NEWS: @nationalnurses.bsky.social “demands Congress abolish ICE entirely. We will be doing everything in our power to vote out any elected official who supports funding for this all-out assault on the health, safety, and civil rights of our people.”

He was a nurse.

Why would you believe people who tell you that the US can't shut down institutions at the drop of a hat when you are currently witnessing this administration do it in real time?

I'm sorry for the person who was beat to death and killed. My sincere condolences to their loved ones. ICE is going to continue to kill people because the purpose of a system is what it does. It is not what it says it does or what you hope it does. Maybe USians will finally confront this truth.

This will be a defining moment for the ordinary liberal. It’s an incredible opportunity to shift well-meaning people away from credulous analysis based on what people in power *say* to analysis based on what systems, structures, and institutions *actually do.”

Once again: Focusing on their lack of training is a mistake. With "better training," their violence would simply cost more, and they would still kill whoever they wanted, but make it look more professional — to make people more comfortable, the way many of you are at ease with local police violence.

I'm looking for witnesses/victims of DHS retaliating against people who were recording their agents (ICE, Border Patrol, FPS, etc.) in Southern California. This is for LA Press Club v. Noem case, but victim does NOT need to be press/journalist. Everyone has right to record. We're fighting for all.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

I’ll be speaking at Stanford today at 5pm: Civil Rights Lawyering and Propaganda in a Time of Authoritarianism. If you know anyone in the bay area, please invite them. There’s also a zoom option: events.stanford.edu/event/civil-...

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

Police can enter your home & capture you & take you to be locked away during a mental health wellness check! Happened to me. Policing is this insidious!

When I called my rep @replsimon.bsky.social @lateefahsimon.bsky.social about ICE last week, her staffer endorsed reform measures but conspicuously avoided the word “abolish.“ (I don’t even remember the staffer‘s saying “defund.“) Please demand ICE‘s abolition, @replsimon.bsky.social.

It's always been abolish ICE. For the first time, more Americans support abolishing ICE than oppose it. But Republicans are proposing hundreds of millions in funding for this lawless agency. I'll oppose this bill. We cannot give more money to an agency responsible for terrorizing our communities.

If ICE’s expansion plans are realized, the immigration detention system will triple in size — detaining 120,000-150,000 people at any given time, mirroring the scale of Japanese American internment during WWII."

"This funding makes ICE the largest law enforcement agency in the country, with a bigger budget than the Bureau of Prisons, FBI, and most militaries in the world.

This is a must read by the brilliant @silkys13.bsky.social truthout.org/articles/tru...

To: Judge Menendez Judge Tostrud Justice Kavanaugh Chief Justice Roberts Justice Thomas Justice Alito Justice Gorsuch Justice Barrett Cc: Judge Cobb Judge Ellis Judge Perry Judge Immuergut Judge Breyer Judge Brennan Judge Easterbrook Judge Scudder Bcc: Judge Boasberg Judge Xinis

i think it is simply true that for all intents and purposes stephen miller is the president of the united states

I am begging people to just imagine for a second talking as if the lives of the people in Greenland are an important part of what is happening in Greenland.

Cory Booker should apologize for his "proposal" re: ICE. That would be a good example of self-accountability. Apologize and explain to your constituents WHY your proposal makes no sense at all.

Just keep coming back to the fact that keeping people in a constant state of terror is a form of mass disablement and essential to the eugenic project that is the United States.

The thing you need to understand about Gavin Newsom is that

The thing about the liberal love affair with Gavin is when they go, don’t purity test, it’s him or Trump! It’s like the election is years away & they already settled on mediocrity & are trying to force it on us. It’s like get some imagination! There is definitely time to get someone better.

Covid should have killed the in-person academic conference for good—the viral vector, the pollution, the waste, the elite access for the well-resourced, the exclusion of the less well-resourced and those from certain countries who need visas… Maybe Trumpism can kill it once and for all.

ICE agents love to wave around paper that looks official. Most of it is a scam — administrative forms signed by ICE supervisors, not real judicial warrants signed by judges. Let's go through what that scam paper looks like versus a real judicial warrant.

Paging Justice Gorsuch, WAKE THE FUCK UP

Yes it's a feat of scholarship in particular because Hinton unearths a previously untapped set of records that she uses as the basis of the research. Folks should definitely read the book: wwnorton.com/books/americ...

I don't know how to convey to people that POLICING in the US is experienced by countless Black and brown people in the way that ICE is currently acting towards people.

In 2014, a group of young Black and Brown people traveled to the United Nations to make a case that the CPD was genocidal against Black and Brown youth: wechargegenocide.org

Chicago cops steal not just phones from people. They steal money too. They do this REGULARLY. It has been documented over and over again.

Impeaching Noem is symbolic and symbols matter. And it should be used as an organizing tool and a way to keep the issues about ICE/DHS fresh in people's minds and importantly to propose ACTUAL ways to dismantle these institutions. This is the point I've been making for the past few weeks.

This is such an interesting idea. The “ridealong” is such an established genre binding journalism to law enforcement. Great to see @zeteo.com flip this on its head and bind journalism to mutual aid and community care, real “news you can use.”

What this administration is doing is accelerating and building on what already existed. This is disorienting, I know. We have to do what we can to protect each other locally while we also seriously address the foundational issues. This country has to disempower policing. I hope people understand now

Prison guards are flocking to ICE jobs and frankly this makes sense. Those of us who have been anti-prison organizers for decades have been saying that fascism already existed within prisons/jails. Our best teachers for how to survive fascism are incarcerated people.

One reason I favor impeaching Noem is because it's a political process for a political problem. No, this will not stop ICE enforcement action but YES it would be an opportunity to educate the public about DHS & perhaps begin to lay a foundation for dismantling it.

through a death certificate i had for YEARS, i was able to get my gr. gr. uncle's medical records from Central State Hospital, va's 1st mental institution for Black people, founded in 1870 after less than 10 months, he died there. my gma & her siblings never knew what became of their uncle

immigrantjustice.org/press-releas... - since I'm seeing nonsense on here...

Anyone who has read Copaganda knows that we are in the crucial early moments of virality after an extra-judicial police murder. It's extremely important for ICE that the media plays along with the idea that what happened is contested and there are multiple perspectives.

Bluesky community! This is my official NYC mayor account. I’ll be posting updates on what’s happening at City Hall and how we’re delivering for New Yorkers. It’s great to be here.

“We are here to say no — no to the kidnapping of our neighbors, no to the normalization of fascist violence. We are here because our love and decency are stronger than our fears, and because we know we will find courage in each other.”

A cop shot a person three times point blank and instead of the streets being deserted. They filled with people yelling at the cops [who could have shot them too].

If most Liberals called stopped calling for more training and started demanding defunding that would be some progress.

I refuse to stay silent while Secretary Noem breaks the rule of law and terrorizes our communities. I am introducing Articles of Impeachment against her for violating the public trust, obstructing Congress, and self-dealing. Read my full statement: robinkelly.house.gov/media-center...

It's possible to just do things. To just begin. It takes some people [who usually won't get paid], some ideas and a way to raise a small amount of money.

NEW from Important Context: Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S. www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...

Talking with my colleagues from around the world and thinking, as I do often these days, about this quote from my colleague @gregggonsalves.bsky.social, which articulated something that I think many of us know but is rarely said with this clarity. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

My latest with @ichotiner.bsky.social.