Another ICE "assault" case unravels. Border Patrol and ICE are arresting US citizens and then after they find out that they are US citizens, they are charging them with "assault" to justify their actions. This is clearly DHS policy at this point. We've seen it repeatedly now.

Folks in LA please be careful and refer to this guide for protest gear from Hong Kong’s 2018 anti-extradition protest, in case you need some helpful, well-tested gear suggestions against heavily armed police that are liberal with tear gas.

I’d also add to the list: CHIRLA www.chirla.org/get-involved... CLUE LA www.cluejustice.org/donate/

Updates from Paramount Home Depot 👇

ICE vans ran through a crowd of anti-ICE protesters in Paramount, CA, at least two with extreme injuries, per @acatwithnews.bsky.social A major fire is burning in the middle of the street, per Sean.

Hearing from clergy friends that the tear gas is bad. Lots of messages with this pieces from this thread in the last 24 hours 👇

I’m also seeing video on here of ICE going ham in an LA Home Depot parking lot, just a few days after it was reported that Stephen Miller was yelling at DHS/ICE officials to target Home Depot for migrants to sweep up.

People disappearing and silencing students are moves of an authoritarian regime.

I feel the same horror I felt watching an authoritarian regime crush democracy in Hong Kong in 2019 as I do now, except with more sadness about the reality that our unserious nation chose this. kwokpuilan.substack.com/p/cultural-r...

since she was 8 months old www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

Thank you @janehongphd.bsky.social for pushing us to better understand the nuances and narratives we need to address within our immigrant and refugee communities if we want to see a better society for all. time.com/7207388/lati...

There are families who will never be able to come back from this devastation, and many of them were in generational homes, passed down from people who bought homes in the 1970sand 80's in Altadena. All of the fires are a tragedy, but especially for those who don't have the resources to rebuild.

“It will be a moral failure that as immigrants work to get Southern California back on its feet — cleaning up mountains of debris, erecting wooden beams, installing drywall and wiring electrical systems — they will be doing so under threat of family separation.”

SoCal friends, I’m so sorry you’re dealing with this. A few things I wish I’d known as we evacuated ahead of a wildfire (that took our home in 2021) 🧵

Not sure we’ll ever have another one like President Carter. religionnews.com/2024/12/29/j...

Thankful for the clear explanation from @janehongphd.bsky.social about neoliberalism’s role in how we got here. How do we offer an alternative in our organizing if it’s this difficult to define? www.theguardian.com/books/2016/a...

“The narrative of liberalism and democracy collapsed.” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/o...