This film, "The Patriot" was made by immigrants. fuck DHS's fascist messaging. I'm pretty sure the American Revolution's messaging was more of "stop taxing us and sending your goons in to kill us and disappear us." Also, fuck the fake chromatic aberration they added to this shot.

L.A. TACO caught up with Leo Martinez of VC Defensa to get his full breakdown on what happened the day ICE agents rammed and T-boned his truck out in Oxnard on the morning of Thursday, October 16th. Reporting by Izzy Ramirez & Aisha Wallace-Palomares Editing by Errin Vasquez

FYI :“Destruction of federal property is a federal crime. 18 U.S. Code § 1361 defines the crime as willfully injuring or committing any depredation against U.S. government property. If the damage exceeds $1k it is a felony with a fine, up to ten years in prison or both.” Awaiting law enforcement.

@adamrose.bsky.social , commenting on Bass’ silence, told me “…this is her chosen chief and her police commission. It’s her LAPD. She has said nothing. She has been more absent on this issue than when she was out of the country during the fires.” latenfour.com/2025/10/20/p...

Just before you block them, report them to bluesky for their violations of the Hatch act on their posts. Clearly illegal for most of these accounts to post political/partisan messages.

Once again, @govpritzker.illinois.gov's state police have attacked protesters while doing crowd control for ICE in Broadview. Pritzker positions himself as a Trump opponent, but he's doing ICE's dirty work in Broadview. It has to stop.

#Pritzker needs to reign in his thugs. This is not the action of a man who allows free speech.

"Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair"

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE. It’s time to cancel your account.

#Antifa Founder's Girlfriend (She was Antifa, too)

It’s literally a journalist’s job to be at protests. If journalists are protesters, cops are protesters. Stupid argument. Journalists do yell “I’m press!” Press may yell expletives, but usually only after being shot by police. Which is allowable. It makes them human. Doesn’t make them a protester.

#ICE shot a non-threatening priest in the head with a pepper ball because they are trying to suppress 1st amendment speech. If you want to know one of the evil faces of this administration, this is one.

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A. ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why. A judge has ordered his immediate release. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

For the past many years I've been involved with gothtober.com - the original halloween artwork countdown calendar. My piece launched today; it features a bat. lantern. bat lantern. bantern? blantern? that you can download and make yourself with a 3d printer. #gothtober #art #3dprinting

I tested Sora's AI video "guardrails" and I'm honestly shocked how much OpenAI allows. Really, really bad www.tiktok.com/@drewharwell www.instagram.com/bydrewharwell/

The press is concerned about this drone restriction in Chicago. You should be, too

For the past many years I've been involved with gothtober.com - the original halloween artwork countdown calendar. My piece launched today; it features a bat. lantern. bat lantern. bantern? blantern? that you can download and make yourself with a 3d printer. #gothtober #art #3dprinting

SAG-AFTRA has released a statement on Tilly Norwood, the AI "performer," saying: “To be clear, 'Tilly Norwood' is not an actor, it’s a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers — without permission or compensation."

My book came out yesterday!! Here are some links to buy it: lnk.to/ScarletMorning ☠️🩸

Gotta say I’m not a big fan of 2 Jim Crow 2 Furious

How to delete your account without agreeing to the new TOS: In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.

According to Trump, Greater Los Angeles is now down to 1.4 million residents. We've had to stack the 17 million dead like cordwood. Fox news hasn't reported on this at all.

"You are being musically mean to me and it's hurting my feelings so I am going to call the police department that we are supposed to be supporting to report a feels violation."

I can't.. even..

SCARLET MORNING is out in one month (!!) and I’m coming to YOUR town to tell you to read it 🌞🩸

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

DAILY MEMO: Agents Have Started Taking People on The Freeways and A Closer Look at The Stereotypes Used by SCOTUS in Their Opinion on ICE’s Restraining Order @eltragon.bsky.social

LOL. if you have a bot account follow me and try to interact with me, be ready for a block and report. LLMs are built on theft.

Remove RFK Jr. He has no business doing anything related to our healthcare. Shouldn't have been confirmed in the first place. Trust experts, not brain worms. #trustscience #americanrobin #activism #RFK #standupforscience #art

If the U.S. military isn't going to release details on the justification for killing 11 civilians in a civilian boat who weren't posing a threat to anyone, then we have to conclude the "justification" is: the U.S. military is willing to kill civilians to give Trump social media content.

There is no due process with this administration. Just the extrajudicial killing of eleven people who showed no sign of aggression. Note: the vessel was alleged to be a drug vessel. not proven to be a drug vessel. This was murder on the high seas by a fascist state.

In response to DeSantis anti-LGBTQ+ policies and attacks to the Pulse Memorial, many citizens started to paint their driveways in the rainbow colors in support of the community.

“In a free market system” let me stop you right there, buddy, “free markets” for healthcare generally mean “lots of poor people die unnecessarily” and in this specific case, it means “poor people die early after selling their organs to avoid collection agencies”.

I'm thinking of pulling everything I've done from #github now that they are trying to force insecure 'vibe coding' on everyone. Open source should be secure, not full of holes like this crap is. github.blog/changelog/20...

Gosh, financially ruin techbros who are trying to make a fortune with stolen work? Let me just see if I can find a violin small enough.

Ed Martin’s latest stunt: pressuring someone he is criminally investigating to resign from public office “as an act of good faith.”

Working hard to defend the rights, dignity, and well-being of immigrants, refugees, and the undocumented, they need our help more than ever right now. By Hadley Tomicki The full guide: lataco.com/donate-non-p...

If you all wanted to know what fascism looks like, it is the feds hunting down state legislators who are using a perfectly legal tactic to disrupt a takeover. "state's rights" my ass.

NYT pantsed by the Crimson A+

BOP is a a it or a black box and it's hard to figure out why they do what they do but the appearance of this is absolutely fully corrupt. The appearance is convicted sex offenders get benefits for helping Trump's image problem. Verminous.

All you folks subscribing to substacks: stop. Urge the people you (formerly) subscribed to to move to a non-fascist platform. Only way some writers are going to learn is by losing their followers.

Per judge's order, here's the memo LAPD chief had to issue to all personnel about press access at protests - and saying they can't shoot journalists with LLMs. Preliminary injunction hearing is next week. Journalists may want to print this before covering protests: drive.google.com/file/d/1_Yao...

BREAKING On April 24, Elon Musk's Neuralink falsely self-certified as a "small disadvantaged business" on a federal filing, a designation that qualifies the company for preferential treatment as part of a racial and ethnic diversity initiative.

No, @nytimes.com, it is not. It is time to double down against fascism. But your editors have the integrity of a febrile goat's liver, so I wouldn't expect you to understand that. (Just in case you doesn't understand that insult, I am clearly saying you have none.)

Our commitment to one another and compassion may be the biggest weapon we've got against the fear L.A. is being targeted with. We've gotten dozens of questions about how you can help, including where to volunteer. We heard you, and we answered. lataco.com/los-angeles-...

In her defense, Bergen Belsen Barbie was probably preoccupied with a glamour photo op at her new Florida concentration camp

I think the man doth protest too much

the united states is now disappearing people just like repressive dictatorships.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Not that anyone cares, but now that JD Vance has cast the tiebreaking vote for $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts, I'm reupping these Vance quotes from 2017, in which he flatly declared that Medicaid cuts like these betray Trumpism's promises to the working class: newrepublic.com/article/1954...