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Inside the neighborhood patrols watching for Ice: ‘They thought they could scare us – but this is LA’ Volunteers with Union del Barrio look for immigration officers and post videos and alerts, warning people to seek shelter

Inside the neighborhood patrols watching for Ice: ‘They thought they could scare us – but this is LA’

The scope and scale of the wanton destruction across Gaza - buildings, trees, fields, hospitals, schools, universities, churches, mosques, streets, homes, *people* - is staggering. All of it with the support and funding of American administrations of both parties. Shameful.

it's easier to walk away from an organization, although if it is influential the incentives to stay are considerable. will one cede ground to something worse? sound familiar?

I hope "Americans," consider that the goal could be different than the one they were indoctrinated to accept for centuries.

'Chicago Is Next': Team Trump Plots Another Militarized Crackdown Donald Trump is targeting big cities like Chicago, led by Mayor Brandon Johnson, for the next phase of his mass-deportation agenda.

There's an "Indigenous" organization I may walk away from. When does one decide reform of a thing is nonviable, that its roots and flowering are more corrupt than one had understood?

The Americans must ask this question about their nation state, which is not synonymous with the land & all peoples.

‘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

“But even if you don’t have hope, it doesn’t really matter. This is about defiance. It’s about doing the right thing, fighting for democracy and for people to not be exploited. And even if we fail, at the very least, we didn’t contribute to the problem.”

A colleague found a draft paper online for which they had used ChatGPT to format the bibliography. It was a paper on a controversial topic and they certainly did not want the draft version online. I was already against this technology but when I heard that, I vowed again that I will never use it.

9th Circuit keeps freeze on Southern California ICE patrols The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals dealt a stinging blow to the Trump administration's mass deportation project Friday night, upholding a lower court's block on "roving patrols" across much of Southern California.

9th Circuit keeps freeze on Southern California ICE patrols

it's out of print unfortunately. You may be able to find a copy from an online used book seller. apparently galtung did not want e-copies made. i think i saw that transcend, his publisher, was exploring a reprint. good luck, i hope you find one.

In that Colbert interview it looks like Kamala Harris hit stage 4 in Galtung's stages of acceptance in the fall of empire. She admits the system is broken, but I only saw a clip; i wonder what she thinks its roots are.

Oh this video also predicts the colonizer tech bro/US government space colonization garbage too.

1973 is so timely.

This U.S. Citizen Recorded an Immigration Arrest. Officers Told Him To Delete It or Face Charges. The peaceful traffic stop in Florida turned violent after immigration officers arrived and used chokeholds and a stun gun to make arrests.

“One officer remarks..”they're starting to resist more now."..”We're going to end up shooting some of them…”

"Just remember, you can smell that [inaudible] with a $30,000 bonus," one officer says amidst post-arrest celebrations.”

Tried & true US settler tactics. Like bounties for dead Indians.

Schoolhouse Rock! Elbow Room YouTube video by AKA 7467277

my partner sent this video, the propaganda we endured as children. it's why many are surprised by US criminality now on full display that no amount of cartoon mythology will mask. K-8 was painful, but i was blessed to learn Dakota anti-colonial history at home while my white peers got brainwashed.

Maybe don't use them any more?

I dunno I've never used spotify and have no interest too. There are these things called computers and phones that have apps in them where you can archive your music and never have to log on anywhere...

I will be cancelling any websites and services that do this

We are going to have the fun thing happen again where a dozen cisgender female athletes discover they have Y chromosomes.

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A short video on APTN showing the importance of #Indigenous led broadcasting. It highlights a story I didn't know I cared about until I walked into a pow-wow arena in Minnesota ~20 years ago. I thought I heard young boys singing. Then I saw women at the drum. I teared up; they sang so beautifully.

Judge sends ChatGPT-using lawyer to AI school with $5,500 fine after he's caught creating imaginary caselaw: 'Any lawyer unaware that using generative AI platforms to do legal research is playing with... A prompt verdict.

#AI

“We’re not just going back to the moon — we’re going to stay,” he said in a statement last week, commemorating the anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. “And from there, we set our sights on Mars. This will be a golden age of innovation, national purpose and American dominance.”

Delusional.

#AI

Dear universities,

I am begging you to stop requiring letters of recommendation for master's programmes. You and I both know you don't read them, so stop asking for them.

Instead, have applicants list a name and get in touch if it's a borderline case.

Signed,
Everyone.

YouTube video by Thessaloniki International Film Festival La Llorona / Jayro Bustamante 2019 / Guatemala

A powerful film, showing past is present; evil in the form of whiteness is often mundane, sheltering behind walls where the patriarchal settler state continues its civilizational discourse against Indigenous peoples and others, denying #genocide.

Teaching it in a fall course on #Indigenous women.

Study finds a strong correlation between repeated head trauma and domestic abuse "I was just ... trying to protect my family from this monster that was not my husband," one victim said.

A decade ago, I wrote about how the NFL needed to face the fact that it was endangering communities and families by ignoring, if not straight up burying, the links between CTE and sufferers committing uncharacteristic acts of violence.

people deserve not to be kidnapped off the streets by masked agents of the US settler government also when they're not heterosexual and/or married and/or parents and/or pet owners and/or "gainfully" employed, i.e. even if they don't look like the settlers' evangelical script of "civility."

Trump wants to ‘Make Indians Great Again’ — by bringing back slurs to a school gymnasium near you OPINION: “‘Not Your Mascot’ immediately trended — a powerful testament to the impact of collective action. … (President Trump) is trying to undo our work,” Jacqueline Keeler writes.

by @jfkeeler.bsky.social

"[T]he school board president of Massapequa...claimed that banning mascots of Native people “would erase this heritage, tear down this history and silence this legacy” in her Long Island town, which is 92.3% white.."

LOL OK. pitiful settlers.

Probably final LOL plus ❤️ of the day.

I realized it’s ok that Canadian flights/airlines are in the US domestic terminals usually, and my Boston to MSP flight today was in the international terminal. It’s pretty much all international flights anyway if we privilege the tribal inter-nation planetscape, not weird settler-drawn squares.

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Why I’m Banning Student AI Use This Year Chanea Bond will ban AI this year to give her high school English students the opportunity to develop foundational skills that she believes the tech can hinder.

Teacher @heymrsbond.com banned AI in her English classes last year. We’re about to post an update on how it went—so first, read last year’s article to understand why she adopted the policy. 💻

#EduSky #EduAI #ITeachEnglish

ICE Took Half Their Work Force. What Do They Do Now?

A really clear read about the situation we find ourselves in… ICE Took Half Their Work Force. What Do They Do Now? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...

To get a sense of what’s been happening outside the MDC these last few weeks, take a look at this great reporting from my colleague @ryannemena.bsky.social—