Trump Brings the War Home [TEASER]

5-4

Prologue Projects

News Commentary, News, Government

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

California has become a testing ground for Trump's police state ambitions. In Los Angeles and across the country, he’s merging the military and the police into one entity, with its guns aimed inward.

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5-4 is presented by Prologue Projects. This episode was produced by Dustin DeSoto. Leon Neyfakh provides editorial support. Our website was designed by Peter Murphy. Our artwork is by Teddy Blanks at Chips NY, and our theme song is by Spatial Relations. Transcriptions of each episode are available at fivefourpod.com

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. This is Leon from Prologue Projects.
0:07.7	On this subscriber-only episode of 5 to 4, Peter, Riannon, and Michael are talking about President
0:14.3	Trump's immigration crackdown, specifically as it relates to two ongoing cases in California.
0:20.7	Earlier this summer, masked
0:22.4	ICE agents conducted aggressive raids in Los Angeles. Five men who were picked up by ICE
0:27.5	sued the government, claiming that ICE agents had failed to identify themselves or give a reason
0:32.1	for their arrests, and that they were denied access to legal counsel. In response to the raids,
0:41.3	protests against ICE erupted in downtown Los Angeles, leading Trump to bypass California Governor Gavin Newsom and deploy the National Guard.
0:46.7	Newsom sued, asserting that Trump had exceeded his authority, but a court of appeals sided
0:51.5	with the administration.
0:53.6	Both of these cases are active and might
0:55.7	eventually make it to the Supreme Court. In the meantime, this is 5 to 4, a podcast about how much
1:01.7	the Supreme Court and our burgeoning police state suck. Welcome to 5 to 4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have turned our nation cryptically racist like an American Eagle ad.
1:20.8	Yes.
1:21.7	I'm Peter. I'm here with Riannon.
1:23.7	Hey.
1:24.5	And Michael.
1:25.3	Sydney Sweeney can do no wrong in my opinion.
1:28.1	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:29.8	Michael, a big simp for Sydney Sweeney.
1:33.1	Sink, I haven't heard that in a long time.
1:34.8	That's really funny.
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