(You'll not often find me sharing Cato Institute blogs but) data now shows what was self-evidently true: "how frequently Latino immigrants are arrested off the streets without any recent prior contact with law enforcement", i.e. much ICE activity is just profiling, and that's it https://www.cato.org/blog/1/5-ice-arrests-are-latinos-streets-no-criminal-past-or-removal-order #ICE #immigration #uspol

Saddling human companion animals with human problems (Norbert Schiller Collection, early 1900s) #Asstodon #Militarism #AnimalStudies

“They were asking us to voluntarily cease and desist,” said Romero. “We were like: ‘We’re going to voluntarily tell you no.’”

the Guardian

Inside the neighborhood patrols watching for Ice: ‘They thought they could scare us – but this is LA’

Volunteers with Unión del Barrio look for immigration officers and post videos and alerts, warning people to seek shelter

#ICE #LosAngeles #LosAngelesProtests #immigration #USpol

This site helps people find radio stations hit by the public media funding cuts--in addition to your home outlets, people might consider donating to rural stations as they will be hit much harder than urban public radio

Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media

Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind pub...

#radio #PublicRadio #media #PublicMedia

#HungerStrike at Everglades incarceration facility

Newsweek

Alligator Alcatraz hunger strike: What to know

Detainees at the Florida immigration facility have reportedly been on a hunger strike for several days, protesting conditions at the center.

#ICE #immigration #uspol

👀 "[campus] leaders said they were hoping the multimillion-dollar settlement would buy them time. “It backfired,” said one senior administrator at UCLA, reflecting the sense of whiplash felt among many who were interviewed. “Within hours of announcing our settlement, the DOJ was on our back.”"

Los Angeles Times

Ivy League universities paid hundreds of millions to settle with Trump. Is UCLA next?

President Trump's higher education battle comes to the University of California. After the Department of Justice found that UCLA had violated Jewis...

archive link: https://archive.ph/yBbcF #UCLA #HigherEd #Academia

We don't need a Joe Rogan of the left (🙃) but we do need a media & information system that isn't entirely captured by rightwing propagandists:

the Guardian

Republican Nancy Mace says she likes to watch videos of Ice detaining people

Congresswoman says she ‘can think of nothing more American’ than Ice dragging people out of court

"“For a college professor to be collaborating with the government to intimidate, detain, or deport students for something they may have said is a shocking violation,”" 👀

The Professors Who Supported the Student Deportation Frenzy

GoFundMe donations, social media posts, and board memberships reveal how a handful of faculty members are backing Zionist doxxing outfits.

#GazaProtests #PolicingTheCampus

A scene from #LosAngeles last night (Protesters have been at the federal building where ICE is detaining people day and night for at least a week, since footage of ICE shackling women and children came out) (📸 indie journalist Mel Buer) #LAProtests #uspol #ICE

Ahem... does anyone know of a FLOSS-y suite of tools or website I can use to stand in for the corporate ed tech my school makes us use? I am mainly looking for: - gradebook for me - grade record for students to check their scores/points - space to turn in assignments @npub1vuzf...esa4 #AcademicChatter