Another quick quote: "This [ICE] exists today because of the prison industrial complex and the long history of warehousing Black, brown, Indigenous communities in the United States... there is no abolishing ICE without looking at [police, jails, sheriffs, etc]" @silkys13.bsky.social

Sanctuary is a verb.

Gov. Walz tells everyone to be calm in the face of horrific state violence, then suggests abducting people in the middle of the night with the help of his local hired guns so it’s less disruptive. Of course, it’s about system improvements that increase his power, not stopping ICE.

“… this is already a form of martial law, just without the paperwork. More importantly, the entire goal of martial law is to enforce quiescence. Pre-emptively rewarding the regime with precisely what it wants does not so much avoid martial law as make it unnecessary.” illwill.com/lies

What we know as "police militarization" is really a response to police being seen as ineffective in their crackdowns on Black uprisings. In other words, police were seen as insufficiently professionalized. (excerpts from Go's "Policing Empires")

The pain and the outrage is correct and just and I'm glad everyone can see and understand it here, and this is also already what BLM was, if you argued for training, police reform or body cams instead of abolition this is what you sounded like, this is why people were so mad at you

The Democratic executives of Minnesota who evoked Martin Luther King on *Monday* are arresting clergy praying down ICE on Friday

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

I’m going to keep hammering this point: the excesses of ICE we see now are entirely contiguous with our system of policing more broadly, and the reason that almost no politician wants to threaten real consequences for ICE agents is because it opens the door to making the same demands of the cops

the people who got everyone here including the tv lawyers, pathetic pundits & consultants, and feckless elected officials are the sources of "don't take the bait." So maybe don't listen to them about anything.

legal this, illegal that the law was never a guide to morality. it is as meaningful and meaningless as the imaginary lines we draw on maps

I don't know how to convey to people that POLICING in the US is experienced by countless Black and brown people in the way that ICE is currently acting towards people.

Law Enforcement Baronial Class as official policy

This is bigger than stopping ICE/ CBP or passing a law. It's about how both parties have allowed law enforcement to run the country, determine every policy, spend profligately, and lobby endlessly all on the taxpayer's dime.

Organizers in Chicago and elsewhere around the country have experienced over and over that ICE was only able to continue about its business because of local police deployed by Democrats "keeping order." Cops everywhere stand with ICE—see attachment. crimethinc.com/Broadview2025

Dear friends an Tomorrow marks 24 years of Guantánamo Bay—24 years of kidnapping, torture, and cages without trial. This prison is a crime scene, kept alive by silence and complicity. Join global vigils. Demand closure. Demand accountability. Hold the poster. Share it. Tag me. Send photos.

It is exhausting that liberals continue to ignore this. We are here in this moment because of BOTH PARTIES IN THIS COUNTRY

Police killed at least 1,292 people in the United States in 2025. There were only six days with zero police killings last year. Source: mappingpoliceviolence.org.

Something I didn't emphasize enough in my book, and I wish I had, was that sheriffs (alongside us marshalls etc) were key figures in Western expansion. Many were former soldiers who made their career killing Indigenous and Brown people for Anglo settlers. They became the "law."

THREAD. Every year, I tell the story of Ezell Gilbert. It's the story of one of the most remarkable cases in U.S. history, and you’ve probably never heard of it. The story of what the U.S. government did to him is vital for understanding the current moment we are in.

It’s common to see someone react to an action by a big company, rich person, or public official with ‘how is this not illegal,’ presuming that if it were, the thing wouldn’t happen. But that isn’t how law works.

A skill I would really like us all to cultivate is saying "I don't think this is a great tactic, but I agree with the cause," and then just moving on with our lives.

This Veterans Day I’ll be at the Vietnam Memorial and then on a very different march to say no to occupation from Chicago to Palestine! As veterans our message is clear: “No ICE, No Cuts, No Occupation” Bundle up and join us www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...

Calling the Democrats “cowards” suggests that they're scared to do what's right when they show no fervent interest in being an opposition. They're largely colluders, not cowards. Many want their base to think they're cowards to maintain investment in the idea that they can be pushed to do better.

The Federal government, along with the state of Texas, continue their crusade against the Prairieland Defendants. Des is only one of the 18 protesters that the Trump administration is attempting to paint as an “antifa” terrorist group.

cw rape I've been talking about this recently in the context of labor but it's even more hideously apparent here: if you give people the power to commit violence against someone unless they obey you, here that violence is deportation, you get HIDEOUS sexual violence Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Oriana Korol—arrested by ICE for playing GHOSTBUSTERS on a clarinet—is incredible, and the kind of ally we need in massive numbers if we’re going to halt this crushing authoritarianism: “This has just increased my commitment to social justice and to fight back against mistreatment of minorities.”

And you, governor, should stop providing state cops to police protesters for ICE at Broadview.

In just 5 months, one Tennessee county spent $130,000 of taxpayer money locking people up for ICE. When we say local governments wield significant power in ICE's immigration agenda, this is what we mean. www.wvlt.tv/2025/07/01/k...

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

I support nonviolent action. It's literally what I do. But telling people that allowing themselves to be harmed to demonstrate the character of their enemy will be politically transformative denies the desensitized reality of the present.

Connect with your people offline. Take the chats to signal but also take your close relationships offline entirely. We need to be connected when they shut this all down. What’s your organizing plan if things go dark? Where do you meet? Who picks up what work? How do we communicate?

This narrative that ICE has "backed off" Chicago persists despite a flood of bystander video and reports showing an unprecedented and growing wave of masked terrorists violently kidnapping Illinoisians off the streets in Chicago. I can only assume our media ecosystem is to blame for this.

ICE has fired tear gas and pepper balls at protesters outside their Broadview facility. They are terrorizing immigrants across Chicagoland. The time to resist is now. It will only get harder as authoritarianism tightens its grip. Please pay attention to this struggle.

Thinking a lot this morning about how the dispersed nature of these kidnappings over such a broad area makes it so easy for them to avoid making bigger waves. The surface can appear totally calm while they're grabbing neighbors, and most people have no idea until/unless something flashy happens

“It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins ‘Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.’ “ Let’s take note from @espiers.bsky.social in the Nation and be honest about what people lived and died for, the good, the bad, and in the case of Charlie Kirk, the ugly.

Hot off the press! Out Oct 16, featuring two new chapters, Against the Romance of Police Reform and Futures Beyond Policing. Hoping this study of anti-Black criminalization is helpful as we face the rise in fascistic authoritarian rule, and the policing used to enforce and enable it.

Malcolm X: “If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

“You are not alone!” I told military members questioning the morality of their orders to deploy to Chicago. @vetsaboutface.bsky.social can connect you with veterans like me who chose to resist. Read more from the press conference and other About Face members. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09...

Urvashi Vaid in 2008: “I do not believe that the bitter power struggle progressive movements have been waging with authoritarian movements can be wished away by speeches seeking a new national consensus or by centrist policy accommodations.”

"Table your disputes and connect with people who are providing direct support to targeted groups in your communities ... How can you help? There’s no need to start from scratch. Find already-organized people and figure out how to contribute to or expand upon their efforts."

So far in 2025, local jails saw the largest share of growth in U.S. Marshals detention. Renting jail space to the Marshals has been key to overcoming sanctuary policies and likely is essential to plans for further criminalization using the bloated ICE detention budget: