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Jan's avatar

Thank you to the 10,000 protestors in L.A. courageously standing the line peacefully. Document everything. We need 100,000 people out there. I know there is exhaustion and fear but this is too important and there is great strength in numbers! This is an evil regime who must be stopped. Be peaceful, be strong, be kind. I stand with you!

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Cat's avatar
Jun 10Edited

Dean! Do me a solid. I was trying to get your attention yesterday on the live. Recall the January 6 Rioters are also murderers. It’s been very conveniently abhorrent that everyone has completely forgotten the trampling death of Roseanne Boyland.

That crowd was not tourists. They were paid for and organized to be there… paid transportation and hotel rooms, by Trump himself.

People were killed under his direction.

Let’s see what happens with her name out there again with your voice …because I had just bought my subscription from you without a discount ….so help a sister out over here! 🤷🏼‍♀️

Seriously-I just want to hear what people have to say about Roseanne Boyland since she has been indignantly ignored for 4 1/2 years— and I think she has a unique significance in this moment and I hope you agree and are curious as well.

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Mark Hayes's avatar

Kristi Noem testified under oath in front of Congress that one of the directives ICE was given was to specifically and directly target Pardoned January 6th Insurrectionists traitors to recruit into the new and expanded ICE.

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Amber Coverdale Sumrall's avatar

No King’s Day is Saturday, the 14th, not Friday, as stated in the article.

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Ruby Weima's avatar

Remember, have a peaceful protest.

Sit, sit, sit, where you are.

Don’t raise your arms.

Become deadweight, if someone tries to remove you from where you are protesting.

Be safe out there.

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Pat Bowles's avatar

Watch Civil War. What was described as distopian when it was released last fall, is quite possible given the growing civil unrest and unjustified deployment of the National Guard and Marines. It is truly a terrifying film to watch, but a must see by all Americans. US citizens must wake up to the new reality and seriously figure out how to get rid of this administration.

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jane horvath's avatar

I believe I heard equine units, from whatever service has them, have been ordered to LA. BETTER TELEVSION. My god.

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Itsanewdawn's avatar

Be careful around them! There is footage already of approximately 4 mounted police with a protester on the ground and they are using the horses to keep him there by letting them walk over him. It’s disgusting and dangerous!

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Mark Hayes's avatar

If you're planning on bringing a flag to the No Kings protest, please make it an American flag this time. Yes, we need to show solidarity with our Ukrainian, Mexican and Canadian allies but this time, the optics demand that, if things do get bad that it's clear that the military is attacking peaceful, unarmed AMERICAN patriots.

World media will be covering what we do in California and the world will be watching us and watching the criminal and Unconstitutional actions that the Trump Administration perpetrates. Be peaceful, don't show up with anything that they could say is a weapon, not even a pen knife and be an American patriot.

Because dissent IS patriotic. After all, that's how this country began.

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Michael Ann Ochs's avatar

Please be aware there are people who will attend these evens that are aligned with Trump that intend to start violence. Trump is looking to use this to justify bringing in the military. Don't react to them. Take video of them in the act. Capture their faces or tattoos if possible. Some people are suggesting sitting down to highlight their activities. Please be safe and nonviolent.

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Steven Dundas's avatar

Dean,

The Proud Boys and others will soon become deputized and an armed branch of Trump’s dictatorship. I wrote this article on 14 December of last year. https://dundas.substack.com/p/trump-and-elons-brownshirts-will?utm_source=publication-search

Trump has masterfully organized a crisis not just to use the military but to create his own force that is completely loyal to him. Part of what I wrote is here:

“I fully expect that within days of Trump’s inauguration that Tom Homan will request that Trump and the acting directors of Justice and Homeland Security, if his picks haven’t already been approved by the Senate, to request that they be deputized as an agency reporting directly to him and Stephen Miller, America’s answer to Reinhardt Heydrich. Once this is accomplished expect them to be organized and equipped to assist ICE and INS in border enforcement, deportation operations, and guarding the many concentration camps required to house these people until Trump can find countries that will accept them. Loyal officers from the active or retired ranks of DOD, Homeland Security, ICE and INS will be transferred to assist in their organization and training, and promoted to ranks corresponding to the equivalent military or federal police grades. Because they will be auxiliaries, they will not need Senate confirmation or approval.”

I was wrong in my timing, but with his need to staff his concentration and detention camps for all that they arrest, these thugs will be needed. The only question now is how soon. Enrique de Terio of the Proud Boys is already talking about it.

All the best,

Steve Dundas

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Grace Lynch's avatar

I sooo appreciate hearing the perspective from Canada. Our media has for the most part just bent over asking to be butt fucked. Just today another ABC journalist has been fired because he openly criticized what Voldemort [Stephen Miller] has been doing to destroy the Constitution.

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CrossBordered's avatar

Umm, June 14th is Saturday, not Friday.

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Stephen ONeill's avatar

Trump delenda est.

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Mark Hayes's avatar

Dean, I want to thank you for your voice. I never thought that one of the best and most trustworthy voices on our US news and politics would be a Canadian journalist, but here we are.

Right now, as a Californian, I'm watching and reading ih horror about what's happening to the south of us in Los Angeles. It sickens me but it also strengthens my resolve to join the No Kings protest on Saturday at our California State Capitol Building about 15 blocks from where I live. I've been to other protests since January 20th but this is the first one that I've been to that I was made to decide to purchase a gas mask to attend, but, again, here we are.

There will be a large turnout here on Saturday, we're expecting thousands and we have no idea what the Trump Administration will do. Los Angeles is high profile but so is San Francisco and Sacramento as the State Capitol, all three places have turned out for every national protest since the Inauguration — so we're expecting things to get weird and possibly ugly.

But we will be there.

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