NoICE4ME has been organizing against the deportations machinr for months. We've been targeting Cumberland County Commissioners to get then to stop cooperation btw ICE & the sheriff. Yesterday organizers & coalition partners gave powerful presentations to the county www.youtube.com/live/cJKLM0Y...

This is one my all time favorite books & writers. Mayer is really underappreciated essayist. This book on fascism is like Studs Terkel meets Wilhem Riech

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@bmcquade.bsky.social bat signal…

A prestige TV series of China Mievelle's Bas-Lag trilogy. Pls spectacle pls

"ICE came for Gratien Milandou-Wamba. That tells us everything" GMW is refugee, was as a sheriff's deputy & now is an ICE detainee. The op-ed below explains the significance of the case & advocates for campaign to end Cumberland County's cooperation with ICE. www.pressherald.com?p=7471455&uu...

Seems like Trump’s most powerful advisor being a white nationalist should inspire greater alarm than the possible mayor of new york being pro palestinian rights

Can’t successfully push back on ICE without rejecting the criminalization that makes it possible.

On May 28, 2020, thousands of community members overran the Minneapolis Police 3rd Precinct and lit the police station on fire in response to days of police violence following the horrific murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police. Watch the night as it unfolded. unicornriot.ninja/2025/reporte...

He was also violently arrested at the UN in 1961 while protesting US involvement in the murder of Patrice Lumumba. A protest I wrote about here: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2361-a... - Amiri Baraka often put his body on the line.

Why celebrate May Day? This year, in taking the streets, we are showing each other who is prepared to fight: "Take a stand—we'll be there, too." Every year, we are showing that we are part of a story greater than ourselves, stretching back centuries. Life reinventing itself in defiance of death.

I wrote for New York magazine about deportations to CECOT in El Salvador, which are bound up with a tradition of US extrajudicial actions in the Americas and further the long arc of concentration camps.

Workers unite! May Day march and rally this Thursday. This is a coalition of union members, community members, parents and students. Join us! Begins at 3:30 at USM. We hit the streets @ 4:15. #unionstrong #solidarity #resist @bmcquade.bsky.social @kidsarcanum.bsky.social @abstractfigure.bsky.social

Join us this Sunday, May 4 from 12 to 2p! Bring signs and your voices. If you are a Wells resident, please also attend the select board meeting on Tuesday, May 6. It’s an opportunity to express your dissent, or ask questions, and learn more about why this partnership with ICE is harmful.

Global military spending rose to US$2.7 trillion in 2024, a 9.4% increase over the previous year—marking the largest annual rise in recent history and a nearly 20% surge over just three years. This massive spending increase has not made the world any safer. 🧵👇 #WarCostsUsTheEarth

“We’re upset with ICE but the police are okay,” is a position you can only hold if you’re not aware of how intertwined our local and federal police forces are through shared contracts, spaces, practices, and attitudes. The fusion centers launched in the GWOT are the site of the …fusion of forces.

It's almost like Democrats in power have been warned for *years* by a large coalition of activists that punitive and surveillance infrastructure will be used against vulnerable people and they just ignored it--for security theater at best, and active or quiet agreement with republicans at worst.

I'm take ibuprofen before I play pickup basketball years old today

🚨 @nysfocus.bsky.social scoop: The State Police maintain a gang database that gets shared with ICE. It contains over 5,100 names and uses hazy criteria like tattoos, clothing, and social associations to label people as gang members. It hasn't been audited by an outside entity. full story⬇️

NYSP has 5,000 person gang database. Governor Hochul claims NYSP won't cooperate with President Trump's mass deportation campaign — yet the agency funnels the gang database into a federal system that makes it instantly available to ICE. nysfocus.com/2025/04/23/t...

Make America Great Again www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pet...

"We should be prepared to defend the basic rights of *all* of Trump’s targets with our full strength. If a single person becomes disposable, anyone could become the next target...The innocence trap is dangerous because allegations of criminality have always been deployed to justify state violence."

A Guatemalan immigrant with no Massachusetts criminal record was arrested Monday on Tallman Street after federal agents shattered the glass on his vehicle as he and his wife waited inside the car for their lawyer to arrive. Read story and view full video: newbedfordlight.org/lawyer-feder...

As we predicted: Joe Kent is planning to use the law enforcement apparatus to imprison Black activists and antifascists as “terrorists,” essentially unleashing the far-right terrorists of the Proud Boys by looking the other way as they get the green light. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Immigrants aren’t dangerous, sending the army to help patrol domestically is.

This is key. All the political education & organizing at huge demos that more "serious" organizers sometimes sneer at

Great article. I'm writing a book about this mess RN: doing original interviews with "loss prevention professionals" & others while also thinking about the issues from the perspective of the anti-security to center decommodification in discussions of abolition theappeal.org/shoplifting-...

Walter Benjamin writing about fascism in 1936 "Fascism attempts to organize the newly proletarianized masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves."

When one town in Maine bans homeless shelters, it adversely affects other towns and the individual who is forced to leave their community. If every town in the state does their fair share, we can keep our unsheltered neighbors from dying. #housingcrisis www.pressherald.com/2025/03/20/m...

They are intentionally targeting people subjected to specific categories that liberals see as expendable or undeserving of full citizenship. This is a test of solidarity and people are flunking

Don't forget what two plus two equals wagingnonviolence.org/2025/03/resi...

A postdoctoral fellow in peace and conflict studies at Georgetown University was detained by Department of Homeland Security agents on his way home from teaching an evening class on March 17. He is now in ICE custody. www.dropsitenews.com/p/georgetown...

Don't be believe the hype! Big brother? How about Reno 9-11? Dataminr social media scraper, which they bill as AI powered, actually needs a human intermediary and still spews out crap intelligence spam theintercept.com/2025/03/17/l...

This thread 👇

If you have power in your institution and your institution imposes rules limiting what you can do or say, please consider breaking those rules and doing so publicly.

"They will terrorize us, criminalize us, and attempt to silence us. Now is the time to speak out ... Do what you can, where you can. Do not wait until this violence comes to your doorstep, or until the anguish that is being visited upon Noor Abdalla fills your heart and your home."

I worry about the normalization of cruelty, and not just among Nazis.

Without liberal consensus for genocide and crackdown on Palestine protests, we would not be in this place.

COs call this practice of shipping people around "diesel therapy"

“this place we share remains a kind of living astonishment, maybe not itself indestructible but built up around human impulses and aspirations whose tensile strength you would be very, very foolish to underestimate” 💗

This is PR puff piece about one of the fusion centers I studied & wrote about in my book. They hype "Hold on, we’re building the plane as we fly it" approach as point of strength. I read this as an admission of what police power is really about: discretion www.police1.com/coronavirus-...

This some first as tragedy then as farce anti intellectualism The air & space museum 1st displayed the Enola Gay w/an exhibit on the historical & ethical debate over the atom bomb. That was too much for right wing & veterans groups so the exhibit was removed & it displayed w/no context. No this...

Some glorious pick up bball today. We were down 14-0 and then won 15-14. I'm riding this high all week!

So great to see students & colleagues in the UMaine system keep fighting for Palestine www.foxbangor.com/news/local/u...