Kindness is Punk @ KindnessIsPunk @lemmy.ca

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I'm just trying to trick people into reading the article, just cut out the fluff, but you're right 'plainclothes federal agents' are modern day Gestapo and not something I thought would exist in the modern day.

TLDR:

Andrea Velez, a U.S. citizen and Cal Poly Pomona graduate, was violently detained by plainclothes federal agents in downtown Los Angeles while heading to work. Witnesses say officers in unmarked cars, without ID, tackled her without checking identification. Her family believes she was targeted due to her Hispanic appearance and fears retaliation, as her mother is a non-citizen resident. LAPD claimed they responded to a "kidnapping" call but later admitted it was an immigration operation. Velez’s whereabouts remain unknown, sparking outrage over racial profiling and unchecked enforcement.

What will it take for the average person to care. Much less politicians.

Yup, that's what democracy is supposed to be all about giving engaged citizens the tools to change the system to reflect their values!

Do both, so they know why they lost.

God damn, Liberals you have an open goal here. Side with workers just once, throw your weight behind a real labor movement, and you’d leave Conservatives scrambling in the dust. But no. Instead, it’s all half-measures while letting corporations run the show. Missed opportunities are practically your brand at this point.

ahh very good, sorry for the misunderstanding.

oh I know they're not the first ones to get it but I do believe they're the first ones to put the legal precedent or at least that's what the article says.

TLDR: New Orleans is poised to become the first U.S. city to legalize real-time police facial recognition surveillance, despite a 2022 ban. The push follows revelations that NOPD secretly used Project NOLA’s 200+ AI cameras for two years, making 34+ arrests without oversight. Proponents argue it’s vital for crime-fighting, citing Bourbon Street shootings and jailbreaks, while critics warn of dystopian privacy erosion and racial bias, referencing wrongful arrests like Randal Reid’s. With 70% public approval but fierce ACLU opposition, the vote could set a dangerous precedent: privatized mass surveillance with zero accountability.

Yeah, it does sound suspect. I just bought an existing house and it was about 10% and I got most of that back via the first time home buyers rebate. I'd have difficulty believing they would incentivize existing houses so heavily and discourage new housing.

Impeachment was never the real battle it was always about Senate driven consequences. In a Republican-controlled Senate, 'accountability' is a one-way street paved entirely for Democrats. Their majority exists to shield their own from justice while weaponizing procedure against the opposition. Until that imbalance is broken, consequences will remain a fantasy reserved only for the left.

Look at the BEAUTIFUL Lockheed Martin and Plantir Stocks! Under Sleepy Joe, these patriotic job-creators were barely scraping by on a measly $29 trillion in defense handouts. But under MY leadership? taps podium We've achieved real American capitalism: where every missile strike means a 10% dividend bump and orphanages explode with shareholder value!

The sheer horror of being conscripted into the Russian military is unimaginable. These soldiers reduced are cannon fodder and are treated as less than human, not even afforded basic sustenance. These aren’t soldiers; they’re disposable bodies thrown into a meat grinder by officials who are nothing short of war criminals. The cruelty is beyond comprehension.

Oh no, he's evolving

I mean you wouldn't forget it.

I don’t give a damn about population % changes. Show me the metrics that actually matter:

• Housing creation rates (not speculative units, but livable homes)
• Quality job growth (not gig economy scraps, but jobs that pay living wages)
• Real income gains (adjusted for inflation, not corporate PR)
• Public investment in healthcare and education (not austerity dressed as 'efficiency')

Immigration has always been a neoliberal scapegoat to distract the misinformed while they gutted worker power and protected capital. The crisis isn’t people; it’s policy.

Israel fighting for anyone's rights is so fucking laughable

Still a better unit of measurement than feet.

No Donnie, you're not that kind of Dodger! You're a draft dodger!

Ontario continually electing the Fords has been one of my life's great mysteries. It’s like watching a toddler repeatedly touch a hot stove except the burns are privatization, gutted healthcare, and populism that somehow still charms the province.