Trump’s announcements and addresses are usually nothing burgers but uhhhhhh yeah I don’t feel good about this one

Fun, but I don't believe these polling results for a second for reasons discussed here: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

The feds are escalating in Los Angeles. We've seen record high kidnappings and our communities are under attack. The media focus on LA has died down so electeds don't feel the need to even feign opposition. People are out here fighting. We need all of us. Join the struggle. Defend your neighbors.

This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio. In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory. CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil. +

ICE and masked federal agents are continuing their brutal raids across US cities — targeting homes, workplaces, and public spaces with military-style force — and detaining thousands of community members including children.

Alabama plans to execute Boyd with nitrogen gas tomorrow, an experimental method that involves suffocating prisoners to death. “There’s nothing you can do to prepare for something like that,” Boyd told me. “You can’t prepare a person for drowning.” For more: boltsmag.org/anthony-boyd...

Proud that I’m so checked out of national electoral politics that I had no idea who the Nazi Oyster farmer was until today.

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame. tinyurl.se/crR

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Do it.

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

NEW Quinnipiac poll of registered U.S. voters: • Half now say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza • Only 47% see backing Israel as a U.S. interest, down from 69% in 2023 • 60% oppose more military aid to Israel • 58% favor UN recognition of a Palestinian state www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

Plenty dullards with guns in this country, so it is unfortunately totally believable that someone sympathetic to immigrants but who is nevertheless, an idiot, shot into a random ICE van. Regardless, worth pointing out that 14 people have died in ICE custody so it is obviously feigned outrage.

There is no domestic terrorist designation. There is no domestic terrorist list. He's just making it up as he goes along.

Holy shit

Regime threatens media company saying "censor or we will do y" -> company censors. Seems pretty clear what happened here!

Yes, the war in Gaza is a genocide. I hope you’ll take a moment to read my op-ed here:

"The masses will remember Robert Redford jumping off that cliff with Paul Newman, but it’s the work in Park City that may have had the greatest effect." @sonnybunch.bsky.social on the actor, star, and indie entrepreneur: www.thebulwark.com/p/robert-red...

We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.

Now as someone who has written a bit on political violence over the past four years I’ve been very interested in learning about the Italian years of lead. Problem is I don’t know Italian and there isn’t a ton of literature in English that I can find. Anyone have a good recs?

"What does seem clear is that the American Years of Lead are here." Read @jscros.bsky.social on where we're at. www.discourseblog.com/p/the-americ...

You do not have to like or care for a victim of political violence in order to believe that it is bad. Can someone explain to me what there is to celebrate? This has accomplished nothing and only ill will come in its wake.

Writing a thing about this but what really jumps out about Kavanugh's appalling opinion is that he pretends to be doing the same "myriad of factors" analysis so he can claim he's not just authorizing pure racial profiling. The problem is the other "factors" are... FACTORS ABOUT LOS ANGELES.

What is happening in Gaza is genocide. Those enabling it—lawmakers sending arms to Israel, officials giving it cover at the UN and international courts, the lobby groups demanding such support—aren’t just accomplices, but full participants in a crime against humanity. They must be held to account.

ICE will 'ramp up' immigration raids in Los Angeles, other 'sanctuary cities,' border czar says

Just utterly out of words to describe what we’re seeing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

New federal data shows that vaccination rates among American children entering kindergarten fell during the 2024-25 school year, extending a worrying trend that began during the Covid-19 pandemic. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/h...

Emotional scenes as 11 New York rabbis were arrested at our protest last night at the Israeli consulate. Chants of “let Gaza live!” and “that’s my rabbi!” thundered through the crowd as the rabbis were taken away by the police.

BREAKING - B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel call Israel's actions in Gaza genocide Watch the video and read the 88-pages report entitled "Our Genocide" here www.btselem.org/publications...

Greetings! I’m here at Metro Detention Center in Los Angeles, where a group of a few dozen protesters have congregated around a 24/7 camp. Currently, DHS officers and (likely, it’s dark) have formed a line. Protesters chanting. Dead Kennedys playing. With @melbuer.bsky.social

These two stories broke within a half-hour of each other.

A man coughing up blood. Men zip-tied face down on a wet floor. CCTV turned off. Men forced to eat off of a chair like animals while handcuffed. Solitary confinement if you complain. This is just three paragraphs from a new report.

TODAY: Hit the streets and join the #StopStarvingGaza international day of action with Palestinian Youth Movement. There are protests in LA, Bay Area, Chicago, NYC, DC, and more. Find a protest near you: uscpr.org/protest

Starving children in Gaza are hitting a “point of no return” as Israel’s genocide turns hunger into a silent massacre—76 kids dead from malnutrition, infants fading before our eyes. Read our urgent report. mondoweiss.net/2025/07/when...

The right-wing “film bro” ecosphere is flipping out over the casting of Nolan’s Odyssey for the usual reasons (racism) but my problem is Damon as Odysseus. Odysseus is supposed to be a legendary badass and cocky player but Damon looks more like Socrates, who was a notorious ugo.

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, per a report from Human Rights Watch

Spokane politician arrested by feds at his home for protesting ICE kidnapping of two immigrants at check-in appointment. "Former Spokane City Council President Ben Stuckart … was indicted by a federal grand jury and [will] be charged with conspiracy to impede or injure law enforcement."

Columbia announces it will adopt IHRA definition of antisemitism, "zero tolerance" approach to discrimination/harassment policy, partner with the ADL. This is very similar to the terms of Barnard's settlement in Students Against Antisemitism v. Columbia; possible we will see another settlement

Thought provoking article from @josemarichal.bsky.social. You’re always invited to the little cinema club I organize in LA if you want to see a movie that’s more than 50 years old.

“We’re proud to be a place that is safe for immigrants, people seeking abortion, and people who are seeking gender-affirming healthcare,” EFF’s Adam Schwartz told @sfstandard.com, but “to be fully a sanctuary state, we also have to be a data sanctuary state.”

A worker was killed. Dozens detained. Dr. Jonathan Caravello, A CSU faculty member and US citizen, was brutalized & disappeared by ICE for observing. Trump’s ICE thugs are escalating terror in our communities. Release them ALL. seiuca.org/press-releas...

They murdered somebody during one of their raids. They actually did it.

@schiff.senate.gov Is there a reason why you’re doing photo ops with war criminals who are wanted by the ICC? Do you just hate Palestinians that much?

BREAKING: Massive ICE raid ongoing at a farm in Camarillo, Ventura County, CA. Local news reports that an unknown number of workers have been detained. Almost 20% of US strawberries come from the county. US food supply at risk from Trump’s fascist thugs & Stephen Miller’s quota.

Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.