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KEY EXCERPT: Trump admin says "common sense" gives any immigration officer reasonable suspicion to stop and question any Latino speaking Spanish anywhere in the Central District of California (covering 7 counties; LA, San Bernadino, Riverside, Ventura, Orange, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Barbara).

The U.S. government is run by Stephen Miller, Laura Loomer, and whatever rando Fox puts on TV when Trump is watching

Trump needs to stay the hell out of my city.

Lol, people keep saying the IOC should move the Olympics. Do you all forget that China has hosted the Olympics twice, including as recently as 2022? Or that Russia, under Putin, hosted the Olympics in 2014?

Actor Dean Cain, who played Superman in the '90s, reveals he joined ICE Dean Cain, who starred in "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman," made a recruitment video for the agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Real life beats The Onion again. @bencollins.bsky.social

AI filmmaking and storytelling is punk rock. It’s hip hop. It’s counterculture. It’s a new type of creativity. It’s a new medium. It’s hated by the mainstream film and art establishment. It resists ideology. It ignores gate keeping. It’s uncomfortable. It’s scary. It’s viral. It’s accessible. It’s refreshing. It’s welcoming. It’s here.

AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.

No way Batman is voting for Trump.

Hate it

Trump responds to his failure to create jobs by firing the U.S. labor statistics chief Confronted with evidence of his own failures, the president could've changed direction. He instead found it easier to fire his labor statistics chief.

In true authoritarian fashion, Trump, confronted by evidence of his failures, fired the labor statistics chief for telling the truth.

It’s dangerously insane to set the credibility of government stats on fire to satisfy presidential whims.

This isn’t how Americans govern; it’s how despots rule.

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘Praying for it to end’: Vermont superintendent speaks out after ICE interrogation

“I told them I was an American citizen. I questioned why they were using those tactics on me. I asked about my constitutional rights. An officer outright said out loud that I have no constitutional rights at a point of entry,” says Wilmer Chavarria, a school superintendent in Vermont.

Posting this as a general note: I continue to see people responding to my posts with suggestions that ICE and CBP officers are deputized right wing militia, or J6ers, or things like that.

I want to emphasize again that there is NO evidence for this. Not a single credible source has confirmed it.

Independents Drive Trump's Approval to 37% Second-Term Low President Donald Trump's job approval rating has fallen to 37%, the lowest of his second term as a result of a decrease among independents.

Trump's cratering in polls continues. Crushing new Gallup numbers:

Overall approval: 37%
On immigration: 38%
On economy: 37%
On trade: 36:
Federal budget: 29%

Overall approval among independents: 29%

news.gallup.com/poll/692879/...

Where the hell are Obama and Clinton? How can they keep staying silent through all this? They should be on TV every day. I'm so tired of Democrats clinging to their old idea of "decorum".

Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸

Don’t Say Vote: NC GOPers Want to Bar Election Officials From Encouraging Turnout Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

No, this is not a joke. This is real.

North Carolina Republicans have introduced a sweeping elections bill that, among other steps, would bar election officials from encouraging or promoting voter turnout. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/don...

"If you look at page 1 of the tariff handbook, it says: Don't tariff inputs. It's the simplest way to make it harder—more expensive—for Americans to do business. Any factory around the world can get the steel, copper, and aluminum it needs without paying a 50% upcharge, except an American factory."

The emerging coup Lawless authoritarian regimes don't give up power willingly.

I wrote about the implications of the Trumped GOP funding the massive expansion of a militarized, violent and lawless federal police force - with its own, growing, network of concentration camps - answerable to their Leader.

there is a certain liberal anti-affirmative action scholar who has insisted, like a rube, that once racial preferences are gone we can build support for class-based affirmative action. but the people who oppose affirmative action also very obviously oppose redress for class inequality!

Using a giant printed spiral-bound book of maps (Thomas Guide) to navigate around LA.

(And TIL they STILL make the Thomas Guide! thomasmaps.com/la-org-thoma...)

The stage of the Hollywood Bowl at sunset, with the artwork for "Bugs Bunny at the Symphony" showing on a screen in front of the stage.

Just finished an amazing appreciation of Looney Tunes and classical music live at the Hollywood Bowl. Go check out "Bugs Bunny at the Symphony" if it comes to a city near you!
bugsbunnyatthesymphony.net/mobile/

Tacos suave

rage consumes me

Hanging out at the local Mexican food cart and doing my best in Spanish when they don’t speak a word and we are all kind and enjoying the food is THE WHOLE POINT OF AMERICA YOU BUTTS

No playing Spanish-language music: Many immigrants say they have new rules for driving As the Trump administration's crackdown continues, traffic stops have become increasingly important tools of enforcement. It has led many immigrants to take alternate modes of transportation.

As the Trump administration's crackdown continues, traffic stops have become increasingly important tools of enforcement. It has led many immigrants to take alternate modes of transportation.

Saw it today, and I loved it. I was a baby when Donner's Superman came out, and that's still the best to me. But Gunn's Superman is better than anything since.

For film, I like ‪@drewmcweeny.com‬, ‪@mattsinger.bsky.social‬, and @scottmendelson.bsky.social‬

James Gunn made Superman fun again.

Man on life support from injury during immigration raid in Ventura County, family says A man is on life support after he was injured during an immigration raid at an agricultural area of Camarillo on Thursday, according to a family member.

Hearing from UFW spokesperson just now that this man has died.

a line of heavily armed federal agents in riot gear standing in a field surrounded by tomato plants

The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for.

UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families.

Our full statement below. ⬇️
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Homan: "People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them ... based on their physical appearance."

What happened today is that a group of armed soldiers and federal officials walked across a park where a bunch of kids were playing until Bass asked them to leave.

Now listen to the DHS official ranting about how Bass is protecting "MS-13, child rapists, drug traffickers." Is is insane.

I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit

Of course. It's all rigged by the extremist right-wing minority against the majority.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...