Is this the stage version of "1984"?

If you live in Ventura County in Southern California, please consider getting trained in how to document ongoing ICE abuses and other ways to protect our immigrant neighbors. 805UndocuFund is an excellent resource and has an upcoming free training.

Ventura County is the site of recent ICE raids.

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I'll admit I crossed the line from journalist to mom as I spoke directly to the soldiers facing off protestors at yesterday's farm raids in Carpinteria and Camarillo, Calif. I spoke to them just after they tackled a protestor and dragged him off.

Glass house
Farm raids
7/10/25
Camarillo, Calif.

Here are some of the agents I encountered yesterday at the cannabis farm raid in Camarillo. They appear to be Border Patrol agents. Joined later by other masked agents in military fatigues and heavily armed. #FarmRaids #ICE

7/10/25
Camarillo, Calif.
Raid on Glasshouse Farms

Natalie Eubanks of Glasshouse nurseries, the cannabis grower targeted for large-scale ICE farm raids in Carpinteria and Oxnard, describes what happened when federal agents arrived in Oxnard around 11 am.

Tear gas just deployed against protestors/observers of the ICE farm raids in Oxnard. Rosalie was caught up in the has and needed immediate attention. She lives nearby, saw the raids unfolding on TV. "I drove here to see if I could help." She is sad at what was unfolding. "This used to be America."

Two protestors at the ICE raids on a large cannabis nursery in Oxnard were thrown to the ground and arrested. Unknown where they and the others were taken. #ICERaidsOxnard

A large crowd has gathered on a farm road on the Oxnard Plain to protest the arrests. Two dozen federal agents, most masked and with no ID, formed a double column to keep protestors away from the site of detainments. Agents deployed tear gas at times to keep the crowd back. #ICEFarmRaids

I'm on the ground in Oxnard, Calif. where ICE and other federal agents have detained dozens of workers at Glasshouse nuseries--growers of premium cannabis. A witness told me that the agents entered around 11 am today without a warrant and began detaining workers, throwing some to the ground.

There's comedy gold in this leaked planning document for Monday's federal show of force at MacArthur Park. It reads like the rejected plot of an Austin Powers caper. Saddest part is Trump is humiliating our enlisted sons and daughters for venal glory.

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Extraordinary piece of craft, a work of art and historical artifact. My admiration the quilter/artist Vera P. Hall.

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch

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We're at the #HandsOff protest in Thousand Oaks, California. Crowd estimate 2,000. Rocking energy and there's a broad mix of folks--vets, seniors, families and suburbanites hitting the streets en masse. Something's happening here and across the USA!

Posting this editorial cartoon that was censored by Jeff Bezos. I've loved Ann Telnaes' truth-telling work over the years. It is deeply disturbing that these powerful men are getting in line with our incoming fascist state. For them, power and greed is paramount. They are un-American.