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The ICE List is a public, open-source effort to document the people responsible for enforcing deportation, separating families, and carrying out immigration raids in the United States. All information is sourced from public records, social media, and tips.
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"We deserve to know who is shooting us in the face even when they have their badge covered up," McDonald told me when I asked if the site was made in response to police violence during the LA protests against ICE that started earlier this month. "fucklapd.com is a response to the violence of the LAPD during the recent protests against the horrific ICE raids. And more broadly -- the failure of the LAPD to accomplish anything useful with over $2B in funding each year."
"Cops covering up their badges? ID them with their faces instead," the site, which McDonald said went live this Saturday. The tool allows users to upload an image of a police officer's face to search over 9,000 LAPD headshots obtained via public record requests. The site says image processing happens on the device, and no photos or data are transmitted or saved on the site. "Blurry, low-resolution photos will not match," the site says.
"fucklapd.com uses data provided by the City of Los Angeles directly to the public," McDonald told me in an email. "This data has been provided in response to either public records requests or public records lawsuits. That means all of this information belongs to the public and is a matter of public record. fucklapd.com is not scraping any data."
In addition to potentially identifying officers by name and serial number, FuckLAPD.com also pulls up a police officer's salary.
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ICEBlock is an innovative, completely anonymous crowdsourced platform that allows users to report Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity with just two taps on their phone.
The app ensures user privacy by storing no personal data, making it impossible to trace reports back to individual users. Available exclusively for iOS devices, ICEBlock empowers communities to stay informed about ICE presence within a 5-mile radius while maintaining their anonymity through real-time updates and automatic deletion of sightings after four hours.
The cowards at Time wrote a whole article about the app and didn't include a link to it:
"When I saw what was going on in this country, I just really felt like I had to do something," Aaron says, referencing the ICE raids that have taken place following Trump's return to the White House. As of June, over 100,000 people have reportedly been arrested by ICE during Trump's second term. [...]
"The app is 100% anonymous and free for anybody who wants to use it. We don't collect user data. We don't even capture user data. That's extremely important," Aaron says, recognizing the privacy concerns people may have. As such, the app is not available on Android because it "requires a device ID in order to send push notifications, which requires a user account and a password." [...]
"Before [the protests started], there were around 2,500 users, and I was thrilled. Then I logged on two days later, and there were over 20,000 users, and the app went to number 32 for 'Social Networking' in the App Store," he says. [...]
In response to a request for comment, ICE referred TIME to a statement from acting director Todd Lyons, who called the app "sickening," saying it "paints a target on federal law enforcement officers' backs" and "incites violence."
Aaron says he hopes the app, which became available to iPhone users in April, is used as a tool to avoid interactions with ICE agents, rather than users directly involving themselves in potential altercations. [...]
Aaron says his ultimate goal is to look out for the community. "When I see things like ICE outside of elementary schools, that's what we are trying to push back against, because you need to do more. You need to protect your neighbors," he says.
Blaming intense media coverage and backlash to the US military deployment in Los Angeles, DHS expects the demonstrations to "continue and grow across the nation" as protesters focused on other issues shift to immigration, following a broad "embracement of anti-ICE messaging."
Don't threaten me with a good time.
The guidance urges officers to consider a range of nonviolent behavior and common protest gear -- like masks, flashlights, and cameras -- as potential precursors to violence [...] Protesters on bicycles, skateboards, or even "on foot" are framed as potential "scouts" conducting reconnaissance or searching for "items to be used as weapons." Livestreaming is listed alongside "doxxing" as a "tactic" for "threatening" police. Online posters are cast as ideological recruiters -- or as participants in "surveillance sharing."
One list of "violent tactics" shared by the Los Angeles -- based Joint Regional Intelligence Center -- part of a post-9/11 fusion network -- includes both protesters' attempts to avoid identification and efforts to identify police.
That can't be correct. Skateboarding, I have been reliably informed, is not a crime.
In advance of protests, agencies increasingly rely on intelligence forecasting to identify groups seen as ideologically subversive or tactically unpredictable. Demonstrators labeled "transgressive" may be monitored, detained without charges, or met with force.
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On July 13th 2005, Jacob Kaplan-Moss made the first commit to the public repository that would become Django. Twenty years and 400+ releases later, here we are – Happy 20th birthday Django! 🎉
We want to share this special occasion with you all! Our new 20-years of Django website showcases all online and local events happening around the world, through all of 2025. As well as other opportunities to celebrate!
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As a birthday gift of sorts, consider whether you or your employer can support the project via donations to our non-profit Django Software Foundation. For this special event, we want to set a special goal!
Over the next 20 days, we want to see 200 new donors, supporting Django with $20 or more, with at least 20 monthly donors. Help us making this happen:
Once you’ve done it, post with #DjangoBirthday and tag us on Mastodon / on Bluesky / on X / on LinkedIn so we can say thank you!
Of our US $300,000.00 goal for 2025, as of July 13th, 2025, we are at:
20 years is a long time in open source – and we want to keep Django thriving for many more, so it keeps on being the web framework for perfectionists with deadlines as the industry evolves. We don’t know how the web will change it that time, but from Django, you can expect:
Happy 20th birthday, Django!
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