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If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options: 1-877-447-4487

submitted 4 hours ago • 67 comments

You can see why MARINES are necessary.

submitted 2 hours ago • 46 comments

I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.

submitted 3 hours ago • 185 comments

Right now, Dems are hiding in their offices, scrolling their phones fearfully, wondering "how are voters going to feel about the National Guard being deployed?" The right, meanwhile, is vigorously attempting to shape how voters feel about it, filling every medium with coordinated propaganda.

submitted 5 hours ago • 482 comments

One problem with triangulating back to some perceived “center” is the center keeps moving to the right. At some point — maybe already past — we lose more voters than we gain. (If you accept pure triangulation as a strategy vs having principles and being strong about them)

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

And: turn off biometric methods for opening your phone beforehand. Make it passcode-only

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Omg ice is now raiding a car wash in Culver City.

submitted 22 hours ago • 18 comments

True story bro.

submitted 1 day ago • 619 comments

Also point this out to anyone you can. These were not planned protests. These were normies getting the supplies for their weekend projects or at a restaurant and saw their servers getting hauled off and were like this is some bullshit.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

A militarized swarm of federal agents, LAPD, LASD, and other state and local police forces aggressively descended on Los Angeles to wreak havoc on its population. If media wants to malign the nature of the protests in response, they’re missing the forest for the trees.

submitted 22 hours ago • 12 comments

This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.

submitted 1 day ago • 204 comments

California SB 98, passed in 2021, specifically allows journalists to remain in areas closed by law enforcement during public events. The law officers from assaulting, interfering with, or obstructing journalists. Nor can journalists be cited for failure to disperse. @knightcolumbia.org

submitted 1 day ago • 15 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 22 hours ago • 27 comments

There is no other context in which this would not be a “crime”. It’s hard to think of a clearer demonstration of how absolutely nothing the police do is “criminal”, because criminality is not actually defined by the act but by the actor. Ask yourself why this is allowed.

submitted 22 hours ago • 10 comments

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

submitted 1 day ago • 364 comments

1 in 12 Americans live in California. 1 in 35 Americans live in LA County. LA is America

submitted 1 day ago • 114 comments

In itself it's not the biggest thing but Congress specifically passed a law requiring ICE to allow access to members of Congress because of Trump's antics in the first term. This isn't even norms. It's violating black letter statute law.

submitted 22 hours ago • 66 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 1 day ago • 855 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 23 hours ago • 55 comments

An important distinction here is that powerful dominant groups have way more latitude to use extreme tactics than marginalized subordinate groups. A central part of the logic of nonviolent resistance is that it’s an asymmetric battle and so requires tactics like using media to highlight injustice.

submitted 22 hours ago • 7 comments

this is what the Roberts Court licensed when it was presented with a case called Trump v USA and ruled against USA

submitted 22 hours ago • 9 comments

full blown police riot in progress. never let them reframe this.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

Funny how I was able to drive out to Jack in the Box today & there were no horrific violent insurrectionists or an invasion by illegal aliens or any of that shit. Literally the only thing happening is that there are pockets where people are quietly marching & then ICE & police show up & hurt people.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

You know when things were pretty quiet and peaceful in L.A.? Before ICE started arresting residents who were bothering no one and going to their jobs. And before DHS and National Guard troops showed up and made the situation worse. Of course Trump and Stephen Miller want the situation to get worse.

submitted 1 day ago • 128 comments

HAPPENING NOW: A MASSIVE crowd has gathered in the streets of Los Angeles, California to peacefully protest against Donald Trump’s American Gestapo (ICE) (Video: Anthony Cabassa)

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

I don’t usually bother the schlep all the way to Moynihan but this is pretty good

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Can’t get over that there is no seating

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

“Bizarre”?

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Los Angeles: We don’t want the Gestapo to disappear our neighbors. Trump: Send in the tanks. The media: Tensions high as both sides clash.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

it's really funny that any news anchor in america can say that biden was mentally incompetent but you can't say trump is mean without getting in big trouble

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

To be clear, this is what an insurrection looks like:

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Focus on the big picture: provoke protest and escalate to justify deploying the military against us and passing exploitative legislation The Big Ugly: Stephen Miller Uses His War on Home Depot to Invade California www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/08/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This is funny but what Trump is attempting is not.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

My hunch is that, as we saw with Lafayette Park, National Guard troops are not going to be as compliant as this administration thinks. It’s one thing to unleash cops consumed by warrior cop culture on neighborhoods. Quite another to send reservists who are also accountants, barbers, and teachers.

submitted 2 days ago • 177 comments

Just to recap, Trump has taken the extraordinary step of federalizing 2000 member of the California National Guard — over the objections of the state’s governor — in response to a protest that currently involves A FEW DOZEN PEOPLE AT A HOME DEPOT

submitted 1 day ago • 201 comments

This is what Mark Esper, for all his acquiescence, refused to do in June 2020.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

1/ If accurate, this is almost certainly a conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement, including the National Guard if they are federalized.

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Not holding my breath but if anything should lead Padilla and Schiff to stop treating their work in the Senate like business as usual, it should be armed soldiers menacing their constituents without provocation.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

ICE arrested former Afghan Nat'l Army soldier—our ally against Taliban—at his home in TX. He entered legally and atty says he has no criminal record. Was applying for asylum. Appears to be casualty of Trump decision de-documenting legal Afghan immigrants www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...

submitted 2 days ago • 181 comments