"California — Los Angeles in particular — is in the president’s crosshairs today. But it will be Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle or New York tomorrow. Trump is promising Americans as much. 'We’re going to have troops everywhere.'"
~ California McClatchy Editorial Board
#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow #media
/22
"Because this is going to be their playbook for asserting federal control everywhere, and if they can get away with it in California, the sky’s the limit. The regime is all about boundary-testing, like a toddler or abusive lover."
~ Marcie Jones
#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow
/21
“You create a sense of existential fear that social anarchy is spreading, that criminal gangs are taking over. This is the language of authoritarianism all over the world,”...
It’s like a war zone. That’s on purpose, it’s habituating Americans to see those armed forces as being in combat on the streets of American cities.”
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow
/20
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/10/trump-administration-los-angeles-national-guard
"Misleading photographs, videos and text have spread widely on social media as protests against immigrant raids have unfolded in Los Angeles, rehashing old conspiracy theories and expressing support for President Trump’s actions.
The flood of falsehoods online appeared intended to stoke outrage toward immigrants and political leaders, principally Democrats."
~ Steven Lee Myers
#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow #media
/19
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/technology/la-protests-conspiracy-theories-disinformation.html
"The 'American people' are getting exactly what they voted by a slim plurality."
~ Chitown Kev
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #LosAngeles #immigrants #ICE #deportations #PoliticsofDistraction #violence #RealityShow
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/10/2326995/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-Still-out
"Los Angeles is a testing ground, a dress rehearsal for a larger and more ambitious production. If L.A. is occupied by U.S. troops, New York will be next, and Chicago, and Seattle, and so on."
~ Greg Olear
#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow #media
/18
https://gregolear.substack.com/p/passe-comitatus-we-dont-need-no-insurrection
Maureen Sullivan takes a deep-dive look at how Murdoch media are fanning the flames of the Trump-Los Angeles story.
"They’re on board, and of course, Trump counts on that cheerleading squad, the very same one that helped him gain both of his terms.
We all have our complaints about mainstream media but Murdoch Media is a whole other creature."
#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow #media
/15
https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/how-murdoch-media-is-fanning-the
"White House pool reporters are literally pouring gasoline onto a road flare held by an arsonist. They are baiting Trump into making ever more incendiary statements, which the media then repeats with staged alarm and barely concealed glee."
#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow #media
/14
"The man who launched an attempted coup on the United States in 2020 and instigated an insurrection at the Capitol that resulted in five deaths now claims that people in Los Angeles are launching an insurrection. They’re not."
~ Robert Reich
#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow
/13
"Before the election, Donald Trump quoted Hitler (again) and said he would send the National Guard and the military against 'the enemy from within.'
The enemies don’t include violent insurrectionists with MAGA shirts, Trump hats, and Confederate flags who stormed the US Capitol on January 6th, attacked cops, and tried to overthrow a free and fair election."
~ Wajahat Ali
#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow
/11
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-battle-for-los-angeles-and-american
"It is obvious, at least to me, that the men breaking windows and vandalizing the police car in San Francisco are provocateurs."
#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow
/9
"In Los Angeles, several Waymo driverless cars were set on fire by protesters. There is one photo (above) of a masked man standing atop a vandalized Waymo car between two burning cars waving a Mexican flag. More photos showed a vandalized LAPD car with a broken windshield surrounded by paving stones that had been hurled at the police cars."
#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow
/8
"The video images were almost identical to video taken of the Ferguson riots after the police shooting of Michael Brown in 2014 showing a man wearing black pants and a black hoodie and a backpack systematically breaking the windows of an auto parts store. He was followed by another man dressed identically who threw Molotov fire bombs into the store, setting it on fire."
#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow
/7
"Last night, protests spread to San Francisco, where 150 were arrested in clashes with police. Videos of the protests showed men in all-black outfits, wearing hoodies, masks, and backpacks, breaking the windows of downtown buildings with a hammer and vandalizing a SFPD patrol car."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow
/6
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-worst-of-all-possible-worlds
"Televised riots are the perfect backdrop to highlight the White House’s messaging on immigration. It is a manufactured show of force that Trump’s base will applaud."
#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow
/5
"Trump got his distraction, and as a bonus he got a public showdown with a political rival (Governor Gavin Newsom) over his core issue (immigration) in the bluest of blue states (California). It is a fight Trump has been girding for since he took office."
~ Dan Rather
#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow
/4
https://steady.substack.com/p/produced-and-directed-by-donald-trump
"This is a pure, unfiltered, weapons-grade reality show distraction. A re-run of the oldest trick in the Trump playbook: create a crisis, redefine reality, and hope the public is too overwhelmed to notice the man behind the curtain is full of shit."
~ Michael Cohen
#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow
/3
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/la-mayhem-trumps-reality-show-distraction
"What we’re seeing is a clumsy, transparent psychological warfare campaign being executed by the federal government against American citizens. It is, of course, totally illegal and unconstitutional, but regardless, Los Angeles is being used as an example and as psychological conditioning for a national rollout of this strategy."
~ Jim Stewartson
#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow #PsychologicalWarfare
/2
https://www.mind-war.com/p/waymo-false-flag-militarizing-america
"L.A. was chosen for a reason; the White House wanted this to be their staging ground.
The first reason for this belief is historical: Los Angeles has for decades been a frequent site of major civil rights–related protests....
It’s almost half Latino; immigrants really are, as Mena said, the lifeblood of the city and the state."
~ Adrian Carrasquillo
#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow
/1
"2025 has been a difficult year for transgender people. Over 850 bills targeting the community have been filed, the most in United States history."
~ Erin Reed
#Trump #Republicans #trans #LGBTQ #fascism #PoliticsofDistraction #cruelty
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/over-850-anti-lgbtq-bills-filed-in
