As we entered the fifth month of the second Trump era, the explosive social movements that marked the close of the 2010s seemed like a distant memory. The fifth anniversary of the burning of the Third Precinct in Minneapolis came and went almost unremarked upon, and in the weeks leading up to it rumors of a Derek Chauvin pardon were swirling across news outlets. Conflict seemed relegated to departmental staffing cuts and budget reshufflings, while the palace intrigue of the Musk affair afforded ersatz enjoyment in the absence of the real thing. However, Los Angeles’s mass anti-ICE mobilization — set off by the opening of a new stage in the state’s deportation strategy — has reignited that old summer feeling. Shorn of “the resistance” for the moment, rebellion is once again in the air.