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  1. Cities are Replacing Flock with Axon / Motorola for their Mass Surveillance Network

    Flock Safety became the protested brand. Axon Enterprise now sells Outpost and Lightpost readers that livestream and feed Axon Fusus; Fleet cameras scan plates from patrol cars. Motorola Solutions bought VaaS for $445 million in 2019 and kept Vigilant Solutions and Digital Recognition Network. The vendor changes, the mass surveillance network remains.

    Cameras are not the only issue with surveillance systems like these. These devices can also log Audio, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and RFID and other signals your devices broadcast. Then they fuse data collected without warrants with commercial data-broker records and "AI", to create a comprehensive database of everyone surveiled, who everyone is, what that are doing, and what they "will do".

    These are not just cameras or license plate readers, this is a surveillance network. It's a violation of privacy and the 4th amendment. And we should not let this happen.

    #surveillance #politics #resistance #resist #usa #authoritarianism #fascism #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #policestate #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #nokings #abolishice #privacy #flock #palantir #axon #axonaut #4thamendment #Chatrie_v_United_States

  2. Under the shadow of a mural for justice RBG, a fascist paramilitary abducts multiple people, tries to intimidate legal observer (Danbury, CT, 8/24/26)

    Source:
    iceout.org/reportInfo/140109

    A double pass with ffmpeg was used to keep the posted video under 100MB. `ffmpeg -y -i lcmRPOpKGdYFIqxVdnMV.mp4 -c:v libx265 -b:v 2600k -x265-params pass=1 -an -f null /dev/null
    ffmpeg -i lcmRPOpKGdYFIqxVdnMV.mp4 -c:v libx265 -b:v 2600k -x265-params pass=2 -tag:v hvc1 -c:a aac -b:a 128k out.mp4`

    #ice #iceout #eyesonice #resistance #resist #usa #politics #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #abolishcbp #NoConcentrationCamps #racialprofiling #defendimmigrants #connecticut #crimesofice_videos_threatening #crimesofice_videos_abduction

  3. "Because you're an immigrant." A U.S. citizen in was immediately handcuffed by ICE Fascists for simply asking why he needed to show his ID. (Lake Worth, FL, 08/21/26)

    A video recorded at a gas station in Lake Worth, Florida, shows an ICE/Border Patrol demanding ID from a U.S. citizen. When the citizen asks why, the agent responds, "Because you're an immigrant." Before even verifying his identity, fascists grab his hands and place him in handcuffs. Bystanders immediately step in to question how someone can be arrested without even being identified first, but the fascists ignore them and walk the man to their vehicle.

    ​This encounter highlights a direct violation of the Fourth Amendment, which protects individuals from unreasonable searches and seizures. Requiring someone to prove their citizenship before being handcuffed, based solely on an arbitrary claim, demonstrates a concerning violation of constitutional rights by a paramilitary acting without accountability.

    Video Source
    reddit.com/comments/1vw6zqy

    #ice #iceout #eyesonice #resistance #resist #usa #politics #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #abolishcbp #NoConcentrationCamps #racialprofiling #defendimmigrants #florida #crimesofice_videos_abduction

  4. 5 people resisted a third country deportation to Liberia, American fascists forced them off the plane, but eventually returned them to the aircraft. (08/20/26, Monrovia, Liberia)

    In total, 20 deportees arrived at Roberts International Airport, Liberia on Thursday afternoon.

    Fifteen others got off the flight and are now somewhere in Liberia, a third country that they are not from.

    Deportation flights have become well-known for being as excruciating in their conditions as the internment camps.

    "The five men were part of the first group of deportees to be sent to the West African nation by the Trump administration. The Liberian government has not clarified their status."

    Source:
    nytimes.com/2026/08/20/world/a

    #ice #iceout #eyesonice #resistance #resist #usa #politics #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #abolishcbp #NoConcentrationCamps #racialprofiling #defendimmigrants #liberia #thirdcountrydeportations #crimesofice_videos_other #crimesofice_videos_third_country_deportation

  5. Omaha Police Deploy G.L.O.V.E. Electroshock Gloves for School Resource Officers as ICE Plans Parallel Acquisition

    Video Source
    reddit.com/comments/1vqawj0

    The G.L.O.V.E., or Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, is a wearable electroshock device manufactured by Compliant Technologies of Lexington, Kentucky. Omaha Police Department purchased 40 pairs for approximately $66,000 after City Council approval in June 2025. School resource officers wear the gloves and activate electric pulses through palm pads by grip pressure. The dual-use vector is the same pain-compliance architecture now under DHS solicitation for ICE agents at up to $20 million.

    For students this means exposure to directed electric pain in middle and high schools. The right in tension is bodily autonomy. The pattern follows prior less-lethal expansions justified by de-escalation. OPD has recorded two uses with zero reported injuries; expansion remains under evaluation.

    At scale the capability normalizes contact electroshock in educational settings and federal enforcement. Verify via City Council records and DHS notices. Scrutiny of procurement transparency and use-of-force policies is the immediate response.

    Sources

    Omaha Police addresses shock glove technology in schools

    wowt.com/2026/08/14/omaha-poli

    Details OPD purchase of 40 GLOVE pairs, 29 trained SROs, two school deployments with zero injuries, and statements from Officer Jason Cvitanov.

    Updated: Electric shock gloves already in use by police departments in Bellevue, Omaha

    nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/new

    Confirms June 2025 City Council approval, cost under $66,000, and SRO-only deployment with two uses.

    OPD says its shock gloves deployed at 29 Omaha schools, used twice on students

    3newsnow.com/central-omaha/opd

    Reports delivery to 29 of 34 schools and policy review of both incidents.

    #ice #iceout #eyesonice #resistance #resist #usa #politics #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #policestate #paramilitary #nebraska #policemilitarization #school

  6. Hands Off NYC Mobilizes Local Businesses Against Federal Raids, New Yorkers should text sighting details to 1-229-304-8720

    Video source
    reddit.com/comments/1vq9l9s

    NEW YORK. Community resistance against federal immigration enforcement is actively expanding its operational footprint across New York City. The grassroots coalition Hands Off NYC is systematically canvassing commercial corridors from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to Staten Island to train local businesses on how to counter federal operations. The initiative is part of a coordinated, citywide effort to establish a unified baseline of noncompliance when ICE agents enter private or public spaces.

    The hotline is active seven days a week from 6:00 AM to 8:00 PM and offers support in both English and Spanish. Dispatchers request that witnesses provide SALUTE details (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, and Equipment) and include a photograph if it can be acquired safely. This centralized reporting mechanism allows the community to verify enforcement actions, map federal movements, and issue rapid tactical alerts to surrounding neighborhoods.

    Citations

    * Hands Off NYC Business Canvassing and Training handsoffnyc.com/get-trained
    * Hands Off NYC Homepage and Reporting Hotline handsoffnyc.com/
    * Hands Off NYC Resources and ICE Tactics handsoffnyc.com/resources

    #ice #iceout #eyesonice #resistance #resist #usa #politics #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #abolishcbp #NoConcentrationCamps #racialprofiling #defendimmigrants #newyork #crimesofice_videos_citizens_defending_themselves

  7. Fascist paramilitary abducted two parents outside Commodore John Rodgers Elementary Middle School (Baltimore, MD, 07/11/26)

    [Video Source](reddit.com/comments/1vmdotg)

    > But two weeks ago, a federal judge [ordered ](courtlistener.com/docket/73476)Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release him, ruling that agents did not have probable cause to make the arrest. In the courtroom, Judge Julie Rubin [rebuked the ICE officers](cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/man) for failing to follow due process and described the incident outside the school as a “stomach churner.”

    [Article](rawstory.com/trump-ice-2677685)

    #ice #iceout #eyesonice #resistance #resist #usa #politics #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #abolishcbp #NoConcentrationCamps #racialprofiling #defendimmigrants #maryland #crimesofice_videos_abduction

  8. Fascist paramilitary threaten to smash driver's windows and weaponized an allegation of "erratic driving" to demand a driver's ID under the guise of local police authority. (Aurora, IL)

    ICE and Border Patrol are not local cops, and flashing a badge is not evidence of jurisdiction.

    Video Source:
    reddit.com/comments/1vkvxqa

    #ice #iceout #eyesonice #resistance #resist #usa #politics #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #abolishcbp #NoConcentrationCamps #racialprofiling #defendimmigrants #illinois #crimesofice_videos_threatening #crimesofice_videos_other

  9. 75-year-old John Gannon is a lifelong Republican who voted for President Trump says he now regrets that decision after his fiancée was arrested by ICE in Houston.

    Video Source
    reddit.com/comments/1vhb0ns

    John Gannon, a lifelong Republican who voted for Donald Trump in 2024, says he deeply regrets that decision after his fiancée, Yasmin Suarez Reyes, was detained by ICE at a Houston airport. Gannon says the experience changed his view of the administration’s immigration enforcement, arguing that authorities should prioritize violent criminals rather than people like his fiancée.

    #ice #iceout #eyesonice #resistance #resist #usa #politics #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #abolishcbp #NoConcentrationCamps #racialprofiling #defendimmigrants #texas #crimesofice_videos_abduction #LeopardsAteMyFace

  10. TST’S GUIDE TO EFFECTIVE PROTEST
    thesatanictemple.com/pages/the

    1. Protest is an act of free speech, and protesters must respect free speech.

    2. Have a clearly articulated position with tenable demands and a practical well-defined statement for what constitutes achieving your goals.

    3. Effective protest is founded on a legitimate theory of change that is exemplified by the structure of IF I do X, THEN Y will happen BECAUSE Z.

    4. Protest must be based on a principle as opposed to identity politics. Everyone benefits from the pursuit of well-conceived principles.

    5. Stay focused on specific issues and do not adopt issues that you think are analogously related.

    6. Stand for issues and principles – do not reflexively support the entire agenda of parties, organizations, or individuals.

    7. Do not allow narratives to prevail over facts.

    8. Restrict your movement to people who believe in the principles of your movement.

    9. If your protest calls for the deprivation of rights and liberties of others, intimidates others, harasses or threatens others, silences others, then you are an enemy of freedom no matter what the justification.

    10. Engaging in, promoting, inciting, and/or celebrating physical violence that deliberately targets civilians is never justifiable.

    #politics #resistance #resist #usa #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #satanist #tst #thesatanictemple

  11. @TMRuppert Lovely, yet another non-impactful protest so you all can feel like you are doing something without actually, you know, doing something.

    Nobody is trying to be a king. No Oligarchs, No Billionaires, No fascists.

    General strike if you are serious, otherwise this is a fucking clown show.

    #NoOligarchs #NoBillionaires #NoFascists #GeneralStrike #CivilDisobedience #ActivistTheater

  12. A quotation from Thoreau

    If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth, — certainly the machine will wear out. If the injustice has a spring, or a pulley, or a rope, or a crank, exclusively for itself, then perhaps you may consider whether the remedy will not be worse than the evil; but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

    Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
    Essay (1849-05), “Resistance to Civil Government [On the Duty of Civil Disobedience],” Æsthetic Papers, No. 1, Article 10

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #breakingthelaw #civildisobedience #government #injustice #law #lawbreaking

  13. Excerpts from "From Taming to #Dismantling: #Degrowth and #AntiCapitalist Strategy" by Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, September 2020.

    #SmallScaleRuptures

    "As for ruptural transformation, this is not part of Wright’s vision of how to overcome capitalism. So far it has not featured in the work on degrowth either, which has largely followed Wright’s reasoning. A survey of the degrowth movement conducted at the fourth international degrowth conference in Leipzig (2014) found out that about 13% of degrowthers were oriented towards rupture. While this might be a minority position in the movement and while ruptures are to be cautious about, I would not fully dismiss rupture as a logic of transformation (and smashing capitalism, as its strategic logic). When speaking of ruptural transformation, Wright usually refers to it as a complete overhaul of the capitalist system, and as a direct attack on the state. However, rupture does not have to be understood this way, which Wright acknowledged also.

    "There can be temporary or smaller scale ruptures and examples of smashing capitalism. Say, an act of #disobedience like blocking a coal plant or occupying a public space – something that is part of the degrowth imaginary – can be seen as an example of a #TemporaryRupture that #empowers and encourages other forms of #resistance. It includes, but also goes beyond resistance, by disrupting, even if temporarily, the rhythm of #ExtractiveCapitalism. Workers overtaking a bankrupt factory and making it a cooperative is another example of rupture and smashing capitalism, in a concrete organisation, such as #VioMe in Greece, #RiMaflow in Italy and the occupied factories in #Argentina. Had they been waiting for the legislation that would allow dismantling capitalism to come into place and support cooperative organisational forms, such pioneering examples of change would probably not exist. However, responding to the crises the way they did created a rupture that may encourage others to do the same, as well as demand policies that would allow cooperativisation. Thus, I would argue that temporary or smaller scale ruptures can be important, supporting interstitial and symbiotic logics of transformation."

    Read more:
    degrowth.info/en/blog/from-tam
    #SolarPunkSunday #Dissent #CivilDisobedience #SmashCapitalism

  14. A quotation from Thoreau, Henry David:

    «
    But if [the machine of government] is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #breakingthelaw #civildisobedience #government #injustice #law #lawbreaking #thoreau

  15. @breadandcircuses

    The article is full of historical and motivational detail, which is good for those with a taste for that, but left me wishing they didn't bury key points. But here are the ones I picked out that I didn't want to get lost by anyone not clicking in (caps mine for emphasis):

    «…a British doctor named Patrick Hart joined a new UK group called Just Stop Oil, which called for “bold action” until the government pledged to stop licensing new fossil fuel projects.

    As he talks, Hart returns to variations of the same refrain: The world is ON COURSE FOR CATASTROPHE, and if we continue to rely on fossil fuels, BILLONS OF PEOPLE WILL DIE. “I don’t know how many times I need to say this, but like, we are so fucked.” GETTING MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO CONVEY THIS MESSAGE IS, to him, THE WHOLE POINT.

    THEY WANT TO SHOW THEIR FACES, TO EXPLAIN THAT WHAT THEY'RE DOING IS A RATIONAL RESPONSE to the current crisis. WE’RE NOT THE VIOLENT ONES, they say. REAL VIOLENCE IS COMMITTED BY COMPANIES THAT ARE WRECKING OUR PLANET FOR PROFIT. Sabotage must TARGET PROPERTY, NEVER PEOPLE. The environment must not be permanently harmed…»

    #climate #JustStopOil #CivilDisobedience #ClimateAction #ClimateEthics #ethics #collapse

  16. Japan asks Denmark to extradite anti-whaling activist #PaulWatson

    Denmark announced Thursday that it has received Japan's extradition request for anti-whaling activist Paul Watson, who was arrested in Greenland last month on an international arrest warrant. Watson, the 73-year-old founder of #SeaShepherd, is facing charges related to a 2010 confrontation with Japanese #whaling ships, raising concerns over his potential extradition and the motivations behind Japan's request.

    Issued on: 01/08/2024

    "#Denmark's justice ministry said Thursday that it had received Japan's extradition request for anti-whaling activist Paul Watson, who was detained in #Greenland last month on an international arrest warrant.

    "Watson, the 73-year-old American-Canadian founder of the Sea Shepherd activist group, was arrested on July 21 in Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, over a 2010 altercation with Japanese whaling ships.

    "Watson, who featured in the reality TV series '#WhaleWars', founded Sea Shepherd and the Captain Paul Watson Foundation (#CPWF), and is known for #DirectAction tactics including confrontations with whaling ships at sea.

    "'The Ministry of Justice received a formal extradition request regarding Paul Watson from the Japanese authorities yesterday,' the ministry told AFP in an email."

    [...]

    "'#Japan has a personal vendetta against #PaulWatson, and this so-called offence is the pretext for revenge against a man who defied and therefore humiliated them,' [Francois Zimeray] told AFP.

    "He said an extradition to Japan would be a violation of the European Convention on #HumanRights, since 'the country does not respect international standards on fair trials and prisons.'"

    france24.com/en/europe/2024080

    #Greenpeace #Ecocide #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest
    #CriminalizingDissent
    #BiodiversityNecessityDefense
    #EarthDefenders #Fascism
    #CivilDisobedience #Activism #ClimateActivists #HumanRights #SilencingDissent #Corporatocracy #Article20 #HumanRightsViolations #DefendNature #Japon #SaveOurSeas #FreePaulWatson