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“If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived,” writes NY Times columnist Michelle Goldberg.

Super late to the party on this, but I don’t think it matters what kind of bullets that cop shot the Australian reporter with. Cops have no business shooting reporters in the first place.

When they think no one is looking. *Cops damaging their own cars?

"Perhaps the only surprise about the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s Madleen mission is that there have not been more attempts to breach the inhumane blockade of Gaza during the last 20 months of Israel’s genocide."

"Violence is never the solution"

In Santa Ana, California, an ICE agent body slams an elderly man.

“We can't sit around waiting for a country that is an illegal occupier, that is on trial for genocide, to decide if and when and what kind of aid it's going to let into a people that they are actively exterminating." - @huwaida.bsky.social

“A nation where investors must pay bribes and possibly risk later being charged with crimes as a routine ‘cost of doing business’ cannot remain the thriving financial center of the world for long.” @davidrlurie.bsky.social on the coming cost of “making crime legal.” open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

“Americans in LA and beyond are correctly seeing the cynical rhetoric of counterterrorism – used by Trump because it worked for Bush and his successors – as bullshit meant to justify fascism.” ⁦For Zeteo, ⁦‪Spencer Ackerman‬⁩ is brilliant and correct about the “imperial boomerang’ landing in LA:

In a democracy, agents of the state do not wear masks.

Israeli military officials say there are no restrictions on bombing Gaza homes - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-military-officials-no-restrictions-bombing-gaza-homes

If Hezbollah or the Houthis captured a ship in international waters and arrested its crew, im pretty sure the press and politicians would be calling that kidnapping or hostage taking

Kristi Noem calling Los Angeles a “city of criminaIs” while working for a fascist with 34 felony counts is so ironic.

Israeli military did not “intercept a ship.” The Israeli military did commit a violent act of piracy against a UK flagged vessel in Int’l waters as it fulfilled a legal right to reach Gaza & alleviate suffering, then abducted its crew & transported them by force to Israel under threat of execution.

Ziomonsters

There was never a “criminal invasion” via the southern border. ICE is having trouble finding actual criminals. So the regime is staging WWE style raids to round up innocents. It’s grotesque and cruel MAGA kabuki theatre (it’s their M.O.): red meat for yellow MAGA dogs!

Philly local tv station reporting that a man allegedly posed as an ICE agent in order to rob a car repair business office. How many other criminals might be getting this idea right now, given that actual ICE agents are refusing to show IDs, warrants, badges?

Rights groups accuse Airbnb over listings in illegal Israeli settlements - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/airbnb-criminal-complaint-money-laundering-through-listings-illegal-israeli-settlements

This is an important piece from @leefang.bsky.social "Corporations Exploiting Migrant Labor Left Unscathed by Trump Crackdown" open.substack.com/pub/leefang/...

Those concerned about violence might want to start with violence against immigrants, by ICE here, by illegal deportations to gulags and third countries, the violence against so many federal departments, against the law, the climate, the public lands, waters, civil rights, reproductive rights...

State thugs surround and beat a defenceless victim during LA protests.

Always remember:

“EXCLUSIVE: Gaza Aid Flotilla Organizer Says 'Absolutely' More Ships Planned” Huwaida Arraf, who was not on the Madleen, gives Prem and Zeteo an update on what happened to Greta and co, and her coalition's plan to send more aid boats to Gaza. zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

It is not lost on Americans that the orchestrated federal war on California comes after a humiliating week for The Orange King and his desire to bend the will of blue states and their leaders. They are picking a fight and declaring war on all of us.

BREAKING: LAPD didn’t just “detain” someone. They surrounded him, beat him, and jumped him — like a gang. On camera. On horses. While he screamed for help. Unarmed. Cornered. Alone. If that’s not state violence, what the fuck is?

if white Americans didn’t want Mexicans in California maybe they should not have conquered California from Mexico and then spent 150 years building up an economy entirely dependent on the flow of people and goods across the border just a thought

"On the trail, Trump declared he would deport massive numbers of 'criminal aliens.' When he came into office, however, he faced a problem: The vast majority of undocumented immigrants are law abiding. But he came up with an answer: Create fake crimes and thereby turn the law abiding into criminals."

Imagine, just imagine, the response from the West if the Iranian government, in international waters, had rammed and then boarded a European ship, filled with European citizens, and taken them captive. But it's Israel, so it's all good. Our citizens don't matter.

If the objective was really apprehending people without legal authority to be in the country, ICE would never have to leave Mar-a-Lago.

Amnesty says Israel's Madleen interception is illegal - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/amnesty-says-israels-madleen-interception-illegal

Here's your LAPD when they think no one's looking

Imperial boomerang: "How the U.S.-backed war on Palestine is expanding authoritarianism at home—from Project Esther to violence at the border." www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Al Jazeera does the best reporting on it, but it still frustrates me that people continue to talk about international law like it's a real justice system. It is not. youtu.be/reI86GmNwz8

Read more about Israel’s arrest of the Gaza aid flotilla’s crew: zeteo.com/p/breaking-i... Make sure to subscribe to Zeteo for the latest updates on the Madleen ship from @premthakker.bsky.social.

“Bluesky is an echo chamberrrrr”

And where are the fraudsters? Oh that’s right - in the Whitehouse