Police and their media allies are using the horrors of Trump’s ICE kidnaps squads to launder police depts’ reputations and promote a baseless narrative of successful post George Floyd “reforms”. I wrote about this is PR blitz and why it’s bullshit.

Bass is a disgrace

Texas AG Ken Paxton has announced legal action against the Houston area Screwston Antifascist Committee, alleging commission of terrorism and doxing. Their account has been quiet for some time, but this was one of their last posts — identifying a neo-Nazi.

Oh! www.latimes.com/california/s...

Update: They succeeded: www.mississippifreepress.org/byhalia-ice-...

I was blocked from entering Otay Mesa Detention Center today to conduct oversight after receiving concerning allegations about conditions there. We've heard reports that detainees are throwing notes over the fences asking for help. What are they trying to hide here? What are they doing?

I need people to understand that if you’ve dealt with ice, if you’ve had to worry about you or your kids or neighbors disappearing, if you see the govt giving nazis carte blanche to kill you, every “reform”’ from democrats who currently reject abolition sounds insane. and frankly fucking stupid

I cannot stand the "this is a good start" discourse. The Democrats in Congress do not want to abolish ICE. They have proposed a series of bog-standard reforms regurgitated by a think tank. Everyone knows they do not work. The Democrats supporting this do not care. They just want to move on.

Vista Del Mar 2017: City installs then removes safety improvements 2021-2025: More people die Pershing Dr 2017: City installs then removes bike lanes 2026: Pregnant mom killed Westwood Bl 2015: Koretz removes Westwood from Mobility Plan Today: 3 killed michaelschneider.medium.com/las-darkest-...

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

And if you want to know who's making bank from the LA28 Olympics, regardless of whether they lump cost overruns on Angelenos & regardless of whether Wasserman resigns, follow the tax docs for the LA Olympic Organizing Committee. Some eye-popping numbers. Whew! projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...

It's time for everyone in LA to realize that cancelling the Olympics will be a lot less costly than hosting them, in many more ways than one.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

LA's leaders claim we'll be successful this time because we were successful in 1984. In fact, only one 1984 precedent matters, the report notes: a charter amendment was passed by ballot measure that barred the city from covering Olympics costs. Charter reform, you say? 👀

"The decision on whether to try to cancel or renegotiate the terms of Olympic hosting depends on which you prefer to risk: billions of dollars in losses on hosting the Games, or billions in penalties for not hosting them." A new @saje-la.bsky.social report by @neildemause.bsky.social is a must-read

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It's really important for people to internalize that, in the eyes of Washington DC's foreign policy establishment, the biggest sin of the Obama presidency was concluding a deal with Iran that objectively satisfied the demands that Washington DC pretends to believe in.

74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting it, according to YouGov polling from last month. Weak calls for "reform" are coming from *elected* Democrats like Chuck, not the average Democratic voter.

And this is only reason #832 why we should cancel the Olympics: we’re going to be paying for them for a very, very, long time.

The LA Olympics committee is a hive of corruption and villainy

New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets. These are their stories:

Minnesota's response is among the most beautiful examples of real-life antifascism I have ever seen. And it’s why, as deeply horrifying as these last few weeks have been, I am actually optimistic about the survival of American democracy. — TNR's Aaron Regunberg. trib.al/P6xAuYg

This article is a very good example of why "more training" and "more vetting" isn't the answer. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez joined Border Patrol in 2018 and 2014 respectively. These aren't new agents. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.

Lmfao

Interesting admission by Biden administration official and Kamala Harris NSC advisor earlier today

THIRTY FOUR THOUSAND

The probability that you will cast the decisive vote is, in fact, the exact value of your vote. This is why presidential campaign activity looks like this. The Electoral College is a bad and undemocratic system, there's no need to defend it.

So happy to see this. But let’s not forget all of the other children - younger and older than Liam - that continue to languish in our nation’s immigration prisons.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Judge orders US to release father and 5-year-old taken into custody during Minnesota immigration crackdown.

lol wait what holy shit that’s … alright gang you know what I’m gonna say it’s with a heavy heart we must call and *thank* our reps for doing the job they’re supposed to do

There’s a long list of reasons why this is pathetic but especially, of all things, to act like this is a real demand when the reactionaries are in the middle of a court battle to strip millions of people of their citizenship is fucking insane

A Democratic Party that reflected the values of its base would put this into its national platform: "Anyone who supports funding DHS and ICE is supporting the murder of Americans."

Hey maybe Bass shouldn’t have made LAPD chief out of a man who was the FIRST LASD SHERIFF TO LOSE REELECTION IN 100 YEARS SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE HE WAS TOO COZY WITH ICE

“We want to require body cams for the guys who use facial recognition to racially profile and who intentionally filmed themselves murdering Renee Good” do you see how fucking dumb you sound “they abuse people for content, let’s give them GoPros” go away

ICE is ignoring the law. The only answer is defunding. Use the power of the purse. This is an interbranch conflict and it won’t be solved by new laws saying to follow the old law. Shut it down unless DHS and ICE are defunded.

Every queer activist who warned this was coming and got told to calm down should get to chop one condescending policy wonk dead in the throat

The majority of Americans are now aware that the purpose of increased ICE/CBP funding isn't to catch drug cartel members or whatever but to terrorize, kidnap, hurt, and kill ordinary people. The majority supports outright abolishing ICE; slashing ICE's & CBP's budgets should be an essential demand.

Statement from NDLON on Ongoing Budget Negotiations ndlon.org/statement-fr...

Tomorrow in Santa Monica, protesters are organizing an anti-ICE demonstration at Amazon's tech hub. Amazon provides cloud services to ICE—last September, it inked a $25 million contract with the agency. The organizers have a simple message: ICE out.

There is no need to even gesture towards compromise.

good news! theyre a little bit scared of you. they need to be terrified

There really seems to be a lot of kayfabe happening right now. Trump is pretending to de-escalate to placate Dems so they don't demand reform, and Dems are making up fake reforms so they can pretend like they made changes while they vote to fund DHS.

They’re accepting the numbers now because they know it’s only a fraction of the actual number of lives lost to the genocide.

New poll — Abolishing ICE continues its historic surge of support. 46% support 43% oppose 80% of Democrats and 15% of Trump voters support abolishing ICE. Independents are +8 on the question.

Paper details how police pushed for body cams so that they could protect themselves and control narrative while policing and surveilling more aggressively. Dems allied w cops to create narrative that this was somehow a corrective for state violence, now every time they kill they get more $$/power

Unfriendly reminder, AI is being used to destroy trust. Do not normalize the use of AI. AI can not reliably enhance videos or low-quality images. This is the quiet replacement of reality. Do not let this be normalized.

Here's the Heritage Foundation all-in on repealing Section 230 so that litigious Christian nationalists can dictate the speech rules for the entire Internet It's so embarrassing so many Dems are falling for this www.teenvogue.com/story/some-d...

Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza. This is textbook censorship of the highest degree