But if you’re being peer pressured into it is it on purpose?

I’m sure that we can trust that the white house will keep working behind the scenes for these workers and get them better conditions after taking away any abilities they have to do that for themselves /s

Man, remember when people were saying that unironically a few years ago?

Yeah, and the only reason we were in that position to begin with was because of the Clintons’ nepotistic bullshit. This country’s gotten screwed hard by the arrogance of our ruling class.

Emphasis should be on that “if,” because it’s entirely possible the Trump administration is just making shit up and hoping they can bully small town cops who have fewer resources (and probably have been sloppy on their paperwork for years)

Also, Cosette Shachnow (the attorney here who attempted to hide her identity) left it on her LinkedIn that she works for ICE. We can’t always count on them to be that stupid, but critical thinking really doesn’t come naturally to Nazis.

Pro-ICE Dems like Elisa Slotkin will do their damndest to make sure it doesn’t if we let them

Bongino is out of control furious,” the person who has spoken with the deputy FBI director said. “This destroyed his career.

“You guys! I had a whole true crime podcast I was gonna do, we already picked out theme music and I hired a photographer to take pictures of me looking grim for the show logo, and you’re ruining everything!” - Bongino (actually)

“Donald Trump said we’re being invaded, who are we to judge?” - six supreme court judges (basically)

I recently spoke with a dozen current and former ICE agents and officers about morale at the agency since Trump took office. Most spoke on the condition of anonymity, for fear of losing their job or being subjected to a polygraph exam. They described varying levels of dissatisfaction but weren’t looking to complain or expecting sympathy—certainly not at a time when many Americans have been disturbed by video clips of masked and hooded officers seizing immigrants who were not engaged in any obvious criminal behavior. The frustration isn’t yet producing mass resignations or major internal protests, but the officers and agents described a workforce on edge, vilified by broad swaths of the public and bullied by Trump officials demanding more and more.

“We’re upset, but not enough to actually do a damn thing about it” what even is this news story even about, there’s like not a single tangible thing happening here other than the author’s projected feelings about ICE agents. Like, they “weren’t looking to complain or expecting sympathy” bro you just printed an article full of their complaints, you are just fanfic-ing out loud here.

Man, It sucks so hard that a magazine founded by radical slavery abolitionists got taken over by dipshits who think they need to spend so much of their time and effort trying to flatter the far right.

Note that the cops decided to let her back into her home to say goodbye here. If they didn’t have the Trump flags the last thing they would’ve seen was her being taken down and hog tied in the driveway.

Man, what a great year for anarchism in the USA, first we had a No Kings day, now we have a No Citizens day! /gallows humor

Fr tho, this is awful. It seems like for now at least everybody needs to get their own lawyers and court dates to prove they’re a citizen if the Trump administration wants to go after you. BTW, a lot of law firms have struck deals with the administration limiting the kinds of pro bono work they will do. Also deportations to third party countries are legal for now. Also, they may deport you while you have a case pending and then do nothing to bring you back when a court does order it.

So, yeah, they’ve probably created a “no due process needed, exile all the uppity poor brown queers and any other deviant troublemakers we don’t like, unless they have someone inside the system that can get them a pass (and even then maybe do it anyway)” machine here. Call it fascism, dictatorship, totalitarianism, social darwinism, cyberpunk dystopia, whatever, I think we’re here now.

This reporter is a dumb racist asshole whose dumb racist bullshit is probably going to be reposted to every dumb racist asshole social media feed before I can finish writing this comment, but FTR,

A shocking message

Real subtle framing there /s

about the immigration raids was posted on Instagram by the elected official Cynthia Gonzalez, who serves as the vice mayor of the city of Cudahy, located in southeast Los Angeles County. The message isn’t for the federal government. It’s allegedly for the “cholos,” a slang term in the U.S. meaning gang members, in Southern California.

Meanwhile, in reality, (arc)

Ari Taylor, a recent USC journalism master’s program graduate, explored these intricacies in her capstone project. She summarizes them succinctly:

It’s safe to say that cholo culture is more than riding down Sunset in a candy-coated Impala or going to Sephora in order to draw on the most perfect eyeliner wing. It’s more than negative stereotypes of gangbanging on the blocks of East L.A.

It is history. It is a culture. It is resistance and activism

Back to the dumb racist asshole’s story,

“I wanna know where all the cholos are at in Los Angeles. 18th Street, Florencia. Where’s the leadership at?.. Now that your hood is being invaded by the biggest gang there is, there ain’t a peep out of you… Don’t be trying to claim no block, no nothing if you’re not showing up right now trying to help out and organize,” Gonzalez said, according to the video.

So, she’s calling on people to “help out and organize” and that’s a problem only because she’s using the slang of a non white culture to call on non white people to “help out and organize” and that’s very upsetting to dumb racist assholes like Josh and Jim here.

The FBI can’t confirm or deny an investigation into Gonzalez’s words,

FBI: “Josh what the fuck are you talking about, we’re not investigating a politician for calling someone a cholo.”

Dumb racist asshole: “Hmm, but there are some investigations you’re doing that you couldn’t tell me about if I asked right? Like, are you investigating any Chinese spies right now?”

FBI: “Wha - I… Yeah, there are sometimes investigations we do that we can’t talk about right away, but thi-”

Dumb racist asshole: “You can’t confirm or deny, got it, thanks! Disconnects”

but ABC7 legal analyst Josh Ritter believes the vice mayor’s call to action may have crossed the legal line.

"When you’re dealing with a political leader calling upon criminal street gangs to take action, that takes on a far more sinister meaning and, perhaps, criminal meaning behind it. It is one thing to say local people of the neighborhood stand up for yourselves.

Which is what she did

It’s another thing to actually call out the names of different criminal street gangs and ask them to protect their neighborhood," said Ritter.

Which she did not do and you only think she did because, and I really can not emphasize this enough, you and everyone else involved in the writing of this story is a dumb racist asshole.

Huh, I’ve definitely heard about the border extending a hundred miles in land from the Mexican and Canadian borders and the coasts before, but I’d never heard about that 100 mile radius from international airports and I can’t seem to find any official sources that back that up

It’s probably irrelevant, though, if you’re trying to go anywhere near any airport the TSA will do whatever they want with you

And either way, the gigantic “constitution doesn’t apply here” zones we’ve created are absurd

e; Actually, multiple people are saying the airport thing now in this thread, so it seems like this probably is a thing and I just missed the news story about it somehow

They’re probably giving him leniency in exchange for testifying that Garcia is the head of a criminal conspiracy

I mean, things would be better if we had more Dems in Congress. Definitely not perfect, not even good enough, but slightly better than this shit show.

There might be more stuff you can do in addition to voting that people don’t want to discuss or encourage in public channels for a variety of reasons regardless of whether or not they would actually support that kind of stuff, but you may as well also vote if you can.

I can’t find a good resource for the exact pay formula they use, but cops are definitely eligible for overtime pay, which has apparently blown out their budget to the extent that the city is taking out a $17m loan to pay them (arc)

Is the city really your enemy?

So long as LAPD officers keep defending ICE kidnappings, yeah

I mean, that would have been an accurate description of me at age 21

“Israel announces plans for series of short ceasefires while new rounds are being chambered.”

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There is video of them punching him multiple times in the head after taking him down to the ground. Acting like we only have the son’s word for the fact that this was a violent arrest injuries is crazy journalistic cowardice.