Neither Trump nor his followers give a flying fuck about legal justifications, and any so-called moderate who cares about that is a fascist in denial. Solidarity is indispensible when fighting tyranny, and solidarity demands that when members of your community are being kidnapped by the Gestapo you fight back, not watch and cry about legal justifications.

Los Angeles police, National Guard fire thousands of “less lethal” rounds at residents protesting fascist immigration raids.

There have been reports of them shooting protesters.

this is gonna show if the ICC still has any teeth.

The ICC never had any teeth and I see no reason to think it will start now.

I’m no fan of Hamas but man, this guy’s dedication to being a scab will never not impress and disgust me.

So what? Do you just watch until you’re being herded into concentration camps anyway? This is the first instance of effective resistance to Trump (the April parades don’t count) since January and they’re calling in the Marines already. This was simply never going to end peacefully, because any effective act of mass resistance was going to be suppressed violently; avoiding escalation means avoiding resistance.

He is. Newson is what the Democrats are.

I mean… gestures at LA?

Then they’re dealt with in the same way anyone else would be if they tried to do that; I’m not sure what your point is. Border “security” against individual crossing and national defense against an enemy state are two completely different things.

Should Ukraine open their borders to Russians?

If they’ll accept Ukrainian law and, you know, not attempt to take over the country, yes why not? Open borders don’t contradict self-defense.

The amount of young women’s bodies we dredged out of Z lake…

K. Literally just, k. That doesn’t justify anything and you know that, so why bring it up?

Not like I’m any help beyond trying to cool nerves, too volatile to protest and I am reliant on my MAGA grandmother.

I mean she’s not gonna disown you… right?

The president can mobilize the national guard of a state within that state, so what Trump doing is legal for all that matters.

“purposefully inflammatory”

Uh… this goes a bit beyond “inflammatory” chief.

Bass said in a statement Saturday night. “Everyone has the right to peacefully protest, but let me be clear: violence and destruction are unacceptable, and those responsible will be held accountable.”

Well at least he got the stuff about feckless Democrats right.

Police on Friday night issued a citywide tactical alert nearly two hours after declaring protests across the downtown area unlawful assemblies. “The use of less lethal munitions has been authorized by the Incident Commander,”

I mean ACAB so this isn’t new, but still holy authoritarianism batman.

Newsom said in a statement responding to Huerta’s arrest, describing the union president as a “respected leader, a patriot and an advocate for working people.”

I’d like that sentiment to carry over to, you know, actual policy, but I guess he’s not folding like a lawn chair yet.

Did I mention they have massive tariffs on foreign rice specifically so it doesn’t outcompete more expensive Japanese rice?

Setting aside the rice shortage, the Japanese government has laws in place to keep rice prices high for… I have no idea why. A big part of the shortage is that blowing up in their faces.

Other than that, an Eastern European country really has no business having as much territory in Central and East Asia as Russia does. It’s like if Britain never lost its colonial empire; the whole thing should be torn down so woke shit like the right to self-determination can come to Russia.

Well, it’s not like Trump courted them either.

What? He absolutely did. Trump explicitly ran on ending the war. Now anyone with half a brain could tell he was not going to do that, but compared to Biden and Harris he did court Gaza voters.

who do you think is going to be more sympathetic to hammering out a peace proposal in the region?

Neither.

And then the next Republican administration is just going to run up the deficit further because that’s all they do.

Yeah… no. The next Republican administration is going to be too busy building concentration camps and putting people in them to bother with boogeymen like the deficit.

Note that they’re less progressive, not not progressive. The data tells a different story than the headline.