Hello, everybody and welcome back to Red Menace.

All right.

Today we're doing basically a last minute emergency episode.

Allison texted me this morning and said, you know, can we jump on a recording really quick and get some stuff out?

Because, you know, there's an, as anybody

listening will probably know, a dynamic, ongoing situation happening around the country, really,

but specifically a flashpoint is happening currently in L.A. If you've been online at all,

in the last couple of days, you've seen the footage coming out of Los Angeles, the mass deportation attempts, the ICE and FBI formations,

and the relentless resistance by the people of L.A. more broadly. So I figure we can come on here.

Allison obviously lives and organizes in L.A. can give us a summary of what's going on, talk about

some of the specific dynamics in Los Angeles,

even though, again, this is a nationwide thing that's occurring currently, but I think

L.A. is a particularly, you know, intense flashpoint to focus on. And then we'll kind of just

give, we'll go into an organic sort of an analysis section where we give our takes on this, analyze this and kind of, you know, test where this is going to go from here because this is a really, um, you know, hot button issue right now. And it could take many different directions from here. So, Alison, I guess the first thing is if you want to get into the summary right away, go ahead.

But if you have any other opening thoughts or things you want to set the table with first, feel free to do that as well.

Yeah.

No, I mean, I think I'll go ahead and get into the events and then we can frame it from there.

You know, so I live in Los Angeles.

And so obviously I've been pretty close to what's happening right now.

To broadly summarize what happened was on Friday morning, we got reports.

I think basically everyone in any organizational group chat got reports about ice raids

that were happening downtown.

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