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  1. The Cassandras were right (and other politics links)

    A very strong point:

    Last December: “Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?”

    The “we can always tell who’s trans” panic is going just great:

    May: “[Trans man] Strobel was using the bathroom that many conservative lawmakers and anti-trans pundits want to force him to use — and he got arrested anyway, seemingly because of the panic surrounding gendered bathrooms.”

    The couple, who are both cis women, said their afternoon ended when hotel security searched the women’s restroom and allegedly asked them to show their identification to prove their sex. “

    “He believed that Marie, who is living with dementia, was a man dressed as a woman. Bailey knocked Marie to the ground and threw her into a wheelie bin before applying pressure to the lid, CCTV footage showed.” (He’s in jail. Good. Now where are the consequences for the people who convinced him it was okay to assault a frail old grandparent in the first place?)

    June: ““After seeing my license, he spent like 10 minutes questioning me on if my license was real before I explained to him that I am a transgender woman,” Ripper said. “It has to say ‘M’ legally.””

    Follow-up: Here she is talking about it on Youtube! Apparently not planned, she was just in the audience for comedian Ashley Gavin, who has a delightful back-and-forth with her about it.

    Racism and general politics:

    April: “In early December, Prieto was told to show up for an immigration check-in at an earlier date than ICE had initially requested and to bring his family. He complied. At the check-in, Prieto, Marcano, and Amalia were arrested. They weren’t provided with arrest warrants or any paperwork explaining why they were being apprehended. Amalia cried after the family was loaded into a van full of other parents and young children. “Why are you doing this?” Prieto asked the immigration agents. He recalled that an agent replied, “It’s a change of Administration. They pay us to deport you.”

    June: “At the hospital, Morris “informed a nurse and a security guard that he was a member of the famous Motown group the ‘Four Tops’, and that he had current security concerns due to stalkers and fans,”[…] An ER doctor decided to “remove him from oxygen and pursue a psychiatric evaluation instead, despite his clear symptoms of cardiac distress and significant medical history,” the lawsuit alleges. The lawsuit states “a security guard was instructed to ensure he was placed into a restraining jacket and/or a four-point restraint mechanism.”

    August: “Two leading specialist military papers, the Navy Times and Stars and Stripes, are reporting that there have been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard as poor conditions and mental stresses on the Lincoln reach the breaking point. The crew is in its ninth month at sea, and has spent 250 days consecutively without making land – a record for an aircraft carrier in modern times.

    Baltimore has engineered a 68% drop in homicides since 2019, outpacing the national average—all while operating with 400 fewer officers. Here’s how the city debunked the myth that more police are the only answer to violent crime. “

    #gender #policeBrutality #Politics #raceEthnicity #transgender
  2. The Cassandras were right (and other politics links)

    A very strong point:

    Last December: “Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?”

    The “we can always tell who’s trans” panic is going just great:

    May: “[Trans man] Strobel was using the bathroom that many conservative lawmakers and anti-trans pundits want to force him to use — and he got arrested anyway, seemingly because of the panic surrounding gendered bathrooms.”

    The couple, who are both cis women, said their afternoon ended when hotel security searched the women’s restroom and allegedly asked them to show their identification to prove their sex. “

    “He believed that Marie, who is living with dementia, was a man dressed as a woman. Bailey knocked Marie to the ground and threw her into a wheelie bin before applying pressure to the lid, CCTV footage showed.” (He’s in jail. Good. Now where are the consequences for the people who convinced him it was okay to assault a frail old grandparent in the first place?)

    June: ““After seeing my license, he spent like 10 minutes questioning me on if my license was real before I explained to him that I am a transgender woman,” Ripper said. “It has to say ‘M’ legally.””

    Follow-up: Here she is talking about it on Youtube! Apparently not planned, she was just in the audience for comedian Ashley Gavin, who has a delightful back-and-forth with her about it.

    Racism and general politics:

    April: “In early December, Prieto was told to show up for an immigration check-in at an earlier date than ICE had initially requested and to bring his family. He complied. At the check-in, Prieto, Marcano, and Amalia were arrested. They weren’t provided with arrest warrants or any paperwork explaining why they were being apprehended. Amalia cried after the family was loaded into a van full of other parents and young children. “Why are you doing this?” Prieto asked the immigration agents. He recalled that an agent replied, “It’s a change of Administration. They pay us to deport you.”

    June: “At the hospital, Morris “informed a nurse and a security guard that he was a member of the famous Motown group the ‘Four Tops’, and that he had current security concerns due to stalkers and fans,”[…] An ER doctor decided to “remove him from oxygen and pursue a psychiatric evaluation instead, despite his clear symptoms of cardiac distress and significant medical history,” the lawsuit alleges. The lawsuit states “a security guard was instructed to ensure he was placed into a restraining jacket and/or a four-point restraint mechanism.”

    August: “Two leading specialist military papers, the Navy Times and Stars and Stripes, are reporting that there have been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard as poor conditions and mental stresses on the Lincoln reach the breaking point. The crew is in its ninth month at sea, and has spent 250 days consecutively without making land – a record for an aircraft carrier in modern times.

    Baltimore has engineered a 68% drop in homicides since 2019, outpacing the national average—all while operating with 400 fewer officers. Here’s how the city debunked the myth that more police are the only answer to violent crime. “

    #gender #policeBrutality #Politics #raceEthnicity #transgender
  3. The Cassandras were right (and other politics links)

    A very strong point:

    Last December: “Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?”

    The “we can always tell who’s trans” panic is going just great:

    May: “[Trans man] Strobel was using the bathroom that many conservative lawmakers and anti-trans pundits want to force him to use — and he got arrested anyway, seemingly because of the panic surrounding gendered bathrooms.”

    The couple, who are both cis women, said their afternoon ended when hotel security searched the women’s restroom and allegedly asked them to show their identification to prove their sex. “

    “He believed that Marie, who is living with dementia, was a man dressed as a woman. Bailey knocked Marie to the ground and threw her into a wheelie bin before applying pressure to the lid, CCTV footage showed.” (He’s in jail. Good. Now where are the consequences for the people who convinced him it was okay to assault a frail old grandparent in the first place?)

    June: ““After seeing my license, he spent like 10 minutes questioning me on if my license was real before I explained to him that I am a transgender woman,” Ripper said. “It has to say ‘M’ legally.””

    Follow-up: Here she is talking about it on Youtube! Apparently not planned, she was just in the audience for comedian Ashley Gavin, who has a delightful back-and-forth with her about it.

    Racism and general politics:

    April: “In early December, Prieto was told to show up for an immigration check-in at an earlier date than ICE had initially requested and to bring his family. He complied. At the check-in, Prieto, Marcano, and Amalia were arrested. They weren’t provided with arrest warrants or any paperwork explaining why they were being apprehended. Amalia cried after the family was loaded into a van full of other parents and young children. “Why are you doing this?” Prieto asked the immigration agents. He recalled that an agent replied, “It’s a change of Administration. They pay us to deport you.”

    June: “At the hospital, Morris “informed a nurse and a security guard that he was a member of the famous Motown group the ‘Four Tops’, and that he had current security concerns due to stalkers and fans,”[…] An ER doctor decided to “remove him from oxygen and pursue a psychiatric evaluation instead, despite his clear symptoms of cardiac distress and significant medical history,” the lawsuit alleges. The lawsuit states “a security guard was instructed to ensure he was placed into a restraining jacket and/or a four-point restraint mechanism.”

    August: “Two leading specialist military papers, the Navy Times and Stars and Stripes, are reporting that there have been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard as poor conditions and mental stresses on the Lincoln reach the breaking point. The crew is in its ninth month at sea, and has spent 250 days consecutively without making land – a record for an aircraft carrier in modern times.

    Baltimore has engineered a 68% drop in homicides since 2019, outpacing the national average—all while operating with 400 fewer officers. Here’s how the city debunked the myth that more police are the only answer to violent crime. “

    #gender #policeBrutality #Politics #raceEthnicity #transgender
  4. The Cassandras were right (and other politics links)

    A very strong point:

    Last December: “Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?”

    The “we can always tell who’s trans” panic is going just great:

    May: “[Trans man] Strobel was using the bathroom that many conservative lawmakers and anti-trans pundits want to force him to use — and he got arrested anyway, seemingly because of the panic surrounding gendered bathrooms.”

    The couple, who are both cis women, said their afternoon ended when hotel security searched the women’s restroom and allegedly asked them to show their identification to prove their sex. “

    “He believed that Marie, who is living with dementia, was a man dressed as a woman. Bailey knocked Marie to the ground and threw her into a wheelie bin before applying pressure to the lid, CCTV footage showed.” (He’s in jail. Good. Now where are the consequences for the people who convinced him it was okay to assault a frail old grandparent in the first place?)

    June: ““After seeing my license, he spent like 10 minutes questioning me on if my license was real before I explained to him that I am a transgender woman,” Ripper said. “It has to say ‘M’ legally.””

    Follow-up: Here she is talking about it on Youtube! Apparently not planned, she was just in the audience for comedian Ashley Gavin, who has a delightful back-and-forth with her about it.

    Racism and general politics:

    April: “In early December, Prieto was told to show up for an immigration check-in at an earlier date than ICE had initially requested and to bring his family. He complied. At the check-in, Prieto, Marcano, and Amalia were arrested. They weren’t provided with arrest warrants or any paperwork explaining why they were being apprehended. Amalia cried after the family was loaded into a van full of other parents and young children. “Why are you doing this?” Prieto asked the immigration agents. He recalled that an agent replied, “It’s a change of Administration. They pay us to deport you.”

    June: “At the hospital, Morris “informed a nurse and a security guard that he was a member of the famous Motown group the ‘Four Tops’, and that he had current security concerns due to stalkers and fans,”[…] An ER doctor decided to “remove him from oxygen and pursue a psychiatric evaluation instead, despite his clear symptoms of cardiac distress and significant medical history,” the lawsuit alleges. The lawsuit states “a security guard was instructed to ensure he was placed into a restraining jacket and/or a four-point restraint mechanism.”

    August: “Two leading specialist military papers, the Navy Times and Stars and Stripes, are reporting that there have been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard as poor conditions and mental stresses on the Lincoln reach the breaking point. The crew is in its ninth month at sea, and has spent 250 days consecutively without making land – a record for an aircraft carrier in modern times.

    Baltimore has engineered a 68% drop in homicides since 2019, outpacing the national average—all while operating with 400 fewer officers. Here’s how the city debunked the myth that more police are the only answer to violent crime. “

    #gender #policeBrutality #Politics #raceEthnicity #transgender
  5. Portland Press Herald: Biddeford library to archive memorial items honoring ICE shooting victim. “Since [Sebastián] Durán Guerrero’s death on July 13, community members have left cards, flowers, notes, art and other items at two memorial sites. Archiving those items will preserve an important part of Biddeford history, the library said. Archivist and reference librarian Rose Dionne said […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/portland-press-herald-biddeford-library-to-archive-memorial-items-honoring-ice-shooting-victim/
  6. I think it’s been said before /s, but #FuckTexas pardon my language—it’s just enough already; you eventually start to say it like it is…

    A federal judge on Wednesday refused to order #Texas to #extradite an #ICE officer charged with #shooting a man & fully lying about it [there’s video] during the #Trump #immigration crackdown in #Minneapolis.

    #law #immigration #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #ExtraJudicialKillings #murder #Sturmabteilung
    apnews.com/article/minnesota-t

  7. … “The concern here is that #ICE is going above & beyond to guarantee law enforcement does not have even the slightest risk of #liability for violating Americans’ rights while helping ICE arrest people,” said David Bier, director of #immigration studies at the Cato Institute, who has called on #Congress to make it easier to sue ICE agents for wrongdoing.

    #Trump #law #Sturmabteilung #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #fascism #MafiaState #WhiteSupremacy

  8. Per anni, la comunità nera di #Senatobia, una cittadina del #Mississippi, aveva denunciato la violenza di alcuni agenti di polizia.
    Ora, dopo che la polizia ha sparato verso un’auto uccidendo un bambino di 19 mesi, verranno finalmente ascoltati?

    #KohenWiley #USA #Trump #razzismo #PoliceBrutality #6agosto

    theintercept.com/2026/08/06/ko

  9. #Police #shooting in #Madison, #Wisconsin being investigated as a #homicide, police chief says
    
The city’s independent watchdog accused police of obstructing her inquiry into the shooting. Madison’s police chief said he was “committed to working with the independent monitor.”

    #law #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #murder #BLM
    washingtonpost.com/nation/2026

  10. In case there was any doubt, #Trump is fully condoning the #ExtraJudicialKillings by #ICE.

    Federal Agents Were Told #FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE “Confrontations”

    Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.

    #law #murder #Constitution #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState #ICE #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
    nytimes.com/2026/07/19/us/poli

  11. #ICE officer in #Maine #shooting has history of #violent behavior, family & records say

    The ICE officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army vet who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood & never should have been given a #badge & #gun to #patrol #US streets, several of his close relatives told AP.

    #Trump #law #immigration #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #MafiaState
    apnews.com/article/ice-david-b

  12. The complaint cites the findings of the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner, which ruled Lunas Campos’s death a #homicide, saying that he died by asphyxiation. The finding of homicide does not imply intent to kill, but rather that the victim’s death was caused by another person.

    #law #immigration #DutyOfCare #Constitution #8thAmendment #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #murder #ConcentrationCamps #PrivatePrisons #ICE #Sturmabteilung #Trump

  13. What took place in his final moments, behind the walls of a privately run detention center, is the subject of conflicting accounts, with a witness claiming the 55-year-old Cuban immigrant was choked to death by guards & #DHS alleging he had been trying to take his own life & was killed in an ensuing struggle.

    #law #immigration #DutyOfCare #Constitution #8thAmendment #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #murder #ConcentrationCamps #Sturmabteilung #Trump

  14. Hennepin County attorney’s office charged him with 4 counts of second-degree #assault earlier this month.

    “Today’s arrest is a critical step forward in our prosecution of Mr. Castro,” Mary Moriarty, the Hennepin County attorney, said in a statement.

    #law #Trump #immigration #Minnesota #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #StateSponsoredTerrorism #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny

  15. #GiftArticle

    Internal #ICE records reveal the widespread #UseOfForce in “#detention” centers [#ConcentrationCamps].

    Reports detail how guards have increasingly used chemical agents & physical tactics on detainees, including on people demanding adequate water, food & medical care.

    #Trump #law #immigration #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #Authoritarianism #Autocracy #fascism #HumanitarianLaw #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #PoliceBrutality #ExcessiveForce #WhiteSupremacy
    wapo.st/4tdgBRA

  16. Court records show Morgan had a history of financial problems, & the police department in Alexandria, Virginia, said he was an entry-level recruit for 6 weeks in 2022 but never completed its police academy. It is unclear when he started at #ICE, which didn’t return messages seeking comment.

    #Trump #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Constitution #RightToProtest #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #HumanRights #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy #RESIST

  17. wreg.com/news/local/not-approp.

    A "No Kings" protest in Memphis on March 28, 2026, ended in confrontation between demonstrators and the Memphis Police Department (MPD), resulting in multiple arrests and the use of chemical irritants. The demonstration, focusing on political opposition, saw police move to disperse marchers on Ida B. Wells Street, leading to allegations of excessive force.

    "Indivisible Memphis issued a statement around 10 p.m., Monday, 'Permits are not the issue. Police violence is,' the group's statement read. 'What we saw was excessive, disproportionate, and unjustified force used against people who were peacefully protesting and posed no threat to public safety. MPD’s response was about silencing voices, intimidating communities, and discouraging people from exercising their fundamental rights.'"

    #memphisTenn #memphisprotest #nokings #nokings2026 #nokings3 #policebrutality #MastoTn #tn #tennessee_is_fascist_as_fuck #speakupstandupshowup #fascism #policeexcessiveforce #fascistpolice #naziAmerica #tennessee #policestate #tennesseePolitics

  18. The #House #HomelandSecurity Committee is holding a hearing right now on #DHS #oversight, but #ICE acting director Todd Lyons refused to come.

    Rep. #BennieThompson (D-MS), the top Democrat on the panel, in his opening remarks calls Lyons’ absence, "an absolute disgrace."

    #law #Trump #immigration #Congress #Constitution #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #AbuseOfPower #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy #RESIST

  19. …After #ReneeNicoleGood was shot, the #DOJ decided to forgo a #CivilRights investigation that would establish whether the #ICE officer’s use of #DeadlyForce was justified. That decision led several career prosecutors at the department’s civil rights division in Washington to resign in protest, MS Now reported Monday.

    #Trump #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Minneapolis #Minnesota #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #MafiaState #Sturmabteilung
    ms.now/news/doj-civil-rights-d

  20. Good evening @EUCommission 👋 Did you know that the Republic of Užice was one of the first liberated territories in Nazi occupied #Europe? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republ

    This is Užice today, trying to break free from the occupator you seem to be still supporting. Just so you know.

    #Serbia #Protest #pumpaj #Srbija #Freedom #policebrutality

  21. Former Australian Greens candidate Hannah Thomas, who was beaten and arrested at a protest for #Palestine in #Sydney, sends a message from the hospital. She could lose vision in her eye forever. This is how peaceful #protests are being met.

    Video available on #BlueSky
    bsky.app/profile/jamiedcville.

    #Australia #PoliceBrutality #PeacefulProtest #Israeled #Protests
    @israel @[email protected] @[email protected]

  22. However, prosecutors argued that White’s use of a Taser was excessive, given Nowland’s age and frail physical state, and how slowly she was moving. They also argued that White’s statement of “bugger it” before deploying the Taser — a term used to express annoyance or frustration — indicated White was “impatient” rather than fearing imminent violence.
    #Australia #AussieRules #legal #policebrutality #homicide #StateViolence washingtonpost.com/world/2024/

  23. This is the #DisintegrationChecklist. #TheChecklist of what we can expect to lose in the next four years. That makes it a tool for gauging the progress of loss. 43 items. A grim countdown score in the form of a simple number: how many are still left? That is the #DisintegrationScore. 43... for now.

    _________________________
    from‬ absurdistwords.bsky.social‬:

    #ThingsThatWillDisappearInTheNextFourYears (A non-exhaustive list)

    #AbortionRights
    #Contraception
    #NoFaultDivorce
    #ViolenceAgainstWomenAct (#VAWA)
    #CivilRightsAct
    #VotingRightsAct
    #FirstAmendment Protections
    #BirthrightCitizenship
    #NaturalizationProtection
    #EnvironmentalProtection
    #ConsumerProtection
    #FraudProtection
    #PoliceBrutality #ConsentDecrees
    #HabeasCorpus
    Three #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment
    #GenderAffirmingCare
    #HormoneReplacement
    #InVitroFertilization
    #SameSexMarriage
    #InterracialMarriage
    #AntiDiscrimination Laws
    #WorkerSafety Laws
    #CollectiveBargaining
    #AffordableCareAct (#ACA)
    #PrisonReform
    #AmericansWithDisabilitiesAct (#ADA)
    #RightToPrivacy
    #SeparationOfChurchAndState
    #ForeignAid Programs
    #PovertyPrograms
    #PublicRadio & #PublicTelevision
    #SexualFreedom
    #AntiSegregation Laws
    #VaccineMandates
    #PublicSchool System
    #PublicLibrary System
    #StareDecisis
    #ChildLabor Laws
    #Antitrust Laws
    #LegalCannabis
    #Pornography
    #SexWorker Protections
    #InternetFreedom
    _________________________

    Keeping track of this #DisintegrationChecklist, & the
    #DisintegrationScore, is not a silly thing. I am not trying to #gamify the #apocalypse. It is a concrete measure, and if it is widely shared, it will make apparent even to the distracted the accelerating loss. A tool for those capable of caring.

    bsky.app/profile/absurdistword

  24. CW: Police brutality, self harm

    California cops terrorised a man with mental illness into falsely confessing to killing his missing father, including by threatening to kill his dog, then threw him in a psychiatric hospital when he attempted suicide - and didn't let him know when his father turned up safe and well.

    theguardian.com/us-news/articl

    #PoliceBrutality #USpolice #MentalIllness #ForcedConfession #California