This needs to be required watching for everyone here, even and especially the folks who show up to complain that police are somehow unjustly maligned today....
“I spent more than 12 hours reporting from the Gaza Solidarity Occupation at USC today. I didn’t see any antisemitism. What I did see was militarized police arrest pro-Palestinian students who were peacefully protesting,” stated Spectrum News journalist Jeremy Lindenfeld....
Even as APD has moved into compliance with nearly every reform mandated by a U.S. Department of Justice consent decree, nothing has rectified the department’s most glaring problem: the fact that it has more police shootings now than ever....
Around 6:30 p.m. on May 26, Brittany Shamily was at home with her children, including an infant, when police used a battering ram to bust in her front door. “What the hell is going on?” she screamed, terrified for herself and her family. “I got a three-month-old baby!”...
Let me add a side dish of - I’m increasingly convinced they want a system designed such that we can all work to increase the wealth of the 1% right up to the moment we drop dead in our cubicles.
Sofia Orr is likely to become the first woman since then to be jailed for refusing military service, but believes it is ‘wrong to take children and make them into soldiers’
“I will no longer be complicit in genocide [in Gaza]. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” the man apparently said before setting himself alight and repeatedly shouting “Free Palestine!”...
I read that and was like “of fucking course they did.” Honestly the next paragraph makes it even worse, IMO.
Authorities were heard asking the man – “May I help you, sir?” – at first but as soon as he was engulfed in flames they started yelling at him to get down on the ground. They even drew their guns on the burning man before someone pushed them to get fire extinguishers to extinguish the fire.
Threats of physical violence are the only tool they have in their toolbox. THE ONLY tool.
Gen Z seems to be refusing to swallow the bullshit the rest of us grew up having fed to us. A shame I’ll be close to aging out by the time they get much political power.
Brother Ali - Uncle Sam Goddamn (youtu.be)
Lyrics genius.com/Brother-ali-uncle-sam-goddamn-lyrics
Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World (2023) ⭐ 7.6 | Documentary, History, Music (www.imdb.com)
This needs to be required watching for everyone here, even and especially the folks who show up to complain that police are somehow unjustly maligned today....
Never Forget (mander.xyz)
After Raids, NYPD Denied Student Protesters Water and Food in Jail (also there were beatings) (theintercept.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/14986044...
MC5 - The American Ruse (1969) Rock (youtu.be)
“The American Ruse”...
The Strawberry Statement (1970) ⭐ 6.6 | Drama, Romance (Topical - sorta) (www.imdb.com)
Edit - I don’t know why the the imdb link is shown in french. I assure you this is not a french film....
Nobody wants to work anymore! (lemmy.world)
LAPD fires riot munitions, makes mass arrests at USC pro-Palestine protest (www.dailykos.com)
“I spent more than 12 hours reporting from the Gaza Solidarity Occupation at USC today. I didn’t see any antisemitism. What I did see was militarized police arrest pro-Palestinian students who were peacefully protesting,” stated Spectrum News journalist Jeremy Lindenfeld....
Gaza: Children killed as Israeli strike on playground leaves 11 dead (www.thenational.scot)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14384693...
Where are your screws, HDMI? (lemmy.world)
But how would they be able to live on that? (lemmy.world)
Can the Albuquerque Police Department ever be reformed? | Searchlight New Mexico (searchlightnm.org)
Even as APD has moved into compliance with nearly every reform mandated by a U.S. Department of Justice consent decree, nothing has rectified the department’s most glaring problem: the fact that it has more police shootings now than ever....
The only Confederate flag to remember (lemmy.ml)
nationalgeographic.com/…/confederate-dish-towel-a…
Happy Appomattox Day! (lemmy.ml)
Meta cancelled climate change ads, then cancelled a local newspaper that reported about the ads, then a blogger who reported on the paper's cancellation, and now has escalated to blocking all of LGF (littlegreenfootballs.com)
U.S. Spy Agency Dreams of Surveillance Underwear It’s Calling "SMART ePANTS" (theintercept.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/6409289...
Why did more than 1,000 people die after police subdued them with force that isn't meant to kill? (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/18331579...
SWAT Team Raids Innocent Family Over Stolen AirPods Dropped on Their Street (www.riverfronttimes.com)
Around 6:30 p.m. on May 26, Brittany Shamily was at home with her children, including an infant, when police used a battering ram to bust in her front door. “What the hell is going on?” she screamed, terrified for herself and her family. “I got a three-month-old baby!”...
The House GOP just gave Biden’s campaign a huge gift: Roughly 80 percent of House Republicans just lined up behind a plan to cut Social Security and ban all abortions (www.vox.com)
Donald Trump would be on track to win a historic landslide in November — if so many US voters didn’t find him personally repugnant....
I’m 18 — and facing jail because I won’t fight for Israel (www.thetimes.co.uk)
US Soldier Sets Himself on Fire outside Israeli Embassy in Washington to Protest Gaza War (www.news18.com)
“I will no longer be complicit in genocide [in Gaza]. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” the man apparently said before setting himself alight and repeatedly shouting “Free Palestine!”...
Gen Z is recording themselves getting fired in growing TikTok trend (www.cbsnews.com)
Gina Carano suing Disney and Lucasfilm over Mandalorian firing with help from Elon Musk (www.theguardian.com)
Kentucky GOP’s New Bill Decriminalizes Use of Deadly Force Against the Unhoused (truthout.org)
“I’m just ashamed that this bill even came into fruition,” a Lexington council member said.
Trump unleashes Truth Social attacks against E Jean Carroll while in court (www.independent.co.uk)
The former president fired off a series of potentially defamatory statements as he arrived in court...