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With the $45 million being spent on the president's parade here’s what that money could do for veterans instead: House 3k veterans for an entire year in transitional housing Provide full PTSD treatment for 3.75k veterans for a year Deliver job training to 9k veterans through 12-week programs

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Two-thirds of voters at Indiana University Bloomington’s sole on-campus polling site used their university ID to vote last fall. Indiana banned students from using these IDs for voting this spring. boltsmag.org/indiana...

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

Skateboard defiant Frozen water masked up Air full of peppers #haiku

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The White House has posted a new executive order authorizing the federalization of the National Guard to support DHS and ICE functions. The most serious indication is the inclusion of “rebellion against the authority of the Government.” www.whitehouse.gov/presidentia... 1/8

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Newsom’s authority is explained in footnote 1 here: open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...

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I hope people appreciate that it’s a big deal for the LAPD to emphasize that peaceful protest should be protected. This attitude has not always been the case: in June 2020, I was arrested for walking in downtown LA with BLM while singing “This Little Light of Mine” half an hour past curfew.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

The best place to get coverage of the protests in LA is from video from individuals on the scene. The totalitarian government is lying about them and the traditional media is largely unreliable — complicit or fatuously both-sidesey.

submitted 2 hours ago • 49 comments

Fiction speaks truth to power.

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Two LA photojournalists have been shot with tear gas canisters by DHS HSI, including @acatwithnews.bsky.social who was directly targeted by HSI and struck in the head. Sean is en route to the ER with obvious facial injuries. He was conscious and talking when he left the scene.

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I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

submitted 5 hours ago • 524 comments

Which government wears Masks, and kidnaps important People who feed you? Now you see your vote results. Wish you had seen this before. #tanka

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Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

submitted 6 days ago • 1285 comments

What is striking to me is the fact that this is an obvious attempt to distract from the Trump/Musk story. This wasn't well-planned. They don't seem to have meaningfully staged for this, logistically or otherwise. It's a panic move, not a power consolidation.

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ICE agents briefly detained a U.S. marshal in Arizona “The deputy marshal was detained because he "fit the general description of a subject being sought by ICE," ICE is out of control www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

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Ain’t that something

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And there you have it. ICE didn't target migrant workers in Kristi Noem's farms or Sarah Huckabee Sanders' meatpacking plants because they wanted to create a riot in LA as a pretext to declaring martial law. They don't care about undocumented migrants, they only care about controlling US citizens.

submitted 5 hours ago • 772 comments

There are two pathways to what Trump is doing: 1) He is federalizing 2000 National Guard troops; or 2) He is deploying 2000 members of another state’s National Guard with the permission of that state’s governor. These posts walk through the relevant authorities—and the questions they raise:

submitted 4 hours ago • 45 comments

For the love of god plz SOMEONE in the White House pool report on the legal authority invoked in this memorandum

submitted 4 hours ago • 88 comments

We don't have secret police in America. At least we're not supposed to.

submitted 8 hours ago • 589 comments

Hot Natl guard, Ca Nyc vans of immigrants leaving immigration court today. The parade, tanks. 2 billionaires fighting $ wasted But also, starlink service- clearly not secure- in dc being hacked by foreign agents. Serious and Important JFChicken Tacos! Haven’t even checked Ukraine updates yet

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Immigrants grow and pick our food. And build and repair our homes. Lots of hard working family people. Short sighted to kidnap them under government auspices, and outside of due legal process.

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Short 🧵 & I'd be very interested in @johnpfaff.bsky.social's take as he's a SME on this & my area is not policing. That said, as someone who has taught/trained a few thousands cops in my prior career as a criminology professor, what we're seeing expressed in the grab below is an important tell. 1/

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

Has @governor.ca.gov Newsom approved this deployment of National Guard troops?

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

So much for having to be invited by the governor for the National Guard to invade your state? They invade California with its own guard....

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

New — Dispatch to me from a protester outside of NYC immigration court tonight:

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At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

submitted 8 hours ago • 887 comments

Immigration sweeps & raids in broad daylight ARE NOT covert operations!

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

Good. That's exactly what's needed, far more than any Black Bloc bullshit. We need everyday people willing to stand up and say "no more".

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

The most striking thing about the LA protests is how many people just dropped everything to show up and yell at federal agents. There are people in suits, and carrying dogs, and wearing flip flops or bike helmets. These are not people who planned to do this today. But there they are.

submitted 7 hours ago • 88 comments

The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2453 comments

Um, feds calling national guard, overriding state governor?! Fr Gavin Newsom: “The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.”

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Important 🧵!!!!!

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Synopsis fr 100+comments/blog. Stupidity cd mean short sighted. Bigotry as motivated stupidity. Different kinds of intelligence. Some ppl lack intra- & interpersonal intelligence, lack empathy. The parade may leave potholes in dc roads; tanks weigh 70 tons, have cleats. After, T speech, then “music”

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Quote from mr taco “ bring him back, show everybody how horrible this guy is.” Remember our saying/ noticing when they accuse, it’s a confession. It’s all projection.

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This poem by Tanja takes my breath away @joypops.bsky.com barefoot she carries peonies home #haiku My reply Grinning She carries an armful of calla lilies Onto the plane

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In silken silence She’s reaching for connection Heartbeat under stars Heart breathing in stars Heart a breath of stars Stars and heart one breath #haiku

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