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Feel like we take it for granted that the police are not under civilian control but it would sure be good if the mayor demonstrated that they are or they aren't by giving them orders to stop this shit.

submitted 17 hours ago • 19 comments

When you hear the whining about "police injured on duty" in LA today: the people actually listening to the scanners said LASD fired rubber bullets at LAPD so LAPD tear-gassed LASD. The protestors are gonna get blamed for it, but it was entirely self-inflicted.

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

So if you're trying to get out of downtown LA, the cops have blocked off the main route south on Figueroa near Crypto and LA Live. Take other routes.

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

Earlier, federal agents shot a protester in the eye. Vincent is an ER nurse and said he came to the protest at the ICE facility in South Portland after a shift. Other protesters called an ambulance for him, but he had to walk several blocks to meet it, due to the munitions still flying.

submitted 17 hours ago • 53 comments

7:54pm, LAPD have made it impossible for people to exit downtown. The curfew starts at 8.

submitted 17 hours ago • 14 comments

The closest journalist in my life spends every waking second trying to warn everyone, do their own work, and manage this feeling. We must all carry this fire from today forward! We CANNOT leave the urgency of our collective dangerous reality for the folks at the front lines to carry alone!

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

The count is likely in the millions...

submitted 18 hours ago • 6 comments

Protesters from No Kings Day are jumping fences to avoid being kettled and arrested by police in downtown L.A. One older woman in a wheelchair has been surrounded by police. ~ @shoton35mm.bsky.social

submitted 18 hours ago • 172 comments

“If ICE is going to wear a mask in their uniform, then I can.” In August, Nassau County lawmakers passed a bill banning the public from wearing masks. Protesters showed up today masked anyway. We asked them why.

submitted 23 hours ago • 301 comments

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

submitted 1 day ago • 376 comments

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing theonion.com/protest...

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Everything was peaceful in downtown LA until the cops attacked, with horses, flash bang grenades, rubber bullets, and tear gas, But it won’t be reported like that.

submitted 19 hours ago • 36 comments

I love that a politician can say something like “I believe mice naturally spawn out of grain” and the news will now just treat that as a legitimate line of thought

submitted 22 hours ago • 248 comments

“miasma theory” is about as credible as geocentrism and the fact that we are talking about the fucking HHS secretary setting health policy because of it should end this administration all by itself

submitted 22 hours ago • 40 comments

Los Angeles police continue to shoot pepper balls and flash bangs at protesters as the situation on the city’s streets remains tense. “It was wildly unnecessary,” Hazel said. “We have to stand up to them.” www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

Once upon a time this newspaper worked around the clock to expose presidential crimes

submitted 19 hours ago • 4 comments

ACAB, and cowards

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Guys, you wouldn't believe how great my best friend's birthday party was

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

JOURNALISTS COVERING PROTESTS IN LOS ANGELES: If you’re in crowds, please report on if you heard police give reasonable/audible dispersal orders before they attack. Would first time attendee have been able to hear/understand? Most people I talk to at protests NEVER hear it, esp. over noise.

submitted 19 hours ago • 8 comments

It's fine. It's like the dep mayor of Chicago said yesterday, "So that person was arrested and again, this is one of the main reasons we've always pushed, if you see something (a weird cop) say something (to different weird cops) campaign. It's even more important now as tensions are heightened."

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

One good thing about today in Los Angeles is that the mainstream media was onsite before the police started rioting. So many news crews saying "the crowd here in LA is totally peaceful" right before LAPD and LA Sheriff started shooting and trampling people

submitted 19 hours ago • 32 comments

Your cops just tear gassed a bunch of elderly people and journalists

submitted 20 hours ago • 27 comments

Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1052 comments

LAPD is now launching tear gas into the crowd outside federal building Tear gas at 430 pm. @mayor.lacity.gov sent LAPD to clear the streets 4 hours before curfew.

submitted 20 hours ago • 10 comments

The violence reported is that two people drove their cars into protesters.

submitted 21 hours ago • 18 comments

All Eyes on Los Angeles this evening as state and federal forces appear to be firing Tigas and flashbangs into crowds of peaceful protesters in an attempt to escalate. The only people here doing violence are the police and federal forces sent in by the Republicans.

submitted 20 hours ago • 11 comments

multiple reports now that LA cops attacked a peaceful demonstration

submitted 20 hours ago • 8 comments

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

submitted 22 hours ago • 661 comments

AG Ellison staying at the No Kings rally despite being on the assassin’s hit list to tell the crowd to not be stopped, to keep marching is exactly what I needed in this moment.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Proud of Minnesotans

submitted 1 day ago • 126 comments

UPDATE: Judge Breyer denies DOJ’s request to put the preliminary injunction schedule on hold in the California National Guard case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 23 hours ago • 14 comments

the widely accept[ed] "germ theory" of disease? THE WIDELY ACCEPT[ed] "GERM THEORY" OF DISEASE?? #YHGtBFKMwTS

submitted 22 hours ago • 23 comments

holy shit

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Despite warnings from the law enforcement not to attend today’s No Kings rally after this mornings shooting of Minnesota lawmakers with the killer on the lose, the No Kings Rally is happening at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.

submitted 1 day ago • 365 comments

I really think Noem’s plans to “liberate” California from its democratically elected government with military force should not have gotten lost in the news cycle but that appears to be exactly what is happening

submitted 1 day ago • 72 comments

Remember, in America only the secret police get to wear masks

submitted 1 day ago • 59 comments

Bit of a crowd. Haven't seen a crowd this large since I have lived here.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

They are actively arresting peaceful protesters for wearing medical masks at the protests. Now if you are wondering how police are treating nonviolent protesters. Have a feeling this is going to turn into a thread of actions today

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

I obviously don’t know the situation as well as Walz does and am not going to tell people to put themselves at risk. I will say, however, that if you shut down antifascist protests in an entire state because of fascist violence, you may provide an incentive for more violence. Be safe.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Any person in uniform wearing a mask and refusing to be properly and reliably identified should be assumed to be the same kind of murderer we’ve seen in Minnesota.

submitted 1 day ago • 75 comments

It is difficult to imagine any circumstances in which the assassination of one democratic lawmaker and the attempted assassination of another is not fascist violence, calculated to suppress political resistance to a fascist project. At this point I am not going to try.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

DIRECT

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments