As the feds seem to move farther from "targeted enforcement" by ICE to broader terror tactics from CBP, vigilance and resistance will be ever more effective in protecting our communities.

Join with your neighbors to make plans, and get your whistles ready for when they return to Somerville.

10/10

It is absolutely necessary from a moral standpoint to engage in these acts of resistance and others, and as citizens it is on us to use that contained risk profile. Let it embolden us as we act to protect our neighbors. Every action slows their illegal terror, and inspires courage in others.

9/?

4) Increasing the stress and friction on their operations can get you beat down and temporarily detained, but it does hamper ICE/CBP and slow down abductions. This is good.

It doesn't appear that anyone is being convicted by juries on charges related to ICE ops. The risk is contained.

8/?

3) The whistles and honking and community alerts work! The agents are described as being "afraid" of the attention, and trying to actively avoid areas that are "hot", i.e. have residents on alert for them.

This is worthwhile. Keep them uncomfortable and moving along.

7/?

They very much do not want to get in engagements where they are outnumbered or where the community is already on alert. They require either surprise or overwhelming force, or both. So stay alert and ready to whistle/record/confront! You can deter abductions this way.

Speaking of which...

6/?

2) By keeping the kidnapped residents in the car with them for hours, we get a good look into the agents thoughts and methods. Note that they were not engaging in any targeted enforcement, but just looking for opportunities to cause mayhem and conduct abductions.

5/?

Doing this would be scary and require local PD to take on risk as part of protecting their towns!

But honestly, I can't think of any better way for a PD to repair trust w neighbors and demonstrate a reason for their existence. More courage was shown by neighbors in Evanston than by the EPD. 4/?

Hazardous driving is a community safety issue. With unmarked vehicles, local PD has no reason to NOT stop the vehicles and request the drivers to identify themselves, even if they can't cite.

I don't have high hopes of it happening, but a local PD *could* do this to help their towns. 3/?

1) Erratic driving by agents caused an accident, getting rear-ended by a car that *was not involved* in following them. They then continued to drive in a way to instigate conflicts with random citizens. This is obviously bonkers dangerous, but *should* be something local PDs could BOLO.

2/?

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Thanks for reading, and voting! I'm grateful to be your neighbor and honored to represent Ward 2 on the City Council.

I remain committed to a better future that we can all build together, and to the defense of this community so that as many of us get to see that future as possible. 23/23

I believe that right now we must focus first on defending our neighbors, rebuilding our state capacity to Do Good, and questioning every assumption we have held about how we can do that and move forward together as a community.

22/?

I hope a few overarching themes are clear here:
1) sometimes we disagree with neighbors and move forward
2) sometimes we make mistakes and need to have the ability to rectify them
3) sometimes we have to just reject that which cannot be countenanced
4) these are all differentiable situations

21/?

But at its core, it is a non binding question asking for a statement of values, which will then be left for the next batch of electeds to execute on. I'm voting for it, because it is one way I can express my rejection of apartheid and genocide.

20/?

When it comes to question 3, like all of you I have a lot of thoughts about it and would encourage us to buy each other a pint and discuss ours together sometime. It's a bigger issue than one ballot question, and certainly bigger than this Bluesky thread. 19/?