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submitted 8 hours ago • 166 comments

I just have to say for those of you not in LA that in the days before the horrible raids started, there was no crisis or whatever they would let you believe. It wasn't like something was escalating out of control and somebody had to step in. THEY are creating the problems.

submitted 3 hours ago • 21 comments

beyond the thin veneer of concern behind all of these opeds is the much simpler truth that their authors desperately want to describe something that is very obviously their problem (fewer people want to post in the venues they like more) as though it were our problem

submitted 6 hours ago • 41 comments

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submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

I'll never forget that Linda Tirado lost an eye and is dying from TBI-induced dementia caused by a cop shooting her in the face by a rubber bullet at the George Floyd protests.

submitted 4 hours ago • 14 comments

This absolute icon at Canterbury Pride 🩷🤍🩵

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

submitted 8 hours ago • 15 comments

If you are arrested during a protest or action against ICE or CPD in Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. (This is an offer for criminal defense; I unfortunately don't do immigration law.)

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

So ICE caused a traffic jam, started their raid right in front of the traffic jam, and then attacked the people stuck in traffic who were angry about the whole thing and recording it on their phones. People sometimes have a hard time understanding that police start the violence, but come on

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

Trump & Miller are very consciously not going after criminals. They’re going after moms & dads and it’s a fucking atrocity.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

If we’re suspending reporters for upsetting Stephen Miller, I’d like to highlight this post I made last night.

submitted 6 hours ago • 6 comments

"As citizens, our task is clear: pay attention to these voices, understand their warnings, and recognize that judicial pushback alone cannot preserve democratic norms. When judges start speaking in the language of constitutional crisis, democracy needs every defender it can find."

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

So, in case you later see bullshit about conflict between troops/ICE/cops & protesters in DTLA just now - the protesters did nothing. The assorted copfolk pushed forward & forced the protesters back, using riot shields & tear gas, to clear a path for a convoy of vehicles entering the facility.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

Wonder what was different the last time a POTUS deployed the National Guard against a Governor's wishes? It was in Alabama, and LBJ deployed the National Guard to PROTECT civil rights protesters. To protect the rights and lives of protesters.

submitted 6 hours ago • 23 comments

“The idea that immigration enforcement is the most significant national security and public safety concern that we as a country face is deeply unserious.” https://trib.al/NlZyqwr

submitted 6 hours ago • 36 comments

This story exemplifies the reason people are outraged at ICE. This guy did nothing wrong. He broke not a single law. He was a guard at a base that housed US troops. He came here legally through humanitarian parole. He had an asylum application pending. Yet the Trump admin had ICE grab him anyway.

submitted 7 hours ago • 32 comments

If you think what's happening in L.A. now are riots then you don't know what a riot is. What's happening in L.A. is the same shit that happened during the BLM protests, just with ICE: Peaceful protestors protest peacefully until the LAPD/SD/law enforcement shows up & purposely escalates one-sidedly.

submitted 8 hours ago • 8 comments

CA Gov: Do not deploy National Guard in LA CA AG: Do not deploy National Guard in LA LAPD: Do not deploy National Guard in LA Trump: I have no choice but to deploy National Guard in LA Trump incites violence. Reject his illegal orders. Uphold the US Constitution—not loyalty to a draft dodger felon.

submitted 7 hours ago • 23 comments

Important information. Remember one day, there will be accountability for this!

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

I’m just going to get this out now, since I know it’s coming, and I can just link to it. DO NOT FETISHIZE NON-VIOLENCE. It is a PRACTICE and a DISCIPLINE. The people who employed it successfully trained RIGOROUSLY. It’s not just a decision, because it goes against basic human instincts. 1/x

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

It’s obvious but worth drawing out what raids of Home Depot’s of all places is about. It’s rounding up people who are really eager for work and for whom there is work, peoples whose labor is in demand. We know this but shows just how far it is from rounding up just the bad guys.

submitted 6 hours ago • 301 comments

“Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn ‘reasonable’ and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to stop and speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.” — Sinclair Lewis, “It Can't Happen Here”

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

OUT NOW: Chris Mirasola explains Trump’s memorandum purporting to deploy 2,000 National Guard personnel to respond to protests against ICE immigration raids in Los Angeles. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

submitted 11 hours ago • 43 comments

Tom Homan says if “anti ICE violence” doesn’t stop, someone will get hurt. People have already been hurt. Some have lost their lives. Many have been disappeared to prisons in other countries or are being detained in atrocious conditions in the US. People have already been hurt. That’s why we rise.

submitted 6 hours ago • 9 comments

First they illegally deport citizens. Then they unleash ICE to terrorize communities. Now they’ve got the National Guard in L.A. to silence protestors. This ain’t about law and order. This is what authoritarianism looks like.

submitted 9 hours ago • 344 comments

They seem to think there’s a right to anonymous policing, but not to anonymous protest.

submitted 9 hours ago • 28 comments

Boosting this for good measure. To quote the CNN piece: "Homan accused Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass of creating “a sanctuary for criminals,” adding that neither are exempt from potential arrest." This should alarm the hell out of all of us.

submitted 9 hours ago • 10 comments

I keep saying this, in a desperate effort to manifest this into the world: I hope that the Trump 2 admin FINALLY breaks the narrative that “tough on crime” GOPers actually care abt public safety. They. Do. Not. “Tough on crime” is abt SOCIAL CONTROL. Not safety.

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

…by design. The only way “work reporting requirements” save federal money is BY kicking people off the program. That’s the entire point.

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

Remember the rules: 1. ACAB 2. If you saw something, no you didn't. 3. If you know someone, no you don't. 4. Don't EVER talk to police. 5. Seriously. Never. 6. Shut the fuck up. 7. SHUT. THE FUCK. UP.

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

In case you are wondering what started some of the protests yesterday. It's so important to be witnesses to this, and to call your representatives to tell them that this is NOT what Americans want.

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

Thinking a lot about this meme today.

submitted 13 hours ago • 8 comments

“We’re just recording what’s going on because people deserve to know the truth.” We don’t need more blow-dried cable news personalities. We need more of these guys.

submitted 12 hours ago • 7 comments

It is extremely important right now to demonstrate that people who believe in American democracy are not so easily cowed.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Mass, relentless public protest is all there is. Every other mechanism for stopping despotism has failed. There's a reason that so many state constitutions include the phrase "All political power is inherent in the people"

submitted 55 days ago • 57 comments

We’ve been in touch with local law enforcement in LA. They have the resources they need to meet the moment, and we stand ready to assist should the need arise. There is no emergency and the President’s order calling in the National Guard is unnecessary and counterproductive.

submitted 23 hours ago • 146 comments

There's a part of me that wants to snort that if our state was really in an open state of rebellion, the local news would probably be covering this. But as it stands: CBS 2: Covering insurance NBC 4: Destination X/American Ninja Warrior ABC 7: The Connors: Fox 11: Raw Travel

submitted 23 hours ago • 4 comments

Good time to remember Hong Kong’s excellent protest gear: Helmet, goggles, gloves, sleeves, long pants. Masks (one on your face, at least one sealed in a zip bag or still in the wrapper. More if you can.) Pocket umbrella. hongkongfp.com/2019/08/09/e...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

When I eventually get a cat (who we’ve already decided to name Moopsy) it’s almost certainly going to be this exact cat. 😆

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Been saying this for weeks. In order to build a mass deportation machine to round up and deport 4% of the entire goddamn population, you must first build the police state.

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments