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#policestate

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#ICE - the employment and redeployment of US military-trained veterans, and wanna-bees, onto the streets and into the homes of America.
Budget increasing to $150 billion per year by 2029.
And when Trump has a big domestic hammer every domestic problem will be a nail. The one tool does everything!

Trump has given you secret police.

You're living in the start of a police state.
#USPol #SecretPolice #PoliceState
#Midterms will happen if Trump feels good about them.

Every day now we are inundated with these battles. Clips of masked men in unmarked cars ramming drivers and stealing them away. Clips of an agent demolishing a window with a tactical axe. Stories of agents chasing men into medical facilities and terrorizing them and employees. Brutal glimpses into an emerging and sobering reality.
#fascism #collapse #authoritarianism #policestate #USpolitics #Trumpism #racism #xenophobia #whitesupremacy #history
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/

Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton · We Know What This Is: ICE and a War Against the PeopleBy Jared Yates Sexton

"I didn't think the scorpion would bite me, said the frog."

And we’ve already seen stories like this, right, where recent immigrants, or recent citizens, I should say, who voted for Trump, who are big MAGA, are like, “I didn’t realize what happened to me and my family or people I know, how wrong I was.” There’s a story like that at least once a week, probably more frequently now. And these stories are gonna get more and more common.
#fascism #ICE #PoliceState
gregolear.substack.com/p/rambl

PREVAIL by Greg Olear · Ramble On, Florida Edition: Faces of EvilBy Greg Olear

"Interested in what Immigration and Customs Enforcement is up to? Step right up to read ICE’s many press releases touting their accomplishments, watch Dr. Phil’s ICE ride-alongs on his new TV network, and, of course, follow ICE on social platform X.

Just don’t expect to read independent reporting about ICE activity — at least not if government officials get their way. Journalists and members of the public who report on ICE are increasingly under attack by officials who would prefer to silence them so government propaganda can fill the information void.

The most recent example is the government’s attack on CNN for its reporting about an app called ICEBlock that alerts users to sightings of ICE agents nearby."

freedom.press/issues/ice-wants

Freedom of the PressICE wants to work in secret. We shouldn’t let itJournalism about ICE is increasingly under attack by officials who prefer government propaganda
#USA#Trump#ICE

More than 70 protesters across UK arrested for allegedly holding signs supporting Palestine Action
‘Dozens’ held after campaigners gathered in Parliament Square on Saturday, with demonstrations across the UK prompting police action

theguardian.com/world/2025/jul

The Guardian · More than 70 protesters across UK arrested for allegedly holding signs supporting Palestine ActionBy Sammy Gecsoyler

"Everyone should have access to answers, evidence, and data regarding the effectiveness and dangers of this technology. Axon and its customers claim this technology will revolutionize policing, but it remains to be seen how it will change the criminal justice system, and who this technology benefits most.

For months, EFF and other organizations have warned about the threats this technology poses to accountability and transparency in an already flawed criminal justice system. Now we've concluded the situation is even worse than we thought: There is no meaningful way to audit Draft One usage, whether you're a police chief or an independent researcher, because Axon designed it that way.

Draft One uses a ChatGPT variant to process body-worn camera audio of public encounters and create police reports based only on the captured verbal dialogue; it does not process the video. The Draft One-generated text is sprinkled with bracketed placeholders that officers are encouraged to add additional observations or information—or can be quickly deleted. Officers are supposed to edit Draft One's report and correct anything the Gen AI misunderstood due to a lack of context, troubled translations, or just plain-old mistakes. When they're done, the officer is prompted to sign an acknowledgement that the report was generated using Draft One and that they have reviewed the report and made necessary edits to ensure it is consistent with the officer’s recollection. Then they can copy and paste the text into their report. When they close the window, the draft disappears.

Any new, untested, and problematic technology needs a robust process to evaluate its use by officers. In this case, one would expect police agencies to retain data that ensures officers are actually editing the AI-generated reports as required...

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/axon

Electronic Frontier Foundation · Axon’s Draft One is Designed to Defy TransparencyAxon Enterprise’s Draft One — a generative artificial intelligence product that writes police reports based on audio from officers’ body-worn cameras — seems deliberately designed to avoid audits that could provide any accountability to the public, an EFF investigation has found.Our review of...
#USA#Axon#AI

"British police forces have signed contracts with a controversial US tech giant to buy AI-powered software that uses data about an individual’s race, sex life, health and political beliefs, it can be revealed.

An internal police memo obtained by The i Paper and Liberty Investigates confirms an intention to “nationally” apply the “Nectar” intelligence system, currently deployed as a pilot by the Bedfordshire force after being developed with Silicon Valley data analysis group Palantir Technologies.

The document, obtained under freedom of information rules, shows how the Palantir system is designed to bring together dozens of existing law enforcement databases into a single computing platform to draw up detailed profiles of suspects, as well as collate information on victims of crime, witnesses, and vulnerable individuals including children.

The 34-page briefing, which deals with data protection issues related to Nectar and Bedfordshire Police, makes clear the ambition of senior officers for the system to be used across policing, including in the fight against serious organised crime.

It states: “The primary goal is to help Bedfordshire… as well as the Eastern Region Serious Organised Crime Unit… and eventually apply [Nectar] nationally. This will develop tools to better protect vulnerable people by preventing, detecting and investigating crime.”"

inews.co.uk/news/police-use-co

The i Paper · Police use controversial AI tool that looks at people’s sex lives and beliefsSenior MPs and privacy campaigners have expressed alarm at the deployment of Palantir’s AI-powered crime-fighting software with access to sensitive personal information
#AI#UK#Palantir

Mayor Bass has stepped up to assist the #immigrants who've been🚨exploited & economically devastated by #DHS' #CBP, #ICE...

She announced a plan Fri to provide direct cash asst to ppl who've been affected by the Trump regime’s sweeping IMM raids.

Aid will be distributed using cash cards with a ~$200 on them -should be available in about a wk.

Some families needed 2 incomes to afford their rent, after one: detained...
#Detention #Deportations #PoliceState #Protest #USPol
latimes.com/california/story/2

Los Angeles, CA - June 12: Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass speaks to the media and holds a press conference at City Hall Thursday, June 12, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA.(Luke Johnson / Los Angeles Times)
Los Angeles Times · L.A. will provide cash assistance to immigrants affected by raidsBy Noah Goldberg

How to tell if you're living in a Police State

DHS just Told Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’

DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and live-streaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior into a pretext for police action.

This was in response to the record-breaking numbers of people protesting Trump, like at the recent No Kings demonstrations, and their fear that Trump's policies, particularly his ICE raids, would accelerate mass protest and mass hatred of his regime.

wired.com/story/dhs-tells-poli

WIRED · DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’By Dell Cameron
#fascism#dhs#ice

"One of the ICE applicants I spoke with seemed to have an insatiable desire for conflict in line with this hypothesis. All his life, he said, he had hoped to fight wars in Iraq or Afghanistan. He’d joined the army hoping to fulfill this desire. But our foreign wars had wound down by the time of his enlistment, and he never got a chance to fight abroad.

He said his wife had almost been assaulted in Texas, and when she’d called the police they arrested a man who turned out to be an “illegal alien” and who was promptly deported. He said he’d seen videos of a member of the Taliban getting into an argument at a fast-food restaurant in California (I couldn’t find any evidence of this—not even as a conspiracy), and that he wanted to join ICE to protect his family.

“I learned all these skills in the army—smash and grabs, site exploitation—and never got to use them,” he said. “So I’m here to kind of do what I learned to do over there, but this time here, defending my country.”

Previously impressed by the connections between war and domestic policy elucidated by the historians Kathleen Belew and Stuart Schrader, I found this man’s account almost embarrassingly transparent. This was the most straightforward articulation I’d ever heard of someone bringing the war home."

nplusonemag.com/online-only/on

n+1 · Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Yanis VaroufuckiceThis is a disgusting country, I thought, irredeemable visually, psychically, morally, and ethically, and whatever is likable about our people’s warm patter does not in any way forgive what we have done to the world. Furthermore, it isn’t hard to bring politeness and evil into view at the same time.
#USA#Trump#ICE