Los Angeles Fighting in the Streets: 2025 and 1975

I see my LA in these photos. This is our home. Not Trump’s. Not Hollywood’s.

I woke up Saturday night with a clatter. Something was wrong, and it wasn’t an earthquake.

I grabbed my phone in the dark and there it was, at the top of screen:

Los Angeles is under attack by ICE.

The Gestapo were summoned by Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth, and the other MAGA flying monkeys who promised to rain hell on California.

It’s their beta test. They’re here in all their glittering halberds. They have come to show the face of hell, and this isn’t the first time we’ve seen such a conquest.

As in 1519, Cortez’ invasion of Mexico City:¹

Their iron lances, their halberds seemed to glitter.
Their iron swords gleamed like flowing water.
They seemed to clatter, their iron shirts, their iron helmets.
And some came all encased in iron, they came transformed in iron, they came glittering.
Thus they came causing great awe, thus they came causing great terror.
Thus they were seen with great fear, thus they were held in great dread.
And their dogs came in front, they came in the lead.
They came standi…