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Workplace anthropologist in tech, sociolinguist, editor; nature, art, and people lover. Intel Principal Engineer, retired. Former editor Information Technology & People. Currently academic copy editor.
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LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

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ATTN: If you’re a member of the National Guard or you work for ICE and you’re asked to violate the law or your oath, contact Whistleblower Aid to safely, securely, and legally blow the whistle. You can support Whistleblower Aid HERE: whistlebloweraid.org/beans

submitted 20 hours ago • 188 comments

Out all my posts this is the most important please please please share this.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Imagine that. www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...

submitted 1 day ago • 357 comments

We were warned. People chose to ignore it. Now this is our reality.

submitted 1 day ago • 508 comments

ICE crossed a line in LA

submitted 1 day ago • 791 comments

The protesters, in Paramount today, were able to stop ICE from taking people at HomeDepot. They were pelted wiyh rocks as they fled.

submitted 1 day ago • 578 comments

If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support. You don’t have to go through with it. 877-447-4487

submitted 1 day ago • 178 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 • 351 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 1 day ago • 203 comments

BREAKING The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

submitted 2 days ago • 637 comments

In an act of integrity and resistance, a supervisor in the Nashville federal prosecutor’s office resigned over how the Abrego Garcia case was being handled. The charges are bogus, pure political theater meant to justify a wrongful abduction.

submitted 2 days ago • 258 comments

EVERYBODY WATCH. ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today. He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader. Don’t turn away.

submitted 2 days ago • 2019 comments

A teacher breaks down after ICE causes multiple schools to lockdown during graduation ceremonies and parents to flee for their lives. Only the soulless aren’t hurting from what is happening in our country. This is affecting all of us.

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ICE raids hit across Los Angeles today—and locals are rising up. This is what resistance looks like. ✊🏾 This was about an hour ago…

submitted 2 days ago • 908 comments