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Los Angeles Father Dies Under ICE Custody — 9th Death This Year ~ L.A. TACO This is a developing story.

“Alberto Gutierrez was taken by ICE agents on January 9 in Echo Park. According to the family, Gutierrez began to feel seriously ill last Friday, and his repeated requests for medical attention was denied. Gutierrez died around 1:00 am on February 27. He was the sole provider for his wife and son.”

What.

Digby.

Said.

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this is the ballgame

its not 'what applicable law allows' its 'WE WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO KILL HUMAN BEINGS WITHOUT A HUMAN DECISION'

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Union Activity is on the rise! On today's episode of the Worker Power Hour, we kicked things off with recent labor news regarding Kentucky unions' fight to repeal right to work laws and other labor wins. We were joined by Lisa Jeffers, with the Right at Home Foundation, who offer home care services for those who require the extra assistance to sustain a healthy lifestyle. Next we had on Councilwoman Denise Davis from Redlands to discuss city council updates, why she is seeking another term, and her opinions on the CA ballot measure to tax the billionaires. Shortly after, we were joined by our County Teamster members out of Pre-School Services Department to talk about their fight against increased ratios in their classrooms. We end the show with Teamsters Local 2010 Vice President, Ernesto Torres, to talk about Local 2010's strike against the California State Univeristy System for not honoring their contract.

Union Activity is on the rise!

On today's episode of the Worker Power Hour, we kicked things off with recent labor news regarding Kentucky unions' fight to repeal right to work laws and other labor wins. We were joined by Lisa Jeffers, with the Right at Home Foundation, who offer home care servic

The US/Israeli illegal attack on Iran should be understood to be a clear violation of the Olympic Truce (much as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was which led to its suspension by the IOC) and result in bans for 2028 and the stripping of those Games from LA.

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I saw an incredible one-woman play years ago about a fighter pilot who is grounded while pregnant and becomes one of the early era drone pilots and it was literally about this, her slow shift away from seeing the people she drops bombs on as human from her cushy chair and big screen an ocean away

Local and State Police Can Investigate Federal Agents, But Rarely Do It doesn’t happen often, but local law enforcement can arrest and charge federal agents. Legal experts say there’s a moral obligation to at least try to hold federal immigration officers accountable w...

“Unfortunately, because Congress is not taking any steps to rein ICE officers in, there really is no option other than states protecting their constituents’ rights," said Joanna Schwartz, a law professor at UCLA.

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

Post See new posts Conversation Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h From US admin official background briefing recording listening to, seriously question if US negotiators understood what Iranians were proposing. One official keeps saying acronym for “IAEA” wrong. They seem astonished Iran would not agree to the US supplying them nuclear fuel Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h They took as suspicious proposals that Iran saw as concessionary. Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h Explains why Oman FM tried to come to DC to explain what US negotiators may not have fully understood Laura Rozen @lrozen Am not saying what Iran proposed would have been enough, I dont know, but it seems US negotiators did not have the expert guidance to understand it correctly

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

Right wingers calling everything George Orwell 1984 for a decade only to do it for real themselves

Baron Harkonnen spent years planning every moment of the invasion of Arrakis to guarantee just the right balance of deniability and threat, when he could've just gone for it on a whim because of Twitter memes and prediction market bets.

me every single day

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

“Rutherford Statement on Operation Epic Furry” “Furry” highlighted by me http://rutherford.house.gov/media/press-releases/rutherford-statement-operation-epic-furry

Google result showing the presser for Rutherford’s statement on “Operation Epic Furry” was posted 11 hours ago

What a time to be alive

Iranian State TV Confirms That Supreme Leader Khamenei Is Dead

Iranian state television confirms the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and declares a seven-day nationwide shutdown. Follow live updates.

Episode 83 - Ballots and Brotherhood: Labor’s Political Moment”

In hour one, Michelle sits down with Jim Cole, Political Director for the Northern Kentucky AFL-CIO, for a candid conversation about how politics and government decisions shape the labor movement—for better and for worse. They discus

Tell Congress: No War with Iran Trump has launched unauthorized military strikes on Iran, dragging the United States into yet another war without approval from Congress. This reckless escalation is putting U.S. servicemembers, Ameri...

Trump’s bombing of Iran is reckless and a direct threat to American and Iranian lives. Launching military strikes without congressional authorization or evidence of an imminent threat is not strength. It is an abuse of power.

Tell your Members of Congress to put an immediate stop to this war.

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Tulsi Gabbard released a fundraising video in 2019 titled "Trump's Path To War With Iran"

"We've gotta stop Donald Trump from starting a war with Iran."

Yesterday’s attack on Iran sends a strong message to would-be dictators who use secret police to murder protesters.

“Massive” war launched by a man with no plan. Again. Donald Trump is repeating George W. Bush's catastrophic mistakes.

"Trump has no plan for Iran. Just blow shit up, kill some people, and hope for the best. It is the war of a Mad King."

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

from Eisenhower's April 1953 "Chance For Peace" speech

We're no more than a few hours away from the next phase of digital propaganda: unverified videos of "liberated people celebrating" will go viral. Many of these videos will later be revealed to have predated the illegal war, or be entirely unrelated to current events

Upshot: verify before amplifying

Jesse Jackson told me why he really ran for president He insisted it wasn’t a vanity project. History proved him right.

“I know what my job is. It’s to bang on the door. Kick at the door. Bang on the door harder and push harder still. Someday, someone else will walk through it.”

Democrats demand immediate vote to restrain Trump on Iran Congress is expected to vote on two resolutions that seek to block further military action, the latest test of a long-shot strategy to reassert lawmakers’ war powers.

Top Democrats on Saturday called for Congress to return immediately to D.C. and vote on whether to halt further military action in Iran, after President Trump foreshadowed a possible extended conflict intended to force regime change in Tehran.

We're re-living The Gilded Age.

"They weren't supposed to bomb the luxury Dubai hotels!" is the new "Rich people aren't supposed to get tuberculosis!" from the late 19th century.

"The Trump administration was not prepared." Of course, they weren't.

The progressive era is coming, folks.

I would like to get off this ride Once again, we are subject to the murderous whims of this villainous government. We are, in fact, 'the baddies.'

Registering my outrage this morning.

I don’t think he’s getting that Nobel Peace Prize

Has the pedophile currently squatting in the White House blame President Biden yet for the war he needlessly started? You know he will.