Just like that Boeing whistleblower who committed suicide after taking a lot of effort to travel to and prepare himself to testify against them. People just tend to feel the most depressed after they make plans to take down (other) powerful people.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the law enforcement agency that patrols unincorporated Los Angeles County, said that federal law makes the department unable to enforce the ban.

This is at best a question for the DA or a court, not the chief of police. He’s the top worker bee, not a decider of what could in the most tolerant interpretation be an area of ambiguous law. If he doesn’t like enforcing the law as dictated by his civilian overlords and the current instructions of his corresponding court system, he should quit. And since he won’t, he should be fired.

YouTube being broadcast in Israel is not an inherent moral good to be balanced against censorship. And honestly Israel’s threats are almost certainly bullshit. Israel is culturally integrated with the West and YouTube is a vital platform for their businesses and propaganda efforts. They wouldn’t “just block YouTube”.

Feels like it’s probably the first agency that said yes to the regime. If there was a case here it would clearly be a FBI matter, with no masks, but since FBI has a higher strain of professionalism, the fascism is taking longer to fully take hold.

IIRC, he’s starting negotiations in the middle and is eager to give up even more.

Private property existing isn’t state repression though. It’s morally cool to fuck with their private property, but it’s not repression to acknowledge the business owner (or manager probably) does get to call the cops to trespass people fully on their property who refuse to leave.

Getting arrested is a statement of convictions, you’re going to do something even though it’s illegal because the cause is worth it. It’s not a statement that whatever you’re being arrested for is inherently an illegitimate law.

And ban every field agent from ever working for the government or local law enforcement in the future. No renaming and keeping most of the staff. No shuttling them off to be brown shirts elsewhere. They’re all tainted.

I’m confused by this whole story. How were the Hostage Response Team or even Mexican police involved if he was surrendering himself at the US embassy? I’m also confused by his lawyer’s account about being surprised to be handcuffed. How did he think this was going to work?

That’s gotta be part of a bit. That’s about as useless a weapon or tool as you can get.

Because getting arrested means more coverage. Which is a good thing, but also not some big scandal these weird accounts want to make of it. There’s a long history of protesters getting intentionally arrested as part of their protest.

I don’t think anyone engaged in that protest didn’t expect to be arrested. They were inside the hotel rather than on the public sidewalk to force just such an action. Getting arrested to generate coverage was part of the plan. So what exactly is this story about?

Literally arrest them. You just listed a bunch of criminal actions. Cops arresting criminals is their whole raison d’être.

Being willing to be a criminal doesn’t mean you’re immune to law enforcement nor does just declaring immunity. And even if they do beat the charges, cops have been punishing people with arrests that won’t stick for their entire existence.

Cops 100% could be pulling over rented minivans with no plates. In the worst case they get some dash cam footage of ICE refusing a lawful order. They don’t because this is what they voted for.

The only thing I see local law enforcement doing is occasionally protecting ICE, so I’m not sure why they’d be overwhelmed.

It had union buy in to organize the union members. A strong core to let people know it was serious and they wouldn’t be alone. But that didn’t manage the other people who joined.

I do agree that this is less organized and without enough prep time. The same thing needs to happen with national unions providing the core to make it real, then the more exposed workers can get the confidence to act. You don’t need unions from top to bottom though.

I think we shouldn’t need for-profit news sources to provide us with factual information, but if public interest reports are free, what news can’t be argued to be public interest? And would anyone want to pay solely to access those fringe stories?

A general strike happened in Minneapolis without that level of organization.

He’s getting fired because he flubbed the PR. Their lies were too audacious and too easily disproven to be fully accepted at desired numbers within their base. Steven Miller is reportedly one of his main detractors.

This is the same guy who said Mamdani and AOC should leave the party, blamed trans people for Harris’s loss, and who endorsed Cuomo rather than the Democratic nominee in the NYC mayoral election. I’m sure he’s learned his lesson and will do better the next time.

It is really weird how her profile was raised in the 2020 presidential primaries, because you’re right, she’s really unimpressive. Some other moderates are really charismatic or have really impressive personal stories, but she’s just kind of a generic mediocre politician with nothing particularly interesting to say.

Drew Evans, superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said during a news conference that federal officers blocked his agency from the shooting scene, and when they returned with a signed judicial warrant, they were still blocked.

And then, despite having the police and national guard available to secure a crime scene from the murderers themselves, they threw up their hands and tutted disapprovingly.