today i tried to get a neighbor abducted by ICE out of Whipple by bringing their paperwork down to get them out of the concentration camp in there, but they had already been moved to Texas. this was less than 48 hrs after their abduction. my neighbor is a legal resident w/ a right to due process.

Everyone should read this fabulous book.

I broke the story yesterday that masked ICE agents (not DOJ) were removing items including a personal computer from the home of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot Renee Good. I have yet to see a single news outlet cover this or an elected official even acknowledge it.

Word to the wise: even if you aren't in a city under direct attack yet, you want to be developing these sorts of relationships NOW with sympathetic folks at local institutions. You want to have those numbers in your phone ready for when you have to send exactly these sorts of texts.

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Unraveled Press is one of the reasons why a Chicago-area judge issued a PO against Greg Bovino and DHS agents. The team behind Unraveled Press keep communities informed and defends 1a every step of the way. This is why I give them my money and you should too: unraveledpress.com/support-unra...

Police jump outs happen every single day, multiple times a day, across the country. Please understand that these kinds of tactics are in no way "new." This is just policing in the US.

LOL Throwing things at murderous thugs as an example of not being “in the right” is a peak Constitutional Law Professor thing. Riots by the disempowered, marginalized, and oppressed are often righteous!! In every sense of that word!

Parsing the Polycrisis means taking everything seriously even when the fascists don’t

I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building. Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained. The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.

The Wall Street Journal.

From Echo Park Tenants Union, 10 people taken today in Echo Park/Silver Lake. Some were gardners, painters, and workers. All of them my neighbors.

In 2008, I stood outside buildings in El Salvador and Nicaragua where agents, trained by the US, tortured and assassinated people. I cried—often, unexpectedly, repeatedly, embarrassingly—because of events not dissimilar from what transpires in the US under the color of law. I am bereft.

Those of you who still insist on drawing a distinction between ICE and police should be aware that the police are not drawing that distinction.

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

To be clear, they're play-fighting and also: this video improved my day measurably and I wish I'd've watched it earlier. If you haven't, fix that now.

Solidarity with Minneapolis. We all see you and we love you and the fascists will lose. We will be here with you to help rebuild when their assault finally fails.

Yes to this by @sifill.bsky.social sherrilyn.substack.com/p/whether-it...

I am donating to this and I would very much like it if others who can donate would do the same. It's not OK that only $6500 has been collected so far. Thank you. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Apropos of absolutely nothing to do with the masked men with no visible agency insignia carrying crates of who knows what out of the shooter's house, but HBO just released an amazing documentary into DHS "shadow units" whose job was to destroy evidence of Border Patrol's crimes

I think to some degree we are UNDERESTIMATING the degree of resistance among the us public. Not saying we are guaranteed to win, or that I have a clue how, but I don’t think the “apathetic American” trope is helpful or truthful under this regime.

Minneapolis City Council member Jason Chavez: "Many of our immigrants neighbors are picked up simply by moving their cars. Help your neighbors take out the trash, because there are many reports of neighbors being kidnapped when they're taking their trash out."

people are posting a lot of things about ICE agents right now that are true for All Cops

Getting warmer…

Imperialism faces out, fascism faces in, but either direction it’s the same logic and political project to exert power. And it only falls when opposed materially: symbolic and legalistic responses will never be enough

Barricades Protect Autonomous Grieving Zone in South Minneapolis After ICE Killed Woman Yesterday

They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time. Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief. Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time. Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.

DEVELOPING: Police say federal agents shoot two people in Portland this afternoon, the day after an ICE officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis. buff.ly/eFpUt2h

It’s seems like this is it. Please pray for the safety of the people of Iran. Pray that everyone in the Iranian establishment who will sign off on the use of force against protesters is held to justice. And pray that corrupt politicians won’t be able to escape to Russia. One struggle.

I managed to write over 1000 words for my dissertation today as I received no fewer than 6 different notifications of CBP sightings and at least 2 kidnappings within 5 miles of where I’m sitting in LA County. This is madness. I am ashamed.

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

oldhead advice from an oldhead. every couple years, newcomers to the movement think "THIS is finally it, the moment when the dam breaks and the whole system is overthrown" and when it doesn't happen they lose patience and get disillusioned and drop out of movement work gotta build for long term

For the last few months, I kept a document where every time I saw reports of fed immigration agents shooting or pointing their gun at someone, I made a note. The list grew and grew. It now includes 4 deaths. Here is what I noticed keeping that list. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/07/i...

I just watched two women get kidnapped right in front of me in Northeast Minneapolis. ICE is still terrorizing our city.

This brief thread is a response to an “Impeach trump now!!” post from before the ongoing ICE/CBP sieges. We’ve all known the stakes all along, even if we couldn’t fully face them until they started kidnapping and murdering people.

There’s been a feedback loop between colonial and “domestic” policing for over a century - see the work of Alfred W McCoy and Stuart Schrader amongst many others

School has been cancelled tomorrow and Friday across the city of Minneapolis, because our federal government has made it unsafe for children here.

We learned today about another ICE murder—Luis Nunez Caceres, killed by ICE's cages: detentionkills.substack.com/p/the-ice-de... ICE's cages killed 32 (known) people in 2025 (www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...) & they're shooting people at ever increasing rates: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The fact that the protests are this large on sub one day notice in the middle of winter is a sign that Renee Nicole Good is on the side of the people and that in the depths of our dispair we must remember that are going to fucking win Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I reshared @siembranc.bsky.social's excellent toolkit "How We Dealt with Border Patrol" in NC just this morning in my newsletter before this horrible killing. It's worth people reading and then acting on: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Up to 10,000 people gathered for a vigil after ICE killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026 - short video from the vigil site. Story is developing.

every secret police force, in every country that has allowed one to exist, eventually sees observation as a threat. systems that are literally built to disappear people are pretty good at expanding who they disappear!

Monstrous. All of it.

ICE’s public violence should be a reminder that they commit brutal acts in private facilities too. Every report has been horrific and we only have the smallest glimpse into the horrors.

Federal immigration agents have now shot and killed multiple people since Trump took office a year ago. Today alone marks the second deadly ICE shooting IN A WEEK. An off-duty shot and killed a 43-year-old father in CA on Dec. 31.

“Passing the Baldwin Test when writing about technology is akin to revealing the great and powerful Oz to be an insecure white man hiding behind a curtain; it means dispelling magic, whether it’s conjured by Google or Amazon.”

How can one adequately face the moment and not be totally overwhelmed by constant floods of grief?

I’m trying to figure out a middle ground between this and “fuck this dying empire that I’ve always hated and wish I could have burned from the inside.”

This is truly essential counterpoint to “Hearts of Darkness.”

This is also true for white people, men, capitalists, bosses, and so many more…