We need to be thinking about what to do with feds who are like this once they are no longer in power. Simply throwing tens of thousands of people like this in prison is not a politically sustainable answer. Prisons further dehumanize everyone.

The thing about being absolutely untrustworthy is none of your words or threats matter anymore

new scam going around where they hire you for a job but pay you less than the value your labor produced

“Hung on like fanatics. I gotta remember that.”

This is a good time to pay attention to the fact that the official narrative around the July 4 incident that the government described as a “coordinated and targeted attack” on ICE is falling apart. These people are lying liars. They are freely making shit up to fuel their witch hunts.

“Once is never. Twice is always.”

(One of) the first double feature(s) at my movie theater

"Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in dozens of cities across Italy – shutting schools, disrupting trains and blocking ports and roads – in one of Europe’s largest nationwide protests against Israel’s offensive in Gaza."

the program of national suicide by american fascism really is remarkable. Defunding rural hospitals to the point they’re preemptively shutting down, attacking and actively disincentivizing foreign medical talent, and now destroying what few protections rural medical labor has.

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Re: ICE "evacuating" the Broadview facility I am hearing from some folks that ICE made a similar claim about a facility in Portland (that it was winding down operations) that was basically a fake out, with normal operations resuming there before long, so we are going to have to be vigilant.

As someone who grew up about 45 minutes away from Disneyland and never went as an adult, this was a very helpful read. It makes me that much more excited for @vickyacab.bsky.social’s book next year.

In 2008, libertarian legal philosopher Douglas Husak published a book on how the criminal law is so extensive and intensive, almost anyone could be criminalized and the US no longer had a justifiable theory of criminalization. These are people who avoided that dragnet. academic.oup.com/book/5876

UPDATE: Huffpo is reporting the Trump administration "plans to evacuate" the Broadview facility in the wake of recent protests. If you have info about where ICE's processing operations will be happening in the Chicagoland area after this move, I am KMHChi.01 on Signal.

From Anne Norton’s excellent “Wild Democracy: Anarchy, Courage, and Ruling the Law” (Oxford University Press, 2023) academic.oup.com/book/45531

This is it, essentially. The core of it. The goal of ICE detention in the mass deportation system is to make people give up their case without fighting; to have an officer say “if you want to see a judge and plead your case, you’re going to be jailed for months and months, so why not give up now?”

“Pelayo said her dad described being held in a room with at least 150 other men as ICE officers constantly yell at them and call them slurs. He also told his daughters detainees are only given food and water based on good behavior.” These are the conditions at the site of yesterday’s protest.

I initially reposted this last night, but I’m frustrated to see so little mention of it today. What happened in Broadview yesterday was hours of police brutality, and that’s only what we saw OUTSIDE of the illegal detention bunker!!

Similar questions can be applied to Korean engineers being told that their brutal arrest and inhumane detention doesn’t mean they can’t come back to the US, to all the researchers and cultural workers who have decided not to come to the US, to families living in terror of forced separation…

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

"Vance, true to form, was just amplifying the one thing that Trumpism has ever offered—not real opportunity or purpose, not inclusion or community, not even personal advancement, but merely the chance to hurt other people and get away with it."

“Listen liberals: solidarity is our best weapon. It can look as simple as not buffing out antifascist slogans, or as hard(er) as emotionally, materially, and/or ethically loving your neighbors enough to defend them from fascism—even if you’re discomforted.” kolektiva.social/@cbmilstein/...

Cancel your Disney+ & donate that money to mutual aid or indie journalists in your area.

Holy shit I can hear the Intercept newsroom laughing from here

Every elected official who dares to stand against criminality & injustice deserves to be praised for it

Yeah, we can’t wait three years or even a year. This is Intolerable.

The brain tricks us constantly. It mistakes scrolling and "seeking information" for DOING THINGS. That is not doing. You have to act.

"The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it, and that is the real trick of the imperial thought machine. It's easier to hide behind forty atrocities than a single incident."

the department of homeland security released a statement claiming “over a hundred violent rioters surrounded” the broadview ice detention center this morning. what actually happened was ice/cbp tactical teams aggressively threw, dragged, & tear-gassed protesters. one agent literally drew his gun.

This is what a “pepperball” looks like after it hits something. They are so-called less-lethal munitions designed to explode in puffs of pepper gas on impact. Cops are trained to fire them at the ground in front of protestors. This is what the clergyman got shot on the top of the head with.

This is what June 8th felt like in downtown Los Angeles

For folks asking, Pastor (Reverend? Sorry, we keep messing this one up, lol) Black is okay. He's still OTG right now, checking on others in the dark, after taking multiple volleys of pepper balls to the face and being repeatedly brutalized by ICE:

“GOD DAMN YOU!!” Amazing use of the collar.

Peter Gelderloos, one of the most substantively provocative anarchist writers alive, has posted the final episode in the 3-part series “It’s Revolution or Death” over with the good folks at subMedia. Both a great intervention and introduction to his thought. sub.media/its-revoluti...

We need more of this from elected officials!!

We will see what happens next and you can’t put anything past the second trump admin BUT, fwiw, Ayman Soliman’s lawyer sees these developments in and out of court today as nothing but an unequivocal victory in this months long standoff and battle with Team Trump

and Los Angeles and Washington, DC…

I’ve been really trying to stay out of the discourse, but I was around for this, and it was scary, even though it failed. It’s the closest real-life analogue I know of to what people are warning against, but I haven’t seen anyone mention it. clearinghouse.net/case/16091/

this is absolutely wild the court *sua sponte* dismisses the case for violating Rule 8(a) so that means the court, all on its own, looked at the complaint and said it's too long, too scattershot, too arbitrary to even count as a complaint. *never* seen this happen to a private party with counsel.

I think it’s a misstep to say the federal surge has ended. MPD’s control by the federal government has ended. Bowser said they would no longer provide info to ICE. But the feds are still here. Migrant neighbors are still being detained. The National Guard is still here.

from political scientist Charles Tilly’s 1985 essay “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime”: “To the extent that the threats against which a given government protects its citizens are imaginary or are consequences of its own activities, the government has organized a protection racket.”

ICE shot and killed a man in the Chicago suburbs last week. In the days since, we've seen a laundry list of escalating violent behavior from the feds: reckless driving, destroyed property, dawn raids, intimidation and threats against reporters, witnesses assaulted and threatened with pepper spray.

When the full hearing got moved from a savvy judge to a Trump appointed judge, I was worried about the outcome. This is good news both legally and politically and this injunction is designed to constrain a malicious DOJ and dissuade a corrupt Supreme Court from intervening.

After leaving his immigration hearing with his sleeping daughter in his arms, a man is confronted by ICE and CBP. He passes the child to his wife in the waiting room, shares tearful goodbyes, and is then detained and escorted toward the staircase where he’ll be brought to the 10th floor.

This article ran one day ago.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

In spite of everyone posting Robert Redford thirst-traps yesterday (RIP), I don’t think anyone was looking to relive the early 70s…