tsld

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George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽4h ago
DHS and ICE must be reined in. If you see them “roving” in such patrols, call it out as illegal and document it.
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Esther Schindler3h ago
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.– Frank Lloyd Wright
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George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽3h ago
Government can’t function without people working in it, folks.
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Nonilex1d ago

A #California #farmworker died on Friday from injuries sustained a day earlier when #US #immigration agents raided a cannabis operation & arrested hundreds of workers, according to a farmworker advocacy group.

Dozens of #ImmigrantRights activists faced off w/ #federal agents in rural Southern California on Thursday. It was the latest escalation of #Trump's campaign for #MassDeportations of immigrants in the US.

#law #HumanRights #ICE #Gestapo #PoliceBrutality
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/one-california-worker-dead-hundreds-arrested-after-cannabis-farm-raid-2025-07-11/

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Steve Herman1d ago
UFW says a farm worker has died of injuries sustained as a result of yesterday’s immigration enforcement action in Ventura County, California.
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Randahl Fink1d ago
"Is this 911? Yes, hello officer, I would like to report a murder."
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George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽1d ago
They will try to tell you, “Resistance is futile.” It is never so.
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Esther Schindler2d ago
The use of AI by lawyers in court is not itself illegal. But Wang found that the lawyers violated a federal rule that requires lawyers to certify that claims they make in court are "well grounded" in the law. Turns out, fake cases don't meet that bar. https://www.npr.org/2025/07/10/nx-s1-5463512/ai-courts-lawyers-mypillow-fines
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David Ho2d ago
Holy cow, as an American, I wasn't aware of the Horizon IT scandal. ~1,000 postal workers were wrongfully prosecuted for theft and other crimes, imprisoned, and forced to repay tens of thousands of pounds. 13 of them committed suicide! But it was an IT error! AI will make this worse.


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/world/europe/uk-post-office-scandal-report.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Vk8.LKk8.BbcHfblN3WM4&smid=url-share
At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says

A public inquiry into the wrongful prosecutions of about 1,000 postal workers has uncovered more victims than previously known, according to a report.

The New York Times
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Laffy2d ago

Keep 'em coming

Via Acyn:

Bass: I just signed an executive directive that puts all city departments and leadership on notice to protect Angelenos—essentially from the federal government.

We’re also filing a FOIA request because we want to know: Who are these masked men, and why are they masked in the first place?

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George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽1d ago
They will try to tell you, “Resistance is futile.” It is never so.
Show threadtessarakt1d ago
@georgetakei Your government is allowed to use specifically military weapons in the interior?
Show threadhex1d ago
@tessarakt @georgetakei no, but the law doesn't mean a whole lot right now.
Show threadAccordionBruce1d ago

@Hex @tessarakt @georgetakei
The Defense Logistics Agency has the mission of disposing of obsolete/unneeded excess property turned in by U.S. military units around the world

Congress authorized the transfer of excess DOD property to federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.
https://www.dla.mil/Disposition-Services/Offers/Law-Enforcement/Program-FAQs/

So local law enforcement ends up with leftover armored cars to mount raids on people’s homes

Rather than, you know reducing crimes
#USpol

1033 Program FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

Show threadtessarakt1d ago
@AccordionBruce @Hex @georgetakei I never fully grasped the term law enforcement. I recently heard it in one of the legal podcasts dealing with the Trump administration, and it was somehow distinct from policing.
Show threadcrazyeddie1d ago

@tessarakt @AccordionBruce @Hex @georgetakei The cops are not enforcers like people, especially them, actually think. That's the courts and prisons. Police actual duties are investigation, apprehension, and prevention (well...not according to scotus I guess).

But in practice they fully believe they are the enforcers and do so with impunity, whether they know the law or not (in fact they can use their ignorance to get away with shit).

America wasn't far from a fascist state to begin with.

Show threadSu_G1d ago

@crazyeddie @tessarakt @AccordionBruce @Hex @georgetakei

In Australia we used to call them (police, cops) “wallopers” - for obvious reasons (to wallop = to hit, often with a stick ie a cudgel). You can still hear the term used out in the boon docks, sticks, or remoter areas.

We might have to gift it to you in the US…
😐

Show threadmwguy1d ago

@tessarakt @AccordionBruce @Hex @georgetakei By connotation law enforcement is suppose to be broader than policing. Policing brings up the idea of cops on a beat or on patrol. While Law Enforcement includes ideas like regulation, financial crimes etc... But on paper they're essentially synonyms.

BLM "tarnished" the brand of policing/police so it's really more of a PR move than a real technical differentiation.

Show threadRens1d ago

@mwguy @tessarakt @AccordionBruce @Hex @georgetakei

Cops did the "tarnishing" all by themselves. BLM just shone a light on just how bad the rot was.

Show threadmwguy1d ago
@shadur @tessarakt @AccordionBruce @Hex @georgetakei Very true, I tried to convey that by putting "tarnish" in quotes. Sorry if it came off wrong.
Show threadtessarakt1d ago
@mwguy @AccordionBruce @Hex @georgetakei In German legal parlance, Polizei used to mean all kinds of defending against hasards to public security. Like construction police or fire police, and the general "police authorities". In colloquial language, people will only understand it as "the police", i.e. the states' police organisations.
Show threadDziadek1d ago

@tessarakt @AccordionBruce @Hex @georgetakei

I reckon we went to hell in a handcart when we got to have a police force instead of a police service.

Show threadhex1d ago

@DziadekMick @tessarakt @AccordionBruce @georgetakei if you read "The Lucifer Effect" it becomes obvious that there can be no institution that looks and acts like the police which will not devolve into an army that carries out a war on the population. When you learn about the history of police, it becomes clear that that was the point all along.

They started in the south as slave patrols and in the north as a private military for the capitalist class funded by the society, because they were tired of funding their own Pinkertons.

Show threadmyerman@turtleisland1d ago
@tessarakt @georgetakei the military has an entire program for selling excess stuff to cops and has done so for 30+ years
Show threadLevka1d ago

@myerman @tessarakt @georgetakei

See:

*Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces*, by Radley Balko

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/16043524

Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America'…

The last days of colonialism taught America’s revolutio…

Goodreads
Show threadCloudslave1d ago
@myerman that was begun under Bill Clinton I believe.
Show threadmyerman@turtleisland1d ago
@Cloudslave more than likely
Show threadcrazyeddie1d ago
@tessarakt @georgetakei Depends on what you mean. Those weapons are not owned or managed by the military if that's what you mean. If you mean, are they the same exact weapons and equipment? Yep.
Show threadtessarakt1d ago
@crazyeddie @georgetakei that's a term my country's constitutional court used when it had to decide about the legality of the use of fighter jets. Turns out I only remembered the older decision, which was subsequently overturned. Now it's allowed in catastrophic situations declared by our federal government ...
Show threadmwguy1d ago
@tessarakt @georgetakei Humvees are considered "dual purpose" but yes. Domestic police are also allowed to use APCs and things that are military surplus.
Show threadFluffy Kitty Cat1d ago
@tessarakt @georgetakei Los Angeles (a little south of camerillo) is under military occupation. It's full on naziism
Show threadWulfy1d ago

@georgetakei

I expected to see American tank man...
....just not so soon.

Let's hope he doesn't disappear like the Chinese tank man.

Show threadfritzoids1d ago

@georgetakei

#ALT4you
picture 1: a screenshot of a newsreport titled immigration operation at Camarillo farm - Federal Agents clash with protesters. We see a single person standing in front of what looks like a militarized vehicle, thereby blocking its way.
picture 2: the iconic photograph of the lone man standing in front of a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square.

Show threadAaron1d ago
@fritzoids @georgetakei Thank you for caring about disabled people
Show threadGJ Groothedde 🇪🇺1d ago
@georgetakei They will also try to tell you the guy with the shopping bag in front of those tanks symbolizes Donald Trump.
Show threadAlton Barrett1d ago

Hello
@Eetschrijver @georgetakei

Aye #Americas #America #StarTrek / #TheConEvilOfAmericaFirst |

Timothy Snyder:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZJe4NlOjAJo&list=PLhZxrogyToZtDGDCKyjV6_H7Nkp5VTtUi&index=11&pp=iAQB #History

#OnTyranny
#TheLargerNow

#TimothySnyderSpeaks #MuchMoreThanCollusion

Timothy Snyder Speaks, ep. 11: Much More Than Collusion

YouTube
Show threadScoldyFingerWagger1d ago

@Eetschrijver @georgetakei

They will probably say IT IS him!

Show threadmastodonphan1d ago
@georgetakei Who the fuck said "history doesn't repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes"?!
Show threadScoldyFingerWagger1d ago

@mast0d0nphan @georgetakei

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plus%20%C3%A7a%20change,%20plus%20c%27est%20la%20m%C3%AAme%20chose

Definition of PLUS ÇA CHANGE, PLUS C'EST LA MÊME CHOSE

Definition of 'plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose' by Merriam-Webster

Show threadDunsany1d ago
@georgetakei The Borg used to say that and look it how it turned out for them
Show threadComicbuchtyp1d ago
@georgetakei The Borg are wrong, Resistance is never futile!
Show threadCloudslave1d ago
@comicbuchtyp @georgetakei Wasn’t that the Vogons?
Show threadComicbuchtyp1d ago
@Cloudslave @georgetakei https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyenRCJ_4Ww
We are the Borg

English version of the Borg transmission from the movie Star Trek VIII First Contact

YouTube
Show threadts 🚉1d ago
@georgetakei altText please. What are we looking at?
Show threadImran Nazar ~ عمران نزر1d ago

@tsyum @georgetakei #Alt4You

1: Still frame from ABC local channel 7, showing a man in a white t-shirt standing inches away from the front of a military Humvee, on the highway.

2: The famous still from Tianenmen Sq, of "Tank Man" (also in a white shirt) standing before a line of four tanks decorated with the red star of the People's Republic of China.

Show threadHTPC NZ1d ago
@georgetakei this is exactly why USA is where it is today, so many people fell to the propaganda of their own media and government - like believing in a failed CIA coup of a foreign government that was crushed as expected as some sort martyrdom - when their own government is more than happy to crush their own citizens for far far less than trying to overthrow the government (feckless dems of course does that only with Palestinian protests) - the american exceptionalism got you here.
Show threadAlfred J. Kwak (audiokontor) ☕1d ago
@georgetakei there's always a song for every phrase. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVDGm3pex-A
Resistance Is Futile

YouTube
Show threadCloudslave1d ago
@georgetakei Not sure the Chinese example ended well.
Show threadCR Grant1d ago

@georgetakei

Noem, the KILLER of innocent puppy dogs, is nothing more than a SLAUGHTER HOUSE SEWER RAT BARBIE!!!
💩Oops - I just insulted rats ... so sorry! 😐

Show threadJeremy Kahn1d ago

@mommafish257 @georgetakei

... And Barbie, TBH.

And sewers are a collective (socialized!) effort to improve public health, I'm sure she has nothing to do with them

Show threadCR Grant22h ago
@trochee @georgetakei
🤣🤣🤣
Show threadLaura1d ago
@georgetakei Hopefully, we never reach Tiananmen Square levels. It will be a black day in history when our military starts steamrolling over us in tanks for the "crime" of activism.
Show threadJesse Alexander, WB2IFS/31d ago
@georgetakei #resistanceisnormal
Show threadDavid "Dave" Treloar1d ago

@georgetakei

Not a fan of the Borg then I take it, noted.

*scribbles*
George doesn't like Borg, cancel the Picard Borg eye-set gift.

The humor is how to deal with crappy circumstances.

Show threadJaime Robertson1d ago
@georgetakei They never show the part of the video where the man in front of the tanks climbed onto the lead yank and yelled at the driver sticking his head out.
Show threadBadtux the Snarky Penguin1d ago
@georgetakei Tank Man died in a Chinese "re-education" camp.
Show threadSam1d ago
@georgetakei Tiananmen Square is not a good comparison and undermines your point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oq2k066A1w
The Tiananmen Square "Massacre" Never Happened

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Show threadYvette Cooper1d ago
@yamstersam @georgetakei Oh look! I found a PRoC bot! 🤣
Show threadBill Zaumen1d ago

@georgetakei I've just got to wonder what will happen if some of ICE's heavy vehicles meet a Florida sinkhole:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgwwyjdWKTw

Massive sinkhole in Florida neighborhood families after Hurricane Milton

YouTube
Show threadforestclaws1d ago

@georgetakei hey seconds later that dude nearly gets ran over and has to choose between stepping away or dying

he stepped away and threw a bottle at the car

because peaceful protest will end up with you dead, as ice is showing day after day. the only answer is armed resistance

Show threadYvette Cooper1d ago
@georgetakei The folk in Scotland once peacefully had the the police withdraw when they tried to carry out Westminster (London) government horrible policies on our fellow man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZcoXdZeabA 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #SaorAlba
Glasgow protesters celebrate after blocking immigration raid

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Show threaddecapitae1d ago
@georgetakei I don't know what substance or mantra keeps these cosplay- militants going for this lame institution of "ICE", but I don't think they're going to be remembered in history as anything good. Just more weak sauce haters with a murder-erection walking around in public. Better not 'heil-ice or 'daddy-dump' anymore you easily lied to GOP simpletons. Take off the warning-sign-for-lil-dictator-support red hat and just dissolve this "administration".
Show threadTHE REAL WORLD1d ago
@georgetakei
For the record, Takei, you're pushing US imperialist, anti-China propaganda with that Tianaman Square photo. The Tianaman Square massacre never happened.
Doesn't give you a whole lot of credibility on any subject.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIfaPE4uFBQ
Press abandons Tiananmen hoax: BBC newsmen's self-humiliation

YouTube
Show threadCyberFrog1d ago
@3DReality clownish response, you have negative credibility for parroting CCP propaganda about a well documented set of events

I'd go as far as to call this bot behavior lol
Show threadQuinn Norton23h ago
@georgetakei admittedly tiananmen square did not really change the course of the CCP. Maybe there is something in the future.
Show threadMaximilian Overdraft, Esq. ES20h ago

@georgetakei

Resistance is never safe though. It takes courage, determination, preparation and support. If you want it to be more than one dude in front of a tank, or if you want it to win. We have to win more than history.