jocelynrish.com - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

This is 100% the fault of ICE and the Trump admin, which has deliberately incentivized this behavior with their tactics. Their goal is to encourage white nationalist groups to dress up as ICE to attack minorities, and the increase in lookalike crimes is to them an acceptable byproduct.

submitted 7 hours ago • 69 comments

Boycott Uber. Take public transit, bike or walk. If you must use rideshare hail a cab or call a Lyft. Do not give Uber your money.

submitted 15 hours ago • 30 comments

submitted 22 hours ago • 16 comments

The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.

submitted 1 day ago • 199 comments

Wherever you are, tell your reps that this is an utterly unacceptable and illegal use of federal power. We do not live in a police state. There is no justification for this. Capitol switchboard (202) 224-3121

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Mass protests are an implicit threat of potential violence even when they are entirely peaceful. They serve to keep state power in check by demonstrating “there are more of us than you so fix your shit.” The state knows this, which is why its agents often respond to them with unprovoked violence.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

We don’t need to re-establish confidence in vaccines. We need to stop letting anti-science dolts and grifters make scientific policies

submitted 17 hours ago • 10 comments

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.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1312 comments

“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” Doechii at the #BETAwards

submitted 17 hours ago • 171 comments

For those who live elsewhere, this is the heart of downtown #LosAngeles. My friends are here. My union is here (sup @wgawest.bsky.social). My teenager is here. People are passing out pastries & singing & praying. All we want is for our neighbors not to be kidnapped off the streets.

submitted 22 hours ago • 30 comments

I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.

submitted 21 hours ago • 213 comments

they never miss

submitted 21 hours ago • 17 comments

I’d add this: Decades of studies have shown that large groups want to be seen as legitimate, and largely self-police yahoos prone to violence — until law enforcement starts using violence, at which point they unite against a common enemy. It’s a lesson too few PDs ever seem to learn.

submitted 21 hours ago • 18 comments

Hello friends! I'm getting ready to upload some new things onto the shop but that means moving some old things (and by that I mean... last week in some cases) so the entire store is 15% off! LGBTQIA+ staffed/owned, free US shipping over $50, 11 artisans! www.peculiarityshop.com

submitted 23 hours ago • 4 comments

this speaks a bit to my argument about leaving twitter. it's not about ideological purity, it is about the fact that it's been turned into a political weapon for people who wish to use it to harm others. it's not the marketplace of ideas - you do not have to participate in this project! very simple!

submitted 1 day ago • 77 comments

The situation is getting more and more heated…

submitted 22 hours ago • 76 comments

CNN: We have breaking news now from the Pentagon. CNN can now report that roughly 500 Marines are being mobilized in response to the protests in Los Angeles.

submitted 22 hours ago • 734 comments

When Senator Bill Cassidy announced he would vote to confirm RFK Jr, he included this in his statement: “If confirmed, he will maintain the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without changes.” WITHOUT CHANGES.

submitted 20 hours ago • 100 comments

Here are some links to groups in LA who are supporting immigrant communities and responding to the ICE raids, recommended to me by a local organizer. Please share and support if you can!

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Trump invoked emergency powers more times in his first 100 days than any other modern president has in that time. Experts worry it could lead to an upending of the constitutional balance of power.

submitted 1 day ago • 211 comments

Blocking Nazis, trolls, and fascists doesn’t make it an “echo chamber.” People need to stop gaslighting us into thinking we have to listen to Nazis and debate trolls in order to be informed.

submitted 205 days ago • 1936 comments

The trick of so much of right-wing thinking is to treat bad things as inevitable and thus not worth responding to, reducing, or mitigating.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

It would be so great if Democratic elected officials started acting as if the president was trying to arrest them all, because he is.

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

It’s not just that it’s clearly intentional, it’s that it’s clearly intentional knowing that he’s being recorded. They know they can do whatever they want with complete impunity.

submitted 1 day ago • 231 comments

Now is the perfect time to be pressing this point hard. The entire premise of the immigration "debate" is nonsense, and it's debasing and destroying the country for immigrants and citizens alike. Who in national politics has the courage and the skill to say so?

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

This is sort of what happened with DOGE. They were convinced there was a mountain of easily-detectable waste and fraud that a handful of folks equipped with "common sense" could root out & eliminate in a manner of weeks. And there wasn't. But they had promised headlines about big cuts...

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

The protests are in full swing and it is a lot of people. LA is unfazed by National Guard presence. If anything it has motivated more to come out and protest this administration.

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

The illegitimate, lawless, and authoritarian regime in control of the government of the United States is at war with the people of the United States.

submitted 1 day ago • 80 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 2 days ago • 10 comments

Cannot stress enough that this is a pitiful action by a weak, scared, pathetic group of insecure, wannabe authoritarians, and they should be mocked until the end of time for wanting to bring in the military over some people protesting them at a Home Depot.

submitted 2 days ago • 50 comments

The crackdowns on civilians and the threat of the national guard being sent to LA should be the most important story right now-- not the Trump/Musk feud or whatever the f**k that was. People are being terrorized all over the country. News outlets need to get it together.

submitted 2 days ago • 50 comments

Hell of a photo

submitted 2 days ago • 409 comments

the same people who say every American should be able to own an AR-15 to protect themselves from federal government facism are rooting these ICE thugs on. Huh.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

The feds are poisoning this neighborhood in order to make a point, and it’s an alarming, outrageous escalation. People choking so hard they are collapsing in the street

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

I've said this since the first Trump administration. There are more of us than there are them. We have to remember this.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This is the second day in a row that federal agents shot us both

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

Timely reminder that the treatment for chemical weapons like tear gas and pepper spray is: 1) remove from active contamination (get them out of the cloud of teargas, remove outer layers of clothing if possible) 2) flush eyes with ONLY clean water. Wash skin and hair with water and soap.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

We don't have secret police in America. At least we're not supposed to.

submitted 2 days ago • 705 comments

So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be the story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

submitted 3 days ago • 315 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 2420 comments

NEW: Unbelievable. A seemingly endless line of tanks & other military vehicles arrive in DC ahead of next week's parade. They departed Texas 5 days ago. What a colossal waste of time, money & military resources. All for a President who has shown zero respect for service personnel. (🎥 DW)

submitted 3 days ago • 2020 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 3 days ago • 326 comments

We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.

submitted 4 days ago • 844 comments