Today’s blog will focus primarily on the protests occuring in Los Angeles, other cities, and our state’s response to them and The Fascist Felon’s war on California. I have also included other headlines unrelated to the focused events. But, feel free to share what you have as long as your headlines come from credible sources.
PSA: No Kings Day
Must See TV:
How Things Should Work:
The Judicial Branch:
Judge blocks administration from enforcing anti-diversity and anti-transgender executive orders
The federal judge said the federal government can’t force recipients to halt programs that promote DEI or acknowledge the existence of transgender people to receive grant money.
A federal judge in California has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing anti-diversity and anti-transgender executive orders in grant funding requirements that LGBTQ+ organizations say are unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar said Monday that the federal government cannot force recipients to halt programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion or acknowledge the existence of transgender people in order to receive grant funding. The order will remain in effect while the legal case continues, although government lawyers will likely appeal.
The funding provisions “reflect an effort to censor constitutionally protected speech and services promoting DEI and recognizing the existence of transgender individuals,” Tigar wrote.
No Fascist USA:
An LAPD Helicopter Claimed Cops Identified Protesters From Above and Would “Come to Your House”
On Sunday, according to the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Police Department made another escalation, flying over a group of demonstrators in downtown LA in a helicopter and announcing, “I have all of you on camera. I’m going to come to your house.”
The threat was greeted with extreme concern by civil liberties and digital privacy groups; if it was a true statement, it suggests that the LAPD could be using facial recognition to identify and retaliate against protesters. And if it is false, warned Jonathan Markovitz, a staff attorney with the ACLU of Southern California, it is still an overt attempt to frighten and intimidate demonstrators.
“This is a chilling statement,” he told Mother Jones. “Even if it were a joke, it was clearly designed to make the public afraid to exercise its First Amendment rights to protest and to hold government officials, including LAPD officers, accountable for their actions.”
Fuck Off! Signed, California:
Tejás:
The Fascist Felon and His Brownshirts:
Cosplay Kristi:
Stephen Miller Demanded ICE Target Home Depots
And so it was that ICE officials found themselves being berated by Miller in late May that their arrest numbers weren’t high enough and the rhetorical focus on the worst of the worst needed to shift on the ground to focus on all undocumented immigrants, the WSJ reports:
Agents didn’t need to develop target lists of immigrants suspected of being in the U.S. illegally, a longstanding practice, Miller said. Instead, he directed them to target Home Depot, where day laborers typically gather for hire, or 7-Eleven convenience stores. Miller bet that he and a handful of agents could go out on the streets of Washington, D.C., and arrest 30 people right away.
Garbage People Doing Garbage Things:
She Warned Us!
Craven Assholes:
From the MarKODA Files- Know Your Flags, Chapter 2:
Jim Jordan’s ‘In America’ Rant Goes Very Wrong, Very Quickly
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is getting called out on social media for a rant about flags that doesn’t seem to apply to everyone.
House Speaker Mike Johnson says California Gov. Newsom should be ‘tarred and feathered’
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said today that California Gov. Gavin Newsom “ought to be tarred and feathered” as punishment for his handling of protests in Los Angeles.
