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Waging Nonviolence: More carnival than warzone — the LA protests aren’t what you’ve heard
If you believe President Trump, you’d think Los Angeles is in ruins. In a speech to the military at Fort Bragg, he referred to recent protests against immigration raids as “a foreign invasion” wielding Molotov cocktails and “concrete bombs” to reduce the City of Angels to “a trash heap with entire neighborhoods under the control of transnational gangs.” Trump used this narrative to justify deploying 2,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to Los Angeles to “liberate Los Angeles.”
Early footage of the protests, especially from Fox News, seemed to support Trump’s summary of the situation. Images of burning cars, graffiti-covered federal buildings, protesters throwing bottles at authorities, and looters breaking into a convenience store went viral online.
But accounts from within the movement paint a different picture. Social media posts show LA protesters using creativity, humor, joy and even patriotism to express their disapproval of Trump’s immigration raids.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – June 18, 2025
Tomorrow is the federal holiday honoring Juneteenth, the celebration of the announcement in Texas on June 19th, 1865, that enslaved Americans were free.
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)USA Today: Juneteenth renews call for reparations for African Americans, advocates say
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Waging Nonviolence: American Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is accelerating
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed those in 2017, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful.
(Waging Nonviolence more…)Guardian: Were the No Kings protests the largest single-day demonstration in American history?
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Daily: Democrats Show Video Of Trump Cognitive Decline Then Walk Out Of Biden Senate Hearing
The Republican majority on the Senate Judicicary Committee decided that of all the things they could be investigating or talking about involving the Trump administration, the most important thing that they spend their time on was a hearing to explore the “cover-up of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline.”
The Democrats on the committee responded by not showing up to the hearing at all for the most part. Only Sens. Dick Durbin, who is the top Democrat on the committee and Peter Welch were there for the beginning of the hearing.
Durbin showed up to deliver remarks, and said:
President Trump was at a press conference with British Prime Minister Kier Starmer and said the following, You all know the great PM of the UK, and we just signed a ment. President Trump continued. We just signed it. So we have our trade agreement with the EU. Britain has not been a party to the EU for five years, but President Trump made a statement, which clearly was wrong.”
Durbin then showed the committee a video collection of clips focused on Trump’s decline:
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Automotive News: Marelli’s bankruptcy seen as red flag for distressed suppliers as tariffs take toll
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TNR: Pete Hegseth Accidentally Reveals a Dark Truth about Trump
… He knows that in response to Democratic questioning, he cannot be seen reassuring the broader public about the military’s intentions toward civilians and especially toward Blue America. Trump would perceive this as weakness and as capitulation. Which itself reveals something deeply unnerving about the Trump-MAGA threat.
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Slate: American Siberia
Donald Trump is enacting his darkest agenda in the backyard of a small Louisiana town. Absolutely no one there wants to talk about it.
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FOX11: Video showing ICE takedown of US citizen in Pico Rivera parking lot sparks community outrage
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Guardian: New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles
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Undark: What if MAGA Has a Point About Science?
Conservative distrust of science helped set the stage for its dismantling. Can scientists bridge the partisan divide?
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James Eagle: Which country is killing our planet?
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Decoding Fox News: Trump TRIED REALLY HARD to Not Go to War with Iran
A condensed overview of 26 hours of Fox News for the week ending 6/15/25
Last week as Fox News tried to hype up mostly peaceful protests against ICE raids across the country the network was hit with a giant asteroid of a story – one that was too big to ignore and incredibly hard to spin. Israel, seemingly frustrated with Trump’s lack of progress with a diplomatic solution, launched Operation Rising Lion and struck Iran’s nuclear sites.
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