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Antifascist professor.📚👩🏽‍🏫🗣️#Blackademic. Views expressed are (unfortunately) not those of my employer. Scholar-activist in Charlottesville, Virginia. #BLM. Public history & local🍷+🍺stan. 🏈fan. "Wiry and intense" -- The New Yorker
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Philly local tv station reporting that a man allegedly posed as an ICE agent in order to rob a car repair business office. How many other criminals might be getting this idea right now, given that actual ICE agents are refusing to show IDs, warrants, badges?

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

The city of Glendale, in Los Angeles County, announced today that they're quitting an agreement with ICE thad allowed ICE to house its detainees at the Glendale police department. mynewsla.com/crime/2025/0...

Really Cool how nobody wanted to take this shit seriously

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Israel has forced the Madleen dark

🚨 Israeli forces have reportedly boarded the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. Connection to the Madleen ship has been lost.

Hegseth is threatening to deploy US Marines on US Citizens If you are a US servicemember & unsure on how to respond to an illegal order, please utilize the resources at your disposal: Call the GI Rights Hotline at 1-877-447-4487 for free & confidential guidance. www.qasimrashid.com/p/trump-is-d...

📢 To the National Guard and active duty soldiers: If you’re being ordered to violate the constitutional rights of Americans, you have a choice. 📞 Call the GI Rights Hotline: 1 877 447 4487 There is support. You don’t have to go through with it.

Call the GI Rights Hotline at 1-877-447-4487 girightshotline.org

Rep. Gomez: LA County alone is 34% foreign born, 34%. So when he says they're going to liberate us, who is he going to liberate us from? Ourselves?

The nearly 15 million working people of the AFL-CIO and our affiliated unions demand the immediate release of @californialabor.bsky.social Vice President and @seiuca.bsky.social and SEIU-USWW President David Huerta. aflcio.org/press/releas...

May it be on Earth as it is in Heaven! May we embrace holy fire Pentecost brings.

Here in deep Red Flori-duh keeping "them illegals" out of the country has made it too expensive to harvest tomatoes ergo farmers have destroyed their crops. Karma's a bitch. www.yahoo.com/news/florida...

Worth noting LBJ used the National Guard to protect and expand civil rights; DJT is doing exactly the opposite.

Seeing a massive divide online between Angelenos of all political stripes who understand that the protests in LA yesterday were mostly peaceful and any violence was ICE-initiated and East Coast establishment liberals lecturing “the left” on how riots just amplify right wing talking points.

Every accusation is a confession

Vance calls the LA protests an “invasion.” 4 minutes later, Miller calls it an “insurrection.” 29 minutes later, Hegseth threatens to send in Marines. It’s like clockwork. They’ve chomped at the bit for months, waiting for a pretext to declare martial law under the pretext of insurrection/invasion.

Nothing like getting sanctimonious law and order lectures from Republicans who refused to vote convict Trump after 1/6.

In 2020, Thomas Fugate was a self-employed landscape business owner. In 2022, he worked at a Texas grocery store. In 2023, Fugate spent four months as a legislative intern for Texas House Rep. Terry Wilson. Now, the 22yo leads a crucial government agency that combats extremist terrorism.

Staffers have expressed shock at how little Fugate knows about the basics of his role -- DHS did not address questions about his level of experience.... @hannahallam.bsky.social @kirstenberg.bsky.social for @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Thomas Fugate, who has no apparent management or anti-terrorism experience, replaced an Army veteran with more than two decades of national security experience who resigned in March when the administration began cutting his staff. By @hannahallam.bsky.social‬

Before landing at DHS, Fugate worked on the Trump campaign and interned at The Heritage Foundation. According to his LinkedIn profile, the bulk of his leadership experience comes from having served as secretary general of a Model United Nations club. By @hannahallam.bsky.social‬

The hypocrisy… “Also, from now on, MASKS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED to be worn at protests. What do these people have to hide, and why???“ -Trump

Military style ICE raids in our communities. David Huerta was beaten and dragged away. Because he saw them and stood up for justice. Because he’s not afraid. Neither are we. On MONDAY let's #FreeDavidHuerta, #FreeThemAll 11:00 AM @ Grand Park in Downtown LA (200 N Grand Ave)

Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing. ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him. seiuca.org/press-releas...

David Huerta, SEIU California president, was injured and detained during an ICE raid in Los Angeles. After hospital treatment, he remains in federal custody. His arrest, while peacefully observing, has sparked protests and calls for his release, seen by many as a violation of free speech rights.

The arrest of David Huerta, president of SEIU-USWW and SEIU California, by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Friday is going to have a major impact on the coming months as deportations continue.

These are the 14 times the National Guard was denied by Trump and Acting Sec of Defense Chris Miller and his Chief of Staff Kash Patel on January 6th. The calls and who was on them In DC the only people who can deploy the Guard are POTUS and Sec of Defense www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr3P...

I've literally gone into spirals out of fear that social security will geg axed and i will have to support myself and my parents.

YIMBY Endorse Senator Ghazala Hashmi for Virginia Lieutenant Governor! www.yimbysofnova.org/election-gui...

"Today, Virginia Senator Ghazala Hashmi (D-SD15), Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor announced four new endorsements from YIMBYs of Northern Virginia, Fifteen Minute Fredericksburg, Richmond YIMBY, and YIMBY Hampton Roads." bluevirginia.us/2025/06/frid...

I love Mexican art so much

Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.

"Fuck your concrete"