#LosAngeles and #Chicago compare notes on #ICE, in #LATaco

How L.A.'s Playbook Can Guide Chicago's Fight Against ICE ~ L.A. TACO

With ICE terrorizing Chicago, independent media outlets The Triibe, Unraveled Press and The Chicago Reader joined forces to report on ICE’s activ...

#uspol #journalism

This is a very long shot but does anyone know anything about the waterproof/water resistant qualities of silk, or treatments to make silk waterproof in the early 20th century? (perhaps including a very tight weave, or coating it somehow?) Got a source? TIA! #textiles #Silk #crafts #HistSTM

I give it one week before it's clear that California's mask ban for LE was a waste of time *oh it doesn't go into effect until January and will be challenged in court in the meantime I would however like to see our AG step up and prosecute federal agents who're doing illegal shit here, please share if you see stories about this here or in other states w D leadership #uspol #California

oh the shooter had a manifesto but the fbi is gonna reconstruct it because it got deleted somehow? sure, jan #uspol

RIP Hermeto Pascoal #HermetoPascoal

Local media in #Chicago on what happened in an #ICE raid where ICE killed someone they were pursuing

What happened to Silverio Villegas González

Immigration agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disp...

#uspol #SilverioVillegasGonzalez

Good. "Two-year attempt to prosecute opponents of police training center on criminal conspiracy charges ends in failure"

the Guardian

Prosecutors’ ‘Cop City’ case collapses as judge tosses Rico conspiracy charges

Two-year attempt to prosecute opponents of police training center on criminal conspiracy charges ends in failure

#StopCopCity #RICO #uspol #policing

"Black thinkers have long argued that racial slavery created its own unique form of American fascism"

Boston Review

The Long Shadow of Racial Fascism - Boston Review

A debate is roiling about the aptness of comparing Trump to European fascists. But radical Black thinkers have long argued that racial slavery crea...

👀 how innocence and victimhood are attributed to the in-group, always and forever

UC-Berkeley gave a list of 160 names to the feds for their antisemitism probe. One is Judith Butler, in case anyone's wondering how that's going https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/uc-berkeley-gives-160-names-antisemitism-probe-21043760.php archive link: https://archive.ph/WPln3 #HigherEd #academia #uspol