Israel bombed tents in Gaza today, killed at least 30 people including children, and the death toll is likely to rise www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

I certainly hope journalists speak up about their colleagues being arrested but I have to say, 2+ years of journalists being silent about their Palestinian colleagues being murdered does not instill confidence in me

Schumer and Jeffries negotiating to limit the number of journalist arrested by the Department of Justice each year to a maximum of 20.

Never thought that the guy who asked whether Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 got lost in a black hole would be arrested for being an 𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒎𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆 or whatever, but here we are.

I guess we're just arresting journalists now.

From everything I’m hearing and reading, nothing in the ground in the Twin Cities has meaningfully changed.

Laminated notice taped to a utility pole that reads: “ICE KIDNAPPED OUR NEIGHBOR HERE” “AQUÍ LA MIGRA SECUESTRÓ A NUESTRO VECINO.” “HALKAN IMMIGRATION-KA AYAA AFDUUBTAY DERISKEENA.” South Minneapolis, January 2026

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

it’s the necropolitics / biopower collab we never asked for

The state of american politics is that one major party wants to kill you while the other simply wants you to die

The largest infrastructure projects currently being built in the US appear to be data centers and detention centers. The AI boom has coincided with ICE becoming the most heavily funded government agency. It's hard not to see a connection: This is the architectures of digital fascism

The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

Okay so I was actually at this encounter, filmed the aftermath, and am briefly visible in this video, and I would point out that what he does here is briefly kick a car twice. ICE beats him up, shoots pepper balls into the crowd, and launches tear gas at everyone else before leaving.

newrepublic.com/article/2057... any proposal that doesn’t acknowledge and grapple with this reality is unserious; it’s self-soothing, an attempt to deflect unwanted attention and pointed criticisms.

Microsoft and Blackrock have "have largely given up on organic adoption [of AI] by consumers. They have moved on to a new dream of forced adoption mandated by government and managerial coercion." Fascinating piece here on what Davos can teach us about the AI industry by @mattseybold.bsky.social

Yes - until you see it firsthand, it’s hard to understand how upsetting and enraging it is to see these guys operate in your community. They are dressed for war, they beat civilians up, they openly antagonize neighbors, they’re masked, they carry people away. Everyone is livid at every scene.

It’s really difficult & disorienting but the feds hit LA extremely hard today. There were kidnappings all over & reported cluster raids in Chinatown, East LA, Ktown. This list shows to 1130 AM but they haven’t stopped all day Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have

This is a speech designed by someone who thinks you are stupid. He’s explicitly promising to keep the *recently tripled* budget of the DHS gestapo if there are “reforms” that, behind closed doors, their lawyers admit are unenforceable, irrelevant, and even harmful.

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.

The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States and Stephen.

update: it is better that they say nothing

I thought to myself, why would anyone in higher offer to run secret police academies to train secret police to secret police better, and then … whelp the author already runs a police academy

what the fuck is this

come back then. we're not done with you, you little freak

NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.

“In a race between the executive and the judiciary, the judiciary will mostly arrive too late” - Carl Schmitt

Shannon mentioned that States at the Core is offering another virtual ICE Watch and Community Defense training this Wednesday at 7 pm -https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1ljKUChmQ9m_Ivl7jE8n2Q?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#/registration

WHY IS IT STILL SNOWING

This horrific epistemological practice has both proven almost impossible to dislodge, even as it’s resulted in press being utterly humiliated by liars again and again. It has also arguably led to the collapse of liberal democracy and the rise of fascism. It seems like they should stop doing it!

The political press very clearly understands “truth” as a social agreement, a compromise position between everyone important enough to have an opinion. It did not reflect on how this would allow dedicated liars to go all-in on lies again and again and dramatically shift the position.

sometimes it’s hard being a political theorist because specialized concepts like obligation are part of a common political vocabulary and so get used in ways that feel designed to make theorists, specifically, lose our minds

Your right not to be murdered has to weighed equally against your duty not to give wannabe nazi freaks the idea of murdering you - NYT Editorial Board

Because, in part, they don’t change their minds. They say “conditions changed” and they were right before and they are right now. And then they usually say some dumb shit that makes it apparent they cannot be relied upon as political allies

Again, I know it’s persnickety, but I want to emphasize that Alex Pretti was not “showing up at a protest,” he was driving around the city as part of a community-led first responder network. He was likely carrying a gun the same reason anyone does: he felt like he might encounter an unsafe situation

seeing conservatives admit alex pretti was disarmed and need to change their message to “well you know where you won’t get shot? at home” is just an impressive level of pathetic allegiance to their dictator

sometimes I think about how impoverished media vocabulary for talking about collective action is, and what this means for the capacity to envision ways of acting together everyone in Minneapolis is a “protestor” and that doesn’t begin to describe what they are doing & how it works & what it does

The largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI

you know overall I am not big on college & university statements, which seemed at best a way to posture with empty platitudes; and more often, a way to step on a series of rakes. But the callous cruelty of not even acknowledging what we and students and staff are living through is really something

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

the semester hasn’t even started yet here and I am concerned that students may not make it through my Race & US Citizenship course. like, emotionally

A long-underappreciated component of "Do not obey in advance" is that doing so often not only makes you look like a coward and a fool, but also results in considerable unnecessary work.

Twitter fascists are all agog because they believe they've uncovered an antifa anti-ICE terrorist manual. It begins, "We are witnesses, not warriors." It tells you how to use a whistle. It recommends not bringing pets. Some of the terrorists may even be carrying notebooks.

my other thread is circulating but my main thing is actually this. It is good we have historical examples and it is good to reason from them but at this point the CRM no longer functions as mere example. its invocation usually just short circuits actual judgment about the particulars at hand

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Okay, so the point of civil rights movement demonstrations was not to get the living hell beat out of them, though they knew that such a fate was very possible and trained themselves to endure levels of abuse.

“civil rights protestors wanted to get beaten” is an interpretation so widely accepted and repeated that it borders on self-evident truth territory. But it is both misleading and, if you stop to think about it, a pretty fucked up idea to circulate

oh god we have reached the “reason about this through civil rights movement analogies” part of the program please just this one time let’s not

"The growing decentralized resistances in Minneapolis(. . .)have built up their own direct connections and sources that have formed interconnecting information-sharing networks outside of these highly controlled, authoritarian-adjacent news media institutions."