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Renee's killer: 19-year USBP/ICE veteran
Alex's killer: 8-year USBP veteran
Marimar's shooter: 23-year USBP veteran.

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting.

Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

This is an insane chart

As someone who has spent over 35 years trying to explain that violence is inherent to policing only to have most people be OK with this, I could be excused if I decided to just give up. But I'm not. I knew we would be where we are today. I still think that we do not have to live like this.

Spoiler alert: this kind of discretion is the bedrock of *all* policing

Abolish Border Patrol, too

Independent autopsy in ICE shooting death of Renee Good released by law firm in civil investigation The results of an independent autopsy for Renee Good have been released as part of a law firm's civil investigation, two weeks after she was shot and killed by a federal agent in Minneapolis.

An independent autopsy of Renee Good reveals that she had 3 gunshot wounds: to the left arm, right lung, and left temple that exited the right side of her head. That means the third shot, the most unlawful one, from the side, likely killed her. abc7.com/post/minneap...

Exclusive | The U.S. Is Actively Seeking Regime Change in Cuba by the End of the Year After ousting Venezuela’s leader, the Trump administration is hunting for Havana insiders who could cut a deal to end Communist rule.

Cuba next: "In meetings with Cuban exiles and civic groups in Miami and Washington, they have focused on identifying somebody inside the current government who will see the writing on the wall and want to cut a deal, one U.S. official said."

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Fury as Amazon Ring Cameras Are Hooked Up to ICE System Online activists are telling owners of Ring Doorbell cameras that it's time to get rid of their devices, which can be used by ICE.

Stop using ring cameras! Ffs.

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Davos gave us globalism and now offers a front-row seat to its collapse.
With Grace Ballor, we examine both its historical momentum and weaknesses.
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This is tonight!

Maybe we can still debate when the terminal crisis of US imperial hegemony began, but we are now very much in it, uh, this week. Who is ready for a new systemic cycle of accumulation? 😬

Exactly this. Corey Booker is a disgrace.

Black folks and immigrants have long lived in a "perogative state" when it comes to law enforcement, and maybe pundits at the largest national outlets should recognize that their past support for punitive policing and immigration enforcement laid the groundwork for the current moment.

I'll be doing this online event on Venezuela with Steve Maher and @llchristyll.bsky.social next Wed January 21st at 7:30pm. Thanks to Fred Murphy and the Marxist Education Project for organizing! marxedproject.org/event/venezu...

Jonathan Ross was a firearms trainer and led a team that included multiple federal agencies. All this training didn't stop him from shooting Renee Nicole Good. His training *facilitated* the shooting.

No amount of training will solve the problem that ICE is a violent ethnic cleansing squad.

As I was saying last night at the AHA, there is a right-wing history to this rejection of multilateralism - it’s the culmination of a long movement of ‘the United States in Opposition’

It’s incumbent on elected Democrats to outline a plan that drastically reorganizes DHS, ICE and CBP with discipline imposed not just by regs but by budget and liability exposure. Literally the job of an opposition party. The “enhanced trainings” response reflexively mouthed by some Dems is a joke

ICE changes story on Christmas Eve shooting by agents in Glen Burnie Federal officials changed their account of the Christmas Eve shooting by ICE agents in Glen Burnie.

ICE shot a man in Glen Burnie and the story they told was contradicted by:

1. ICE’s own photos
2. Bystander video
3. Lawyer for another immigrant at the scene
4. Anne Arundel County Police

Now ICE is revising its story.

The latest from Alex Mann:

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It’s imperative that all members at the #AHA26 come to the business meeting tonight at 5:15 in the Hilton Continental Ballroom to exercise our democratic rights as AHA members

“imagine a cheery BBC news report in 1938 breezily asking "which countries could be in Hitler's sights after the Sudetenland?"

Looking forward to this great (all women!) panel on US-Latin American relations history today at #AHA26

Re-Post - The Global Turn of American Policing w/ @stschrader1.bsky.social

We've unlocked our episode with Stuart Schrader on the evolution of American policing and how it got to this point.

Link in the replies.

A Curated Guide to the U.S. Attack on Venezuela In this dossier, NACLA offers several pieces to help readers understand the facts about Venezuela’s history and the recent U.S. attack.

Want to learn more about what’s going on in Venezuela? Check out this curated guide from NACLA (cc @llchristyll.bsky.social @gabrielhetland.bsky.social): nacla.org/a-curated-gu...

The scholasticide continues, and @historians.org won’t even listen to its membership and bring it up for discussion at our upcoming meeting. Shameful.

The Jan 6 riot was successful. Maybe this will put to bed the constant admonition that "riots don't work."

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My first primary PhD advisee just got a postdoc offer and I’m SO DAMN PROUD

Lawyers and human rights activists are urging U.S. immigration authorities to release Leqaa Kordia, a 32-year-old Palestinian woman detained since March 13, 2025, after participating in protests against Israel’s war on Gaza. Kordia was in the process of securing legal permanent residency when she came to the attention of authorities following a 2024 protest arrest outside Columbia University. The charges were later dismissed. Despite this, Kordia was taken into custody during a voluntary meeting with ICE in Newark, where she appeared with her attorney and was assessed as no flight risk and no threat to public safety. She was later transferred to the Prairieland Detention Facility in Texas, far from her family and legal counsel, where she has now been detained for more than nine months. Laila El-Haddad has an update on her case below and is urging the public to contact elected officials and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and take action via the link in the thread 👇

See new posts Conversation Laila El-Haddad @gazamom I visited Leqaa Kordia in Texas where she’s been unjustly held for 9 months for demanding freedom for Palestinians-from bombs, from siege, from Genocide. And for that her own freedom was taken away by @DHSgov @Sec_Noem . Say her name. Share her story. Demand her freedom

See new posts Conversation Laila El-Haddad @gazamom I visited Leqaa Kordia in Texas where she’s been unjustly held for 9 months for demanding freedom for Palestinians-from bombs, from siege, from Genocide. And for that her own freedom was taken away by @DHSgov @Sec_Noem . Say her name. Share her story. Demand her freedom 0:02 / 2:35 9:49 PM · Dec 21, 2025 · 29.4K Views Laila El-Haddad @gazamom · 18h Inside these cold, constantly surveilled walls are women with names, stories, families, faith, and dreams—held out of sight. The system wants us to forget them. Leqaa wants to make sure we don’t-and advocates for all of them. So let’s advocate for her Laila El-Haddad @gazamom · 18h A judge twice ordered her release but the government @DHSgov @Sec_Noem have refused to comply. Follow @freeleqaakordia on Instagram to learn how you can help -links in bio. Laila El-Haddad @gazamom · 18h She looked gaunt but in good spirits despite the inhumane conditions of her detention. She rarely sees the sun and has been denied halal food and privacy to pray. Her main ask: keep raising your voice for Palestine, keep amplifying, keep advocating for all. Laila El-Haddad @gazamom · 3h Call to Action: https://www.amnestyusa.org/urgent-actions/usa-release-detained-protester/

Lawyers & human rights activists are urging US immigration authorities to release Leqaa Kordia, a 32-y.o. Palestinian woman detained since Mar. 13, 2025, after participating in protests against Israel’s war on Gaza.

Kordia was in the process of securing legal permanent residency when she came...