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I’ve seen a lot of hand wringing about the dangers of going to No Kings protests and gently, I want to tell people to chill a little. These are permitted marches and the point is to be out there and seen en masse. Please don’t scare off people who are maybe going to their very first protest

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An enormous part of the reactionary pushback has been men mad that anyone could contradict them, let alone call them out, so ofc they love the endless, unthinking fellatio offered by AI.

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I like when people who voted for a sex-abusing felon talk to me about "illegals."

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OUT: what a news day IN: what a news five minutes

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Thing I need all Dems at every level to absorb yesterday: if someone pulls a knife on you, you are in a knife fight, whether or not you want to be

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Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."

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Everything is escalation now. Taking a step back is considered weakness. Consider that when thinking through strategy.

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This is the lede. There is a woman on camera in charge of a lot of people with guns. She says they are going to liberate a domestic population center from democratically elected officials and violate too many laws to count in the process. I have zero time for anything else.

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this is a good wake up call for elected Dems to realize what’s happening and what’s going to happen not generally, not in the abstract, but to them personally shut it all down and start acting like you’re in immediate danger, because you are

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Seems noteworthy to me that they're admitting that they're sending in the military because of the state government's ideology!!!

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That's where it always leads

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Every elected Republican should be asked if they think the president has the power to send in military in to “liberate” a state or city from its elected government.

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100%

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Yes.

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Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

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As fucked up as this is — and it is! — i think it's ultimately a good thing, and more elected democrats should make a point of risking a scuffle to get in these fuckers faces at every opportunity.

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This is basically the language of military reconstruction Needless to say, Los Angeles does not need to be subjected to military reconstruction

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THIS A UNITED STATES SENATOR ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA BEING PHYSICALLY SHOVED OUT OF A MEETING ABOUT WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS DOING TO THE BIGGEST CITY IN OUR STATE.

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It couldn't be plainer. What Trump is doing in L.A. is making him less popular on immigration, per @gelliottmorris.com's invaluable charts. Just look at that almost instantaneous drop since he deployed troops to the city. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data?open=...

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Might go stand in front of a National Guardsman holding a sign that says “Neither One Of Us Is Getting Paid To Be Here”

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the “it’s a distraction!” people are so precious lol. Like honey what do you personally find more serious than the military occupation of an american city

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No one should come - just boycott

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A truth being revealed in this moment is that antivax concern over freedom of choice — like right-wing concern over freedom of campus speech — was always bullshit. At the first opportunity they’ve moved to limit or ban the choices of others; all they want is for you to live as they choose.

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Centrist journalists have no idea what's going on in America. Perhaps too much time spent clocked in to Elon's Nazi Bar.

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leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

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Great thread

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We have to stand together to fight Trump and Fascism. June 14th will be a crucial day for us to show up and peacefully demonstrate our dissent. Find a location below: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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i just watched a clip of stephen miller talking to hannity from a few days ago and my god is that guy a stone cold freak. like, everything about him is profoundly off-putting, like a bug in an eggar suit

submitted 3 days ago • 1037 comments

Srsly

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for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle

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