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Happening now: in Chicago, activists are holding a rally in Pilsen this afternoon in opposition to CPD's collaboration with ICE earlier this week at an immigration check-in site.

submitted 14 hours ago • 28 comments

ICE shot a reporter... "Nick Stern, a British news photographer based in Los Angeles, is set to undergo emergency surgery for a wound sustained during the standoff between police and anti-Ice protesters in Los Angeles on Saturday."

submitted 16 hours ago • 132 comments

CONFIRMED: ICE IN PASADENA, CALIFORNIA. CURRENTLY POSITIONED ON ROOFTOP OF MARRIOTT AC HOTEL BY URTH CAFE.

submitted 15 hours ago • 66 comments

"On Tyranny" free resources to use and to share, now or any time snyder.substack.com/p/on-tyranny...

submitted 17 hours ago • 28 comments

The weird, often whitewashed way the civil rights movement is taught (or not taught) seemed to convince a lot of people that nonviolence was met with nonviolence, instead of you know, dogs, hoses, beatings, death, etc

submitted 17 hours ago • 261 comments

Few things take more chutzpah to say than "You are illegally on the land we stole."

submitted 17 hours ago • 37 comments

If you really want to drive the point home about how fucked up ICE is then people should start forcing Star Wars themes on ICE. Protesters should start playing the imperial march whenever ICE shows up and should also start dressing like the rebel alliance.

submitted 19 hours ago • 675 comments

My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.

submitted 16 hours ago • 280 comments

Law enforcement is violently targeting press at protests around Los Angeles, from easily recognizable "mainstream" outlets to freelancers and independents. ALL press have explicit legal protections in California. #JournalismIsNotACrime. This evidence thread may get graphic. 🧵👇

submitted 22 hours ago • 32 comments

Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

submitted 1 day ago • 349 comments

i think most white americans who have never been Policed don’t realize that you are always already a criminal. the second anyone with institutional power believes you to be, needs you to be, or wants you to be a criminal you are and always have been.

submitted 53 days ago • 33 comments

I thought I would be safe if I positioned myself with all the cable news crews off to the side away from all of the protesters. But nope. I was wrong. The feds shot pepper balls at us, forcing us down Alameda Street with everyone else. @lataco.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 176 comments

Countries around the world need to start asking, how can the U.S. possibly host the World Cup in 2026? How would foreign visitors feel safe coming here?

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

MAGA: It’s not fascism America: Rapidly turning into military war zones

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

In the 42 years since the start of the Reagan revolution, bought-off politicians have so altered our tax code that fully $51 trillion has moved from the homes and savings of working-class Americans into the money bins of the morbidly rich money hoarders. https://trib.al/O1jiyie

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

As a historian of military coups (1/3 of my book #Strongmen is on that subject) this sight unsettles me...

submitted 1 day ago • 93 comments

This is exactly why we were saying defund the police. The police are the vanguard of authoritarian regimes.

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

Remember this when politicians say universal healthcare, or any other public good, is too expensive.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

submitted 2 days ago • 326 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 646 comments

Bondi DOJ has a problem. On left: DOJ Indictment and Detention Memo allege Abrego Garcia lied to officer by not revealing he was coming from Texas On right: DHS Referral Report: "Subject stated he was driving 'three days ago' (11/27/2022) from Houston, TX to Temple Hills, MD (via St Louis, MO)"

submitted 2 days ago • 455 comments

Anti-ICE protests continuing in Los Angeles—

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

this looks like what they put you in before they drown you for being a witch

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

"The decision to pursue the indictment against Abrego Garcia led to the abrupt departure of Ben Schrader, a high-ranking federal prosecutor in Tennessee...Schrader’s resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons, the sources said."

submitted 2 days ago • 110 comments

Based on what Kilmar Abrego Garcia's wife said, are these "human smuggling" charges about nothing more than transporting coworkers from one worksite to another? www.mississippifreepress.org/kilmar-abreg...

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

It makes me legitimately sad that society can think of no other response to tragedy than, charge someone with a crime. www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

@jessicaramosqns.bsky.social is an enemy of the working people of New York City. Her remaining in the race is about stopping @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, which means stopping you from affording to live in your home. Don't rank her for mayor and work to defeat her when she next runs for reelection.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

And here’s what she said weeks ago to me:

submitted 2 days ago • 98 comments

Hey @debtcollective.bsky.social, MOHELA refuses to accept all of my almost $20,000 payment for my student loans. They KEEP reversing it & putting the money back in my account. Im SO diligently OVERPAYING and this is what they’re doing. Can y’all help? Reddit says this is happening to a TON of folk

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

submitted 3 days ago • 535 comments

this is the best day since Four Seasons Total Landscaping

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

is being terminally online bad for you? yes does it make you less happy than your offline friends? absolutely is there anything that matches the high of a poster's ragnarok? there is not, and that's why we can never log off

submitted 3 days ago • 44 comments

Everyone rn

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now

submitted 3 days ago • 233 comments

today

submitted 3 days ago • 92 comments

The entire internet right now.

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month. Worked on novel antivirals.

submitted 4 days ago • 96 comments

Earth will warm 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in just two years, new data shows. Irreversible tipping points — like the melting of Arctic ice sheets or the collapse of coral reefs — are closer at hand than previously believed.

submitted 4 days ago • 410 comments

We really need to start caring about lying, as a society

submitted 4 days ago • 52 comments

Jeffrey Epstein invested with the billionaire Peter Thiel. Now, his estate is reaping millions, little of which is likely to go to his victims. https://trib.al/CoFmxeO

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

He needed air. The price was $539. When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price. 5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler. He paid with his life. www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky

submitted 5 days ago • 247 comments