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David Graeber said this in 2012 about protests in New York City. Though this is increasingly what is happening this week in Los Angeles. davidgraeber.org/articles/con...

submitted 5 hours ago • 7 comments

In itself it's not the biggest thing but Congress specifically passed a law requiring ICE to allow access to members of Congress because of Trump's antics in the first term. This isn't even norms. It's violating black letter statute law.

submitted 43 minutes ago • 31 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 1 hour ago • 64 comments

What's fucking chilling is the cop SEES the reporter very clearly doing her journalistic duty, nonviolently. Stares right into the camera, aims, fires. This was an intentional assault on a visible member of the press.

submitted 1 hour ago • 19 comments

1 in 12 Americans live in California. 1 in 35 Americans live in LA County. LA is America

submitted 3 hours ago • 87 comments

Hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians marched in silence outside the Israeli Defense Ministry, holding portraits of Palestinian children killed in Israel’s war on Gaza.

submitted 14 hours ago • 16 comments

Just come out of surgery where they removed a 40mm less lethal round from My leg. One like this.

submitted 3 hours ago • 36 comments

The entitlement some people feel for him being the Democrats spokesperson 8 fucking years later is ridiculous. How about we do the work and find our own generation of leaders more in touch with THIS moment?

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

long live Los Angeles

submitted 2 hours ago • 35 comments

“Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.”

submitted 2 hours ago • 10 comments

As the weekend ends… #TwinPeaks

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Watching the National Guard and ICE trying to start a civil war now on the streets of Los Angeles.

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Heyooo

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Shameful. This guy is so earnest and patient in describing what happened—something truly un-American. I hope his girlfriend and the family behind them are okay.

submitted 4 hours ago • 13 comments

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.

submitted 5 hours ago • 5 comments

Important thing to beat people over the head with: Trump has turned American cities into warzones and for fucking what? Prices are way up, jobs will be way down, the dollar is worth less, and now the highway is blocked off by cops. Maybe the Great Mythical Immigrant wasn’t the problem after all.

submitted 4 hours ago • 97 comments

Yep. Because Trump's goals were always very simple: enrich and empower himself, and destroy the country. That means civil war - regardless of temperature or flavor.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Yes every conservative social media site becomes a tropical rainforest of school shooters and Ponzi schemes but did you know that there is a left-wing social media site where people are rude to the nation’s center-right political pundits

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taps paragraph from Hunter S. Thompson's Nixon obituary

submitted 11 hours ago • 21 comments

Her name is Rosie: "A lot of vendors are undocumented and can't be here today. So those of us who can, we gotta show up"

submitted 4 hours ago • 47 comments

They should be CONCERNED & TALKING about this

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Them: “LA is a full on insurrection” Us at the protest:

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they're gonna do this in ponchos arent they

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Good to see they remembered dancing's a key element in revolutions.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

The only people braying about Bluesky are the Bluechecks from the Old Place who can't gain a foothold here and are sulking that we've all dumped their rightwing trollbot playpen.

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

In 2020, Trump wanted to use lethal force on protesters. Defense Secretary Mark Esper stopped him. Now, as Los Angeles rises up against ICE, Pete Hegseth leads the Pentagon. This is the scenario many warned about: a president surrounded by yes-men, with no one left to offer restraint.

submitted 21 hours ago • 29 comments

Honestly I think if this place was actually irrelevant we wouldn’t have to deal with the same freaking editorial every week for an entire year and a half

submitted 9 hours ago • 138 comments

if we’re so irrelevant why are you writing yet another piss-baby editorial about us Megan

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

The most bizarre thing about the COVID School Closure Discourse is how commentators take it for granted that closing schools had no effect on transmission or deaths but that's not at all what the evidence says.

submitted 6 hours ago • 35 comments

Terry Moran being suspended by ABC News is ironic given Moran went out of his way to not embarrass Trump over the president’s delusion about the doctored MS13 photo, repeatedly saying ‘let’s agree to disagree’ and ‘let’s move on’ but they still got him suspended. You can’t appease these people ever.

submitted 11 hours ago • 124 comments

The protests are in full swing and it is a lot of people. LA is unfazed by National Guard presence. If anything it has motivated more to come out and protest this administration.

submitted 8 hours ago • 34 comments

Watched the live feeds yesterday. Just a bunch of people milling around and then every thirty minutes or so the cops would shoot a bunch of teargas for no clear reason.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Aerial coverage of protesters marching peacefully in LA to protest ongoing ICE raid operations and Trump’s federalization of the National Guard Reporter: “What we’re looking at right now is a quiet, organized group and demonstrators marching peacefully to their destination.”

submitted 7 hours ago • 76 comments