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01/18/2023

IMPORTANT PSA: DO NOT trust PSL to defend or protect anyone if you’re headed to Santee today to defend trans rights. The local fascists always get extra rowdy when there is an action in East County. They will leave people vulnerable if something goes down, seen it happen we too many times whenever there is a counter in East County over the past 2.5 years. Stay safe everyone.

11/16/2022

No surprises here.

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Donald Trump, who tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election and inspired a deadly riot at the Capitol in a desperate attempt to keep himself in power, announced he is running again for president in 2024

"I am announcing my candidacy for president of the United States," Trump, 76, said flanked by massive American flags, at his Mar-a-Lago club and home in Palm Beach, Fla.

The announcement — and official filing — comes just a week after the 2022 midterm elections, which saw a lackluster performance from Trump-backed Republican candidates in key Senate races and competitive House elections. As a result, Democrats were able to retain control of the Senate.

"America's comeback starts right now," Trump said, claiming, "Your country is being destroyed before your eyes."

The dark vision hearkened back to Trump's inauguration speech of a country suffering "American carnage" and in need of him to fix it.

Trump running sets up a potential rematch against President Joe Biden, who will turn 80 on Sunday and says he intends to run for reelection in 2024.

11/15/2022

In the largest work stoppage of the year, thousands of academic workers at the University of California system went on strike Monday over the university system’s bargaining practices with their union, which is trying to secure higher wages.

Some 48,000 teaching assistants, postdocs, researchers and graders on the front lines of teaching and research at California’s prestigious public university system are seeking a minimum annual salary of $54,000 and increased child-care benefits, saying they do not earn enough to live in the state. They also accuse the university of not bargaining in good faith with their union, the United Auto Workers.

“At every turn, the university has sought to act unlawfully at the bargaining table, which is preventing us from reaching an agreement,” said Neal Sweeney, the president of UAW Local 5810, which represents more than 11,000 UC postdocs and academic researchers.

The University of California strike is also the largest academic strike in higher education in U.S. history, according to the UAW.

The bargaining units that represent UC academic workers said university leadership has illegally made changes to pay and transit benefits without consulting the union. They also alleged that the university has refused to provide necessary information about who is in the bargaining unit and has otherwise obstructed the bargaining process. Negotiations have been underway for more than a year.

The strike threatens to disrupt classes, research and grading ahead of final exams at the UC system’s 10 campuses. Students would have to rely solely on professors for grades, teaching and other one-on-one instruction.

In the days leading up to the strike, some tenured UC professors said they had the right to cancel classes during the work stoppage and spoke out in solidarity with academic workers.

11/12/2022

Nearly 48,000 University of California academic workers — the backbone of the vaunted higher education system who research, mentor and teach — are poised to strike Monday in a labor action that could shut down some classes and lab work just weeks before final exams.

In what would be the nation’s largest strike of academic workers, four UAW bargaining units representing teaching assistants, postdoctoral scholars, academic and graduate student researchers, tutors, fellows and others are set to picket from 8 a.m. at all of UC’s 10 campuses. The campuses are scheduled to remain open and plan to continue instruction and operations.

The workers are demanding significant pay increases, with many saying they are struggling to afford housing near their campuses, which are located in some of California’s priciest real estate markets.

Other demands include childcare subsidies, enhanced healthcare for dependents and longer family leaves; public transit passes; lower tuition costs for international scholars and better accessibility for workers with disabilities.

Graduate students — who serve as teaching assistants, tutors and readers — are demanding $54,000 annually, a wage increase that would more than double their average current pay of about $24,000.

The unions are alleging that UC has violated labor law by bypassing the bargaining system, and unilaterally changing working conditions for certain workers. They have filed 23 unfair labor practice charges with the state’s Public Employment Relations Board. The board has issued complaints in three of those cases.

11/11/2022

The plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking to overturn President Joe Biden’s student debt forgiveness program has herself been a beneficiary of debt cancellation, in the form of a Paycheck Protection Program business loan worth over twice the maximum amount covered under Biden’s program.

Myra Brown, one of two plaintiffs in the Texas lawsuit, owns Desert Star Enterprises Inc. Desert Star, which appears to be a sign-making business, was granted a $48,000 loan, of which $47,996 was forgiven on April 27, 2022. By comparison, Biden’s student debt forgiveness program provides a maximum of $20,000 in forgiveness if the person seeking relief received a federal Pell Grant and $10,000 if it wasn’t a Pell Grant. Brown argues in her case that she is being harmed by Biden’s debt relief order because she is not eligible for it; her student loans were originally funded by private companies.

Brown’s case is one of a flurry of right-wing lawsuits aimed at ending Biden’s student debt forgiveness program. Though many have been dismissed due a lack of standing, this one has not. A Donald Trump-appointed judge, Mark T. Pittman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, has indicated he wants to fast-track it.

Student debt relief advocates say the lawsuits are astroturf efforts by right-wing political organizations. “These sham lawsuits are blatantly manufactured by billionaire-funded right-wing organizations whose only purpose is to play dirty politics,” Braxton Brewington, spokesperson for the Debt Collective, told The Intercept. “These plaintiffs aren’t actually harmed by student debt cancellation, they’re simply willing to be political pawns for dark-money groups who will do anything to prevent working people from having financial breathing room.”

When The Intercept contacted Brown for comment, she responded via text message with a picture of a printout reading “we have no comment” and directing any inquiries to the Job Creators Network, a conservative advocacy organization bankrolling the lawsuit. The Job Creators Network was founded by the CEO of Home Depot and funded by the conservative Mercer Family Foundation.

11/07/2022

An 18-year-old s*x trafficking victim who pleaded guilty to killing a man she said r***d her escaped from a women’s center where she was serving her probation sentence.

Pieper Lewis was seen walking out of the building at the Fresh Start Women’s Center in Des Moines shortly after 6:15 a.m. Friday, and at some point that day her GPS monitor was cut off, according to a probation violation report.

A warrant was issued for Lewis’ arrest and the probation report asked for her deferred judgment to be revoked and have her original sentence imposed, KCCI reported. She could face up to 20 years in prison.

Prosecutors had called the probation sentence she was given in September merciful for a teen who endured horrible abuse, although some questioned the $150,000 restitution she was ordered to pay. A GoFundMe campaign raised over $560,000 to cover the restitution and pay for her other needs.

Polk County Judge David Porter told Lewis that her probation sentence “was the second chance you asked for. You don’t get a third,” the Des Moines Register reported.

If Lewis had successfully completed five years of closely supervised probation her prison sentence would have been expunged.

Lewis pleaded guilty last year to involuntary manslaughter and willful injury in the June 2020 killing of 37-year-old Zachary Brooks, a married father of two. Lewis was 15 when she stabbed Brooks more than 30 times in a Des Moines apartment.

Lewis has said that she was trafficked against her will to Brooks for s*x multiple times and stabbed him in a fit of rage. Police and prosecutors did not dispute that Lewis was s*xually assaulted and trafficked.

The Associated Press does not typically name victims of s*xual assault, but Lewis agreed to have her name used previously in stories about her case.

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11/06/2022

Body cam footage of a legally blind man being arrested for “resisting arrest” a week ago by Columbia County Sheriff’s deputies in after one of them stopped him claiming his walking stick was a gun.

Original Video: https://youtu.be/k5yNlwCQpO0

11/05/2022

The Department of Homeland Security launched a failed operation that ensnared hundreds, if not thousands, of U.S. protesters in what new documents show was as a sweeping, power-hungry effort before the 2020 election to bolster President Donald Trump’s spurious claims about a “terrorist organization” he accused his Democratic rivals of supporting.

An internal investigative report, made public this month by Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat of Oregon, details the findings of DHS lawyers concerning a previously undisclosed effort by Trump’s acting secretary of homeland security, Chad Wolf, to amass secret dossiers on Americans in Portland attending anti-racism protests in summer 2020 sparked by the police murder of Minneapolis father George Floyd.

The report describes the attempts of top intelligence officials to connect protesters to a fabricated anti-fascist terrorist plot in hopes of boosting Trump’s reelection odds, raising concerns about the ability of a sitting president to co-opt billions of dollars’ worth of domestic intelligence assets for their own political gain. DHS analysts recounted orders to create organizational charts that could be used to establish links between the arrested protesters; an effort that would seemingly legitimize President Trump’s erroneous tweets about “Antifa,” an organization DHS tried but failed to prove shared a central source of funding.

The DHS report offers a full accounting of the intelligence activities happening behind the scenes of officers’ protest containment; “twisted efforts,” Wyden said, of Trump administration officials promoting “baseless conspiracy theories” to manufacture of a domestic terrorist threat for the president’s “political gain.” The report describes the dossiers generated by DHS as having detailed the past whereabouts and the “friends and followers of the subjects, as well as their interests” — up to and including “First Amendment speech activity.” Intelligence analysts had internally raised concerns about the decision to accuse anyone caught in the streets by default of being an “anarchist extremist” specifically because “sufficient facts” were never found “to support such a characterization.”

11/04/2022

More than 36,500 academic workers from the University of California voted Wednesday night to authorize a strike after the university system failed to meet demands that include living wages and child care subsidies. They also say the UCs violated labor laws and failed to bargain in good faith.

The workers, who are represented by three different affiliates of the United Auto Workers, form the backbone of UC campus operations. There are about 48,000 unionized postdoctoral researchers, professional and student researchers, teaching assistants, tutors and readers across the 10 UC campuses.

UC Davis has about 6,200 academic workers, according to organizers.

About 76% of workers participated in the vote, with more than 97% voting to approve the strike.

Workers could walk off the job as early as Nov. 14. A strike would likely shut down the majority of undergraduate classes, as the universities rely heavily on TAs to teach discussion sections, grade papers and administer exams. Research would also grind to a halt if graduate student researchers, postdocs and academic researchers left their labs to join picket lines.

University officials said in a statement that plans are in place to continue classes.

The unions allege that the UCs violated labor law by bypassing the bargaining system, unilaterally changing working conditions for cherry-picked groups of workers, and refusing to provide relevant information to aid the bargaining process. They have filed 23 unfair labor practice charges with the state’s Public Employment Relations Board, and the board has issued complaints in three of those cases.

The unions want to see a minimum annual salary of $54,000 for graduate student workers and $70,000 for postdocs. They’re seeking a 14% pay raise for professional academic researchers, as well as annual cost-of-living and experience-based adjustments.

The university’s latest offer included salary raises between 6 to 7.5% with single-digit percentage increases in subsequent years of the contract.

10/16/2022

A 91-year-old civil rights pioneer from Boston is expected to survive after she was stabbed five times while walking through a park Wednesday evening, officials said.

Jean McGuire, the first Black social worker to work in the Boston Public Schools, was walking her dog Bailey through Playstead Park in Jamaica Plain at about 8:30 p.m. when an unidentified person approached her and stabbed her multiple times.

"The victim was transported to a local hospital where she was treated for non-life-threatening injuries," Boston Police stated in a press release. "Preliminary investigation reveals that the suspect may have been injured during this attack."

It is believed McGuire's dog fought to protect her and "the suspect may have been injured during this attack," police stated in the release.

Jeriline Brady-McGinnis told the Boston Globe that her friend fought for her life.

"[Jean] attacked this guy. She was kicking him in the nuts while Bailey was working him over. And he tried to run, and the dog chased him. And [the attacker] disappeared out of sight," Brady-Mcginnis told the newspaper. "Bailey stood up for her."

McGuire was the first black woman elected to the School Committee in 1981, station WGBH reports. She helped found METCO, Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity, a program in the 1960s as a way to help desegregate Boston schools.

Police still have not found the attacker.

10/15/2022

“They don’t keep us safe. We keep us safe. Riots work.”

A community member named Alex giving a speech yesterday in while receiving the “Saint Paul Police Chief’s Award For Valor”. Last year Alex was on his way to work and saved someone’s life while they were bleeding out from a gunshot wound. Alex says in the speech that police sped past the area instead of stopping to provide aid.

Video via on YouTube
Link: https://youtu.be/drCCy2vNuDc
Video Title on YouTube: “Saint Paul Police Chief’s Award for Valor Recipient

10/15/2022

The federal student loan relief application is live. It’s currently in a beta version and the application sometimes is closed for hours at a time, then open for hours at a time until they release the full version. If you apply now you will not have to apply again.

https://studentaid.gov/debt-relief/application

10/14/2022

The Department of Fish and Game has, for the first time in state history, canceled the winter snow crab season in the Bering Sea due to their falling numbers. Scientists worry what the sudden population plunge means for the health of the Arctic ecosystem.

An estimated one billion crabs have mysteriously disappeared in two years, state officials said. It marks a 90% drop in their population.

Ben Daly, a researcher with ADF&G, is investigating where the crabs have gone. He monitors the health of the state's fisheries, which produce 60% of the nation's seafood.

"Disease is one possibility," Daly told CBS News.

He also points to climate change. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Alaska is the fastest warming state in the country, and is losing billions of tons of ice each year — critical for crabs that need cold water to survive.

"Environmental conditions are changing rapidly," Daly said. "We've seen warm conditions in the Bering Sea the last couple of years, and we're seeing a response in a cold adapted species, so it's pretty obvious this is connected. It is a canary in a coal mine for other species that need cold water."

Prout said that there needs to be a relief program for fisherman, similar to programs for farmers who experience crop failure, or communities affected by hurricanes or flooding.

When asked what fishermen can do in this situation, with their livelihoods dependent on the ocean, Prout responded, "Hope and pray. I guess that's the best way to say it."

10/13/2022

A former Louisville Metro Police Department officer used law enforcement technology as part of a scheme that involved hacking the Snapchat accounts of young women and using s*xually explicit photos and videos they had taken to extort them, federal prosecutors said in court documents filed on Tuesday.

According to a sentencing memorandum, Bryan Wilson used his law enforcement access to Accurint, a powerful data-combing software used by police departments to assist in investigations, to obtain information about potential victims. He would then share that information with a hacker, who would hack into private Snapchat accounts to obtain s*xually explicit photos and videos.

If s*xually explicit material was obtained, Wilson would then contact the women, threatening to post the photos and videos online and share them with their friends, family, employer and co-workers unless more s*xually explicit material was provided to him.

In June, the DOJ announced that Wilson, 36 at the time, had pleaded guilty to a cyberstalking charge as well as to a charge related to what LMPD has called “Slushygate,” a series of incidents in which Wilson and other officers assaulted pedestrians by throwing beverages out of unmarked patrol vehicles, sometimes filming their exploits.

According to prosecutors, the FBI determined that Wilson was involved in the hacking of 25 accounts and made contact with eight women.

At least one of the victims had their s*xually explicit photos and videos sent to their employer, which prosecutors said “almost resulted in her termination.”

Prosecutors recommended that Wilson receive “a sentence at the lowest end of the applicable sentencing guidelines” as a result of his guilty plea to both the “Slushygate” charge and the cyberstalking charge.

Former LMPD officer Curt Flynn, who also pleaded guilty in “Slushygate,” has been recommended to receive three years of probation with a condition that he work in community service.

Wilson faces a maximum of 15 years in prison while Flynn faces a maximum of 10 years.

Both men are scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 19.

LMPD has said that Flynn resigned in June and Wilson resigned in July of 2020.

10/12/2022

Tonight at the LA mayoral debate:

Moderator: “The next mayor of Los Angeles will be either an African-American woman or a white man.”

Billionaire Mayor Candidate Rick Caruso: “…I’m Italian. That’s Latin, thank you.”

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10/09/2022

Three Latino members of the Los Angeles City Council and a top county labor official held a conversation last fall that included racist remarks, derisive statements about their colleagues and council President Nury Martinez saying a white councilman handled his young Black son as though he were an “accessory,” according to a recording of the meeting reviewed by The Times.

Martinez referred to the councilman’s child as “ese changuito,” or that little monkey, soon after.

During the conversation with Councilmembers Gil Cedillo and Kevin de León and Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera, Martinez also described Councilmember Mike Bonin at one point as a “little bitch.”

De León appeared to compare Bonin’s handling of his child to Martinez holding a Louis Vuitton handbag. He also referred to Bonin as the council’s “fourth Black member.”

“Mike Bonin won’t f—ing ever say peep about Latinos. He’ll never say a f—ing word about us,” he said.

The conversation took place in October 2021 and focused heavily on council members’ frustration with maps that had been proposed by the city’s 21-member redistricting commission.

Martinez said that Bonin appeared with his son on a float in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade that featured a number of politicians. She also said the child was “an accessory.”

De León seemed to compare Bonin’s handling of the child to “when Nury brings her little yard bag or the Louis Vuitton bag.”

“Su negrito, like on the side,” Martinez said, using a Spanish diminutive term for a Black person that can be considered demeaning.

Martinez suggested the child was misbehaving on the float and might have tipped over the float if she and the other women on the float didn’t step in to “parent this kid.”

“They’re raising him like a little white kid,” Martinez said. “I was like, this kid needs a beatdown. Let me take him around the corner and then I’ll bring him back.”

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10/06/2022

Iranian security forces stole the body of a 16-year-old protester, and buried her secretly in a village, sources close to the family told .

The family had planned to bury Nika Shakarami on Monday, but her body was snatched and buried in a village about 40km (25 miles) away, the sources said.

Nika went missing for 10 days after protesting in Tehran on 20 September.

In her last message to a friend she said she was being chased by security forces, her aunt told BBC Persian.

Nika's family finally found her body in a morgue at a detention centre in the capital.

"When we went to identify her, they didn't allow us to see her body, only her face for a few seconds," said Atash Shakarami, Nika's aunt.

Nika's family transferred her body to her father's hometown of Khorramabad in the west of the country on Sunday - on what would have been her 17th birthday.

Under duress the family agreed not to hold a funeral but security forces "stole" Nika's body from and buried it in the village of , one source said.

Hundreds of protesters gathered in Khorramabad cemetery and chanted slogans against the government, including "death to the dictator" - a reference to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.

Atash, who posted about Nika on her social media accounts, was arrested on Sunday when security forces raided her house, a source said.

The security forces threatened to kill Atash if anyone in the family took part in protests, the source added.

10/05/2022

The Onion has some serious things to say in defense of parody.

The satirical site that manages to persuade people to believe the absurd has filed a Supreme Court brief in support of a man who was arrested and prosecuted for making fun of police on social media.

“As the globe’s premier parodists, The Onion’s writers also have a self-serving interest in preventing political authorities from imprisoning humorists,” lawyers for The Onion wrote in a brief filed Monday. “This brief is submitted in the interest of at least mitigating their future punishment.”

The court filing doesn’t entirely keep a straight face, calling the federal judiciary “total Latin dorks.”

The Onion said it employs 350,000 people, is read by 4.3 trillion people and “has grown into the single most powerful and influential organization in human history.”

The Supreme Court case involves Anthony Novak, who was arrested after he spoofed the Parma, Ohio, police force in Facebook posts.

The posts were published over 12 hours and included an announcement of new police hiring “strongly encouraging minorities to not apply.” Another post promoted a fake event in which child s*x offenders could be “removed from the s*x offender registry and accepted as an honorary police officer.”

After being acquitted of criminal charges, the man sued the police for violating his constitutional rights. But a federal appeals court ruled the officers have “qualified immunity” and threw out the lawsuit.

One issue is whether people might reasonably have believed that what they saw on Novak’s site was real.

But The Onion said Novak had no obligation to post a disclaimer. “Put simply, for parody to work, it has to plausibly mimic the original,” The Onion said, noting its own tendency to mimic “the dry tone of an Associated Press news story.”

10/01/2022

Near sundown one night this week in West Texas, a white jail warden and his twin brother allegedly drove past a group of migrants trekking through the desert. Then, authorities say, the warden stopped the truck and backed up.

Migrants scrambled to hide in the brush and later told authorities they could hear a man’s voice cursing at them to “come out.” Then the warden allegedly fired a pair of shotgun blasts in their direction.

“Did you get him?” the warden’s brother allegedly asked him, according to a state affidavit released Friday.

A man in the group was killed, and a woman was shot in the abdomen. The brothers allegedly drove away without checking to see whether anyone had been hit, investigators said.

Authorities identified the alleged shooter as Michael “Mike” Sheppard, the warden of a privately run detention center that for years held immigrants facing deportation. His twin brother, Mark Sheppard, allegedly was with him. The two 60-year-olds are facing manslaughter charges and are jailed in El Paso County.

Michael Sheppard worked at the West Texas Detention Center. The jail, which holds federal detainees awaiting trial or sentencing, is operated by LaSalle Corrections. The county owns the facility, according to federal records.

In a 2018 report, immigrant advocates and attorneys alleged that dozens of African migrants were pepper sprayed and beaten at the jail while being housed in unsanitary conditions and subjected to racial slurs. Detainees also denounced a lack of access to clean water and medical services.

09/28/2022

Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that would offer more protections for farmworkers while voting for union elections.

For weeks, Newsom has been facing pressure nationally and locally to sign Assembly Bill 2183, which has been the rallying point for a group of farmworkers advocating for the bill.

The group representing the United Farm Workers had undergone a 24-day, 335-mile journey from Kern County near Bakersfield to the state Capitol, a march that civil rights activist César Chávez first led in 1966. The march this year started Aug. 3.

Newsom, to the dismay of the farmworkers, announced near the end of their march that he would not sign the bill as it was and said he was open to discussion.

A release from the governor's office states that the governor, the UFW and the California Labor Federation agreed to work on clarifying language to be passed during next year's legislative session to address concerns Newsom had about implementing the bill and voting integrity.

Regardless, the farmworkers continued to rally at the Capitol, earning recognition from several well-known figures.

President Joe Biden earlier in September announced his support for AB 2183 and called on the governor to sign the bill. On Sept. 21, Tom Morello, the guitarist known for being part of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, played a free concert supporting farmworkers and pressuring Newsom to sign the bill.

Newsom joined farmworkers at the vigil at the Capitol to take pictures.

"California's farmworkers are the lifeblood of our state, and they have the fundamental right to unionize and advocate for themselves in the workplace," Newsom said in the release. "Our state has been defined by the heroic activism of farmworkers, championed by American icons like Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and Larry Itlion. California is proud to stand with the next generation of leaders carrying on this movement."

United Farm Workers President Theresa Romero told KCRA 3 at the time that the bill is similar to the way the state votes for elected officials, allowing workers to have the option of voting in union elections from home and by mail.

09/27/2022

Incarcerated workers at all of Alabama’s major correctional facilities have begun a general strike and protest of conditions and legislation that organizers believe have created “a humanitarian crisis” within the state prison system, according to sources within the correctional system and the Alabama Department of Corrections.

Last week, sources within the Alabama correctional system told APR that the strike and protest would begin on Sept. 26. An additional protest of non-incarcerated individuals, many with friends and family in state prison facilities, occurred concurrently with the strike inside.

Demands include a repeal of the habitual offender act, an end to life without parole, a reduction of the 30-year minimum for juvenile offenders down to 15 years before parole eligibility, and a more streamlined review process for medical furloughs and elderly incarcerated individuals.

Additional demands include presumptive sentencing standards be made retroactive for all incarcerated individuals, a repeal of the drive-by shooting statute, and the creation of a statewide conviction integrity unit.

“This crisis has occurred as a result of antiquated sentencing laws that led to overcrowding, numerous deaths, severe physical injury, as well as mental anguish to incarcerated individuals,” organizers said in a letter of demands delivered to the ADOC main office in Montgomery by outside organizers on Monday. “This humanitarian crisis led to the Department of Justice filing suit against Kay Ivey and the ADOC. Yet, nothing has changed or gotten better, only worse.”

A spokesperson for the Alabama Department of Corrections confirmed on Monday that there have been reports of worker stoppages “at all major Correctional Facilities in the state.”

Incarcerated workers provide the majority of essential services to correctional facilities, from working as cooks and servers in prison kitchens, as runners, as maintenance and upkeep services workers, as well as production of furniture, clothing, and license plates that are mostly sent outside of the prison system.

As of June, the month-end population systemwide for the ADOC was 19,992 incarcerated individuals.

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Body cam footage of a legally blind man being arrested for “resisting arrest” a week ago by Columbia County Sheriff’s deputies in #Florida after one of them stopped him claiming his walking stick was a gun. Original Video: https://youtu.be/k5yNlwCQpO0

“They don’t keep us safe. We keep us safe. Riots work.” A community member named Alex giving a speech yesterday in #SaintPaul #Minnesota while receiving the “Saint Paul Police Chief’s Award For Valor”. Last year Alex was on his way to work and saved someone’s life while they were bleeding out from a gunshot wound. Alex says in the speech that police sped past the area instead of stopping to provide aid. Video via @onsitepublicmedia on YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/drCCy2vNuDc Video Title on YouTube: “Saint Paul Police Chief’s Award for Valor Recipient

Tonight at the LA mayoral debate: Moderator: “The next mayor of Los Angeles will be either an African-American woman or a white man.” Billionaire Mayor Candidate Rick Caruso: “…I’m Italian. That’s Latin, thank you.” Video via @peoplescitycouncil

Protesters in #Amol #Iran force police back a few days ago. Over 30 people have been killed across the country during protests against the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Jina (Mahsa) Amini after she was detained by “morality police” in Tehran. For almost a week, there have been running battles between demonstrators and security forces in almost 90 cities and towns. #tehran #mahsaamini #jinaamini #mahsa_amini #news

Knox County Sheriff Deputy Shoots Partner Trying To Shoot Dog The Knox County Sheriff’s Office has released more details about the incident that led to one deputy shooting his partner on July 5. On Thursday, body camera footage was released showing the incident in more detail. Deputy Lydia Driver was called out along with several other officers to a home on Brickyard Road to serve a warrant. Two of those officers had gone around to the side of the home when a dog rushed at them from off in the dark. The sheriff’s office says Deputy Jordan Hurst was trying to shoot the dog but missed, hitting Driver instead. After the shots are fired, Driver is heard screaming in pain. She also screams out she’s been shot. Officers then begin giving aid to Driver. A tourniquet is placed on her leg. Hurst is heard asking Driver if she is OK while trying to keep her from going unconscious. He is also heard frantically calling for help on his radio. The dog was in quarantine at Young Williams Animal Center for 10 days, as required by state law. Article: https://www.wjhl.com/news/video-dog-attack-leads-to-knox-county-deputy-accidentally-shooting-partner/ #knoxcounty #tennessee #knoxville

UC Berkeley law professor Khiara Bridges wrecked US Senator Josh Harley today during a senate committee hearing.

Mask all the way off. John Bolton, Former National Security Advisor for Trump today on CNN admitting to planning coups overseas: Jake Tapper (CNN News Anchor): I don’t know if I agree with you with all due respect. One doesn’t have to be brilliant to attempt a coup John Bolton: I disagree with that as somebody who has helped plan coups, not here but other places…

Akron Police arrested Jacob Blake’s father and brutally assaulted an activist tonight at a protest demanding justice for Jayland Walker. Police have been tear gassing, assaulting, and arresting activists in #Akron over the past week. Video via @jolly_good_ginger #jaylandwalker #akronohio

Illinois US Representative Mary Miller tonight: “President Trump… I want to thank you for the historic victory for white life in the Supreme Court yesterday.”

LAPD assaulting a legal observer and shooting “less lethal” munitions at activists last night in Los Angeles. Video via @samuelbraslow on Twitter #prochoice #reproductiverights #reproductivehealth #abortionishealthcare #supremecourt #roevwade

Utah State Representative Karianne Lisonbee yesterday: “I do trust women enough to control when they allow a man to ejaculate inside of them and to control that intake of semen” Just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade yesterday, Utah's "trigger law" went into effect and made elective abortions illegal in the state. State Rep. Karianne Lisonbee, who co-sponsored Utah's "trigger law" during the 2020 legislative session, said the ban would become effective once state legislative attorneys certify the Supreme Court decision — which ended up happening Friday evening.

🙄 Joe is telling everyone how to protest… Via @cspan: Joe Biden in a speech today: “I call on everyone, no matter how deeply they care about this decision, to keep all protests peaceful. Peaceful, peaceful, peaceful. No intimidation. Violence is never acceptable. Threats and intimidation are not speech." #abortionrights #abortionishealthcare #scotus #supremecourt #washingtondc #abortion #news

#Puyo #Ecuador the other day as indigenous groups continue to lead anti-government protests across the country for almost a week now. Via @aljazeeraenglish: Indigenous groups in Ecuador have defied a state of emergency imposed in three provinces as they continue to protest against the government’s economic policies amid rising inflation and unemployment. Demonstrators demanding cheaper fuel and food price controls blocked roads on Saturday, in a sixth day of sometimes violent demonstrations. Police said Indigenous people kept up protests in most of the country’s 24 provinces, including Imbabura, Cotopaxi, and Pichincha, where President Guillermo Lasso declared a state of emergency late on Friday. Ecuador has been hit by rising inflation, unemployment and poverty exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Fuel prices have risen sharply since 2020, almost doubling for diesel from $1 to $1.90 per gallon and rising from $1.75 to $2.55 for petrol. The anti-government protest launched by the country’s Indigenous community – which numbers more than a million of Ecuador’s 17.7 million inhabitants – was joined by students, workers and other groups. Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) said it will maintain the road blockades until the government meets 10 demands, including the reduction of prices to $1.50 for diesel and $2.10 for petrol, a demand the government has so far rejected. Its other demands include food price controls and renegotiating the personal bank loans of about four million families. #ecuador #pastaza #puyo

The city of San Diego throws away the tents of our unhoused neighbors without looking what is in them, and they always throw away important personal belongings. This man had his wallet, ID, all his important paperwork thrown in the trash recently because the City just throws away everything without any care. When activists call them out, they say people are either lying or that they always do a thorough job of looking and saving important items. Imagine trying to survive and all your stuff gets thrown away and then the mayor and his communications office claiming it didn’t happen, despite several different forms of proof. This happens daily in San Diego. Video via @homelessnessnewssandiego

“After 31 members of the white nationalist group Patriot Front were arrested near an Idaho Pride event, U-Haul released a commercial to address the incident.” Video via @iamgabesanchez on Twitter

White supremacist group Patriot Front getting detained in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho today at an annual Pride in the Park event after they arrived in a Uhaul. Several fascists, right wing militias, and other white nationalists gathered at the event to spread hate and harass the pride event. Videos via @r3volutiondaddy on Twitter #coeurdalene #idaho #pride #pride2022

The January 6th House committee held its first public hearing last night and also released this video. They will be holding 5 more public hearings this month detailing their investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Will y’all be watching. Y’all think anyone in the Trump admin will ever face any real consequences or will it be worse in 2024? #january6th #jan6 #politics #news #uscapitol #washingtondc

Protesters took over and burned the 3rd precinct of the Minneapolis Police Department exactly 2 years ago today during the George Floyd uprising. This moment during the historical rebellion highlighted the truly revolutionary anti-state tone of the uprising as hundreds of cities across the country (autonomously and mostly without central leadership) started to join in solidarity with Minneapolis to protest and fight back against racist police terror. #mpls #minneapolis #georgefloyd #protest #uprising #rebellion

Ted Cruz getting called out while eating yesterday in #Texas. Video via @/ohhopey on TikTok #houston #houstontx #houstontexas #uvalde #uvaldetx #uvaldetexas