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#civilrights

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And so I stepped away.

Volunteering with these folks has been fulfilling and fun but now I can’t/won’t do it anymore.

The #civilrights #coalition of which #Jews have been a mainstay is crumbling due to the #antisemitism
of the very people with whom we’ve allied for decades. The betrayal is bitter, but the implications are more bitter still.

If the far left continues to remain ignorant and myopic, insisting on purity tests and axiomatically excluding anyone they believe doesn’t pass, then #liberals as a whole are in serious trouble.

We can’t afford this bullshit, not now, when we’re faced with pure evil and the imminent demise of #democracy. We have a battle to win, perhaps the most important fight any of us will ever engage in.

When you’re sharing a foxhole you should be focusing on the enemy, not on the perceived flaws of your brother-in-arms. Shame on the far left for ignoring that rather obvious advice.

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There are no words for how garbage this is. If you currently give money to Amazon in any capacity, please stop.

"Not only is the company reintroducing new versions of old features which would allow police to request footage directly from Ring users, it is also introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices.

[Ring founder Jamie] Siminoff has announced in a memo seen by Business Insider that the company will now be reimagined from the ground up to be “AI first”—whatever that means for a home security camera that lets you see who is ringing your doorbell. We fear that this may signal the introduction of video analytics or face recognition to an already problematic surveillance device."

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/amaz

Electronic Frontier Foundation · Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass SurveillanceRing founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices. Not only is the company reintroducing new versions of old features which would allow police to...
#Surveillance#Privacy#Police

‘#GoodTrouble’ #protesters rally in #BangorME against the #Trump administration

by Annie Rupertus July 17, 2025

"About 200 people gathered on Stillwater Avenue near the Bangor Mall Thursday evening to rally against the Trump administration in honor of the late congressman and civil rights activist #JohnLewis.

"The event was the latest in a series of nationwide protests broadly opposing President Donald Trump’s policies, with '#GoodTroubleLivesOn' events planned in more than 1,500 locations across all 50 states, according to The Guardian.

"More than 20 Maine communities participated in Thursday’s protests. The Bangor event was organized by #IndivisibleBangor, a progressive advocacy group that formed after the 2016 election to oppose Trump’s agenda. Indivisible has thousands of chapters across the country.

"The protest aimed to embody Lewis’s appeal for Americans to get into 'good trouble, #NecessaryTrouble,' in pursuit of #SocialJustice, according to organizer Mary Ann Larson.

" 'People are waking up,' Larson said, noting she was especially concerned about the recently passed budget reconciliation bill and what it will mean for #RuralMaine hospitals and people who rely on #FoodStamps funded by the federal government.

"Thursday’s protest attendees were mostly older adults. Many brought American flags and pro-democracy signs with messages like '#NoKings in America' and 'imagine being afraid of #diversity more than #dictatorship' — similar messaging to the larger 'No Kings' rally last month, which saw more than 1,000 participants in Bangor.

"The group seemed to get mostly positive responses from drivers passing by on the busy Bangor road, who often honked or waved out of their windows at the crowd lined up on the curb between Chick-fil-A and Washville.

"One attendee, artist Bernice Cross, wore a handmade jacket with painted American flag imagery. She drove to the protest from Greenbush in a car she painted with abstract art and #BlackLivesMatter messaging in 2020 in response to the murder of #GeorgeFloyd by a Minneapolis police officer.

"Cross came out because 'I love America,' she said, and in her view, Trump is destroying America and the values it was founded on.

"For Cynthia Purmort and Mary Ann Labue of Cape Cod, who drove down to Bangor from their camp in Willimantic, a desire to defend the Constitution and individual freedoms were key in bringing them out to the protest.

" 'These are desperate times,' Purmort said.

"Many rallygoers also mentioned defending #immigrants as a key issue, with some chanting, 'Hey hey! Ho ho! #StephenMiller’s got to go' in reference to Trump’s #HomelandSecurity advisor.

"Multiple protesters also expressed concerns about the measure approved by the Senate Thursday that would slash funding for #PublicBroadcasting and international aid [#USAID].

"Thursday’s rally was planned to coincide with the five-year anniversary of Lewis’s death.

"He was a key figure in the #CivilRights Movement who spent decades advocating for #RacialJustice and nonviolent #resistance. He is especially known for leading over 600 voting rights protesters on an #Alabama march from #SelmaToMontgomery in 1965 that is widely credited with spurring the passage of the landmark #VotingRightsAct.

"Alabama state troopers attacked the nonviolent marchers on Selma’s #EdmundPettusBridge and fractured Lewis’s skull, but he survived and later was elected to represent an Atlanta district in the U.S. Congress in 1986, serving until he died of pancreatic cancer in 2020."

Source:
bangordailynews.com/2025/07/17

Bangor Daily News · ‘Good trouble’ protesters rally in Bangor against the Trump administrationBy Annie Rupertus
#MaineResists#ResistICE#ACAB

Today in Labor History July 18, 1966: Start of the 6-day Hough Uprising in Cleveland, Ohio. 1,700 National Guards intervened. 4 African Americans died. 50 people were injured. City officials blamed black nationalists and communists, but the real causes were poverty and racism. Over 66,000 people, lived in Hough. 90% of them were black. The neighborhood suffered from racially segregated and inferior schools, lack of routine garbage collection, no street cleaning, and 20% of all housing units officially dilapidated, many owned by absentee white landlords. Meanwhile, the racially segregated police stoked racial tensions. 20% of Cleveland's major crimes were committed in Hough, even though it had only 7% of the city's population, and only 165 of Cleveland's 2,100 police officers were African American. In 1963-1964, a coalition of African American civil rights groups led a nine-month protest campaign against the poor-quality, racially segregated schools and racial discrimination against blacks by labor unions. The protests were Cleveland's first large, racial protests, and their failure to achieve significant progress sent the message that negotiation and legal action produced only limited results.

#workingclass#LaborHistory#uprising

I hope this guy sues ICE and ICE Barbie and is all over the news with his story. It's so wrong.
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According to Retes, he was in custody for three days without being charged, without access to a phone call, and without legal representation. He said he was never told why he had been arrested and received no medical attention despite being “covered in tear gas and OC spray for days.”

"This is not how any American should be treated — especially not a veteran who served this country with honor,” he said. “I didn’t break any law. I was just trying to go to work.” #ICE #DHS #CivilRights #Veterans #GremlinZoo
ktla.com/news/local-news/disab

George Retes, U.S. citizen detained at Camarillo marijuana farm
KTLA · Disabled veteran detained during immigration raid speaks out, alleges civil rights violationsBy Angelique Brenes
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The trauma of racial profiling is real, and its effects—especially on youth—are long-lasting.

We must ensure that public spaces remain safe and welcoming—not sites of fear or intimidation.

Your voice matters. Don’t let silence win. Know your rights, and protect the rights of those you serve.

Link to story: abc7ny.com/post/nyc-youth-base

#America#Democracy#Coach

"Good Trouble Lives On" protests against the Trump administration are scheduled to take place across the U.S. on July 17, which is the fifth anniversary of the death of John Lewis. Here's @AxiosNews's summary of what they're all about. At the second link, find a searchable map of where events will be taking place.

flip.it/dUHPuV

goodtroubleliveson.org/
#USPolitics #TrumpAdministration #Protests #NoKings #GoodTrouble #JohnLewis #CivilRights #GoodTroubleLivesOn

A map of the U.S. showing the locations of "Good Trouble Lives On" protest events planned for July 17, 2025. There were at least 1,200 in-person events planned in cities as of July 11.
Axios · What to know about "Good Trouble Lives On" protestsBy April Rubin

I'd like to take a moment to talk about a regional PNW news story about resistance to the Gestapo, because I think Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's response to it is at once very typical of the regime's fascist propaganda style, and also crude enough to perhaps expose the direction the fascist shitshow that is Trump 2.0 is heading. After semi-anonymous groups of heroic citizens worked to publicly identify masked ICE Gestapo agents openly violating the civil rights of Oregonians, noted puppy murderer Noem promised swift prosecution of “anarchist and Antifa-affiliated groups” who acquire or share "personal information" of federal law enforcement officials who work for the government.

oregonlive.com/crime/2025/07/i (archived: archive.ph/0cm2B)

ICE officers doxxed by antifa, anarchists in Portland, Noem says

"Noem, in a statement and photos, identified Rose City Antifa, “Rose City Counter-Info,” and “The Crustian Daily,” as groups that have published names, photos and personal addresses of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers on their websites or put up fliers in the officers’ neighborhoods. In one case, trash was dumped on the front lawn of an officer’s property, but the location was not disclosed.

“We will prosecute those who dox ICE agents to the fullest extent of the law. These criminals are taking the side of vicious cartels and human traffickers,” Noem said in the statement. “We won’t allow it in America.”

So, before we get into what I think Noem's belligerence has exposed about how the Trump regime intends to market the transformation of the United States into a white ethnostate executive branch dictatorship with theocratic characteristics, I just want to clear up an point of order here. ICE agents are public law enforcement officials, who are issued numbered badges, and work for the government; it is categorically impossible to dox someone who shouldn't be allowed to run through American cities wearing neck gaiters pulled up over their faces like a CIA-trained Latin American death squad. So, right off the bat we've got the DHS Secretary arguing that people who haven't broken a law are guilty because they exposed people, Gestapo pigs, who actually are breaking the law, or at least openly violating the civil and constitutional rights of both migrants and American citizens alike.

Don't sleep on Gestapo Barbie's attempts to revive the "Antifa and anarchist scare" that characterized the first Trump administration's justification for using federal agents to conduct blatantly illegal operations in cities they consider politically hostile either. Trump and the pigs loyal to him have spent a very long time trying to get you to associate "Portland" with "lawless anarchist violence" and "Antifa terrorism" and I don't think it's any sort of accident that she's invoking that trope again now.

What I think is most revealing here however is that Noem couldn't resist tying all of this back to the regime's threats against "sanctuary cities" - which as the article notes, has also been a key talking point being put forward by Trump's Border Czar, Tom Homan recently. This context, which Noem wasn't required to provide, paints a giant target on Portland, for the type of militarized invasion and occupation we've been watching for weeks in Los Angeles.

Now, you gentle reader might think it would be ridiculous to pretend an American city had been taken over by "Antifa terrorists" in league with Democrat officials, and therefore needed to be brought to heel by militarized federal forces, and nobody could blame you for that - the problem is, the first Trump administration made precisely that argument already, repeatedly in 2020, and started using Federal Marshals to black bag protestors and suspected antifascists right off the streets of Portland. The only thing that stopped Downmarket Mussolini from fully invading a bunch of Democrat-controlled cities back then was a lack of military buy-in, and I think the ongoing invasion and occupation of LA demonstrates that won't be a problem with Pete Hegseth running the Department of Defense and a 6-3 fascist high Supreme Court.

oregonlive · ICE officers doxxed by antifa, anarchists in Portland, Noem saysBy Maxine Bernstein | The Oregonian/OregonLive
#Fascism#Trump#DHS
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