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Huntington Park’s mayor, Arturo Flores, is a Marine veteran. He just gave a great speech at this press conference. Letting his fellow Marines know they are “taking orders from a dictator.”

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

I just talked to the director of the Center on Conscience and War, which is getting SLAMMED with calls in this emergency. As @taliajane.bsky.social just said, troops are aware that they have the right to refuse their labor.

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

Confederates took up arms against the US in order to protect violent white supremacy and oligarchy, so that checks.

submitted 13 hours ago • 30 comments

Newsom: "Democracy is under assault before our eyes. This moment we have feared has arrived. He's taking a wrecking ball to our Founding Father's historic project."

submitted 22 hours ago • 498 comments

Former Madison, WI police chief. Need more police and military leaders with integrity and the courage to stand up to fascism.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

This reminds me of a time on active duty when another airman kept telling me that I was nothing more than a Yankee. I looked directly at him and said so are you you stupid fuck, the US military won the civil war and you enlisted in it. That makes you a Yankee too. We weren’t friendly after that 😂

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1387 comments

A one square mile curfew? Ok just move out side the square mile. This is so dumb.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

We have the right to protest. And ICE has the right to eat a bag of dicks. Those guys need to read a fucking history book.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

“We don’t need another king, another tyrant, another dictator.” — U.S. Army Veteran, 101st Airborne We took an oath to the Constitution—not to serve the ambitions of any one man. What’s happening isn’t national defense. It’s a warning sign.

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

The optics are BAD, they’re mission accomplished levels bad. But now we know where senior Army leadership stands and it’s not with the constitution. They seriously cheers for confederate losers? What idiots. #veteran

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Trump prattling that "It’s a beautiful sight to be with you in a place called Fort Bragg" that the idea that they were re-renaming Liberty for Pvt. Roland Bragg was always reactionary neo-Confederate trolling.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

As a vet I am disgusted by those who serve not standing down or standing up to this attack on America.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I spent so many years covering propaganda anticipating this exact moment and so many of my peers bought the paid-for contrarian line that even covering disinformation was somehow, itself, censorship. Now we're at the event horizon. Celebration is protest is riot is justification for a police state.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

But the VA budget must be cut, PTSD mental healthcare could never be funded. The Pact Act funding is being stripped away. Never forget that republicans don’t give a fuck about anyone who serves. You’re only useful to them until you’re dead. It’s why they wanted more of us dead. #veterans

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

You’re goddamn right we are. I will never shut the fuck up about this. I spent over 500 days in Iraq. My friends died at war, they died from cancers & suicide. They didn’t give their lives for soldiers on our city streets because ICE sucks at its job. #Veterans

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

They’ve all abandoned their oaths to the constitution in favor of a wannabe tyrant. Our failure as a society & nation is that we didn’t hold these clowns accountable after Jan 6. Each one of them that showed support to insurrection should have been removed via 14 amendment. Sadly we are here.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

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submitted 1 day ago • 283 comments

"Rebellions are built on hope." The media isn't showing the big picture. 95% of LA is quiet and normal. People are rising up across the country peacefully and rejecting authoritarianism. There are huge gaps in this attempt at tyranny & we can walk right through them. Don't lose hope. Find community.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

100 percent. Film everything you can. They’ve already fucked up and there’s no going back now. Since the end of the civil war they’ve screamed “states rights” at every turn. In the last decade they’ve been handed win after win in the courts. Now they’re quiet. Massive overplay with soldiers.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Read this and then READ IT AGAIN! Your eyes need to be wide open during these times. For those of us who wore the uniform & gone to war. This is a moment where we as veterans must use our voices. Our friends didn’t die at war for this, they didn’t die from cancers or suicide for this. #Veterans

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Worth remembering that Pete Hegseth’s National Guard unit did not trust him to serve in DC post Jan. 6th. His own unit commanders who knew him best.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

As if those of us that served in Iraq & Afghanistan didn’t learn a thing or two. Marines on the enlisted pay scale making a fraction of what those LAPD make or what ICE makes. Are all of sudden going to be riot police & know how to deescalate? This is insanity & should end this admin tonight. #LA

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

So let me get this straight. While Trump’s DHS escalates & inflames the situation in Los Angeles (and around the country), the top Republican on the Homeland Security Committee is resigning from Congress. Probably nothing to see here. Nope. Probably nothing at all.

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

They’ll just go get rowdy at the bars. Seriously 500? What are they supposed to do? This was always a numbers problem; the Trump admin doesn’t have the people to do the mass deportations. He’s desperately trying to pull the DOD into it all Our only hope is that this backfires massively #Veterans

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

People who identify as Strong Democrat reacted to losing American Democracy and voted accordingly. Exit polls suggest it was not high on the list for voters in 2024. They put inflation as no. 1, even though inflation rate was trending downward, as was joblessness. ...and thus the moment we're in.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

How weird that the states rights crowd is oh so quiet. How weird?! It’s like it was all about racism & the protection of slavery & Jim Crow laws. Weird.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Once again, I will post this to anyone who’s currently serving. Or if your family or kids are. Your oath is to the constitution only. FULL STOP. You will face consequences for any illegal order you follow and use. #veterans #UCMJ #LosAngeles

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment