President Donald Trump announced today he is placing Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department under federal control, and is deploying the National Guard in the city, insisting the action was necessary “to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse.” He said this would be “Liberation Day” …
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This story is being published in partnership with the Center for Media and Democracy. Major retirement systems in blue states — where many governors and attorneys general are fighting hard to counter extreme and likely illegal actions by the Trump administration — have invested billions of dollars in some of …
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Last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers swarmed Southern California in concentrated raids of undocumented citizens that are still ongoing. Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in Los Angeles (and in solidarity nationwide), giving President Donald Trump an excuse to send National Guard troops last weekend and …
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Finneas said on Sunday that he was tear-gassed while at a “peaceful protest” in downtown L.A. He shared the news in the wake of President Donald Trump deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles in response to protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arresting people who the federal government …
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Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong told Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Trump administration to “fuck off” in support of the thousands of Los Angeles-area residents who have been protesting raids against the immigrant community, which began over the weekend. Armstrong posted anInstagram videofilmed from one of the Los Angeles …
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Donald Trump is mobilizing hundreds of Marines who could be deployed to the streets of Los Angeles in a move to quell unrest sparked by his order over the weekend to federalize and deploy National Guard troops to the region, ostensibly to thwart protests against his deportation agenda. The mobilization …
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The White House announced Saturday night that President Donald Trump is deploying 2,000 National Guard troops amid protests to immigration enforcement actions in Los Angeles.Trump issued a memorandum federalizing National Guard units for 60 days. “To the extent that protests or acts of violence directly inhibit the execution of the …
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Self-avowed pro-First Amendment, anti-government repression Senators Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) are demanding President Joe Biden unleash the full force of the state’s National Guard to suppress pro-Palestinian student protests at Columbia University. “If [New York City Mayor] Eric Adams won’t send the NYPD and [New York Governor] …
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