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#Via Chad Loder
@chadloder
June 11, 2025, 6:40 AM
"Success! ICE was forced to leave their hotel in the middle of the night after activists located where ICE was staying and surrounded the hotel with a noise demonstration. Hundreds of drivers joined in by blasting their horns as they drove by. Hotel management asked ICE to leave."
Nothing upsets a fascist more than somebody they consider beneath them questioning their authority.
"I was asking a question..."
#SenatorAlexPadilla #Padilla #USPOL #KristiNoem #Fascism #Rascism #Dogkiller #DHS
Padilla's assault & handcuffing is getting all the attention, but what Noem said is perhaps more terrifying.
"We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."
Admitting they're not here for violent criminals, they're here to overthrow our elected officials
Back in 2004 Boston PD killed this woman with a rubber bullet. There was no protest, it was just a bunch of “real men” rioting and setting cars on fire because the Red Sox won an important game against the Yankees. (I lived in Southie at the time and we all left town with our cars just in case this happened because this is what they do when they get drunk & excited about sports ball.)
I didn’t remember this story, but I saw someone talking about it this morning so I wanted to share it here, just in case y’all know people talking about rubber bullets like they’re not lethal. Please tell them about Victoria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Victoria_Snelgrove
#ACAB #Boston #NonLethalWeaponsKill
(Edited because I originally wrote “World Series” but that’s not correct.)
This is how. Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.
Apparently, if you have facebook or Instagram installed on your phone, #Meta was able to track your browsing habits and link them to your real identity even if you never logged in on the web, used incognito mode or a VPN. I hope Meta gets hit with every fine in the book.
https://www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-tracking-explained-it-could
These fliers are for distributing at the "No Kings" demonstrations on June 14, 2025, in response to Trump's attempt to seize power via military occupation.
https://crimethinc.com/zines/it-is-fascism-start-acting-like-it
"The decisive moment has arrived. Disruptive, courageous action is our only chance. If we fight, we will win."
People who say things like "we achieved racial equality through MLK doing peaceful protests" tend to ignore three major facts:
1. We never achieved racial equality.
2. There were literally hundreds of violent race riots in the 60s.
3. They killed MLK. They fucking shot that dude anyway. Come on.
If they voted for Trump, they voted for this.
“The sentiment across the board right now is that deploying military force against our own communities isn’t the kind of national security we signed up for,”
LAPD are doing exactly what we saw in Portland five years ago: creating the very violence they claim to be addressing:
“I already wrote about the GOP’s bloodthirsty desire to use the military on Americans. They manufactured a nonsense “crisis” by over-aggressively sending in ICE agents to grab people off the streets, leading to protests, which were focused on provoking protestors into violence, which would then be used to justify an even more violent crackdown.”
Always frustrating when people talk about immigrants being a drain on the UK. Jim Ratcliffe recently bought a cycle team, a yacht team, a ski lodge, a Swiss football team, Manchester United, the Mercedes F1 team and sponsors New Zealand rugby - largely funded by tax avoidance. He owns not one but two superyachts aswell as two hotels. He is a Brexiteer and Eurosceptic who for tax purposes says he lives in Monaco and owns an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, where he relocated his business in 2010 to avoid tax. His vast thirty billion wealth comes from petrochemicals, oil and plastic. Jim wants fracking and doesn't care about the consequences.
Assuming the cost of one migrant is c.£12000 per year (and assuming that person gives nothing back to the economy, which we know to be wrong), just in money that Jim avoids paying the country he contributed to being cut off from our neighbours whose hospitality he enjoys so much, that would easily fund half a million immigrants per year. And they're not pumping oil and plastic into the environment.
Jim is one man.
This is the term we must use now, yes.
What struck me about watching the G7 protests here in Toronto years ago was, I watched regular citizens step in and try to prevent vandalism and looting while the Police stood back and watched.
When the police did take action it was against the peaceful protestors, kettling them and beating the shit out of them (while they had removed all identification from their uniforms see case of Adam Nobody).
Wonder whatever happened to that police chief? 🙃
Then we got the Ottawa convoy protest where the police had a love fest with protestors and sat back while protesters harassed citizens.
I now understand what happened, and why the police stopped moving after entrapping protestors:
Stephen Miller designed a policy to rip children from their parents.
Terry Moran called him a “world-class hater.”
Only one of those caused outrage.
Guess which one.
https://www.theindex.media/theres-no-civility-clause-for-fascists/
Book Review: The Magician of the Gods
This book starts with the story of J. Harlan Bretz. In the 1920s, Bretz proposed that the scablands in eastern Washington were caused by cataclysmic flooding event rather than gradual erosion. Bretz was almost laughed out the geological profession for making this claim. Decades later, he was vindicated.
Sometimes crazy ideas are proven right.
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=33&id=363
"Let’s be honest, when it comes to human beings entering this country, Republicans, Evangelicals, and MAGAs don’t give a damn about documentation. It’s all about pigmentation."
~ John Pavlovitz
#solidarity #Trump #immigrrants #deportations #LosAngeles #MAGA #Republicans #evangelicals
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https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-right-doesnt-want-legal-immigrants
