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submitted 40 minutes ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 1 hour ago • 3 comments

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

submitted 2 hours ago • 11 comments

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.

submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

“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

submitted 6 hours ago • 15 comments

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

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

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

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

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-...

submitted 19 hours ago • 116 comments

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...

submitted 20 hours ago • 33 comments

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

submitted 20 hours ago • 19 comments

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

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

IT'S FELICITY FROG FRIDAY AGAIN YOU POSEURS

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

remember mainstream journalists: you shouldn't participate or otherwise express support for tomorrow's protests because it will somehow harm the nonexistent objective credibility of your billionaire-owned employer whose feckless editorial standards helped create this moment in the first place 💏🗽

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

i think this is right

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NEW: The CBP confirmed to @404media.co that it has been flying Predator drones over LA amid the protests. These Predator B drones are military-caliber UAVs used for aerial reconnaissance that can be armed. It further breaks the seal on federal involvement in civilian matters. More here:

submitted 1 day ago • 77 comments

Almost got hit by a car student-driven by one of the Linda Lindas

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

people who just share screenshots from news stories with no links back to source and no bylines or dates in the screenshot are just engagement farming you

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

LA has been labor strike ready since 2023, israel divestment ready since 2024, fire/disaster mutual aid ready since 2025, and now increasingly skilled up in mass community defense from ICE we have all the will and momentum needed to build a better world

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

L.A. TACO has confirmed that ICE has detained two taqueros at Jason’s Tacos , a taco truck specializing in al pastor located on Whittier Boulevard and Bradshawe Street in East Los Angeles. @theglutster.bsky.social reporting for L.A. TACO

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

BREAKING: Children’s Hospital LA is closing its Center for Transyouth Health and Development, along with the Gender-Affirming Care surgical program, effective July 22. CHLA’s statement to me for @capitalandmain.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Sabrina Carpenter understands compulsory heterosexuality is bad for everyone including heterosexuals and that is the prism under the lens through which her recent work should be viewed send tweet

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

yep! unpaywalled:

submitted 1 day ago • 83 comments

I guess she also had trouble logging into the new MyLA3-1-1 app using her Angeleno Account

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I don’t have to imagine it, I saw them shooting down tear gas off of rooftops.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

it rules that there's not any single law enforcement agency—or law enforcement agent!—in the US that you could believe for one second has any intention of even trying to enforce any of the laws broken by the guys who bodyslammed and handcuffed a senator for asking a question at a press conference

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

California Sen. Alex Padilla was detained and handcuffed by the U.S. Secret Service at Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference in L.A. Follow our live coverage. https://www.latimes.com/california/live/los-angeles-protests-immigration-raid-live-updates?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

very weird for the federal government to just openly announce they want to do a coup on the state i live in, doesn't feel great

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments