Sergio Perez

This intersection has been approved for safety improvements which were first proposed in 2011 (!) and funded in 2019.

But because the people who put together the budget for the city do not prioritize saving the lives of our kids, these improvements are not scheduled to be completed until 2027

This is poetry.

Zohran didn't win by relying on standard turnout patterns. We had to fundamentally transform the Democratic electorate.

I was part of a group of NYC-DSA members that applied lessons from our previous campaigns to design the “universe” of voters to talk to. Here's how we won 🧵

People who talk about immigration solely as a matter of law or policy are missing a crucial reality: culture is what is driving the moment.

No legal order or political win will give us the reliable reform that changes in perception + feelings regarding immigrants will ultimately deliver.

Detainees at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” are on a hunger strike over what they call inhumane, dangerous conditions.

Some haven’t eaten in 10 days. One of them, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized and still refuses food until they are treated with dignity.

The Mayor & other city leaders promised that raises would only lead to the elimination of empty/unnecessary City jobs.

That was & continues to be a flat out lie. The City was understaffed for decades (due to dysfunctional city hiring + unions who benefit) & budget cuts have made things worse.

The bad public policy: LA, being a geographically large city with a large population, needs a massive police force or else crime spirals out of control

Reality?

LAPD continues to shrink & serious crime continues to drop along with it.

Budget cuts, triggered by obscene pay raises for LAPD officers, are leading to an avalanche of service cuts like these for a City of 4 million people that previously only had…14 public toilets.

Inflated LAPD salaries were justified using bad public policy & bad math.

We need to roll them back.

‘Alligator Alcatraz' detainees on hunger strike for 10th day, protesting conditions One of the detainees, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized during the strike but continued to refuse food, he said on Thursday.

A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” enters its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.

Ada and Her Family Fled El Salvador. She Died Alone in the New Mexico Desert Hundreds of migrants’ bodies have been found in the past three years in the Sunland Park Triangle, where New Mexico borders Texas and Mexico.

“There’s no mention [in the media] of what we find in the desert, which is like bibles, and love notes, and keychains with pictures of little kids, and all these clothes."

Instead, what Americans hear is “all this ‘invasion’ bullshit."

Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.

ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.”

You can judge for yourself.

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Think about your order of operations, and why your thinking is tethered to shifting the burden of translation and accessibility to community groups rather than often well-funded government with myriad of resources.

“We have been abandoned by the courts, by the business community,” and, with few exceptions, “by the political class in Washington, D.C.,” said Pablo Alvarado, co-founder of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. “All we have are our friends, our allies and ourselves.”

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The only folks who can attend city meetings held between 9-5 are those paid to be there (government officials + lobbyists) and the independently wealthy.

Who's missing?

Our working poor, our immigrant communities, and our most vulnerable.

Public meetings that take place during business hours or don't allow for remote participation by the general public are not public at all.

Charter reform for our second-largest city, recently subjected to natural disasters & an on-going assault by our federal government, should be more open.

“Airdrops are totally unnecessary, inefficient, costly, and risky,” our Juliette Touma tells DW News. “There’s a safer, faster, more dignified way: by road.”

During the ceasefire earlier this year, the UN — including UNRWA — brought in 500–600 trucks a day. We must return to that.

The super rich have been fear mongering about fleeing New York City.

But the truth is that working-class New Yorkers are leave at much higher rates than wealthy residents.

The average New Yorker has been 4x more likely to leave than someone in the top 1%.

just went to immigration court in Lower Manhattan to see with my own eyes how masked and armed federal agents are apprehending people in the hallways as they walk out of their scheduled hearings.

Luke Farritor. Portrait of a Young DOGE Coder Dismantling America’s Institutions

NEW investigation: DOGE-Pilled

The full story on the transformation of 23 year-old Luke Farritor and how he ended up at the Department of Government Efficiency--slashing, dismantling, undoing--wielding a résumé that "didn’t pass muster”

NO PAYWALL!

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In my past work as an oversight official over police, I’ve sat through more police academy classes than a lot of sworn officers.

The amount of time spent on violent threats vs. suicide risks in those spaces + in our public discourse is criminal.

Good a time as any to point out that more cops kill themselves every year than are killed while working.

At least 184 officers die by suicide each year. An average of 57 die on duty per year.

Cops are 54% more likely to commit suicide than the average U.S. worker.

Gun control is the issue.

One like=one disability related thought for the anniversary of the ADA

Clearly, they had technology in their system which linked those posts to my Esta … a long time before I took them down,” he said. “Because they knew all about the posts, and then interrogated me about the posts once I was there.” Kitchen said he wanted other Australians to be aware that “cleaning” their phones wouldn’t necessarily mean they would be able to get their Esta approved upon arrival in the US. “They had already prepared a file on me and already knew everything about me,” he said. Kitchen said he agreed to give officials the passcode for his phone, which he now regretted

Having a "cleaned up" phone didn't prevent this Australian visitor (who had previously attended grad school in the US and written personal blog posts about Gaza) from being interrogated and deported after landing at LAX; CBP had prepared a file on him in advance.

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Pete Buttigieg weighs in on ‘fairness’ of transgender kids playing girls’ sports He said he rejected blanket policies about trans participation in sports.

Buttigieg said parents have legitimate concerns.

To be clear: If you cannot be relied on to unequivocally defend transgender kids, you can’t be relied on to defend anyone or anything.

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Second DHS hype video in recent days to cite scripture.

Note: per a report by evangelical groups and Catholic Bishops, 1 in 12 Christians in the U.S. are vulnerable to deportation under Trump or live with someone who is.

Among Catholics, it’s 1 in 5. religionnews.com/2025/03/31/e...

For decades, the Flores Settlement Agreement has provided safeguards against abuse and long-term detention for immigrant children in federal custody.

Cerna-Camacho is the only defendant of the five whose original charges are still pending, but when he showed up to court for his recent arraignment, the justice department attorney was forced to admit his office had made an error: the one-paragraph indictment filed against Cerna-Camacho erroneously named Ramos Brito. Cerna-Camacho’s lawyers have argued that the government’s 30-day window to indict his client had passed, and the case must be dismissed. Cerna-Camacho pleaded not guilty, and his lawyer declined to comment. “This is an extraordinary mistake and a dangerous embarrassment,” said Sergio Perez, a former justice department lawyer who is now executive director of the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, a California-based legal advocacy group, about Cerna-Camacho’s case. “The US Department of Justice is supposed to be the pinnacle of professional and responsible criminal prosecutions. When you can’t get the name right, it calls into question all other factual assertions in those documents. It’s way beyond a clerical error. It’s smoke where there is likely fire.” The case is a significant one for the Trump administration. Cerna-Camacho was arrested four days after the protest, when two unmarked vehicles rammed his car while his toddler and infant were inside, with officers deploying teargas. The incident caused outrage locally.

The Guardian follows up on LAT's earlier reporting on the shitshow created by DHS' efforts to trump up cases against people they assault.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...