As someone whose partner has ILR, I can't begin to tell you how frightening this racist bullshit is. Fuck Nigel Farage, his media outriders, and politicians of other parties cosying up to 'legitimate concerns'.

When I interviewed older South Asian British people about their retirement decisions over a decade ago, a large number said they had kept a passport and land in India and Pakistan 'just in case' When I asked 'in case what?' they responded 'in case we are told to leave Britain'

Let's be clear about who is most affected by Trump's H1B executive order. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

‘We are losing our archives. I mean this in the most literal of ways, as rising far right authoritarianism usurps and remakes the institutions that hold cultural memory and history; already filled with holes, they now feel like they could be obliterated into nothingness.’

Okay, Charlie Kirk memorial event has wrapped, with Trump and Erika Kirk embracing before walking off together. One of the most prominent — in terms of the political power wielded by participants — intermingle-ings of religion and politics I've ever witnessed. Anyway, hire more religion reporters.

"The arch of the moral universe may not, after all, bend towards justice, but it bends towards archives. Collect the scraps, I hear in my head like a whisper. Do not let them rewrite the world. Save all the evidence you can."

sound fields, a journal about the art + practice of documentary audio that i make w/ many brilliant folks just launched its second issue. The subject: archives. i wrote something for it about how to save the truth, we must all become archivists for the future: www.soundfields.org/02-letter-fr...

Man alive. I have studied Right Wing authoritarianism for years and have watched some truly fucked up shit and today’s memorial service is maybe the most concentrated example of how messed up and disturbing that sector truly is.

In response to California passing a law limiting law enforcement officers' ability to conceal their identities, the president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California contends that police are not subject to democratic control. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

this is crazy; police officers don't wear masks right now in CA as far as I know. is he saying they are going to start?

Now talking: antisemitic White Nationalist Jack Posobiec (who gave a Hitler salute at CPAC) who compares Kirk to Moses and talks about the survival of „Western civilisation“, claims Kirk‘s sacrifice will be the „turning point“- „are you ready to put on the full armour of god“ in „spiritual warfare“

any nazi history scholars who can do a comparison of the tone and rhetoric?

Stephen Miller ramps up the spiritual warfare talk & mixes in some dog whistles about „lineage“ and „civilisation“: „We will defeat the forces of darkness and evil…We will achieve victory for our families and our civilisation…God bless our heroes“

many of us who specifically covered those victims & worked to center those targeted & harmed by people like Kirk and his allies were pushed out of mainstream media in the past few years. it wasn't always a loud public firing, but the stories of how folks who did this work were treated would shock u.

Anna Paulina Luna just made yet another comparison between Charlie Kirk and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Again: Kirk very publicly and enthusiastically criticized King within the past year and a half, calling the Civil Rights icon "a bad guy" and decrying the 1964 Civil Rights Act as a "mistake."

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

“why some people be mad at me sometimes” they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and i keep remembering mine - Lucille Clifton [writing the most Black woman poem of all time]

sound fields, a journal about the art + practice of documentary audio that i make w/ many brilliant folks just launched its second issue. The subject: archives. i wrote something for it about how to save the truth, we must all become archivists for the future: www.soundfields.org/02-letter-fr...

side note -- if you are a romance girlie who is reading "on tyranny" -- i would love to talk to you.

The success of multi-ethnic liberal cities violates the belief that racially homogenous, conservative places with white people (however they choose to define that) at the top are the best. That's why they're trying to destroy those places.

Says the guy who cares so deeply about fighting antisemitism.

More reporting from the NYT on Trump scrapping the annual survey tracking food insecurity: "[It] is completely a pretext for eliminating data that can point out problems." gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Charlie Kirk Sept 27 2024: "Just so we're clear, the Haitians that are in Huntsville that are raping your women and hunting you down at night - it's only gonna get worse - unless Donald Trump wins There will be hundreds of thousands of Haitians brought into Alabama and they will become your masters"

What's effectively happening here (in the British media at large, too) is the construction of "anti-racism" as somehow a "political alternative" to racism, rather than as a minimal civilisational standard, which in turn (further) vindicates racism as *also* an acceptable political position.

Several churches played an AI “message” from Charlie Kirk. From beyond the grave he tells the faithful he’s “fine” and encourages them to “get back in the fight.” These are stupid, stupid times.

This was somehow a flash in the pan headline in all the chaos last week, but throwing out there that at this rate this would be in the vicinity of 50k people vanishing from the face of the earth over the remainder of the term. And this is before they use that newly allocated $75B to fully scale up.

this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen

“In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

BREAKING: At least 84 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 69 people in Gaza City, hospital sources told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/i4tlc9

That speaker lineup. Former presidents don’t get this kind of treatment when they die. Also a pretty good chance that this thing gets really ugly. apple.news/A7TJ8hcDkRlC...

The notion that Republicans are the more real Americans, whose authenticity Democrats must pay tribute to with imitation, persistence even though it is contradicted by more and more actual empirical evidence.

I think it's interesting to frame this as his beliefs (kirk's ideology) and not how he choose to act on those beliefs.

New: The federal probe of Charlie Kirk’s killing has yet to find a link between Tyler Robinson & LW groups, per 3 sources familiar “Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Just a reminder that Richard Hanania is not a centrist and has not changed his white supremacist views. The data most definitely doesn't show crime rates are about race unless you ignore every other causative variable (urban/rural, poverty, population density, etc.).

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

25% of Drs in US are foreign grads. Many are on an H1B visa. This will hit health systems hard especially rural hospitals and hospitals in underserved areas that sponsor these visas through waiver programs. The old cost was about 5000$ a year. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The people they are kidnapping are disappearing.

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

Among the signs removed in response to Trump's directive are ones referring to "slavery, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and conflicts with Native Americans."

I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.

This week,The BS rec’d a letter from MARIO GUEVARA, the only known journalist detained on US soil by ICE. For wks, we’ve worked w/ his family to obtain Mario’s handwritten letter + the 2 drawings of his cell. The letter is also available in Spanish. bittersoutherner.com/journalist-m...

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

also what happened to schools 60 to 70 years ago? hmmm ... something is different in the before and after footage here (scratches head, looks quizzically). this is segregationist propaganda, for a segregationist project.

You’ll never believe what right wing education activists in the golden age of the 1950s (many of whom were funded by Bill Buckley’s dad) were saying about the state of US public education. That’s right , it had been poisoned by communism for many decades. bsky.app/profile/seth...

What happened to schools about 60 to 70 years ago? I was just in Arkansas, doing some reporting. I talked to a lot of Black elders, all of whom remember exactly how they were treated when they were the first class at newly desegregated schools. The goal is resegregation, they've been very clear.

lots of electeds and political candidates here this morning. i see congressional candidates kat abughazaleh and (evanston mayor) daniel biss, lieutenant governor juliana stratton, and chicago alder andre vasquez:

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.