One of the most surreal things about watching the Trumpenreich enact their project to transform America into a militarized executive branch dictatorship under the Swine Emperor, is the way every new outrage and atrocity these nazis cook up manages to at least partially memory-hole their prior atrocities and outrageous activities even though nothing about those terrible situations has changed. Take for example the still quite ongoing federal Gestapo invasion of LA and widespread, often violent civil rights abuses being conducted against suspected migrants, protestors, and sometimes just random bystanders - many of whom are in actuality US citizens. Now that there are no burning Waymos, soldiers facing off against protestors, and kids waving Mexican flags, the larger media-driven discourse has moved on from a story that is literally about a fascist regime actively invading an American city to conduct ethnic cleansing via random kidnappings, against the wishes of and often in direct opposition to, local elected officials. I guess folks were too busy considering the implications of a billionaire ketamine abuser's third party tempter tantrum proposal.

To get ourselves up to speed and demonstrate that it's not hyperbole to call this an ongoing occupation, let's look at two articles published long after the initial media frenzy of the Trumpenreich invasion died down; one from a couple of days ago, and one from a couple of weeks ago. Let's start with a recent Intercept investigation into the use of force against a wide variety of people, by invading federal immigration forces of various types.

https://theintercept.com/2025/07/07/ice-raids-la-violence-video-bystanders/

A Pattern of Violence: Documenting ICE Agents Brutal Use of Force in LA Immigration Raids

"Agents have aimed firearms and sprayed chemical irritants at onlookers and protesters. They have launched tear gas and flash bang grenades into crowds. They have beaten the people they detain, struck them with batons, and restrained them face down in a prone position, pressing them into the pavement and restricting their abilities to breathe.

Agents often deployed these violent tactics against the targets of immigration raids — people they presumed to be undocumented immigrants. In the majority of cases reviewed for this story, federal agents used force against U.S. citizens who were attempting to document raids or intervene by putting their bodies between the agents and their neighbors.

Legal experts said video evidence shows the government response is disproportionate and a violation of constitutional rights, particularly in cases where bystanders were filming or yelling at agents without intervening."

I'm ngl, this article is harrowing to read; which is probably what journalism should look like under a fascist regime conducting an ethnic cleansing project in broad daylight. Inside this lengthy piece the author provides clearly documented evidence of a federal immigration enforcement apparatus operating like a militarized gang in "enemy" territory. Valdez catalogues, with video evidence, violent assaults against bystanders detained for nothing more than vocalizing opposition to the Gestapo raids being conducted in from of them, the repeated brutalization of suspected migrants in broad daylight, and the use of tear gas or flashbang grenades on peaceful crowds gathered to observe and object to blatant civil rights violations by the Gestapo in their communities. This is enough to get an occupying army's generals hauled before a UN committee and it's happening on the streets of LA right now.

Okay, so there's the violent fascist repression part. Now let's look at the this late June story originally sourced from the LA Times, demonstrating that this really is a federal occupation of LA and the surrounding area.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/people-masked-immigration-agents-sow-100000525.html?guccounter=1

'Who are these people?' Masked immigration agents challenge local police, sow fear in L.A.

"Increasingly aggressive immigration raids carried out by masked federal agents, sometimes using unmarked vehicles, are creating problems for local law enforcement agencies.

Police have little or no insight into where the federal enforcement actions are taking place but often have to deal with the aftermath, including protests and questions from residents about what exactly happened. In some cases, local cops have been mistaken for federal agents, eroding years of work to have immigrant communities trust the police."

As traditionally befits the LA Times, this story is certainly a bit of copaganda; designed to absolve local politicians and police officials who were gleefully violating the civil rights of protesting Angelinos only weeks ago. With that having been said however, it does provide clear evidence that the Trumpenreich regime is conducting militarized policing operations alone, without local cooperation, and in territory they appear to be treating as openly hostile. What else would you call that, if not the invasion and occupation of Los Angeles, by fascist federal forces?