Cannot overstate how depressing and angering this is. We have everything to win if we fight back and everything to lose if we don't. (signed, a non-UC California fac member)

AP News

Trump administration seeks $1 billion settlement from UCLA, a White House official says

A White House official says the Trump administration is seeking a $1 billion settlement from the University of California, Los Angeles.

#UCLA #academia #HigherEd #uspol

An improbable #bloomscrolling: hibiscus flowers and the Minnesota State Capitol building in the same frame. (not AI, lol)

Federal agents use fake job offer, rental truck to trap day laborers in LA raid – a Penske rental truck became the centerpiece of a controversial Westlake Home Depot immigration sting that concealed immigration enforcement agents inside the vehicle. https://lapublicpress.org/2025/08/federal-agents-fake-job-offer-rental-truck-trap-day-laborers/ #LosAngeles #ICE #immigration #uspol #LAPublicPress

(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