Throughout the ICE raids, local and state police who answer to Democrat politicians have consistently done the dirty work to enable ICE to continue its campaign of ethnic cleansing. Politicians who talk about "maintaining order" are complicit in this campaign of terror. It's up to us. Just us.

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Sociologist C. Wright Mills saw this coming—and tried to warn us—60+ years ago. jacobin.com/2026/02/wrig...

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

Robocop was not supposed to be aspirational.

Once again the Spanish left gives us some light in these dark times “But I would like to ask you, when did recognising rights become something radical? When did empathy become something exceptional?” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Segregationen förvärras när man tar ifrån utrikes födda deras rättigheter, skriver forskaren Kristoffer Jutvik m.fl.

the money part is so gross. people are super easy to manipulate with money. “This is a for-profit ethnic cleansing … Pam Bondi, US Attorney General was a lobbyist for GEO group for years before she joined this administration. GEO group’s stocks doubled in the first week of Trump’s administration.

Al Jazeera reporting that Israel has killed 31 Palestinians in Gaza *today* Think about Alex Pretti being killed 30 more times in one day

Every state in the country, Blue and Red, jails children. They even have special jails for them, how nice of us. We should not be jailing any children ever (or adults for that matter)

“I think it’s a big mistake to look at this as a problem of training… We are seeing the mobilization of a federal police force to carry out a campaign of terror for political purposes.” Project coordinator @alexvitale.bsky.social on @aljazeera.com discussing recent ICE actions.

Idag på Förintelsens minnesdag slöt ledaren för världens största parti med ett nazistiskt ursprung slutligen fred med de s k ”internationalisterna” precis som SD:s partiprogram önskade under 1990-talets andra hälft när Åkesson själv gick med i SD tobiashubinette.wordpress.com/2026/01/27/i...

Seen in Los Angeles (Credit: Zurita Carpio)

New Research JSSR White evangelicals are especially attuned to slights directed at a fellow Christian but significantly LESS likely to view same behavior as discriminatory with a member of a religious out-group. This pattern is unique to white evangelicals. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/AZGDYW...

"return to the border" ☠️ "beef up training" ☠️

Death is always a tragedy; death at the hands of law enforcement is a policy choice single every time.

Abolish ICE. But we need a truth & reconciliation in the aftermath because the level of fucked up this country is to get here is something that needs a reckoning.

I'm reposting with @hebagowayed.bsky.social's correct handle. We're going to be writing here regularly every Friday, and more often as events dictate.

Minnesota is on the eve of a general strike in rejection of ICE. Hundreds of businesses are closing and 80+ solidarity actions are being held across the country. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social talked to some of the strikers. prospect.org/2026/01/22/i...

Preliminary 2025 crime stats for Sweden were released today. Over all a 3% (50k) drop in police reported crimes. This is driven by large drops in theft (-12%, -43k) and vandalism (-13%, -26k). Assaults up 4% (+3k) and fraud up 1% (+3k). (Link in Swedish) bra.se/statistik/st...

For those in Sweden with Swedish language knowledge, I will be in radio P4 this afternoon discussing some of these changes and patterns. Tune in to P4 extra to hear about it. www.sverigesradio.se/p4extra?flik...

While I get the reprimand for swearing, I too think that European governments and officials (particularly center and center left) need to start fucking swearing more and leveraging the confrontation with the US as a way of destabilizing the local, European radical right.

“We need to move away from a system predicated on violence in favor of one that centers people’s humanity,” write Prof. @hebagowayed.bsky.social and @victorerikray.bsky.social in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There is neither a Democratic nor a democratic opposition in Congress.

Every time democrats, including at the local level increasing funding for policing, grow the size and firepower or surveillance capabilities of policing, what they are doing is building the infrastructure that enables authoritarianism and no amount of window dressing reforms will change that fact.

Someone just asked me for a bibliography for people interested in delving more deeply into police and policing. Prof @alexvitale.bsky.social and crew have a comprehensive one that continues to evolve: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

A core finding from our recent @pnas.org paper is that the people who select into law enforcement, including homeland security, have less respect for civil liberties. DHS/CBP is composed of more people who think it's okay to repress (and evidently, kill) dissenters www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

it remains funny to me that the never trumpers at @thebulwark.com are now to the left of most "liberal" reactionary centrists and a lot of mainstream Democrats. They are also more willing to plainly state what we are up against.

Paper out with @jpinasanchez.bsky.social & @marcelo-f-aebi.bsky.social in @socialindicators.bsky.social 🔔 How often do we compare crime recorded across countries? We show that crime counting rules vary widely across countries and this strongly affects cross-country comparisons

My comments on recent NYPD shootings. gothamist.com/news/two-nyp...

New paper! Do people in more unequal municipalities perceive their position in the national income distribution more accurately? Our findings suggest: yes. 🙏 to @apeichl.bsky.social and team for local ineq. data & to @excinequality.bsky.social for funding! linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...

This is brilliant public sociology from @michellesphelps.bsky.social on how the tragedy of Georgy Floyd’s murder led Minneapolis organizers prepared for violence from ICE @newrepublic.com

Can't recommended this piece enough. A few years ago I wrote about how police use self-justifying language that helps to create situational violence, but @patblanchfield.bsky.social's much bigger and better piece is about coptalk, violence blue identitarianism, and police victimhood.

Gaza: The Reckoning open.substack.com/pub/brunomac...

This paper shows welfare programs alleviating health shock can reduce crime. It makes case poverty scholars have long made about the negative costs of poverty to society. The societal costs of crime need to be factored into benefit-cost analyses of poverty reduction programs.

Death by whiteness

S och Tidöpartiernas strama migrationspolitik har konsekvenser.

People say LOTR isn’t a heavyhanded allegory, but that’s harder to argue these days given its villain is a discarnate intelligence seeking data on everyone while consuming all resources, corrupting everyone and turning the world grey

"The defining characteristic of any concentration camp is one that detains civilians en masse without due process on the basis of race, ethnicity, or supposed affiliation, rather than for any crime an individual has committed. Governments use them for political ends, to gather and keep power."

🎄 Still looking for a gift for your favourite social scientist? How about a #preprint with 717 urban areas, 30 countries, and 16,164 models of #Immigrant #Segregation across Europe? Just published with @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social & David Kretschmer 🎅 🎁 Wrapped up here: arxiv.org/abs/2512.17037

SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

Tips, Refuseds allra sista spelning som sker i Umeå i morgon kväll livestreamas:

This is a long-term problem for both the economy and democracy, particularly as long as center-left parties refuse to introduce measures that will RADICALLY redistribute wealth.

"Om ni har gått på att transpersoner är problemet, att invandrare är problemet, eller att hbtq-människor är problemet. Då kanske ni är problemet." - Dennis Lyxzén www.dn.se/kultur/sista...

With a potential dependency shift this fast, the idea that increasing birthrates now would help is bonkers

Tycker att det är gulligt att Kneecap hänger med Greta Thunberg. Känns rätt.

Old enough to remember the 2002 coup attempt in Venezuela, fully supported by the Bush Admin and the New York Times.