Faschisierung bedeutet auch, dass die Polizei ein System entwickelt, mit dem sie Menschen mit psychischer Erkrankung erfasst und überwacht. taz.de/Polizei-Umga...

Am 3. Februar 1932 wird Stuart Hall in Kingston (Jamaika) geboren. Er gilt wie kein anderer als das Gesicht der „Cultural Studies“. #AnDiesemTag 🧵

Deportation-industrial complex

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

RWG: “Many people think if they just stay off the radar in some way, whatever way that is, that they will not be caught up by the trouble. And certainly Alberto Toscano’s book [Late Fascism] and other books show us again and again that there is no outside. And therefore there is no time to lose.”

I’ve published an article with @ersjournal.com, which reads Marvel Cooke’s 1930s writing on the “Bronx Slave Market” as a form of abolitionist critique. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Our task as social movements is to uproot the system of immigration enforcement, whether it’s ICE or CBP or DHS or the border itself.” @harshawalia.bsky.social

new episode out now! we kick off our new series on Marxism & Religion with a discussion of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose universalist ethos and principled nonviolence shine a light on the righteous path to liberation in these dark times www.patreon.com/posts/128-in...

Instead of reckoning with the long and violent architecture of U.S. history, much of peoples' search for explanations collapses into racialized tropes and xenophobic reassurance: This isn’t Afghanistan. This isn’t China. This is America. We have rights. This is a democracy. This isn’t who we are.

»The pre-Trump tradition of bipartisan support for immigration enforcement and the Democrats’ failure to challenge the scapegoating and demonization of immigrants has opened the door to the paramilitarization of American life.« @silkys13.bsky.social @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/tru...

“The general strike is the name for when the riot, the strike, and the commune all happen at once,” late theorist Joshua Clover said..."that’s the day, the week, or the year where there will be a role for everyone.” There is a role for everyone; that time must be now theintercept.com/2026/01/24/s...

After murdering a man, ICE has fled the area, making Minneapolis police take over crowd control. Without the complicity of local and state police who supposedly answer to Democrat politicians, ICE would not be able to continue kidnapping and killing people. Begin by pressuring local authorities.

»The pre-Trump tradition of bipartisan support for immigration enforcement and the Democrats’ failure to challenge the scapegoating and demonization of immigrants has opened the door to the paramilitarization of American life.« @silkys13.bsky.social @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/tru...

"criminal" is not a meaningful term for describing a person's conduct, personality, etc. "criminalization," however, is a process by which the state makes specific [kinds of] people vulnerable to violence and neglect

some of the most important educational work ppl can do right now is to diffuse "criminal" as a thought terminating label

»It is not enough to abolish ICE. We need to abolish the police and cages and build other institutions and relationships that can bring us genuine safety.« An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...

If you read one thing today, it should be this Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’ www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...

This essay by Nikhil Pal Singh is well worth your time: www.equator.org/articles/hom...

Und wie heißt das Zeitalter, in dem amerikanische Gerichte etwa die Mörder von Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice und Sean Bell freisprachen bzw. nicht anklagten? Oder die Polizisten, die Rodney King vor laufender Kamera verprügelten und zusammentraten?

Good, abolish ICE. But there is no such thing as a humane immigration policy. No one should tell other living beings that they cannot move to where they need or want to be. Precisely because our system of nation-states can’t tolerate free movement, it must be abolished.

“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate." ― Edward W. Said

Innerhalb weniger Tage kündigen Sparkasse Göttingen und GLS-Bank alle Konten der Rote Hilfe e.V. Der Grund: US-Druck über SWIFT. Auch DKP, ABC und weitere linke Organisationen sind betroffen. Das ist kein Einzelfall. Das ist politisch. Jetzt ist Solidarität gefragt. rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/ko...

1/ New chapter out (with Franz Knappik): “G.W.F. Hegel, Frantz Fanon, and Angela Davis on Recognition, Slavery, and Liberation” – in Matt Congdon and Thomas Khurana’s Recognition: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives. ⬇️ Short thread below:

#tdih 1951, Paul Robeson submitted a petition (edited by William Patterson) to the U.N. titled, “We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People,” signed by close to 100 U.S. intellectuals and activists. ⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/we...

Wer in Deutschland Asyl sucht, muss damit rechnen, zu Unrecht und unter menschenunwürdigen Bedingungen inhaftiert und abgeschoben zu werden. www.akweb.de/politik/absc...

Berlins Polizeibudget wächst seit 15 Jahren ununterbrochen – während bei Bildung, Sozialem und Kultur gekürzt wird. Das Justice Collective zeigt: Pro Kopf gibt es hier nun mehr Polizeibeamte als in New York City.

Excellent new report on the need to defund the Berlin Police. (Available in English)

CIVICUS stuft Deutschland 2025 weiter ab: Von „offen“ zu „beschränkt“. Repression gegen Protest, Verbote, Polizeigewalt und Zensur zeigen Wirkung – nicht nur auf der Straße, sondern jetzt auch im internationalen Freiheitsranking. Grundrechte? Immer weniger. rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/ze...

Berlin hat mehr Polizei pro Einwohner*in als NYC oder London. Und das ist ziemlich teuer: Personalkosten machen ca. 3/4 des jährlichen Polizeibudgets aus. Und es geht noch weiter: 2026/27 sind weitere 1.224 neue Stellen geplant. Zu lesen in unserem Bericht www.racismontrial.org/de/blog/news...

According to analysis by @justicecollective.bsky.social, there are more police officers per capita in Berlin than in New York city. Berlin police also recently acquired extensive new surveillance powers. www.heise.de/en/news/Berl... In this context, I find their propensity for violence alarming.

For more than 2 years, police in Berlin - encouraged by city and national politicians - have systematically used excessive violence in an attempt to beat the Palestine solidarity movement into silence. I wrote about this phenomenon for the @lrb.co.uk

Während der Berliner Senat an allen Ecken und Enden kürzt, fließt immer mehr Geld in die Polizei. Mit @justicecollective.bsky.social haben wir den Etat näher unter die Lupe genommen und fordern eine radikale Umverteilung. www.racismontrial.org/de/blog/news...

Happy A Love Supreme day to all who celebrate, within or without the Church of John Coltrane. Here 's a recording of the 4th movement "Psalm," with the words to his poem that he plays verbatim. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kOu...

Da durch das BKA-Lagebild mal wieder die Sau namens »Ausländerkriminalität« durchs Dorf getrieben wird: Ich hab für @justicecollective.bsky.social vor einigen Monaten mal was dazu geschrieben. www.racismontrial.org/de/blog/pers...

Heute wurde in Berlin eine Novelle des Polizeigesetzes verabschiedet. Sie erlaubt so ziemlich alles, was an digitaler Überwachung möglich ist: Verhaltensscanner, Gesichtersuche, Palantir-artige Datenanalysen, Staatstrojaner. Ein Kommentar. netzpolitik.org/2025/neues-p...

The LMU announces the cancellation of a seminar on the topic "the targeting of Palestinian academia". The cancellation announcement is titled "LMU as a place of pluralistic discourse". Couldn't make this up. www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu...

super Folge mit @vethompson.bsky.social zur großen Angela Davis: www.rosalux.de/mediathek/me...

the speech

Everyone knows that there was a “reverse Underground Railroad” too, right? That there were gangs hunting down Black people — some self-emancipated, some born free, didn’t matter — and dragging them to a slave state? That it wasn’t just Solomon Northup, it was tens of thousands of people? Because ⬇️

French police under the command of a former Nazi collaborator massacred anti-imperialist Algerian demonstrators 64 years ago today. For decades, the French authorities concealed the evidence of one of the worst atrocities in postwar Europe.

'There are records that crystallise genres, there are albums that carve out new spaces in established scenes, and there are LPs that, over time, end up symbolising the era in which they were created. Records that create a new musical language... Those are rare.' R.I.P. D’Angelo buff.ly/ldwrgBO

We are excited to officially announce Dipesh Chakrabarty as our next Benjamin Chair in 2026. Chakrabarty, leading scholar of postcolonial theory and subaltern studies, will join us as Benjamin Chair in Berlin next summer. Save the Date - More information coming soon on our website!

wir sollten wirklich im Blick behalten, dass das von konservativen & ‚liberalen‘ Angriffen auf postkoloniale Theorie, Gender Studies, rassismuskritische Forschung sowie Wissenschaftsfreiheit & Hochschulautonomie vorbereitet und flankiert wird - auch aus den Medien und Unis heraus

Don't just report the fascism, report the resistance, too www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Wenn sie von »Sicherheit« sprechen, meinen sie eigentlich immer genau das hier.

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

Wisdom from the great Saidiya Hartman artreview.com/the-intervie...