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Roughly 60 people who were protesting President Trump’s Army anniversary parade and his deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles were arrested outside the U.S. Capitol Friday, authorities said.
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We’re getting ready to head to Detroit but our daughter asked if she can go with us so slight side trip and then we’re off.
Any of our fellow Michigan peeps heading down?
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Stay safe!!! Give us a report when you get back!
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ETA
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Holy crap, there are a crap ton of people, all the side streets in about a mile radius are parked up.
It’s a pleasant crowd though.
I’m on a mission to get my 200 bucks but so far I haven’t found the guy paying everyone.
There are speakers but my gernaphobia is kicking in so I’m not wading too far into the crowd.
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Likewise, I was amazed at the turnout! We were 6 deep on one side of the road and 2-3 deep on the other, at least 200 meters long.
People were very kind and a lot of support from the passing cars. Some great signs and chants!
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What a great time, the reason sucks but the people were all awesome.
A lot of dads get taken to the golf course or out to lunch for Father’s Day, it’s nice to have a daughter who enjoys this stuff with her old dad.
When we go to these things the deal is we stick around until my germ anxiety kicks in, that could be gradual or like a light switch. Today the weather was gorgeous with a stiff breeze so it was gradual, we hung out for a while but then I had to go.
I did put on an N95 and ventured into the crowd for some pictures.
I also talked to a lot of people, no one got the Soros payment.
There was one guy carrying an ICE Lives Matter sign but he was being escorted through the crowd by what appeared to be an event organizer, the escort was telling the crowd to ignore him and not engage. He made it through without incident. It was a well behaved crowd.
I’d guess a few thousand give or take a few hundred.
There were a lot of ice cream vendors, they were all powered by those little pocket motorcycles.
We came in from the east, after driving around for a while we thought we’d have to get pretty far west of the park and hoof it in but when we got to the park entrance there was an abandoned gas station right across the street. It was our lucky day.
That’s our car circled in red. The parking god was good to us.
I forgot the favorite sign of the day.
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Here’s a bunch of news photos from the day.
And, we may have dodged a bullet.
We were not aware this happened or when but crap, a biker gang clashed with protesters.
In the video the crowd is chanting nazis go home. Where’s ICE to pick up actual gang members?
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I was also amazed by the turnout at the local protest I attended. It was still small, but there were way more people than I expected—people of all ages and the number of people honking in support truly surprised me.
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I didn’t go into Kansas City, but this was theirs:
I did go to the smaller one in my suburb and was impressed with the turnout.
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The first-time protester I hung out with until she was comfortable is 72. The crowd trended heavily towards folks older than me and a LOT of veterans.
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A lot of the people at the protest I went to today (like, maybe even 1/4 of them) were elderly women. It obviously was not remotely their first rodeo and they stuck together in well-prepared and organized groups with signs, foldable chairs and coolers, offering extra water to younger protestors. I first heard the news about the murders in Minnesota from one of them.
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From downtown today!!!
Pretty sure it was these guys…
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I’m hearing from a livestreamer on Twitch (MissAnitaBump) that the LA protest in Central has been officially declared an unlawful assembly. The emergency alert signal went off on their phone while they were talking. Streets are being blocked off as I type this (they aren’t mentioning the street names.)
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New Disinformation and Old Diseases feat. Anna Merlan (E328) QAA Podcast
Hundreds of people have been arrested in Los Angeles after days of protests, which are in response to aggressive immigration raids ordered by President Trump. When people took to social media to make sense of the events, they were confronted with fake, AI-generated videos of the protests and real photos that were labelled as out-of-context by AI. Thus breaking new ground in worthless, deceitful slop.Plus, we speak to Anna Merlan at Mother Jones about her recent reporting on the RFK Jr.-connected “MAHA Institute.” That organization’s head, Leland Lehrman, has pushed extremist ideas for decades, including endorsing the conspiracist fraudulent text "Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” RFK Jr. himself is evidently embracing a genuinely anti-vax agenda in his role as Health Secretary by firing and replacing the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP).
We’ve seen the future. And the future is an AI chatbot telling you to treat your latest typhus infection with apple cider vinegar.
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