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SEN. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social : “Trump is sending in the National Guard to create conflict — to enflame the situation and increase the chances of violence… he wants to make the situation worse, not better.”

submitted 7 hours ago • 30 comments

If you can't go to the protest, you can go to the cleanup. There are many ways to be a part of the community.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

A Russian plant VNIIR-Progress in Cheboksary, approximately 1000km from the frontline, under drone attack. VNIIR-Progress is producing components for S-300/400/500 air defense systems, T-90M and Armata tanks, BMPs, Terminator, Orlan-10 and Orion UAVs, Su-34 aircraft, etc.

submitted 5 hours ago • 22 comments

Updates on Israel's seizure of the Madleen. Bsky is abysmal for breaking news.

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

Unfortunately this will not happen as long as the Electoral College exists.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Watch as this LAPD cop takes deliberate aim at an Australian reporter, then shoots her at close range. I would fire the police chief over this. Inexcusable thuggery.

submitted 8 hours ago • 89 comments

Another great example of how GDP as a metric rewards the most harmful behaviour.

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

⚡️Update: Ukrainian drones hit Russian electronic warfare facility in Chuvashia Republic, military says. The General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces confirmed the strike, saying Ukrainian drone units, in coordination with other units, targeted VNIIR-Progress and ABS Electro in Cheboksary overnight.

submitted 3 hours ago • 8 comments

Newsom: California will sue the federal government over the deployment of the National Guard to L.A.

submitted 4 hours ago • 10 comments

The illegitimate, lawless, and authoritarian regime in control of the government of the United States is at war with the people of the United States.

submitted 13 hours ago • 76 comments

Morning Bluesky. Successes for Ukraine overnight. A MIG-31 and Su-30/34were hit at Savasleyka airbase in Nizhny Novgorod. The Progress plant in Cheboksary, Chuvash, (1000 km from the border) which makes critical components for heavy combat equipment is burning. #explodey

submitted 3 hours ago • 5 comments

This is very specifically illegal, not in like an interpretive way, it is literally written in black and white in the statute that reps must be let in to perform oversight

submitted 9 hours ago • 14 comments

There are concerts and plays happening. Pride parties. People who live in DTLA (80k+) and people out at bars and restaurants in Downtown L.A.

submitted 6 hours ago • 9 comments

Are Trump's actions in LA a distraction? @gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "A hundred percent. It's all about news cycles. Whatever he can to distract. I mean, disastrous economic policies... Even his his biggest sycophant in the country, Elon Musk, said likely a recession in the second half of the year."

submitted 4 hours ago • 76 comments

Trump: “BRING IN THE TROOPS!!!”

submitted 7 hours ago • 257 comments

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

submitted 9 hours ago • 1976 comments

the hard times doesn't miss @thehardtimesnews.bsky.social

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

Four LAPD officers on horseback surround a man laying on the ground, trample him, and beat him with their polycarbonate "saber" batons.

submitted 7 hours ago • 256 comments

"Every government lies now and then, but authoritarian regimes go further. They don’t just stretch or hide the truth. They look you in the eye and tell you that what you just saw didn’t happen." ICYMI, propaganda is now part of our politics.

submitted 3 hours ago • 14 comments

LAPD when they think no one’s looking

submitted 7 hours ago • 411 comments

WIDER ANGLE: In this size the cop shooting Australian reporter @laurentomasi.bsky.social with rubber bullets looks even more intentional.

submitted 8 hours ago • 57 comments

Let’s be clear: Israel, an occupier, has no authority under international law to board or divert the Madleen. This is a hijacking, plain and simple. A hijacking of a UK-registered ship, with multiple European citizens on board. Does the EU or UK government have anything to say? Anything??

submitted 10 hours ago • 75 comments

Rep. Gomez: LA County alone is 34% foreign born, 34%. So when he says they're going to liberate us, who is he going to liberate us from? Ourselves?

submitted 11 hours ago • 371 comments

Here’s the “Presidential Memorandum”: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... There’s no Insurrection Act invocation; Trump is federalizing 2000 CA Nat’l Guard personnel only to “protect federal functions.” Without invoking the Insurrection Act, anything more would violate the Posse Comitatus Act.

submitted 1 day ago • 162 comments

Dozens of journalists were assaulted by law enforcement in Los Angeles this weekend. The press were just doing their job -- a sacred one explicitly protected by law. Press rights orgs will follow up collectively tomorrow. Tonight, I emailed evidence to local/state/federal officials. My sign off:

submitted 6 hours ago • 68 comments

Keir Starmer and David Lammy must speak and condemn this interception. All humanitarian aid must be able to reach people desperately in need. The UK govt have been active participants in the genocide. The eyes of the world must be on Gaza. Release the Madleen crew.

submitted 4 hours ago • 23 comments

Newsom saying a military force, for which he is the commander in chief, was deployed without his consent. (NG units require a declaration of national emergency or actual threat of rebellion to be federalized.) Newsom says legal action is coming tomorrow.

submitted 6 hours ago • 8 comments

The IDF has intercepted and kidnapped the Madleen because they didn't want it to deliver baby formula n other things like that to Palestinians who are experiencing starvation due to the Israeli government refusing to allow aid in. That's the story no matter how you window dress it.

submitted 3 hours ago • 11 comments

Impossible to post all of the videos from today but here’s LAPD unloading dozens of rounds at the barricade. They did this for over an hour.

submitted 6 hours ago • 11 comments

17 members of Congress were expelled for supporting the Confederacy during the US Civil War. The Dems need to expel the Republican congressional leadership once back in power. The Republican's inaction to Trump's illegality cannot stand. America needs a plan to dissolve MAGA as a political force.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Israeli commandos boarded the ship, which was attempting to break the blockade of Gaza, in international waters off the coast of the territory, according to the move's organisers. www.ft.com/content/16a4...

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Deploy the Marines to do what? As Hegseth keeps reminding us, they're "lethality warfighters" not crowd control.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

Some are saying that our news media aren't up to the task at hand.

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

Glendale in California is terminating its contract with the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Since 2007 the city has jointly with DHS and ICE operated a facility for immigrant detainees.

submitted 3 hours ago • 17 comments

Don't fall for the lies. They want you to believe Los Angeles is in chaos. Nothing could be further from the truth.

submitted 9 hours ago • 29 comments

Space X debris washing up in Mexico on turtle nesting areas www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjg5yfNW/

submitted 11 hours ago • 12 comments

I hope it FRIGGIN RAINS......Our Vets deserve better......

submitted 13 hours ago • 16 comments

A little late but very well done. Now sue

submitted 11 hours ago • 16 comments

Independent investigations into jail deaths in Texas have documented staff ignoring people with deteriorating health, denying treatment for chronic conditions like heart disease and diabetes, and even mocking people who were dying and in pain. boltsmag.org/texas-j...

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

Governor Newsom confirms Trump credited the National Guard before they were even on the ground in LA

submitted 17 hours ago • 48 comments

"President Trump's move to deploy California's National Guard is an alarming abuse of power."

submitted 13 hours ago • 12 comments

Just watching the federalized Trump military tear gas a peaceful demonstration in LA and wondering when the media will remember Trump's failure to call out the National Guard to protect the US Capitol from a violent crowd trying to overthrow the US government and assaulting the Capitol police.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

👇🏽🇺🇸

submitted 15 hours ago • 170 comments

Where is NYC? actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Almost verbatim, unbelievable

submitted 17 hours ago • 105 comments

Yup

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

“Anyone”

submitted 15 hours ago • 408 comments

NEWS: Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers rip the Trump DOJ's claim they complied with court orders as "pure farce." Six days after Abrego Garcia's sealed indictment, the admin said in civil court that they had no "power to produce him." Short, scathing doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 13 hours ago • 8 comments