In the case any of these flights took place against court orders, could flight crew and staff be charged as accessories to law breaking? If so, Democratic politicians need to be putting that out there loud and clear - everyone in the logistical chain needs to have that in the back of their heads.

Is it a civil war? No - and: "[...] when the power of the state is being used to kill and kidnap and deport without any due process, so very capriciously and so much by one ethnic group aimed at others, it is very, very serious indeed." saideman.blogspot.com/2026/01/is-i...

I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.

NEW: We @immcouncil.org just published a big new report on the growth of ICE detention in Trump's first year back in office. Not only do we track the rising scale of the detention infrastructure, we explain how changing enforcement tactics have shifted the profile of who is locked up by ICE.

I see this take around from time to time and totally disagree. ICE just murdered a woman standing up to them. No Kings is among the largest protests in history. The complacency is coming from elites in media, business, universities, and the Democratic leadership

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I'm thrilled & grateful to have been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant. #ERCCoG My project, GRID, will study how & why governments respond to internal displacement with protection or repression. www.uva.nl/en/content/n...

News from a robust democracy

@brendannyhan.bsky.social is right: young people are reluctant to come to the defense of institutions that have excluded them, ignored them, and crushed their movements www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...

Wait till the president finds out that his administration _already cut_ something like 3/4 of US aid to "Columbia," along with most aid worldwide, earlier this year. Most of the aid that remains goes to Colombia's military and police—to support counter-drug operations.

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The National Guard troopers confirming what everyone suspected; they don't want to be there.

Juan Masullo and I wrote a piece on the recent assassination attempt on Senator Uribe in Bogotá, its connections to the drug war, how it echoes the past, and why it is only the most visible form of how the drug war undermines democracy. 1/2

Juan Masullo and I wrote a piece on the recent assassination attempt on Senator Uribe in Bogotá, its connections to the drug war, how it echoes the past, and why it is only the most visible form of how the drug war undermines democracy. 1/2

The proposed Dutch law criminalising assistance to migrants A critical analysis, by Huub Verbaten - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-du...

BCG helped set up a militarised aid scheme in Gaza, widely condemned by the humanitarian sector, and worked on cost models for relocating Palestinians out of the territory.

Russia’s entire military budget is only $145 billion. Stephen Miller got even more than that to expel people who don’t pass his racial standards—including naturalized citizens. And when they’re done with that, they’ll come after critics. When they create a gulag economy that big, it doesn’t go away.

It also makes ICE better funded than most national militaries -- by a wide margin. This is the expansion of a secret police force.

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Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.

"From what I can tell, ICE is a secret police when acting in a public space...The comparativist in me wants to think about other police forces in history which had such broad and ill-defined powers. But such comparisons are too frightening." adamprzeworski.substack.com/p/week-19

"...the only ideas offered by Democrats come from its left wing. The rest of the party is just catatonic. Its leadership is patiently waiting for Trump to fail, generously granting them electoral victory while attending weddings of billionaries."

Four points I wish public and media commentary understood about #genocide in #Gaza, why legal experts are reluctant to diagnose gencoide and what that does NOT mean 🧵

Rep. Andy Ogles, a Republican from Tennessee, has sent a letter to Pam Bondi calling for Zohran Mamdani to be stripped of his citizenship and deported.

@adamprz.bsky.social on ICE's authorities & operating procedures: "The comparativist in me wants to think about other police forces in history which had such broad and ill-defined powers. But such comparisons are too frightening."

an expert panel across Dutch universities has released a report that recommends cutting all institutional ties with Israeli universities - not on a case-by-case basis: academictiesisrael.nl @antigonesdream.bsky.social

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

This is more notice than they are prepared to give people before deporting them

"Israeli soldiers have opened fire on the crowds and killed Palestinians who've been queuing for food" Dan Johnson reports that this morning 23 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed at an aid distribution centre & at least 11 killed in an Israeli air strike #BBCBreakfast

The bylaws of VA hospitals removed 'national origin', 'politics', and 'marital status' from the list of patient traits that medical staff could not discriminate on the basis of. shameful. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

local journalism matters!

Stephen Miller and U.S. Homeland Security amplify an image from white Christian nationalist CJay Engel -- who has been the subject of my investigations since he and his allies began their move into Jackson County, TN. 1/x

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

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Maybe they really were ICE officers. Or maybe they were a band of vigilantes, arbitrarily snatching brown-looking people off the street. All eyes are now on LA, but secret police are descending upon smaller towns nationwide too. Masked and armed, they refuse to show IDs or warrants. wapo.st/4kIGFke

There are THOUSANDS of protests planned for June 14th all over the country to send a message to Donald Trump that no one wants his birthday military parade in DC that will cost taxpayers millions. #NoKingsProtest You can find a location here: www.nokings.org#map

With unrest continuing in #LosAngeles and #Trump calling in more troops from the National Guard, where did this heavy response to anti-deportation #protests emerge from, and what is its aim? @stephrschwartz.bsky.social @lseir.bsky.social‬ and @abbeyst.bsky.social‬ for @lseusablog.bsky.social‬

I have a new essay out at Liberties, on teaching comparative politics in the U.S. in 2025, on American exceptionalism, and on what we require of our universities and of our political system in these times.

re-upping this piece with @stephrschwartz.bsky.social @lseblogs.bsky.social on how the immigration crackdown is a convenient cover for Trump to dismantle democracy -- given the developments in LA blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Glad to see my recent article is opening the newest issue (32/3) of @intpeacekeeping.bsky.social ; And what a line-up the issue brings together, incl @yfreykers.bsky.social @abbeyst.bsky.social &more! doi.org/10.1080/1353...

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How big—and how harmful to the border and migrants—is the bill the House of Reps passed this morning? It's hard to convey. It's staggering. In this new piece, @wola-org.bsky.social tries to grasp the scale of this mass deportation Death Star: bit.ly/2025-05-wola... Here's the border wall part:

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Elon Musk killed food and medical aid programs that will kill millions of the world’s poorest people, while forcing some of their governments to give his companies contracts. The richest man in the world stealing from the poorest people in the world. Absolutely depraved.

I cannot stop thinking about this woman & the community that tried to keep her family together. We are not powerless. Call your reps, raise your voice, get her reunited with her loved ones. Families belong together. And yes: under this lawless regime, if they can do it to her, they can do it to you.

devastating essay.