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Actor, playwright, nature enthusiast, and knowledge monger. I subscribe to the Tao of I Think You Should Leave. Always down to eat a sheet cake. https://newplayexchange.org/users/69223/caitlin-strom-martin
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Here’s video evidence that LAPD was not only securing the perimeter for the ICE / HSI raids, they were also inside the facility during the operation. Lying ass @LAPDHQ said they were “not involved in the immigration enforcement”… what does this look like to you?

MAGA that supports and praises violent insurrectionists on January 6th now lecturing America about people protesting ICE. LOL. OK, Karens.

“They want everyone to believe what they believe. When Trump changes his mind about something, then you need to believe that, too. It’s functionally a totalitarian political view that says, ‘You’re allowed to think and say what I want you to think and say.’”

NEW: Unbelievable. A seemingly endless line of tanks & other military vehicles arrive in DC ahead of next week's parade. They departed Texas 5 days ago. What a colossal waste of time, money & military resources. All for a President who has shown zero respect for service personnel. (🎥 DW)

Chief of Nashville, criminal division resigns over decision to charge Abrego Garcia. That’s a big story and the details will likely be very damning for the administration.

*narrator* he did in fact come back.

🚨🚨 BREAKING: Protesters have surrounded the federal detention center in Los Angeles. California isn’t backing down, this is a full-blown standoff with the feds. ❤️ A FUCK YEAH!!!

New in PN: Adam Serwer on America's "new dark age" "They see this as a long-term investment in a more ignorant population reliant on sources of information they can control — a docile population that can be easily manipulated." — @adamserwer.bsky.social

Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today

For the gazillionth time, he is not the "leader of the free world". He's not even the leader of a free country.

UPDATE: David Huerta has been released from the hospital but remains in custody. His words: "We all collectively have to object to this madness because this is not justice. This is injustice." Free David Huerta. Free them ALL.

Just leaving this here for my friends and colleagues in the biz with no comment necessary.

ICE raids hit across Los Angeles today—and locals are rising up. This is what resistance looks like. ✊🏾 This was about an hour ago…

ICE waited until a woman’s lawyer went to the restroom then dragged her away. She fainted from stress and they dragged her unconscious body into the elevator, refusing medical attention.

By the way a military parade when we’re not celebrating a war victory is something a dude who never served would do.

If a Muslim in the US publicly called for a missile strike on a famous celebrity activist onboard a civilian ship or plane, the FBI would be investigating them for terrorism. But a rich white guy gets to incite violence without any consequences 🤷🏽‍♂️👇🏽

people will just admit to anything

When ICE comes into our neighborhoods targeting our communities and hurting our leaders, we show up! United. Organized. Ready to protect families.

A former D.C. police lieutenant convicted of leaking information about a police investigation to the leader of the Proud Boys group on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, was sentenced Friday to 18 months behind bars.

you don't see husbands realizing they forgot their anniversary and searching for a gift and seeing the necklace their wife wanted in a window for $50 and pulling out an empty wallet and moths flying out and then seeing a poster that says "BOXING MATCH FIRST PRIZE $50" and saying "hmmm" much anymore

Around the time that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was indicted in the Middle District of Tennessee, the chief of the criminal division in that district posted this on LinkedIn: “Earlier today, after nearly 15 years as an Assistant United States Attorney, I resigned…”

EVERYBODY WATCH. ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today. He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader. Don’t turn away.

It’s almost like Elon Musk only helped Donald Trump get elected so he could ensure he kept government contracts and subsidies, and is now throwing a tantrum because Trump’s threatening to cancel them. Like everyone who was paying attention was saying would happen.

BREAKING The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

No crimes. No goodbyes to her infant daughter. Heidy was forcibly removed from the U.S. within 48 hours. It could happen to any of us. Citizenship is no protection from lawlessness. Due process is. Call Congress to demand due process: 202-224-3121 #DisappearedInAmerica #AbductedByTrump

Wow. What a sign that criminal case against Abrego Garcia may be politically cooked up. "Schrader’s resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons" Schrader spent 15 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville and was chief of the criminal division

We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.

Kyiv this morning

This is all very simple. Let the world's two biggest babies fight and visibly construct and build a world without them. Anybody who tries to welcome Elon Musk, the world's most preeminent ratfucker, into their political party should be put in a dog crate until 2029.

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

Nearly a dozen immigration officers and eight deportees are sick and stranded in a metal shipping container in the searing-hot East African nation of Djibouti, where they face the constant threat of malaria and rocket attacks from nearby Yemen, according to a federal court filing.

If only the New York Times had made this big of a deal in December 2022 when Trump called for “termination” of the Constitution. (That ran on Page 13. Yes, Page 13.)

I’m calling it: Trump’s going to use Elon as the scapegoat for everything dragging down his poll numbers. The right will buy it—hook, line, and sinker—and forgive him, even as they suffer from his policies.

“They’re Ruining People’s Lives”: Bans on Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Youth in the US

we can't afford to house you or feed you but we can afford a special police robot to yell at you from the sky

The Dems should be all over that fixed the election angle but they are not! Chalking it up to money spent. WHY WOULD HE LIST A SPECIFIC SENATE COUNT AND HOUSE CONTROL IF HE WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT MONEY?!

We all know the nazi salute is terrible. The salute launched the Tesla Takedown protests. But since then Musk is responsible for mass murder. That needs to be stressed so that people know what they're facing and can form a meaningful opposition. It isn't mentioned because it's unpalatable.

I can't believe any Democrat would THINK of allying with Elon Musk. I won't take money from the guy who does a Hitler salute. It's really that simple.

Survivors of domestic abuse often struggle to leave their abusers if they are forced to abandon their pets. Now, in the latest attack on domestic violence services, Republicans are hoping to eliminate a program that helps shelters support survivors' pets.

Doesn't matter who is president: It's clear that the US Government cannot entrust its space and satellite programs to a thin-skinned, drug-addled meglomaniac.

There are people in this country who, if given the chance to do the 2024 election all over again, *still* wouldn’t vote for Kamala, even after all this. We’re surrounded by utter morons.

Really shocked that an admin filled with podcasters, social media influencers, reality TV participants, indicted felons, crypto bros, drunks, Fox hosts, drug addicts, weirdos, and unqualified ass kissing toadies can’t keep their shit together for 24 consecutive hours.

This is f*cked up! Stories of ICE luring immigrants to hearings just to arrest them keep coming—now they’re going after kids. Martir Garcia Lara, a fourth grader from Southern California, went to a hearing in Houston with his dad. Instead of an update, they were both detained and separated by ICE.

BREAKING NEWS: This video will likely improve your day.

You may not like it, but this is what peak gynocentric communication looks like.

AOC: “The girls are fighting, aren’t they?”