that horrifying ICE raid in Chicago? turns out it was really just about slumlords using the full strength of not only police but FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT to forcibly evict people.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
What you want is COPWATCHING. The cameras turned on THEM.
the admin: " We've established a fusion cell to streamline two-way sharing of actionable intelligence and information within—DHS, DEA, FBI and local law enforcement partners.”
dems: ICE is bad, cops are good! cops will protect us from ICE.
cops: Seattle Police Officers Guild President Mike Solan said of Wilson’s plan that “The concept of pitting two armed law enforcement agencies against each other is ludicrous, and will not happen.”
I guess I just don't take what people living in other countries say about the U.S. personally. I live in the heart of empire. There's a lot to be pissed off at the U.S. about. I understand their anger.
many of the tactics we are seeing right now are direct imports from policing. cops and ICE and law enforcement are part of the same political constituency and same project of state violence. the overlap in the communities they target is MASSIVE which we are seeing in this enforcement in real time.
not cops getting a PR glow up on the backs of disgusting ICE and CBP violence. two things can be true: this moment can be unprecedented/ uniquely bad without us unnecessarily drawing not very tight distinctions between ICE and cops that paint cops in a light they certainly don’t deserve.
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
like guys abeg it’s the fact that judges love locking Black people up that we *had* to push for legislative reform in the first place. and the most effective legislation in reducing incarceration rates *removed* discretion for judges in more cases and mandated release.
this narrative pivot from the field that’s like “public safety, not wealth, should decide who is jailed pretrial” vs “pretrial freedom all day every day” is really getting my goat.
when they say kids are expensive, they mean we bought $40 of fruit for *the week* at the farmers market this morning at 8:30am. reader, it is 7:33 pm on that very same day and i’m going to invite you to guess how many pieces we have left.
gives me chills that people can see somebody experiencing houselessness & feel that *they* are the victims of that story. and that the policy solution is ensuring that they no longer have to see or be proximate to that person, rather than addressing the conditions that leave people without housing.
the same man who immediately reinstated the use of the federal death penalty in his first term, who executed more Americans during that term than all the states combined and who rushed to kill three more Black men using the death penalty during the LAME DUCK period AFTER he lost the election.
i wish more media would just call this president what he is which is blood thirsty. this is the same man who used his own money to take out a full page ad 30 years ago in his personal capacity just to call for the execution of later exonerated Black kids in the Central Park jogger case.
One woman among those charged died in custody while detained at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, shortly after she attended a hearing on June 17 during which she pleaded not guilty to 14 charges, 10 of which carried enhancements under California’s Three Strikes Law for prior felony convictions. During that hearing, she was remanded to custody and had bail set at $1.33 million. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Lieutenant Daniel Vizcarra told LA Public Press that she was found hanging in a cell lockup, later that day. The coroner pronounced her dead just before 4 a.m. the next morning, on June 18, 2025.
screenshot of arrest record from 6/12/25 arrested at 725 by LAPD central division & taken to LAPD jail
arrest record from 6/13/25 arrested at 516 am by CHP & brought to LAPD 77th street
BREAKING: death of anti-ICE protester in Los Angeles
@lapublicpress.bsky.social is reporting Skid Row resident Adrienne Villa was found dead in her jail cell while in LASD custody at the courthouse, hours after pleading not guilty to over a dozen charges of alleged assault/battery on a cop.
don’t let anyone tell you that organizing where you are isn’t valuable. don’t let anyone poo poo your efforts to dismantle any part of this behemoth police state, even the smallest or most tangential part. it all matters.
fast forward to now, when college police departments are entering into 287(g) agreements, officially deputizing them to “enforce immigration law” aka target, terrorize and disappear immigrant students and families. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
in law school i supported some organizing to disarm and abolish HUPD (Harvard University Police Department). a lot of people who were really just cop apologists criticized the work heavily as navel gazing, inconsequential and silly. as cosplay activism.
we don’t bully golfers nearly enough if you ask me.
been trying to tell y’all….
the greatest heist there ever was. the entire world is grieving alongside you and for you, sweet girl.
as someone who lost their dad at 4, i can’t stop thinking about his daughter. beyond what anas meant to Gaza, to humanity at large, about what he will always mean to her. about receiving a blessing as unthinkable as being born to a dad like that only to have him ripped so needlessly from you.
the whole world is grieving alongside you, sweet girl,
Pls stop what you are doing and read this entire report on Israel's murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in Gaza City.
"He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent."
It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...
Anas Al-Sharif pictured with his two young children that he is holding. They are all smiling.
Anas Al-Sharif was one of the most remarkable reporters of his generation. For 673 days, he defied Israeli threats to kill him.
Al Jazeera now confirm their crew in Gaza City have all been assassinated:
RIP reporters Anas Al-Sharif & Mohammed Qareqea and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher & Mohammed Nofal
Love notes from our 5 year old.
"Masters, 63, is on a hunger strike at the Sierra Conservation Center in Jamestown, protesting the repeated disappearance of his mail and a lack of transparency as to why and where that mail has gone."
Week 4, and Jarvis has lost 30 lbs.
sacobserver.com/2025/07/blac...
Graph showing that incarceration increases the risk of death more than most other individual risk factors
Incarceration is deadly.
People incarcerated on a single day in 2008 had a 39% higher risk of death compared to similar people who were not incarcerated.
www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/06...
