Militarized riot squads deployed on the streets of Los Angeles. Still from local news coverage.

“In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.”

― Roberto Bolaño, Distant Star

Instead of invading Greenland, Canada, Panama or Mexico, in a tactical faint worthy of Gen. George Armstrong Custer, Trump invaded…Los Angeles.

The last time a President deployed the National Guard to a state over the objections of the governor was in 1965, when LBJ sent them to protect Civil Rights marchers in Selma in defiance of Alabama Governor George Wallace. Now they’re being sent by Trump to California to crack down ON civil rights protesters.

No masks allowed, except for Trump’s secret police:

Jonathan Last, writing in the Bulwark: “Almost by definition, stable democracies do not allow agents of the state to operate under cover of concealment. Either that characterization is wrong, or we are no longer a stable democracy.”

A dockworkers’ strike might have been an effective response to Trump’s invasion of Los Angeles had not Trump’s tariffs already halted most cargo traffic into the Port of Los Angeles.

Wait until the LAPD learns it’s a “leftist police department”…You won’t have to defund them, the entire force will be applying for jobs in Pocatello, Boise, and Coeur d’Alene..

There’s nothing more anti-American than someone who claims to be fighting “anti-Americanism.” To be anti-American is the birthright of every American.

Q: “Could we really see active duty Marines on the streets of Los Angeles?”

House Speaker Mike Johnson: “I don’t think that’s heavy-handed.”

Q: “You don’t think sending Marines into the streets of an American city is heavy-handed?”

Johnson: “We have to be prepared to do what is necessary.”

Their hypocrisy is a feature, not a glitch, and the more glaring the better as far as MAGA is concerned…

Cost of sending Marines to terrorize LA: $135 million.

So we’ve gone from a police state to a military police state in less than five months. What comes next?

A memo obtained by NBC News shows that the DOJ has been instructing immigration court judges (who they oversee) to dismiss cases from the bench without giving time to appeal in order to allow ICE to make courtroom arrests.

Really, “criminals” are lining up to pick strawberries in 100F heat for $13,000 a year…

But “criminals” aren’t the people being........

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