Become ungovernable

Another quick quote: "This [ICE] exists today because of the prison industrial complex and the long history of warehousing Black, brown, Indigenous communities in the United States... there is no abolishing ICE without looking at [police, jails, sheriffs, etc]" @silkys13.bsky.social

Sanctuary is a verb.

Gov. Walz tells everyone to be calm in the face of horrific state violence, then suggests abducting people in the middle of the night with the help of his local hired guns so it’s less disruptive.

Of course, it’s about system improvements that increase his power, not stopping ICE.

Lies You Will Be Told • Ill Will Phil A. Neel examines the post-2020 political order, arguing that liberal myths about law, elections, and restraint function as counterinsurgency in an era of open state violence.

“… this is already a form of martial law, just without the paperwork. More importantly, the entire goal of martial law is to enforce quiescence. Pre-emptively rewarding the regime with precisely what it wants does not so much avoid martial law as make it unnecessary.”

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One result was the creation and spread of more tactical units, though now those units increasingly focused on crowd control. LAPD’s SWAT team, in this sense, was both new and not new. It was not new because it was just another re- serve unit like the Metropolitan Squad or Vollmer’s Crime Crushers. But it was new in that it specialized in crowd control and counterinsurgency. And to do so, it consciously emulated imperial-military forces. As Daryl Gates recounts it, the Los Angeles police had been woefully unprepared to quell the uprising in Watts in 1965. To meet future uprisings, he and his colleagues created SWAT and en- listed colonial counterinsurgency materials and modalities. They attended ses- sions on “guerilla warfare” and other tactics offered by the military at the Naval Armory in Chavez Ravine.198 As concern over urban insurgency grew in the wake of Watts and fur- ther rebellions of the decade, more and more police departments did the same thing, creating new tactical units aimed specifically at crowd control (or repurposing their existing ones). Even law enforcement agencies that had not seen uprisings created tactical units structured as counterinsurgency units, anx- iously anticipating future revolt. President Johnson’s “war on crime” helped fund the process. In 1965, the federal government gave $10 million to local police agencies. The subsequent Safe Streets Act of 1968 continued the funding with an initial budget of $63 million that expanded to $850 million by 1973.199 The im- perial boomerang thus spread beyond major cities like Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. A related result was the retraining and retooling of entire police departments, not just elite tactical units. Up until the 1960s, police training in crowd control— or “riot control”—had been spotty and tentative. As President Johnson’s Katzenbach Crime Commission of 1965 noticed, some larger cities and po- lice agencies with tactical units had benefitted from training in crowd…

The post-Watts boomerang also brought a new wave of military equip- ment, weapons, and technologies to police. The tactical units of the 1950s had emulated military forms, but they had not mobilized massive amounts of mil- itary ware. The Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act’s LEAA fixed this by facilitating transfers of military technologies and weaponry to local police. The shiny new tools included technologies and weaponry that had been used or developed in Vietnam. As Elizabeth Hinton explains, they included everything from surveillance and communications technologies to armored troop carriers and helicopters. In June 1966, the Los Angeles Sheriff ’s Department received $200,000 for Project Sky Knight, an air-surveillance program. Over the next four years the federal government granted helicopters to police departments in at least fifty other cities.211 Even the press took notice, reporting that local po- lice departments were acquiring “helicopters and armor-plated trucks which can be used to transport police quickly into riot areas,” “scope-equipped rifles” for countering sniper fire and other “high-powered rifles,” tear gas, armored vests, and helmets.212 Much of this equipment had been seen previously by officials as inappropriate for domestic use, but in the post-Watts era of heightened white fright and colonial fear, military equipment was seen as legitimate and indeed necessary. In the event, urban policing across the country became “increasingly militarized,” as Judith Kohler-Hausmann summarizes, “and the new firepower was aimed directly at inner-city communities.”213 While these were state-sanctioned projects that served to bring the imperial boomerang back home, more nefarious projects were also part of this wave of militarization. Beginning in the early 1970s, a Chicago police officer named Jon Burge led a group of other officers, known as the Midnight Crew, on a horrific campaign of torture at a police facility in Homan Square, Chicago. Bur…

What we know as "police militarization" is really a response to police being seen as ineffective in their crackdowns on Black uprisings. In other words, police were seen as insufficiently professionalized.

(excerpts from Go's "Policing Empires")

The pain and the outrage is correct and just and I'm glad everyone can see and understand it here, and this is also already what BLM was, if you argued for training, police reform or body cams instead of abolition this is what you sounded like, this is why people were so mad at you

The Democratic executives of Minnesota who evoked Martin Luther King on *Monday* are arresting clergy praying down ICE on Friday

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

I’m going to keep hammering this point: the excesses of ICE we see now are entirely contiguous with our system of policing more broadly, and the reason that almost no politician wants to threaten real consequences for ICE agents is because it opens the door to making the same demands of the cops

the people who got everyone here including the tv lawyers, pathetic pundits & consultants, and feckless elected officials are the sources of "don't take the bait." So maybe don't listen to them about anything.

legal this, illegal that

the law was never a guide to morality. it is as meaningful and meaningless as the imaginary lines we draw on maps

I don't know how to convey to people that POLICING in the US is experienced by countless Black and brown people in the way that ICE is currently acting towards people.

Law Enforcement Baronial Class as official policy

This is bigger than stopping ICE/ CBP or passing a law. It's about how both parties have allowed law enforcement to run the country, determine every policy, spend profligately, and lobby endlessly all on the taxpayer's dime.

A screenshot of a press release from the Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police saying "FOP Stands with ICE"

Organizers in Chicago and elsewhere around the country have experienced over and over that ICE was only able to continue about its business because of local police deployed by Democrats "keeping order." Cops everywhere stand with ICE—see attachment.

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Tomorrow marks 24 years of Guantánamo Bay—24 years of kidnapping, torture, and cages without trial. This prison is a crime scene, kept alive by silence and complicity.

Join global vigils. Demand closure. Demand accountability.
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It is exhausting that liberals continue to ignore this.

We are here in this moment because of BOTH PARTIES IN THIS COUNTRY

Police killed at least 1,292 people in the United States in 2025. There were only six days with zero police killings last year. Source: mappingpoliceviolence.org.

Something I didn't emphasize enough in my book, and I wish I had, was that sheriffs (alongside us marshalls etc) were key figures in Western expansion. Many were former soldiers who made their career killing Indigenous and Brown people for Anglo settlers. They became the "law."

THREAD. Every year, I tell the story of Ezell Gilbert. It's the story of one of the most remarkable cases in U.S. history, and you’ve probably never heard of it. The story of what the U.S. government did to him is vital for understanding the current moment we are in.

It’s common to see someone react to an action by a big company, rich person, or public official with ‘how is this not illegal,’ presuming that if it were, the thing wouldn’t happen. But that isn’t how law works.

A skill I would really like us all to cultivate is saying "I don't think this is a great tactic, but I agree with the cause," and then just moving on with our lives.

Vets Say No: Take Action to Say No War on Our Cities This Veteran’s Day · May Day Strong Stand with Veterans as we march, rally, and refuse to allow growing fascism to be normalized. **Together we say NO this Veterans Day** - no to ICE, no to occupation, no to fascism, and no to cuts stri...

This Veterans Day I’ll be at the Vietnam Memorial and then on a very different march to say no to occupation from Chicago to Palestine!

As veterans our message is clear: “No ICE, No Cuts, No Occupation”

Bundle up and join us

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Calling the Democrats “cowards” suggests that they're scared to do what's right when they show no fervent interest in being an opposition. They're largely colluders, not cowards. Many want their base to think they're cowards to maintain investment in the idea that they can be pushed to do better.

The Federal government, along with the state of Texas, continue their crusade against the Prairieland Defendants. Des is only one of the 18 protesters that the Trump administration is attempting to paint as an “antifa” terrorist group.

cw rape

I've been talking about this recently in the context of labor but it's even more hideously apparent here: if you give people the power to commit violence against someone unless they obey you, here that violence is deportation, you get HIDEOUS sexual violence

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Oriana Korol—arrested by ICE for playing GHOSTBUSTERS on a clarinet—is incredible, and the kind of ally we need in massive numbers if we’re going to halt this crushing authoritarianism:

“This has just increased my commitment to social justice and to fight back against mistreatment of minorities.”