The elevation of politicians who are "tough on crime" like Josh Shapiro with no mention of how, as state AG, he tried to thwart the Philly DA Krasner (also a popular politician) at every single turn! www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Might I remind you that Dick Cheney called torture "enhanced interrogation" and that the simpleton who paints puppies now, once oversaw an unnecessary warzone that included Abu Gharib. Where have you been for 30 years that you did not encounter a Republican President? They all do this.

Does anyone have that sharpie tool where we can name every one of the people smiling, nodding, or even standing silently as Trump unloads this racist attack? Because I can see a future in which a lot of people will be saying, “I wasn’t there.”

I've been saying for the better part of a year that Trump is on a mission to decriminalize corruption. To make it the legal equivalent of jaywalking. I feel that more strongly now than I ever had.

At today's LA city council meeting, Councilwoman Hernandez pressed LAPD Chief McDonnell on using 40 mm and tear gas to disperse crowds. Hernandez points out the use of less lethals is a fiscal issue because of lawsuits due to injuries. He responds, "You're trying to put a price on saving lives."

Largest worker protection settlement in NYC history! Starbucks ☕️ Must Pay Workers $38 Million They violated the law >half a million times since 2021 They cut workers’ schedules and denied workers the chance to pick up more shifts, keeping them involuntarily part-time.

Remember Thomas Jacob Sanford, the Iraq veteran who burned up a Mormon Church in September? Remember Nigel Edge, the Iraq veteran sniper who shot up a bar from his boat in Cape Fear, also in September? Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.

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"Contrary to Miller and Trump, Lakanwal’s shooting spree is not the result of importing Afghan culture to America. While much will surely be revealed in Lakanwal’s upcoming trial, it looks more like the result of importing American culture to Afghanistan." New from me @zeteo.com

What research tells us about national security under authoritarianism. www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-trumpi... Read the latest from @donmoyn.bsky.social for Lincoln Square

None of this has ever been about “dangerous people” considering Purdue Pharma killed how many people hmm?

Guaranteed multimillion-dollar payouts for immigrant bounty hunters, paid out by the US government. from @dell.bsky.social

Church Employee in Texas Allegedly Posed as ICE Agent to Extort Woman "Safety director" at the Gateway Community church in Webster, TX, near Houston, is alleged to have used fake ID to extort a masseuse. After a massage, he showed her an ICE ID and asked for her ID. Then forced her to Zelle him $.

"Uncommon phrases" by "anarchist extremists"? Count in thousands of people from my friends list, then. Published in 2022, even under Biden they were doing this shit. Look at this stuff again if you didn't pay attention. These ideas are threats to power.

We've come to expect this level of idiocy and ignorance from republicans but I hope this underscores the extent to which democrats, including dem leadership, are complicit in maintaining the status quo that got us into the wealth disparity/affordability crisis that we're in right now

Engagement on our updates re: ICE kidnappings/fed siege of Los Angeles is significantly lower on Bluesky compared to Twitter. Do ppl on here not care about LA anymore? Are feeds being taken over by liberal commentators? What's going on? Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.

‘If we don’t oppress, we will inevitably be victims’ is the mindset of modern colonialism and white supremacy boiled to its essence

the level of islamophobia which is seen as acceptable in public discourse is absolutely disgusting.

ICE is using a new app called Mobile Fortify to scan people's faces and determine their immigration status. The government's use of biased, unreliable facial recognition tech to supercharge its mass deportation campaign endangers all of our rights.

I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.

unintentionally revealing that he’s not in or even aware of any networks who are at this moment doing exactly what he claims no one is doing because he’s not doing it

It’s useful for people of my generation to be reminded that this wasn’t that long ago. Ruby Bridges isn’t just still alive—she’s only 71, not ancient!

every time I explain to my coworkers that a social media influencer from out of town has convinced the Trump administration that the Portland police are antifa, they look at me like I've sprouted a second head www.theverge.com/policy/81340...

It’s cool that Chuck Schumer, Kiersten Gillibrand, and Hakeem Jeffries just proved to every future dem that establishment approval is irrelevant tbh

"The number of Jake Chatterbrook-Silvers who will call for the GOP to moderate its extreme right-wing positions and focus on voters' kitchen table anxieties will be precisely 0." "So … the dinner party issues that plague the brains of elite freaks are not the authentic will of the people?"

We need to address the fact that the LAPD - which is not ICE and at least nominally under the control of a liberal Democrat -- is violent and out of control and violating human rights just like the feds are

New from me: The police are defunding our cities. In LA, LAPD’s growing liability lawsuits are costing taxpayers millions of dollars in payouts. $400m in payouts since 2019. The biggest culprits: protests, police shootings, and car collisions. More👇 lapublicpress.org/2025/11/lapd...

OT1H, I really don't want to know what this about (guessing stand-your-ground laws, which are correlated with higher homicide rates?). OTOH, they're not wrong (tho maybe this is getting away with it illegally?).

2/8 Each morning begins with fear: crime clips, border “invasions,” & Deep State lies. By night, that fear turns into punishment memes & calls for revenge. This is no accident. It’s a daily outrage cycle built to control emotion and attention. #RightWatch #DisinformationPlaybook youtu.be/_2dYNXXzA84

Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María Garcia-Maldonado at ICE detention facility: “Being here is an act of holiness…soon we will seek access to the facility to bring the Eucharist to our brothers and sisters; if they say no again, we will keep praying.”

The continued failure of mainstream media to recognize or acknowledge the racial demographic anxiety undergirding and enabling the political moment and eroding of democracy, government and the safety net, is an abdication that makes us complicit.

“The driver’s family identified him as Carlos Jimenez, 24, a U.S. citizen, and said he was on his way to work at a food bank when the shooting occurred.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

You really have to hand it to the people who came up with the concept of “cancel culture” — it’s a tremendously flexible tool usable by everybody. Why, here it is being used to explain why an organization nominally about values can’t reject overt antisemites.

Note who wrote this

Secure Justice newsletter A mixed bag for privacy eepurl.com/jqqNVQ

Revealed: police across US spread false rumors about Venezuelan gang threats

Nine months ago I put most of my hope in major institutions continuing to hold fascism in check, but had little expectation that regular people with little to no power would step up and put themselves at risk. I had it exactly backward.

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

Bless Mayor Johnson for calling for a general strike!

ICE conducted raids in Manhattan's Chinatown this afternoon and returned to the federal building during rush hour. Residents gathered nearby to voice disapproval. NYPD says it wasn't involved in the raids but now is running counterprotest operations. Current "sanctuary" laws only get you so far.

This was a “friendly fire” situation… Dangerous level of incompetence to suggest otherwise…

Since most media won't talk directly to anti-fascists, we've followed the lead of other comrades and added an FAQ to the about page on our blog. We've also included a long list of hoaxes about 'antifa', feel free to take and repurpose any of this information.

BREAKING: Dodge Co sheriff is transporting migrants to and from a controversial Illinois ICE facility @isiahholmes.bsky.social and @henry-redman.bsky.social report wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/10/21/d...

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT "A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Maybe I'm shortsighted but the looming danger of pedestrians being emboldened by the safety features of self-driving cars ... is just not a problem I can spin up much concern about.

NEW for The Ten Four: A crowd of hundreds gathered in the late afternoon Saturday outside the Metro Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, turning what began as a nearly universally peaceful rally into officers dozens of batons. latenfour.com/2025/10/20/p...

for German readers, i got a great review focusing on the spiritual elements in my book "Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism," in Austria's "Der Standard" www.derstandard.at/story/310000...

Until the Governor and Mayors demand local law enforcement protect ALL of their residents from this Gestapo they are not doing their jobs.