democratic wins media?

Yet CNN is acting just like Foxnews claiming violence is expanding. DEMS & other media need to call out CNN's hours of airtime walking in front of cops. What I see is about 1/4 or more of the front line crowd ARE NEWS PEOPLE

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Here is an instigator I witnessed. He’s Caucasian, not a person of color. He was recorded live by a Mexican American protester who was pleading to share this example of the violent instigators.

Everyone should be vigilant.. too many maga have jumped to supporting a dictatorship now..

Trump is taking a page straight from Putin’s playbook.

If violence starts, SIT DOWN!

Boooo😐, but Rioting makes my "immigrants are just dangerous criminals" narrative so much stronger!!😏

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The constitution is now dead. California can, and must, secede.

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Well, while it is true that there's no rule of law and that Amerika is dead, those are not reasons to avoid the fight

My husband says the same and I don't agree with him either. 🤷‍♀️

Your perogative. We are all entitled to our beliefs.

He can't control everywhere and everyone at once.

That won't stop him from trying if he thinks it beneifts him.

I didn't mean to suggest it would stop him from trying, I meant to say he'll fail.

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Instigators tried to come to MN during the unrest after geo. Floyd unrest. They are crazy fucks. I hope they don't travel to LA. They start a fight and walk away. LA you are in my prayers.

And carry only US or State flags...

Bring in Taco trucks

Every time Trump shuts down a protest start two new ones!

The violence is all coming from the pigs

Keep a sharp lookout for instigators, and ignore them at all costs.

Do you want to STEAL something from Trump He's threatening anyone that shows up to protest HIS military parade (big first amendment issues with those threats) he gets almost breathless anticipating unleashing violence against citizens ROB HIM OF THAT NO ONE SHOW UP NO ONE PROTEST IGNORE HIM

The sit down wave Is non-violent And creates a compelling image of the vast numbers of people And an unforgettable image that will create outrage across the country if those sitting down are attacked by police And an image that will cause outrage around the world if they are attacked by military

His goal: to declare martial law to do what ever he wants and as long as he wants

The second the marines arrive, go home. Everybody. Let the media shoot footage of them guarding empty streets. Once they stand down, come back strong and organized. Dump wants this to escalate. Don't let him win.

This is bigotry. The only people who have a right to be nativists in the US are Native Americans. We've seen this kind of immigrant bigotry again and again in the US. www.scientificamerican.com/article/what....

Notice that we’re not looking at ICE anymore. We’re looking at Californians pointing at other Californians. They took themselves out of the picture with a sleight of hand there. Smoke and mirrors.

What?

Wear patriotic clothes. Bring out your American flags. Wear your USA t-shirt like it’s the 4th of July! We own democracy and our country. Make it our brand. Any image of the American people draped in red, white and blue getting tear-gassed, thrown down or hit with rubber bullets would be powerful.

Never thought I’d see the day that the president could be such a complete corrupt mafia jerk!

He got accused of being a pedo 4 days ago....looks like he needed a smokescreen

He was accused decades ago. Even court documents about it, and no one cared.

How can you keep it peaceful when they're beating people up. Throwing flash bomb at protesters and tear gas.

Posse Comitatus Act until the Insurrection Act is announced.

The Marine Corps needs to say "no."

Isolate this instigators and make them leave the scene peacefully.

Trump has put LA under effective martial law. This is illegal and unconstitutional. Shame on every soldier and civilian following this illegal order.

It’s about 1000 troops in a city area of 600 sq miles and a county area of 57k sq miles and a population of 25 million. There are more movie extras working today in LA County than troops.

And show your patriotism. Wave the flag and the constitution if you want to wave something. Make it hard for the Marines to turn their weapons on you.

Yeah, the instigators will be the ones wearing MAGA hats and uniforms...

From the Halls of Montezuma to the shore at Venice Beach.

Film the instigators so everyone know who they are.

Let the Marines go to Los Angeles and see the truth with their own eyes.

Also, keep in mind that *some* of these instigators will ostensibly be 'on your side'. Unfortunately, every protest has a minute percentage of ninja cosplayers who don't really care about the issues. They simply show up in order to engage in violent & nihilistic onanism for their 15mins of fame.

Also, if any National Guard is listening, remember, you don't have to follow orders when your leader is acting like a daft cunt.

People urging violence may be nuts or plants. Also, violent uprisings tend to trade one Tyrant for another. The U.S. Revolution worked cos they had a mad king & France to help. Then the French Revolution went from "Let them eat cake," to Napoleon leading them into battle to take over the world.

I do not doubt planted instigators are walking around waiting for the signal.

100%. #trump and the fascists behind him would like nothing more than a violent response. Violence will play into his hands. The #midterms still exist. That is the peaceful protest. Then the following election. Mobilise people to vote, not fight. #democracy = accountability

You can be sure the Trump-aligned have authorized instigators to use violent triggers/

The instigators are wearing uniforms.

LAPD and the Sheriff both requested agitators be reported by the peaceful protestors and observers. They are planted agitators from out of area.

Any chance you have a link to the LAPD/LASD making those requests? So I can pass the official docs/links forward (and save them, JIC) Danke

They made a public announcement last night on all local stations.

Hmmm... was hoping to find a clip of that on YouTube or the like. Ah well- if you (or anyone else) happens to find one, please and thank you for sharing.

local @nbcla.com might have the clip

Marshal law no elections in November

Protestors should just sit down on the spot when the cops starts acting out...make them look like the crazy MFers. Will also make the looters and sh.t disturbers stand out

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Please remain PEACEFUL. This is the way we prevail. Solidarity!

correct. they will try to create any excuse to suppress.

If the people who swore an oath to defend the Constitution and protect us start killing us, the time for peace is over. Violence is never the answer … But at some point, it becomes the question, and the answer might be “yes.” Stand up - or be erased.

That is a huge IF. People are not being killed.

You’re wrong, very wrong. The time to fight is now.

Yep. Said the same a couple days back. It’s what authoritarian regimes do when they need an excuse still to enforce their will. Remind those who work to extend the power of P01135809 that no job is worth the souls of a nation.

He always does

More line dancing please! I LOVED THAT! (And Trump will hate it.)

Right wing goons infiltrated the BLM protests, lit businesses on fire, destroyed property. Trump will get his excuse and it will be created by his people

Truth! I live in a Minneapolis suburb. So many lies about what happened!😡

The FBI said rightwing groups like Proud Boys followed the peaceful protests to try and get protesters blamed.

The protests have been peaceful. Trump has already provoked violence. We need to stop talking in future tense. It's here.

Most oft he people have been, but there were videos from yesterday of protestors throwing rocks at cars on the highway from the overpass. Also saw one where somebody threw a rock toward the police. Why would anybody do that? Don't give them any excuses to switch to live ammunition.

Why would the police turn on citizens? Why would the government turn against citizens. Those are the questions to ask.

So? I saw 8 officers on horseback purposely trampling a man and an officer shoot a reporter point blank. All so they can mass arrest immigrants without due process. Be real.

They were probably not protesters. MAGA agitators.

Definitely could be. But big protests also tend to attract outsiders such as anarchists and accelerationists, and I wouldn't put it past either to do something to increase tensions.

ICE is dragging people away from their immigration hearings and imprisoning them in secret jails. And you're crying about rocks being thrown at armed vehicles. Grow up.

How is that situation improved if Stephen Miller gets his wish and the Insurrection Act is invoked? That's why I'm suggesting people don't instigate. Otherwise it's not actually a *peaceful* protest, and MAGA would be proven right about that.

You don't get it. It doesn't matter what the protestors do. The Marines are already being sent in.

Nothing was going to stop that. The question is, what will the Marines do? Slaughter US citizens (and I use the word to describe everyone living here) or remain true to their constitutional oath?

Steve Miller will get his wish period.

It is unfortunate that bad actors can't be prevented from stirring the pot. This administration is not above sending in agitators or manufacturing incidents.

True, some individuals thrive on chaos, but I've descended pretty far down the rabbit hole. Also, it's irresistible to hoist MAGA on its own petard. . .

I'm sorry, Uncle George, I disagree. Do Not Split!

Throw words not rocks.

Quote from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's substack: "Thousands of lives are being destroyed, but it only takes one burning car to allow people to justify their lack of involvement."

Watch the conservatives call them violent

Indeed. Agent provocateurs will completely take over. King TACO is probably directing them. Minneapolis police reported many cars with no license plates, full of white guys, driving downtown in 2020. Early on, peaceful protesters shared that a white guy smashed windows at an auto parts store.

Fantastic

watch what Fox covers about L.A. protests and u will always see the image of a burning car. Fox would have got a call from Trump with orders to make the protests look like a riot, and so they did.

He’s saying that these protesters are insurrectionists but those that attacked the Capital on January 6th were peaceful tourists. When will this propaganda end?? MAGA believes him!

This type of provocation didn’t work with BLM, it won’t work to his advantage now either.

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When I was young in the 80's doing CD demonstrations against Ronnie Reagan's crap, we were ALWAYS committed to nonviolence, purely peaceful.

Videos please! Do you have any?

Doesn’t take much to provoke people already in Blitzkreig mode.

I say there is a 50-60% chance that the great betrayer of America shows up to his petulant, little boy, attention seeking military parade on June 14th wearing a pseudo military cosplay uniform. I got 5 bucks riding on this!

The protesters are peaceful, ICE is not.

Like a brat that pokes a dog with a stick, he's baiting them to bite him in the face...

Unfortunately, it looks like Pandora's Box has been opened.

May I suggest that the organizers of the No Kings protest identify and make visible the people "in charge." I have yet to attend a protest where any particular person seemed to be the leader. If I saw potential harm, I wouldn't have the faintest idea whom to alert.

that’s one thing that can be said for Women’s March. There’s usually a stage or something and people who are visibly in charge

I agree. At the Women's Marches I attended in Tucson, there was always a stage & visible organizers. On April 5, protest was advertised as being in Reid Park, where there's a stage. It was only a march on the street south of the park. King's Day will be a different street near the park. Go figure.

Mine’s a relatively small one in California. I can’t go anymore due to long covid, but the ones I went to were like that

Sorry about your long Covid. That's an awful thing from what I read.

thanks 🩵 i mainly have the fatigue, but it’s severe

And OMG self-driving vehicles blew up!

Stay calm 😌

There are two likely scenarios how this is going to play out. 1. Protests stay peaceful and will eventually fade. That will make trump say: "good that I intervened, otherwise it would have been violent." 2. Things escalate and trump will say: "good that I intervened, I knew they were violent."

www.goodreads.com/book/show/44... Defy provocation. Stay non-violent. ✊🌻

I mean Trump wanted to tear gas protestors at the White House just so he could hold a Bible upside down for a photo op. None of this should be a surprise.

Stop with that bullshit! Seriously. STOP.

Any instigators are probably proud boys ordered by the orange menace.

Unless you see trump/miller/holman/ bannon Then have at them.

They make us all feel so dead inside and have nothing to lose. I'll put a damn chimp to shame.

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Listen to this fantastic pod w/ former DHS Chief of Staff during donald's 1st term about how trying to provoke violence in LA is just the start. (He knows bc donald wanted to do this during his 1st term.)

pretty sure that journalist from australia was being peaceful and she still got shot, soooo what's next? do we write a polite letter to the fascists to stop?

Remind protestors to be non violent while the government uses mass violence against them.

😄 Yeah, those old civil rights people were just chumps too, Thank God the protesters have your tiktok education to help show them the way.

I don't think you understand my comment

I'm so tired of the fucking gaslighting. The only people getting hurt are protestors and we are still blaming the protestors for the violence. Just fucking shut up.

This is trying to keep the protesters in control of the narrative. That is why BLM protests were largely ineffective. Agitators got involved, and the second the first window broke they had the narrative. This is about taking away their ability to spin this into something it isn't-a violent riot.

To be fair, the real reason the aptly titled "BLM protests" weren't more effective than they were (and they were) is in the title. But that's not a convenient narrative.

There is also that. I get it. Black Lives Matter on your side of the border, Idle No More on mine. They both had the same problem. The minute the first window broke, the stereotypes and stigma were reinforced and all of a sudden, we're the bad guys. Am I saying it's right? Fuck no I'm not...

... none of it is right. It doesn't stop the fact that he who controls the narrative has the power.

True. However, if the people protesting had the power to control a wider narrative, they wouldn't be protesting. You get trampled and beaten by cops and have that broadcast around the world not because you seek control, but to shock awake the people that are in control to some of their senses.

That's precisely it. Nothing that the people are going to do will truly make a difference if authoritarian regimes want to use violence. Really the only point in even thinking about optics is knowing that when, not if, lethal force is used and the crowd is peaceful, or relatively so, that will...

... shock a whole bunch of a lot of people awake. The ones who are pacifying themselves by believing that they just need to keep their head down and mouth shut because there will actually be further fair elections under this regime. If those people woke up, there wouldn't be a reason...

Protestors never have control of the narrative. Especially when everyone asks them to be non violent but nobody asks the government to be non violent.

Correct. Because they've never been non-violent. They've started that way, and then right-wing agitators get involved. Once that happens, the narrative spins and all of a sudden, the government has control of it. Is martial law coming? Irrelevant at this point. They are looking for excuses...

... to use lethal force on protestors. Now stop and ask yourself what the optics of that are. 1. Agitators get involved, and violence breaks out, "we had to in order to restore order" becomes a hell of a lot easier to spin. 2. Agitators get involved, protestors sit down, and live rounds are used.

All of a sudden, a fuckton bunch more people begin paying attention. Is this about right and wrong? No. It isn't. That would require even one single motherfucking thing about this right. That isn't under debate. But sometimes, you need to shut the fuck up and use some restraint in order to...

... keep yourself and everyone around you alive. What goddamned good is anyone going to do as a dead body on the street? Can't hit the streets again tomorrow as a corpse. What good is it going to do to get all messy so it looks like they had a justification or provocation to use live rounds?

That will embolden them. As much as I'd like to see protestors burn your goddamned country to the ground (metaphorically) and it would make a hell of a lot of us feel fucking righteous, in the end, it will do more harm than good. Not might. Not maybe. Not possibly. Will do more harm than good.

The agitators were rightwing groups like Proud Boys following the peaceful protests. And with big crowds there will be fools who blindly join in if people vandalize/loot.

One of the hardest things there is to do is to show restraint in the face of mob mentality. The brain is biologically wired to think that displays of mass chaos or violence mean sex, defense of territory, or food, even though it hasn't meant these things in a long time.

... people think "WTF? just sit down and be quiet!?" when its actually one of the most difficult things to pull off. We were taught in school (humanities) that the brain is stupid, and its up to the owners to rein in the more wacky ideas it comes up with. Heres hoping people keep their heads.

No, you call your representatives every freaking day until the madness stops.

We tried that, too. That also failed.

And she was a right wing shill. . .

Her right wing organization reported she was caught in the crossfire.

Right? Good thing it was caught on video. No cross fire, but the LAPD being the LAPD.

Haven't you heard? Fascists stop when you just ask nicely and show good manners.

oh that's a relief 🙏

It would not surprise me in the least if a LE officer or a member of the military were sacrificed by trump and his henchmen in order to escalate the situation so he can declare an emergency and therefore martial law. Afterall, they sacrificed a kid in PA.

And a man.

I do not believe that was meant to happen, which is why we have not heard word one about any investigation into the event. The kid was set up and deliberately sacrificed.

“Friendly fire.”

Trump's prop bandage came off the morning after the repub convention.

I pray they remain peaceful so as not to give Taco Don the reason he’s looking for to proclaim the Insurrection Act

He will provoke nothing. He will just send in the marines... Trump doesn't care any longer about legal or reason.

watch out for "agent provocateurs" ! here's an old picture from the G7 summit of Montebello

Keep hitting that crack pipe. Shit’s gonna get real tonight.

Proud boys, three percenters, oath keepers. Watch out for who is instigating the violence. It's why he pardoned them all the first time.

There will be Agents Provocateurs everywhere, Stay Alert!

Big Beautiful Peaceful Protest!

He wants to declare martial law.

You're absolutely perfectly correct on this, George! MAGA will put in agents provocateurs (in some cases, false flagger) in order to achieve a goal of this totalitarian and fascist agenda

They wear black uniforms and are called the LAPD. Kind of easy to spot.

So true

Without a permit blocking the streets is a crime and not a peaceful protest.

Remember it, use it, spread it. The visual of a sitting, peaceful crowd will be as powerful in the future as the Tiananmen Square photos are now. I don't even need to post or describe the photo. If you're over 30, you already know exactly what I'm talking about.

Wise words.

Thank you to all who are out there, the power of protests matters, please be safe. The grassroots movement against the inhumanity of this regime is global. I am sad, mad, and will never consent to this madness. A neither sad day in America. ✌️

“Be peaceful, don’t don’t fight back, don’t block traffic, don’t disrupt commerce, or you’re giving him an excuse to do the thing that he’s already doing.” Got it.

They better watch out for the boogaloo boys & provocateurs. Remember

Trump WILL send ppl to incite riots to get the attention he seeks. He’s known for it!! Trump is the problem, not part of a solution. End ICE insanity!!

Beware of the skinny white guys who get violent and don't get arrested. They're off duty cops that have been turning peaceful demonstrations violent in CA for decades.

Please remember that the extreme right plans on entering these protests and starting violence. They provoke confrontations, light fires, commit vandalism. Find them. Film them. Call them out. Make a record.

agents provocateurs

Anybody watch Andor? We know where this is going.

It's only a matter of time until trump sends the armed forces in against citizens. That will be the test to see if the armed forces remember who they work for.

Violence is coming whether you want it or not. The only question is; when it comes, will you still insist on pacifism?

The FBI used them in the 60's during antiwar and civil rights protests. I'm sure they'll by using them now.

$100 says the instigators are all Trump supporters

First priority! Thank you for saying this.

It won't be peaceful for long. Trump's Proud Boys will see to that. Trump doesn't want it peaceful -- it doesn't help him steal ultimate power. This is the LAST chance for Blue states to leave the union ... consider it an IQ test you want to fail. Dictatorship is just so much better than democracy?

Our resistance is peaceful. Video anyone who is instigating violence and destroying property. We need evidence. They are not part of our resistance.

There are instigators here on Bluesky.

I read advice from a Irish ☘️person who said to sit down: put your poster/sign down; remain calm. This will allow those causing problems/or instigating to be easily identified. Sounds good to me.

It's about time that people were seen on the streets. In the UK, we marched every day of Trump's VISIT. He's destroying US democracy yet all the world is seeing from America is apathy. Stand up and be counted.

Amen👍 keep it peaceful. This ultimately wins sympathy from others.

Send them rocks with PEACE written on them.

Keeping protests nonviolent is how we ended up with over 60K dead Gazans. Our government has declared war on its people. And we we meet them in battle with all the ferocity of an an army. DEATH TO MARINES!!!!