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California Representative, Maxine Waters says she was on the streets of LA during the riots and saw no violence, and tells people not to trust the videos: “No violence. I was on the street. Get it straight, don't rely on what you're being told or the incidents you saw.”
This evil witch is gaslighting you directly to your face and telling you not to trust what you see because your eyes are lying.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” -- George Orwell, 1984.
Why are you more upset that people are protesting ICE than the fact that ICE is kidnapping people and violating their human right?
Why are you more upset at the protesters throwing water bottles and rocks at cops than the fact that those cops are in riot gear shooting rubber bullets and tear gas on protesters who were peaceful?
Why do you care more about destruction of property than human life?
Trump is already acting like he just saved the city of Los Angeles from the horrible violent protestors so I just want everyone to remember that the protests were largely nonviolent and not even particularly large and that the governments of both LA and California were not super concerned about them, and are furious that Trump intervened because it's obvious to everyone in LA that he made it 1000x worse. But because right-wing media is going to take Trump's side and because right-leaning/moderate people already have a negative opinion of California, the narrative is very easily going to shift to "Trump saves the weak little liberals who were afraid to take action!"
Don't fucking let it. Do not shut up about this. Trump illegally sent armed forces into an American city against the local government's will, and by all accounts escalated the violence. Don't let anyone forget it. Don't let them rewrite this.
Notice how the people rioting in Minneapolis against ICE had Palestinian flags? Have you seen that the people who pushed ICE back in NYC wore keffiyehs? Could you see the sea of flags - including Lebanese and Palestinian ones - in footage from the anti ICE riots in LA?
Liberation is interconnected. Once you want some liberation, you realize you need all liberation.
The judge directed the Trump administration to return control of the California National Guard to Gov. Gavin Newsom.
A federal judge on Thursday [June 12, 2025] blocked the Trump administration from deploying members of the California National Guard in Los Angeles and ordered President Trump to return control to Gov. Gavin Newsom.
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer found that California officials are likely to succeed in their challenge to the president's decision to federalize members of the National Guard in response to protests in Los Angeles, and granted their request to block his use of the forces to assist immigration agents during raids.
"His actions were illegal — both exceeding the scope of his statutory authority and violating the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution," Breyer wrote of Mr. Trump in a 36-page decision. "He must therefore return control of the California National Guard to the Governor of the State of California forthwith."
The judge said Mr. Trump circumvented Newsom when he called the California National Guard into federal service, and therefore did not follow the procedural requirement laid out by Congress. He put his decision on hold until noon Friday. The Justice Department swiftly notified the court it is appealing the order, which it did later Thursday night, asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to intervene.
"The National Guard will come back under my authority by noon tomorrow [Friday June 13th]," Newsom told reporters in a news briefing in San Francisco Thursday evening. "The National Guard will be redeployed to what they were doing before Donald Trump commandeered them."
"We're gratified," Newsom said. "Today is a big day for the Constitution of the United States, for our democracy. And I hope it's the beginning of a new day in this country where we push back against overreach, we push back against these authoritarian tendencies of a president that has pushed the boundaries, pushed the limit, but no longer can push this state around any longer."
Breyer issued his decision hours after holding a hearing in San Francisco, which marked the first test of Mr. Trump's decision to place more than 4,000 members of the California National Guard under federal control and send 700 active-duty Marines to Los Angeles...
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass imposed an 8 p.m. curfew on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Los Angeles Police Department said there have been at least 400 arrests since Saturday stemming from protests and other criminal activity in the downtown area.
Breyer's order only covers National Guard members, and he had indicated during the hearing that concerns about the potential actions of the Marines who have been sent to Los Angeles are so far speculative.
During the proceedings, Breyer at times appeared uncomfortable with the assertion from Justice Department lawyer Brett Shumate that courts cannot review whether Mr. Trump's decision to call in the National Guard complies with Title 10.
"It's not that a leader can simply say something and it becomes it," he said. "How is that any different than what a monarchist does?"
The judge continued: "This country was founded in response to a monarchy and the Constitution is a document of limitations … and an enunciation of rights."
Title 10 lays out three circumstances under which the National Guard can be called into federal service: when the U.S. is invaded or in danger of invasion by a foreign nation; when there is a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the U.S.; or when the president is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws.
The measure then states the president "may call into federal service members and units of the National Guard of any state in such numbers as he considers necessary to repel the invasion, suppress the rebellion or execute those laws." It says orders "shall be issued through" the governor...
In his decision, Breyer wrote that the protests in Los Angeles "fall far short" of rebellion, as Mr. Trump claimed in his memorandum invoking Title 10. The administration, Breyer said, did not identify a "violent, armed, organized, open and avowed uprising against the government as a whole."
"The definition of rebellion is unmet," Breyer wrote. "Moreover, the court is troubled by the implication inherent in defendants' argument that protest against the federal government, a core civil liberty protected by the First Amendment, can justify a finding of rebellion."
In his remarks Thursday, Newsom said, "Clearly there's no invasion, there's no rebellion, it's absurd." ...
Nicholas Green, a lawyer with the state of California, said Mr. Trump's move to deploy the National Guard to Los Angeles marks an "expansive, dangerous conception of federal executive power." He said that the governor's office had received information that 140 Marines will replace and relieve National Guard members in Los Angeles within the next 24 hours....
During testimony on Capitol Hill, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was asked whether he would abide by the judge's decision on the president's use of military forces in Los Angeles in response to the protests. Hegseth declined to definitively say and instead criticized federal judges.
-via CBS News, June 12, 2025
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Note: Spoke too soon. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with the Trump administration and granted a temporary administrative stay of the order until a hearing scheduled for June 17th. HATE THIS.
A federal appeals court temporarily halted a judge's ruling that had blocked the Trump administration from deploying members of the Californ
"But the protests! We cant be violent, my optics!"
Shut the fuck up. These protests are actively keeping ICE agents in that area incapable of efficiently completely their job. Their job to kidnap people, torture them, and send them to a camp in another country with 0 due process.
Every time protesters stop ICE from advancing. Everytime they force the national guard, the police, whatever the state wants to throw from accompanying ICE, a family is saved. Every single time precincts are forced to stop a crowd instead of assist ICE, a family is saved.
This is direct action. This is showing up and building community. This is organizing.
Also don't give the "Oh but theyre looting!" Yeah and? Fuck those businesses. Looting is redistributing capital back to the working class and still helps stop ICE and Police from acting.