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Sergio Perez

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Civil rights attorney fighting for a more just and fair Los Angeles. Executive Director @ The Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law https://www.centerforhumanrights.org Views are mine. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergioperez23/

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · Jun 9

In all the mess, there is a euphoria to remembering that I was born in & live in a city that has my family's back.

My parents were undocumented teenagers when they came to LA from Mexico. My mom had me at 17 in a hospital-turned-parking-lot in the San Fernando Valley.

I love you, Los Angeles.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 5h

The MLB stands alone in its disgustingly self-serving indifference to the plight of its Latino fan base & its reliance on Latino dollars.

I know fandom is complicated, but fuck the Dodgers (& the Cubs!) until they:

1. Call out ICE raids; and,

2. Fully divest from Trump & his deportation machine.

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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 6h

It's very hard to find "parenting an autistic kid" spaces that are not driven by ableism. If you express that you really enjoy your autistic kid, you get a lot of people yelling at you that 1) your kid must be "high functioning" (terrible term but that's what they say or 2) you must be lying

Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 12h

it's bc so many "autism parents" hate their children for being disabled.

it's never driven by autistic adults. autistic adults grow to be, at best, wary of "autism parents"

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 18h

I wrote about Chicago: "Is this city burning? There is a definite answer to the question. In all these cities, the answer is no. No American city is currently on fire, and if Chicago is a war zone, it’s because it’s being invaded by the president."

Trump Is Waging War on an American City

The real threat to people in Chicago (and Los Angeles and Portland) is our maniacal president.

newrepublic.com

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 8h

Letitia James and James Comey have the best lawyers on earth and will almost certainly be fine. The fact that there’s a zillion stories about them and virtually none about NSPM-7 - which affects countless ordinary people - really says something about who the media writes for

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 8h

...and an unexpected, anonymous, significant, & much needed anonymous donation to @chrclla.bsky.social.

Big thanks to whoever you are!

Impact litigation in the service of immigrants & refugees is not an easy thing in normal times, & it is downright insane right now.

We needed this pick-me-up.

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 12h

Police chiefs & sheriffs only talk "reform" when there's a pending lawsuit from the DOJ or budget $$$ at stake.

Where are all the community policing acolytes as masked ICE agents continue to terrorize vulnerable populations in LA, Chicago, and elsewhere?

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 17h

That said, Dem pols do raise a valid point: the general media environment is strongly stacked against them:

Quick to hype any rise, absolutely unwilling to celebrate a decline.

Accepts politicized police account as objective truth.

Sets burden of proof WAY higher for any non-police idea.

The Democrats Have a Crime Problem. Blame the Media.

How news coverage fuels the widespread, misguided perception that crime is up and cities are unsafe

newrepublic.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 17h

I might end up talking about this graph all day.

I think one thing Dems need to realize is that "Americans" are not buying into the "cities on fire" lies of this admin.

It's JUST Republicans. So if you're a governor of a solidly blue state, or a blue-city mayor, the national story is NOT YOURS.

Gallup poll showing a wild divergence in "is crime rising" over the past two years, w GOP at 90, independents at 68, Dems at 29.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

“.. Foreclosure rates have surged across the country and are up almost 20% from this time last year.”

www.realtor.com/news/trends/...

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 18h

“The judge, a Reagan appointee, compared immigration agents to ‘cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan’ and declared that federal efforts to deport outspoken protesters amounted to a ‘full-throated assault’ on freedom of speech.”

Charles Smith @profsmithsask.bsky.social · 18h

“ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence"

Opinion | ‘ICE Goes Masked for a Single Reason’

www.nytimes.com

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Jeremy Lindenfeld @jeremotographs.bsky.social · 1d

Some sites along California’s 395

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

“Many of us were forced to leave behind everything that was most precious—family, home, the communities that gave us a sense of belonging,” individuals said in the video viewed by Pope Leo. “Now, when deportations strike, the loss is repeated.”

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

“Pope Leo XIV’s eyes grew misty Wednesday as an El Paso delegation led by Bishop Mark Seitz presented him letters and a video that captured the fears and anxieties of people facing mass deportation in the United States …”

The church “cannot be silent,” Pope Leo said.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting.

Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported.

I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 1d

If you're driving through Kern County CA at this time of year it's common to see workers harvesting grapes on the side of the road. It was around 90° in Mettler CA around 1pm on the day this photo was taken. Workers were going full speed despite the heat. #WeFeedYou

Farm workers harvesting grapes in Kern County

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 1d

My five year was born + lives in LA, and the worst thing that's happened is he's developed a penchant for expensive sushi that IS KILLING ME.

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 1d

American cities are great places and they should be affordable, accessible, & with plenty of housing so that more folks can raise their young children in them.

Larry Krasner @dalarrykrasner.bsky.social · 1d

Philadelphia on track to record the lowest number of homicides in 20 years

Overall crime in Philadelphia has been steadily declining. In 2021, the city hit a record number of homicide victims: 562. Now, it is on track to hit the lowest in 20 years.

www.audacy.com

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 1d

...and a freshly unfurled, bright neon leaf waving at you from kitchen monstera.

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 1d

Give this headline a Pulitzer. Not a joke.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 1d

You don’t have to reshare ICE’s racist & hateful propaganda materials to criticize them.

The less those videos travel, the better.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

Canada vs. America

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 1d

Unreal choice given that “Work it” is right there.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

Rolling Stone crowns Missy Elliott's "Get Ur Freak On" as the #1 GREATEST SONG OF THE 21ST CENTURY SO FAR 👑

"It was a nonstop freak manifesto that made the musical future sound limitless."

Ranked list: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 1d

mascots outside of protests: off-putting, scary. there is a grown man inside of there.

mascots at protests: cool and funny, there is a friend inside of there.

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