la salute è in voi — פֿון מבול קומט רעגנבױגן

I can’t imagine the pain of having your loved one abducted by ICE in Minnesota during a news cycle celebrating ICE leaving Minnesota.

New York: New York City Board of Education Retirement System, New York City Employees’ Retirement System, New York City Police Pension Fund, New York City Fire Department Pension Fund, New York State Common Retirement Fund, New York State Teamsters Conference Pension & Retirement Fund, Teachers’ Retirement System of the City of New York

Employees of NYC and NYS, these pension funds are invested with the private equity firm that owns ICE’s [EVIL] charter airline for Africa and Asia deportations.

@gbrockell.bsky.social's list of all the public funds in blue/swing states that are investors:
gillianbrockell.ghost.io/more-on-omni...

Stonepeak’s Investors The source who provided me with the Pitchbook list of Stonepeak’s investors did so on the condition that I not reveal the whole list or how many investors are on the list. In order to keep this commitment and provide the most helpful information, I am naming only the public funds in blue/swing states, where it is more likely voters and public-employee pension members will want to pressure state officials and fund administrators to reconsider their Stonepeak investments. Many of these funds have ESG policies that the human rights abuses on Omni’s ICE flights may violate. California: California Public Employees’ Retirement System, California State Teachers’ Retirement System, Regents of the University of California Retirement Plan, Sacramento County Employees’ Retirement System, San Diego City Employees’ Retirement System, San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System, Santa Barbara County Employees Retirement System Connecticut: Connecticut State Employees’ Retirement System Illinois: Illinois State Board of Investment, Teachers Retirement System of the State of Illinois Maine: Maine Public Employees Retirement System Maryland: Maryland State Retirement and Pension System Massachusetts: City of Quincy Retirement System, Massachusetts Laborers’ Annuity Fund, Massachusetts Laborers’ Pension Fund Michigan: Michigan Department of Treasury, State of Michigan Retirement Systems Minnesota: Minnesota Laborers Pension Fund New Jersey: New Jersey Pension Plan, New Jersey Division of Investment

New Mexico: New Mexico Educational Retirement Board, New Mexico Public Employees’ Retirement Association New York: New York City Board of Education Retirement System, New York City Employees’ Retirement System, New York City Police Pension Fund, New York City Fire Department Pension Fund, New York State Common Retirement Fund, New York State Teamsters Conference Pension & Retirement Fund, Teachers’ Retirement System of the City of New York Oregon: Oregon Investment Council, Oregon Public Employees Retirement System, Oregon State Treasury Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System Rhode Island: Employees Retirement System of Rhode Island Virginia: Fairfax County Educational Employees Supplementary Pension, Virginia Retirement System Washington: Seattle City Employees’ Retirement System, Washington State Investment Board It is unlikely any of the fund administrators were aware of Stonepeak’s involvement in ICE flights. The funds’ investments with Stonepeak are likely a small fraction of the total size of the fund. Please let me know if you contact any of these funds and what they say. I would love to keep track of and report on any community pushes to divest. You can email me at gbrockell at proton dot me. Thank you again for reading. As I wrote earlier this week, I will be focusing on publishing my ICE Air reporting here going forward. Please consider subscribing, paying for a subscription, or sending me a one-time tip, so I can continue tracking ICE Air.

@gbrockell.bsky.social's list of all the public funds in blue/swing states that are invested with the private equity firm that owns ICE’s [EVIL] charter airline for Africa and Asia deportations.

Her full article on this subject: gillianbrockell.ghost.io/more-on-omni...

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Save Yiddish at Harvard! Please join us in sending letters. Share this campaign as widely as possible!

Yo Harvard's being a little shit and trying to axe its Yiddish programme + refusing to bargain in good faith with the union. You can send a letter of support here (maybe edited a bit) saveharvardyiddish.org #yiddish #harvard

“This is a prison out here too. As long
as you are oppressed by the State and the State is in control this is a minimum security prison. Inside is maximum security.”– Martin Sostre

ICE doesn't ever "leave" any state. There will continue to be ICE and CBP enforcement actions as there were during previous presidents. Hillary Clinton was saying this in her remarks. She doesn't like the visible violence but she is fine with "regular" violence.

**It is important to understand that cultivating a class of intellectually powerful scientists who are given lots of cash and little social accountability is a structural feature that Epstein was taking advantage of, not inventing.**

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the problem isn't that they're untrue, it's that they lead nowhere for any concrete strategy, and make the things that do harder to see. you can't market your way out of capitalism, just like you can't religion your way out of theocracy, or state power your way out of carceralism.

what i find frustrating are critiques like this, that buy into precisely the enabling fictions of the thing being critiqued - here the fantasy of "the price signal", the Market That Knows All Truths *.

* and is really truly not a hall of mirrors, cross my heart, genuinely this time, for reals.

“When we started doing this work in 1985 not one state in the U.S. had a control unit prison. Now every state has at least one.” Nancy Kurshan, OUT OF CONTROL: A 15 Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons

Members of the Swarovski family were early, active and enthusiastic champions of Nazism, and at least six of its members maintained membership in the illegal party prior to Austria's annexation to Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938.!23] Three weeks earlier, 500 marchers in the Tyrolean town of Wattens held a torchlight procession that ended with chants of "Sieg Heil" and "Heil Hitler". The majority of the participants, police determined, were Swarovski plant employees, among them Swarovski family heirs Alfred, Wilhelm and Friedrich. 124]

In its report to the state police on 14 February 1947, the Innsbruck district administrator called company head Alfred Swarovski "an enthusiastic member of the NSDAP." [25] Alfred Swarovski praised Hitler at business gatherings and took actions as a regional business leader to ensure that "Tyrolean industry could be integrated as smoothly as possible into the enormous gears of the economy of Greater Germany and into the National Socialist economic order." He sent "grateful loyalty greetings" to Adolf Hitler on his 49th birthday and arranged a donation of 100,000 shillings for Hitler to establish a holiday home in Tyrol.!26]

In 1994, historian Horst Schreiber wrote about Swarovski's past but was not granted access to company archives. (27] The contemporary Swarovski company commissioned historian Dieter Stiefel as "a step towards dealing with our history in a serious and very pro-active manner," board spokesman Markus Langes-Swarovski said in 2018; however, the study was not published because, Langes-Swarovski said, "Swarovski is a company that generally tries to keep the owners' personal stories largely out of the public eye because it does nothing for the business." (28]

Everyone’s talking about Swarovski right now so let’s take a second and dive into the fact that they were NAZI Nazis. Like full-on Seig Heil, prosecuted after the war level Nazis and the modern company has done everything they can to hide all their archives and prevent anyone accessing them.

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It’s once again Girl Scout cookie season so it’s time for me remind everyone to please consider buying from NYC’s Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters 🙏❤️

2000 agents are still here. Woke up this morning to horns and whistles down my street -- panic jumped out of bed ready to run outside, but the cars were being pursued. ICE is still kidnapping people, still getting stymied at every turn, still brutalizing observers because they know they're losing.

I know people the memory of goldfish but ICE is still very much active here in Los Angeles, LAPD helps them most of the time, and people are still resisting. Local media is still covering it so follow @lataco.bsky.social

If you want to donate to us, please donate to the heat fund instead right now, it is getting dangerously and critically low

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look, telling people to break the law is irresponsible and unethical. But so is telling people not to break the law.

Donate to Support Stevie Wilson's New Beginning, organized by Danielle Squillante Our beloved comrade and friend Stevie Wilson is FINALLY coming home from pri… Danielle Squillante needs your support for Support Stevie Wilson's New Beginning

My friend and one of the co-authors of Read This When Things Fall Apart, Stevie Wilson, will be released from prison in less than a week. Stevie has done tremendous work as an incarcerated organizer and has plans to continue doing important work on the outside. Let's help him make a new start.

The first rent checks from this fund are starting to go out. The community is so grateful and the need continues, so please give if you can.

On Feb. 4, 1999. Amadou Diallo an African immigrant was shot 19 times in a hail of 41 bullets by NYPD, claiming his wallet was a gun. As organizers we hit the streets. African, immigrant, Black (also African) & others, all knew it was the same system of oppression

LRB: and the "progressive"/"left" form of this is the 501Cs that shill for politicians like brad lander, staying shtum about their actual records of consistently voting for more money for more cops (10 consecutive recordbreaking NYPD budgets!), and more jails ($11,000,000,000 *before* overruns)

A important but taboo subject is how some “civil rights” organizations launder Democratic Party complicity in fascism. Prominent nonprofit organizations are providing cover to Dems by calling for more body cameras as DHS celebrates that very idea and builds unprecedented surveillance databases.

It’s like you’re almost there, but the correct answer is “abolish ICE and let everyone go” not increase funding to DHS via the carceral medical industrial complex. @victorialaw.bsky.social’s ground breaking book Corridors of Contagion should be required reading

there was a campaign in early 2020 called “free them all for public health” that demand hasn’t stopped being necessary and it is only more so now

It is interesting that Kenneth Roth claims that the report is not substantiated by international legal principles when HRW released a virtually identical conclusion in a different report on the denial of a return to amounting to a crime against humanity in Chagos.

Why a Palestine exception?

They don't care about migrants dying in hellholes, they care about getting control of the hellholes for their own purposes. They don't care about child abuse. They care about getting control of the complicity and blackmail machine again. They don't care about fascism. They care about power.

NGL, I think the liberal screeching of the moment is coz they sense this particular fascist wave has foundered and the positioning for the ratfucking has begun. They don't care about reducing the harm it does on the way out. They only care about getting control of that apparatus.

which is to say: borders; taxation; and above all the carceral system necessary to enforce the lines of legitimate movement, resource distribution, and violence.

each can take many forms. every state has all of them.

the state can't abolish ICE; it can only replace it.

LRB: and the same goes for the state as a structure. it is what it is & does what it does, and that cannot be reformed away. not "the nation-state": any state: absolute monarchy, people's democratic republic, herrenvolk democracy: control/legitimation of movement, violence, resource distribution.

You cannot do "commonsense reform" for a secret police force that's declared itself exempt from constitutional requirements. You cannot reform ultraviolent agencies that have been corrupt for decades and now have accountability only to the president's goons and lackeys.