Do READ All Of This! This Is How Fascists... Get Rolling -- And Consolidate... Power.

It cannot be repeated often enough: if we do not hang together. . . under Tangerine's lawless attempts at fascist rule. . . we will. . . hang, separately.

Do go read it all. Damnation.

. . .Jorge Luis Hernández Viramontes, a U.S. citizen, is the manager of a carwash. He was at work when immigration agents arrived, for the second time that day, in unmarked vehicles and began questioning his employees. When Hernández Viramontes asked for a warrant, he claims an agent responded, “Shut the fuck up.” Even though he provided agents with his California driver’s license, agents arrested Hernández Viramontes and took him to a nearby warehouse for questioning.

Another U.S. citizen, Jason Brian Gavidia, was repairing his car in a tow yard when armed agents, some of whom were masked, arrived. He says he told them that he is a U.S. citizen who was born in Los Angeles, but agents took his state-issued identification card and detained him anyway.

Three other men, all Latino construction workers, were drinking coffee outside of a donut shop as they waited for a ride to a job site when masked men carrying long guns jumped out of cars with tinted windows and no license plates. One of the men tried to leave but was surrounded and arrested before he could. Another ran and was arrested. A third remained where he was standing and was also arrested.

U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong issued a temporary restraining order in favor of the challengers on July 11. Frimpong’s order bars immigration agents from stopping someone unless they have reasonable suspicion that the person has violated federal immigration law. The order also prohibits agents from using four factors to determine reasonable suspicion, either alone or in combination: “apparent race or ethnicity”; “[s]peaking Spanish or speaking English with an accent”; “presence at a particular location” – such as a bus stop or car wash; and “the type of work one does.” Frimpong’s order applies only in the Central District of California, a region that includes approximately 20 million people in Los Angeles and surrounding counties. Over 47% of the district’s residents identify as Hispanic or Latino, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit later noted. . . .

All done and feeling great -- no need to "sleep any of it off." But I may just fall silent until later tonight anyway. . . just take in a bad sci-fi movie. . . hah!

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