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The #Democratic Governors Association condemned #Trump’s decision to send #NationalGuard #troops into #LosAngeles over the objections of Governor #GavinNewsom as “an alarming abuse of power.” The association, which includes every Democratic #governor in the country, said in a statement that they stand with Newsom.
Gavin Newsom Demands Trump Administration Remove National Guard From L.A. Amid ICE Protests: ‘Recind the Order. Return Control to California’
#Variety #News #DonaldTrump #GavinNewsom
Variety · Gavin Newsom Demands Trump Remove National Guard From L.A.
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#California #Governor #GavinNewsom just formally asked #PeteHegseth, the #defense Secy, to rescind #Trump’s #unlawful order to deploy the #NationalGuard in #LosAngeles. “We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved,” Newsom said in a social media post. “This is a serious breach of #state #sovereignty — inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they’re actually needed.”
![Guard into Federal Service," which states that "[t]wo thousand members of the California National Guard will be called into Federal service effective immediately for a period of 60 days." Notably, this directive did not issue “through the governor|] of the State" as required by section 12406; the Department of Defense did not transmit this directive to the Office of the Governor, nor was it approved or ordered by the Governor of California. This directive is also inconsistent with the President's memorandum, which anticipates "coordination with the Governors of the States" in identifying & ordering units of the National Guard into federal service.
At present, law enforcement authorities from the City & County of Los
Angeles are safeguarding public safety, &, as demonstrated by the robust law enforcement response yesterday evening to protect federal facilities, local law enforcement resources are sufficient to maintain order. In dynamic & fluid situations such as the one in Los Angeles, State & local authorities are the most appropriate ones to evaluate the need for resources to safeguard life & property. Indeed, the decision to deploy the National Guard, without appropriate training or orders, risks seriously escalating the situation.
There is currently no need for the National Guard to be deployed in Los Angeles, & to do so in this unlawful manner & for such a lengthy period is a serious breach of state sovereignty that seems intentionally designed to inflame the situation…](https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/114/650/178/857/824/418/original/052dd52df6034e50.jpeg "Guard into Federal Service,\" which states that \"[t]wo thousand members of the California National Guard will be called into Federal service effective immediately for a period of 60 days.\" Notably, this directive did not issue “through the governor|] of the State\" as required by section 12406; the Department of Defense did not transmit this directive to the Office of the Governor, nor was it approved or ordered by the Governor of California. This directive is also inconsistent with the President's memorandum, which anticipates \"coordination with the Governors of the States\" in identifying & ordering units of the National Guard into federal service.
At present, law enforcement authorities from the City & County of Los
Angeles are safeguarding public safety, &, as demonstrated by the robust law enforcement response yesterday evening to protect federal facilities, local law enforcement resources are sufficient to maintain order. In dynamic & fluid situations such as the one in Los Angeles, State & local authorities are the most appropriate ones to evaluate the need for resources to safeguard life & property. Indeed, the decision to deploy the National Guard, without appropriate training or orders, risks seriously escalating the situation.
There is currently no need for the National Guard to be deployed in Los Angeles, & to do so in this unlawful manner & for such a lengthy period is a serious breach of state sovereignty that seems intentionally designed to inflame the situation…")
![Dear Secretary Hegseth:
On June 7, 2025, President Trump issued a memorandum to your office entitled "Department of Defense Security for the Protection of Department of Homeland Security Functions." The memorandum purports to invoke 10 U.S.C. § 12406 to "call into Federal service members and units of the National Guard ... to temporarily protect ICE and other United States Government personnel who are performing Federal functions, including the enforcement of Federal law, and to protect Federal property." The memorandum further directs "actions as necessary for the Secretary of Defense to coordinate with the Governors of the States and the National Guard Bureau in identifying and ordering into Federal service the appropriate members and units of the National Guard under this authority."
Section 12406 states that "the President may call into Federal service members and units of the National Guard of any State in such numbers as he considers necessary" to (1) repel an invasion of the United States by a foreign nation; (2) suppress a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States; or (3) execute the laws of the United States when the President is unable to do so with regular forces. Section 12406 further states that "[o]rders for these purposes shall be issued through the governors of the States."
Last night, the Adjutant General of California received a memorandum from your office with the subject line "Calling Members of the California National](https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/114/650/178/854/183/292/original/2c85573accbdd0ad.jpeg "Dear Secretary Hegseth:
On June 7, 2025, President Trump issued a memorandum to your office entitled \"Department of Defense Security for the Protection of Department of Homeland Security Functions.\" The memorandum purports to invoke 10 U.S.C. § 12406 to \"call into Federal service members and units of the National Guard ... to temporarily protect ICE and other United States Government personnel who are performing Federal functions, including the enforcement of Federal law, and to protect Federal property.\" The memorandum further directs \"actions as necessary for the Secretary of Defense to coordinate with the Governors of the States and the National Guard Bureau in identifying and ordering into Federal service the appropriate members and units of the National Guard under this authority.\"
Section 12406 states that \"the President may call into Federal service members and units of the National Guard of any State in such numbers as he considers necessary\" to (1) repel an invasion of the United States by a foreign nation; (2) suppress a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States; or (3) execute the laws of the United States when the President is unable to do so with regular forces. Section 12406 further states that \"[o]rders for these purposes shall be issued through the governors of the States.\"
Last night, the Adjutant General of California received a memorandum from your office with the subject line \"Calling Members of the California National")
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#Republican *lawmakers* & #Trump admin ofcls lined up on Sun morning to support Trump’s decision to activate 2k members of the #California #NationalGuard to #LosAngeles as part of a crackdown on #protests over #immigration enforcement.
Trump’s decision to deploy #troops came in direct opposition to the wishes of Gov #GavinNewsom & #LA Mayor #KarenBass, both #Democrats, who said that local authorities have it under control.
#law #Title10 #democracy #RightToProtest
https://www.notus.org/us-news/republicans-line-up-to-back-trumps-l-a-national-guard-deployment
NOTUS · Republicans Line Up to Back Trump's L.A. National Guard DeploymentIt’s the first time since 1965 that a president has activated National Guard troops over the wishes of local officials.
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From Lawfare—Chris Mirasola explains Trump’s memorandum purporting to deploy 2,000 #NationalGuard personnel to respond to #protests against #ICE #immigration raids in #LosAngeles.
There has been significant mischaracterization of what #Trump has authorized in the memo signed yesterday. #Governor #GavinNewsom has criticized, for example, a complete takeover of the #California Guard. This is not provided for in the memo. Here is what the memo does provide.
#law #Title10
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-national-guard-in-los-angeles
DefaultThe National Guard in Los AngelesThe president hasn’t invoked the Insurrection Act. He’s instead relying on a theory of inherent constitutional power that is far more limited.
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The members of California’s #NationalGuard were seen staging early Sunday at the #federal complex in downtown #LosAngeles that includes the Metropolitan Detention Center, where confrontations occurred the last 2 days.
#Trump says he is deploying 2,000 #California National Guard troops to Los Angeles — over the objections of #Governor #GavinNewsom.
#Trump deploys #NationalGuard as #LosAngelesProtests against immigration agents continue
Omar Younis
Updated Sat, June 7, 2025 at 3:08pm
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "President Donald Trump's administration said it would deploy 2,000 #NationalGuard troops on Saturday as federal agents in Los Angeles faced off against demonstrators for a second day following immigration raids.
"The security agents confronted around 100 protesters in the #Paramount area in southeast Los Angeles, where some demonstrators displayed Mexican flags and others covered their mouths with respiratory masks.
"Trump's border czar, #TomHoman, told Fox News that the National Guard would be deployed in Los Angeles on Saturday evening.
"#California Governor #GavinNewsom called the decision 'purposefully inflammatory.' "
https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-aide-calls-los-190803656.html
Yahoo News · Trump deploys National Guard as Los Angeles protests against immigration agents continue
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#Trump signed a memo late on Saturday ordering 2,000 #NationalGuard members to be deployed in #LosAngeles County after federal #immigration agents in riot gear squared off w/hundreds of #protesters for a 2nd consecutive, the WH propagandist said.
Gov. #GavinNewsom confirmed the call-up. “The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard & deploy 2,000 #soldiers,”he said in a stmnt. “That move is purposefully #inflammatory & will only #escalate tensions.”
#law #democracy
Gavin Newsom is trying to bring back asset testing for disabled people receiving assistance.
A cruel and eugenics based practice and makes it even harder for us to survive.
As per the LA Times:
“Millions of Californians who rely on Medi-Cal & In-Home Supportive Services could lose eligibility under a proposal requiring recipients to prove their assets total less than $2,000”
This is forcing disabled people (further) into legislated poverty.
Los Angeles Times · Gov. Newsom proposes 'asset test' for low-income and disabled Medi-Cal applicants. What does that mean?
California governor, #GavinNewsom is the quintessential example of the fucked up strategy that lost the election for the democrats.
We saw enormous crowds show up for Bernie and #AOC and online the vocal girl-crushes on Rep Jasmine Crockett. Hell people are still stanning for Elizabeth Warren.
Dems need to stop with this bullshit idea of trying to cater to moderates and right of center never Trumpers.
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If you've been reading my analysis for a while, you probably don't need to be told that I do not like California Governor Gavin Newsom very much. Despite representing essentially a one party state, Newsom, a Democrat (I guess) has consistently worked to normalize fascist ideology, and adopt reactionary NIMBY-infused authoritarian policy in a state, California, where there is almost no political pressure to do so whatsoever. At the end of the day, Gavin is a fascist collaborator who doesn't give a fuck if poor people live or die so long as his corporate donors are happy, and that is significantly worse than merely being a transactional neoliberal who loves PAC money; which is how Newsom's defenders typically portray him in political discourse. From inviting nazi propagandists like Charlie Kirk on his podcast to spread transphobic propaganda, to turning his back on police reform in California to protect violent murderpigs who violate civil rights in his home state, Newsome has been openly willing to help fascists, do fascism, if he thinks it's politically advantageous for his career. Now, with his term as Governor running out, Newsom has set his eyes on the 2028 US presidential nomination, and I've gone on record in saying that such an outcome would be an absolute disaster for folks who don't like fascism; because win or lose, the result of a Newsom nomination would ultimately be "more fascism."
Naturally, that position will sound quite hyperbolic to many rank and file Democrats who "vote blue no matter who" but I'd argue that all the evidence you need to see Newsom's fascist intentions can be found in studying his policies towards unhoused people in California. After all, Newsom vigorously supported our 6-3 fascist high Supreme Court's nightmarish "City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson" ruling which effectively criminalizes being unhoused, and spent the lead up to the 2024 US election threatening California municipalities with being defunded unless they participated in fascist, anti-humanitarian "homeless sweeps" that destroy lives and address precisely zero aspects of the affordable housing crisis in California; does weaponizing municipal funding to force local governments to adopt fascist policing policies that harm their constitutions sound familiar to you? It should, it's a big part of how Donald Trump himself is currently trying to force Democrat-led cities to cooperate with his illegal mass deportation agenda. As I wrote way back in August, don't cry at me about "hyperbolic language" because fascist is as fascist does, and Gavin Newsom loves doing fascism to target unhoused people.
Furthermore, nothing about Newsom's preference for cruel, ineffective, and authoritarian solutions to the housing crisis has changed since the election of Dowmarket Mussolini; as this Truthout article indicates, Newsome is now trying to bribe municipalities with money originally earmarked for social and mental health assistance for the unhoused community, to conduct fascist "homeless encampment sweeps" that will help precisely nobody, and make the lives of one of the most vulnerable constituencies in California, the unhoused, immeasurably worse.
https://truthout.org/articles/newsoms-model-ordinance-pushes-homeless-sweeps-across-california/
Newsom’s Model Ordinance Pushes Homeless Sweeps Across California
"California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is urging cities and counties to adopt a newly released model ordinance aimed at banning and clearing homeless encampments.
The proposal would prohibit unhoused people from repeatedly camping in the same location, restrict encampments that block pedestrian access on sidewalks, and require authorities to provide notice and make a good-faith effort to offer shelter before destroying camps. According to the governor’s office, the model ordinance builds on an approach already used by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), which has destroyed more than 16,000 encampments since 2021.
Framing the move as an act of “compassion and care,” Newsom’s administration announced that $3.3 billion in voter-approved Proposition 1 funds — originally intended to expand behavioral health housing and treatment — would be made available statewide to incentivize cities and counties to adopt the ordinance."
Folks, I don't know how to say this any clearer but Gavin Newsom doesn't think unhoused people are human beings, and is willing to adopt cruel, fascist policies targeting unhoused people to make them "go away." Where? That's unclear; after all and as the article makes clear, Newsom is only making the barest of pretenses at solving the actual root of the crisis, a lack of affordable housing in the state; this isn't about finding a place for unhoused people to "go." If this is how Newsom is prepared to treat some of the most vulnerable people he was elected to help, who else might he be willing to sacrifice on the altar of the business lobby and "cleaning up our streets?"
Truthout · Newsom’s Model Ordinance Pushes Homeless Sweeps Across CaliforniaThe proposed ordinance would restrict repeated camping and block encampments on sidewalks.
20 years ago, #GavinNewsom started his political career by attacking the #homeless. Apparently, that's now his plan for running for president. May he forever rot in hell. https://abc7.com/post/what-know-gov-gavin-newsoms-move-ban-encampments/16404664/
abc7.com · What to know about Gov. Gavin Newsom's move to ban encampments
Your Next President?
Here is California's "radical lunatic" Governor Gavin Newsom, on his podcast, bragging to fascist conspiracy theorist Charlie Kirk, that “We do work with ICE. … We coordinate with ICE on the deportation, we’ve done that over 10,000 times since I’ve been governor, we’re not denying access, we’re not denying coordination.” This, despite his earlier pledge that California would be a “sanctuary to all who seek it.”
![Gavin Newsom boasting to Charlie Kirk that he has coordinated 10,000 deportations with ICE on the "This is Gavin Newsom" show, March 6, 2025. [Photo: Gavin Newsom]](https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/496/055/093/266/358/original/e9bbc8b701dcd0c4.jpg "Gavin Newsom boasting to Charlie Kirk that he has coordinated 10,000 deportations with ICE on the \"This is Gavin Newsom\" show, March 6, 2025. [Photo: Gavin Newsom]")
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With much of Democratic Party leadership playing dead and apparently hoping Trump dies from embarrassment after reading his polling numbers, there hasn't been a lot of political opposition to Trump's fascist regime to talk about. One noted exception however, has been Maine Governor Janet Mills and her refusal to cave to Trump's anti-trans pogrom on behalf of transgender athletes in the state's school system. Some of you may remember Mills from her contentious encounter with Downmarket Mussolini in the White House were the president threatened federal funding for Maine and tried to intimidate the Governor into enforcing his (unconstitutional) anti-trans executive order. Mills famously responded "I'll see you in court" and now she has; winning a decision to block the Trump administration's attempts to withhold federal funds for school lunches in the state unless Mills agrees to discriminate against trans kids.
For more details about this story, I'd like to share this fourteen minute video by Mike Figueredo of the Humanist Report. I picked this admittedly broad discussion because Mike does an excellent job of putting the Trump regime's actions in the proper context of authoritarianism and anti-trans discrimination, while effectively contrasting the activities to resist Trump in the Democratic Party, against the collaborators and surrender muppets who're consistently advising the Party to abandon vulnerable marginalized groups at the precise moment a fascist regime comes for those people.
One segment that really stood out to me is when Figueredo explained that estimates indicated there are as few as two transgender athletes playing high school sports in the entire state of Maine. This of course highlights the unfathomable malevolence of the Trump regime towards trans people, in that they would threaten a school lunch program that serves 170,000 students in the state among other threatened funding cuts, just to discriminate against two trans people; the fact that Mills is willing to fight for the human rights of two people in her entire state when the stakes are this high demonstrates her ability to rise to the moment in the fascist Trump 2.0 era. By contrast however, when Mike asks if anyone believes a guy like Gavin Newsom would make the same choice, I think anyone who is paying attention can agree the answer is no. By contrasting Mills' active resistance to Trump's ongoing war against her state, with the appeasement and collaboration agenda proposed by folks like Newsom, Rahm Emanuel, and Elissa Slotkin, Figueredo also illuminates the likely reason that the public doesn't feel like Democrats are doing enough to resist the Trump agenda, and the Party remains mired in terrible polling even as the Trump regime also craters in popularity.
It's a broad, electoral politics-focused discussion, and I don't want to blow sunshine up your butt about a single court ruling. But if we're going to rip the liberal establishment for collaborating with fascism, it makes sense to talk about what a realistic opposition to Trump's fascist agenda might look like. Nobody is throwing a ticker tape parade here, but a Democratic Party lead by folks like Mills, Van Hollen, Pritzker, Ocasio-Cortez, and Sanders all resisting the Trump regime is an asset to folks who don't like fascism; while one that insists on embracing Trump's fascist agenda and throwing marginalized people to the wolves, is not. It would be nice if for once, The Democratic Party's leadership class made the right choice.
The Humanist Report:
Trump Faces Humiliating Defeat to Democratic Governor He Threatened
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKMUqEBmBbU
"Trump publicly attacked Maine’s governor, Janet Mills, back in February after she refused to comply with his discriminatory trans sports ban in schools. She told Trump, “I’ll see you in court,” and he retorted by saying it would be an “easy” win against her. The Trump Administration subsequently launched a probe into her state, and Trump himself demanded an apology from Mills on Truth Social. She never backed down and just had a major victory against the Trump administration in court."
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#Trump is all over the place as usual. He has insulted #Biden, went on a long tangent about #Obama’s presidential library in Chicago, brought up California Governor #GavinNewsom repeatedly calling him “Newscum” — something he loves to do.
Trump refused to say how he knew the #Houthis were backing down. “They’ve said, ‘Please don’t bomb us anymore,’” then added that it didn’t “matter” where he heard the information but that it came from a “very good source.”
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@GrimmReality Speaking as a former Californian with a close view of #GavinNewsom's career, he can go fuck himself. He's always been slime.