Ricci
@riccisergienko.bsky.social
abolitionist lawyer. everyday antifascist. viva viva tortuguita.
https://hearinla.substack.com/p/who-is-ricci-sergienko-and-why-does-the-la-sheriff-hate-him-so-much-83ca9a8a03eb
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Ricci
@riccisergienko.bsky.social
· Jan 20
The way forward is the same as it’s always been - organize your neighborhood, your household, your workplace. Nobody is coming to save us except ourselves. Look out for one another.
One solid way you can fight back today & everyday is to look out for your neighbor, & not just in theory. If you’re in LA, someone in your building probably needs a mask. Someone living outside probably needs a meal. That person being stopped by the cops needs someone to record what’s happening.
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Happening Now: 20+ law enforcement vehicles, including a Minneapolis Police SWAT Bearcat, are staged on SE Beacon St as a noise demo has started at the Graduate Hotel. This is the 4th noise demo at the Graduate and one of multiple noise demos tonight outside hotels housing ICE agents in Minneapolis.
February 6, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Happening Now: 20+ law enforcement vehicles, including a Minneapolis Police SWAT Bearcat, are staged on SE Beacon St as a noise demo has started at the Graduate Hotel. This is the 4th noise demo at the Graduate and one of multiple noise demos tonight outside hotels housing ICE agents in Minneapolis.
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The myth of the “sanctuary city” has been entirely shattered and everyone needs to act accordingly. Your state and local politicians will not save you. They will sic their dogs on you just the same as red state governors and mayors would. No one is coming to save us. It’s up to us to save ourselves.
Happening Now: 20+ law enforcement vehicles, including a Minneapolis Police SWAT Bearcat, are staged on SE Beacon St as a noise demo has started at the Graduate Hotel. This is the 4th noise demo at the Graduate and one of multiple noise demos tonight outside hotels housing ICE agents in Minneapolis.
February 6, 2026 at 1:46 PM
The myth of the “sanctuary city” has been entirely shattered and everyone needs to act accordingly. Your state and local politicians will not save you. They will sic their dogs on you just the same as red state governors and mayors would. No one is coming to save us. It’s up to us to save ourselves.
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Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left.
It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
February 6, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left.
It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
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It's time for everyone in LA to realize that cancelling the Olympics will be a lot less costly than hosting them, in many more ways than one.
I just completed a study for SAJE on whether LA should try to back out of hosting the 2028 Olympics. The short answer: It could cost billions to extricate LA from its Olympic contract, but could cost even more billions to go through with it, so it's worth considering. www.saje.net/wp-content/u...
February 6, 2026 at 2:41 AM
It's time for everyone in LA to realize that cancelling the Olympics will be a lot less costly than hosting them, in many more ways than one.
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I cannot reiterate enough that you can’t just protest ICE out of the Olympics. Hosting a mega-event = Feds run security. Period, point blank, every time.
And no politician or organization can say “ice out of LA” or “abolish ice” without also saying “cancel the Olympics”!!
There is no reason for these games to be put on in the city. The Wasserman piece should be the piece that makes it all fall. Follow @nolympicsla.bsky.social!
There is no reason for these games to be put on in the city. The Wasserman piece should be the piece that makes it all fall. Follow @nolympicsla.bsky.social!
And the feds will be here & in charge of “security” over the city for the next 2+ years due to Olympics.
Abolish ICE = No Olympics nolympicsla.com/pick-a-side-...
Abolish ICE = No Olympics nolympicsla.com/pick-a-side-...
February 6, 2026 at 2:59 AM
I cannot reiterate enough that you can’t just protest ICE out of the Olympics. Hosting a mega-event = Feds run security. Period, point blank, every time.
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Karen Bass refusing to speak out against Epstein’s friend Casey Wasserman is pure cowardice. An easy win to demand he resign but Bass doesn’t want to upset her donors, & maybe more importantly, she doesn’t want to switch her stance on the games.
Either way, cancel the Olympics!
Either way, cancel the Olympics!
February 5, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Karen Bass refusing to speak out against Epstein’s friend Casey Wasserman is pure cowardice. An easy win to demand he resign but Bass doesn’t want to upset her donors, & maybe more importantly, she doesn’t want to switch her stance on the games.
Either way, cancel the Olympics!
Either way, cancel the Olympics!
Unlike Zohran, though, Rae actually supports defunding the police
If you are (rightly) disgusted with everything Karen Bass is doing and feel like the mayoral race might be a wash, good news: @raeforla.bsky.social is running for mayor as the “Zohran of LA” so yes, you too can have Zohran at home!
Karen Bass refusing to speak out against Epstein’s friend Casey Wasserman is pure cowardice. An easy win to demand he resign but Bass doesn’t want to upset her donors, & maybe more importantly, she doesn’t want to switch her stance on the games.
Either way, cancel the Olympics!
Either way, cancel the Olympics!
February 6, 2026 at 2:31 AM
Unlike Zohran, though, Rae actually supports defunding the police
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I have no doubt the conservative billionaire would've been worse, but Karen Bass has been one of the most disappointing mayors I've had the displeasure of voting for.
Karen Bass refusing to speak out against Epstein’s friend Casey Wasserman is pure cowardice. An easy win to demand he resign but Bass doesn’t want to upset her donors, & maybe more importantly, she doesn’t want to switch her stance on the games.
Either way, cancel the Olympics!
Either way, cancel the Olympics!
February 6, 2026 at 1:05 AM
I have no doubt the conservative billionaire would've been worse, but Karen Bass has been one of the most disappointing mayors I've had the displeasure of voting for.
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Real “profiles in courage” stuff (sarcasm!)
Karen Bass refusing to speak out against Epstein’s friend Casey Wasserman is pure cowardice. An easy win to demand he resign but Bass doesn’t want to upset her donors, & maybe more importantly, she doesn’t want to switch her stance on the games.
Either way, cancel the Olympics!
Either way, cancel the Olympics!
February 6, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Real “profiles in courage” stuff (sarcasm!)
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NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...
www.wired.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:29 PM
NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.
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In the words of Desus, avoid the bookings beloved
Since it’s Friday… I’m not saying that you should be “afraid” of getting arrested. I’m saying that you should avoid arrest if possible. Things become much more difficult for you when you’re in police custody. This is solid movement advice thats been passed down from generations of rad lawyers. STFU!
When going out to protest, the goal shouldn’t be to get arrested. Do not run yourself into arrests. Do not just hand yourself over to the state.
Watch and share on instagram: www.instagram.com/reel/DGV_jSt...
Watch and share on instagram: www.instagram.com/reel/DGV_jSt...
February 5, 2026 at 8:25 PM
In the words of Desus, avoid the bookings beloved
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Karen Bass was quicker to drop Faisal Gill for saying he wanted a brief moratorium on prosecuting petty crimes than she is to repudiate a guy who flew on Epstein's Plane
Karen Bass refusing to speak out against Epstein’s friend Casey Wasserman is pure cowardice. An easy win to demand he resign but Bass doesn’t want to upset her donors, & maybe more importantly, she doesn’t want to switch her stance on the games.
Either way, cancel the Olympics!
Either way, cancel the Olympics!
February 5, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Karen Bass was quicker to drop Faisal Gill for saying he wanted a brief moratorium on prosecuting petty crimes than she is to repudiate a guy who flew on Epstein's Plane
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Although we agree that Casey Wasserman should not lead LA28, NO ONE should lead LA28. There shouldn’t be a 2028 Olympics, or any Olympics.
It doesn't matter who's driving when the car is flying off a cliff.
It doesn't matter who's driving when the car is flying off a cliff.
❗LA City Council Member Hugo Soto-Martinez demanding that LA28 Chair Casey Wasserman step down after creepy emails between Wasserman & Ghislaine Maxwell appeared in the Epstein files. “Casey Wasserman should step aside immediately. Anything less is a distraction." www.dailynews.com/2026/02/03/j...
Janice Hahn and other officials call for LA28 Chair Casey Wasserman to resign
Los Angeles City Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez issued a statement Tuesday echoing Hahn’s sentiments
www.dailynews.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Although we agree that Casey Wasserman should not lead LA28, NO ONE should lead LA28. There shouldn’t be a 2028 Olympics, or any Olympics.
It doesn't matter who's driving when the car is flying off a cliff.
It doesn't matter who's driving when the car is flying off a cliff.
Karen Bass refusing to speak out against Epstein’s friend Casey Wasserman is pure cowardice. An easy win to demand he resign but Bass doesn’t want to upset her donors, & maybe more importantly, she doesn’t want to switch her stance on the games.
Either way, cancel the Olympics!
Either way, cancel the Olympics!
February 5, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Karen Bass refusing to speak out against Epstein’s friend Casey Wasserman is pure cowardice. An easy win to demand he resign but Bass doesn’t want to upset her donors, & maybe more importantly, she doesn’t want to switch her stance on the games.
Either way, cancel the Olympics!
Either way, cancel the Olympics!
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I’ve watched this about 20 times already
February 5, 2026 at 1:28 AM
I’ve watched this about 20 times already
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tomorrow i would really like to challenge a few folks with larger followings than me to adopt a rent and raise it in one day.
my little group chat and my followers have paid like 70 families rents in the past four days. i believe that some of y’all could help us keep one family housed.
my little group chat and my followers have paid like 70 families rents in the past four days. i believe that some of y’all could help us keep one family housed.
today's report:
our "adopt a rent" venmo campaign paid 43 families rents who were at risk of evictions, including several moms of 4+ children
this is the way to get rent paid fast. like. 1000x better than any other way.
our "adopt a rent" venmo campaign paid 43 families rents who were at risk of evictions, including several moms of 4+ children
this is the way to get rent paid fast. like. 1000x better than any other way.
February 5, 2026 at 6:42 AM
tomorrow i would really like to challenge a few folks with larger followings than me to adopt a rent and raise it in one day.
my little group chat and my followers have paid like 70 families rents in the past four days. i believe that some of y’all could help us keep one family housed.
my little group chat and my followers have paid like 70 families rents in the past four days. i believe that some of y’all could help us keep one family housed.
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Anarchists are your neighbors. Their kid goes to preschool with your kid. They are in class with you at the local community College. They are your coworkers, your friends, and your family members.
We don't just fucking spawn out of thin air if full black bloc gear anytime there's a protest
We don't just fucking spawn out of thin air if full black bloc gear anytime there's a protest
that is to say, there is no neat and universal mutual exclusion between "masked members of a black bloc" and "the local you know who is looking after their neighbour". sometimes, oftentimes even, these are the same person
February 5, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Anarchists are your neighbors. Their kid goes to preschool with your kid. They are in class with you at the local community College. They are your coworkers, your friends, and your family members.
We don't just fucking spawn out of thin air if full black bloc gear anytime there's a protest
We don't just fucking spawn out of thin air if full black bloc gear anytime there's a protest
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this is pretty wild. good argument for lockdown mode if your threat model is one where you might have your phone seized by the Feds: www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...
FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled
Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking some...
www.404media.co
February 4, 2026 at 3:17 PM
this is pretty wild. good argument for lockdown mode if your threat model is one where you might have your phone seized by the Feds: www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...
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Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
newrepublic.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
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The amount of observers that have been detained today in the city already that I’ve seen videos of is really spooky.It’s very clear that ice is now just straight up targeting observers in an effort to quash people watching them. It’s also clear that they are absolutely keeping databases of observers
February 3, 2026 at 4:30 PM
The amount of observers that have been detained today in the city already that I’ve seen videos of is really spooky.It’s very clear that ice is now just straight up targeting observers in an effort to quash people watching them. It’s also clear that they are absolutely keeping databases of observers
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It's also not unique to this moment for people who are brand new to believe they have it all figured out, or for onlookers to believe the same. That part of the equation rhymes with a whole lot of history, and people who stick around long enough learn that they don't know what they don't know.
February 3, 2026 at 5:11 PM
It's also not unique to this moment for people who are brand new to believe they have it all figured out, or for onlookers to believe the same. That part of the equation rhymes with a whole lot of history, and people who stick around long enough learn that they don't know what they don't know.
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Graffiti seen in Los Angeles following the riotous anti-ICE protests
February 4, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Graffiti seen in Los Angeles following the riotous anti-ICE protests
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Even if you’re a generous person, it’s beyond the point of plausible deniability.
Who is going to ask Casey Wasserman on the record about his relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein??
Why is he in charge of the private org running the 2028 Olympics in LA??
Who is going to ask Casey Wasserman on the record about his relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein??
Why is he in charge of the private org running the 2028 Olympics in LA??
January 30, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Even if you’re a generous person, it’s beyond the point of plausible deniability.
Who is going to ask Casey Wasserman on the record about his relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein??
Why is he in charge of the private org running the 2028 Olympics in LA??
Who is going to ask Casey Wasserman on the record about his relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein??
Why is he in charge of the private org running the 2028 Olympics in LA??
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"PROTECT"
"ICE EAT SHIT - NOT WELCOME HERE"
"BOVINO & ICE, GTFO!"
"SAME SHIT"
It's hard to state the widespread nature of signs and posters in Minneapolis right now. They are everywhere.
Minneapolis, February 2026
"ICE EAT SHIT - NOT WELCOME HERE"
"BOVINO & ICE, GTFO!"
"SAME SHIT"
It's hard to state the widespread nature of signs and posters in Minneapolis right now. They are everywhere.
Minneapolis, February 2026
February 3, 2026 at 7:31 PM
"PROTECT"
"ICE EAT SHIT - NOT WELCOME HERE"
"BOVINO & ICE, GTFO!"
"SAME SHIT"
It's hard to state the widespread nature of signs and posters in Minneapolis right now. They are everywhere.
Minneapolis, February 2026
"ICE EAT SHIT - NOT WELCOME HERE"
"BOVINO & ICE, GTFO!"
"SAME SHIT"
It's hard to state the widespread nature of signs and posters in Minneapolis right now. They are everywhere.
Minneapolis, February 2026
Been seeing a lot of updates coming out of Minneapolis from @minneapolis-spring.bsky.social & @tcungovernables.bsky.social. If you’re looking for local sources on the ground:
NEWS FROM THE BARRICADES:
Today, hundreds of community members were able to safely pass through the filter blockade. When ICE Agents tried, they were repelled.
For a free Minneapolis, For one another.
Today, hundreds of community members were able to safely pass through the filter blockade. When ICE Agents tried, they were repelled.
For a free Minneapolis, For one another.
February 3, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Been seeing a lot of updates coming out of Minneapolis from @minneapolis-spring.bsky.social & @tcungovernables.bsky.social. If you’re looking for local sources on the ground: