As Don Lavoie said, "our task now...is to complete the American revolution." The principles the founders articulated were never applied consistently. Applying them consistently "is a workable ideal...that...is far more compatible with the humanitarian and internationalistic values of the left."

The Second Amendment is meant for everyone. The fact that white supremacists Founders like Washington & Jefferson did all they could to keep Blacks--free or slave--from getting guns was just another form of hypocrisy, as was the "all men are created equal" line in the Declaration of Independence.

My Substack just hit 100 subscribers! Check it out if you're interested in understanding border militarization and the threat it poses to freedom. Gunsguardsandgovernance.substack.com

M. Gessen, gift link: The soviet secret police too "were ruled by quotas... Fundamentally, the terror was random. That is, in fact, how state terror works. The randomness is the difference between a regime based on terror and a regime that is plainly repressive"

"The growing decentralized resistances in Minneapolis(. . .)have built up their own direct connections and sources that have formed interconnecting information-sharing networks outside of these highly controlled, authoritarian-adjacent news media institutions."

This week, @rechelon.bsky.social speaks on their book "Did The Science Wars Take Place" ( @c4ssdotorg.bsky.social, 2025), anarchism, science, philosophy, radical realism, post-modernism and history thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/01...

Agents of the state are killing people in broad daylight. Rather than adopting even the pretense of taking time to investigate, administration officials rush to defame the dead. Before the body is cold, they call the victim a "domestic terrorist" or "assassin." Craven behavior.

Hey all, here's zine about how to do Jury Nullification canvassing and outreach. It's easy to just tell people they can acquit as jurors, but our goal should be to effectively reach the right people AND get them successfully selected as jurors. drive.google.com/file/d/1ENK2...

There's a broadening consensus by the ruling class -- whether the Labour party in the UK or the Trump admin in the US -- that the ancient right of juries constitutes an existential threat to their authoritarian aspirations. Now, more than ever, we need Jury Nullification.

It isn’t healthy to be this angry all the time. But it also isn’t healthy if this doesn’t make you angry.

Center for a Stateless Society » In Support of James Konkin https://c4ss.org/content/60966

This is what America is about. This is what it means to be American. It's not the culture and values of the evil and broken men and evil and broken women who are inflicting violence terror through the federal government and the morally corroded people cheering them on.

In the new book "A Clean Hell," Eric King presents a clear picture of survival under the most restrictive levels of state repression. This weekend Eric shares his searing expose alongside hard-won lessons in a virtual event! Register for free at firestorm.coop/events/3515-... @pmpress.bsky.social

The impeachment resolution against Noem isn't just about her--it's about forcing every House GOP member to oppose or support the person who made Renee Good's death possible, if not inevitable...and a vote to table will be rightly seen as a vote for Noem & continued #ICE terror.

Civil society is where liberalism breathes: neighbors solving problems together without waiting for orders from the state or the market. That’s bottom-up freedom.

Or the excellent co-winning paper of the 2025 JOIE Elinor Ostrom prize by Dekker and Remic: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

There is also excellent stuff by Petracca and Gallagher, most recently (forthcoming) in JOIE: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Perhaps of interest also the debate about socially extended cognition. My two cents are forthcoming in the RAE: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.

The academic literature on "Governing Knowledge Commons" offers some useful tools for analyzing epistemic ecosystems. @erwindekker.bsky.social, @pavelkuchar.bsky.social, @ottolehto.bsky.social, and various other friends of mine have contributed to this. I hope people outside academia leverage this

"ICE can’t be reformed. It needs to be dismantled." 🧵- Abolish ICE is the only serious, realistic solution. It's been rotten from its Bush-era start and is now entirely irredeemable just on basic good government grounds. You can't fix a lawless paramilitary force of brutal goons.

I made the case for abolishing ICE after ICE agent, Jonathan Ross, shot Renee Good, a mom dropping off her toddler at school, three times in the face after she smiled at him and tried to drive away. You'll never guess what Trump and Vance did next. www.theunpopulist.net/p/abolish-ic...

This could be anyone in America. We are all under siege. Suspending our Constitution harms every Conservative and every Liberal American.

When politicians say "We have a constitutional right to [ACTIVITY]" what they never follow up with "But the Constitution can't protect us unless we protect it." Pleas to the regime to "cooperate with investigations" are viewed as signs of weakness by the regime. Countervailing power is the answer.

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.

I don't know what those more advanced social ecosystems look like, but I know they'll have to be actively participatory, constantly present in our daily life; we've got to ask more of one another, pressure harder. Nothing like ceding epistemic authority to some distant academic expert class.

“Since July, #immigration agents have shot at least six people behind the wheel of a vehicle… In each instance, the playbook is the same: the agent claims self-defense, asserting they ‘feared for their life’ as a vehicle was ‘weaponized’ against them.” @foxmike90.bsky.social @cato.org @ms.now

This is why they mask. It isn’t about safety. It’s because they know that if decent people learn what they do, they’ll be social outcasts.

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One aspect of this that's come up with people pooh-poohing impeachment is the assumption that the Jan 6 impeachment was some kind of most extreme ceiling on how many Senate votes are gettable. And I think that's really underestimating how much we're barreling towards extreme crises worse than Jan 6.

The violence being perpetrated right now is state-sponsored. A violent civil conflict--a civil war--means people on both sides are engaged in violent, lethal acts at scale. The regime is likely preparing to deal out lethal violence at scale that won't be deterred by peaceful protests.

YEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS. I hope they talked to some experienced attorneys about how to craft this.

NEWS --> Reps Eric Swalwell and Dan Goldman are introducing a new bill to strip ICE officers of qualified immunity, making lawsuits and prosecutions easier. They also say agent who killed Renee Good should be prosecuted in Minnesota. They break this news on our pod: newrepublic.com/article/2051...

The evidence is increasingly pointing to the probability that an ICE agent killed a woman after misreading her as a threat because he was distracted by his simultaneous effort to record her so he could upload her image to a facial recognition database.

Chris Coyne and I have a chapter on the military-industrial complex in this volume. You can read an earlier draft in working paper form at @ssrn.bsky.social: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Federal policy prohibits law enforcement from shooting into moving vehicles unless the driver is an imminent threat to others. Trying to flee is not a sufficient threat unless there's reason to believe the person is violent.

Like those before it, that insane, vile DHS statement about the Minneapolis shooting isn't about covering anything up. It's performative lying. They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.

Interesting. This is definitely not consistent with that initial DHS statement.

As news breaks in Minneapolis, we’re uplifting this story by our friends @unraveledpress.com during the Chicago surge. Agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father in Sept —and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by witness videos. unraveledpress.com/what-happene...

Hear from C4SS panelists Irfan Khawaja, @zacharywoodman.bsky.social, @corymassimino.bsky.social, and @jasonleebyas.bsky.social this week at the American Philosophical Association meeting to discuss topics in radical liberalism! More details below👇 c4ss.org/content/60948

Predictably, and as with the DHS statements after previous ICE shootings, this is both a reckless, baseless, defensive rush to judgment and entirely contradicted by the available evidence, including video and eyewitness accounts.

The Trump administration's deportation hysteria is making America less safe. 28k+ agents diverted to ICE. Child exploitation cases abandoned. 80% of ATF reassigned. We need politicians to work together to get this country back on track. Good work by Sam Levin. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“I want a progressive movement that is aggressively pro raising wages at the bottom and aggressively pro immigration. These are completely coherent goals.” Great piece by @polphilpod.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...

DHS tweeted this yesterday. Little more than 24 hours later, ICE agents just shot and killed a legal observer in Minneapolis.

From armed renditions of foreign leaders to high seas seizures of foreign vessels, American military personnel are carrying out Trump orders that are legally dubious at best and clearly unlawful at worst. We now have a military answering to one man, not the Constitution. My piece on the stakes.

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?