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I have changed my mind (again) and I am now a Kat Abughazaleh stan. I am now such a strong Kat Abughazaleh stan that I made a point of twice spelling her last name correctly in this post. We *need* people willing to say honestly what is happening and the @nytimes.com is failing at this.

How extreme is the June 7 Memorandum on federalizing the National Guard? One of several issues: It has NO geographic limit. None. No mention of California or any other state. It's open-ended. Now this from President Trump: "Well, we're going to have troops everywhere."⬇️

Yeah this is definitely illegal

Fox News has identified one of the paid protestors in LA. Please notify local law enforcement immediately if you see him

Suspicious LA protestors all claim to be "just waiting tables for now"

I've made this point multiple times before but if Bluesky wants to grow, the things they need aren't opinion pundits but accounts that publish new information. That's breaking news reporters, politicians and stuff like official organization accounts that publish official statements.

I still havent forgiven the special editions for erasing the Yub Nub Song

Here’s a member of the Assembly showing up to the protests. A real display of leadership IMO.

HAPPENING NOW: Aerial coverage of protesters marching peacefully in LA to protest ongoing ICE raid operations and Trump’s federalization of the National Guard Reporter: “What we’re looking at right now is a quiet, organized group and demonstrators marching peacefully to their destination.”

FWIW, Bluesky already drives roughly the same amount of traffic to our website as X

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.

Looks good

"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.