I can’t help thinking there’s so much money changing hands wrt ICE detention that there aren’t even enough investigative reporters to track www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...

Thread. ICE may well end up murdering this baby, and this outrage is representative, not exceptional.

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Walz won't reply, too busy writing social media posts going 'please Mr Trump be decent'

The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.

the evil is simply bottomless and jeffies and schumer are saying this can be reformed and hillary clinton is boasting about how many people her husband and obama deported

“All children held in immigration detention should be immediately released, and these facilities should be permanently shuttered.”

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

I agree with this but I also think, the Dems know this. They're not fecklessly failing to act. They're acting as they think is appropriate given their actual politics and priorities. We really are just on our own really, scary as that is.

I know this makes me an extremist but I think our baby concentration camps should be abolished.

THIS MAN CREATED ICE

Just a reminder that in May 2020, right at the beginning of the pandemic, Chris Quinn disbanded the Plain Dealer News Guild 1 - the first union newsroom in the industry - and fired all but 3 of the reporters.

"The border is a factory for making racism and racist violence."

Listen to this!!!

A good thread on what happens when you use an LLM. I see this same pattern with my students. They spend all their time futzing with the prompt to get a slightly different but still not totally correct answer and no time on the actual learning.

This week's review covers THE GREAT STRIKE (1917), an Australian documentary of the important labor action that was screened exactly once and then pulled and censored. Only 15 minutes out of an hour runtime survive moviessilently.com/2026/02/16/t...

i’m making three slices of avocado toast. it’s gonna fuck up the economy

It was great to be in the community for the stand with the immigrants march and protest led by MIRAC! Our community is still vigilant and committed to supporting our immigrant neighbors.

Look I have thick skin, and I know we are hated, and yet this statement still makes my breath catch. What kind of society allows for this sort of thing to be said

Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.

Yes, we know perfectly well that nothing on earth can shake you out of your vulgar liberal complacency.

An important enabling structure that is helping slop makes its way into institutional life is several decades of built in bullshit bureaucratic bloat that is not meaningfully attached to advancing institutional goal but nonetheless has to be ground out week after week. It’s a natural home for slop.

To commentate Valentine’s Day, community members and Recovery Bike Shop help put hearts along central at spots where our community members were taken. In the last 3 months at least 38 people have been taken around central Ave.

oh this is unbearable

I'd bet money that someone at DHS has referred to this tactic unironically as a "Good Samaritan trap."

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

Yeah I mean the *2024 exit polls* found 56% support path to legal status for most undocumented versus only 40% deportations. Entire commentariat has pretended not to know this for the last year or so

How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.

Counterpoint: Democrats do understand this and they see their job as moving the public toward the opinion that nothing better is possible.

ICE is still in my Minneapolis neighborhood today.

Never reactivate it.

somebody kindly put my thing on libcom, that's nice! libcom.org/article/ice-...

These are concentration camps and its our duty as citizens to ensure these things don't get built.

“Institutional neutrality” rules being used to censor campus speech in Minnesota. www.startribune.com/politics-uni...

think it is important to note that a lot of people are literally doing the work of abolition. encouraging them and naming what they're doing is critical. it doesn't mean they're going to be on board with reducing police budgets to 0. but it gives us a real chance to stop mass incarceration

I've been saying since early 2025 that people were and are in motion... Some people have insisted that 'no one is doing anything' and they are wrong.

This is beyond evil villain behavior. Just deeply inhumane and cruel.

Family tradition

Basically it's come down to this: Republicans think I shouldn't teach the history of Reconstruction or the CIO because to them it's dangerous. Democrats think I shouldn't teach the history of Reconstruction or the CIO because to them it's irrelevant ("LeArN t0 CoDe!!" "Job skillz!")

It's exactly what's happened at my joint. It's upwardly-mobile nihilism by a crew of mercenary vandals that wrecks universities that have already been hollowed-out by decades of austerity.

Oh yeah. The careerism is certainly a part of this. I go back and forth on if it is an independent variable or an intermediary one. Probably depends on the context. But I can guarantee you that almost 100% of your “outside” leaders are using this job to run for office.

This "feeling populist without having the people power" so succinctly captures the confusion of status/class/prestige that addles so much of the conservative and some of the derailed left commentary. Much of US "populism" consists of the economically privileged mad that they cannot buy status.

thread. related, my impression is a lot of higher ed administrators are significantly oriented toward making a mark on an institution in the short term so they have a claimable on their CV to get their next admin job elsewhere. that incentivizes vandalizing institutions, whether by AI or otherwise

🧵 ICYMI: Here's a little roundup of our latest coverage of the struggle against ICE in Minnesota, starting with some good clean fun at the Whipple Federal Building, where protesters hucked sex toys at federal agents and state police Monday unicornriot.ninja/2026/dozens-...

If you're taking that Atlantic article about 'woke' scholarship being funded seriously please block me because I never want to know you exist, let alone to hear your stupid opinions, and/or walk into the sea because you're a waste of space. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

This happened in 2018, but apparently dismantling this fucking shitshow wasn't a priority for anyone in power over the next eight years.

*whispering* death drive death drive death drive *chanting louder* Death Drive Death Drive Death Drive *banging fists on table* DEATH DRIVE DEATH DRIVE DEATH DRIVE

ICE “left” Chicago in November, but they’ve disappeared three people from my community in two days this week. Don’t believe the hype about them, leaving Minnesota, either.

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