Chad Loder

I remain deeply grateful for our friends, families and allies around the world who have been relentless in swinging hard for us in pursuit of justice and accountability. They’ve been a comfort in the wake of grief and despair.

June and Deg deserved better. So did my surviving friends. So did I.

We are in fact seeing the same in all of those states.

No, anything that harms vulnerable people is never a "distraction". It may be a prelude, but never a distraction.

Thank you for the detailed forensic work and the obvious love you have for LA

This is the best forensic analysis of ICE raid tactics in LA that I've ever read. Incredible work by @koltai.bsky.social, @poojachaudhuri.bsky.social, Youri van der Weide, @msramalho.bsky.social of @bellingcat.com.

“If they run, we go” -ICE

ICE has shown no signs of slowing down its raids, which, according to our analysis, appear targeted. From car washes to Home Depots, to a display of force and intimidation, these masked agents have stretched across LA, rounding up people with brown skin.

I rent cars from Enterprise when I visit the East Coast every summer. Or I did. Calling company HQ tomorrow to let them know they shouldn't rent to Nazis. Names of the execs at the link.

Enterprise Holdings Inc.
600 Corporate Park Drive
St. Louis, Missouri 63105
(314) 512-5000

Anyone concerned that America will quietly succumb to fascism should look at what's happening in LA. This whole thread is wonderful

If the United States decides to declare war on its own people, so be it. They can't defeat an insurgency overseas and they can't defeat one here

Anyone who knows LA knows that pacifying this city is an impossible order.

Greater Los Angeles - Wikipedia

I'm talking about most of the Greater Los Angeles statistical area

“Authority is brittle, it breaks, it leaks”

ICE is fighting (and losing) a classic low-grade insurgency in LA.

The administration has to appear strong. The people do not.

It's classic fascist obsession with the spectacle. They must appear strong

Enterprise and SIXT.

DHS and ICE's popularity are at an all-time low. ICE's suppliers are being actively boycotted. Universities are divesting from DHS's grant and recruiting programs. Their agents are being de-anonymized.

ICE is sending professional video crews out on ops like today's to try to create PR videos.

Once an ICE vehicle team fills their prisoner capacity, they have to cease kidnapping and drive to the nearest prisoner transfer staging area.

Prisoner transfer stages 3-5 Ford Transit vans for 2 hours, under freeway overpasses, in secluded parking lots. Their spots get blown, they have to move.

ICE has had to adapt their tactics to avoid getting trapped and surrounded the way they did in Paramount and Bell.

ICE uses small vehicle teams: 3-4 unmarked rental vehicles with 2 agents each. They do quick raids, grabbing one or two people at a time. Each team has capacity for only 8 prisoners.

ICE and DHS cannot move around Los Angeles undetected.

Their every move is transparent from the hotels where they sleep to their morning briefings to their 3-vehicle convoys entering neighborhoods.

An entire megacity of 13 million people has awoken against them. They're slow and clumsy.

This public spectacle is meant to be a "shock and awe" campaign, as if a few thousand soldiers can subdue the 2nd largest city in the US.

It took them millions of dollars and three weeks to plan this, all for the equivalent of a military parade to satisfy one man's ego.

They're desperate.

ICE's show of force today in Los Angeles is grim but largely symbolic.

They'll kidnap fewer people today than average. We knew they were planning something because their operational tempo slacked from Jul 4-6.

Community members got to #MacArthurPark hours ahead of time to warn residents.

Flags don't burn like they used to. They need to bring back the flammable materials

this guy's bubble popping (and the tech press' scurrying to explain why they endlessly mythologized yet another unremarkable asshole) is going to be delicious

Los Angeles, CA -

Unmarked white vans coming into MDC, as protesters shout “shame,”followed by a few LAPD squad cars, saying via loudspeaker that protesters must remain on sidewalks. Some jaw jacking between pros steee, and they’ve now rolled by on their second loop. La Vaca playing now.

Fine, fxck it. We have the leaked ALPR software.

Y'all mfers wanted a surveillance state, you wanted a panopticon? Welcome to the nightmare of your making.

In the coming era of political violence and mass unemployment there are still going to be people that will not acknowledge the reality around them. When you bring up the coming onslaught, the great nothing that threatens to envelop us all, they will instead talk about what new restaurants are opening or the premiere of Grand Theft Auto Six. They will not acknowledge the world as it is. And it will make you feel eternally estranged. This phenomenon is happening to me now. Every week, every day.

The People You Will Have to Leave Behind @davidsonboswell.bsky.social

ICE AT CYPRESS PARK HOME DEPOT IMMEDIATE SUPPORT NEEDED NOW! 2055 N Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90065 6/30/25 9:45 am 9AZK956 175 Q1 Liked by avocadoheightsvaqueros and others coyotl.macehualli UPDATE: "'ICE just left Cypress Park Home Depot, they're heading up Riverside Drive towards Guatemalan consulate" "they took people"

Here at the Cypress Park Home Depot where ICE raided the parking lot at 9:45am. Witnesses say the agents rolled up in masks, grabbed whoever they could, and took off in under 2 minutes.

Grabbed a woman working a taco stand and customers in line. Grabbed 9 people total.

Gotta have a selection! Latex sensitivity and all

2. When you "sleep" at a man's house for the first time, which household items make you think the guy has done his share of hoeing?

("a hoe" is not a valid answer)

there was a time