A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

“We can both recognize that it’s ridiculous and also that it’s pretty sinister,” @leahgreenberg told me. Don't let MAGA turn protest into a crime. www.latimes.com/politics/new...

Despite the partisan Supreme Court, the reason that we are still holding on to democracy is because the system still works, albeit like a ’78 Chevy with the doors rusting off. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Bettina Aptheker, as a student activist at UC Berkeley in the 1960s, fought for free speech after administrators tried to suppress political speech on campus. She sees the same with Trump’s efforts to control speech at universities today. By @anitachabria.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...

Bettina Aptheker was a 20-year-old sophomore at UC Berkeley when she climbed on top of a police car, barefoot so she wouldn’t damage it, and helped start the Free Speech Movement. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Trump has done exactly what he set out to do: Reduce our alarm at the use of the military on our streets. A recent study from the UC Davis found one-third of respondents (32%) agree that government ‘should use the military to help enforce its policies'. www.latimes.com/politics/new...

Free speech triumphs? It depends on Tuesday night, when we see if Kimmel returns undaunted, or if he has been subdued. Kimmel’s return should be a moment we all watch — a real-time look at how successful our president is at forcing us to censor ourselves through fear. www.latimes.com/california/s...

‘Wake up, Los Angeles. This isn’t a Jimmy Kimmel problem. This is a Los Angeles problem… You don’t need to agree with Kimmel’s politics to see where this is going.’ Via @anitachabria.bsky.social www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Kimmel having his speech censored is in league with our immigrant neighbors being rounded up or pressuring doctors into dropping transgender patients. They are all weaponization of government against people. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

After media coverage and scrutiny... ARC finally registered as a data broker in the state of California in June. Senator Wyden previously said it appeared ARC had been in violation of Californian law www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

THANK YOU @bostonjoan.bsky.social & LA Times! Folks, please check this out—any analyses taking the these memes as face value is missing the mark. www.latimes.com/politics/liv...

@bostonjoan.bsky.social explains what the writing on the bullets really means: www.latimes.com/politics/liv...

Brown people, speaking brown languages, hanging out with other brown people, and doing brown people things now meets the legal standard of “reasonable suspicion” required for immigration stops. Living while brown has become the new driving while Black. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Before we get to the point of having to choose who will go back in time to save Sarah Connor from Skynet and the Terminator, maybe we just don’t go there. Maybe we start with SB 53, and listen to smart, young people like Revanur. www.latimes.com/politics/new...

Before we get to the point of having to choose who will go back in time to save Sarah Connor from the Terminator, maybe we just don’t go there. Maybe we start with SB 53 in California, and listen to smart, young people like Revanur. www.latimes.com/politics/new...

The hardest parts of an autocracy are division and fear. It feels lonely and scary to speak out. @CAgovernor has done two crucial things with his social media barrage. www.latimes.com/politics/new...

There’s still a deep hesitation within media to make this call, but now it’s bordering on negligence. Still, some of us are trying. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Commentary: 'What’s to prevent a national police force?' Not this National Guard ruling. “There’s a chilling effect against pushing back or at least openly questioning any kind of orders,” @rachelv12 , a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, said. www.latimes.com/california/s...

‘if the University of California capitulates, there is nothing to stop the Trump administration from extorting funds from it again and again in the future.’ Via Erwin Chemerinsky @latimes.com www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Commentary: Newsom’s cops vs. Trump’s troops: A new showdown on America's streets. Understanding what makes cops different from soldiers — and Newsom’s move different from Trump’s — is understanding the difference between repression and public safety www.latimes.com/california/s...

‘Trump seems intent on creating a new, federal arrest and detention system outside of existing norms, aimed at everyday citizens and controlled by his whims. The death penalty is part of it, but stomping on civil rights is at the heart’ Via @anitachabria.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...

Authoritarians love the death penalty, and have long used it to repress not crime, but dissent. It is, after all, both the ultimate power and the ultimate fear, that the ruler of the state holds the lives of his people in his hands. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Even if Newsom loses the redistricting initiative in California, he will be able to argue that he fought harder than anyone else to curtail Trump’s power, and have the receipts to back that up. www.latimes.com/politics/new...

Read this paper after reading this story today got me fired up @anitachabria.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...

NEW: Wearing masks, no ID, unmarked & blacked out cars, refusing to say what agency they’re from and using profanity with any press & public nearby. This was at 14th & R in Washington DC, this morning (Sunday). What the hell is happening to the US? (🎥 Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post)

While the use of the military on American streets is alarming, it should be just as scary how blatantly this president is tying race not just to crime, but to violence so uncontrollable it requires military troops to stop it. www.latimes.com/california/s...

“If Texas cheats on their voting maps, then (and only then) should California cheat on ours?” @anitachabria.bsky.social on the consequences of Newsom's response to Texas lawmakers' attempt to redraw voting maps in favor of Republicans www.latimes.com/california/s...

Newsom vows Texas will be 'neutered' by California. Will voters let him do it? www.latimes.com/california/s...

California has filed 37 lawsuits against the Trump administration, spending $5 million ‘For each dollar the state has spent in litigation with Trump, it has recouped $33,600 in funds that the federal government has tried to take away’ Via @anitachabria.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...

“You see ... what’s at stake: the California dream ... The idea that every Californian, no matter how they look, where they live or how much money they have, can send their kid to school, go to the doctor and put food on the table.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

NEW: To gerrymander or not to gerrymander? That is the question me + @anitachabria.bsky.social discuss. Newsom wants to redraw congressional lines to offset a Texas gerrymander. Is that snubbing voters who took the power from politicians? Or fighting fire with fire? www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Reposting the image of Obama on his knees is flat-out racist, part of Trump's repetitive cycle of division and diversion that makes Groundhog Day seem fresh. Epstein who? Column by @anitachabria.bsky.social www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Videos like this one of Obama are the normalizing, the mockery, the celebration of the erosion of civil rights we are currently seeing being aimed at Black, brown and vulnerable Americans. They are a political weapon being used for a purpose. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

The threat of deporting political enemies didn’t start with Musk, and surely would not end with him. Commentary: Elon Musk learns that bullies aren't your friends. Now what? www.latimes.com/california/s...

“We might have had to put DOGE on Elon,” Trump said. “DOGE is the monster that ... might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn’t that be terrible?” Elon Musk learns that bullies aren't your friends. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Zohran Mamdani is a stylish, millennial, African-born Muslim with a Hollywood pedigree who just won the Democratic primary in the New York City mayor’s race. If he sounds like Donald Trump’s worst nightmare, he just might be. But he’s also a lot like him. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Zohran Mamdani is a stylish, millennial, African-born Muslim with a Hollywood pedigree who just won the Democratic primary in the New York City mayor’s race. If he sounds like Donald Trump’s worst nightmare, he just might be. But he’s also a lot like him. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Zohran Mamdani and Donald Trump have a lot in common. California should pay attention www.latimes.com/california/s...

“This is a very opportunistic presidency, and any opportunity that they can use to forward their immigration agenda, I think they’ll take full advantage of it,” @ucdavis prof. brad Jones said. www.latimes.com/california/s...

“People can’t tell if they’re crooks or they’re law enforcement,” www.latimes.com/california/s...

“I’ve had lots of guns pointed at me. I’ve had lots of threats against my life,” Lt. Diane Goldstein of @PoliceForReform told me. “I never once wore a mask because I was afraid.”Commentary: The secret police are everywhere. Do they really need the masks? www.latimes.com/california/s...

“I’ve had lots of guns pointed at me. I’ve had lots of threats against my life,” Lt. Diane Goldstein of @PoliceForReform told me. “I never once wore a mask because I was afraid.”Commentary: The secret police are everywhere. Do they really need the masks? www.latimes.com/california/s...

Must-read by @anitachabria.bsky.social Shortly after Noem’s statement, the White House press secretary posted on X that Padilla “recklessly lunged toward the podium,” cementing that narrative into right-wing conscientiousness. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Padilla asking questions is a threat to Trump. Padilla "lunging" becomes a threat to society, one that only Trump can stop. www.latimes.com/california/s...

SCOOP: Trump's military parade is being organized by some of the same MAGA political operatives who organized the rally that preceded the January 6 riot. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"If you care about our Constitution, about due process, about civil rights, watching a U.S. senator forced onto his knees for asking questions should be a terrifying wake-up call." Well said @anitachabria.bsky.social

Thanks @marielgarza.bsky.social

Commentary: First they came for the immigrants. Then they took down our Latino senator. It is starting to feel like being brown in America is a crime. Brown man allegedly lunging is the new Black man driving — scary enough that any response is justified. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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