A concerning proposal to expand biometric data collection. www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/dh...

“Our National Guard troops did not sign up to police their own neighbors.”

The creed of liberalism asks one thing of us: to treat every person as a self-governing equal. Everything else—law, rights, justice—flows from that promise.

New paper alert Toward an Austrian Theory of the Self in The Review of Austrian Economics. It's Open Access! In the paper I explore connect the Austrian theory of subjectivism to the philosophical sociology of George Herbert Mead and argue that we to explain, not assume, individual heterogeneity

The Equal Freedom Institute is excited to announce our first event "Freedom in Motion" co-hosted with the Tulane Journal of Policy and Political Economy!

Liberalism begins with a promise: no one is born to rule, and no one is born to serve. Power is only just when it answers to the people. That’s the moral root of equal freedom. #LiberalismIsPatriotism

I look forward to being part of the immigrant rights panel at @equalfreedom.bsky.social's "Freedom in Motion" event this Wednesday. If you're in New Orleans this Wednesday, please join us!

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine. We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

The fact that US law currently permits this is all we need to know about how all nationalisms bend towards fascism. Focus on "foreigners" allows nation-states to outsource responsibility for their many failures. "Foreign states," "foreign gulags," "foreign people," etc.

Why does U.S. govt steal the phones of deportees?

Just want to point out that this one little square (Employment-Based Immigration Law) is one of the most bureaucratically baroque and difficult things I've encountered in the law. Makes "closing on a real estate deal" look like napkin math.

I've said it several times but I'll repeat it: investigative journalism like this piece is why I financially support @propublica.org & you should too. www.propublica.org/article/port...

From Bovino's deposition: (1) he calls protestors "violent" if they articulate views hostile to ICE, even if no violence is manifested; (2) he instructs his forces to attack and arrest protestors who express "hyperbolic comments," which is to say, criticism of ICE and Bovino.

ICE told us

"Police, prison guards, border patrol agents, soldiers, and other agents of the state beat, choke, shoot, murder, harass, berate, humiliate, assault, and rape people all too often. It’s disgusting. It’s wrong. It’s unacceptable." - @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/54883

A hastily typed post after I got jokerfied by the Boston city council meeting andymasley.substack.com/p/please-ple...

This is a good sign

In his book "Nobody is Protected," @reecejones.bsky.social documents how the Border Patrol became a dangerous national police force. His findings are more relevant now than ever.

Border Patrol agents tear gassed a children's Halloween parade and broke a 67 year old man's ribs. This type of brutality is horrendous.

"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"

finally got around to watching youtu.be/NuCSR8wrIwk by @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social and he's laying out all these ongoing or potential research directions in anarchist inspired economics and im just like 😄😄😄

Some of my favorite presentations from Markets & Society: @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social - Border Militarization Alex Craig - Community in the Episcopal Church Martin Jacobson - Free Market Economic Democracy Billy Christmas - Against the Public Ownership Conception of Common Property

Between No Kings and Markets & Society, this weekend was a nice reminder that there are still people who believe in freedom in this country.

Six percent of *all children* in America are US citizens who have at least one undocumented parent. (Not a typo, source in thread)

Republicanism’s “non-domination” vs. Liberalism’s “non-coercion”? Alan Kahan says no so fast. From his “Freedom from Fear”

This week's Seeing Like Chicago's post discusses some very surprising links between the Studs Lonigan trilogy (a coming of age story about the Irish-American Studs) and hip-hop culture, including a 1920's Dapper Dan O'Doul. seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/chicagos-s...

I'm honored and humbled to be presenting alongside these folks this weekend. Please, come say hello if you're at the conference!

Not that I think everyone should read everything I write, but AFAIK, I'm the only person to write a deep data dive into this topic. It's mystifying to still see people say: "Biden was late in concluding that he needed to ban asylum." TITLE 42 was a BAN! alexnowrasteh.com/p/biden-didn...

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat. Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

Dissent is not "hate". Dissent against any Liberal or Conservative government is protected as a sacred right by our Constitution. Holding demonstrations of dissent is precisely "standing and defending the foundational truths of this republic". Treating dissenters as terrorists is the opposite.

Last chance to register for tonight's event with @rechelon.bsky.social! 🔬 firestorm.coop/events/3479-...

You have to understand that there is NO accountability for ICE even in theory. You can't sue an ICE agent. They won't be criminally prosecuted for violating your rights. They won't be fired. THE ONLY WAY TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM ICE IS TO RUN FROM ICE.

Hear from C4SS panelists @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social, @jasonleebyas.bsky.social, Roderick Long, @corymassimino.bsky.social, and Keith Taylor this weekend at the Markets and Society Conference. More details below👇 c4ss.org/content/60826

Coming October 13.

And not just any reporter. Radley Balko's reporting has gotten an innocent man off death row. He's broken multiple major stories about huge scandals. He goes in-depth on the ground with tons of local sources. Dismissing his detailed debunking as Weiss did is something no serious journalist would do.

On Wednesday we're hosting anarchist writer @rechelon.bsky.social in conversation with mathematical physicist Matilde Marcolli to discuss William's new book on the late 20th century conflict between postmodernists and scientists, and its lasting influence! Register at firestorm.coop/events/3479-....

License to Kill: Trump’s Extrajudicial Executions @akelalacy.bsky.social, @radleybalko.bsky.social and yours truly discuss the Trump administration’s rhetoric and rationale to justify extrajudicial killings abroad — and possibly at home. theintercept.com/2025/10/10/b...

In an unusual acknowledgement, the Trump administration said that its immigration crackdown is hurting farmers and risking higher food prices for Americans by cutting off agriculture’s labor supply.

The US Administration has mounted an unprecedented and unpopular attack on high skill immigration. It’s working. The world’s best and brightest are starting to understand that the US government considers them an infection. www.economist.com/science-and-...

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

I have a YouTube channel where you can watch this short video about Trump's murder spree in the Caribbean alongside all my congressional testimony. We recorded the video shortly after the 2nd boat strike... but there have been more already. Like, comment, subscribe www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RUJ...

So agents trespassed into a citizen’s home on a fishing expedition and murdered their dog kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

It is impossible—even for those of us who spend a pathological amount of time every day working on CBP, ICE, and DHS—to fully track these agencies’ misdeeds. Transparency trails years behind, if we are lucky and persistent. Someday, the accounting from this period will be terrible.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Rousseau, Adaptive Preferences, and Social Entrepeneurship open.substack.com/pub/digressi... Shout outs to @erwindekker.bsky.social, @lastpositivist.bsky.social, @serenekhader.bsky.social

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.