Los Angeles Daily News : "In a scene described as "barbaric"— some two dozen children with their hands chained were videotaped shuffling single file in ICE custody. Jorge-Mario Cabrera of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles said that its attorneys had confirmed details posted with the video. The attorneys contacted the children and planned to represent them—adding the children were not accompanied by their parents." --Jeffrey St Clair

MSN

#ice #gestapo #fascism #immigration #trump #children #childabuse

If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area today, please come to this wonderful event: Workers Voices, Workers Power! I'll be reading from my novel, Anywhere But Schuylkill, and from my work in progress: Red Hot Summer in the Big Smoke. 7:00 - 9:00: Workers Voices Storytelling Performance. An evening of spoken word to fight the right and advance worker power. Presenters include Domestic Workers Teatro El Nuevo Sol y Coro Nueva Era, directed by Andreina Maldonado, novelist Mike Dunn, filmmaker Pedro Marnoto, storyteller Bill Shields, the workshop improv group and friends Harriet Bagwell, Michael Bossier and Mari Magaloni Ramos. Come be inspired by workers powerful voices! 5:30 - 7:00: Labor Theater Games. Open to all, no experience needed. This is a fun way to get loose, find your voice and express it through physical exercises and group tableaux. Join us and get your pro-labor, creative juices flowing! #workingclass #LaborHistory #union #storytelling #theater #film #historicalfiction #novel #books #writer #author @npub1wceq...lzu8

A Public Health Crisis: U.S. suicide rates have increased 37% over the past quarter century. And no, the cause is not COVID. Poverty and access to affordable healthcare is a major cause. And that cause will likely get much worse once Trump's Big Hideous Bill takes effect.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Suicide risk tied to local conditions

More health insurance, internet access, income=lower suicide risk.

#trump #healthcare #suicide #cdc #poverty #classwar #covid #publichealth

How to tell if you're living in a Police State DHS just Told Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’ DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and live-streaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior into a pretext for police action. This was in response to the record-breaking numbers of people protesting Trump, like at the recent No Kings demonstrations, and their fear that Trump's policies, particularly his ICE raids, would accelerate mass protest and mass hatred of his regime.

WIRED

Skateboards and Livestreams: DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’

DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and livestreaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior ...

#fascism #dhs #ice #protest #activism #police #policestate #policebrutality #demonstration #trump

“This is a scary man. And he owns all these beauty pageants; Miss America, Miss Universe. Isn’t it a bit like Michael Vick owning a series of pet stores? It’s a fucking catch-and-release program for him.” - Robin Williams on Donald Trump

Terrorist (n): (1) Anyone in Gaza who refuses to march peacefully into the concentration camps (2) Gazans who refuses to voluntarily leave their home (3) Person so dangerous that it is legally and morally justified to kill them

And it's why the Dems could easily lose the midterms, in spite of the fact that Trump, and his policies, particularly the Big Hideous Bill, have alienated and pissed off the majority of working-class and middle-class voters, essentially giving the election to whomever is willing to offer a modicum of relief. That's right. Keep on dissing Mamdania and rooting for corrupt blue oligarchs and their lap dogs, like Newsom and Cuomo. See how far that gets you in 2026.

Why is there so much bloodshed? Well, here's one very clear reason: From 2020 to 2024, private weapons manufacturers got $2.4 trillion in Pentagon contracts, roughly 54% of its discretionary budget During those 5 years, the U.S. government invested over twice as much money in five weapons companies as in diplomacy and international assistance. $771 billion went to just 5 firms: Lockheed Martin ($313 billion), RTX (formerly Raytheon, $145 billion), Boeing ($115 billion), General Dynamics ($116 billion), and Northrop Grumman ($81 billion). The total diplomacy, development, and humanitarian aid budget, excluding military aid, was $356 billion.

Costs of War | Brown University

Profits of War: Top Beneficiaries of Pentagon Spending, 2020 – 2024

Policy analysts William D. Hartung (Senior Research Fellow, Quincy Institute) and Stephen Semler (Co-Founder, Security Policy Reform Institute) cal...

#weapons #military #pentagon #lockheed #boeing #diplomacy