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L.A. TACO has confirmed with Brian Gavidia who filmed this troubling footage, that federal agents abducted his U.S.-born Mexican American friend, Javier Ramirez yesterday at 4 PM in Montebello. ~ @theglutster.bsky.social

submitted 11 hours ago • 60 comments

Is June 15 the Ides of Pride?

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Sorry, cancer patients, but we just don't have the money. We had to prioritize spending tens of millions on a military parade so the president could compensate for his many personal inadequacies. I'm sure you understand.

submitted 17 hours ago • 34 comments

I know there's a lot going on, but the Secretary of Homeland Security declaring that federal troops are in California and Los Angeles to "liberate" the state and city from its duly-elected leaders really is a fourteen-alarm fire.

submitted 17 hours ago • 281 comments

I keep thinking about Trump is clearly trying to replicate the new cities in petrostates, like Dubai and Riyadh. He is in love with the visible and garish opulence, built on the backs of actual modern slaves. He wants a whole country of these Potemkin villages, made by fraud, oppression and fealty.

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

These are the people that make America great 🇲🇽🇺🇸

submitted 1 day ago • 1249 comments

I'm proud I don't have Andrew Cuomo's record of corruption, scandal and disgrace. And the name is M-A-M-D-A-N-I.

submitted 1 day ago • 567 comments

When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.

submitted 1 day ago • 290 comments

Pope Leo’s first US episcopal appointment, San Diego’s Bishop-designate Pham, a Vietnamese refugee, invites priests and faith leaders to “stand in solidarity”with migrants at courthouse on June 20, as they make court appearances.

submitted 2 days ago • 179 comments

I’m so glad that Disney & Universal are recognizing that these machine learning applications are “free riders” and bottomless pits of plagiarism.” I can wait til they pledge to never use them again and not replace human artists with them.

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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

submitted 3 days ago • 595 comments

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

submitted 3 days ago • 311 comments

EVERYONE, The Onion is extremely on sale for the next five days. $75 gets you a year's worth of the last good newspaper delivered to your real life mailbox. Father's Day is in five days. America's dads love being duped by wrong information. Buy one for each of your 7 dads. membership.theonion.com

submitted 4 days ago • 42 comments

it really speaks to how trump does not see himself as a steward of the white house or the presidency but as its owner. he will do with it as he pleases.

submitted 3 days ago • 166 comments

this is good

submitted 4 days ago • 447 comments

This is what we're talking about when we say it's antisemitic to conflate all Jews everywhere with the actions of the Israeli govt. Defacing a memorial to the 1/3 of world Jewry that Hitler slaughtered won't free Palestine, but it does tell me a lot about you. 🎁🔗 www.haaretz.com/world-news/2...

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

Black and Latino representatives barred from accessing federal facilities in their districts; meanwhile white ones are whisked to El Salvador so they can literally do photo ops.

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

This is such a great point. When the traditional indicia of authority (shields, officer names and numbers, IDs, warrants, FACES!) are missing, and the masked Proud Boy-looking agents are disappearing people off the streets, it starts to seem prudent to believe anyone who claims to be ICE. Sickening.

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TLDR:

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The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.

submitted 4 days ago • 204 comments

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

submitted 5 days ago • 163 comments

It’s not just that it’s clearly intentional, it’s that it’s clearly intentional knowing that he’s being recorded. They know they can do whatever they want with complete impunity.

submitted 5 days ago • 231 comments

1 in 12 Americans live in California. 1 in 35 Americans live in LA County. LA is America

submitted 5 days ago • 119 comments

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

submitted 5 days ago • 3072 comments

When someone tells you buses could never be free, ask them how much they pay to take the Staten Island Ferry.

submitted 5 days ago • 34 comments

ICE arrested 36 Chinese & Taiwanese immigrants after raiding an LA nightclub. That's them, ziptied on the sidewalk. Yo Asians—if you weren't already outraged and mobilizing on behalf of others, guess what? That "First they came for the..." poem has gotten up to us. www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 6 days ago • 167 comments

Between the fires and these protests, I hope this year teaches everyone that most of the shit talking you hear about California and more specifically, LA, comes from racists and gentrifying transplants. Most people love living here and would do anything to protect it.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Here, I made a helpful graph to assist with “Cities are where very, very large numbers of Americans live” discourse, with real Census data and everything.

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments