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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 4 hours ago • 37 comments

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

submitted 12 hours ago • 103 comments

Indict ICE agents now! @massgovernor.bsky.social, get OFF YOUR ASS! #mapoli

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

I worked with a Black elder at the Charlotte MEPS who had been a member of SNCC and people really discount the amount of planning and training that went into the Non-violent protests of the Civil Rights era. It started with selecting who could show up to the action.

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

This is, without irony, the modern version of Cronkite saying Vietnam was unwinnable

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

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! 🏳️‍⚧️

submitted 7 hours ago • 10 comments

i don't want to dunk on any of the people who replied or quoted this with a "well ackshully the national guard will shoot protesters, look at kent state," but my request is to a) remember that kent state was over half a century ago and b) read about the NG's response in its aftermath

submitted 4 hours ago • 77 comments

"everything here was pretty chill today, not sure what all the fuss was about, we don't particularly see any need for escalation" --literally the LAPD

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

might need to do some posters for the next #mapoli protest

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

This isn't news to BlueSky but I think it's really important to say that since they are not showing warrants or identifying themselves, these ICE actions are all illegal. And we need to then again say out loud that the police are facilitating these illegal acts.

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

have you ever noticed what happens when you take some ice, the literal substance, frozen water, and apply pressure to it? that's right, it cracks and melts.

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

so @doomtree.bsky.social are extending their sale on No Kings merch—if that's your taste, and times being what they are—10% off with code "NO KINGS". maybe you could use a flag with a big anti-king logo on it, for various sorts of flag-waving purposes in the near future!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Remember. This all started because #ICE was camping out at the #LosAngeles #DHS facility, then kidnapping parents and children—arriving for their families’ scheduled immigration appointments. Regular Angelenos tried to physically stop agents from kidnapping kids; then the gov’t teargassed everyone.

submitted 5 hours ago • 12 comments

ICE is a criminal organization willfully carrying out illegal orders and the people of California are right to resist this. respect to the fighters and power to the people

submitted 5 hours ago • 80 comments

Also I gotta find my copy of this CD

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

the white house thinks brute force is, no pun intended, a trump card. they don’t anticipate pushback and they don’t know how to handle it with anything other than escalation. the issue is that each escalation is itself a gamble. if protesters refuse to back down, you’ve lost face. (1/?)

submitted 7 hours ago • 126 comments

There’s no reason that any Democrat should not be running on a platform of abolishing ICE. It should be one of the first question to asked of any candidate, running for a federal office representative, senator, or president.

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

Tear gas is a chemical weapon and an abortifacient banned by the Geneva Protocol. If soldiers used it against armed combatants, they could be prosecuted for war crimes. www.scientificamerican.com/article/poli... (from 2022)

submitted 8 hours ago • 22 comments

I gotta go pick up some corrugated plastic sign blanks

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

I’ll say, the officers who shot a bunch of gas at us looked deeply conflicted. Not giving the benefit of the doubt to cops, but two cried / got teary when confronted with their neighbors telling them they should be ashamed of themselves.

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

BREAKING: please, everyone, turn on local news. there is NOTHING going on in LA. Its over, the protest broke up hours ago. Local news helicopters are trolling for trouble and there's none. Just some LAPD/LASD road blocks. If they 'send the Guard' now, its just because they really really want to.

submitted 6 hours ago • 38 comments

The Sherrif’s department was shooting gas and smoke bombs at us for standing blocks from the Home Depot.

submitted 6 hours ago • 9 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 12 hours ago • 222 comments

Hell of a photo

submitted 8 hours ago • 307 comments

interesting to note that 400 protesters have monopolized all of LASD’s enforcement power because they tried to help ICE arrest half a dozen guys working at a Home Depot if you’re scoring on efficiency, the protesters are winning

submitted 7 hours ago • 24 comments

All of these violent, lawless ICE officers terrorizing communities and hiding their faces weren't just hired this year. It's why dismantling ICE as an agency was so important and remains so. These people are unfit to be public servants if they hate the public.

submitted 7 hours ago • 63 comments

Fun fact: I am currently drawing a comic about Yoon Suk Yeol's illegal death squad, but all the reference photos are blurry. Then I popped on Bluesky and saw that the ICE squads attacking LA are using the exact same uniforms and equipment, so I used that.

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

submitted 6 hours ago • 12 comments

also, Victoria Snelgrove. They went from being called “non lethal” to “less lethal” when they killed one if my fellow students at Emerson.

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

If you know something about a visible protester no you fuckin don’t

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

Intimate partner violence is the exact framework for understanding what is happening, yes.

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

Reposting today for no particular reason.

submitted 7 hours ago • 7 comments

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.

submitted 7 hours ago • 12 comments

every single job interview now i stg

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Was just thinking of writing something about why panic over transgender athletes serves as the perfect on-ramp to racism, namely because a discussion about "inherent advantages" fuses dominant beliefs about biology, essentialism, and merit

submitted 13 days ago • 30 comments

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

submitted 9 hours ago • 928 comments

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.

submitted 9 hours ago • 89 comments

folks I've been tear gassed something like 200 times and maced at least fifty or so times. once i was soaked in mace to my underwear. ignore any neat scientific tricks people give you for beating this stuff -Water for tear gas -sudecon wipes for mace -if no sudecon, wash mace with water

submitted 10 hours ago • 54 comments