Fucking insane. Who tf is paying for this??

Props to her but also mad props to the woman with her doing de-escalation work on those ice officers

Pretty sure auntie here would have been arrested for nothing and charged with assault if she hadn't stayed between them, stayed calm, and distracted without stopping the woman from saying her piece

I'm 100% serious: If you yell at cops, find yourself a calm friend.

If you struggle finding your voice when armed nazis are threatening you, find yourself a friend who doesn't know how to bite their tongue.

If you compliment one another well everything can be said while business gets handled.

Watch it again: That ICE nazi was about to arrest her because he needed to feel in control of the situation if it wasn't for the second woman.

She distracted.

She stayed between them.

The only time she got loud was to get back btwn them.

A+ de-escalation work. Would want around when I go off.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Props to her but also, props to the woman playing "good cop" with ICE so she could say her piece.

If I had a nickle for every time a friend kept me from getting arrested with some well timed "don't mind them"s or pretending to restrain me while I was yelling down cops...

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

Vance: boys will be nazis

important note from libcrusher:

Update: they were formally charged, went in front of a judge, and were released today!

Thank you! I appreciate the update, really glad to hear it!!

Update on Oriana! They have been released!!

ICE arrested Oriana and moved them across state lines without charges only to later claim that they assaulted an officer even though video seems to show otherwise.

If you have 5 minutes, please make this phone call.

This request comes from Oriana's bandmates.

There is even a script!

I don't know if it would pay, but I could do it all day!

Discovered near the ICE facility in Portland this morning.

FREE ORIANA KOROL!

THEY DID NOTHING WRONG.

There could be a whole podcast where someone merely spends the whole time re-writing headlines to give people the actual news with words that actually mean things

Carpentersville this morning. Border Patrol grabs some laborers at a worksite. The agent accuses a woman filming them of interfering and also tells her if she has an issue she should "contact her senators and congressmen."

Marquette Park this morning, ~45 min ago at 70th and Washtenaw per anon FB post. Through a screen, someone films Border Patrol agents taking a man into a red minivan and driving away. Another angle of this shared to social media shows it happened in front of a daycare.

I feel like I'm grieving the internet the way people grieve someone with advancing dementia.

Like, it's still here, but it ain't what it used to be, never will be again, and it's only going to get worse.

That ambiguous grief hits every time I wish bsky was old twitter or try to google something.

It makes me angry deep in my bones because the well has always been such an amazing and inspiring community space - all the well ever did was provide a safe, comminity-friendly space for whoever needs it.

It's absolutely insane for this lawyer to sit here and argue that they needed to be able to bust in to shoot him so he couldn't commit suicide like what the literal fuck.

This "justice system" is a goddamn farce.

He died, btw

And he also told his gf that he'd shoot any cops that showed up and apparently he had a history of talking about suicide by cop...all the more reason for cops NOT to bust into his house without probable cause and handle this situation carefully.

They went there to shoot him, not help.