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Bernie’s Anti-oligarchy Tour/Anti-Trump Resistance
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Decided to place this in the Resistance thread because the ICEBlock App is a form of active resistance, and because the response from Trump and the Dept. of Justice illustrate our emergent police state. I agree with the app developer, this army of ICE agents, boosted by $$$ in the big, ugly bill, is remindful of Nazi Germany. Grabbing people off the streets, some going to distant gulags around the world. No, for those who erupt at such comparisons, Trump is not committing genocide. But, he and his agencies sure remind me of Nazis……
www.newsweek.com
The designer of an app that allows users to track the location of immigration officers compared the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement with "Hitler's rise to power" in Nazi Germany.
Joshua Aaron, the creator of ICEBlock, told Newsweek that he "knew something had to be done to help the people" after researching Project 2025 and seeing images of ICEagents detaining people.
Newsweek has contacted the Department of Homeland Security for comment via email.
Aaron created it with the goal of helping people avoid encounters with ICE, and he has said repeatedly that it is not designed to interfere with law enforcement. However, the Department of Homeland Security has said the app "paints a target on federal law enforcement officers' backs."
While Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has called ICEBlock an "obstruction of justice," Aaron maintains that the app is solely for information.
"I have continually made it clear, both via wording in the app and through media, that this is an early warning system. In no way are we encouraging ICEBlock users to interfere with law enforcement," he told Newsweek.
Aaron continued: "When I read Project 2025, listened to Trump on the campaign trail and then saw his administration putting policies into place to achieve those goals, I knew something had to be done to help the people.
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And, as expected, here come the American fascists:
No, the ICEBlock app does not recommend assaulting ICE agents:
ICE agents deserve NO privacy whatsoever! Eff them! They operate in public, and Resistance is a good thing. It’s a very good thing.
THERE’S NOTHING SUBTLE about the Gestapo-style tactics of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Armed gangs of officers, often masked and anonymous, are openly engaged in a white nationalist mission to kidnap many thousands of people — stalking court houses, farms, construction sites, and retail stores, and ripping apart the fabric of communities nationwide.
The Trump administration wants America paying attention to this sickening spectacle of mass deportations: broadcasting ICE raids featuring television personality Dr. Phil; meme-posting chained men sent to a gulag in El Salvador; and sharing Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s various “ICE Barbie” photo ops.
What the Trump administration doesn’t want, however, is for anyone to hold ICE agents accountable. Attempts by the public to keep tabs on ICE are provoking predictable and pathetic responses from the government.
The latest cause of outrage is ICEBlock, an app that lets users share local ICE sightings. On Monday, ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons condemned the app and called CNN “reckless and irresponsible” for broadcasting a brief interview with its developer.
“Advertising an app that basically paints a target on federal law enforcement officers’ backs is sickening,” said Lyons. “My officers and agents are already facing a 500% increase in assaults, and going on live television to announce an app that lets anyone zero in on their locations is like inviting violence against them with a national megaphone.”
CNN did not, of course, advertise the app. The network interviewed its developer, Joshua Aaron, because it is newsworthy that 20,000 users, many based in Los Angeles, are looking for ways to share information and keep people safe. Public ICE sightings are just that: public. ICEBlock is just one example of a larger story of autonomous, community efforts nationwide to share such information, be it in large Signal threads or social media alerts. Sharing this information is protected speech and a public service.
The Trump administration has shown its readiness to take extreme measures against efforts to share information about ICE’s troops. In early May, federal agents stormed a home in Irvine, California, in a massive, military-style raid based on suspicions that the residents’ son may have been involved with the placement of posters around Los Angeles that shared information about ICE officers.
ICE watch groups and rapid-response networks have proliferated as a necessary response to Trump’s supercharged deportation agenda. Such efforts are not new but sit in the honorable tradition of the sanctuary movement of the 1980s to protect and shelter refugees, as well as local Copwatch networks, which have existed for over three decades as community efforts against law enforcement violence and impunity.
The agency’s response is itself in line with a storied tradition in U.S. law enforcement and broader efforts to shore up a white supremacist order. Namely, painting the oppressor as the victim and thereal victim as the dangerous threat. In his statement about CNN’s ICEBlock segment, Lyons regurgitated the all-too-typical law enforcement claim that “the lives of officers who put their lives on the line every day” are endangered when their total impunity is threatened.
freedom.press
www.newsweek.com
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Millions of human beings are in our country “illegally”. Vast majority no doubt looking for a better life. Many escaping conditions in Central America where 20th century American policy backed repressive governments, and in the process helped create conditions that contributed to the flight north to the United States. We are partly at fault for the flood of mostly “refugees”. Lots of historical info on this. Here is a primer:
Reaping Whirlwind: How U.S. Interventionist Foreign Policies Created Our Immigration Crisis.
Are daily, nationwide, raids by unidentifiable, masked and armed men, hopping out of unmarked vehicles, dragging people, physically picking up women and carrying them away, and doing this everywhere: in the middle of traffic, at places of work, at home, is all this the way we wish to deal with human beings in the United States? Shouldn’t we be ashamed of ourselves? Shouldn’t we acknowledge ICE is remindful of the Gestapo?
Why are we destroying ourselves? Why are we taking our higher angels, the very concepts, however naive, that we were different than others, that some things simply “cannot happen here”, because those things are not what we are about, and never have been. Like masked and unidentified agents of our government grabbing people off the street by the thousands. Is this really how we want to solve a problem that involves human beings??
ICEBlock app maker compares immigration agency to Hitler
App designer Joshua Aaron said ICEBlock was his way of "giving people a chance to help protect themselves and their communities."
www.newsweek.com
The designer of an app that allows users to track the location of immigration officers compared the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement with "Hitler's rise to power" in Nazi Germany.
Joshua Aaron, the creator of ICEBlock, told Newsweek that he "knew something had to be done to help the people" after researching Project 2025 and seeing images of ICEagents detaining people.
Newsweek has contacted the Department of Homeland Security for comment via email.
What Is ICEBlock?
The ICEBlock app allows users to access and update a real-time map of ICE activity across the U.S. It became the top download on the App Store in the social networking category this week.Aaron created it with the goal of helping people avoid encounters with ICE, and he has said repeatedly that it is not designed to interfere with law enforcement. However, the Department of Homeland Security has said the app "paints a target on federal law enforcement officers' backs."
While Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has called ICEBlock an "obstruction of justice," Aaron maintains that the app is solely for information.
"I have continually made it clear, both via wording in the app and through media, that this is an early warning system. In no way are we encouraging ICEBlock users to interfere with law enforcement," he told Newsweek.
Aaron continued: "When I read Project 2025, listened to Trump on the campaign trail and then saw his administration putting policies into place to achieve those goals, I knew something had to be done to help the people.
—————————————————————————————-
And, as expected, here come the American fascists:
No, the ICEBlock app does not recommend assaulting ICE agents:
ICE agents deserve NO privacy whatsoever! Eff them! They operate in public, and Resistance is a good thing. It’s a very good thing.
THERE’S NOTHING SUBTLE about the Gestapo-style tactics of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Armed gangs of officers, often masked and anonymous, are openly engaged in a white nationalist mission to kidnap many thousands of people — stalking court houses, farms, construction sites, and retail stores, and ripping apart the fabric of communities nationwide.
The Trump administration wants America paying attention to this sickening spectacle of mass deportations: broadcasting ICE raids featuring television personality Dr. Phil; meme-posting chained men sent to a gulag in El Salvador; and sharing Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s various “ICE Barbie” photo ops.
What the Trump administration doesn’t want, however, is for anyone to hold ICE agents accountable. Attempts by the public to keep tabs on ICE are provoking predictable and pathetic responses from the government.
The latest cause of outrage is ICEBlock, an app that lets users share local ICE sightings. On Monday, ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons condemned the app and called CNN “reckless and irresponsible” for broadcasting a brief interview with its developer.
“Advertising an app that basically paints a target on federal law enforcement officers’ backs is sickening,” said Lyons. “My officers and agents are already facing a 500% increase in assaults, and going on live television to announce an app that lets anyone zero in on their locations is like inviting violence against them with a national megaphone.”
CNN did not, of course, advertise the app. The network interviewed its developer, Joshua Aaron, because it is newsworthy that 20,000 users, many based in Los Angeles, are looking for ways to share information and keep people safe. Public ICE sightings are just that: public. ICEBlock is just one example of a larger story of autonomous, community efforts nationwide to share such information, be it in large Signal threads or social media alerts. Sharing this information is protected speech and a public service.
The Trump administration has shown its readiness to take extreme measures against efforts to share information about ICE’s troops. In early May, federal agents stormed a home in Irvine, California, in a massive, military-style raid based on suspicions that the residents’ son may have been involved with the placement of posters around Los Angeles that shared information about ICE officers.
ICE watch groups and rapid-response networks have proliferated as a necessary response to Trump’s supercharged deportation agenda. Such efforts are not new but sit in the honorable tradition of the sanctuary movement of the 1980s to protect and shelter refugees, as well as local Copwatch networks, which have existed for over three decades as community efforts against law enforcement violence and impunity.
The agency’s response is itself in line with a storied tradition in U.S. law enforcement and broader efforts to shore up a white supremacist order. Namely, painting the oppressor as the victim and thereal victim as the dangerous threat. In his statement about CNN’s ICEBlock segment, Lyons regurgitated the all-too-typical law enforcement claim that “the lives of officers who put their lives on the line every day” are endangered when their total impunity is threatened.
ICE wants to work in secret. We shouldn’t let it
Journalism about ICE is increasingly under attack by officials who prefer government propaganda
freedom.press
House Democrats move to ban ICE agents from wearing masks
The new bill comes after concerns around agents covering their faces during immigration enforcement actions.
www.newsweek.com
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Millions of human beings are in our country “illegally”. Vast majority no doubt looking for a better life. Many escaping conditions in Central America where 20th century American policy backed repressive governments, and in the process helped create conditions that contributed to the flight north to the United States. We are partly at fault for the flood of mostly “refugees”. Lots of historical info on this. Here is a primer:
Reaping Whirlwind: How U.S. Interventionist Foreign Policies Created Our Immigration Crisis.
Are daily, nationwide, raids by unidentifiable, masked and armed men, hopping out of unmarked vehicles, dragging people, physically picking up women and carrying them away, and doing this everywhere: in the middle of traffic, at places of work, at home, is all this the way we wish to deal with human beings in the United States? Shouldn’t we be ashamed of ourselves? Shouldn’t we acknowledge ICE is remindful of the Gestapo?
Why are we destroying ourselves? Why are we taking our higher angels, the very concepts, however naive, that we were different than others, that some things simply “cannot happen here”, because those things are not what we are about, and never have been. Like masked and unidentified agents of our government grabbing people off the street by the thousands. Is this really how we want to solve a problem that involves human beings??
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PJF
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So much good news! This must be killing you guys.
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