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could be a great time to distribute some zines! connect with some people! radicalize the moms! and whoever else!!

LAPD radio chatter about "protesters arming themselves with shields" and I will point out "arming" only applies to weapons, not PPE

Respectfully, these debates about spontaneity vs. organization are unnecessarily dichotomous. streets have their own ungovernable beautiful rhythm. *and* ecosystem of the streets is organized networks (like LA thru neighbourhood councils, wildfire mutual aid, student encampment, eviction defense..)

no one knows what’s going to happen next, but we know there is only so much ICE is capable of without local police working with (for) them

Curfews are bullshit.

The University of Michigan has canceled its undercover surveillance contracts after The Guardian published a story revealing private investigators trailing and recording pro-Palestinian campus groups. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NYPD is out NYPDing…

Okay, lady, let me get this straight: In an alternate timeline no one remembers, Picard ordered your mother—who you hate—to do something she was going to do anyway, and this resulted in both your birth and your father—who you love—killing your mom. And for this you blame Picard?

Karen Bass claims she will be imposing a curfew in LA but just a few blocks in downtown not the whole city She’s lost her fucking mind

What are the detention contracts that can be cancelled? What are the cooperation agreements that can be torn up?

Courts aren’t going to stop this. Courts can’t stop this.

LOL. Moneybags McGee weighs in.

Union leaders, Congress members, people off the street. This is all being done on the name of going after ‘criminals.’

I don’t see how calling Trump a hypocrite while insisting his attacks on cities are well deserved is actually helpful.

BREAKING NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver indicted on charges of ‘forcibly impeding’ immigration officers at New Jersey detention facility.

New: In 2012, we launched the 'Rolling Jubilee,' a novel fund that purchased millions of dollars in household debt—for pennies on the dollar—and then erased it. Today—inspired by that project—South Korea's newly elected President is proposing a Korean version of our fund.

If you're not in the streets, it's YOU who should exert some self-discipline and stop posting bullshit.

Criminalization is at the core of everything we’re seeing and experiencing now. It is how authoritarian, fascist, Right-wing agendas are enacted and legitimized. This is why, in our strategies for resisting, challenging criminalization is crucial. Learn more in this @haymarketbooks.org video panel:

Otherwise good article listed 1) setting off fireworks into the air 2) graffiti 3) throwing bottles in the direction of cops to support the claim of violence.

The thing about human rights is that they belong to every single human being unconditionally

The idea of the criminal is a lot more complex than either 1) someone who broke the law or 2) someone with a criminal conviction.

Tough on crime policies and rhetoric over the last 40 years has just expanded the scope of who is considered criminal but even when you unpack and humanize the group that does have criminal records, people are less compelled by the idea that they should be summarily detained and banished from the US

What is ‘extreme’ or ‘off the wall’ is a product of politics. When large chunks of the Democratic Party support Republican positions, those positions will be treated as sensible in media coverage.

These 75 Democrats joined Republicans to "express gratitude" to ICE agents and call for greater local and state collaboration with ICE. jonathancohn.medium.com/a-tale-of-tw...

I think it’s important to notice why so many Americans believe the criminal group exists: yes the media but also two political parties that kept talking about this criminal imaginary. Two. That appeal to Liz Cheney moderates shit is damaging.

Border and Rule is available for free download! I wrote a book spanning ICE & borders, Palestine & policing, colonialism & global fascism - in service to internationalist struggles. I can no longer travel to US, but this book (as well @silkys13.bsky.social & @micahh.bsky.social 's) can come to you

There's a lot to unpack here. But the "why do people in the developed world die from chronic diseases at higher rates than in poorer countries" is because we survive long enough to die from chronic rather than infectious disease. This is epidemiology 101. It's not a mystery.

Those are regular cops.

Protesters in Boston are rallying behind Los Angeles in opposition to the National Guard and the detainment of union leader David Huerta. They are yelling “Come for one, come for all," with signs that read “Massachusetts stands with our neighbors in Los Angeles."

for no reason, an excerpt from "let this radicalize you"…

No one in LA is looking for advice from pundits or online randos. But people in your life are likely looking (or willing) to learn what is going on.

This one got people, and national attention works: SEIU California President David Huerta has been released and is back with his family. We keep going until everyone is free—especially those whose names aren't headlines.

A Brief History of Movies Today Are Too Sexy 🧵

Harris’s statement is far better than the governors’ one.

My 80 year old dad is so upset about the way protestors are being attacked so we got into a conversation about defunding the police & I sent him this piece by @prisonculture.bsky.social. Realized others might want to revisit it too. www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/o...

People trying to protect their neighbors are not the problem. The fact that some of you are thinking that way reflects a level of psychological capture & submission to fascism that you should interrogate. If they want an "excuse" to do something, they'll create one. The good guys aren't the problem.

“Currently, there is no plan for where everyone is sleeping tonight,” the source said, adding that there was an urgent need to find more portable bathrooms and dumpsters for garbage.

No one in LA is looking for advice from pundits or online randos. But people in your life are likely looking (or willing) to learn what is going on.

me: i would like to purchase your product. in exchange i would like to be able to read it on the device i already own ebook retailers: first of all, fuck you. second of all, go to hell

What are the detention contracts that can be cancelled? What are the cooperation agreements that can be torn up?

Thought Free Tom

I’ve lived through the definition of “terrorist” changing from people who fly planes into buildings to it becoming “anybody who disagrees with the president, and also brown or black folks, and some whites from the gayer countries.”

Tear gas is a chemical weapon.

They shot at reporters in 2020 too. This is what cops do.

People need to understand the word “criminal” is the easiest weapon for an authoritarian to use and work on changing their emotional reactions to the word and recognize they’ve spent most of their lives being manipulated into vilifying allies to the delight of the wealthy.