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BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

one big reason beltway journalists shouldn’t buy white house spin about los angeles is that the actual public opinion info we have doesn’t suggest the president has a winning hand here

Karen Bass: "On Saturday night, the president tweeted that 'because of the great work of the National Guard, the protests & the violence was curtailed.' The National Guard wasn't even here. They didn't even arrive until the next day. That's why it's very hard to not see this as a stunt or test case"

I hate flag worship as a part of my disgust in nationalism. BUT Tactically, the optics of police and military assaulting people flying the stars and stripes hits different. And it can't be whitewashed by the media as easily. So 🇺🇸 it is.

Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) was formally indicted Tuesday for attempting to stop ICE agents trying to arrest Newark Mayor Ras Baraka during a congressional oversight visit. She calls the charges “purely political” and says she won’t be intimidated. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Karen Bass: "The 100 National Guard soldiers that are downtown LA are guarding one federal building, so there is no need for this...it's all part of an experiment that is taking place in Los Angeles...what happens when the federal government intervenes and takes power away from a governor & mayor?"

quick question, david: why isn’t he governor anymore?

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W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

1. A United States Congressman has accepted a job with a private firm. He won't disclose the name of the firm. But, despite all this, HE WILL REMAIN IN CONGRESS INDEFINITELY It is an unprecedented situation that creates a severe conflict of interest Follow along for details

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

what i like about this post is it is an illustration of one of the most distinctive qualities of williams' work and mainstream punditry in general, which is a belief that history began a decade ago

This is really important context because folks are really underestimating how much the normalization of raids and slow genocide against the unhoused has been part of making ICE blackbagging and kidnapping seem more normal. They've normalized huge violent police actions on our streets

A few days ago people were saying that the LA protests were a bad look for the left and now you have A-list celebrities who were signaling their support for Trump/Musk a few months ago condemning ICE on their Instagram Stories. Funny how that works

I am once again asking people to be Normal about Greta Thunberg. I wrote this 6 years ago and it is still mostly relevant, except she is now an adult and not a child.

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Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

During the Obama years, the national Democratic Party just basically ceded the statehouses to the GOP (which was exacerbated by certain structural issues) and those chickens are coming home to roost. www.npr.org/2016/03/04/4...

Y'all Bluesky is just a place to post. Why are these white pundits LOSING THEIR SHIT. LOLOLOLOL

ICE Invaded Child's Birthday Party Claiming It Was a Gang Meeting

The LAPD are corrupted and they will blame this damage on the protesters.

This is actually smart. ICE can't do anything about protesters in cyberteucks or else they'll finally be labeled as terrorists.

Clash between protesters and federal agents at ICE raid in Omaha

And it accomplishes NOTHING. Apple's "liquid glass design language" is an extreme case in form over function. It's comically bad. There is no logic behind it. How does making it look like your spilled water on your phone improve the UX of that toggle?! Apple has truly jumped the shark.

We feed you. They hunt us.

man i skip the news for one day because my mom is in the hospital and marines are rolling into LA?

please credit the people filming @labrinthlore on TikTok. she put herself in harms way to help this woman

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

This is hell on earth. Oh my gawd.

I really really did not like that but also it was telling how closely cropped the shot was, and how white the troops shown were. So I'm at least entertaining the possibility that the excitement there was staged

Trump started it. The American People will finish it.

They are moving fast through the stages of martial law deployment and fascist terror. It really appears we are about to see every blue state invaded by fascist military forces this appears to be it.

Thousands of people marching through Lower Manhattan now demanding ICE get out of New York City.

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Any dissent will not be tolerated. THIS is why you shouldn’t waste energy on optics wars. We are ALL criminals to him.

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❗️A U.S. Marine Corps Ah-1Z "Viper" helicopter, armed with HYDRA missiles, flies between the skyscrapers of 🇺🇸Los Angeles.

really striking how much of this horror is the work of one morally insane skinhead