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LA Erupts After ICE Raids

by Oui Sun Jun 8th, 2025 at 07:24:14 AM EST

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A Erupts After ICE Arrests Dozens; Protesters Surround Agents in Showdown Over Immigration

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Dozens detained during ICE raids in L.A., protestors take over streets | KTLA5 News |

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Promise of a long hot Summer in Elon Musk's USA 😊


So Trump refused to send the National Guard to protect the Capitol on Jan. 6th, 2020 … but pre-empts riots in LA and provokes the City of Los Angeles and Democratic California Governor Newsom … no U.S. Marines to a foreign nation, but needed at home as cover for ICE razzia’s … the spark that lit the Second American Civil War … Red vs Blue.

Spreading terror inside Californian Spanish-American communities. 😡

Los Angeles riot police fire 'flash-bang' rounds at protesters after violent immigration raids | DW News |

Trump orders National Guard to LA after clashes | BBC N was |

A White House press release said: "In recent days, violent mobs have attacked ICE Officers and Federal Law Enforcement Agents carrying out basic deportation operations in Los Angeles, California."

The statement added that "California's feckless Democrat leaders" had "abdicated their responsibility" to protect citizens, why was "why President Trump has signed a Presidential Memorandum deploying 2,000 National Guardsmen".

Speaking in Los Angeles, where he had travelled to personally supervise the continuing ICE operations, Trump's "border tsar" Tom Homan warned that there would be "zero tolerance" of any violence or damage to private property.

In a post on X, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino also issued a warning to protesters: "You bring chaos, and we'll bring handcuffs. Law and order will prevail."

Governor Newsom, a Democrat, said the federal government "wants a spectacle" and urged people not to give them one by becoming violent.

In a statement on Friday, he said: "Continued chaotic federal sweeps, across California, to meet an arbitrary arrest quota are as reckless as they are cruel". Earlier, Mayor Bass accused ICE agents of "sowing terror" in Los Angeles.

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CA National Guard Federalized by Trump

HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENDED

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Musk, Bessent had fistfight in White House in April, WP says | TASS |

According to the newspaper, "Musk's brute-force tactics, lack of political acumen and ideological differences with the MAGA base eroded his relationship with top administration officials and eventually the president." However, "despite the tension, Trump and his deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, stuck by Musk's side."

That said, оn April 2, when Trump "rolled out tariffs intended to remake the global economy, Musk took to X to express his displeasure with the levies," while "in private, Musk made personal appeals to Trump to reverse the tariffs. Trump did not comply, only relenting days later after a steep decline in bond markets."

In mid-April, disagreements over their preferences for acting Internal Revenue Service (IRS) commissioner led to a fistfight between Musk and Bessent.



Have a peaceful cultural summer
by Oui (Oui) on Sun Jun 8th, 2025 at 10:45:41 AM EST


Have a peaceful cultural summer
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Exploring the nexus between government spending, the bonds market, domestic entropy and global financial fragility

Scott Bessent's recent assertion that the U.S. government cannot default on its debt obligations to the bond markets got tongues wagging. The impending need to rollover and refinance some $8 trillion of Treasury bonds has commentators speaking of untold impending financial meltdown. Ray Dalio argues that the U.S. is on the cusp of going broke. Moody's recently downgraded the US Government on the back of solvency concerns.



Have a peaceful cultural summer
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