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ICE pretended to arrest a 21 yo in order to force her to call her undocumented mother to come leave the house (where she was safe from ICE arrest) to care for her baby. When the mother came, she was abducted and the daughter was suddenly of no interest to ICE. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 27 days ago • 127 comments

Did ICE call in a fake emergency to the FDNY to give cover to a van leaving full of immigrants? They've done it before and looks like they've done it again. @hellgatenyc.com with the scoop. hellgatenyc.com/fdny-ice-hea...

submitted 11 hours ago • 117 comments

thinkin of this tweet for no particular reason

submitted 13 hours ago • 65 comments

@huronvalleydsa.bsky.social has been working on more political education efforts. First video is out now! youtu.be/GPbAR3SSgD8?...

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

I wrote about Los Angeles and violence. newrepublic.com/article/1963...

submitted 17 hours ago • 11 comments

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submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Another world is possible if we fight for it.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options: 1-877-447-4487

submitted 1 day ago • 90 comments

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

It's crazy to me how the country that celebrates the Boston tea party as a patriotic event is always aghast at property destruction during a protest.

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

I blocked DP as one of my first actions on here. No way am I listening to a “serious” interview with this clown. He’s laughing at you for even talking to him.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Sooooo I have some tips to the misguided youths waving Mexican flags in LA: can you guys, like, not? It might offend a racist in the heartland, by which I actually mean "me"

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

The first scandal of my political career: my son’s library card has expired. Shameful for my household!

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I’m taking over as the menswear guy. Men should rotate through the same four band t-shirts for 35 years. Replace the shirts with identical shirts if the holes in them get big or you get too fat for them

submitted 1 day ago • 153 comments

Four LAPD officers on horseback surround a man laying on the ground, trample him, and beat him with their polycarbonate "saber" batons.

submitted 2 days ago • 287 comments

If you feel like it's more urgent to criticize people lighting a driverless car on fire in protest of the abduction of their neighbors than it is to condemn the cops trampling the heads of protesters with horses, you need to figure your shit out with expeditiously

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Be careful, friends, when you read accounts of what is happening in LA. We will hear a lot about violence, and it is essential to remember who is defining that term. "When state actors refer to peace, they are really taking about order..." (@prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social)

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 2545 comments

If you have an unread copy of Let This Radicalize You lying around, this would be an excellent time to read Chapter 6: “Violence” in Social Movements. It's also a good time to share that chapter with others.

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

submitted 2 days ago • 3057 comments

Another one to add to the list of “food that makes me highly uncomfortable.” The implied motion of the popsicle doesn’t help with my unease.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

ICE crossed a line in LA

submitted 2 days ago • 821 comments

we will know the resistance is fully here when a guy named Chase Brooks writes a LinkedIn article that gets 10k shares called "10 Reasons Why Domestic Terrorism Committed by a Rogue Government Entity Could Impact Your Bottom Line for Q3 and Beyond"

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

just that period reminder that content posted to Bluesky is public to anybody. if you don't want to see it used in a court of law, don't post it here. and DMs here are not E2EE, they can be subpoened. a great use for bsky DMs is to share secure comms and move the conversation there.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

Trump has authorized regular military in addition to the Guard: "In addition, the Secretary of Defense may employ any other members of the regular Armed Forces as necessary to augment and support the protection of Federal functions and property in any number determined appropriate in his discretion"

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

Ypsilanti won’t cut any positions on its police force in order to help with a severe budget shortfall, including three that were created in 2021 and have never been filled. www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

“Defund the police” was in fact a great slogan.

submitted 3 days ago • 123 comments

Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.

submitted 3 days ago • 203 comments

Musk cannot be “turned”, “flipped”, “allied” with. He is a Nazi and he’s killed 300,000 people, mostly children. Anyone considering taking his political contributions or discussing allying with him has no moral compass nor should they be near power.

submitted 4 days ago • 160 comments

Our union-buster tracker has been updated:

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

New: A DOGE staffer developed an AI tool to review Veterans Affairs contracts. But there was a slight hitch. It hallucinated the size of those deals. For example, it concluded that more than a thousand contracts were each worth $34M, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

submitted 4 days ago • 85 comments

FYI Michigan covid cautious + resource distributey people!!! Free boxes of covid tests with a June 2026 expiration date, in Ypsilanti.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

funny how this, precisely this, happens to 100% of people who do business with either of those assholes

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

If you haven't gotten a chance to stop by the newly reopened Michigan Avenue branch, the best time is today. The SECOND best time is at the open house tomorrow!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments