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submitted 14 hours ago • 7 comments

I tend to think about what is happening to America right now as the ongoing attempted murder-suicide of multiracial democracy by a white nationalist minority and it’s very frightening but what’s happening in LA feels like a good sign that we’re not going down without a fight

submitted 10 hours ago • 33 comments

I am on the other side of the world from Los Angeles and I just heard a news grab on our national radio station of Maxine Waters telling a cop "Are you gonna shoot an elected representative? If you shoot me, you better shoot straight" and she remains one of the best to ever do it

submitted 2 hours ago • 21 comments

Mass protests are an implicit threat of potential violence even when they are entirely peaceful. They serve to keep state power in check by demonstrating “there are more of us than you so fix your shit.” The state knows this, which is why its agents often respond to them with unprovoked violence.

submitted 2 hours ago • 5 comments

#ShakespeareSunday #IzzyHands #ofmd

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

#ShakespeareSunday #IzzyHands #ofmd

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 5 hours ago • 61 comments

Veterans lead demonstration at Camp Pendleton against potential LA military deployment. Veterans urge Marines to consider the legality of potential orders. www.cbs8.com/article/news...

submitted 5 hours ago • 15 comments

Con reveals the secret to overcoming difficult filming :D ❤ #ConONeill #GiveTheManHisCiffee

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Genuine nonviolence is a commitment to patient suffering. A lot of people can't do that. It is wrong to ask people to do nonviolent resistance without openly admitting that this comes with accepting violence against yourself peacefully.

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

This is actually the fault of the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, which unconstitutionally capped the size of the House at the 435 seats determined by the 1910 census. We have a legislature based on the year California had 2.3M people. Both chambers have shifted power from people to land.

submitted 3 hours ago • 7 comments

I said it kinda sounds like you're just feeding Waymos to the just and righteous people of LA and the police commissioner started crying

submitted 5 hours ago • 7 comments

If people can still read in 100 years, they’re going to look back on the historically unimaginable period of peace and prosperity that we threw away with both hands and have a lot of questions.

submitted 18 hours ago • 12 comments

Remember to shut the fuck up. Tell your family and friends to shut the fuck up. Don’t out/id protesters, intentionally or unintentionally. Wear a mask.

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 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 2 hours ago • 52 comments

There are concerts and plays happening. Pride parties. People who live in DTLA (80k+) and people out at bars and restaurants in Downtown L.A.

submitted 2 hours ago • 8 comments

submitted 4 hours ago • 15 comments

even though LA is a sexy news story, neighbors have been protecting neighbors across the country all year and they will continue to. You have a community right outside your door. Care for it.

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

Art by Wren McDonald.

submitted 4 hours ago • 23 comments

here are some of my pictures from Mexico: one of my favorite places on earth fuck everyone who spouts ignorant lies about Mexico and its people

submitted 4 hours ago • 15 comments

why were you talking to the ghosts of my AP English teacher and my AP US History teacher? 😭

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

I hear the ICE pigs had their tires slashed in Pasadena, then the tow truck service showed up to repair ICE's tires but the crowd convinced the tow truck driver to turn around, so ICE was out there trying to inflate their tires and duct tape them to escape after the hotel asked them to leave.

submitted 4 hours ago • 102 comments

the pay is shit, everyone — even other law enforcement agencies — hates you and thinks you're stupid brutes, your coworkers are on the news ziptying grandfathers and kindergarteners every day, your quotas are laughably unrealistic and your bosses spend all day going on tv, what's not to love

submitted 12 hours ago • 60 comments

one thing i think about is how a lot of the post-Nazi german accountability stuff we think about wasn't pushed by the generation that survived the war, but their children

submitted 5 hours ago • 4 comments

This is a substantially better statement than Newsom and Bass's. Notice that she says that the protests are peaceful rather than scolding the protestors to be peaceful. That's a meaningful distinction, and puts her on the side of the street demanding justice, not ICE's side.

submitted 7 hours ago • 16 comments

The best scientific evidence is that the 2020 BLM protests helped defeat Trump in the election. These protests are likely doing the same. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 7 hours ago • 19 comments

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.

submitted 7 hours ago • 441 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 6 hours ago • 186 comments

Between the fires and these protests, I hope this year teaches everyone that most of the shit talking you hear about California and more specifically, LA, comes from racists and gentrifying transplants. Most people love living here and would do anything to protect it.

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

This is definitely illegal. The federalization of the national guard was illegal. The only statute they've bothered to cite simply does not allow this stuff without going through the governor.

submitted 6 hours ago • 23 comments

Here, I made a helpful graph to assist with “Cities are where very, very large numbers of Americans live” discourse, with real Census data and everything.

submitted 6 hours ago • 27 comments

MARX: I’ve been invited to give a lecture on the immortal science of Marxism at - ENGELS: You mean Marxism-Engelsism, right? MARX: … ENGELS: You mean Marxism-Engelsism, right? MARX: … ENGELS: Karl, I pay your fucking rent.

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

congratulations assholes, you’ve bullied Gavin into getting off his right wing podcast circuit and back to pretending to care about his constituents again that’s a hell of a fuckup on your part

submitted 4 hours ago • 90 comments

Los Angeles specifically is the realest America, imo.

submitted 6 hours ago • 24 comments

1833, the Coldbath Fields riot happens when London Police turn up to suppress a meeting of National Union of the Working Classes. Constable Robert Culley was killed, however in an inquest, a jury rules the cops were so brutal that the crowd was justified in killing the cop

submitted 492 days ago • 5 comments

again strong recommend to Derf Backderf's graphic history, Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

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 14 hours ago • 62 comments

I just know if you scratch Izzy in the right spot his leg will kick

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

it's really funny that any news anchor in america can say that biden was mentally incompetent but you can't say trump is mean without getting in big trouble

submitted 16 hours ago • 33 comments

My theory about bbq places: The better the bread, the worse everything else is. If you go to a bbq joint and the bread is fancy, brisket will suck, sauce will be too ketchup, sides will be stale. If they throw a shitty slice of Wonder Bread at you from the counter, you are in for miracle meat.

submitted 16 hours ago • 237 comments

Give jackie her 20 husbands back, leslie was so thrilled it's so cute 🥰 #ofmdbts

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Nothing gets a reporter fired faster than honest descriptions of conservatives.

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

Three months ago today, plain-clothes ICE agents abducted Mahmoud Khalil in his apartment building lobby after they'd followed him home. Free Mahmoud.

submitted 17 hours ago • 37 comments

If Andrew Cuomo, a craven politician desperate for power, is putting out statements about ICE like this, that’s both a sign that the Trump administration is losing on immigration and that the pundits who are arguing we need to take a harder stance on immigration to win are full of shit.

submitted 16 hours ago • 11 comments