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Boston area writer on news, politics, Red Sox & LiverpoolFC. Novel LOUIE ON THE ROCKS out now & Multiple Sclerosis anthology UNCOMFORTABLY NUMB 2 in May '25.
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COVID. Again. 🦠

At the press conference Tuesday, Wu again said ICE has used "secret police tactics" across the country during immigration enforcement.

The First Amendment specifically prohibits the government from using heavy force on citizens who protest the government. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Brand-new polling from YouGov out this AM finds Trump's actions re: LA underwater. Double-digit disapproval on sending in Marines. This should be a reality check for those people arguing the protests inherently help Trump bc his immigration approval # is positive. today.yougov.com/topics/polit...

Overnight, CNN journalist Jason Carroll and his team being removed from California protest zone, hands behind their backs. They have been released with no charges. Who ordered this? Now journalists can't do their jobs? Silencing the press is against the constitution.

CNN correspondent Jason Carroll and camera crew detained by LAPD live

Congress’s bill “would RAISE taxes for low-income Americans (Those making $30k or less). Every other income group would see LOWER taxes. The biggest savings would go to people in the $500k to $1 million income group.” @byheatherlong.bsky.social www.jct.gov/publications...

I prefer salty Newsom to podcast Newsom

It should be a priority for these guys to be informed somehow that ICE gets hotel rooms. Where are the Marines going to bunk?

The Klan was humiliated when people refused to cower and just started pointing and laughing at them, and I bet these dance parties are driving human thumb Tom Homan crazy. Crazier, I guess.

Breaking News: The health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removed all 17 members of a CDC advisory panel in his latest move to dismantle years of vaccine policy.

Trump's chaos is a carefully crafted smokescreen, designed to distract from his catastrophic policies and plunge us into darkness. #FreedomToDissent

This is precisely correct.

State troops sent to Los Angeles by the Trump administration, without the approval of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, were expected to sleep on floors or outdoors, a source told the Chronicle.

Pentagon to deploy 700 Marines to Los Angeles, official says reut.rs/4jIjBR9

At no point in this entire article of 16 paragraphs does ABC mention that another cop killed this cop by shooting her in the back. Nor does it mention the name of the cop who killed this cop. Nor does it mention that the civilians involved never fired at them. ABC might as well be state media.

A thread which accuses law enforcement and military in Los Angeles of deliberately targeting journalists during the unrest in Los Angeles. Chilling.

Then arrest the ICE goons wearing them.

"You just f---ing shot the reporter!"

This is an important reminder: even the LAPD acknowledged yesterday that everything was peaceful. Then Trump brought the chaos. He is responsible.

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

Funny how the cops -- the ones with weapons who routinely use them against journalists and protesters -- are never also the ones asked to "remain calm" and "be peaceful."

BREAKING: A Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists has been diverted to Israel, Israel's Foreign Ministry says.

It was always going to come to this from the man who wanted to shoot George Floyd protestors in the legs five years ago. He was stopped then. There's no one to stop him this time from sending in the Marines against protestors on the streets of an American city.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) pleaded with National Guard troops not to use their weapons against protesters.

“Trump deploying the national guard is a dangerous escalation meant to provoke chaos… not about public safety, it’s about stoking fear.”

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Them: “LA is a full on insurrection” Us at the protest:

Page One in Los Angeles @latimes.com

Critically important point from Juliette. The only real justification for federalizing the nat guard over a governors objection is when the civil authorities are defying the law. This is attack on the sovereign right of the people of California to self government.

This is an ominous step toward martial law. The time for mobilizing peacefully but massively against this dangerous progression is NOW. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/u...

The ACLU weighed in on Trump’s decision to federalize the National Guard as an “inflammatory abuse of power. This action puts Angelenos in harm’s way, exposes troops to legal and ethical consequences, and shreds a fundamental democratic principle, that the military has no place policing civilians.”