right now and actually pay attention to what is happening. It's not just that they're incompetent, they're fucking up massively. And this is their big moment, if they fuck up the martial law rollout idk that they get another chance

I’m gonna make it simple since it seems a lot of the liberals on this site right now are having trouble with this. It was illegal to protect Anne Frank and it was legally required to turn her in to the Nazis. If your reliance on the law dictates your morals you have already lost to the fascists.

The situation in DTLA to which 700 Marines have been deployed is a couple dozen interfaith clergypersons leading a small crowd in prayer.

Now is the perfect time to be pressing this point hard. The entire premise of the immigration "debate" is nonsense, and it's debasing and destroying the country for immigrants and citizens alike. Who in national politics has the courage and the skill to say so?

"When the invaders turn out to be seamstresses and roofers, they’ve felt an even greater need to fabricate an emergency."

Major General Randy E. Manner, former Acting Vice Chief, National Guard Bureau statement to Fox News: "This is an inappropriate use of the National Guard and is not warranted.”

it really doesn’t matter if someone is in america illegally or not. who cares, grow up

Again, this isn't Los Angeles. This is happening right now outside an ICE building in SF:

“As protesters and law enforcement officers clashed in downtown Los Angeles, an L.A. Police Department helicopter flew over a crowd on 1st Street, announcing, “I have all of you on camera. I’m going to come to your house.”” Wtaf www.latimes.com/california/l...

Fifth generation Angeleno here. I am not afraid of undocumented seamstresses reporting to work every day in the garment district. I’m terrified of secret police in tanks rolling down residential streets with machine guns disappearing people without due process. I hope this helps!

Also point this out to anyone you can. These were not planned protests. These were normies getting the supplies for their weekend projects or at a restaurant and saw their servers getting hauled off and were like this is some bullshit.

Keep track of every single motherfucker who sides with the fascists over the people. Every politician, every pundit, every personality. People are revealing themselves with every passing second. Look around. See it. And don’t you ever forget it.

If you want to stay up to date on what’s happening with ICE raids and community resistance in Los Angeles, follow these folks: go.bsky.app/UZjNrrD

Watch this ICE officer casually raise their rubber-bullet gun to shoot an unassuming Australian journalist in the back from behind as she does a standup at the LA protests. Now consider again who the “lawbreaking terrorists” are in this situation. bsky.app/profile/dell...

Omg ice is now raiding a car wash in Culver City.

Newsom addresses Trump directly: "Where's your decency, Mr President? Stop ... it's immoral. You're creating the conditions that you claim you're solving."

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

Shocked that all it took was a fascist stunt for Trump to get Elon kissing his ring again.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

There is no mass-deportation campaign going on right now. Deportation is a process. This is kidnapping and human trafficking.

the decision to "be safe" is no longer yours to make. the state has decided to make us unsafe. but you can make informed choices, take calculated risks, and you can decide to be powerful.

I want to be clear on this: the reason for the unrest in LA is these are LEGAL immigrants who are doing EXACTLY what they are supposed to by going to ICE check ins that many have been doing for years, and seeing them getting rounded up including at naturalization preparations.

How on earth can this country still hold the World Cup and Olympics next year??

you mean violence from ICE, the National Guard, and Border Patrol, right? because that’s the violence we’re seeing right now