@sergioperez.bsky.social
Executive Director @ The Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law https://www.centerforhumanrights.org Civil rights attorney fighting for a more just and fair Los Angeles. Views are mine. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergioperez23/
That Uncle Sam nod is masterful.
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Photo of: A poster titled: Who's the Illegal Alien, Pilgrim? 1978 offset lithograph on paper by Yolanda López born 1942, San Diego, CA; died 2021, San Francisco, CA Yolanda López created this print in response to President Jimmy Carter's controversial immigration plan, which included efforts to limit amnesty for undocumented immigrants already in the United States. In her image choices and composition, the artist cleverly subverts narratives of legal and illegal, questioning America's colonial past. The Aztec warrior's posture recalls James Montgomery Flagg's iconic Uncle Sam "I Want You for U.S. Army" poster; he points to a "pilgrim," referencing the first European settlers who came to the Americas without documentation. Lopez's print turns the tables on immigration debates and who can lay claim to contested lands.
A 1970s protest print by Yolanda López speaks to how little progress we’ve made in honoring our immigrant & refugee neighbors.
Currently on view at the Huntington Gardens.
The lack of appropriate sun shelters at bus stops in this city is what’s gonna turn me into a single-issue voter in the fall lmao
01.03.2026 21:01 — 👍 98 🔁 9 💬 8 📌 0I just threw together a website visualizing this ICE contract data! You can browse through the companies and their contracts, and filter them by state micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts/
01.03.2026 20:46 — 👍 555 🔁 377 💬 19 📌 16…and a trail of fragile bubbles, here for a moment and then not.
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A highly complex website showing two betting accounts earning nearly $500,000 and $120,000 on a minimal number of positions.
In case you were wondering, Polymarket had yet another spate of likely inside traders betting that the US would strike Iran by February 28.
Per the due diligence investigation service Bubblemaps, the wallets used were created 24 hours earlier.
The Pentagon Pizza Index has been replaced.
Each one of those three missiles costs 33% more than the annual budget of the national park where I work.
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Surviving! I think where a lot of us are right now.
Appreciate the ask. How are you?
Folks in LA and beyond should be checking in on their neighbors with ties to Iran & other countries impacted by American war crimes.
This is when community matters.
congress sounds cool i wish it was real
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Seen some clips of parents crying over their children. Thinking of how some people's fatherhood, motherhood, or childhood is not deemed as worthy of sympathy or grief. So many lost children today. Can't imagine the amount of families grieving today.
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WOW. 19 people, all who were imprisoned and mistreated in a foreign prison at the direct command of the United States, are brave enough to say “We are innocent, and we will endure more time imprisoned to prove that.”
I can only admire the enormous courage such a move takes.
Iran has two FIFA World Cup matches in LA and one in Seattle. The first is 107 days from now.
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The details in this story are shocking, and I hope people will spend some time with it, despite the *gestures* EVERYTHING ELSE HAPPENING. Some of these details have been previously reported. Other big ones have not.
Gift link:
Everything is terrible but Los Angeles transit continues to expand despite the perception that we won’t use it
And @metrolosangeles.bsky.social has great merch
BREAKING — 51 Iranian children are dead after a strike hits Minab girls elementary school in Iran.
28.02.2026 12:33 — 👍 3076 🔁 1998 💬 161 📌 728Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.
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Because of new USPS rules, voters who mail registration forms near the deadline may risk being left off the rolls. One solution: requesting a manual postmark at the retail counter of a post office.
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In a very important case in LA, Bill Essayli managed to convict 2 women on stalking, but not conspiracy to dox, charges, with a third entirely acquitted.
It's the first guilty verdict in any case against protestors Essayli has brought to trial, but ...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Big win for Minnesota refugees represented by @chrclla.bsky.social & @irap.bsky.social & cocounsel.
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You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance.
Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.
New: As David Ellison prepares to take control of CNN, legendary CBS News producer Mary Walsh, who is exiting, sent a goodbye note to colleagues.
In the note, Walsh writes, "We’ve been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don’t know how to do that."
NEW: Any Lucia López Belloza, a freshman at Babson College, was deported by mistake, in violation of a judicial order. A judge ordered her return by Friday. Now the Trump administration has said it will deport her again if she comes back.
Free gift link >>> www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...
A poll showing the Democrats are viewed as elitist by 43% of people while Republicans are viewed as elitist by 60%. It also shows that only 31% of people view Dems as tough, and 56% view Republicans as tough. 60% of people view Republicans as extreme and only 42% view Dems as extreme.
A lot of obvious stuff in this poll (people want Dems to act with more conviction and stop tearing their ACLs trying to reach across the aisle), but the thing I learned is that Republicans are viewed as the elitist ones now! Run with that! Usain Bolt with that shit!
27.02.2026 18:52 — 👍 2415 🔁 458 💬 66 📌 27The job:
27.02.2026 22:52 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Trump: “ICE has done such a great job”
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ICE whistleblower Ryan Schwank testified that ICE trains officers to ignore constitutional rights. The Trump administration wants to push the lie that your rights are up for debate; that they’re optional.
Together, let’s stand up and stop the Trump admin’s lie. Join us in our fight.
Callers to Washington state’s driver’s license agency who select automated service in Spanish are instead hearing an AI voice speaking English with a strong Spanish accent.
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Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission.
Full statement from the band:
