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This year for Father's Day, I'm getting my dad 44 wallets. One for every year he's been a father.

‘Police State Exhibit Closed Today Due to the Police State,” she posted on Instagram’

I can't believe I am raising a comically handsome blond-haired blue-eyed child but that's what I get for picking him out at the cornfield

Sent to me from a source who took this video yesterday who says LAPD pushed an unhoused person walking in the crosswalk. The fall caused the woman’s head to crack open. LAPD dragged and left her bleeding on the sidewalk, providing no medical care. The person a group of onlookers took her to the ER.

LAPD ruptured another man’s testicle at a protest. The last time was in 2020 and it ended up costing taxpayers $1.5-million. No amount of money can bring back a testicle or fix the health issues down the road. ktla.com/news/local-n...

Having quit my job in preparation for moving I no longer have a source of income, but recent developments have it so that i must stay in FL for at least another month. Until then im making my entire bandcamp discog free, and I ask that you please continue to share my GFM if you cannot donate to it.

One of the underpinnings of disaster response is that people on the whole are good and help each other. No robbery, just mutual aid. It’s the police and officials that make things suck in the aftermath. Feel like the #NoKings marches reinforced that. The cops were the violent ones.

Here’s the cop who pushed Matt Gutman live on air.

My anaconda don't! My anaconda don't! My anaconda don't! My anaconda don't! My anaconda don't!

Hearing from so many people, including people with their kids, who didn't feel safe after LAPD/LASD started attacking peaceful protesters — and then were unable to get home. If you took transit to DTLA and got stranded I'd love to hear from you

You’re seeing a lot on TV rn about force and misconduct in Los Angeles sheriff department's role. Well, here’s what happened when someone tried to get serious about bringing accountability to the department: she faced huge pushback… and now she faces criminal charges. boltsmag.org/the-curious-...

L.A. TACO is working on confirming the total of vendors and customers taken by ICE but it's estimated that 40 to 50 of them were detained. A video shared from a vendor's son who saw everything unfold as ICE raided the Santa Fe Springs Swap meet. Tonight's event was cancelled. @janettev.bsky.social

US Customs and Border Protection special reaction team violently detain a protester in downtown Los Angeles today. Recorded while reporting for @capitalandmain.bsky.social

Protests against the ICE terror are facing violent repression from the LA county sheriffs department and LAPD just outside of LA City Hall at grand Park now. Chemical, kinetic and stun weapons are being used against crowds that are chanting and holding signs and flags. #LA

Police have started attacking peaceful protesters at L.A.’s No Kings Day by trampling them with their horses, shooting less than lethals, and deploying tear gas. 🧵 @theglutster.bsky.social & @shoton35mm.bsky.social reporting

This game RULES

The Mexican national team is set to kick off the 2025 Gold Cup tonight at SoFi stadium in a match against debutant Dominican Republic. Many fans and supporters, however, decided earlier this week to boycott the game in solidarity with everyone affected by the ICE raids.

magician exploded

Okay I made one. We’ll see you in Pasadena today. #NoKings

Watching the streets of east side LA get emptier and whiter this week has been chilling. This is a city of immigrants and it feels so hollow when they can’t participate in public life without fear

i’m gonna be pissed for a long time about this garbage. MLB barely acknowledges pride as it is. we get the bare fucking minimum. and they can’t help but spit on it anyway. fuck clayton kershaw and fuck the d*dgers for allowing him to do it.

“mass deportations” are an unworkable, racist fever dream that the press played along with and the dem party was too spineless to offer a humane alternative to

Follow @lataco.bsky.social if you don’t

Scientists have uncovered a state between life and death. It's called Ohio, and many of us have known about it all along

The streets around one of the Home Depots that got raided, setting off the L.A. protests, were blocked off just a couple days later, not by ICE but by a production shoot

states would be well within their rights at this point to legislate standards for how law enforcement officers identify themselves and impose criminal penalties on violators. if the feds think that dressing up like Proud Boys is essential to their mission, let them litigate.

if there is any simple advice for going into a protest situation in the us, it is this. and bring water, both for hydrating and potential tear gas flushing

The first known detention by the US Marines in their recent Los Angeles deployment is of... a US Army veteran on his way to an office at the Department of Veteran Affairs building. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Stephen Miller has detained another Dreamer. Caroline Dias Goncalves, a 19-year-old University of Utah student, has lived in the US since she was 7. “‘We’re going to take you,’ Dias Goncalves said [immigration officers] told her … They didn’t cite a reason.” www.sltrib.com/news/educati...

So much for the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 (amended in 2021 to explicitly cover the Marines)

Once again begging people who have an ounce of concern about the health of the information ecosystem to stop publishing on substack

This is probably the best feature I've read all year—an incredible feat of reporting, impeccably structured, and absolutely ecstatic and hilarious on a line level.