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NEW: Unbelievable. A seemingly endless line of tanks & other military vehicles arrive in DC ahead of next week's parade. They departed Texas 5 days ago. What a colossal waste of time, money & military resources. All for a President who has shown zero respect for service personnel. (🎥 DW)

Keep fighting, LA.

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They sent the US military to attack protesters. The "National guard" and ICE are firing on protesters in LA. Rise the fuck up.

My opinion—just a guess—as to why Elon Musk has so pathetically tucked his tail and run away is that he now perceives martial law is near and is genuinely afraid of what Trump is capable of, including having him arrested without due process. Musk is a huge coward, so this tracks.

With violence…

Very strange to see CNN air a montage that implicates them in the fall of democracy.

Trump lit the match, poured the gasoline, and now wants to use the blaze he is creating as pretext to burn it all down.

I truly believe part of the reason this is happening in LA right now is because they want to scare us into not protesting for no Kings day. DT is actually worried he’s gonna lose the news cycle so he wants to make sure everyone is too scared. 1/2

The National Guard may be deployed in Los Angeles tonight. Not for an earthquake. Not for wildfires. But to silence protests against ICE raids. This is a humanitarian crisis. And peaceful protest is not a crime. It is a cry for dignity. A demand for justice.

It’s provocation. LA didn’t ask for the National Guard. We don’t need it, and won’t be safer because of it. Stay home, everyone.

I choose to be hopeful that one day we will all get to watch the Stephen Miller Trial on TV someday.

Re-upping this “One First” post from April asking—and trying to answer—five questions about the domestic use of the military:

Goldman: Both of the issues Marjorie Taylor Greene raised—were widely publicized and thoroughly debated in committee and on the House floor. If you’re publicly admitting that you didn’t know what you were voting on and now regret it—you’re not competent or qualified to serve in Congress.

If you’re in Los Angeles right now, make smart decisions and keep yourself safe. Trump and his people are clearly thirsty to escalate this situation—they’re practically giddy about it all over social media. Just be careful, because they want violence.

And there you have it. ICE didn't target migrant workers in Kristi Noem's farms or Sarah Huckabee Sanders' meatpacking plants because they wanted to create a riot in LA as a pretext to declaring martial law. They don't care about undocumented migrants, they only care about controlling US citizens.

All of these violent, lawless ICE officers terrorizing communities and hiding their faces weren't just hired this year. It's why dismantling ICE as an agency was so important and remains so. These people are unfit to be public servants if they hate the public.

This won’t end well

New Yorkers also ganged up on ICE. As well as citizens in other areas in the nation, in addition to California, who have had enough of ICE in their towns.

Refuse to obey illegal orders.

Law enforcement across the nation must pick a side. They are either for protecting their communities or they are for ICE who terrorizes their communities. There is no gray area on this.

Fuck ICE Victory to the rebels And remember that the only people "doing what the state hopes we do" are the people trying to discredit a diversity of tactics.

The situation in Los Angeles is starting to spiral out of control. Donald Trump and Stephen Miller got exactly what they wanted.

Excited to learn that we all get to become experts in the National Guard's authorizing statutes

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

Message from Governor Gavin Newsom Re: Calling out National Guard in Los Angeles "will only escalate tensions) We stand with you Los Angeles Be safe Watch out for each other GESTAPO ICE MUST STOP BE SAFE OUT THERE

How Los Angeles treats Fox. Get the F out of here!! Fake news!!

Tanks being moved into DC. National guard being mobilized in LA. Paramilitary thugs being unleashed across America. It's summer in America in fascism is in full bloom.

The situation in Los Angeles is about to plunge us into a national emergency, except the people that normally solve national emergencies are the ones creating it.

Funny how ICE who is so allegedly fighting undocumented gang members has only managed to round up normal working class people, traumatize children, and fight US citizens in the streets.

The ICE raids are an attack on the US. The Trump regime’s foot soldiers are training for long term occupation.

The California legislature and city & county governments should file injunctions and draft emergency legislation prohibiting the quartering of now-federalized troops on private property including hotels under the Third Amendment. Make the Guard bivouac on the ground on federal property.

What’s happening in California is a Trump regime invasion.

Trump's officials spent $1 billion in taxpayer money to stroke his ego: report www.rawstory.com/trump-ego/?c...

Phang: We are just 19 weeks—approximately—into the second term of the Trump administration. We have another three and something years to go, people. We cannot allow the DOJ to be led by a lackey of Donald Trump. That is the type of shit you see in a dictatorship.

We never had to worry about the U.S. military being used against our own country when Biden was president. But that’s exactly what’s happened under both Trump administrations.

Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein: some undisputed facts

Two LA photojournalists have been shot with tear gas canisters by DHS HSI, including @acatwithnews.bsky.social who was directly targeted by HSI and struck in the head. Sean is en route to the ER with obvious facial injuries. He was conscious and talking when he left the scene.

BREAKING: Donald Trump tells NBC News that Elon Musk will face “very serious consequences” if he funds Democratic candidates. Like Musk or not, a president threatening private citizens over political donations isn’t just wrong, it’s authoritarianism.

Ex-Trump insider flags 'signals' president thinks Musk 'needs to be neutralized' www.rawstory.com/he-s-fuming-...

"The timing is suspicious, just like these allegations." Chris Newman, an attorney representing the family of Kilmar Abrego Garcia talks with Jen Psaki about how federal charges against Abrego Garcia came together.

live from the huge spontaneous anti-ICE protest after the agency used military-style tactics during a series of raids in Los Angeles today.

They said they wanted cheaper eggs, but now they’re losing their weather service, disaster relief, food assistance and health insurance in exchange for a birthday parade, a bro-fight and a ballroom.

On air, @chrislhayes.bsky.social attributed it as “today SOMEONE put two and two together” that federal prosecutor Ben Schrader resigned “on the day this indictment was delivered.” I’ve always wanted to be someone! 😂