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I need a housing discrimination attorney. If you know of one in the DC area please let me know.

Not clear how detaining someone before someone with legal authority to arrest shows up is not just an illegal arrest.

tried to research something for a joke and got sidetracked by Google fabricating an R.E.M. song that does not exist

@nhold.bsky.social on why legalistic resistance to Trump won’t cut it.

Yes, he's polling poorly, but he still has the power to do what he wants. If we want to stop him, we must *build the power* to do that. Sadly, we cannot disapprove our way out of fascism.

ICE is going to parks in Los Angeles and kidnapping nannies who are caring for small children The children are witnessing these kidnappings and being held in custody until their parents are contacted Women and children in parks

My kids will attend their first protest tomorrow. Fuck all these fascist freaks.

I'm on the ground minding my own business and this little fellow walks up to me and gives me this look. How is this not a booping face? They're Begging. For. A. Booping. 🪶 🐣

This Bill de Blasio interview has a really repulsive ode to Bill Bratton in it… really underscoring the side of BDB that made people resent him www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/n...

I'm pouring over the details of the reconciliation bill and its potentially apocalyptic effects on higher education for a short piece - it really is a five alarm fire. They're going to overhaul the student loan infrastructure as a means of anti-intellectual, resegregationist social engineering.

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

chuck schumer is backing israel's attack on iran and calling for the u.s. to throw its full support behind israel

I constantly strive to be a better organizer and something I need to take to heart more is to ask more questions. Get people thinking for themselves. firewithfire.blog/2025/06/08/t...

Not going to waste my time with Chait, but the problem with ‘the liberals told you so’ is that many Democrats are advancing the notion that the protests must be crushed, and local cops have been at the front lines from the beginning.

The oppression of the entire Latino community of Los Angeles right now is difficult to convey. Normally vibrant local retail areas of East LA and SELA look like ghost towns this week. People are afraid to leave their homes. Parents afraid to go to work. It's US citizens too. Anyone with brown skin

mind you this facility is illegal under state law is the facility baraka was trying to visit we know the conditions in these cages are subhuman - now, hearing reports they are teargassing people

Foreign policy in Los Angeles

Free them all

Reports of an uprising inside Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark NJ. I was here with people trying to visit family when we all started choking due to tear gas used inside.

Seeing more reports from LA moms that ICE is kidnapping nannies from parks and nobody seems to know what’s happening to them or the kids in their care. Some bustling parks are now nearly empty from fear. They’re destroying our civic spaces like a conquering army.

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Cuomo calls people he robbed of wages “illegal immigrants” which shouldn’t have been hired. Incredible.

A taco place in Ballard shut down early tonight after an alleged ICE spotting. Meanwhile SPD is cracking down on anti-ICE protesters outside the Seattle Federal Building for the second night in a row. The city is on edge right now with tensions high and discontent bubbling.

UConn’s state appropriation was recently cut by 5% by our D/D leg and D governor, and *that* is pretty catastrophic

ICE is expanding its raids into California’s agricultural heartland—targeting farmworkers mid-season, spreading fear ⚠️ This is an assault on families, farms, and food security. This isn’t enforcement—it’s a witch hunt. We stand with immigrant communities. seiu.co/3ZZsCOG

Democratic senators realize there are people who matter who aren’t in the U.S. Senate challenge (impossible.)

Regular people have been in the streets all week, it’s the people on power who need to wake up.

Law-and-order and rule-of-law politics will not protect us from fascism.

Adam Schiff is on the Senator floor right now talking about the "vandals and miscreants" committing "vile acts" in L.A. that he argues should be subdued only by local police rather than the military. Good lead up, senator. You're truly one of the worst elected Dems.

No sure why a power outage would mean the metro train is holding -*momentarily*

Anyone here with access to Yale's library? Looking for a text. Thanks in advance! 🙏

Like so many things, ‘no flying other flags’ has always had a big asterisk. They aren’t hypocrites, they are hiding the ball.

My University has told us that despite growing ug and grad majors, we are losing a TT history position (not filling line of departing prof). Today they announced they hired a new "chief artificial intelligence strategist." Guess how I feel about this.

How're they gonna find a supply of pliant, lowpaid labor to replace undocumented workers? Why children! With their small delicate hands I'm sure they could make iPhone screws. And don't worry about agriculture in the valley, we're about to get a whole lot more prisoners in SoCal. It's gonna be fine

Cutting lines or even whole departments is the frontal assault on higher ed, but another low key war of attrition is the slow accumulation of grinding, meaningless additional tasks concerning syllabus templates, learning outcomes, institutional pablum, and ever more intricate evaluation hoops.

Can’t tell if the photographers are secret comrades or Cuomo just always looks like that.

“how people should protest the right way” is a parlor game played by people whose experience of protest is watching the news on tv

Too bad there is no organized opposition party that could in one clear voice support the protesters.

Got to talk about socialism with a bunch of amazing people tonight

Stop disappearing our neighbors you ghoul

It isn't just that "domestic police (LAPD) are trained by foreign occupation forces (IOF)" Its that the cops (and ICE) are *themselves* also occupation forces & counterinsurgent structure Policing is a colonial occupation on all Indigenous lands. Huey & BPP said cops are "occupying army."

FYI the Democratic party is more unpopular than Trump et al in this poll.