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AnnCrystal
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There are so many stories that I want to share from California. These are the some of the ones that made me cringe the most.

This post in no way covers all the the stories happening in Los Angeles County NOR across California.

Please do further research to fact-check or if you would like to know more or want updates on the people highlighted here.

Please Note: I didn't include updates.

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AnnCrystal A 15 year old American was sitting in a car with his grandmother, waiting outside a school where a family member was inside registering.

Barbarian agents surrounded the car and kidnapped the young teenager at gunpoint. He was later released to his family, who received an explanation that it was a case of mistaken identity.

Los Angeles CA officials are now working to protect our children from the federal government during school hours.

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AnnCrystal First amendment rights was violated when an American activist, Union del Barrio member Amanda Trebach was targeted and violently kidnapped by masked kidnappers.

These barbarians claimed Trebach blocked and hit agents vehicles. Fellow Union del Barrio member claim that these allegations are false.

Trebach was later released without any of the alleged charges.

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AnnCrystal In July, Lakewood City, CA Councilmember and American Born David Arellano claimed that he was racially profiled when U.S. Customs and Border Protection so-called agents jumped into his boat and demanded to see his identification papers.

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AnnCrystal Today, Governor of California held an emergency News Conference in Los Angeles, CA. The LA Mayor, Karen Bass and several California U.S. Council Members and House Representatives attended.

Right outside this News Conference, so-called agents just happened to hold a raid. At least two people have been reported kidnapped.

#californiananncrystal

#HighlightsfromCalifornia

#TroublingTimesinOurUSA

These stories have been sourced from local News.
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Amiable Thank you for continuing to bear witness! 1w
AnnCrystal 👍🏼😘 @Amiable ✊🏼🐻💙💙💙. 1w
dabbe 😤😖🤬 Thanks for keeping us informed. 💙✊🏻💙 1w
AnnCrystal 👍🏼🫂 @dabbe ✊🏼🐻💙💙💙. 1w
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AnnCrystal
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The restraining order didn't hold for as long as Angelenos & Southern Californians were hoping 🤬. They are ignoring OUR 1st, 4th, & 8th Amendments ✊🏼🐻.

They were in full tactical gear.

#californiananncrystal
#HighlightsfromCalifornia
#TroublingTimesinOurUSA

The following has been sourced from ABC 7 News.

Videos taken from the scene shows agents loading several people into the back of a Penske rental truck.

From LA Mayor Karen Bass: 👇🏼

AnnCrystal “For months federal agents have been masking themselves and now they're using rental trucks to conduct their seemingly discriminatory raids - these tactics are dangerous. The Federal court of appeals made clear that it is unconstitutional in this country to racially profile people and snatch them from worksites. The City is gathering information about these reported raids and considering all legal 👇🏼 2w
AnnCrystal options. Tactics like this are un-American and we will never accept these terrorizing ploys as a new normal.“ - Mayor Bass: (edited) 2w
Lsmoore43 I agree with you 100%. This is not the America I know and love. 2w
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AnnCrystal 🫂😘 @Lsmoore43 truly! I still cannot believe that this is our reality ✊🏼🐻💙🦅✊🏼. 2w
Susanita They have no shame 2w
AnnCrystal @Susanita I sometimes wonder if these people cheer for the villains in movies ✊🏼🐻💙🦅✊🏼. 2w
dabbe Only “liking“ to support you. Otherwise, 🩵🎯🩵 to your comments. 2w
AnnCrystal 🫂 😘 @dabbe ✊🏼🐻💙🦅✊🏼. 2w
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AnnCrystal
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✊🏼🐻💙🦅✊🏼.

#quotessharedbycaliforniananncrystal

TheBookHippie Yaaaas!!! 4w
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AnnCrystal @TheBookHippie ✊🏼🌞👌🏼💖. 4w
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💔❤️‍🩹✊🏼🌞💖💝.
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AnnCrystal
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✊🏼💙🌟🦅✊🏼

#quotessharedbycaliforniananncrystal

Image and qoute found on web.

Leftcoastzen Thank you!!!!! 4w
AnnCrystal @Leftcoastzen ✊🏼😉👌🏼🦅💙. 4w
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AnnCrystal
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Note: This quote has unknown origins. It is said to be based on Sun Tzu writings.

#TroublingTimesinOurUSA

#quotessharedbycaliforniananncrystal

Deblovestoread We are seeing it happen in real time. 💔 1mo
AmyG Yes, we are living it. 1mo
Bette This image with those words = so powerful. And sad. 😢 1mo
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AnnCrystal 🫂 @Deblovestoread
🫂 @AmyG
🫂 @Bette

It's becoming more and more difficult, but try to believe that even in the darkest times there always remains the possibility for light and hope to emerge.

Each one of us is helping save tomorrow by noticing the happenings of today.

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Suet624 Thank goodness for South Park. 1mo
dabbe 💙✊🏻💙 1mo
AnnCrystal @Suet624 I haven't watched South Park, but heard the news ✊🏼😂👌🏼. 1mo
AnnCrystal @dabbe ✊🏼🦅💙✊🏼. 1mo
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AnnCrystal
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The grandson of President JFK speaks out about the renaming of, The Kennedy Center Opera House.

Sourced, The Hill by Judy Kurtz - 07/23/25 12:48 PM ET

“A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces — but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers,” Schlossberg, quoting his grandfather, wrote in a Tuesday post on Instagram.

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AnnCrystal “JFK believed the arts made our country great and could be our most effective weapon in the fight for civil rights and against authoritarian governments around the world,” Schlossberg, a vocal critic of President Trump, said.

“The Trump administration stands for freedom of oppression, not expression,” he added.

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AnnCrystal “[Trump] uses his awesome powers to suppress free expression and instill fear,” the 32-year-old son of former U.S. ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg said.

But Schlossberg said the potential name change to the prominent institution‘s Opera House was not “about the arts.”

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AnnCrystal “Trump is obsessed with being bigger than JFK , with minimizing the many heroes of our past, as if that elevates him. It doesn‘t,” he said.

“But there‘s hope,” Schlossberg wrote to his nearly 700,000 followers, “art lasts forever, and no one can change what JFK and our shared history stands for.”
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dabbe 🩵💙🩵 1mo
AnnCrystal @dabbe ✊🏼💙✌🏼. 1mo
Suet624 A wonderful message. 1mo
AnnCrystal @Suet624 True ✊🏼🦅✌🏼 very impactful indeed! 1mo
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AnnCrystal
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Amiable My goal this year is to start Robert Caro‘s books about LBJ. Have you read them? First one is (I think): (edited) 1mo
Leftcoastzen @Amiable I‘ve been thinking about reading it as well 1mo
Amiable @Leftcoastzen I was honestly trying to hold out until Caro finished the last book so I would know the series was complete before starting it but my husband pointed out that Caro is 89 now so that last book might not ever happen. And also it‘s a biography so we do actually know how it all ends. 😄 1mo
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@Leftcoastzen

🤩📚 I haven't read this, thank you for sharing the suggestion Amiable.

I have researched a little into President Lyndon B. Johnson's “The Great Society“ goals and have wondered if it could be something that the Democrats should revive to combat Little t's maga.

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Amiable @AnnCrystal @Leftcoastzen I‘m open to an LBJ buddy read if anyone else is interested 1mo
dabbe 💙✊💙 1mo
Leftcoastzen @Amiable I‘m interested! Article about Caro from Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/rifling-through-archives-legendary-histor... (edited) 1mo
AnnCrystal Thank You @Amiable for the invitation 💝💝💝. I'm not mail ordering just now, and we are remaining local for safety, therefore I'm not sure when I can find this very important read. I look forward to reading your and @Leftcoastzen's comments and reviews ✊🏼📚🦅💙. (edited) 1mo
AnnCrystal Thank You @Leftcoastzen for sharing this article with us 👏🏼🤩👍🏼🦅💙. (edited) 1mo
AnnCrystal @dabbe ✊🏼🦅💙. 1mo
Amiable @Leftcoastzen Fabulous article —thanks for sharing! And now I know that if Caro doesn‘t completely finish the last book, there‘s still at least 980 pages to read. 😀 When would you like to start the first book? Perhaps in September—kind of like a “back to school buddy read”? 1mo
Leftcoastzen @Amiable I could so September 1mo
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AnnCrystal
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Just a word of caution, my mom and I have noticed what we are calling “Ghost Shoppers.“

Every time we go shopping, we are noticing ghost shopping carts and hand baskets with food in them just left abandoned in the middle of aisles. Too many for it to seem normal.

Be cautious when out shopping. Try to not shop alone, stay away from back exits/storage room doors, and never believe someone claiming to be a so-called agent...

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AnnCrystal
make commotion and scream! Don't leave with them willingly.

There also seems to be too many men walking up and down the aisles with empty baskets, or with nothing in their hands, or just buying drinks and snacks. And some of these men are giants, something my shopping center never seemed to have before in such abundance.

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AnnCrystal @AmyG a terrifying notion 🛒👀🙏🏼. 1mo
MemoirsForMe 😬 1mo
Deblovestoread Truly terrifying! 1mo
AnnCrystal @MemoirsForMe unsettling indeed 🛒👀🙏🏼. 1mo
AnnCrystal @Deblovestoread
Truly 🛒👀🙏🏼.
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Susanita This from the regime led by a man who doesn‘t understand the word groceries. 🤦🏻‍♀️ 1mo
AnnCrystal @Susanita that seems the truth 👏🏼🛒👀🙏🏼. (edited) 1mo
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AnnCrystal
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The one Black Eyed Peas song that I went crazy over was “Where Is the Love“ from 2003. Played on repeat for months.

Been meaning to read Taboo's graphic novels. These are on my “must buy and read TBR.“

Now these new songs are going on my “must play“ list...just...where to find CDs??

🎶✊🏼🐻🎶✊🏼🐻🎶✊🏼🐻🎶.

#californiananncrystal

#HighlightsfromCalifornia

#TroublingTimesinOurUSA

Deblovestoread Love that song! 1mo
AnnCrystal @Deblovestoread Remains a favorite 👏🏼😉🎶💝🎶💝🎶💝. 1mo
Mimi28 Taboo has graphic novels!! Cool !! 😎 1mo
AnnCrystal @Mimi28 🆒📚🆒 I hope to read them some day 🤩📚💝.

Goodreads has his books listed.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4477700.Taboo
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AnnCrystal
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This post covers stories about California activism and good news updates from my state...and a bonus story from New York.

This post in no way covers all the the stories happening in Los Angeles County NOR across California.

Please do further research to fact-check or if you would like to know more or want updates on the people highlighted here.

Please Note: I didn't include updates unless stated.

🙏🏼✊🏼🐻✌🏼.

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AnnCrystal Sourced from Los Angeles, California USA branches of news stations CBS, NBC, KTLA, ABC, and also from British publication, The Guardian.

✊🏼🐻✊🏼🦅🙏🏼✌🏼.

#californiananncrystal

#HighlightsfromCalifornia

#TroublingTimesinOurUSA

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AnnCrystal “Pentagon to Withdraw Half of 4,000 National Guard Troops Deployed to Los Angeles.“

This is good news, not great, but good. It would be great if the power over the National Guard was returned to our CA Governor and all the barbarian agents were sent packing.

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AnnCrystal Artist Lalo Alcaraz is using his gifts to create activism art.

Above is one of his paintings titled, “Summer of ICE“ which depicts an ice cream push cart, symbolizing the detention of Culver City ice cream vendor, Ambrosio “Enrique“ Lozano, who was kidnapped by these barbarian agents. His ice cream cart left abandoned.

Residents later gathered to support Lozano's family and raise funds by selling the remaining ice cream from his cart.

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AnnCrystal Sennett Devermont, who is known as mrcheckpoint on Instagram, is actively documenting immigration detainments and kidnappings.

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AnnCrystal !!Update!!

Narciso Barranco...the Father of three U.S. Marine sons (two who are on active duty)...who was brutally kidnapped in June has been released on a $3,000 bond.

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AnnCrystal !!Update!!

I wrote about Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon in my second, Highlights From California.

This story has been reported as a hoax

If truly a hoax...this makes me glad, for this woman's safety and appalled that this woman would take away from TRUE kidnapping stories.

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AnnCrystal !! Update !!

George Retes, the disabled U.S. Veteran, who was kidnapped by barbarian agents during a raid on a cannabis farm in California, has announced his intention to sue over his detention.

“Retes was wrongfully detained despite identifying himself as a U.S. citizen and employee of the farm. He and his family experienced difficulty locating him after the detention, according to the United Farm Workers Union“

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AnnCrystal And the Bonus Highlight from New York...

“Artist Phil Buehler, in collaboration with Radio Free Brooklyn, has created a public art installation in New York City titled the “Wall of Shame“

This installation documents the stories and alleged crimes of over 1,575 individuals involved in the January 6th attack on the US Capitol. The mural is 50 feet long and 10 feet tall, featuring

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AnnCrystal color-coding to categorize the individuals based on their actions during the riot: red for violent rioters, blue for those who damaged property, and white for the remaining individuals. The artwork is designed to resemble an “imploding American flag“. Buehler compiled information on the rioters' actions, charges, and sentences using research from NPR and presented it on waterproof vinyl panels.

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AnnCrystal The “Wall of Shame“ is the third part of Buehler's “art against autocracy trilogy“.“
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Deblovestoread Thank you for your updates! 1mo
AnnCrystal @Deblovestoread ✊🏼🐻👌🏼💝💝💝. 1mo
Eggbeater I always appreciate these posts. This is news I don't get to hear. 1mo
AnnCrystal @Eggbeater I'm so glad you find these helpful 🫂💝. It has become more and more difficult to learn about these stories. Feels like two second briefs when the news does cover a story...They are truly important ✊🏼🐻👌🏼💝💝💝. 1mo
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