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This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.

Daily bunny no.2980 needs another way across

“On that topic of process, big percentages of Americans continue to say it is not acceptable if legal residents are mistakenly deported as part of the program.” www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/dep... ….. mistakenly?

They will invent the pretext unless we’re so thoroughly supine they don’t need to, which leads to the same outcome.

The late Archbishop Jon Grauel would be ashamed!

This needs as much coverage as protests or ICE raids. Los Angelenos FTW. ❤️🙌

As someone who lives in Los Angeles, don’t let social or mainstream media gaslight you into thinking there’s a violent uprising taking place here. The Trump administration is trying to punish this state and this city. He’s also setting a precedent to unleash troops on Democratic cities.

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

Yes every conservative social media site becomes a tropical rainforest of school shooters and Ponzi schemes but did you know that there is a left-wing social media site where people are rude to the nation’s center-right political pundits

@tomlevenson.bsky.social: 🧵!!!!!

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

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Using the American flag to symbolic effect at protests against the Musk/Trump regime isn’t appealing to fascism, and it is incredibly counterproductive and stupid to believe to is.

Saying "protesters bring this on themselves" is like saying "yeah but what was she wearing?" about your own constitutional rights.

Important 🧵!!!!

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

War for Ukraine Day 1,200 update has posted.

Russian planes are in the air and on their way to bomb Ukraine. Yet again! Too bad we couldn't destroy all of them. We are in for yet another hard night. Keep us in your thoughts.

Happy World Ocean Day!!!!! 🌊🐟🦑 Remember the diverse species that need to be protected, reduce your single use plastic, and advocate for the protection of our oceans ✊ One day I will sea the ocean 🐋 #WorldOceanDay #art #kidlitart

The weird, often whitewashed way the civil rights movement is taught (or not taught) seemed to convince a lot of people that nonviolence was met with nonviolence, instead of you know, dogs, hoses, beatings, death, etc

They seem to think there’s a right to anonymous policing, but not to anonymous protest.

ONE HUNDRED PERCENT AGREE! Also, if I can’t eat your actual barbecue without sauce, it at best needs work. Sauce should be an extra not a requirement

From a week and a half ago: “As of Monday, the model shows, about 96,000 adults and 200,000 children have died because of the administration’s cutbacks to funding for aid groups and support organizations. The overall death count grows by 103 people an hour.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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The wisdom that is being attached to this post in the comments is PHENOMENAL. I swear, you could possibly write up a new Michelen-level era of food appreciation from these posts alone.

A new video from @cambridgeup.bsky.social introducing my new book 'Silence of the Gods': youtube.com/shorts/jVBxJ...

I just gonna go ahead and say that putting active duty United States Marines on the streets of an American city is, in fact, heavy handed.

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He just said this is an American city and the First Amendment cannot be allowed.

Every accusation is a confession

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Here is why they have to lie about who they are targeting: "if people don't think it is dangerous criminals who are the focus of the deportation effort, support drops dramatically."

During the BLM protests the right successfully conditioned a lot of people to believe that when cops cause chaos, it’s the protesters’ fault for exercising their rights. And more generally that protesting injustice is a problem.

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I find it useful to use J6 for a reference point. How many people were at Home Depot? If there were fewer than 1,500, and if they were unarmed, they aren’t as threatening as the J6 mob. And Trump refused to call out the National Guard on that mob.

We hear about how pro-immigrant side is extreme. There is literally nothing more extreme than this statement. Being willing to sacrifice the country’s foundations for an evil goal

Fake emergencies to justify crackdowns-not very original

Cannot stress enough that this is a pitiful action by a weak, scared, pathetic group of insecure, wannabe authoritarians, and they should be mocked until the end of time for wanting to bring in the military over some people protesting them at a Home Depot.

they're doing this because the Insurrection Act sounds cool and edgy but they can't actually justify using the Insurrection Act. it's a silly action by an insecure administration desperately to seem manly and powerful. it should be criticized relentlessly, but it should also be laughed at.