Quote of the Day

[What we’re seeing with the Trump/Miller regime’s actions in Los Angeles] is a stark illustration of the imperial boomerang in motion: the tools of empire – surveillance, militarized policing, psychological control – returning home. What was once deployed to suppress resistance abroad is now turned inward. But rather than subdue, this backlash is catalyzing a broader awakening. The brutality in Los Angeles has illuminated the deeper architecture of repression, drawing new political lines that unite across race, status, and geography. From L.A. to Gaza, the common thread is clear: state violence serves elite power, and the response from below is no longer fragmented. It is building into a global resistance that sees through the old divisions and names its adversary plainly – oligarchy.

. . . This uprising is forcing a reckoning within the Democratic Party. For too long, party leaders have paid lip service to justice while quietly enabling enforcement budgets and border expansion. Now, protestors are demanding clarity: who are you with? Those who remain silent risk political irrelevance. The bipartisan oligarchy is cracking, and a new political line is emerging – between those who serve concentrated power and those who challenge it.

– Peter Bloom
Excerpted from “The L.A. Awakening:
Repression, Resistance, and the Possibility
of Radical Democratic Renewal”
Common Dreams
June 10, 2025

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Related Off-site Links:
Stephen Miller’s Order Likely Sparked Immigration Arrests And Protests – Stuart Anderson (Forbes, June 9, 2025).
1,800+ “No Kings” Rallies Planned Across U.S. as Trump Deploys Military to Crush Protests – Eloise Goldsmith (Common Dreams, June 9, 2025).
Chaos and Cruelty: Trump Deploys Thousands of Soldiers to Put Down Anti-ICE Protests in Los Angeles – Democracy Now! (June 10, 2025).
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Lays Out a Case for Troop Deployments in “Any Jurisdiction in the Country” – Jake Johnson (Common Dreams, June 10, 2025).
From Protest to Pretext: Trump, Troops, and the Illusion of Crisis – James B. Greenberg (James’s Substack, June 10, 2025).

UPDATES: Stephen Miller Can’t Make America White. Los Angeles is Paying for His Impotent Rage – Amanda Marcotte (Salon, June 11, 2025).
No Kings, Just Guards: What Trump’s National Guard Deployment Tells Us About Power – James B. Greenberg (James’s Substack, June 11, 2025).
“No Kings”: 1,800+ Rallies Planned as Trump Threatens “Very Heavy Force” on Army Parade Protesters – Democracy Now! (June 11, 2025).

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• “This Is What Fascism Looks Like”
• The Reckoning Is Coming
• James Greenberg on Trumpism: “The Tactics Are Unmistakable”
• Jason Stanley on How Fascism Works
• “This Is How Democracy Unravels”
• Why the Democratic Party Is Not Going to Save Us From Fascism
• “This Is Essentially Viktor Orbán’s Playbook”
• Timothy Snyder on Resisting the Oligarchs’ “Logic of Destruction”