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One of the reasons I think “defund the police” is a great slogan is that you get to repeatedly tell people that studies show that police don’t actually solve murders, and in fact one-third of stranger-murders are committed by police.

submitted 22 hours ago • 69 comments

The guard in LA could be the start of a fascist power grab, yes. It could also be a massive overplaying of a bad hand by a president who had the worst week of his term, and an immigration czar who was publicly humiliated and is desperate to goose his numbers. We don't know yet.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

This is 100% accurate, every time:

submitted 9 hours ago • 6 comments

Ok who’s running against Karen Bass because if we still have elections by 2026 I’m gonna be getting my fuckin steps in every day to canvass for them

submitted 12 hours ago • 16 comments

susie is just the coolest

submitted 12 hours ago • 12 comments

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

submitted 16 hours ago • 320 comments

The AI industry is full of blatant lies, but the claim that we can reliably detect AI-generated writing is one of the worst. The idea that these pseudoscientific AI writing detectors are being used to justify punishing young people makes me incandescent with rage.

submitted 22 hours ago • 16 comments

Erasing history helps no one. "The numbers are staggering: in 1995, 1,400 immigrants were subject to nonjudicial removals, representing 3 percent of total deportations. By FY 2012 that number had sharply increased to 313,000 nonjudicial removals – an all-time high." www.aclu.org/news/immigra...

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

LAPD when they think nobody is watching

submitted 11 hours ago • 1278 comments

Another thing to mention for people who don't live in LA. Most of LA is very chill and peaceful right now. There's a huge Pride fest going on, countless farmer's markets, tourists walking around, families at the parks, people walking their dogs. It's a big place.

submitted 13 hours ago • 64 comments

Police view the entire population as a mass to be put down with mechanized brutality. No wonder this is pushing even more people into the streets and only cementing the public's view of them as enforcers for the rich and powerful.

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

They came masked and armed to the teeth to protect us all from the horrible problem of a few dudes outside the Home Depot looking for good honest work.

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

Israel illegally boarded a humanitarian mission in international waters with heavy weaponry, then disappeared the crew. Al Jazeera is the only one I can find that is reporting on this without Israeli fluff or propaganda. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

submitted 9 hours ago • 14 comments

BREAKING The City of Glendale, California — one of the most populous cities in Southern California — says it has terminated its contract with U.S. Homeland Security and ICE.

submitted 10 hours ago • 133 comments

trump, his white nationalist administration, and the anchors of Fox News actually thought they could meme the second largest metro in the United States to stand on the side of ICE when over a third of its population has latino heritage and the entire service industry is underwritten by latinos.

submitted 10 hours ago • 9 comments

“People came over to help and got me on the curb. A medic was called, who cut off my clothes. In my leg was what felt like a five centimeter hole with muscle hanging out of it and blood all down my leg. The medic put a tourniquet on it, and a journalist I was with took me to ER.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 33 comments

#DeltaruneSpoilers (but not really) Fucking FINALLY.... That's Chapter 3 done and dusted! Onwards ho...

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Ironic the game has an anti-capitalist message and it's the first game with the increased price because of corporate greed. Don't buy this or any game for $80. If you do it's gonna show them as a consumer that you're fine being taken advantage of. If you want it that bad wait for a sale

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

Protestors aren't the ones kidnapping our neighbors off the streets. Protesors aren't the ones driving vans thru a crowd of people. Protestors aren't the ones tear gassing entire neighborhoods. Protestors aren't the ones shooting journalists in the head with "non-lethal weapons".

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

Yes. I have heard this from both liberal and conservative people with sources inside the agency. It’s not just the pushback, it’s also that many officers want to believe they’re targeting the “bad guys” and this admin is telling them “screw you, grab families.” Genuinely, morale is way down.

submitted 20 hours ago • 358 comments

The fact is that liberals don't want protests that work; they want protests that look nice. And the aestheticization of politics is the crucible of fascism

submitted 17 hours ago • 5 comments

Important to bear in mind:

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

ICE arrested 36 Chinese & Taiwanese immigrants after raiding an LA nightclub. That's them, ziptied on the sidewalk. Yo Asians—if you weren't already outraged and mobilizing on behalf of others, guess what? That "First they came for the..." poem has gotten up to us. www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 1 day ago • 166 comments

Wow, just like when Trump sent DHS to Portland, which as protests were winding down, sparked them up again into a large scale people's battle against state repression. It ended with Darren Wilson being sent to jail and George Floyd's family personally thanking Portland demonstrators.

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submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Easily over 1,000 people outside the federal detention center in LA, with another 2,000+ at City Hall.

submitted 17 hours ago • 25 comments

submitted 55 days ago • 22 comments

This summary should be the epigraph of a book of US history.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Martial Law incoming, or at least about to be attempted. It was always about creating excuses to wrest more control away from anyone except The Worthy. The biggest hope against this is that regardless of the level of intimidation and violence, that the protests do not stop - for anything or anyone.

submitted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

Defund the LAPD because of woke

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submitted 18 hours ago • 19 comments

this is something to keep in mind: the fascism playbook doesn’t say “bait your opposition into doing what you want so that you can do more of what you want” it says “do what you want, invent a justification when needed, blame it on your opposition if useful”

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

Almost verbatim, unbelievable

submitted 21 hours ago • 108 comments

full blown police riot in progress. never let them reframe this.

submitted 17 hours ago • 28 comments

Pasadena, CA: The AC Hotel has asked ICE to leave. Hosting ICE agents at your hotel is bad for business.

submitted 14 hours ago • 35 comments

Shoutout to those fighting fascists by throwing stones at ICE and shoutout to those fighting fascists by trying to sail into Palestine with aid for genocide victims. So many inspiring heroes on the timeline today.

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

Also literally every Democrat in the US has been saying that if Trump does this stuff "people will hit the streets." Streets have been hit.

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

submitted 14 hours ago • 218 comments

cops doing crime on camera. as @chadloder.bsky.social has been pointing out all day, this is totally illegal. cops doing crime. on camera. adjust your stupid headlines accordingly.

submitted 13 hours ago • 131 comments

That officer took deliberate aim at this journalist and shot her. There's nobody standing near her.

submitted 13 hours ago • 56 comments

👇👇👇

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments