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If you want to prepare for a spicy summer 3M mask with extra filters. Ideally a full face respirator. Soft body armor of some kind for impact munitions. Doesn't have to be ballistic. Helmet. Can be ballistic. Can be bump. Even a bicycle helmet can save your life from a grenade.

submitted 5 hours ago • 65 comments

yup, the argument of "let the law be enforced" has sailed a long time ago with so-called law enforcement agencies illegally kidnapping people and acting in contempt of court.

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I'm old enough to remember when "black lives matter" was called a bad slogan as it somehow implied it meant white lives didn't. I remember how kneeling during the anthem was called a disgusting way to protest. There is no form of protest appropriate to some people and you should ignore them

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Late night wip #OC

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There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

submitted 3 hours ago • 309 comments

ICE teargassed a baby. And gassed attorneys attempting to represent detainees.

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

Here are the skills and guides you need for the moment. Feel free to share other resources in the comments. Give 'em hell and stay safe! #Resist #Protest #Antifascism

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

My cover for the English edition of the Beauty's Blade ⚔️ Happy yuri month!

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

repost if you think the bad stuff happening shouldn't be happening like for tiddies or sumthin

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

Folks, remember

submitted 5 hours ago • 8 comments

seems like a military response in search of a riot

submitted 2 hours ago • 17 comments

White folks watched a bunch of white folks sack the Capitol and then most of them be pardoned by the head of the white identity party and now we're supposed to listen to other white people pontificate about non-violence...

submitted 3 hours ago • 10 comments

you wanna get people to vote you get somebody to run on sticking this guy in a dungeon and starving him to death on livestream

submitted 83 days ago • 26 comments

If you have an unread copy of Let This Radicalize You lying around, this would be an excellent time to read Chapter 6: “Violence” in Social Movements. It's also a good time to share that chapter with others.

submitted 2 hours ago • 8 comments

Don't wear goggles to a protest unless they're rated shatter resistant. You're better off with NO eye protection than eyewear that will send shards of plastic into your eye. If you can't find shatterproof goggles, get lacrosse goggles. Cheap and effective eye protection from larger munitions.

submitted 2 hours ago • 11 comments

New Announcement + Cover Reveals! ✨ THE BEAUTY'S BLADE: MEI REN JIAN (NOVEL) by Feng Ren Zuo Shu—cover art by Xiao Tong Kong (Velinxi) + interior art by Gravity Dusty! Our first #baihe ( #yuri /Girls' Love) novel is out in November—w/ 2 different covers! sevenseasentertainment.com/books/the-be...

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

I’m not scared of the military that keeps accidentally dropping its planes into the sea

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Appropriately dark representation of what’s happening to our nation. TW: police ultimately fire tear gas grenades at the woman waving the American Flag. This is happening in and around LA. God save us all. 🇺🇸 #ICE #LosAngeles #SoCal #DHS

submitted 4 hours ago • 24 comments

Tear-gassing an unarmed, unmasked woman holding a US flag

submitted 2 hours ago • 5 comments

“A fascist society is one in which some people are deputized to do violence, and everyone else is forced to defend themselves.”

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Beach Ike and Soren

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

what pundits are writing the the "protesting ICE is incivil and divisive" takes next week

submitted 2 hours ago • 5 comments

Military style ICE raids in our communities. David Huerta was beaten and dragged away. Because he saw them and stood up for justice. Because he’s not afraid. Neither are we. On MONDAY let's #FreeDavidHuerta, #FreeThemAll 11:00 AM @ Grand Park in Downtown LA (200 N Grand Ave)

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President Trump's deployment of federalized National Guard troops is unnecessary, inflammatory, and an abuse of power. The Trump administration is putting people in LA in danger and undermines the democratic principle that the military should not police civilians. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

submitted 2 hours ago • 46 comments

This citizens of the US are going to feel the might of the empire turned inwards upon them. It's not going to be pretty.

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Flash bangs and tear gas thrown outside Metropolitan Detention Center in LA.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

A plane with no call sign is currently circling the area where the LA anti-ICE protests are taking place. It took off from March Air Reserve Base

submitted 3 hours ago • 12 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.

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Sucks when the authoritarian endpoint of your movement becomes clear.

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One of the best things about Posting is you never know what obscure preoccupations your followers have. There will be a guy who has followed you for years and never said anything but then one day you disparage applesauce and he activates like a sleeper agent and dedicates his life to destroying you

submitted 1 day ago • 174 comments

The thing about US government––from federal to local levels––is that, as a result of decades of bipartisan investments in mass incarceration and militarized policing to build a giant police state, it's ideally designed for fascist takeover.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

This is what people have the right to do when an invading gestapo force attacks their neighborhoods. The gestapo are abducting families off the streets. This is what needs to happen if we want to stop this.

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We @lawfaremedia.org will hopefully publish something on this soon but fwiw the legal authority invoked is NOT the Insurrection Act — it’s 10 USC 12406, which is much more limited than an Insurrection Act invocation. (Reporters: Chris Mirasola is the expert to talk to about this)

submitted 3 hours ago • 43 comments

anyway do just want to highlight the ingenuity of la protesters, tagging the asphalt in the street so news helicopter shots all day showed lapd, lasd, and ice milling about armed and aimless over big text reading "FUCK ICE FUCK KKKOPS"

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

I refuse to be polite and “nonviolent” when someone is trying to kill me.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 2 hours ago • 32 comments

Practically speaking, 2,000 National Guard in an area the size of Greater Los Angeles can't do very much without local agency help. They can lock down a couple neighborhoods. They can stay put and protect some federal facilities. They can't enforce a curfew on 18 million people across 4000 sq miles

submitted 5 hours ago • 12 comments

JULIETTE KAYYEM: “Active duty Marines for this, Hegseth? I mean, we were just reporting on it. There's music. The traffic is moving. Most people in L.A. probably don't even know this is going on.”

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dearest wife, bad tidings today from battle. our foes, they make merry sport of our beards and tell us they look unwashed. meanwhile, in the rear, our general remains incomprehensible. he speaks only to the board now. he issues orders betwixt terrified sobs. dearest thelma, i fear we are doomed.

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

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.

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