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Renee Good's Murder and Other Acts of Terror An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE—and the broader history of police violence.

"Strangest of all is the liberal pipe dream that local police will stand up against ICE and CBP, when police have collaborated with ICE and been deployed to protect agents from protesters, even in so-called sanctuary cities."

An interview with Robin D.G. Kelley
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

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Used to be K&S Camera at Shaw and Maroa but sadly it has been closed for years ☹️

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women "This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity.

"To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

MAGA invents "trans" killer and "left-wing" radicals State power, law enforcement, and media blur together

The FBI is led by MAGA influencers. The fascists have blurred the lines between media, law enforcement, and the government as a whole. And when it comes to an assassination, they use their positions to scapegoat trans people and the left — instead of investigating.

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It’s not a double standard this *is* their standard.

Speech for them not for us.
Violence for us not for them.

The sooner we understand this the better.

Fresnolandia Podcast: Will AI data centers really use up our water? On this week's Fresnolandia podcast, Danielle and Jordan talk with veteran journalist Lois Henry, the founder and executive editor of SJV Water, a nonprofit, independent newsroom focused on water in the valley. They talk about the actual water demand from AI data centers, whether they're really coming for our water, and if we should expect a battle between farmers, water district managers, and the tech giants for water.

Fresnolandia Podcast: Will AI data centers really use up our water?

On this week's Fresnolandia podcast, Danielle and Jordan talk with veteran journalist Lois Henry, the founder and executive editor of SJV Water, a nonprofit, independent newsroom focused on water in the valley. They talk about the…

ICE Is Constantly Using Coast Guard Planes to Move Immigrants Donald Trump’s deportation henchmen appear to have dramatically increased the use of Coast Guard aircraft to transport immigrants.

The Coast Guard works for ICE now.

Coast Guard planes previously used for search and rescue have done hundreds of secret ICE flights in recent weeks, including two I watched from a public parking lot near BWI.

My exclusive for Rolling Stone:

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Back in May, I reported this story for The Guardian about the incredible role that community colleges play in the lives of immigrant and first generation Latino students—and how the Trump admin’s attacks on higher education pose a grave threat to these students and CC education more broadly:

Texas Republicans are holding a Black woman, a Democratic state rep, hostage in the legislative chamber. They have locked the doors and have banned her from leaving.

"[M]y principal fear was being deported without my baby ... I don't think I could have survived that."

can confirm the "FREE DC" chants are heard loud and clear on the broadcast, rowdy audi. sending solidarity from occupied LA. #nwsl

When Spanish invaders entered Coca territory in what is today Jalisco, they destroyed Coca foodstuffs and burned our fields.
Then, they forced Christ on us.

DHS’s Neo-Nazi Memes Show the Agency for What It Is From the beginning, the Department of Homeland Security has downplayed the threat of white nationalism while focusing its law enforcement power on groups it deems a threat to an imaginary ideal Americ...

I considered the Department of Homeland Security’s new white nationalist recruitment memes, in the context of the well-documented history of DHS downplaying and disregarding white nationalism and “domestic extremism.” As upsetting as these posts are, it also tracks.

California’s lawmakers love to talk, but these eight barely say a word This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Most California lawmakers love to talk, but some hardly say a word. Since the legislative session began in December, the average lawmaker has spoken for 6.3 hours. But eight lawmakers have talked for around an hour or less – six of them Republicans, who are a superminority in the Legislature, according to a CalMatters Digital Democracy analysis.

California’s lawmakers love to talk, but these eight barely say a word

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Most California lawmakers love to talk, but some hardly say a word. Since the legislative session began in December, the average lawmaker has…

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

"Kemp’s new book covers...400 societies over 5,000 years...the lessons he has drawn are often striking: people are fundamentally egalitarian but are led to collapses by enriched, status-obsessed elites, while past collapses often improved the lives of ordinary citizens."

OFTEN. IMPROVED.

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

In an essay for VF, Rümeysa Öztürk details what she witnessed in the six and a half weeks she spent being held in a South Louisiana ICE detention center: “Even God cannot hear us here,” said one woman.

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

How Trump Made One of the Most Controversial Post-9/11 Policies the New Normal Thousands of other people are going to get put into detention of indeterminate length with far less recourse, which could stretch years.

For @slate.com, I wrote about one dimension of the totalizing Trump/Miller immigration crackdown that's not getting enough notice, which is that they're moving to make indefinite detention — with no release dates and few options to get out — a norm

Hulk Hogan Was a Racist, Liar, and Scab In the 1980s, the professional wrestler portrayed himself as an all-American hero—but he was really a “jabroni” the entire time.

My latest piece @thenation.com is the loving, heartfelt tribute you've been waiting for: "Real American Scumbag: Hulk Hogan Was a Racist, Liar, and Scab" www.thenation.com/article/soci...

My next book publishes in October. I hope that you’ll consider pre-ordering it: “In Poppy State, California plants serve as structural anchors in a wildly inventive work of narrative nonfiction that is part botanical criticism, part personal storytelling, and part study of place.”

The Border Patrol El Centro Sector employs five dedicated agents to make what are essentially ICE “fancams” for social media. But they’re not editing in CapCut like most people on TikTok 😳

Reporter @marinamasako.bsky.social shares five key takeaways from watching their social media videos.

What ICE’s Assault on Ventura County, California Means for the Rest of America “Mom is gone. They took her away.” These are the words of an 8-year-old Mexican-American girl I will call Maria, in my hometown of Oxnard, California. She spoke them to her summer school teachers t…

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Leave abuse / Take love Myriam Gurba in conversation with Lindsey Boylan; a new home for S.I. Rosenbaum

TODAY: @lesbrains.bsky.social in conversation with Cuomo whistleblower @lindseyboylan.bsky.social, who's now speaking out as he continues to insist on running for mayor. "For me, the grief persists because the loss I experienced is like a death." flaminghydra.com/r/7bb2fbb1?m...