ICE heavily relies on agencies of all kinds to fuel the deportation machine, but over the past decade they've increasingly relied on the police-to-deportation pipeline to do so. Read the growing list of reported cases of law enforcement collusion with #ICE in NY state: bit.ly/NY-ICEwatch
This case is a true horror. First and foremost, it's a personal tragedy for these 9 people who spoke out against ICE's barbaric violence. More broadly, it will serve as an invaluable resource for fascists' use of the legal system to persecute political opinions & criminalize dissent.
Federal terrorism convictions based on zines, wearing bloc, using Signal, attending a noise demo, amorphous "antifa" bogeyman.
This is catastrophically bad. Beyond canary in the coal mine—this is paving the way for a new front of fascistic lawfare.
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The new Whole Pie has landed, as ever the best overview of who's caging people in the USA along with 10 myths about the system. An essential resource::
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The pioneers of pinkwashed, feminist genocide have now firmly established the "right to rape" (at least as to Palestinians).
The federal government is explicitly arguing that "wearing black clothes" at a noise demonstration is "enough to convict the eight defendants accused of material support" for terrorism. The outcome of this trial cold be catastrophic.
"By the time DHS publicly disclosed the existence of Mobile Fortify, it already had been used more than 100,000 times since its launch, according to court filings". #facialrecognition www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
JUDGE GRANTS TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER, HALTING PROGRESS ON WILLIAMSPORT, MD. DETENTION WAREHOUSE.
I agree with this and it's something for which community groups should already be developing concrete plans. I think reparations are already due.
We need reparations for ICE victims.
Anything short of that is setting the stage for a massive wealth grab from people of color that will re-entrench racial disparities for generations.
When sex work is criminalized, police are encouraged to disregard the abuse and assault of sex workers as a crime, but instead an extension of policing—a punishment that comes with the job. (I am so sick of writing this sentence. My whole book about it turns TWELVE in three days.)
A few bitter thoughts reading this: to start, Queens DA Katz narrowly won her seat after an anti-sex work scare campaign, when her opponent Tiffany Cabán supported sex workers rights, sex work decrim, and investigating police harassment and abuse of sex workers. And then DA Katz let these guys walk.
This is one reason why we cannot "concede" on "the worst of the worst" framing. Defund the police, all the police, is the only way.
This is just astonishingly great reporting.
All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.
And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.
I don’t think people who aren’t regularly covering the reproductive rights beat realize how common it is for women to be incarcerated for miscarriages.
You can let the Mayor know what you think about him breaking his promise. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
It is intertwined with US imperialism, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, and capitalism but isn’t reducible to these.
The Islamophobia of the US public is grotesque and vicious, and re-asserts itself literally daily.
This is what ecocide looks like.
Weaving our Worlds has compiled resources and diverse left perspectives from and on Iran. Rather than reduce Iran to various intra-left ideological debates, these provide analysis based in the context, specificity and history.
www.weavingourworlds.ca/iran-resourc...
IceBreaker is a free online resource that maps the activity of ICE within NYC. It provides key info such as time, date, the # of agents on sight and the number of people detained.
nycicebreaker.cargo.site
motivated by offline events but maybe relevant for some: never stops boggling my mind how some are able to rationalize the toxic ways they navigate internal org disagreements - functionally punishing the urge some people have to step up to roles of responsibility in these orgs
If you support the Zionist entity, you support genocide, Islamophobia, annihilation of children, imperialism, settler colonial domination, & other unspeakable barbarities. There is no version of supporting it that is liberal, progressive, or just. It’s a country committed to deathmaking.
It's day 2 of 48-hour flash matching fundraiser i'm running to support Migrant Workers Action in Lebanon
With renewed escalation by Zionist entity, domestic migrant workers (undocumented or under Kafala) are among most displaced & vulnerable.
Goal is 6K by weekend, just $800 away. contribute/share
The Israeli regime is fascist and genocidal. The population supports the regime's actions at more than 80% in most polls. You don't have to argue with people online when these are facts.
If other people's children are fair targets in war, then so are yours.
i wonder if the marxist-leninists or the anarchists will win the IG infographic wars
My latest piece runs the rule over the NYPD's *operational* reality under Tisch - in particular, the unabated stop & frisk program, overtime bloat, lax or nonexistent discipline for violent cops, & more. It's quite clear that she takes zero direction from Mamdani thebaffler.com/latest/cedin...
Does no one remember when Obama led 7,000 bombing runs against Libya to destroy Muammar Gaddafi's government in 2011 (with catastrophic consequences)? One example of many—just a particularly salient one today.
Anyway, it's not just Trump & it's not just Israel. This is the U.S.
