@cdarwin@c.imSo I have to live in a police state because full grown men who are scared to ride the subway in broad daylight hate the fact that their Uber driver speaks Spanish?
https://bsky.app/profile/sophiethebear.bsky.social/post/3lqidgo3tkc2v
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThe billions and billions of dollars this bill pumps into ICE far exceed any conceivable legitimate need the agency could have, even if you agree with its mission.
This bill takes the same masked, anonymous gunmen who have been kidnapping people off the streets and gives them a budget the size of a military.
This is not about honoring the law. This is not even about immigrants.
This is about creating a police state.
I see no other way to read these numbers.
https://mastodon.world/@MJmusicinears/114764606160963355
@pre@boing.world
A wish granting god baby, granting Conrad's wishes in service of the Rani, turns London into a misogynist utopia and The Doctor into a good husband and insurance worker.
Hard to say why misogynists are so keen on the American 50s. Perhaps because it was before blacks had the vote and women could do banking.
And if anyone doubts this ridiculous tale, their table stops working and their family might call the doubt police, so they soon learn not to. All very oppressive and subversive.
Ruby manages to doubt anyway. And all the disabled people who simply never enter into Conrad's mind. Nice touch that. Great scene in the tent city filled with the dispossessed. They don't seem to have actually done anything so far but maybe they'll get more useful in part two.
Conrad is on TV telling a story about a man named Doctor Who.
Giant dinosaur skeletons walk the city, stepping over sky scrapers, and a bone palace towers above the city. Because I guess Conrad wishes for it to be so in order to give the Rani somewhere to live.
The palace is beautiful and Gothic.
But doubt is seeping in. Rogue is back, on the TV in hell, telling the Doctor that tables don't work like that. So he investigates. Gets himself reported to the doubt police who take him and Belinda to the bone palace.
The Rani's split from Miss Flood gives the pair of them a good chemistry. Queen and her maid of honour. Seems like Mrs Flood is likely to be the Rani's downfall. She doesn't like being told to make a sandwich.
A lot of exposition going on, but they at least put a hat on it: "Isn't just exposition, I need you to doubt"
So that's the reason for the strange wishes: To make the doctor have doubts so severe that the reality collapses, and Rani can rescue Omega. Omega is the dude in a Mask from the first 3 doctors episode, who gave the timelords time travel and got trapped in the underworld in the process. Timelords forgot him and never mounted a rescue, but presumably Rani is now hoping he'll bring back Galifrey.
And with London collapsing into the underworld and the doctor falling from the sky, we get the episode break and have to wait until next week.
That's not a cliff hanger, that an already-falling-from-the-cliff hanger.
Poppy really is his daughter he's shouting as he falls. And you know what that means?
🤨🤔
Back in Space Babies, the worst episode of the Nchuti seasons, that space baby asked if he was her parents and he said he wished that he was their parents.
That wish has been granted somehow?
Is this space baby Susan's mother? They have very different skin tones, but that doesn't matter much in a regenerating species.
Never have found out much about The Doctor's child. When he traveled with his granddaughter everyone assumed he'd met his own kid, the grandchild's parent.
But that doesn't have to be true for a time traveler. Maybe he met the granddaughter before he met his own kid, and maybe his own kid was just wished into his family line 60 years later (or billions of years in his timeline I guess).
Pretty fun episode but not sure it makes much sense. Why doesn't the Rani just wish for Omega to be back instead of all this doubt and underworld bollocks?
Last one next week. Super long episode. Hope it's all cleared up. Good chance we'll meet Susan again I think. And maybe see Omega's mask once more.
@cheryanne@aus.socialBetter late than never I suppose.
"An investigation into how a 35-year-old was physically harmed while being placed under arrest at a pro-Palestinian protest will begin after NSW Police declared the situation a critical incident."
https://www.abc.n…
@Xavier@infosec.exchangeAs a security community we have to make sure that people know about this vulnerability. Right now it's pretty easy to thwart, _don't keep your keys near the front door_. It's a simple countermeasure, but people have to see footage like this to understand. The threat is real and the gear to do this is pretty cheap.
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGerman police identify TrickBot and Conti ransomware leader "Stern" as Vitaly Nikolaevich Kovalev, believed to be in Russia and shielded from extradition (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/stern-trickbot-identified-germany-bka/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe BBC says it should have cut the livestream of Bob Vylan's Glastonbury performance as it contained "utterly unacceptable" antisemitic sentiments (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun…
@Xavier@infosec.exchangeAs a security community we have to make sure that people know about this vulnerability. Right now it's pretty easy to thwart, _don't keep your keys near the front door_. It's a simple countermeasure, but people have to see footage like this to understand. The threat is real and the gear to do this is pretty cheap.
https://www.
@johnleonard@mastodon.socialData privacy experts are calling on the government to urgently tighten regulation around facial recognition technology, amid growing concerns over its unregulated use by police forces and private companies across the UK.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/202…
@adam@windbag.orgYet another example of the imperial boomerang. The US is turning the tools of imperialism on its own people, and it has been for the last 25 years. You don’t start with unaccountable masked police kidnapping people off the streets, you get there one incremental step at a time.
https://www.
@cdarwin@c.imThis terrible, terrible bill is going to do direct, material harm to the country
- our health care system is going to be weakened,
- close to 100m people will be paying more for health care or lose their insurance,
- tens of millions will struggle to eat,
- our existential transition to a clean energy future undermined,
- an unprecedented domestic political police force will be established,
- the fiscal integrity of the United States will be in jeopardy t…
@cybertailor@craba.cabУ меня первая публикация на Рабкоре, это перевод статьи с английского:
https://rabkor.ru/columns/edu/2025/06/26/about-the-origin-of-the-police/
Огорчает то, что остались все пропущенные мной ошибки и опечатки. Всё-таки у интернет-журнала ес…
@Xavier@infosec.exchange"Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE."
https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-camera-n…
@pgcd@mastodon.onlineThe Guards series is not copaganda. I repeat, not copaganda.
"It wasn’t proper police work, Vimes considered, unless you were doing something that someone somewhere would much rather you weren’t doing."
(from Jingo)
#GNUTerryPratchett
@kctipton@mas.toFirst Met Police officer killed - WCH | Stories https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10023/first-met-police-officer-killed -- "The Met were the world's first modern, professional police force, created in 1829 and based…
@servelan@newsie.socialPolice launch probe after punk duo Bob Vylan lead Glastonbury crowd in chants of 'Death to the IDF!' and 'Free Palestine!' as government condemns scenes aired live on the BBC | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14856585/Fury-Glastonbury-crowd-chants-Death-IDF-Free-Palestine-live-BBC.html
@Xavier@infosec.exchange"Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE."
https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-camera-n…
@cdarwin@c.imCongresswoman Nydia Velšzquez on Saturday held a rally outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in New York City to promote her recently introduced "No Masks for ICE Act".
“We would never accept it if the NYPD operated in masks without names or badges
— and we shouldn’t accept it from ICE either,”
Velšzquez (D-N.Y.) said in a statement, referring to the New York Police Department.
“When agents hide their faces and identities they creat…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeDon't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Russian group Laundry Bear hacked Dutch police, targets Ukraine-allied nations
--Iranian pleads guilty to Robbinhood ransomware,
--Vietnam-tied UNC6032 uses prompt-to-video AI tools to lure malware victims,
--Russia sends former programmer to prison for 14 years,
--Czech Republic says China's APT31 hacked its comms networks,
--Nigeria arrests 20 for…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caCanadians: Replace Ardern with Trudeau and use other Canadian touchstones in place of #nzpol and you have an accurate article for Canada.
Which should speak to what Progressives actually need to do here, and everywhere.
"Ardern’s leadership has often been described as emotionally intelligent, compassionate, and people-centred. But compassion is not liberation. Empathy alone does not redistribute wealth, dismantle police power, or decommodify housing. What Ardern perfected was a mode of governance that couched neoliberalism in progressive language. A style of leadership that appeared anti-fascist, anti-racist, and feminist, while presiding over deepening inequality, mass incarceration of Māori, ongoing colonisation, environmental destruction, and a housing system that serves landlords and property speculators.
Ardern’s “politics of kindness” masked a status quo commitment to capitalism and state power. Her government’s housing policies floundered under the weight of market logic. Despite the crisis of homelessness and unaffordability, the Labour government never seriously considered nationalising housing, implementing rent controls, or seizing vacant properties from land-bankers. Instead, they protected the interests of property investors, many of whom were MPs themselves."
#canpoli #cdnpoli #trudeau #Liberal #Ardern
https://www.anarchistfederation.net/the-cult-of-kindness-the-reality-of-jacinda-arderns-leadership/
@hex@kolektiva.socialI have my share of issues with Parkrose Permaculture, but she has a lot of things I do strongly agree with. I can't stress enough that you never dehumanize your enemies. You can respond appropriately to violence. You can defend yourself from them by any means necessary. But you do not dehumanize them. You always limit your response to the minimum necessary to defend yourself.
There are a number of former Nazi skins who became antifascists after realizing they were wrong. Those folks tend to be some of the most dedicated because they feel a debt, and some of the most knowledgeable because they were there. Coming out of these types of cults, police included, is hard and takes time. A lot of us don't have the ability to work with them. But some do.
By repeatedly humanizing your opponent, you can break some of them. The #Seattle Police Department was not defunded but saw a massive reduction in numbers because their morale was destroyed. Some people will never change. Some people are broken and feel like they need the power. But if you change one person's mind, even give them something to think about, it's a crack. If even one cop quits, that's one less trained gun pointed at you in the future.
The 18 year old marines and federalized national guard troops out there are literally kids. A lot of them came from poor communities. They are being used in a way they haven't been trained to do, doing things they (should) have been told are not legal. They joined to get out of poverty, to go to college, or to "defend the American people" (regardless of how misguided that is). Few, if any, of them joined to abuse people. They will be especially open to persuasion.
Remind those troops that they are carrying out illegal orders, that they are being called on to violate their oath to protect the constitution, that they are suppressing the free speech of the fellow Americans they swore to defend. Remind them that the people they could be illegally arresting now are just like their parents, their neighbors, their families, the friends who didn't join. Remind them that this is the first step. They will be called on to kill Americans if they let this keep going.
Remind them ICE sleeps in hotels while they sleep on the ground. Remind them that their drunk and incompetent leadership thinks of them as disposable tools. Remind them that some of these people are out protesting *for them* against cuts to the VA and other services. Remind them that the people they're defending refuse to make college free so they can recruit from poor schools. Remind them that they will always be welcome when they're ready to join the side of freedom and justice.
When you dehumanize your enemies, you unify them. When you humanize your enemies, you can divide them. There is no weapon available to us right now so powerful as compassion.
https://youtu.be/YtWOYUDMsBw
@NFL@darktundra.xyzSB LIX performer arrested for halftime protest https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45591753/sb-lix-performer-arrested-la-state-police-half-protest
@cdarwin@c.imEx-FBI agent on ICE masking:
“Masking has always been associated with police states.
I think the masking symbolizes the drift of law enforcement away from democratic controls.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.deThe Federal Court of Justice ruled that German police may forcibly lay the suspect's finger onto their smartphone's fingerprint sensor to unlock it, if there's a search warrant intended to seize the phone and if the data access is proportionate.
Shut down your phone if police tell you to hand it out, I guess 🤷
@…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialTo give some examples:
When police get vastly differential results at investigating crimes against some groups (e.g., Black women) vs. others (e.g., white men), that's malcompetence. Probably plenty of simple malice involved too, and probably the whole gamut of mechanisms I mentioned in the last post are involved here.
Another example, from my own experience: when I stumble over the names of my non-white students but pronounce my white students' names flawlessly, that's malcompetence on my part, because the net effect of my selective incompetence is to make some students feel less welcome in my classroom, which hurts their learning. I'm my case, the reasons for the incompetence are not conscious nor (I think) unconscious malice, but instead a differential capability picked up from a certain kind of upbringing and then (sometimes) insufficiently mitigated by capability-building effort. Because of how I grew up, my ability to pronounce different names is biased (this is true of everyone in the world; most people don't have a classroom instructor position that causes it to matter so much). When I'm successful at mitigating my malcompetence, I use practice time with student intro videos to pare down my competence gap for the specific students in my class. This is time consuming (several hours per week for the first few weeks of classes) and I'm sad to admit that I don't always invest that time. But it's a great example of malcompetence because I have a introspective access to it.
@marcel@waldvogel.family«“Every single event I did in Russia was shut down by the cops,” she posted on Instagram, “and now it’s starting to feel a lot like Russia.”»
«“Police State Exhibit Closed Today Due to the Police State,”
she posted on Instagram.»
https://www.theguardi…
@markhburton@mstdn.social'In the local data that the audit examined from three [THREE] police forces, they identified clear evidence of “over-representation among suspects of Asian and Pakistani-heritage men”.
'However, the review also criticised the ongoing failure to collect ethnicity at a national level, with it not recorded for two-thirds of perpetrators, making it impossible “to provide any accurate assessment from the nationally collected data”.'
Not so conclusive then.
@JorgeStolfi@mas.toI thought that police recruits had to take a basic training course that included the very basics principles of law. Like:
"Every person (not just every US citizen, not just every white US citizen, not just every rich white US citizen, not just every billionaire white US citizen) is to be presumed innocent by the government until proved guilty of a crime." 🧵>
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialReminder: public protest is about visibility, not hiding. The power comes from people being willing to be visible, put their time on the line, and if needed, their bodies.
If you're going to start shit, maybe just ... don't. Direct action of the illegal sort requires careful planning and a tactical and strategic plan for why it will win. It happens sometimes, but it's not the mode, it's not the mode of the No Kings protests. This is a popular, public demonstration of outrage. It's legal (for now, and I hope, ever).
Yes, the police may try to kettle protesters and then trap them into curfew violations in places that have curfews. Masks won't save us from that where it happens. Just running the system with competent representation (and enough bodies to make it A Problem for the system) will.
We don't all need to be masked vigilantes at protests, and in a lot of cases, we need to be worried about the people masking up and starting shit. Remember that this is our opponents current tactic: masked, violent attacks. Don't look like them.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaSoon, I’ll be throwing away all my desktop computers as well, though I’m keeping my Lenovo Thinkpad around. I hate computers, yet I use them.
To me, computers are just junk nobody asked for. They’re glowing traps that keep us hooked, scrolling and clicking away our time for endless feeds. No matter the OS or hardware, it’s all distraction from reality.
Yes, Linux can free us and all that, and even the hardware can be part of that freedom. But the computers themselves remain a cir…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Police:
🎵 When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around
#ThePolice
https://prfmonthlytributeseries.bandcamp.com/track/when-the-world-is-running-down-you-make-the-best-of-whats-still-around
https://open.spotify.com/track/2e2P8zydI5GtcaVhTkOYa9
@MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.worldFlipper did half the voices on "Fish Police."
@cdarwin@c.imPolice in southern California arrested a man suspected of posing as a federal immigration officer this week, the latest in a series of such arrests, as masked, plainclothes immigration agents are deployed nationwide to meet the Trump administration’s mass deportation targets.
The man, Fernando Diaz, was arrested by Huntington Park police after officers said they found a loaded gun and official-looking documents with Department of Homeland Security headings in his SUV, according to NBC …
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialLos Angeles checking in, repeating for the backrow... there was never, ever, EVER any need for the National Guard.
15,000 LAPD officers & 30,000 LA Sheriff's... we even have a SWAT team for God's sake.
#LosAngeles #trump
@rberger@hachyderm.io"On Wednesday, the museum announced that the rest of Tolokonnikova’s performance would have to be postponed indefinitely, because of “ongoing demonstrations and military activity”.
“Every single event I did in Russia was shut down by the cops,” she posted on Instagram, “and now it’s starting to feel a lot like Russia.”"
...
“I guess the National Guard will be performing POLICE STATE instead of me this week,” Tolokonnikova wrote on Instagram.
#NoKings #USPolitics
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jun/15/pussy-riot-nadya-tolokonnikova-police-state
@ethanwhite@hachyderm.io“Under a 287(g) task force model, such as the agreement being pursued by the University of Florida, participating officers would have the authority to interrogate “any alien or person believed to be an alien” about their right to remain in the country, as well as the power to make arrests without a warrant in some cases.”
https://www.wuft.org/public-safety/2025-04-14/uf-other-florida-universities-to-deputize-campus-police-for-immigration-enforcement
Imagine being asked to learn while you can be stopped and interrogated just walking between classes because a campus police officer believes you might not be a US citizen.
@newsie@darktundra.xyzJournalist Sues LA County, Ex-LA County Sheriff For Criminally Investigating Her https://thedissenter.org/journalist-sues-la-county-ex-la-county-sheriff-for-criminally-investigating-her/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comEmails Reveal the Casual Surveillance Alliance Between ICE and Local Police (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/emails-reveal-the-casual-surveillance-alliance-between-ice-and-local-police/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p66#a250616p66
@gratianriter@bildung.social"Es gibt einen Grund, warum man Militär und Polizei trennt. Das eine bekämpft die Feinde des Staates, die andere dient dem Volk und beschützt es. Wenn das Militär zu beidem wird, dann wird das Volk zum Feind des Staates."
- Admiral Adama, Battlestar Galactica
@martin@social.linux.pizza#ACAB All Cops Are Broadcasting
https://it4sec.substack.com/p/breaking-tetra-a-backdoor-in-cryptography
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialNow the unidentified secret police (the Miller-Noem - the "Millnos"?) are threatening to arrest people who ask them who they are...
"Ice’s ‘inhumane’ arrest of well-known vineyard manager shakes Oregon wine industry"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-new…
@jrm4@mastodon.socialI cannot stress enough the stupidity of e.g. "ACAB" and "ABOLISH THE POLICE"
Get out of your feelings and get into your strategy -- it is undeniably true that there is a SEVERE need for police reform
But, tell me, who escorted ICE away from Dodger Stadium?
#uspol #blackmastodon
@cheryanne@aus.socialFFS
Ray Stevens, a Gold Coast Liberal National party MP has called for the return of vagrancy laws to allow police to prosecute homeless people amid an ongoing crackdown on tent cities in Queensland.
"The police reluctantly tell me they have no legislative power to move these people on, which I find incredibly disappointing..."
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decrime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…
@cdarwin@c.im @metacurity@infosec.exchange @hex@kolektiva.socialEverybody is wondering if some ICE agents are actually just bounty hunters, and that's possible but not super likely. What's much more likely is that a good chunk of the agents deployed today are the American equivalent of Wagner, which is currently named "Tripple Canopy" but you probably know as "Blackwater."
It's reasonably likely that the mercenaries who were grabbing people off the streets in Portland in 2020 are back at it for round 2. After all, this is just another opportunity for Trump to dump money in Erik Prince's pocket and wouldn't it be good for Trump to have a man on his side who happens to own a private army?
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/inside-federal-protective-service-homeland-securitys-domestic-police
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI also noticed what @… noticed: the Minneapolis police — Minneapolis!! — having to warn citizens about another law enforcement agency who are even more dangerous and less accountable than they are. https://hachyderm.io/@rationaldoge/114752072701388506
@muz4now@mastodon.worldUSA Resources by city - Don't Call The Police https://dontcallthepolice.com/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/Pay Attention&utm_medium=mastodon
@wraithe@mastodon.socialTruck in Ontario CA “Rolls Coal” (blows burning oil/fuel out of an illegal modification to their exhaust system)
A saga in 48 seconds, watch to the end
#California #LosAngelesProtests
@rae@bne.socialDuring my research into my family's extended genealogy, I've come across some remarkable descriptions of people from old documents.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialThe only jury I've ever been on faced a question about resisting arrest. The defendant was tackled by an officer and initially fought back (or so the officer claimed). The officer was wearing a police uniform, but we acquitted on the charge, because the defendant was tackled from behind and there was reasonable doubt as to whether the officer actually identified themselves verbally in a way that made it clear to the defendant they weren't being tackled by some random dude.
This ain't legal advice, but in situations where a kidnapper refuses to identify themselves, show a warrant, or even a badge number, I suspect a sufficiently white bystander might not be convicted on interference charges if they did something like a citizen's arrest of a suspicious out-of-town paramilitary type who was in the process of an extrajudicial kidnapping. If there are multiple kidnappers, to be effective you might need multiple people willing to face jail time for such interventions to be successful...
#resist #ICE #kidnapping
Just thinking about this in light of the recent kidnapping in the next town over where some fools called the city police thinking they might actually protect the community from an unlawful assault. Can't blame the fools too much because of how deep positive portrayals of cops are embedded in our media diet though...
@adamhotep@infosec.exchangeThis is really cool, but it also has dangerous #privacy & #surveillance concerns (depending on the implementation details and what becomes feasible in the field, say for spies and police).
@PwnieFan@infosec.exchange“…declared in an article based exclusively on LAPD sources. It’s an understandable decision on their part … As of Tuesday morning, the LA Press Club documented over 30 injuries to members of the press. Easier and safer to parrot police talking points than face down their guns.”
https://
@sean@scoat.es“#Montreal police arrest 13 suspected of extorting restaurant owners”
The local mafia is going to be *cheesed* about this.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mo
@cdarwin@c.imPolice have little or no insight into where the federal enforcement actions are taking place
but often have to deal with the aftermath, including protests and questions from residents about what exactly happened.
In some cases, local cops have been mistaken for federal agents, eroding years of work to have immigrant communities trust the police
@Adam@social.lein.usAnyone can buy those Police vests online and pretend to be ICE agents. https://youtu.be/FmpOZsjbCks
@ckent@urbanists.socialEvery time I walk past my local police station on the way to the bus stop, I think about others too afraid to do that.
I’m rewatching mid-1990s episodes of Thatcher-era UK copaganda “The Bill”, and noticing how “nobody else gets it” is the overarching theme. Having 3 weekly stories though, has enough writers to see a culture in transition, at the same time as the last ’70s-style detectives leave the cast (with their leather jackets and horseshoe haircuts). DV is finally getting a spo…
@scott@carfree.cityThis is so out of touch. ICE is ambushing and kidnapping our neighbors and we're going to "cover the entire city with drones"? The SFBOS should reject this "gift"
https://missionlocal.org/2025/06/were-
@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.pageGuardians of the Regime: When and Why Autocrats Create Secret Police
Marius Mehrl, Mila Pfander, Theresa Winner, Cornelius Fritz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10194
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNiners CB Deommodore Lenoir charged with misdemeanor resisting arrest https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-cb-deommodore-lenoir-charged-with-misdemeanor-resisting-arrest
@servelan@newsie.social"The vast majority of arrests have been for failing to leave the area in defiance of requests from law enforcement, according to police."
The Latest: Los Angeles police have made nearly 400 arrests and detentions since Saturday - SooLeader
https://www.sooleader.com/michigan-news-ap/the-latest-los-angeles-police-have-made-nearly-400-arrests-and-detentions-since-saturday-10793135
@newsie@darktundra.xyzEmails Reveal the Casual Surveillance Alliance Between ICE and Local Police https://www.404media.co/emails-reveal-the-casual-surveillance-alliance-between-ice-and-local-police/
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialHas any one done a survey/count of the number of technical or other US-venue meetings or conventions are being cancelled because of the danger to foreign nationals who attend?
The US has become a police state much, much faster than Nazi Germany did in the 1930's.
I've already noticed a downturn - for instance I was able to book rooms at a fancy hotel (Four Seasons) for about 1/2 of the normal rate.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioRepeat it like a broken record, tell your friends and neighbors who are not Extremely Online and are not getting these firsthand reports:
The only people who were violent were ICE and the police.
The only people who were violent were ICE and the police.
The only people who were violent were ICE and the police.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decrime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…
@MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.worldOut-of-towners might not know this, but San Francisco had an officer named Brendan O'Smarty, and the streets were safe then.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialProtesters against immigration raids in LA damaged and set several Waymo autonomous taxis on fire on Sunday; Waymo says it is working with law enforcement (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-08…
@servelan@newsie.social‘No Reason To Hold Him Down That Long’: Mother of Black Man Who Allegedly Died from Asphyxiation After 4 Cops Held Him Face Down for 19 Minutes During Mental Health Crisis Sues
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/06/23/mother-of-black-man-who-allegedly-died-from-restraint-asphyxia-sues-four-police-officers-and-the-city-of-charlotte/
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Dicks:
🎵 The Dicks Hate the Police
#Dicks
https://americanhate.bandcamp.com/track/hate-the-police-the-dicks
https://open.spotify.com/track/3akjmPch80sHhzkfrqR5rX
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialFinished Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed last night. It's gripping, sad, and fierce all at the same time. Explores themes of racism, Islamophobia, white supremacist terrorism, and police malcompetence in an extremely timely manner. It's a good book, which I'm extra happy about since I also liked Ahmed's This Book Won't Burn, so now I have another author whose work I'll be reading through.
Including Sabaa Tahir, Sabina Khan, and Adiba Jaigirdar, I've been reading a ton of great YA books by south Asian muslim authors recently, all discovered via the "grab something off the YA shelf by a probably-not-white author" method that has yet to fail me. Turns out the racism in publishing that puts a higher bar in front of authors of color at least makes it easy to find good books in one way >:(
#AmReading
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Secret Police Are Here -- Trump is losing on policy and the law. But he's winning on power. (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-secret-police-are-here
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p81#a250602p81
@cdarwin@c.imNadya Tolokonnikova,
the co-founder of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot,
was sitting in a replica Russian prison cell in downtown Los Angeles
when the police started shutting down the streets around the art museum.
Police helicopters hovered overhead. Somewhere, through a loudspeaker, an officer delivered a tinny order to disperse.
Tolokonnikova was only three and a half days into what was supposed to be a
“durational performance” reenacting her two ye…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioSay what you will about the police who supposedly maintain the rule of law (and I’m from Minneapolis, hoo boy could I say a lot), but keep this in mind:
The Trump administration is pumping up ICE to massive proportions and trying to give it absolute free reign because they find even the police — even the police! — too legally constrained for their purposes.
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s fundamental problem:
He and his White House seem to think that the cost of their policies
— the fallout from their effort to mold the country to fit their nativist and mercantilist obsessions
— are indirect.
Who cares about a few thousand protesters in Los Angeles or even a few million undocumented immigrants out of the more than 340 million people in the United States?
But the reality is that to harden the border and more tightly police immigration
@newsie@darktundra.xyzNo One Knows How to Deal With 'Student-on-Student' AI CSAM https://www.404media.co/no-one-knows-how-to-deal-with-student-on-student-ai-csam/
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialAsk yourself: How many water bottles thrown at cops are worth keeping one innocent American* teen out of inhumane #ICE detention?
For anyone criticizing the #LA protests or suggesting they should stop for any reason, let's be clear about the stakes. Read this article (or my summary):
https://abcnews.go.com/US/massachusetts-teen-detained-ice-family-video-ice/story?id=122511685
This 18-year-old was snatched without a warrant, because he was in his dad's car and allegedly (possibly a lie or mistake) his dad drove recklessly. He's been in the US since he was 5, originally on a student visa that's since expired. He is an innocent American, by any reasonable definition of those two words*. Thankfully, he's since been released on bail, but he may yet be held indefinitely in ICE detention (in inhumane conditions that have been repeatedly documented) and/or separated from his family & friends and shipped off to Brazil where he last lived when he was 5 (ICE does not care whether he speaks Portuguese, has any family there, etc), all potentially without due process (though he seems to be getting that in this case). Even if this doesn't happen to Marcelo due to the media attention & protests, it is certainly happening to other innocent Americans throughout the country who aren't as lucky to have people standing up for them.
Here's Marcelo speaking about detention conditions and those he was detained with:
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZpZMUb9aEys?si=bpK-022CU7Acb5RY
Do you know how many kids like Marcelo were detained in LA yesterday? Probably zero, because of the protests, including their confrontational tactics. The most "violence" I've seen (from the protestors) is throwing a water bottle at a line of heavily-armored riot police. So the protests are working to protect the community. If you're suggesting a change in tactics, consider whether your suggested tactics (like pre-scheduled non-confrontational protests that have been happening for weeks) will protect the Marcelos of LA.
*Whether he's innocent or American should not in fact matter, but sadly it might to some reading this. If that's you, you've still got some growing up to do.
@metacurity@infosec.exchangehttps://timesofsandiego.com/crime/2025/06/18/sdpd-plate-reader-data-breach-early-days/
“San Diego’s settings were meant to bar other agencies from searching San Diego data, but there was a misconfiguration leading to almost three weeks where…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialVance Boelter has shown us the true face of the R-party: murderous, violent, gun-addicted, rampaging, and deceptive.
His act of disguising himself as a police officer in order to deceive his victims makes it beyond necessary for police and other law enforcement to have clear, readable, and accurate identity tags, front and back, that can be read at a distance. And such officers must not hide their identity by wearing face covering masks.
It is critical to both know that a law en…
@servelan@newsie.socialJoshua J. Friedman: "NY gov Kathy Hochul says she is working with state police to secure at-risk sites in the wake of the Iran bombings" — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/post/3ls5vsh4cp22h
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Police:
🎵 When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around
#ThePolice
https://prfmonthlytributeseries.bandcamp.com/track/when-the-world-is-running-down-you-make-the-best-of-whats-still-around
https://open.spotify.com/track/2e2P8zydI5GtcaVhTkOYa9
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThe protesters were angry. The protesters were loud. But the protesters were not really violent.
That tear gas you see? Police.
Those explosions? Police.
The flashes and bangs? Police.
@cdarwin@c.imSome wear balaclavas. Some wearneck gators, sunglasses and hats. Some wear masks and casual clothes.
Across the country, armed federal immigration officers have increasingly hidden their identities while carrying out immigration raids, arresting protesters and roughing upprominent Democratic critics.
It’s a trend that has sparked alarm among civil rights and law enforcement experts alike.
Mike German, a former FBIagent, said officers’ widespread use of masks was unprecedent…
@cdarwin@c.imIn Little Tokyo, a five-block neighborhood east of downtown Los Angeles that is among the country’s largest Japanese American enclaves,
news often gets delivered and shared at the century-old koban.
It’s a community security office similar to those in Japan,
housed in a former police substation and named after a local hero from World War II.
Brian Kito stood on the sidewalk outside the koban Wednesday,
surveying the street that’s become a hot spot of activity a…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzFrench police reportedly arrest suspected BreachForums administrators https://therecord.media/france-breachforums-suspects-arrests
@servelan@newsie.social'Hortman played a central role in MN's pursuit of racial justice, actively participating in vital police reform legislation. [H]er efforts continue to shape the state. Significant reforms include prohibitions on neck restraints and chokeholds, banning "warrior-style" training, and the creation of an independent body to investigate police misconduct.'
White George Floyd Advocate and Husband 'Target of Political Assasination' but It Gets Worse | The Root
https://www.theroot.com/white-george-floyd-advocate-and-husband-target-of-polit-2000045678
@cdarwin@c.imA demonstrator who was shot on Saturday during Salt Lake City’s “No Kings” protest has died, Utah police said on Sunday afternoon.
The man, Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, 39, had apparently been shot by a man who had been part of the event’s peacekeeping team.
“Our victim was not the intended target,” Brian Redd, the Salt Lake City police chief, said, “but rather an innocent bystander participating in the demonstration.”
Arturo Gamboa, 24, was taken into police custody on Saturday ev…
@cdarwin@c.imFind alternatives to calling the #SantaBarbara Police Department.
The resources included here are limited to those that offer immediate assistance through emergency or crisis services.
These resources may be obligated to call police in the case of an immediate risk of harm to the caller or another, child abuse, or abuse of a vulnerable adult
@newsie@darktundra.xyzChina accuses Taiwan-linked group of cyberattack on local tech company https://therecord.media/china-accuses-taiwan-linked-group-of-cyberattacks
@cdarwin@c.imLaw enforcement official on Hortman shooting:
"It was knocking on the door and asking the person to come out.
Absolutely impersonating a police officer ... we have the suspect's car. The suspect is on foot."
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:4
@cdarwin@c.im“Siloviki” is perhaps the most borrowed word in Russian studies
— probably because it explains so much about Putin’s Russia.
Its members are the police, the border control, the army, the security services, the spies.
For their service to the regime, they are rewarded with early pensions,
plenty of cash and almost total immunity from investigation for corruption or brutality.
In truth, the American security state, with its qualified immunity, surveillance appar…
@cdarwin@c.imFor now the federalized troops appeared to have limited authority.
They will be able to protect ICE agents and federal buildings against attacks by protesters
but not to carry out immigration raids or police the city’s streets in general.
https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/156-f…
@cdarwin@c.imTop adviser to supreme leader dies in hospital following Israeli attack
Ali Shamkhani, Iran’s top adviser to its supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei,
has died in the hospital a day after Israel launched airstrikes across the country.
Shamkhani had previously served as Iran’s top national security official for a decade and had represented Iran in the China-facilitated rapprochement talks with Saudi Arabia
@cdarwin@c.imAs unrest and military troops overtake Los Angeles, terrifying scenes are also unfolding in smaller communities around the country.
They, too, are being invaded by what resembles a secret police force, often indistinguishable from random thugs.
https://www.washington…
@cdarwin@c.imWhat is the purpose of news?
Air pollution kills 10 million people each year and causes untold additional illness and suffering.
It kills at least 100,000 people in the United States alone annually
— about five times the number of police-reported homicides.
But it rarely features in daily news stories.
Police and prosecutors ignore pollution, much of which is criminal,
and so do most journalists.
For example, federal prosecutors charged 23 people…
@cdarwin@c.imTwo Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses were shot in their homes early Saturday
by a man who apparently posed as a police officer — and is still on the loose.
Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman was shot in her Brooklyn Park home,
while fellow party member Sen. John Hoffman was targeted roughly 8 miles away in Champlin.
A manhunt is on for the suspect, who was wearing black body armor over a blue shirt and blue pants.
@cdarwin@c.im“I’ve just seen pictures of my two daughters on a curb in downtown Los Angeles in handcuffs [with] the LAPD,”
Pasadena City Council member Rick Cole said at the rally.
“So I’m going to be figuring out where they are so I can go bail them out.”
Protests against federal immigration raids continued to rage Sunday after Trump ordered the National Guard to Southern California.
Mejia, Cole’s boss, is an outspoken critic of the Los Angeles Police Department.
On Fri…
@cdarwin@c.imBritain's parliament voted on Tuesday to
decriminalise abortion
in England and Wales
to stop a growing number of women from being investigated by police
for terminating pregnancies
under legislation dating back to the mid-19th century.
Abortions have been legal in England and Walesfor almost 60 years
but only up to 24 weeks and with the approval of two doctors.
Women can face criminal charges if they decide to end a pregnancy after 24 week…
@cdarwin@c.im
