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“Tasted a little tear gas. Tasted like fascism” LA,June,2025 Recent book“To 2040”,’23(Laurel Prize for Ecological Writing) Carcanet (UK) Copper Canyon (US). “The Dream of The Unified Field”(Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).“[To]The Last [Be] Human”,’22.
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submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

To put it directly: someone folks in the chain of command there decided to work-to-rule and got backed up by enough other officers to delay the Marines from getting to LA for a few days, by which time things will either be calmer or those being deployed will be better able to keep the peace

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

This might be the most batshit insane one I've seen yet. LAPD point-blank shoots a woman trying to walk home, no one else around.

submitted 9 hours ago • 6 comments

Stephen Miller ordered ICE to ramp up arrests—focusing not on violent criminals, but anyone they could grab. Home Depot raids, protests, and military escalation followed. This isn’t law and order. It’s chaos by design. Dangerous, deliberate, and disgraceful. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

submitted 10 hours ago • 42 comments

Protestor shot in the head by the LAPD today and they wouldn't call an ambulance. Notice how few protestors there are.

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

BREAKING: We're asking a court to stop the Trump administration's fast-track deportation policy. ICE should not be able to arrest people at their immigration appointments and deport them without any due process.

submitted 10 hours ago • 25 comments

BS. This is Chicago. Pay attention.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Massive Anti ICE crowd in Chicago marches to demand an end to mass deportations and show solidarity with LA “Nobody is illegal — all power to the people!”

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Re-posting this for the prose. 🙏🔥

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Aerial coverage of a crowd of protesters peacefully demonstrating in Downtown L.A to protest ongoing ICE raid operations, Trump’s federalization of the National Guard, and the mobilization of 700+ Marines to the area 📍Los Angeles, CA

submitted 10 hours ago • 7 comments

There are now more U.S. troops deployed to Los Angeles than in Iraq & Syria. There are 4,800 activated Guard and Marine personnel in LA, compared to the 2,500 troops in Iraq and 1,500 in Syria.--ABC News

submitted 11 hours ago • 8 comments

Just to be clear: the President has mobilized the Marines on American soil because people are protesting masked, secret police kidnapping people with no due process and shipping them to foreign death camps. It’s not a misunderstanding or an oversight. That is all it is. There is no other side.

submitted 10 hours ago • 17 comments

DON'T LIKE THIS!!!!!! MOREOVER, ICE MUST BE DESTROYED

submitted 10 hours ago • 14 comments

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

submitted 10 hours ago • 206 comments

www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

We should never let ourselves get desensitized to this. It can’t be overstated how outrageously unpresidential and un-American it is for Donald Trump to speak to the US military like they’re his partisan personal army.

submitted 12 hours ago • 179 comments

Something worth noting is how the press is leaning into the framing that what’s happening in LA is a both sides issue or that they are riots. Even when the LAPD is saying it’s under control, suddenly for the first time in their lives the press is willing to ignore them

submitted 11 hours ago • 68 comments

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

submitted 11 hours ago • 824 comments

I just filed an emergency motion in court to immediately block the ongoing and unnecessary militarization of Los Angeles. The federal government is turning the military against American citizens. This is unprecedented and threatens the very core of our democracy.

submitted 14 hours ago • 203 comments

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www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

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submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

This is 100% the fault of ICE and the Trump admin, which has deliberately incentivized this behavior with their tactics. Their goal is to encourage white nationalist groups to dress up as ICE to attack minorities, and the increase in lookalike crimes is to them an acceptable byproduct.

submitted 22 hours ago • 73 comments

This is what it looks like without a United States Congress.

submitted 22 hours ago • 542 comments

These people don’t want to make housing or health care more affordable, they don’t want to raise wages, they want to never again see kendrick lamar at the superbowl, ibram kendi on the bestseller list, ryan coogler at the oscars or ketanji brown jackson on the supreme court bsky.app/profile/kati...

submitted 21 hours ago • 30 comments

That "culture" is the first "problem" identified by Kirk tells you precisely what this is and always has been. It's not America First. It's whites first.

submitted 23 hours ago • 6 comments

This was always clearly the objective and many in the media also insisted on treating anyone who said so clearly like they were some kind of lunatic bsky.app/profile/carn...

submitted 1 day ago • 108 comments

<smashes through drywall> Bismuth, Bromine, Lithium, Beryllium, and Barrrrium

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

“This could poll well with midterm swing voters in Ohio” I remark sagely as I watch a fourth grader get bundled into an unmarked van at recess by armed and masked agents of the state.

submitted 21 hours ago • 126 comments

America continues to punch itself in the face. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

V strong from @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

statistically, of the 500 marines trump is deploying to los angeles, ~75 of them will be hispanic americans

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Gavin Newsom posted this on Truth in response to marines being deployed to his state.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

ICE is putting the immigrants it sweeps up mainly into privately owned prisons. All of those prisons, and the communities where they are located, now have a direct financial incentive in maintaining fascist immigration policy. Awesome dynamic, nothing could possibly go wrong.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Oh no, an "insurrection" of dancing Imagine being the sourpuss deploying 700 very expensive Marines to ... what? Make LA be the town from Footloose?

submitted 1 day ago • 70 comments

BREAKING: NYPD and ICE mistakenly arrested a Chilean woman who was on vacation in New York City, leaving her 12-year-old daughter on the street alone. This is what happens when you embolden ICE to act with zero oversight. Trump’s America.

submitted 1 day ago • 177 comments

As you watch ICE terrorize Los Angeles, remember: private prison companies are going to get very, very rich off Trump's cruelty.

submitted 1 day ago • 89 comments

Due process on pause? “ICE” is detaining people without charges and blocking attorney access. I hope L.A. and California are transparent about the data, because I bet most of these folks have no criminal record—just moms, dads and young people doing the work that most Americans won’t touch.

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

Watch this. We have a live wire here: www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

in so many videos out of LA i am seeing officers aiming rubber bullets right into crowds, this is filling me with a deep and anxious rage knowing what happens when they do that www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

submitted 2 days ago • 55 comments

Gavin Newsom takes down Trump like you've never seen before. Do not miss a second of this clip & watch it all the way to the very last minute. If only every Democratic politician spoke like this. We have been waiting to hear this & MSM is not covering it. MSNBC is the only place I found this.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 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 2 days ago • 23 comments

Watch this ICE officer casually raise their rubber-bullet gun to shoot an unassuming Australian journalist in the back from behind as she does a standup at the LA protests. Now consider again who the “lawbreaking terrorists” are in this situation. bsky.app/profile/dell...

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

EXCLUSIVE: California Gov. Gavin Newsom addresses immigration protests in Los Angeles. "Donald Trump has created the conditions you see on your TV tonight ... His mess — we're trying to clean it up," Newsom said.

submitted 2 days ago • 102 comments

Watch as this LAPD cop takes deliberate aim at an Australian reporter, then shoots her at close range. I would fire the police chief over this. Inexcusable thuggery.

submitted 2 days ago • 102 comments

Senator Ted Cruz posted a dramatic video of LAPD cars on fire with the caption “this… is… not… peaceful.” What he didn’t mention? The footage was from 2020, not 2025. His post on X falsely implied it was current, part of a broader effort to spread lies and manufacture a crisis.

submitted 2 days ago • 1471 comments

cops doing crime on camera. as @chadloder.bsky.social has been pointing out all day, this is totally illegal. cops doing crime. on camera. adjust your stupid headlines accordingly.

submitted 2 days ago • 143 comments