You said you were going after dangerous criminals ? Now you are taking hard working people off the streets, separating parents from kids, taking people from immigration court who are following the rules, & putting the military on our streets…this isn’t America. DON’T TELL US EVERYTHING IS FINE

In honor of Brian Wilson's passing, here are the four categories of Beach Boys songs: 1. surfing is great, you should try it 2. I have a good vehicle 3. I reach beyond myself into the ineffable, and that's where I find you, my love 4. sloop john b

Let’s Be Clear: The Rioting In LA Is By The Cops, Not The Protestors I already wrote about the GOP’s bloodthirsty desire to use the military on Americans. They manufactured a nonsense “crisis” by over-aggressively sending in ICE agents to grab people off the streets, leading to protests, which…

Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit

A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Sherman's comments reflect regular rules of engagement, which allows troops to temporarily detain individuals if they pose a threat to federal property or personnel. The official said it did not reflect an expansion of authorities. TRUE

If you ask a Marine—any fucking Marine—what they do during DSCA they will say detain and transfer to civil authority.

Marines don’t arrest, which is why you have Marines saying detain jfc talk to someone you willfully ignorant fucks.

WE ARE COMING, COMING, OUR UNION TO RESTORE WE ARE COMING, FATHER ABRAHAM, THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MORE

the "where are all the protests against trump" people became the "these protests against trump are bad optics" people so quickly you may have missed it

Don’t treat 2/7 like idiots and hold them accountable as professionals—they are.

Anyone saying Marines don’t train for crowd control or civil disorder are wrong. Look up DSCA. Signed, Me, a former infantry battalion S2, a/k/a the one responsible for detainee identification, tracking, and handoff to civil authorities.

Got a lot of Marine Corps expertise coming out of the wood work huh.

Who the fuck do you think you are?! Charlie Wilson?

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LAPD Won’t Do Immigration Enforcement — But Will Shoot You With Rubber Bullets for Protesting ICE theintercept.com/2025/06/10/l...

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How many followers do you need to get the full viral load for “pay attention to me, but on my terms”-itis?

PAY ATTENTION TO ME. But also my mentions are unreadable.

Victory is possible. Dare to believe in it. None of us asked to be in this boat but in the boat we are and you will have to live with how you respond to this for the rest of your lives. Be brave, be faithful and be good to each other.

1. We are not under a dictatorship. Have you seen these people? They can’t even sort out who’s in charge of what, and none of them has ever successfully run anything 2. Even if we were, giving up would not be a thing

Marine infantry battalions do train for crowd control and do have equipment for that mission. How well trained, how well equipped? Well—military grade for both.

He must be protected at all costs.

“I'm like the purple in a toga. Don't expect me to be like everyone else, and don't find fault with nature in my case because it made me different from them.” Epictetus, Discourses book 3.

Coworker: "There's worm cake in the break room." Me: [sets thumper to alert others]

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"it's bad that they're waving all those mexican flags because it makes them look like a teaming horde that outnumbers us dwindling yankees" does unfortunately describe a lot of people's reaction to the images coming out of LA which is why more white people should go out and bring some 🇺🇲 with them

A corollary to this, by the way, is that the surge of attention and appreciation the Booker gained by a (very good!) publicity stunt drained very quickly when he then did nothing with it and kept voting to approve Trump nominees. That sort of thing makes it harder to climb out of the slump

If you work at Marsh McLennan and are open to talk about that (especially in cyber), please slide into my DMs!

My favorite thing about tv show adaptations of popular books is how the tv show producers clearly know to *fix* things. I don’t even want to see what this Murderbot team does with ART.

Oh they have…nothing. Woof.

Rejected from a role without interview. Why did I apply? The hiring manager invited me to. Awesome.

I see we’ve hit the 48 hour mark after an event of some sort and have—as usual—moved into the “here’s why everything is actually about journalists” and 🫠. Why won’t anyone think of the institutional journalists?! Idk, it’s a fucking mystery.

Reporters were bored

Dem senator: Please, protestors, there are better ways to oppose the president Voters: Like not voting for his nominees? Dem senator: haha no no no. No. What I mean is we are writing a rap

If you're out there protesting, please support the troops by taking these and giving the National Guard some training feedback. They'll probably need it.

People who think the military is filled with obedient robots are just confessing that they’ve never met a lance corporal

TWICE!

if you keep watching the movie, the good guys win by blowing up the death star and killing everybody on it

It’s also a good time to remind people that LASD is not principally law enforcement, it is principally a criminal gang

Everyone in America being treated like Black Americans has them really upset.

Everyone likes to larp as a special forces operator until a skateboarder gives you the finger

What’s happening right now in Los Angeles is the lib equivalent of “try that in a small town” (try that deportation shit in a large, liberal and multiethnic city) and I’m definitely here for it

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

Good speech from a great show.

Support communities who choose to defend themselves against state violence instead of critiquing how they do it.

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

Alhamdulillah hot girl summer is upon us 🤲🏼