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thomaspwrs.bsky.social
Also on Mastodon (mas.to) as 'the_other_guy' (go Fediverse!) Raised as Democrat in Massachusetts. Living in central PA as a lonely liberal. Strongly in favor of a social safety net and of guard rails around large corporations and the wealthy.
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After the Nuremberg-style trials of the rethuglican pestilence, America has a lot of great works ahead!

submitted 23 hours ago • 15 comments

Meiselas: As we wrote on the MeidasTouch account—Trump lit the match, poured the gasoline, and now wants to use the blaze he created as a pretext to burn it all down.

submitted 13 hours ago • 119 comments

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What the fuck is the point of paying money to a police department if they won’t protect people from hostile masked kidnappers?

submitted 18 hours ago • 15 comments

Pete Hegseth is threatening to deploy Marines. Trump’s regime is prepared to use the U.S. military against U.S. citizens. Let that sink in. It’s already begun in Los Angeles. This must be stopped.

submitted 10 hours ago • 20 comments

L.A. is a Mexican-American city. The majority of the population is made up of racial and ethnic minorities. We are all happy living together and really do not want to see our friends, neighbors and families being terrorized by federal robo-cops. This is bullshit.

submitted 17 hours ago • 224 comments

“Strongman” politicians project their supposed strength by attacking immigrants, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community. But these groups of people aren't the "threats" we should be worried about. Who is? The oligarchs who earn their keep by exploiting the rest of us.

submitted 18 hours ago • 155 comments

ICE is the January 6 insurrectionists all over again. Only instead of attacking law enforcement, they are pretending to *be* law enforcement. And instead of just terrorizing at the Capitol, they are doing it EVERYWHERE.

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So, the NRA will support California residents to stock up on arms and potentially use them to protect their liberty and freedoms from tyranny, right? That's what we've heard from Republicans since forever when it comes to defending the 2nd Amendment and guns. Let's see...

submitted 10 hours ago • 25 comments

Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today

submitted 1 day ago • 640 comments

NEW: Lawyers for Abrego Garcia have asked Judge Xinis to consider the CRIME-FRAUD EXCEPTION to the government's privilege assertions in discovery. Plus, NEWLY UNSEALED DOCUMENTS. I don't think contempt is off the table yet. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/newly-unse...

submitted 15 hours ago • 61 comments

Stephen Miller is fulfilling his high school wet dream of terrorizing all the Brown people in Los Angeles. My daughter's friends who went to SaMo High with him said he used to seethe while the morning announcements were repeated in Spanish. Hell, they did that when I went there. (Mesozoic age.)

submitted 16 hours ago • 484 comments

Disband ICE

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses. Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

submitted 12 hours ago • 86 comments

Silence Is Complicity Straighten your spine Speak & live your truth

submitted 1 day ago • 331 comments

She has short bowel syndrome, and only the U.S. offers the treatment that keeps her alive. But her family’s humanitarian parole was suddenly revoked. Now, two months later, DHS has reversed course.

submitted 18 hours ago • 182 comments

California representatives did a check in where migrants were being detained. They found no beds, no food and no water. Children were among the detained.

submitted 11 hours ago • 162 comments

What country is this?

submitted 18 hours ago • 3294 comments

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.

submitted 14 hours ago • 263 comments

🚨 ALERTA PHILLY 🚨 Hearing from a very credible local source that there may be ICE action tomorrow (Sunday 6/8) in the following areas: 5th and Washington Ave 7th and Snyder Ave 5th and McKean/Wolf Chinatown Let your neighbors know to stay safe and be vigilant. Be ready. Be water.

submitted 13 hours ago • 96 comments

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1034 comments

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.

submitted 14 hours ago • 364 comments

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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.

submitted 14 hours ago • 192 comments

Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.

submitted 20 hours ago • 2290 comments

With you in spirit, LA. ❤️ from Portugal.

submitted 17 hours ago • 125 comments

Hell of a photo

submitted 15 hours ago • 355 comments

Ohh He's crying He was all alone

submitted 20 hours ago • 253 comments

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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.

submitted 14 hours ago • 944 comments

Ahem.

submitted 15 hours ago • 377 comments

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.

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Federal immigration agents in riot gear squared off with hundreds of protesters for a second consecutive day on Saturday in Los Angeles County, filling streets with tear gas and smoke. nyti.ms/4kUON0y

submitted 15 hours ago • 1009 comments

People need to understand something. There is no DOJ, FBI or DOD. There are entities—the DOJ and FBI—run by Trump’s personal attorneys, who see their agents as a weapon for Trump to wield against his enemies, and there is an alcoholic who’s been open about wanting a white Christian fascist nation.

submitted 10 hours ago • 8 comments

Of course the LA Times makes it look like a full on riot instead of showing that the mostly peaceful protesters were literally and constantly assaulted by ICE agents. The majority of fires that were started weren’t by the public but by ICE firing into the crowds and canisters starting fires. 🧵

submitted 13 hours ago • 207 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Protesters are not backing down in their clash with ICE agents over raid operations in the Los Angeles area 📍Paramount, CA

submitted 16 hours ago • 536 comments

What's happening tonight is anything but law and order. Don't be deceived.

submitted 13 hours ago • 380 comments

If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support. You don’t have to go through with it. 877-447-4487

submitted 13 hours ago • 153 comments

Now everyone will go look up the book and it will make NY Times. #sighs #booksky #writingcommunity

submitted 1 day ago • 1745 comments

The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2830 comments

Your safety is the top priority. Peaceful protesters have already been harmed for doing nothing. The story they’re selling isn’t legit. Please film everything, document everything.

submitted 13 hours ago • 187 comments

Can’t wait for CNN to file for BANKRUPTCY 🤬🤬🤬🤬

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

💥 BREAKING: ICE tries to raid Home Depot located at 6400 Alondra Blvd. Paramount, CA Protesters are able to successfully stop them. 6/7/2025 @12 pm #ice #raids #losangeles

submitted 19 hours ago • 674 comments

The federal government is taking over the California National Guard and deploying 2,000 soldiers in Los Angeles — not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle. Don't give them one. Never use violence. Speak out peacefully.

submitted 12 hours ago • 2210 comments

I KNOW AND ILL SAY IT AGAIN FUCK ICE FUCK ICE FUCK ICE FUCK ICE FUCK ICE FUCK ICE ❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

1/ If accurate, this is almost certainly a conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement, including the National Guard if they are federalized.

submitted 13 hours ago • 584 comments