Brave Los Ángeles rioters defend Community against attack of Cops and ICE thugs

8 Jun, 2025 23:50

Trump orders feds to ‘liberate Los Angeles’ (VIDEOS)

California’s governor has pushed back against the US president’s move to suppress pro-immigrant riots in his state

Trump orders feds to ‘liberate Los Angeles’ (VIDEOS)

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US President Donald Trump has directed top federal officials to take “all such action necessary” to defeat Community defenders in Los Angeles, ordering the deployment of thousands of ICE deportation goons and National Guard troops.

The best thing that people can do in solidarity is to take action outside LA. They want to isolate and suppress us one by one….
Stand up in solidarity.
https://crimethinc.com/posters/the-border-is-everywhere

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Trump said he ordered federal agencies to quell the uprising, thus usurping dictatorial powers by sidelining the contrary California governor.

“A once great American City, Los Angeles, has been invaded and occupied by Illegal Aliens and Criminals,” Trump posted on Truth Social on Sunday. “Now violent, insurrectionist mobs are swarming and attacking our Federal Agents to try and stop our deportation operations ”

Trump orders National Guard to quell California riots (VIDEOS)

Trump’s comments follow two days of clashes between Community defenders and federal immigration agents, prompting Trump to authorize the deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops.

LAPD GETTING PUSHED BACK AND KETTLED BY CROWD! LA not fucking with ICE, DHS, or any of these pigs.

FTP!! https://t.co/9mpPGZk5CE pic.twitter.com/57NhaASWxV
— People's City Council – Los Angeles (@PplsCityCouncil) June 8, 2025

Tensions peaked Sunday afternoon as hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles.

Video footage showed National Guard troops facing off with protesters behind riot shields.

At one point tear gas was fired, but authorities have not confirmed which or all agencies used lethal force or what triggered the escalation.

Governor Gavin Newsom condemned the federal “takeover” of California’s National Guard as unconstitutional and politically motivated, formally demanding that President Trump withdraw the order and return control of the troops to the state.

Los Ángeles, CA – Protestors have successfully shut down part of the 101 freeway as thousands march through the streets to protest ICE and President Trumps ordering of 2,000 National Guardsmen.

Large police response can be seen in attempt to disperse the crowd. pic.twitter.com/2VOxY0FxOh
— Anthony (@AnthonyCabassa_) June 8, 2025

“We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved,” he claimed on X. “This is a serious breach of state sovereignty – inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they’re actually needed.”

The unrest began Friday and intensified Saturday in the cities of Paramount and Compton, following multiple immigration raids in which over 100 people were arrested.

Demonstrators attempted to block Border Patrol vehicles, and some threw rocks and debris at officers. Federal agents responded with tear gas, pepper balls and flash-bang grenades.

Homeland Security officials accused local politicians of failing to uphold public safety. “Instead of rioting, they should be thanking ICE officers every single day who wake up and make our communities safer,” said DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.

California governor pushes back against ‘federal takeover’ (VIDEOS)

Senator Bernie Sanders described the deployment as “a president moving this country rapidly into authoritarianism.”

While previous National Guard deployments in Los Angeles were initiated by state officials, this marks the first federal override since the 1960s civil rights era.

…Quote from LA uprising in 2000…

It remains unclear how long the troops will remain in the city. Defense Secretary Hegseth warned that active-duty Marines could be deployed next if the violence continues.

“Approximately 500 Marines from 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines at Twentynine Palms, California, are in a prepared to deploy status should they be necessary to augment and support the DoD’s protection of federal property and personnel efforts,” the US Northern Command announced in a statement on Sunday.

Multiple Waymo vehicles set ablaze here in LA pic.twitter.com/p2iVDUbEIL
— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) June 9, 2025

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Los Angeles Stands up to ICE

https://crimethinc.com/LosAngelesJune6

In this report, participants in the clashes of June 6 describe how people came together to defend their community from federal agents.

This details the response to the initial raids, the standoff at the detention center, and how a crowd chased ICE out of Chinatown later that night.

From Media Darling to Persona Non Grata: Greta Thunberg’s Journey

Once the favored child of the establishment, Greta Thunberg has been dropped by the global elite.

A MintPress News study finds that coverage of Thunberg in The New York Times and Washington Post has dwindled from hundreds of articles per year to barely a handful, precisely as she widens her focus from the environment to the capitalist system that is causing climate breakdown, and the Israeli attack on Gaza, which the Swedish activist has labeled a “genocide.”

Not Your Puppet

Greta Thunberg was once a media darling. Organizing a climate strike at her local school when she was just fifteen, she shot to fame and was quickly embraced by the establishment.

In 2019, she was invited to the European Union Parliament and received a standing ovation from the politicians and diplomats in attendance.

She also spoke in front of the British government. Yet even as she told them that they were a pack of “liars” responsible for “one of the greatest failures of humankind,” the young Swede was applauded in a patronizing manner.

Then Environmental Secretary Michael Gove admitted being moved by her words, stating, “When I listened to you, I felt great admiration, but also responsibility and guilt. I am of your parents’ generation, and I recognize that we haven’t done nearly enough to address climate change and the broader environmental crisis that we helped to create.”

Her message of the urgent need to address the impending climate crisis was one that was palatable to authorities, who attempted to co-opt her with access and accolades.

In 2019, despite being only 16 years old, she won the Swedish Woman of the Year award and was named by Forbes magazine as one of the world’s 100 most powerful women.

Time magazine even awarded her its prestigious Person of the Year, for, in their words, “sounding the alarm about humanity’s predatory relationship with the only home we have,” “bringing to a fragmented world a voice that transcends backgrounds and borders,” and for “showing us all what it might look like when a new generation leads.”

While conservatives were hostile to her from the start, more liberal institutions showered her with attention and praise.

The New York Times, for example, described her as “a modern-day Cassandra for the age of climate change,” and noted that her work had “inspired huge children’s demonstrations” across the planet.

Yet Thunberg refused to be turned into a mascot for the elites, and the co-optation failed.

As a result, coverage of her in elite media outlets has plummeted to almost nothing, even as she continues to fight for global causes and risks her life trying to break the illegal blockade of Gaza……

Continúe reading here.. www.mintpressnews.com

Trump/Musk- ruthless, selfish, genocidal egomaniacs ruling US terrorist State-

“.. Did Epstein sell Israel the tapes of his pedophile island where the whole Western Elite flocked to party, including, says Musk, Donald Trump?. which would explain why they all ‘approve’ the Gaza Genocide “

on 6 Jun, 2025 16:15 By Tarik Cyril @tarikcyril via Home World News via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-H4o

Both Trump and Musk continue paying and supporting the Genocide of the indigenous Palestinians by the terrorist theocratic Israeli State

Trump-Musk Big Bro bust-up: Ignore the noise, focus on the signal… When the 2 most powerful andwealthy men on Earth swop criminal revelations, what does it say about their country?

Two very rich and very powerful and very big American egos have had a very public and very loud cat fight.

US President Donald Trump, arguably the single most powerful politician in the world, and his now former “buddy-in-chief” Elon Musk, certifiably the single richest oligarch on (for now) this planet, have “torched” (Wall Street Journal) their occasionally exuberant bromance of almost a year in a “stunning” (Bloomberg) and “spectacular” (New York Times) finale of fiery mutual recrimination.

Say what you will about oligarchic techno-capitalism, but it can be entertaining.

Using their own social media platforms, Musk and Trump have gone after each other with brutal reputational attacks, griping of the “You owe me!” – “No, you me!” variant, and high-value threats to do each other economic and political damage.

MEANWHILE.. on the streets:

On June 3, a crowd drove federal agents out of Minneapolis following an attempted raid. On June 4, people confronted ICE in Chicago and Grand Rapids. Today, there are clashes with ICE in Los Angeles.Trump has signed a memorandum deploying 2000 National Guard to Los Angeles—the next step in his power grab…. Stand up in solidarity. https://crimethinc.com/posters/the-border-is-everywhere

The key trigger for the blow-up was what Trump calls his “Big Beautiful Bill,” which is currently making its way through Congress. For, Musk – despite his lucrative government contracts, is a deficit hawk, whose own DOGE cost-cutting effort has just frustratingly failed – the same tax bill is a “disgusting abomination.”

Musk claims that he is greatly concerned over America’s exploding and unsustainable national debt.

Since Trump’s Republican majority in the Senate is small, Musk’s open support for the bill’s vocal opponents there is a real political embarrassment for the White House at least, if not even a serious threat.

By Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory

US sovereign debt, moreover, is a real and very serious problem with dire economic and geopolitical implications; and estimates put the costs of Trump’s bill at 3.3 trillion additional debt over the next ten years: Musk has a factual point.

Yet there also is the fact that Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill foresees cutting subsidies for buying Musk’s Tesla cars (among other EVs), amounting to an estimated loss of $1.2 billion for Tesla.

It can be complicated in that place between conservative ideology, pure and simple, and the unrelenting will to milk the public for yourself and your shareholders.

Musk also “revealed” – if that is the word – that Donald Trump features on the client list of the sinister financier, pedophile, mass sex criminal, and most likely intelligence-connected elite blackmailer Jeffrey Epstein, who conveniently committed suicide in a Manhattan jail in 2019.

To make it count, Musk, as if returning to his former Centrist political self, suggested impeaching Trump and founding a new party to contest the great blusterer’s grip on “the 80% in the middle.

” Liberal Tesla drivers: Maybe you can love your car again. Even if the share prices of its manufacturer are tanking.

Trump shot back by warning Musk that his “billions” in government contracts could melt away like the snows of yesteryear,

Which made Musk threaten to stop carrying US astronauts into orbit, that is, in effect – since the volatile oligarch is America’s de facto monopolist – shut down space for the US.

Save the World – Eat The Rich oppressors – George Monbiot

It’s a cast-iron relationship: the more unequal a society becomes, the better the far right does. Here’s why.

By George Monbiot at monbiot.com via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-GKf Telegram t.me/thefreeonline/3291

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“He’s really gone and done it this time. Now everyone can see what a disaster he is.” How many times have we heard this about Donald Trump? And how many times has it been proved wrong?

“From 2019 to 2023, inflation-adjusted household income fell, and the poverty rate rose.” GDP and social improvement are no longer connected.

Well, maybe this time he really has overstepped. After all, his clowning around with tariffs, sparking trade wars, then suddenly reversing his position, could provoke a global recession, perhaps even a depression.

\Surely his supporters will disown him? But I’m not banking on it, and this is why.

Already, Trump has waged war on everything that builds prosperity and wellbeing: democracy, healthy ecosystems, education, healthcare, science, the arts. Yet, amid the wreckage, and despite some slippage, his approval ratings still hold between 43 and 48%: far higher than those of many other leaders. Why? I believe part of the answer lies in a fundamental aspect of our humanity: the urge to destroy that from which you feel excluded.

This urge, I think, is crucial to understanding politics. Yet hardly anyone seems to recognise it. Hardly anyone, that is, except the far right, who see it all too well.

In many parts of the world, and the US in particular, inequality has risen sharply since the late 1970s. (The UK tracks this trend.) The world’s billionaires became $2tn richer last year, while the number of people living below the global poverty line is more or less unchanged since 1990.

There is strong evidence of a causal association between growing inequality and the rise of populist authoritarian movements. A paper in the Journal of European Public Policy found that a one-unit rise in the Gini coefficient (a standard measure of inequality) increases support for demagogues by 1%.

Why might this be? There are various, related explanations: feelings of marginalisation, status anxiety and social threat, insecurity triggering an authoritarian reflex and a loss of trust in other social groups. At the root of some of these explanations, I feel, is something deeply embedded in the human psyche: if you can’t get even, get mean.

In the US, a high proportion of the population is excluded from many of the benefits I’ve listed. Science might lead to medical breakthroughs, but not, perhaps, for people who can’t afford health insurance. A university education might open doors, but only if you’re prepared to carry tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt. Art and theatre and music improve our lives: good for those who can buy the tickets. So do national parks, but only if you can afford to visit them.

“Eat the Rich!”: A Rallying Cry Against Income Inequality

Democracy, we are told, allows people a voice in politics. But only, it seems, if they have a few million to give to a political party. As the political scientist Prof Martin Gilens notes in his book Affluence and Influence: “Under most circumstances, the preferences of the vast majority of Americans appear to have essentially no impact on which policies the government does or doesn’t adopt.” GDP growth was strong under Joe Biden, but as the economics professor Jason Furman points out: “From 2019 to 2023, inflation-adjusted household income fell, and the poverty rate rose.” GDP and social improvement are no longer connected.

‘Eat the Rich’ popsicles let NYers take a bite out of Elon Musk and …

All those good things? Sorry, they’re not for you. If you feel an urge to tear it all down, to burn the whole stinking, hypocritical, exclusive system to the ground, Trump is your man. Or so he claims. In reality his entire performance is both a distraction from and an accelerant of spiralling inequality. He can hardly lose: the more he exacerbates inequality, the more he triggers an urge for revenge against his scapegoats: immigrants, trans people, scientists, teachers, China.

But such killer clowns can’t pull this off by themselves. Their most effective recruiters are centrist parties paralysed in the face of economic power. In hock to rich funders, terrified of the billionaire media, for decades they have been unable even to name the problem, let alone address it. Hence the spectacular uselessness of the Democrats’ response to Trump. As the US journalist Hamilton Nolan remarks: “One party is out to kill, and the other is waiting for its leaders to die.”

In the UK, Labour, like the Democrats, has long assured itself that it doesn’t matter how wide economic disparities are, as long as the poorest are raised up. Now it has abandoned even that caveat: we can cut benefits, so long as GDP grows.

But it does matter. It matters very much. A vast array of evidence, brought together in 2009 in The Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett and updated in 2024, shows that inequality exerts a massive influence on social, economic, environmental and political outcomes, regardless of people’s absolute positions.

If there is a such a thing as Starmerism, it collapses in the face of a paper published by the political scientists Leonardo Baccini and Thomas Sattler last year, which finds that austerity increases support for the radical right in economically vulnerable regions.

Austerity, they found, is the key variable: without it, less-educated people are no more likely to vote for rightwing demagogues than highly educated people are. In other words, Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are busily handing their core constituencies to Nigel Farage’s far right.

Of course, they deny they’re imposing austerity, using a technical definition that means nothing to those on the sharp end. Austerity is what the poor experience, while they must watch the rich and upper middle classes, under a Labour government, enjoy ever greater abundance.

Starmer and his minions suggest there’s nothing they can do: wealthy people are already taxed to the max. As private jets and helicopters cross the skies, anyone can see this is nonsense.

Of all the remarkable things I stumbled across while researching this column, the following is perhaps the most jaw-dropping. On the most recent (2022) figures, once benefits have been paid, the Gini coefficient for gross income in the UK scarcely differs from the Gini coefficient for post-tax income.

In other words, the gap between the rich and the poor is roughly the same after taxes are levied, suggesting that taxation has no further significant effect on income distribution. How could this possibly be true, when the rich pay higher rates of income tax?

It’s because the poor surrender a much higher proportion of their income in sales taxes, such as VAT. So much for no further options. So much for Labour “realism”.

The one thing that can stop the rise of the far right is the one thing mainstream parties are currently not prepared to deliver: greater equality. The rich should be taxed more, and the revenue used to improve the lives of the poor. However frantically centrist parties avoid the issue, there is no other way.

http://www.monbiot.com

Aid Massacre: Israeli Forces Kill 75 Palestinians at U.S.-Run Aid Distribution Center

Another U.S.-run aid center was the site of a massacre in southern Gaza after Israeli forces opened fire on civilians.

“The Americans and Israelis set a huge trap for us to lure us here and kill us,” an eyewitness told Mondoweiss.
Aid Massacre: Israeli Forces Kill 75 Palestinians at U.S.-Run Aid Distribution Center

On Sunday morning at dawn, Palestinians from southern Gaza headed to the aid distribution point in Rafah run by the Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF), the U.S. contractor tasked with delivering aid to Palestinians instead of the UN.

Once thousands of aid-seekers arrived at the al-Alam area of Rafah’s Tal al-Sultan neighborhood, the Israeli army opened fire on the crowds, according to eyewitnesses who spoke to Mondoweiss.

As throngs of people waited outside the aid site in the early morning hours, waiting for the instructions of the American employees, eyewitnesses described an Israeli quadcopter drone hovering overhead and ordering them via loudspeaker to enter the fenced delivery site at 6:00 a.m.

After hundreds of people had entered, soldiers opened fire on the crowd, killing 75 people at the Rafah aid site and wounding a total of 400 others across aid distribution sites, Gaza’s Ministry of Health said in an updated statement on Monday.*

And by today, 3rd June, another 27 people have been murdered. The attacks come amid international criticism of the US-Israeli aid plan in Gaza, with Médecins Sans Frontières condemning it as “dehumanizing” and “ineffective,” arguing that the militarization of humanitarian aid under the US-Israeli Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is being used to justify continued military aggression and forced displacement of Palestinians.

In an earlier statement on Sunday, the Health Ministry said that fatalities arriving at Nasser Hospital “had sustained only one gunshot wound to the head or chest,” which the Ministry said “confirms the occupation’s intent to kill civilians.”

Director of Hospitals in Gaza, Muhammad Zaqout, said at a press conference in front of Nasser Hospital on Sunday in Khan Younis that the injured had arrived at the medical compound in animal-drawn carts or were carried on people’s shoulders due to the Israeli army’s prevention of ambulances from reaching the aid site.