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The first civilian detained by Marines in Los Angeles was a Black man. You can’t ignore that this reflects a pattern of unequal treatment based on skin color. Racial profiling is illegal and unconstitutional. Don’t let this be buried under the wave of lawless behavior coming from Trump’s regime.

This damn Sinners is the best damn movie I've seen in years. I see the hype, I see why people have watched and watched it again and again.

We streamed Sinners tonight and holy shit balls was that amazing.

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Cory Booker is on fire today about Padilla. Worth a watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7La...

Welcome to WWIII everyone, as if this week wasn’t already too much.

If they can handcuff a U.S. Senator—for asking a question—what chance does an ordinary citizen stand? This isn’t just overreach; it’s authoritarianism, raw and undisguised. We should all be horrified. If this is how they treat power, imagine the brutality reserved for the powerless.

A terrifying escalation:

Really? How about because dumb parents are letting their kids get infected numerous times per year and take zero prevention measures to stop it...duh. www.newsweek.com/why-are-so-m...

Everyone is under reacting to what is happening. If this weak protest response and media normalization of fascism is how we are playing this they will take this country like a flame to butter.

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

They are paying people to attend TACOS fake parade #trumpparade #magacukt #resist #fascistgop washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/tlg/d/wa...

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.

Jesus Christ... the Washington Post is so fallen from its former glory that it tacks on the name of Robert W. Malone—one of the most infamous, shameless, and dangerous misinformation merchants in the United States—as one of the Kennedy Jr. appointees without making any comment about his past at all.

The amount of guards and cops out for the number of crowds in Los Angeles is a theatre of the absurd. I actually laughed out loud it seeing it on the news just now. WTF

Temu Fitz is playing ball with Trump and winning :P

BREAKING: In an epic trolling, California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office posted a video of Emperor Palpatine reciting Donald Trump’s Truth Social post about L.A. Let’s blast this to “space!”

Thousands of New Yorkers march in lower Manhattan calling for ICE out of New York. Starting at Foley Square and organized by PSL, the masses have flooded the streets and are moving west. This demo is permitted but even if it wasn’t, it would be far too large for NYPD to contain.

Shitler just called all protestors “people who hate our country”. Actually, quite the opposite. They love it enough to stand up for the Constitution and human rights. He’s the Putin puppet who hates America, not them.

$134 million to stage a desperate power-grab, but feeding poor kids at school is just too much money. Really great people we have running this country...

The Guardian is reporting that Hegseth has confirmed that the military will be stationed for 60 days in Los Angeles. "Troop deployment will cost $134m, Pentagon says; Trump warns any military parade protests will be met with ‘very heavy force’. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

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.

Shitler is testing the waters and unless we hit the streets in MASSIVE NUMBERS he will continue to melt Democracy like butter. I know we’ve had the privilege of this never happening here, but it is and we have to act now and fast. Do not hand it to them this easy.

It's sobering to see the delusion of white liberals. To think the military will not harm Americans. What an existence it must be to be so ignorant of the world. "The Marines don't have any combat experience." "They're not going to harm people from their own neighborhood" *stares in MOVE bombing*

Trump has been ruling as an authoritarian from the first day of this term. The only question has been how we will react. The silver lining now is that Marines being deployed against peaceful demonstrators is a lot easier to understand as dictatorial than attacks on law firms/press/universities.

Go to vacation in America they said.

BREAKING: My sources tell me Trump is actively discussing invoking the Insurrection Act with his closest loyalists inside his inner circle. As protests flare nationwide — not just in L.A. — he’s urging allies in his cabinet to begin preparing for a federal crackdown. Stay tuned.

i personally do not think the administration is actually prepared for what happens if they are facing mass protests in every major city in the country

The Marines who chose to defy their oath and follow deployment orders will be a true test of who is loyal to Shitler and who is loyal to our Constitution. It’s the litmus test he was looking for to determine how far he can take this and just how easily.

God, today is a lot. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

“This is a chilling statement. Even if it were a joke, it was clearly designed to make the public afraid to exercise its First Amendment rights to protest and to hold government officials, including LAPD officers, accountable for their actions.”