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"newsom called trump yesterday and asked him not to send in the national guard, he is fighting!" okay but the national guard are on the streets of la right now so like, he's losing idk "you just want him to come get arrested for the chaos / drama" i mean that's not why but yeah

This man picked the wrong app to say this.

Elon Musk perfectly laying out the case against privatization in a single tweet

The fact is that liberals don't want protests that work; they want protests that look nice. And the aestheticization of politics is the crucible of fascism

It’s exceedingly difficult to read “BLUESKY DOOMED TO FAIL: OP-ED by High Profile Newspaper Reporter” as anything other than “The success of my writing depends on being able to bribe the controllers of the algorithm or bait outrage, and on BlueSky I was slapped on 625 blocklists for transphobia”

Have you fucking SJWs considered that if literally everything was different about this parade it would be cool

Rittenhousing.

Reminder that this country had an insurrection on Jan 6 and Trump refused to send in the National Guard.

the white house thinks brute force is, no pun intended, a trump card. they don’t anticipate pushback and they don’t know how to handle it with anything other than escalation. the issue is that each escalation is itself a gamble. if protesters refuse to back down, you’ve lost face. (1/?)

i don't want to dunk on any of the people who replied or quoted this with a "well ackshully the national guard will shoot protesters, look at kent state," but my request is to a) remember that kent state was over half a century ago and b) read about the NG's response in its aftermath

picked entirely because they want to bully a visible blue state into submission but didn't do the math on how much force would be required

🚨 THREAD: What just happened in Los Angeles is not normal, and it differs from past deployments of the National Guard in key ways that you need to understand. This is a breakdown of the history, the playbook, and why this move reeks of bad faith.

I wonder if the California National Guard command can just be like "nahhh"

NONE OF THE GROUNDS FOR THIS IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW

Now I have to look up what Title 10 is

"Mr. President why do you think you have grounds to invoke the Insurrection Act?" "DID YOU SEE THAT HOME DEPOT"

Since yesterday, immigration and other law enforcement have inflicted terror and chaos on residents of LA. The leader of California's largest union was among those arrested for protesting ICE's cruelty. Congress must hold President Trump accountable and stop him from terrorizing our communities.

What is striking to me is the fact that this is an obvious attempt to distract from the Trump/Musk story. This wasn't well-planned. They don't seem to have meaningfully staged for this, logistically or otherwise. It's a panic move, not a power consolidation.

nextdoor has taken a turn against ice, which is probably not a good sign (for ice)

Kristi Noem in Feb 2024: If Biden federalizes the National Guard [to handle border issues], we’ve got a war on our hands.”l Kristi Noem in 2025 as DHS Secretary: …federalizing the National Guard.

“No civil police force could hold out against an irate and resolute population. The trick is not to let them realize that.” - Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals

A stain of dishonor for the United States military that it'll take generations to wash off. Will be decades before anyone overseas will ever want to help us soldiers again

Keeping my eyes on "Insurrection Act" showing up in my feed. Just speculation right now

People typoing Martial Law as Marshall Law makes me think of the Marshall Plan (the subject of my history honors thesis back in the day)

I think today is a good demonstration of why Trump invoking the insurrection act will be a total disaster for him, actually which isn’t to say a lot of people won’t get hurt, but it’s not going to go the way they want in the end

Trump is asking Newsom to deploy the National Guard. Trump can't deploy National Guard

National Guard is paid by the federal government but controlled by the Governor so if they do show up then we know Newsom allowed it.

people should realize that raising entire generations of kids with active shooter drills and the threat of being murdered at school while also telling them that there is nothing they could do because the Republicans deserve their AR 15s more than they deserve to live readied them for these fights.