From coordinating wildfire relief to blocking ICE buses, community organizers say Los Angeles County residents keep proving that in a city of strangers, nobody fights alone. Over the past three days, thousands of people in Los Angeles heeded calls from organizers to join protests against ICE and help their undocumented neighbors. — Read on lapublicpress.org/2025/06/ice-raids-separate-families-but-bring-los-angeles-together/
Author Archives: aidarends
The National Guard in Los Angeles | Lawfare
The president hasn’t invoked the Insurrection Act. He’s instead relying on a theory of inherent constitutional power that is far more limited. — Read on http://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-national-guard-in-los-angeles
Victory! Austin Organizers Cancel City’s Flock ALPR Contract | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Austin organizers turned out to rebuke the city’s misguided contract with Flock Safety— and won. This successful pushback from the community means at the end of the month Austin police will no longer be able to use the surveillance network of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) across the city…. — Read on http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/victory-austin-organizers-cancel-citys-flock-alpr-contract
Machine Learning MAGA: Rise of the Christian Cyborg – Truthdig
There are signs that the transhumanism of Elon Musk is merging with the traditionalism of Steve Bannon. — Read on http://www.truthdig.com/articles/machine-learning-maga-rise-of-the-christian-cyborg/
Recent FBI activity in the Seattle Area – Puget Sound Prisoner Support
If you are a participant in the radical left in any capacity, it is important that the people you live with understand that the police and the FBI should not be allowed into the home. You do not need to talk to federal agents, and they cannot gain entrance to your home without a warrant. Continue reading “Recent FBI activity in the Seattle Area – Puget Sound Prisoner Support”
Israel sets food traps across Gaza – Good Shepherd Collective
Over the last week Israel bypassed the UN and seized sole control of aid deliveries to Gaza. The new scheme funnels the besieged population toward four fenced distribution points in the extreme south of the Gaza Strip, guarded by drones, Israeli forces, and 300 heavily armed U.S. contractors from the hastily formed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.Continue reading “Israel sets food traps across Gaza – Good Shepherd Collective”
Marketing Authoritarianism
Mimicking his Salvadoran ally Nayib Bukele, Trump is using spectacles of disappearance to project a total power he does not yet possess. — Read on jewishcurrents.org/marketing-authoritarianism-trump-bukele-disappearance-videos
It’s in Europe’s interest to put sanctions on Israel
Limiting trade, travel and freezing foreign reserves would show the EU is willing to act independently of the US — Read on http://www.ft.com/content/8a82a52f-c02b-452b-b7df-ba3bcf94c1e0
Fundraiser by Megan B : Urgent aid for HIND RAJABBS MOM & BROTHER AYADD
Her name is WISSAM RAJABB. She is known by millions of hearts all over the world as the mother of HIND RAJABB. — Read on http://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-aid-for-hind-rajabbs-mom-and-brother-ayadd
Letters
On immigration, socialist demands should include full labour and civic rights for migrants, full entitlement to benefits, unionisation across the economy, and an undoing of vulnerabilities that contribute to the super-exploitation of migrants. — Read on http://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n07/letters
Aida Rends 