Entrances to Federal building covered in "Fuck ICE" graffiti and IDF/LAPD/ICE 🔻spraypainted with a red triangle over it.

Reports of some feds shooting pepperball shots from the parking structure into a crowd that refuses to disperse. Pepperballs met with chants of "Fuck you" from the crowd.

LAPD is now joining the fray. They are firing rounds of less lethals

Each of these is false. Most interpersonal violence is perpetrated by people who know each other, and scope of death/property crime caused by people with money/power dwarfs all other harm. Interpersonal violence is at historic lows, and all evidence shows more state repression doesn't make us safe.

Fourth, we have arrived at this point not just through far-right fearmongering and bold fascist planning. The Democratic Party, mainstream news, and even many self-serving liberal professors/non-profits are responsible, and it's vital to see that point if we are going to change course.

The bill provides for $160 billion in border and immigration funding in the next 4.5 years. It's difficult to describe the unprecedented scope of this, but I'll try: tens of thousands of armed agents in every corner of society are going to be virtually immune from state prosecution or civil suits.

I am honestly speechless. Every university administrator at Columbia is accountable for this.