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That Republic, we couldn’t keep it; April 9, 1865 – June 3, 2025
From the NY Times: “The House took its first step early Thursday toward a final vote on President Trump’s marquee domestic policy bill, after Republicans put down a revolt by conservative holdouts that had threatened to sink it…
Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the Democratic leader who began speaking on the floor of the House at 4:53 a.m., just earned bronze: his is officially the third longest House speech in the chamber’s history. There is buzz in the Capitol over whether he is trying for the longest House floor speech, a record held by former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who once spoke for over 8.5 hours.”
From the LA Times:
“The budget bill would make Immigration and Customs Enforcement the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the federal government, exceeding its current yearly $3.4-billion detention budget many times over. It also would impose fees on immigration services that were once free or less expensive and make it easier for local law enforcement to work with federal authorities on immigration.”
“Though the legislation is still evolving, the immigration provisions in the House and Senate versions are similar and not subject to the intense debates on other issues, such as Medicaid or taxes.”
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Los Angeles Sues the Department of Homeland Security for violation of the U.S. Constitution
From Public Counsel:
“Last night, Southern California residents, workers, and advocacy groups across various industries sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in federal court for abducting and disappearing community members using unlawful stop and arrest practices and confining individuals at a federal building in illegal conditions while denying them access to attorneys.
‘Since June 6th, marauding, masked goons have descended upon Los Angeles, terrorizing our brown communities and tearing up the Constitution in the process,’ said Mohammad Tajsar, senior staff attorney with the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, representing the plaintiffs. ‘No matter their status or the color of their skin, everyone is guaranteed Constitutional rights to protect them from illegal stops. We will hold DHS accountable.’
The plaintiffs seek to represent two classes of individuals, people who have been or will be subjected to unlawful practices of 1) suspicionless stops and 2) warrantless arrests without evaluations of flight risk.
Plaintiffs are requesting the court certify the case as a class action and issue preliminary and permanent injunctions stopping further violations of Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights.”
Read the full press release here.
And see the full, 65 page complaint below.
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Senators: Please Kill this Project 2025 Bill
The “big, beautiful bill,” which is being rushed through the senate this week, is little more than a scheme to double and triple the debt bondage already faced by millions of “Americans” who lack an adequate healthcare system in the wealthiest nation in history.
For its $167 billion more to the deportation machine, it’s also the Indian Removal Act, Fugitive Slave Act, Chinese Exclusion Act, and Operation Wetback combined to make permanent the New Reich agenda; should it pass, I see no reason not to expect New Nuremberg laws before the end of 2030.
Last but certainly not least, the bill’s tax cuts for billionaires and centi-millionaires–who already pay little to no income tax–would only increase the debt on the next generation by at least $3 trillion over the next ten years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
It is no future for America, but a death knell for the few safety net programs which give our most vulnerable people here a modicum of support to survive; it is also, like ICE agents in unmarked cars through Los Angeles, a cowardly disguised proclamation of Manifest Destiny for the 21st century.
It’s obviously thus imperative for every single Senator with a conscience to do everything in their power to kill this offensive and appalling excuse for a bill. But don’t expect them to do so without hearing from every last one of us who can call upon them.
Let the city know.
History is watching!
J.T.
ICE FIREBOMBED THIS HOME IN SOUTHEAST L.A., BUT LAPD DID IT FIRST
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I. Family shaken after Huntington Park home raided, KTLA: https://youtu.be/-os0_WGcLKU
II. South L.A. fireworks explosion likely caused by miscalculations from bomb technicians, LAPD chief says: https://youtu.be/Xr0yAlbGvKY?si=YKtDIalypLr6YLVA
III. LA Black Panther member recalls shootout with LAPD’s newly formed SWAT in 1969 on Central Avenue, StreetTV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze2oAR-gS7k&ab_channel=StreetTV
IV. The 1969 raid that changed policing, LA TIMES: https://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=6e943b58-a0b0-4ff7-9142-43cd01a099e4
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