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this is just a masterclass in why you shouldn’t believe news outlets reporting on police violence. just literally ignoring the most clear video evidence you could ask for. the only thing missing is the guy yelling “shooting specifically that woman now.”

The Century of the Go Bag

she’s like 15 feet away. absolutely that man’s whole thought process was: “I’m gonna shoot that woman”

"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated. “I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

Don't we always look forward to heavily armed soldiers bringing peace to wherever they are deployed? Like cluster bombs pacifying a village.

We need multiple forms of protest, multiple avenues of resistance, many ways to be pushing against these horrors at once. There are going to start to be more protests, and that’s good, but we need strikes, slowdowns, document leaks, boycotts. We need loud public voices and refusals to comply.

A friend asked me what the deal was with the Trump administration and Haiti and I said that racists have never forgiven Haiti for the temerity of freeing itself and illustrating that their supremacy was a lie, and everything since then has been about "proving" it can't govern itself.

when it comes to less lethals you don't need ballistic armor, which is expensive bike helmet. Hockey helmets. goggles. football pads or just extra padding if it's not too hot there are always trade offs with armor but please if you go out at least protect your eyes and head.

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.

i see you know antifa pikachu but have you ever met ICE out of LA labubu

lmao The Sun has a livestream of the “LA riots” on YouTube and when you click on it it’s a bunch of troops standing around doing nothing you can literally hear birds singing in the background what a time to be alive

Also point this out to anyone you can. These were not planned protests. These were normies getting the supplies for their weekend projects or at a restaurant and saw their servers getting hauled off and were like this is some bullshit.

The lawlessness of the LA protests with people dancing in the streets (Jagger and Bowie are now Antifa terrorists?)

Lots of talk today about the demise of BlueSky. For whatever it's worth, it's been a boon to indie publishers like us. Twitter and Facebook have pretty much silenced us, so the engagement here has, and continues to be, wonderful.

It’s also not a bubble. It’s just a place where a lot of bigotry (alas, not all) isn’t tolerated to the degree it is on other sites. There’s loads of disagreement here over strategies and tactics but the main thing that gets you cut off is naked bigotry.

It is not enough to do everything your abuser wants you to do. You have to make sure you only think what your abuser wants you to think. (And of course this is impossible and you will be punished for it)

This was a crazy story but I’m seeing some wrong info. According to a Chilean interview she did she’s living here legally with her husband here for work. And this wasn’t an ICE arrest— the NYPD wrongfully thought she was part of a group they were pursuing bc they ran her over. And the teen is 12.

Los Angeles: We don’t want the Gestapo to disappear our neighbors. Trump: Send in the tanks. The media: Tensions high as both sides clash.

Strongly disagree

Willi Castro, baseball player for the Minnesota Twins used the trans flag as eye black to showcase his support for our community. I hope he realizes how much this matters for trans people. Especially when the MLB is considered to be a very macho sport. I have so much respect for him. King shit! 🏳️‍⚧️

They can’t police trans people’s bodies without policing cis people’s bodies, and they can’t police immigrants without policing citizens.

Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...

This needs as much coverage as protests or ICE raids. Los Angelenos FTW. ❤️🙌

Should be resoundingly apparent by now based on the thousands of examples that there is no form of protest that is peaceful enough that it won’t be met with state violence & that was the case when terms like Law & Order maintained a veneer of integrity despite always being authoritarian dog whistles

LAPD said in the summer of 2020 that they can handle one large protest of 10k but they cannot handle ten protests of 1k. Do with that information accordingly

The most vital thing you can do right now is spread this message offline to normies. There is no "unrest", there's a protest. It has 400 people. LA does worse when the Lakers come in 3rd in a season.

I was an immigration lawyer for about fifteen years. The people I met… the way they wanted to give their absolute best to this country, and then DID. Skills, ideas, beauty, culture… that’s what they bring. America is a nation of immigrants, and immigration is what made America.

Whatever happens in Los Angeles tonight is the playbook they’re going to deploy on blue districts across the country. And we warned people for months leading up to the election about exactly this.

Don’t know how else to say it: you should care about other people, because you are other people.

The only people talking about bathrooms are the people saying “stop talking about bathrooms.”

You know how the hero who punched Richard Spencer on camera was never found? And how great that was? Leave the skater punk alone. Let him become an archetype.

CATO Institute Director of Immigration Studies

You spent last week targeting two trans girls, while this was brewing So you made a social media post after months of playing with inflammatory language to move to the middle There is no middle you disingenuous oil slick You have to make a stand

I don’t know what I’m doing. But I do know that I’m doing it. :)

Do I imagine shit getting much, much worse? I’m gen X. Our teenage years were filled with more dystopian fiction than you can imagine and if you weren’t comfortable it felt VERY fucking plausible And being on welfare in government housing was much more comfortable then than it is now…

Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of Rome on Saturday against the war in Gaza in a protest called by Italy’s main opposition parties, who accuse the right-wing government of being too silent.

The most striking thing about the LA protests is how many people just dropped everything to show up and yell at federal agents. There are people in suits, and carrying dogs, and wearing flip flops or bike helmets. These are not people who planned to do this today. But there they are.

L.A. is a Mexican-American city. The majority of the population is made up of racial and ethnic minorities. We are all happy living together and really do not want to see our friends, neighbors and families being terrorized by federal robo-cops. This is bullshit.

As my grandpa told me: never trust a cop. If they tell you the sky is blue you make goddamn sure to double check

not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser

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.)

Only in LA would protesters think to tag the ground so it’s visible in helicopter shots.