I don't observe Xmas but here's my Xmas thread on what community members are doing to resist ICE 🧵 The Horns and Whistles Work: What it’s like to watch community activists stand up to a Border Patrol raid #Ice #uspol
The First National Website Dedicated To Documenting ICE License Plates Is Here, from #LATaco #ice #uspol #sousveillance #journalism
#AAUP is publicly expressing concern about the Education Department working with #Palantir #academia #HigherEd #uspol
in re the waymo meltdown in the power outage: you know what's a really good disaster escape vehicle? a bicycle
simply dreadful: "The Center for European Studies, the African Studies Center, the Carolina Asia Center, the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, the Institute for the Study of the Americas and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies are all slated to close" https://dailytarheel.com/article/university-breaking-area-studies-centers-closing-20251217 #uspol #HigherEd #academia #UNC
"“Never before in my time across multiple presidential administrations did we send out press releases essentially saying workplaces or colleges were guilty of discrimination before finding out if they really were,” said one attorney" archive link: https://archive.ph/NIjFG #UCLA #uspol #HigherEd #academia
"You couldn’t dream up a more fitting way to mark L.A.’s decade-long failure to make life less dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists... a Los Angeles police officer on Sunday arrested a guy trying to make streets safer" #LosAngeles #WarOnCars #VisionZero #LAPD
New resource⚡️ Block it! Don’t Build It. Don’t Fill It. Don’t Fuel It A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more: (sharing verbatim from #InterruptingCriminalization on bsky) image
A report from Los Angeles about what actually happens when immigration enforcement arrives — how people mobilize, and sustain energy to defend their community (support local media!) https://lapublicpress.org/2025/11/avoid-organizing-burnout/ #uspol #LosAngeles #ICE #immigration
"in some letters declining the compact, much ink was spilled to reassure the Trump administration that universities were already complying with many of the proposed changes—without even being asked! These practices chill academic freedom" - my #USCAAUP chapter pres in LA Times archive link: https://archive.ph/TxBWo #HigherEd #academia #AAUP #uspol