A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released sensitive details of 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees, including almost 2,000 frontline enforcement agents. www.thedailybeast.com//personal-de...

“But what do you expect Democrats to doo-hooo?” 1) Refuse to fund this criminal government anymore. 2) EVERY one of them call to abolish ICE (and bonus, DHS). No more “they need training” shit. Promise prosecutions. 3) EVERY one of them call for Trump’s impeachment, relentlessly, EVERY day.

"[F]ascism unbound." "[P]ower, social media, and everyday life collapse into a single machinery of consent, training the public to see violence as spectacle and domination as normal." "[C]irculated by nearly the entire corporate media apparatus." #USA #Venezuela #Media #Military #FossilFuels

It would be a mistake to see Trumpism as authoritarianism imposed on an unwilling nation, as opposed to authoritarianism implemented in a nation with a plurality that is already made up of authoritarian bootlickers who created the context for Trumpism to thrive.

Protester blinded, skull fractured by DHS agent during Santa Ana demonstration, family says

When we say that surveillance is a threat to the First Amendment because it makes it so easy for police to intimidate or enact retribution on someone based on their politics--this is exactly what we mean. This is state repression done via data collection.

preview says 3, as of now the headline is updated to 6

NEW: Completely unredacted Flock audit logs have been released to the public by numerous police departments and in some cases include details on millions of Flock license plate searches made by thousands of police departments from around the country.

It's making sure the name isn't the only thing that is gone. The carceral state, for-profit prisons, the penitentiary model of housing refugees, criminalizing poverty and minority status. So much to do.

"Privacy is the power to selectively reveal yourself." "[C]an you beat face recognition?" "[Y]es, and the easiest way is with a Covid mask." #USA #Surveillance #Technology #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

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NEW: It appears billionaire Bill Ackman has donated $10k to a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who killed Renee Good. Ackman has reposted the fundraiser but hasn’t posted about his own donation.

A lawsuit filed by a group of New York City employees against their health insurer cites ProPublica's reporting on ghost networks, where health plans list providers who supposedly accept that insurance but who are not actually available to patients. By @maxblau.bsky.social

“Trump is sharply and rapidly intensifying the U.S. state’s long and bipartisan history of abduction and caging, deploying these powerful, incredibly well-resourced instruments of repression for overtly fascist ends.” — @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and @mayaschenwar.bsky.social

ICE shot a man in Glen Burnie and the story they told was contradicted by: 1. ICE’s own photos 2. Bystander video 3. Lawyer for another immigrant at the scene 4. Anne Arundel County Police Now ICE is revising its story. The latest from Alex Mann: www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

“When we murder you, it will be your fault. Stop making us murder you in cold blood and then muttering ‘fucking bitch’ under our breath. Don’t do that to us.”

These numbers are not surprising to me having covered it, but it is stark seeing it laid out like this and I’m glad the Times put this together. Just this week, someone told me they wished I would stop including the appointing president in stories, and I was like, “Not a chance.” This is why.

Social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools — now being turned on Americans by ICE to target protesters. bit.ly/3Kq348R

I can't say this loudly enough: THEY ARE TRYING TO NORMALIZE THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS FOR PARTICIPATING IN FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTED PROTEST ACTIVITIES.

They're threatening to kill more of us if we call them murderers. Only a murderer levels that kind of threat.

More training isn't going to fix the ethnic cleansing squad! The problem is that we employ an ethnic cleansing squad that attracts the type of people who would want to be part of an ethnic cleansing squad!

“Someone at the puppy-kicking factory killed a protester!” “That’s outrageous. We need to train the puppy-kickers.” “Train them in what?” “You know. Professionalism. More humane methods of kicking.” “More humane…Shouldn’t we stop kicking puppies?” “Come on, don’t be an extremist.”

This is always message in the country at large when it comes to policing. There isn't any police interaction that isn't defined by this way of thinking in the U.S. They should have obeyed and complied is the default, always.

If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police

This is exactly right. They haven't settled for dim brutes who blindly follow orders regardless of the law. That's what they want. That's what they got. There's no reforming or improving it now. Democrats need to investigate, defund, and ultimately disband the president's brownshirt brigade.

I have some congresspeople who follow me, so I'll just throw this out there: As a taxpayer, I would actually prefer that you *not* continue to fund the fascist military machine that is being used to kill and kidnap people from our communities.

If this is true, then these generals should be resigning now.

SCOOP: 404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. One can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.

The Trace has maintained a database tracking the people shot by federal agents as part of immigration enforcement:

Protest sign on Route 4 in Paramus, New Jersey reads “ICE murders woman in MN”

Cops lie, and even if the truth is revealed that they lied, they will always get away with it because cops are a protected class. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.

Can't help thinking about the many citizens detained by immigration agents & held at gunpoint or had guns/less lethals pointed at them Some (thinking of George Retes) reported attempts to move out of the way per agents' requests, but were violently detained anyway www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Like those before it, that insane, vile DHS statement about the Minneapolis shooting isn't about covering anything up. It's performative lying. They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.

NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do." “We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs. www.advocate.com/news/minneso...

Two queer women with a 6 year old in school today stopped to film ICE and for their bravery ICE agents murdered one before the other’s eyes. The grief in the survivor’s voice is a knife to the gut. Destroying people and their bonds is what ICE has always done.

they really can just liquidate you in broad daylight with cameras rolling and then blame you for it, which is obvious, and always has been, and yet, and yet, and yet

We should be applauding people who break rules to stop what's happening. Failing to break rules is what's worthy of critique right now. That's the stuff people should have an explanation for — and I know, some do, and that's fine, but the absolute moral minimum is supporting those who resist.

The focus on training misses the mark. Yes, many federal agents are sloppy and unprepared, but years of organizing against police violence have taught me that more training doesn't stop violence. It just makes the death-making more respectable (sometimes) and more expensive.

The state agents invading our cities are the dangerous ones, not our neighbors they target.

DHS to America: don't believe you're lyin' eyes

Grok is producing ~6,700 sexually suggestive or nudified images per hour • Twitter (X) is now the top deepfaking site in the world • Women who speak out become targets by users (via business)

They get to “fear for their lives” and defend themselves. The public cannot. Police have a monopoly on violence that’s upheld by the legal system and cultural conditioning that convinces us the police are righteous defenders of the public.

What's actually true: 1. Cops in the US built the permission structure which ICE uses to terrorize communities 2. Cops have been helping them do it 3. ICE goons don't receive actual police training 4. It's vital to understand and oppose 287 (g) agreements

What ICE was up to in Minnesota before they murdered a woman

ICE killed a member of our community today. ICE showed up at my kid’s daycare today. ICE is bragging about the number of families they’ve torn apart in a matter of days, and promising that their campaign of terror isn’t done.

A cop shot a person three times point blank and instead of the streets being deserted. They filled with people yelling at the cops [who could have shot them too].

Emergency rally TONIGHT at Foley Square in response to ICE murdering a woman and blithely attacking responding community members in Minneapolis today.

The Wyoming Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the state’s two abortion bans are unconstitutional, preserving a hotly contested right amid a push by legislators to end the practice in the Equality State. via @wyofile.com

PSA: twitter, X, is doing new terms of service that basically make it so that any comtent you share on there including DMs and photos is theirs and they can use it for "any purpose" including commercial use. So, if you have a page you’ve left up and don’t want them there’s time to act 1/