Citing my reporting for @propublica.org, 4 House Dems have formally asked the head of the federal prison system to explain how the agency will fix severe staffing shortages affecting safety and operations. My latest: www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

I’m not sure we can donate to small independent media our way out of the reality that the media and arts landscapes are controlled by an authoritarian and his friends. I’m as supportive as anyone else but this seems like a critical problem that goes beyond that.

I can't even speak about Nurul Amin Shah Alam. All I have to say is that the people constantly distinguishing between ICE, CBP and the REGULAR COPS are fools. That's it.

One month.

A striking stat from Brian Goldstone’s “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America”

Just a reminder that every high-profile shooting by an ICE/CBP agent this past year was done by a long-time veteran who went through more extensive training, with many refresher courses over the years, and at least a couple were instructors themselves.

They think punk means *acting without consent* not *acting in defiance of power*

“Communism, philosophical communism, is essentially affirmative.”

I wrote about this happening in Riverside County last August. It’s a costly problem, but one that reflects people’s dislike of the cameras. www.joeyscott.xyz/foia-friday-...

An clearly and carefully argued deconstruction of “tech libertarianism” applying Langdon Winner’s “Do Artifacts Have Politics.” Cory Doctorow is wrong about LLMs in a way intrinsic to his libertarianism.

As some states and universities self destruct, a reminder that the two semester intro sociological theory lecture course by @grundrza.bsky.social’s mentor Michael Burawoy, recorded in AY13-14, is available in to all, in full, for free, here: archive.org/details/ucbe... archive.org/details/ucbe...

Almost all of these Maryland sheriffs threatening communities with massive DHS raids because of this new legislation are Claremont Sheriff Fellows. I do not doubt that they say these threats with some seriousness. foxbaltimore.com/news/local/m...

NEW: Major, BFD action by blue states standing up to ICE. Maryland, on Tuesday, banned local law enforcement from being part of ICE's notorious 287(g) program.  That automatically forces *9* sheriffs out of their ICE contract! And New Mexico did the same last week:

Kafka hated the 20th century, but he REALLY would have hated the 21st.

RWG: “What we can see over and over again are how the forces of organized violence appear and aggrandize to manage those who are not content with having been abandoned”

Today @lataco.bsky.social launched a fundraiser to help me start their investigative news desk. We're hoping to raise $25k to help pay for lab tests, analyze ICE data that the Daily Memo's been compiling + work with more freelancers. Been dreaming of this for years! givebutter.com/la-taco-inve...

What a filmmaker. I might need to do his films after Farocki's. A master of the form.

This is a helpful formulation

This is an *excellent* synoptic view of our authoritarian present that shows, among other things, that the crisis has long been "hiding in plain sight."

His climate legacy is rapidly eroding, and the last of his domestic legacy is expiring at the end of the year. It's fair to say soon all that will be left of Biden's legacy will be genocide and Trump's return.

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

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

Makes me think: I Saw the TV Glow (2024) Makes me view the world differently: Taste of Cherry (1997) Understand others/someone else differently: Dance Me to My Song (1998) Best expresses who I am: Blues Brothers (1980) Made me laugh: Tampopo (1985) Made me cry: Moonlight (2016)

Rubio saw "Aguirre, Wrath of God," and thought it was an inspirational story of righteous martyrdom...

Police lie. All the time. In paperwork. To prosecutors. To the media. On the stand while testifying under oath. And even when in the very rare case their lies are exposed, they get to keep lying with few if any consequences. This pattern isn’t just limited to ICE.

this article contains excellent descriptions of how the resistance has adapted to ICE's tactics, and also a warning of how it could be adapted to support the status quo

It’s still going down in Iran.

Gift link for this important article www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

ICE is still in my Minneapolis neighborhood today.

ICE has pulled out of Terminal Island, its base for the last eight months for escalated immigration raids across Los Angeles and Southern California. “ICE didn’t leave," Ron Gochez, a member of Unión del Barrio, told the L.A. Times. "The people kicked them out.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

High school students really leading the way today!

There are no quick fixes for fascism - our charge is to confront and uproot the criminalization that underlies and drives it within and beyond borders.

Just the absolute worst people on the planet in every way

BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight. The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

UPDATE: He was just released. This shows that just indiscriminately took someone because they were Latino. Their illegal tactics continue so we still need neighbors to patrol, observe, and support our immigrant community.

I explicitly do not. If a community _wants_ to be present online that is fine. But if they do not want to it's not "their fault that they are not represented". Communities don't owe their data to the Internet.

I don't know if it's really clear, outside of coverage of Mpls and pockets of organizing elsewhere, that hundreds of thousands of people are actively and at every level of society fighting our government as it abducts and imprisons and torments our neighbors.

Of course they did.

Comrade knows what’s up.

"This is Mia, 7 years old -- 'I don't want to be in this place. I want to be in my school'" -- Walkinshaw confronts Lyons with letters written by kids being detained by ICE

In 1989, Gorbachev understood there was no containing the popular uprisings without military force, so he explicitly, publicly ruled that out. No govt committees took down the Berlin Wall - people took their own initiative after being assured they would not be killed. time.com/5714770/mikh...

Rest in Power, Teresa de Lauretis (1938 - 2026). 💔

This is why domestic "shuffle" flights between ICE detention centers have skyrocketed, much moreso than ICE deportation flights. When you are moved to a different jurisdiction, you have to refile your habeas petition all over again. They want to wear people down so they'll give up on their cases.

The Irish media showing what the US media could have been doing for years - talking to people held captive in these camps and prisons and getting first-hand accounts from inside, unsanitized by legalisms or pro-state propaganda.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Struggle is not the goal. It’s the method. To get free. Too many people imagine struggle is the goal, so any acts of worldbuilding that prefigure freedom are dismissed as incidental, as distractions.

Hell yeah.

Genuinely curious whether Rings have been taken down these past 2 months in the Twin Cities area. Thinking about a street near mine where I always see a lot of chatter about what people see on their Rings (lots of package thieves around, etc)—I’m positive they all hate ICE now—what’s this look like?

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...