I was denied entry to a federal courthouse for “wearing propaganda” lol

When immigrant rights are under attack, everyone’s rights are under attack. If it can happen to your neighbor, it can happen to you. Cuando se atacan los derechos de los inmigrantes, se atacan los derechos de todos. Si le puede pasar a tu vecino, te puede pasar a ti.

if they repeal marriage equality, we are going to get even MORE married. our outlaw wedding is going to be so glamorous and camp

DHS crammed a bunch of agents in a Penske rental truck this morning in Los Angeles. The owner, Roger Penske, was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2019 (by Trump).

Dirty Money? Behind the scenes of an anti-union "protest" featuring Wonderful Nurseries.

This guy (George Retes) is a US citizen (a veteran, even). He was going to work when he was swarmed by a masked armed mob, windows smashed, pepper sprayed, dragged from his car and locked in a cell for 3 DAYS. No medical care, legal counsel or even a phone call www.latimes.com/california/s...

a spark of good news

A philosophy professor was assaulted and abducted by ICE while protesting the agency's raid on a farm near his university.

it does feel nice to make stephen miller THIS mad

I sat in the courtroom for this hearing on Thursday and listened to the federal government bend over backwards to try and justify their roving patrols as not at all racist and unconstitutional They failed spectacularly. Miller’s rhetoric is predictable &dangerous, but also the gov is full of idiots

This is the site of the huge sweeps targeting farm workers earlier today

Industry-wide strikes and boycotts can work. But they only work when they are led by the actual impacted workers, and they take a TON of force. I’m just saying you can’t find that kind of strength on instagram alone

The workers who feed America go to work in fear. We’ve seen these unconstitutional and unamerican tactics before, with Border Patrol targeting random farm workers and anyone with brown skin in Kern County during their large sweep in January. We sued then and we are suing now. 1/

“Las redadas en el área metropolitana de Los Ángeles no se han limitado al centro urbano; también hemos visto casos terribles de agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza persiguiendo a trabajadores agrícolas en los campos del condado de Ventura” laopinion.com/2025/07/02/d...

We are aware of multiple federal operations impacting farm workers across California today. To all working people in California, remember: we are in this together. Our statement: ufw.org/ufw-statemen... #WeFeedYou

This is the spirit of Los Angeles. This is California. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. #FreeDavidEndRaids

For people not in Los Angeles I understand you are seeing coverage of violence and unrest but it’s all bullshit. It’s normal here except for the massive number of cops surrounding very small scattered protests and maybe some national guard standing around bored. Sorry to disappoint

“We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said a union official about a raid in western New York.

“You cannot stop people based on how they look,” said Elizabeth Strater, a national vice president of United Farm Workers, a labor union. “This ruling upholds the basic standards of law in the country.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u...

Breaking: A federal court on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction forbidding the Border Patrol from conducting warrantless immigration stops throughout a wide swath of California. cal.news/4jVGLnJ

She's exactly who we said she was.

ok girl don’t hold back

We had to ask him to stop tbh

An aggressive federal effort to deport immigrants isn’t stopping farmworkers from fighting for strong labor rights. Now the legendary UFW, has gained a foothold in New York, too.

Can't wait till this kid says their first Si Se Pwodway 🥺 (with @elizabethstrater.bsky.social) #ConEstasManos

Sixty years after the historic Delano grape strike, over 5,000 United Farm Worker members and other union members gathered Monday in Delano for a march to the Forty Acres site where Chávez held his first public fast.

Exhausted, inspired, hopeful. There are fighters out there among us, and we’ll struggle through as we always do.✊

Thinking about this painting a lot. How do you interpret it?

Punkin woke me up at 4am so i could see her loaf on her tower. smart

bolsonaro's in the news so it's time for my favorite bluesky post of all time (elizabeth's contact photo in my phone is now bolsonaro)

Ok so my wife and I independently saw this whale and felt he was @banditelli.org coded. Is the whale super anxious? Yes. Is he also full of optimism for the future? Yes, he is

we were warned

Good story and my truck got a shout out. See what happened was @elizabethstrater.bsky.social texted me and said "hey what are you doing tomorrow? Before you answer I need a truck to get 20k masks from LA to Oxnard" Obviously I said "I'm driving masks for the UFW" cause I'd seen the Hughes Fire.

Hundreds of protesters gather outside Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to demand it roll back restrictions on transgender care for youth:

My kid received gender-affirming care at CHLA starting in 2016. The CHLA gender care clinic was an important factor in moving to Los Angeles, because I wouldn’t have moved to a city without this care available. They are 23 now, and we are both grateful to the labor movement for speaking up.

you don’t have to kill anyone or destroy stuff. labor folks, this is just work to rule

fitting that the first big air disaster after years of loud, insistent warnings that understaffing would cause exactly this outcome, happens at the airport named after the guy who crushed the ATC union

FYI. The UFW says that folks are showing up for work. Obviously everyone is still worried though.

It’s been repeated over and over since one person was quoted claiming 75% of farmworkers are stating home from work due to fear of immigration sweeps. This is simply not true. Workers are scared, but they can’t afford to stay home. It is peak citrus harvest and they’re working.

this cat stole one of my airpods and ran away with it and i could hear my phone call sounds coming from her mouth. asshole.

This reddit post about a cat is so funny (and sounds so annoying). What a little shit www.reddit.com/r/CatAdvice/...

Well, with avian flu raging unchecked as CDC communication is muzzled and NIH research is gutted the egg situation is going full humpty dumpty

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

JUST BAN LEAF BLOWERS OMG

ok who’s up worried about watch duty notifications

Anyone in LA have a truck and the ability to help me pick up and deliver a pallet of N95 masks for farm workers tomorrow?

all sent from Oakland

when KTLA signs off on fire coverage and the theme song for f•r•i•e•n•d•s starts, you know things are ok for now

I dug into what works about the Watch Duty app, the breakout info resource of the L.A. wildfires, which is thinking about expanding to cover other types of disasters. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/the-power-...