yes, 'immigration enforcment' could be periodic audits of employers to see if they're using e-verify, it doesn't have to be J6ers in MRAPs tear gassing people

I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:

The tl;dr of this conversation and quick wade into the research is: - There isn’t anything close to a scientific consensus that unmasking prevents violence - Unmasking wouldn’t be sufficient to end ICE’s anonymity - There is A LOT of evidence that defunding ICE would be much more effective

Why not press ahead with impeachment anyway?

NEW: Marimar Martinez, the woman shot by Border Patrol in Chicago only to be criminally charged (and cleared), seeks to modify a court order so she can "disclose case materials … to the public." Her atty, Chris Parente, points to events in Minneapolis as well as writings by Justice Samuel Alito:

Very easy step MN AG could take right now: Issue a warrant for Bovino for obstruction of justice, harboring a fugitive, conspiracy to commit murder.

Judge: "I have all of these quotes in the record. You're telling me that I'm reading them wrong." That the surge isn't to coerce a change of the policies but to make up for the policies' harm "What do I have in the record to show that the surge is to make up for the harms caused by the policies?"

One wish i have for America is that we were giving @amandagorman.bsky.social happier things to write poems about.

15 years ago I borrowed a bulletproof vest from a reporter so I could report from a war zone. I held onto it after I returned. Last week the reporter finally asked for it back because he is headed to Minneapolis.

Yes, the GOP controls Congress. That's why it's key to show Congress COULD stop the madness. And it's not just the DHS bill. Congress could repeal the prior multi-year $75b for DHS; set up a special investigative committee (cf. Watergate); amend the Insurrection Act; etc.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Abolish ICE, abolish DHS, redistribute the other agencies, prosecute actual criminals, such as people who commit execution-style murders of Americans in broad daylight.

Hundreds of Mothers and Children. HUNDREDS OF MOTHERS AND CHILDREN.

A lot of the media has messed up in describing all of these folks who are observing as protesters, they’re neighbors who quickly come out of their homes to document ICE presence knowing that their privilege is the only thing possibly standing in the way of a neighbor being disappeared or brutalized.

Abolishing ICE is not nearly sufficient. State and local officials need to start arresting and prosecuting these kidnappers and murderers.

Essentially, what stops abductions is when crowds outnumber the masked kidnappers. When people aggressively follow ICE with whistles and horns, crowds are ready to show up. If they show up fast enough, ICE leaves and a family is not broken. (People here understand the stakes).

You cannot detain or arrest a baby, you can only kidnap her. These people need to wear a scarlet letter, need to ring a bell to loudly declare their moral bankruptcy. Everyone must be allowed to avoid them until they have made amends.

Jonathan Ross—the ICE fascist who killed Renee Good—is an 18-year ICE veteran, firearms instructor, & active shooter trainer. The people claiming "ICE needs more training" are missing the point. Ross's 2 DECADES of training IS what led him to execute Good. ICE Training IS the problem. Abolish ICE.

Farm workers with Minnesota. Solidarity with the general strike! Campesinos con Minnesota. ¡Viva la huelga!

Dunno why the original link doesn't work, here's one that does. Anyway, this post is over a year old, and it's why I don't follow "your" fucking Substack.

Future historian looking for an opening anecdote: Today, Jan. 23, 2026, the people of Minnesota hold a general strike to protest the federal gov't's assault on their persons and rights. Also today, someone (perhaps a billionaire) will pay ~$5,000,000 for a copy of the Declaration of Independence.

My org @immcouncil.org represents those two gay men. They had been arrested on charges of sodomy by Iranian moral police, and fled the country seeking asylum. They face the death penalty if returned, yet the Trump admin denied their asylum claims in a kangaroo court process. They are terrified.

Here's one of the panels that Trump just removed from the President's House site in Philadelphia. (I took this picture of it last March. A couple of weeks later I led a walking tour that included the site.) Does this information "disparage" the United States?

Statement from the entire Minneapolis City Council in support of a General Strike and Day of Truth & Freedom on January 23rd.

Imagine looking back at this time in a year, two years, ten years, and realizing that when fascists murdered moms and kidnapped five year olds and blinded people, you did... ...nothing. Don't let that be you. Look around. See what your neighbors need. Do SOMETHING.

a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project

Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.

Submitted: Every use of a commercial stock photo should be accompanied by the search terms that brought it up, just as every AI image should be forever bound to its prompt.

That this is appalling & FAR outside the bounds of reality doesn't matter. DJT, Nick Fuentes, & the Proud Boys BELIEVE it. Lots of people believe it!! And as Erik H. Erikson once wrote: "It doesn't matter if a thing is real; if it's perceived of as being real, IT WILL BE REAL IN ITS CONSEQUENCES."

Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.

it's bizarre to see both CNN and CNBC run with chyrons reporting that Trump said he won't "use force" to take Greenland, when the comments in question were clearly a threat to take Greenland by force. How naive are we at this point?

Our careers at the National Endowment for the Humanities weren't boring - they were inspiring and fulfilling, in service to America. And after months of uncertainty and unemployment, most of us certainly aren't working in better jobs for more pay. You destroyed so much, and for what? #NEH

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.

Following.

this is full of meaning

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” -MLK Jr, Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Here is the most important rule in politics: If you want a thing just push for the thing. All the rules about how you are not allowed to do that are made up and designed to prevent you from pushing for the thing.

Apropos of nothing and no one in particular ...

So, like, if we get attacked by paratroopers, I really hope the rest of you know we tried our best. And I hope you impeach the motherfuckers who thought it was okay to even consider this. In a just world even the consideration of an attack your own people should be grounds for impeachment.

Every time you log into X, you are signing a contract that allows Elon to sue you, for any reason or no reason, and have the case assigned to a court where he’s virtually guaranteed a win

My point is… i just think it’s so unhelpful to point to everything going on and turn it into “courts lol” or “like there’s gonna be midterms lol.” Doomerism leads to complying in advance because if nothing matters why even bother.

I am sick of screaming.

All that most maddens and torments

This could be the unified Dem position. It is wildly popular. Puts the regime on defense on two fronts at the same time. Good policy, good politics.

Ruin a band by changing one letter: Ned Zeppelin

I'm sorry, didn't we _just_ give ICE enough money to build an entire carrier battle group? And the premise is oh, that didn't include training or cameras, training and cameras are gonna be extra? And that's the SENATE DEM position?