It's more important than ever to think clearly and carefully about conspiracy theories, which is exactly what I tried to do in my latest essay. I truly hope it is of some use in these epistemically challenging times. isonomiaquarterly.com/wp-content/u...

"While ICE is still able to make arrests, the number of people they have so far been able to grab is far lower than what they would have done if the community was slower to organize." - @mutual-a.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/60977

I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.

fascism's romanticization of suicide combines its nihilism with its nostalgia, its irony with its sentimentality

liberalism is a radical and revolutionary doctrine again

if only there was a term for armed agents of the state who remain anonymous and who you're not allowed to name. police whose identities are secret. give me time, i'll come up with something

An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.

Hundreds of people have died or are "missing from" ICE's "prisons", btw. ICE is refusing to provide healthcare to detainees. There literally are people who have been hauled off by masked thugs to a literal camp to die of preventable disease and mistreatment, just like Anne Frank.

i think it's not even actually being an overseer: it's the ability to imagine that you might be. a parasocial relationship with your avatars in power. fantasizing about saying "you're fired!" to that lady on the internet who didn't smile for you.

Abolish ICE Abolish DHS Abolish CBP Free the detainees Pay restitution to the victims (or their families) Open the borders Pass an amendment protecting freedom of movement Stop granting significance to the citizen/non-citizen distinction Stop letting authoritarianism take root

this sense that the only thing to do is just chase polls, chase the next election, make the median voter into their god they now struggle to conceive of the possibility that liberalism has its own internal wellsprings--that is a *project* to be *fought for*

yeah so i don't enjoy being told to reject the evidence of my eyes and ears

fascism is receiving a moral lecture from the barrel of a gun

the aspirational projection of fascist lies--for years maga has conjured an apocalyptic race war fantasy of "invasion" by "cartels" and now trump ii has realized that racist siege fantasy by sending its own cartel-like goon squads to invade blue cities to do gangland style abductions and executions

full bore comeback of medieval pogromist blood libel and jim crow lynching logic

The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect. /1

The second public execution in a month by the army of secret police occupying and terrorizing Minneapolis. More surely coming, and probably to a city near you.

I wish Democrats would start just speaking the truth: “ICE is killing American citizens in public for exercising their freedom of speech because Donald Trump wants to be a king. This isn’t about immigration—Trump wants to make it illegal to oppose him, and to stay in power until he dies.”

ICE are Gestapo. ICE are domestic terrorists. ICE are criminals serving a criminal. ICE are empowered abusers. ICE are cold blooded murderers.

"fucking b*tch" "boohoo" this is the logical end point of troll culture: flippant murder followed by petulant taunting "arbeit macht frei" was a "teehee clever huh" troll, the nazis saying "your extermination is a joke to us"

A secret army of state-sanctioned Columbine shooters is waging war against Minneapolis.

The point of building a list of all active dissidents is to be able to then go door-to-door abducting or murdering them. Since the list is quite long and they could not accomplish the whole extermination in a day, the goal becomes to terrorize those who are not yet gotten into hiding.

Again, the goal is not to persuade anyone or win democratic elections. Their messaging is solely dedicated to managing the morale of their in group and keep them rallied against the out group to be more effective as death squads. They're mocking that you weaklings think facts should matter.

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Every protestor is definitionally an outsider to people like Tom Emmer and his sycophant pretend-journalists on Fox. To them, an insider, someone who belongs, is someone who licks the boot.

A great night of pro-wrestling with one of my greatest and oldest friends Thomas.

People can say they didn’t vote for this but people are liars

state-sponsored child trafficking

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

the worst of the worst are the ones enforcing law and order, the ones patrolling the border, policing the streets, running the prisons, wielding authority the state is the apex criminal, the apex terrorist, the apex murderer, the apex rapist evil is socially mobile and climbs every power ladder

Principled anarchist James Konkin has been arrested for constitutionally protected anti-ICE posts. The fascist regime is cracking down on speech and trying to silence critics of its secret police. Keep speaking out. Keep standing up for what's right. Free James.

Well, my mom's lung surgery did not get all of the cancer. She's figuring out her next steps now. Any well wishes or donations are greatly appreciated. Link below.

“…I prize individuality. Deny my individuality and I become an animal, mute, a mere creature of all the forces that act upon me. I will never surrender the rights of the individual—the complete rights of the individual—to any ‘ism’ whatever.” ~ Murray Bookchin (1978)

eco's "too weak and too strong" gestalt applies not just to fascism's pantheon of villains but also to fascists' own self-concept: it gratifies their puerile desire to be both victim and victor, mommy's sweet little boy and hard, bold protector

It would be a mistake to see Trumpism as authoritarianism imposed on an unwilling nation, as opposed to authoritarianism implemented in a nation with a plurality that is already made up of authoritarian bootlickers who created the context for Trumpism to thrive.

"It’s the unspoken truth of humanity that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life’s joy in a mad scramble for power. For identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel." - Loki Tonight, the part of Loki will be played by President Donald Trump

What do you think? Are we right now in a Civil War? Or is there still some line to cross? ICE w/ facial recognition cameras pointed at protesters, weaponizing info against them. No accountability for murder. Ignoring the law effortlessly. Gaslighting. ICE drones. The answer is Yes, this is war.

Don't bother arguing about whether ICE is a police force or a military force. It's neither. It behaves as a disorganized, violent mob, cursing, shouting contradictory orders, and attacking unarmed citizens on a whim. It is deployed to create fear and chaos, not to enforce laws or establish order.

A friend was arrested for legally protected anti-ICE posts. Don't stop speaking out, but be careful what you say, and please help bring attention to this. Link below. @ij.org @aclu.org @acluok.bsky.social @ccrjustice.org @rightsdissent.bsky.social @facoalition.bsky.social

Okay, I think I'm starting to have doubts about the need for a legally immune and taxpayer funded band of invading, occupying, kidnapping, and murdering snuff film content creators.

it is unofficial, tacit SOP for cops to step in front of moving vehicles as a pretext to retaliate, to shout contradictory orders, to yell "gun" (before and after shooting), to plant evidence, to destroy evidence, to lie in reports, to lie to the media (who gobble it up), and to rape their wives

The insane pretzel-knots people are prepared to tie themselves in to excuse police killings always become obviously absurd when we imagine a civilian offering a similar defense. "The car bumped me slightly while it was turning away, so I had to assume it MIGHT turn back to ram me..."

ICE are state-sponsored terrorists.

conservatives have embraced the "exterminate the race traitor whores" logic from the turner diaries