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Polite request to please credit the photographers whose L.A. photos you’re sharing. They’re out there risking getting their shins exploded by police munitions to get those shots.

submitted 11 hours ago • 57 comments

The backdrop of this is that every single white person, who is employed, needs to be willing to contribute, significantly, to mutual aid to make this possible. We cannot expect immigrants to bear the brunt of this without making sure they can make rent and feed their families.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

One more day each with my A and B day kids. I’m going to miss them. Truly. I’m so glad most of them will be around for another 3 years. And I’m SO ready for a break. What a year. I can’t believe I/we made it. Whew.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

I want to know where George Bush is and why he's been so quiet. I haven't seen a single call for that man to speak up, but everyone is asking for Obama and Harris. Listen. If GB loves the republic and wants it to stand, he should speak up. Now.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Everyone should say it: The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism. Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that's not what's interesting about Miller. It's not brains. It's bile.

submitted 15 hours ago • 696 comments

I'll say it over and over again; you can't build the mass deportation machine without first building the police state machine.

submitted 14 hours ago • 31 comments

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2753 comments

This makes me so sad for them. But the sad doesn’t last long when they want to put the rest of us under their boot for more wealth & power to fill the bottomless void. Eradicating billionaires, though taxes, would do all of us a lot of good. Billionaires included.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

It’s obvious but worth drawing out what raids of Home Depot’s of all places is about. It’s rounding up people who are really eager for work and for whom there is work, peoples whose labor is in demand. We know this but shows just how far it is from rounding up just the bad guys.

submitted 16 hours ago • 348 comments

Yes. I have heard this from both liberal and conservative people with sources inside the agency. It’s not just the pushback, it’s also that many officers want to believe they’re targeting the “bad guys” and this admin is telling them “screw you, grab families.” Genuinely, morale is way down.

submitted 18 hours ago • 352 comments

submitted 18 hours ago • 174 comments

As @prisonculture.bsky.social says - people are in motion EVERYWHERE. Find them, join them, be them. It's up to us now. Collectively, it's up to us.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

#ICE #Kidnapping #SexTrafficking

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

Johnson's face during this whole interview says a lot. And, a "family values Christian" has "no concern" about the sexual abuse of minors? COME ON. That is SO telling.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Don't listen to the people bleating on social media that "no one is doing anything." What they are actually saying is that THEY aren't doing anything. The reality is that folks are working in every corner of the world, doing so much to keep themselves and others alive, while building the future.

submitted 19 hours ago • 20 comments

The feds are absolutely drawing on the fear of the LA riots of 1992. It's important to listen to ppl on the ground. This is not the same.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

I'm sure this has nothing to do with the current (white) male backlash to... everything.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

First they illegally deport citizens. Then they unleash ICE to terrorize communities. Now they’ve got the National Guard in L.A. to silence protestors. This ain’t about law and order. This is what authoritarianism looks like.

submitted 19 hours ago • 377 comments

In case anyone needs reminding, cancer doesn't care about politics or country lines. Curing a brutal brain cancer seems like an, uh, no brainer.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

They're trying to create riots. Keep those bail fund links coming, and keep it peaceful, as much as possible. Lord have mercy on us.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

The lying. Lord, the lying. Pants on fire, all the way.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

A good day to stuff some grape leaves. 😋

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Hello? Free speech? Freedom of the press?? WTF?

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

"Peace through strength" is so damn dystopian, especially as the ruling party is underwater on almost everything.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

They way they just lie is astounding and we cannot normalize it.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

The passive voice makes me want to scream. Those “mistakes” were consequential and entirely avoidable.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

immigrants belong in our community. ICE doesn't.

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

If undocumented workers with no criminal history are being dragged from job sites that they’ve worked at for years, then when do the CEOs, contractors, and farm owners who employed them start getting handcuffed? Or is that not how “justice” works in America?

submitted 1 day ago • 110 comments

This is a vitally important point to remember. Big force displays often reveal deep weaknesses—and a profound self-awareness of them.

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

The Los Angeles Police Department has stated that demonstrations in the city have remained peaceful. Let that sink in.

submitted 1 day ago • 433 comments

Reports and video show flash-bangs thrown into piles of debris just before a car caught fire, strongly suggesting it was law enforcement, not protesters, who sparked it. More details are coming. Don’t let them control the narrative. Thank you to everyone sharing footage, always record everything.

submitted 1 day ago • 288 comments

This Midwest girl is hitting the hay for tonight. But if you know of bail funds, or other direct means of support for our LA folks on the front lines against ICE escalation, please drop links below. This is not normal, this is not okay.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I truly believe part of the reason this is happening in LA right now is because they want to scare us into not protesting for no Kings day. DT is actually worried he’s gonna lose the news cycle so he wants to make sure everyone is too scared. 1/2

submitted 1 day ago • 380 comments

What's happening tonight is anything but law and order. Don't be deceived.

submitted 1 day ago • 389 comments