Reposted by EllenRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/06/2025My hunch is that, as we saw with Lafayette Park, National Guard troops are not going to be as compliant as this administration thinks. It’s one thing to unleash cops consumed by warrior cop culture on neighborhoods. Quite another to send reservists who are also accountants, barbers, and teachers. 1644664810 4.7K
Reposted by EllenRay Woodson @raywoodson5.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Stephen Miller talking about “insurrection” when people are exercising their constitutional rights, as he works for an insurrectionist who is burning down the Constitution. This country is upside down. 928170 281
Reposted by EllenChris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 07/06/2025What the fuck is the point of paying money to a police department if they won’t protect people from hostile masked kidnappers? 12238394337 23.8K
Reposted by EllenThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/06/2025LAPD STATEMENT: “The protests remained peaceful… without incident…” 10435371339 3.5K
Reposted by EllenDr. Butch Ware for California Governor 2026 @butchware.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Footage from Minneapolis and LA resisting ICE should remind us; there aren’t enough pigs on the planet to put down a working class uprising. 301291277 1.3K
Reposted by EllenBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/06/2025What country is this? 3385206925033 20.7K
Reposted by EllenRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/06/2025“Strongman” politicians project their supposed strength by attacking immigrants, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community. But these groups of people aren't the "threats" we should be worried about. Who is? The oligarchs who earn their keep by exploiting the rest of us. 16287032269 8.7K
Reposted by EllenRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 08/06/2025The statute that President Trump has invoked - 10 U.S.C. § 12406 - has an important proviso: “orders for these purposes shall be issued through the governors of the States" Great article @justsecurity.org explains that proviso in this February 2024 article:justsecurity.orgBiden Can, But Shouldn’t, Federalize the Texas National GuardInvocation of the Insurrection Act in response to Texas' obstruction of CBP agents at the U.S.-Mexico border would be inappropriate. 241175376 1.2K
Reposted by EllenGod @thegodshow.com · 07/06/2025Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not. 23034883214914 48.8K
Reposted by EllenGovernor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 08/06/2025The federal government is taking over the California National Guard and deploying 2,000 soldiers in Los Angeles — not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle. Don't give them one. Never use violence. Speak out peacefully. 2467236326858 23.6K
Reposted by EllenHeather Thomas @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Stephen Miller is fulfilling his high school wet dream of terrorizing all the Brown people in Los Angeles. My daughter's friends who went to SaMo High with him said he used to seethe while the morning announcements were repeated in Spanish. Hell, they did that when I went there. (Mesozoic age.) 480147223187 14.7K
Ellen @evrlaw.bsky.social · 08/06/2025An over the top Federal political theater response to a matter best addressed by local public safety. Where was Trump's National Guard call out on January 6th? Oh yeah. Forgot those were his people. 010 1
Reposted by EllenChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/06/2025Better safe than sorry… 🚨Heavy ICE Presence Expected in Los Angeles on Sunday. A bilingual warning is being shared with the community — including areas to avoid. Stay alert. Protect each other. Know your rights. 24692754757 9.3K
Reposted by EllenJerrad Christian @jerradchristian.bsky.social · 07/06/2025You guys are keeping us safe from the veterans and the US Marshall you arrested? Keeping us safe from little kids with cancer you deported? The Americans you all kicked out of the house in their underwear when you knocked on the wrong door? Okay, Todd. 🧑🍳💋 #ICE #Immigration #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 931496448 1.5K
Reposted by EllenKarly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 08/06/2025The Obama administration deported over 3.16 million people. Biden’s passed 4.44 million. Not once did either need troops in the streets to do it. That’s all you need to know about what’s happening. 28840313 840
Reposted by EllenRuth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 08/06/2025So do we get why I was banned from speaking about Pinochet at the Naval Academy now? 11280411980 8K
Reposted by EllenJeremy Lindenfeld @jeremotographs.bsky.social · 07/06/2025At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off. 10864441711805 44.4K
Reposted by EllenChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/06/2025ICE rolls in, LA rises up.🔥 If Stephen Miller was looking for immigrants to roll over and just take it from his ICE goons, he picked the wrong f*cking town. Between yesterday in LA City and Paramount today, the community is fighting back. 858144934061 14.5K
Reposted by EllenThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/06/2025Broadway’s “Goodnight and Good Luck,” starring George Clooney, is airing live on CNN tonight. The Post’s theater critic praised the “sensually detailed” play as a timely rallying cry for integrity.wapo.stReview | George Clooney delivers a liberal rallying cry in ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’The actor makes a shrewd Broadway debut as Edward R. Murrow in a handsome adaptation of the 2005 film. 2102454506 2.5K
Reposted by EllenRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Keep up the fight! 973612905 3.6K
Reposted by EllenAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Your safety is the top priority. Peaceful protesters have already been harmed for doing nothing. The story they’re selling isn’t legit. Please film everything, document everything. 206193815090 19.4K
Reposted by EllenKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses. Immigrants, by contrast, did not. 94135383956 13.5K
Reposted by EllenThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/06/2025She has short bowel syndrome, and only the U.S. offers the treatment that keeps her alive. But her family’s humanitarian parole was suddenly revoked. Now, two months later, DHS has reversed course.wapo.stAfter outcry, 4-year-old girl can stay in U.S. for lifesaving careAfter a medically fragile child’s parole was abruptly revoked, her family was left undocumented and terrified. Two months later, DHS reversed course. 24898932060 9.9K
Reposted by EllenACLU @aclu.org · 07/06/2025People in ICE detention are being denied health care and adequate nutrition, often given spoiled food or nothing at all. Our government’s cruelty to immigrants is a moral failing — not a policy solution.npr.orgIn recorded calls, reports of overcrowding and lack of food at ICE detention centersICE detentions have surged, but deportations have not. In the past month, NPR spoke to dozens of detainees, families and lawyers who spoke of overcrowded centers in Florida lacking food and medicine. 19265672607 6.6K
Reposted by EllenMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/06/2025And there you have it. ICE didn't target migrant workers in Kristi Noem's farms or Sarah Huckabee Sanders' meatpacking plants because they wanted to create a riot in LA as a pretext to declaring martial law. They don't care about undocumented migrants, they only care about controlling US citizens. 962178686763 17.9K
Reposted by EllenSteve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 08/06/2025Lest anyone forget, this is what an insurrection looks like. 116372 163
Reposted by EllenOliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 07/06/2025"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen. This would help our bees " via I Love Bees 12365905577 36.6K
Reposted by EllenThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/06/2025Breaking News From @theathletic.bsky.social: Coco Gauff beat Aryna Sabalenka 6-7(5), 6-2, 6-4 in the French Open final at Roland Garros on Saturday to claim her second Grand Slam singles title.nyti.msFrench Open final: Coco Gauff beats Aryna Sabalenka to win second Grand Slam titleGauff won her first Roland Garros title by playing the conditions and the occasion with more evenness than Sabalenka. 793997376 4K
Reposted by EllenMyra Byrne @myrabyrne.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Today my girlfriend and I sold books we no longer want and used the money we got back to buy children's books for the little free libraries in our neighborhood. It was so fun to pick out books for the kids. We will absolutely be doing this again #booksky #community 863603292 3.6K
Reposted by EllenGovernor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 08/06/2025The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions. 2803270367789 27K
Reposted by EllenHumanity and Kindness @humanityposts.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Ohh He's crying He was all alone 29496721121 9.7K
Reposted by EllenThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/06/2025Breaking news: In a rematch of their 2023 U.S. Open final, Coco Gauff beat top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka to win the French Open. She is its first American champion since Serena Williams in 2015.washingtonpost.comCoco Gauff tops Aryna Sabalenka to give the French Open an American championWith the win, Gauff became the first American champion in Paris, woman or man, since Serena Williams in 2015. 17798771183 9.9K
Reposted by EllenJaValle @handle.invalid · 07/06/2025Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today 619143054923 14.3K
Reposted by EllenMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/06/2025What happened to states’ rights, Kristi? 660170184576 17K
Reposted by EllenSlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 07/06/2025"Fuck your concrete" 788178162097 17.8K
Reposted by EllenKim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Congratulations, Coco Gauff! First American to win Roland Garros since Serena Williams. 675673639 5.7K
Reposted by EllenMelanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers. 337247918288 24.8K
Reposted by EllenOlivia Gaines, Author @ogaines.com · 07/06/2025Now everyone will go look up the book and it will make NY Times. #sighs #booksky #writingcommunity 1773328785573 32.9K
Reposted by EllenDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 08/06/2025ICE is a much greater threat to this country than illegal immigrants. The current administration ia by far the greatest threat this country faces. The problem is not st our borders. It is in the White House. 332177654583 17.8K
Ellen @evrlaw.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Trump does not care that this may be illegal. He will defy any court order. He wants this spectacle to justify martial law under the Insurrection Act and having our military kill civilians on American soil. Let that sink in. A bonus is he gets to punish sanctuary jurisdictions. 032 3
Reposted by EllenKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/06/2025I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay. 8504962712533 49.6K
Reposted by EllenChris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 06/04/2025There are some absolutely fantastic signs out here today. Arts and craft game is strong. 2048689490 8.7K