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LA is home to nearly a million undocumented immigrants. If you live here, you know someone living that reality whether you know it or not. It’s part of what makes this city what it is—and no, we’re not living in fear because of them.

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Immigration made (and continues to make) America. Immigration is good.

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A really chilling implication here is that if Trump keeps doing speeches on military bases, and commanding officers continue to tell soldiers to opt in or out of these events (as they did here), then there will be lists by base and unit of which soldiers support the administration & which don't.

submitted 19 hours ago • 61 comments

The subhead tells the story

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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.

submitted 16 hours ago • 114 comments

A friend who works at Harbor-UCLA just told me that ICE was on the premises. Harbor-UCLA is a safety-net hospital & a level 1 trauma hospital. People are going to die because of these actions. This makes me so angry.

submitted 18 hours ago • 89 comments

Arrested for unauthorized jobs. Workers: 100 Managers who hired: 0 Owners who profited: 0 floridaphoenix.com/2025/05/29/i...

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

RFK Jr’s ACIP pick, Martin Kulldorff, said one of the most disturbing images from the pandemic was a toddler crying about having to wear a mask. I see toddlers cry about everything all the time, and I found it far more disturbing to see refrigerator trucks full of body bags outside of the hospitals…

submitted 17 hours ago • 266 comments

A very minor point, but aren’t these the people who decry mask-wearing?

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Suozzi uses his questioning time to dog walk Bessent about how almost every credible economic expert disagrees with the administration's position that the reconciliation bill will be anything but bad for the economy

submitted 22 hours ago • 49 comments

It is.

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More and more we’re seeing the collision between “Follow the rules” and “there is in fact no way to follow the rules.”

submitted 16 hours ago • 13 comments

Beyond no pay, haven’t received formal activation orders

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A friend at Disneyland is reporting ICE agents in the employee parking lot stopping cast members as they leave.

submitted 16 hours ago • 38 comments

I don't need to hear another word from anyone defending the NYT ever again and I have to assume the talented reporters and writers employed there will understand. This is Jenny McCarthy shit. Shameful and pathetic. Both sidesing scientists vs the stupidest people on earth. National Enquirer shit.

submitted 18 hours ago • 29 comments

Cops are shooting impact munitions madly. They're shooting at people who are simply moving along on sidewalks and leaving the area as they were ordered to do. No one in this video is throwing anything at police. Mounted cops are coming up behind people and hitting them with extra long riot batons.

submitted 15 hours ago • 60 comments

Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit

submitted 21 hours ago • 269 comments

We feed you. They hunt us.

submitted 1 day ago • 1226 comments

He has already lied under oath during Senate hearings. There is no reason to let him speak. Read him his many lies and misdeeds and don’t let him escape accountability like he always has. More American children have died from measles under his tenure than have in more than the past 30 years combined

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If the “Big, Beautiful Bill” passes the Senate, how many more people will be uninsured in your state? Nationwide, 10.9 million people would be uninsured with the bill’s changes to Medicaid and the ACA Marketplaces. Our analysis based on new CBO numbers: on.kff.org/4jIcF6E

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Double.

submitted 1 day ago • 3350 comments

True

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We've all seen the burning Waymos in CA, but people may not know that Waymos have a ton of cameras capturing footage of its surroundings + its passengers. I took a look at how Waymo handles this footage, and when it gives it to police: www.wired.com/story/waymo-...

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

Gov. Gavin Newsom: "Congress is nowhere to be found." "Speaker Johnson has completely abdicated that responsibility. The rule of law has increasingly been given way to the rule of Don."

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock on Trump deploying troops to Los Angeles: “He is using the symbolism and the uniforms of our service members in a campaign to do what he's been doing for 10 years, and that is to convince us that we are at war with one another.”

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

submitted 1 day ago • 497 comments

All Hail Trump! www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagl...

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Amazing how hard it is to write: “Police shoot at journalists.”

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

Trump is sending marines to LA while struggling to pass a budget that steals from the many to give to the few. Not a coincidence.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This an absolute insane and irresponsible way to frame a military crackdown on the freedom to protest.

submitted 1 day ago • 92 comments

Trump’s biggest tariffs were ruled unconstitutional on 5/28 Reinstated the next day to let the courts catch up Briefs were due yesterday The court just set arguments for 7/31 Lotta companies could go bust waiting for judges to rule on unconstitutional(?) tariffs www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

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Article from April 17, 2025 "Americans, by contrast, have a well-stocked toolbox with which to defend their democratic institutions, if only they would use it. The press is still free; its only limitations are self-imposed." www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

$45 million for this bullshit parade for Trump. I don't ever want to hear a fucking Republican tell me we don't have money to make sure every American has good health care. Give me a break.

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

Love this text from Chicago Emergency Alerts. CBD = Central Business District. Buses re-routed downtown due to “Public Assembly,” as per the US Constitution, as Chicagoans exercise their rights. Not “riots” or “disorder.”

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

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.

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🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

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JUST IN: Judge finds Trump administration in breach of agreement Biden admin signed settling litigation over family separation policy. Judge Dana Sabraw (GWBush) says feds are obliged to find private lawyers to aid class members. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Yes — resistance comes in many forms, including speaking truth to power. Yet again, tax cuts do not promote growth, they only balloon already-enormous deficits. open.substack.com/pub/econjare...

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www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/09/n...

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remember when Cuomo sent thousands of active Covid cases back to nursing homes, causing the deaths of like 6k people, and then covered it up?

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments