The #DHS statement…made no mention of #Nadler’s office *harboring rioters*, as the DHS officer claims in the video. The statement said that DHS officers were responding to information that #protesters were inside Nadler’s office. Out of concern for Nadler’s employees, the statement said, the officers went to the lawmaker’s office “to ensure the safety & wellbeing of those present.”
[then handcuffed the people they claimed they were there to help?
]
#DHS later said in a statement that “one individual” — the woman seen being handcuffed — had blocked police from performing a security check they intended to do based on information there were #protesters in the lawmaker’s office. Later that day, protesters gathered outside of the federal building, demonstrating against #ICE.
#Trump gathered Thurs evening at his Virginia golf club with the highest-paying customers of his personal #cryptocurrency, promising that he would promote the #crypto industry from the White House as #protesters outside condemned the event as a historic #corruption of the presidency.
#law #Constitution #emoluments
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-memecoin-dinner.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=97C0029A-D969-4B45-AB53-A78E561AA74C
#Immigration agents arrested #MahmoudKhalil, a #GreenCard holder married to an American #citizen, on March 8 in the lobby of his #student apt building in Manhattan. A #Palestinian born in Syria, Khalil was a spox & negotiator for pro-Palestinian #protesters on campus.
The govt cited a Cold War-era immigration #law stating that individuals can be deported if their presence in the #US is adverse to American #ForeignPolicy interests.
#PortlandME #protesters arrested after blocking traffic to call for end of #Israel-#Gaza war
Maine Public | By Patty Wight
Published May 21, 2025
"Portland police arrested more than a dozen [18, I heard] #activists Wednesday afternoon as they staged a so-called '#DieIn' to protest the ongoing war in Gaza and the lack of #HumanitarianAid for #Palestinians.
"The demonstrators were part of a larger group that blocked a four-way intersection on Commercial Street for roughly an hour. #KristenSalvatore was among those arrested after refusing to leave the street despite several warnings from police.
" 'Well nothing else seems to be working. We have to draw attention to this issue. People are going about their lives as if nothing is happening, as if their taxes aren't paying to blow up children and destroy Gaza,' Salvatore said.
"Abby Fuller of the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine said the effort is intended '#DisruptBusinessAs Usual.'
" 'To make sure that powerful people who can make a difference and change policies know that we are not willing to let business go on as usual. And we plan on staying in the street as long as we can and up until arrest,' she said.
"On Thursday, more than a dozen #Mainers will go on a 40-day #HungerStrike. They hope it will keep attention on Gaza and lead to congressional action.
"This week, leaders from the U.K., France and Canada issued a joint statement calling on the Israeli government to end its military operations in Gaza."
https://www.mainepublic.org/maine/2025-05-21/portland-protesters-block-traffic-plan-hunger-strike-to-call-for-end-of-israel-gaza-war
#MainePol #USPol #WorldPol #MaineResists #GazaGenocide #Genocide #IsraeliWarCrimes #BibiIsAWarCriminal #RightToProtest #ACAB #CriminalizingProtest #TrafficInterference #Maine
Since Jan, #DOJ’s #CivilRights division has paused probes of alleged #police #abuse, launched its first investigation into whether #LosAngeles violated #gun rights laws, & following #Trump's lead, changed the dept's stance on #transgender rights & probed alleged *#antisemitism* at US #colleges involving pro-#Palestinian #protesters.
The dept also recently ended a decades-old school #desegregation order in #Louisiana that came about in the wake of #SCOTUS’ #BrownVBoardOfEducation case.
This Lazy Bond Villain wants to know who the #protesters against him are?
Don’t anyone tell him, but there are 8 billion of “those people”.
#Tesla is finished.
Bc he destroyed #American government, steals
Money from the mouths of children.
He needs to meet “We The People” … #June14IsComing
These shitlibs can cool it with their fake outrage over people rightly wishing ill on #Biden. You assholes covered your ears at a convention when #protesters read the names of dead #Palestinian children out loud.
Let me take this opportunity to remind #leftists, #liberals, #progressives, and #antifascists to !NOT! use Sticker Mule for your merch. https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/sticker-mule-ceo-unveils-trump-statue-citing-failed-assassination-as-political-catalyst #protesters #antifa #antifacists #antifascism
Why are environmental protesters being criminalized? https://www.byteseu.com/1023113/ #ActivistGroup #Australia #ClimateActivist #environment #NonviolentProtest #OilAndGas #OscarBerglund #protesters #RisingTide
The #Trump admin has used the fight against #antisemitism as justification for #deportation of pro-#Palestinian #student #protesters & #funding cuts to #universities.
Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, argues the admin is using antisemitism as a pretext.
"If the administration were serious about countering antisemitism, first & foremost they wouldn't be appointing people w/antisemitic & other extremist ties to senior roles within the administration," Spitalnick said.
How a new type of #AI is helping #police skirt #facialrecognition bans
Adoption of the tech has civil liberties advocates alarmed, especially as the government vows to expand #surveillance of #protesters and #students.
The tool, called #Track and built by the video analytics company Veritone, is used by 400 customers, including state and local police departments and universities all over the US.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/12/1116295/how-a-new-type-of-ai-is-helping-police-skirt-facial-recognition-bans/ #privacy
#Trump #DHS spox Tricia McLaughlin in a *statement* [propaganda] called the incident "a bizarre political stunt" by a group of #protesters.
The group that included members of #Congress "*stormed* the gate & *broke into* the detention facility" as a busload of detainees entered a security gate, McLaughlin said.
The protesters "holed up in a guard shack, the first security check point," she said.
[problematically for her there’s video]
#NYPD officers, some in riot gear, "responded with force multiple times" while 100+ #protesters #picketed around #Columbia’s campus last night, according to the Columbia Spectator. This followed the arrest of 75+ pro-Palestinian protestors at Columbia's main library.
#law #Constitution #ColumbiaUniversity #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #CivilRights #Dictatorship #AmericanAutocracy #Trump #AbuseOfPower
https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05/07/nypd-officers-respond-with-force-to-protesters-picketing-around-columbia-after-arrests-at-butler-library/
#Trump, a [purely self-interested] #Republican, is also trying to #deport some pro-Palestinian #international #students at #US #schools, saying their presence could *harm* US #ForeignPolicy interests [utter crap].
The #protesters in the library also demanded the release of #MahmoudKhalil, a #Palestinian activist & #Columbia graduate student who remains in a Louisiana immigrant #jail after he was among the first to be #arrested for #deportation.
The #university said 34 #protesters were #arrested, & charges of trespassing, property destruction & disorderly conduct were referred to prosecutors.
On Wed, it said the 21 #students who were among those arrested have been #suspended & #banned from all of the school's campuses.
#Columbia was at the forefront of a pro-#Palestinian & anti-war student #protest movement that swept across US campuses last year over #Israel's war in #Gaza, which began in 2023.
#Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a collection of #student groups, recirculated long-standing demands on social media on Wednesday for the #university to no longer invest its $14.8B #endowment in #weapons makers & other companies that support #Israel's #military #occupation of #Palestinian territories.
On Monday, pro-Palestinian #protesters occupied a University of #Washington bldg, demanding the school cut ties w/ #Boeing over its contracts w/the #IDF.
With further entry to the library barred, a growing crowd of #demonstrators outside the building moved to the streets just beyond the campus gates.
One #student org representing the #protesters said on social media that school security had assaulted demonstrators & acknowledged that some activists had refused to show their IDs to ofcls.
