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USA as a failed state: Russian dissident art becomes real life.

“One thing that I just don’t vibe with in #modern #American #society – there’s an entire thing about safety. And I’ve lived my life in a way that safety was the last thing that I would care about,” she said.

“This is a thing I think about a lot lately. We need to be less safe, be ready to offend ourselves and other people. Otherwise, Maga people are just going to keep winning, because they’re not afraid.” — #NadyaTolokonnikova

“On Wednesday, the museum announced that the rest of Tolokonnikova’s performance would have to be postponed indefinitely, because of “ongoing demonstrations and #MilitarySctivity”.

“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.”

#PoliceState exhibition / #GeffenContemporary / #Moca / #LA <https://theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jun/15/pussy-riot-nadya-tolokonnikova-police-state>

Pussy Riot’s founder built a ‘police state’ in an LA art gallery. Then the national guard arrived

Nadya Tolokonnikova tells the Guardian she felt she had ‘entered a wormhole’ when her police state exhibition was shut down – by the police state

The Guardian

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈9h ago

Gilead is just another tatty patriarchal authoritarian state...

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jun/15/pussy-riot-nadya-tolokonnikova-police-state

#PussyRiot #USPOL #LA #LosAngeles #NadyaTolokonnikova #PoliceState

Pussy Riot’s founder built a ‘police state’ in an LA art gallery. Then the national guard arrived

Nadya Tolokonnikova tells the Guardian she felt she had ‘entered a wormhole’ when her police state exhibition was shut down – by the police state

The Guardian

Bongolian 10h ago

Lois Beckett: Pussy Riot’s founder built a ‘police state’ in an LA #art gallery. Then the national guard arrived. Nadya Tolokonnikova tells the Guardian she felt she had ‘entered a wormhole’ when her police state exhibition was shut down – by the police state

#nationalguard #policestate #Russia #trump #authoritarianism #PussyRiot
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jun/15/pussy-riot-nadya-tolokonnikova-police-state

Pussy Riot’s founder built a ‘police state’ in an LA art gallery. Then the national guard arrived

Nadya Tolokonnikova tells the Guardian she felt she had ‘entered a wormhole’ when her police state exhibition was shut down – by the police state

The Guardian

Vida Latina

10h ago

📌 "Pussy Riot’s founder built a ‘police state’ in an LA art gallery. Then the national guard arrived" ⤵️

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jun/15/pussy-riot-nadya-tolokonnikova-police-state

🏷️ #Art #Moca #LA #Politics #PussyRiot #LosÁngeles #PoliceState #Protests #ICE #Immigrants #NationalGuard

Pussy Riot’s founder built a ‘police state’ in an LA art gallery. Then the national guard arrived

Nadya Tolokonnikova tells the Guardian she felt she had ‘entered a wormhole’ when her police state exhibition was shut down – by the police state

The Guardian

Prainbow (she/her) 🏔️Colorado 13h ago

It was the way being at a protest feels: “That spirit of care and solidarity is precious,” she wrote. “People were being shot with rubber bullets and burned by tear gas, yet they refused to leave.”
#Art #PussyRiot #LA #PoliceState #NadyaTolokonnikova
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jun/15/pussy-riot-nadya-tolokonnikova-police-state

Pussy Riot’s founder built a ‘police state’ in an LA art gallery. Then the national guard arrived

Nadya Tolokonnikova tells the Guardian she felt she had ‘entered a wormhole’ when her police state exhibition was shut down – by the police state

The Guardian

Kim Perales 13h ago

"Soboroff was reporting on the ground in LA when law enforcement🚨started using crowd control tactics against protesters, incl firing flash bangs. He speaks with protesters on the ground & describes the peaceful demonstrations he's seen throughout the day."

LE: #LAPD, #HSI, #ICE, NG, Marines... are inciting #violence. Thankfully, the majority of the #protests continue to be peaceful.

#PoliceState #Fascism #Immigrants #DueProcess #Detention #Deportations #USPol https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp-video/mmvo241608261886

NBC's Jacob Soboroff reports from the Los Angeles protests as law enforcement fires flash bangs

NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff was reporting on the ground in Los Angeles when law enforcement started using crowd control tactics against protesters, including firing flash bangs. Soboroff speaks with protesters on the ground and describes the peaceful demonstrations he's seen throughout the day.

MSNBC

Miguel Afonso Caetano 13h ago

"Beyond Los Angeles, The Intercept reviewed police practices in six major cities where protests are expected this weekend, plus best practices for attendees to defend themselves.

Rubber bullets are just one type of what’s called “less-than-lethal” ammunition — a misnomer, according to legal advocates who have represented protesters severely injured by police using them. Police might also shoot bean bags or water cannons, which are similarly not supposed to kill the person they hit, but can still inflict serious injury. Several cities temporarily banned tear gas, another popular choice, after protests against police brutality in 2020. It’s banned in war, but not for police responding to public demonstrations and showed up in response to recent protests against ICE and earlier protests against the genocide in Gaza.

Other departments rely more on tactics like kettling, when police encircle protesters and keep them from dispersing, often used in concert with curfews, which give law enforcement a pretext for making arrests for people who don’t comply, or are physically barred by police from doing so."

https://theintercept.com/2025/06/14/ice-police-brutality-protests-la-nyc/

#USA #Trump #PoliceState #Surveillance #ICE #Activism #Immigration #Deportation