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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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I know there's a lot going on, but the Secretary of Homeland Security declaring that federal troops are in California and Los Angeles to "liberate" the state and city from its duly-elected leaders really is a fourteen-alarm fire.

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Marines detained a civilian, reportedly an Army veteran, in Los Angeles today. Extremely chilling sight. This is not ok. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Sound familiar?

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JFC

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From a dear comrade who was kind enough to let me share their video. Veterans stage a sit-in on the US Capitol steps and say, “Military off our streets!” Hell yeah!

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Brilliant harrowing piece by @mosababutoha.bsky.social and @newyorker.com Thank you.

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Booker: He was made to kneel before the authority of the executive… They treated a member of the United States senate violently after he identified himself, dragged him out of a room, threw him upon the ground, and put him in handcuffs

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Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.

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for the last 5 years I've thought daily of the solidarity, creativity and care I saw during the 2020 uprisings. I asked @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, @deanspade.bsky.social +more what lessons from then we can use now @teenvogue.com

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NEW FROM CBO: brutal distributional analysis of House GOP "Big Beautiful Bill" On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP bill Avg gets little - and are worse off if you include tariffs This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

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This guy! We have a beautiful deep bench. Let’s start supporting them. @govpritzker.illinois.gov @governor.ca.gov @govwesmoore.bsky.social @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @govandybeshear.bsky.social @booker.senate.gov @gretchenmcc.bsky.social & so many more—going to be a great primary!

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Gavin Newsom on Donald Trump’s cognitive decline: “He’s lost it. I saw him trip on the steps today. I mean this is serious. He is not the same person that I dealt with just four years ago. He’e incapable of even a train of thought. He’s making things up and he’s putting people’s lives at risk.”

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LAPD’s Chief says they still have no idea what the military’s mission in LA is. There are no open deconfliction channels between the military and local law enforcement. Having multiple groups with weapons operating in the same area with no way to communicate is fucking insane.

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Not only are the 4,000 guardsmen Trump sent to LA sleeping on floors, they aren't being paid They haven't received formal activation orders, the paperwork that unlocks pay, Tricare health benefits and eligibility for VA services www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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HERR TRUMP HAS A PLAN. 'It's dangerous': Gavin Newsom issues warning about new damage caused by Trump www.rawstory.com/gavin-newsom...

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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

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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.

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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...

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

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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.

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BS. This is Chicago. Pay attention.

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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!”

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Re-posting this for the prose. 🙏🔥

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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

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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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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...

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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.

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