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
The Horns and Whistles Work – Mother Jones
 #Ice #uspol
The First National Website Dedicated To Documenting ICE License Plates Is Here, from #LATaco
The First National Website Dedicated To Documenting ICE License Plates Is Here ~ L.A. TACO
“Something like the plate tracker helps to encourage and promote legal transparency and legal accountability, especially when they're going aroun...
 #ice #uspol #sousveillance #journalism
#AAUP is publicly expressing concern about the Education Department working with #Palantir
Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
AAUP Raises Alarm Over Palantir's Work for Ed Department
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is publicly expressing concern about the Education Department working with Palantir, a con...
 #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"
Los Angeles Times
Times Investigation: Ex-Trump DOJ lawyers say 'fraudulent' UC antisemitism probes led them to quit
The Times spoke to nine former Department of Justice civil rights attorneys tasked with investigating antisemitism complaints at the University of ...
 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"
Golden State
L.A.'s disgraceful end to the failed Vision Zero experiment
The city marks the end of the decade-long effort to eliminate traffic deaths with the prosecution of an activist who painted unofficial crosswalks ...
 #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:
Interrupting Criminalization
Block It! — Interrupting Criminalization
 (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
Los Angeles Times
Contributor: Fearing Trump, universities themselves restrict academic freedom
Some institutions may have avoided the ire of the federal government by preemptively undermining research and teaching.
 archive link: https://archive.ph/TxBWo #HigherEd #academia #AAUP #uspol