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WATCH THIS SHIT: The U.S. military just chased down and assaulted a peaceful protester like they were a fucking terrorist. No weapon. No threat. No reason. Just brute state power. You are watching fascism go live in real-time.

ICE Releases Gavin Newsom Beheading Video

We feed you. They hunt us.

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They keep talking about punishing protestors as if this country wasn’t FOUNDED BY PROTESTERS WHO ENSHRINED THE RIGHT TO PROTEST, I AM SO TIRED OF HOW STUPID THINGS HAVE BECOME

"fuck you." "go home." "get the fuck out of here." scenes from the deployment of the american military against americans

WATCH: “Holy f*ck — They literally just shot her point blank… I live here…” @lapdhq shoot a woman trying to get to her apartment at point blank range with a rubber bullet. Alexandria’s page (the woman who helps her): www.tiktok.com/@labyrinthlo...

Libertarian tech bros discovering big corporations are less efficient than government www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...

And the worst part is, when these ai-gen police reports inevitably make shit up, courts will blindly accept this egregious perversion of justice like it has with bunk “forensics” that amount to contractors selling police departments on snake oil in a lab coat.

i think southern baptists should probably consider a ban on being led by child predators

All the people I still know in LA laugh and laugh when they hear that "Los Angeles is burning." I made a couple of maps to show just how tiny and localized the protests are. GOPers are working really hard to make an excuse for declaring martial law. People should be very wary of that.

LA about to find out why we don't have universal healthcare

It is remarkable how this is all a game to these guys but where the game is very explicitly “we need to imprison and kill everyone i hate”

pretty good chance that each GOP member named in this article will get a screaming, ranting, hysterical call from acting President Miller tonight or tomorrow and, then, like always, they'll acquiesce

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.

For anyone in the eastern PA area, this is the daughter of one of my cousins that is missing.

“Trans sports bans are not intended to be some kind of concession or compromise position. Rather, they are stepping stone toward further bans and restrictions.” If you actually care about the facts of transgender athletes (I know, I know), this is tremendous. juliaserano.substack.com/p/trans-peop...

We’ve leapt over a lot of red lines in the last week. But one I find most worrying is Trump/MAGA/ICE have ceased even pretending to claim some criminal pretext for cracking down on protected speech. It’s just straight up “if you criticize us, you’re getting throttled/arrested/disappeared.”

@jeremotographs.bsky.social is the first reporter I've seen address with specificity the illegality of LAPD's reckless use of force on non-threatening protesters and reporters. He points out that the ways the police have shut down protests "breach crowd control protocols."

Senior officers of the United States military have an obligation to speak up and be leaders. Where is the Army chief of staff? Will he or others speak truth to the commander in chief and put a stop to the assault on the integrity of his troops? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This is simply too fast for a knuckleball

Protests work. Always have, always will.

The dumbest and cruelest people in history are currently in charge.

Once again there is no national security so long as we leave Trump et al in power. Moreover, we must destroy ICE.

I have a hard time mentally processing any claims that Los Angeles is a “distraction” given that deploying the military if he gets pissed off and also expansively cruel immigration crackdowns were like the top two things he ran on in 2024

ICE can eat shit. Stay outta Chicago.

I think there's a lot of truth to this but it's also really important to observe that right wing protests do not have this problem. Even very small groups of right wing activists get widespread press attention (because the press likes Republicans and wants to help them)

So the National Guard is to protect the ICE officers from protestors and observers. Occupying communities.

And if you think the Trump FTC wouldn't take a censorship bill like KOSA and use it to go to town on all LGBTQ content online by claiming its "harmful to kids" i honestly don't know how what else you are waiting to see

Either they’re training to subdue & being instructed to hand detained protesters over to police reasonably quick; they’re about to start violating the constitution on a grand scale; or Trump is now hours or days away from declaring LA residents in a state of open rebellion against the United States.

"You liberals & leftists need to come back to Twitter, the social media app that will threaten your family & have you arrested for doing something legal"

Trump is going to send a bunch of Russians to Gitmo. I'm very interested how many were pursuing asylum claims w/reasonable fear of being sent back. In which case, Trump would just be putting Putin's dissidents in Gitmo. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Nazi punks fuck off

the whole point of the military parade & all of these threats is to intimidate people out of peacefully protesting, which is not going to work

By and large, I’ve found “Martin Luther King would never have done this” to be the calling card of people who, had they been around at the time, would have been very uncomfortable with what Martin Luther King was doing.

Guy would kills thousands of people not to be embarrassed.

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.

Never mind the law, that’s not my lane, says Speaker of the House, advocating vigilante torture instead.

Save these for your panicky friends and family members. I’ve had adult men come to the verge of tearfully screaming in my face denying this could be true.

It's funny that the way chatgpt obsequiously fawns at the users no matter how delusional they are being, is *exactly* what billionaires consider normal human interaction. To a billionaire, chatgpt just sounds like every single person they speak to.

Take Japper doing two of these in one day where if this was said about Republicans he would have been turbofired

New in PN: ABC is too cowed to state the obvious about Stephen Miller "Miller and Trump are hateful bigots. Independent journalists can still say that. Journalists at ABC can’t, because the president gets a veto over their coverage. That’s not democracy and it’s not a free press. It’s fascism."

This theory of the crime would mean that basically every protest is illegal as a conspriacy to impede a federal officer. Megaphones, placards, congregating in groups: all kind of intimidating.

Thanks @michael-cerami.bsky.social for exactly what I was looking for today. And I almost spit my coffee out on the Batman/Joker reference. Nice work! www.bleachernation.com/cubs/2025/06...