Ray Acheson

It’s been a challenging year so far, with ongoing and new imperial military action, occupation, and genocide. But resistance is underway, all over, at all levels! Our February E-News highlights recent developments and the actions to build a better world. reachingcriticalwill.org/news/newslet...

Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border Harsha Walia, Silky Shah, and Beatrice Adler-Bolton of Death Panel Thursday, February 12 at 7pm ET

Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border

Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond.

Thursday at 7 PM ET

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“Terrorist”: How ICE Weaponized 9/11’s Scarlet Letter Spencer Ackerman on how the politics of counterterrorism led to ICE and CBP completing their transformation into a death squad — and why the agencies are unreformable.

@attackerman.bsky.social on how the politics of counterterrorism led to ICE and CBP completing their transformation into a death squad — and why the agencies are unreformable.

The U.S. Has Killed More than 100 People in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All. The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and the number of civilians killed.

The U.S. conducted more extrajudicial killings in the Eastern Pacific today

We’re tracking the civilian toll @theintercept.com

theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

Join us on 11 February at this webinar hosted by @ippnw.bsky.social Canada. @rayacheson.bsky.social and Lovely Umayam will discuss disarmament, abolition of state violence, and art as resistance.

🕰️: 17:00 PST / 20:00 EST
Register: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

A horrific new report from Al Jazeera about Israel’s use of thermal and thermobaric weapons provided by the United States reveals how munitions burning at 3,500C have left no trace of nearly 3,000 Palestinians. The supply chain is evidence of complicity in genocide and war crimes.

Graffiti image of a bomb crossed out, text underneath says No War. Image by Egor Myznik, Unsplash.

As the US sends an armada to Iran and threatens to strike, diplomacy and dialogue are imperative. War is not a nuclear non-proliferation strategy and the imperialist designs of Israel and the United States must not be supported. 📃: reachingcriticalwill.org/news/latest-...

Satellite image of Earth breaking apart. Image by Yumu at Unsplash.

From the United States' new Board of War Criminals to the Canadian Prime Minister’s speech at Davos, imperial states are jostling to control the international system. It’s clear we need a real alternative rooted in human rights, justice, and demilitarisation: reachingcriticalwill.org/news/latest-...

Join us for our second webinar with organizers from FL, KS, and CA on how they are resisting detention expansion to Abolish ICE! 

📆Thursday, February 19th, 2026 at 13:00-14:30 PT/ 15:00-16:30 CT/ 16:00-17:30 ET
🔗Register here: bit.ly/RESISTANCE101

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

Minneapolis Community Defense Is “Riding on the Learning Edge of a Whirlwind” “We are becoming the people that we always knew that we needed to be,” says Minneapolis organizer Andrew Fahlstrom.

I talked with three Minneapolis organizers, including Andrew Fahlstrom and Susan Raffo, about community defense in Minneapolis, the social fabric of collective care under federal occupation, and how people around the country should be gearing up for the long struggle ahead. Audio + transcript:

Abolishing Just ICE Misses the Point: A Podcast with Melissa and Todd In the spirit of broadening the analysis beyond ICE, Border Chronicle cofounders Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller discuss the leading role the U.S. Border Patrol has played in violent operations acr...

Todd Miller and Melissa Del Bosque on why just abolishing ICE missing the point @mdelbosque.bsky.social www.theborderchronicle.com/abolishing-j...

Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice an...

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.

YouTube video by Haymarket Books AI and the Techno-Fascist Nightmare

In case you missed it: @haymarketbooks.org hosted a webinar about artificial intelligence and techno-fascism, exploring the ways AI is being used to replace workers and artists, repress, cage, and kill people around the world, and destroy the planet. Learn more with the recording!

YouTube video by Haymarket Books AI and the Techno-Fascist Nightmare

I had the honor of moderating this brilliant (and important) panel on the threat of AI, featuring Ray Acheson, M. V. Ramana, and Roger Peet. @haymarketbooks.org @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social @justseeds.bsky.social @toosphexy.bsky.social @rayacheson.bsky.social

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The last nuclear arms control agreement between Russia and the United States expired today. While the treaty placed important limits on deployed nuclear weapons, it didn’t prevent an arms race, nor did it lead to disarmament. We need abolition now. 📃: reachingcriticalwill.org/news/latest-...

Artificial Intelligence is increasingly being used to deport migrants, replace workers, predict “crime,” dox activists, and target weapons. Meanwhile, its energy consumption continues to exacerbate… AI and the Techno-Fascist Nightmare

LIVE NOW!

Join @rayacheson.bsky.social, @toosphexy.bsky.social, M.V. Ramana, and @joshuafrank.bsky.social as they explore the harms of AI.

With @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social, @justseeds.bsky.social, and @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social.

Stream:

The War Intervention: AI, Data Centers, and the Environment Early on Saturday, January 3rd, Venezuela was attacked on behalf of oil, mineral, tech, and weapons profiteers in a regime change operation. Since then, the Trump administration has threatened Iran, G...

A new wave of resource wars are emerging as the AI drive also ramps up.

AI and the Techno-Fascist Nightmare Join Ray Acheson, Roger Peet, M.V. Ramana, and Joshua Frank This event is organized by Haymarket Books, CounterPunch, Pilsen Community Books, and JustSeeds

AI and the Techno-Fascist Nightmare

Join @rayacheson.bsky.social, @toosphexy.bsky.social, M.V. Ramana, and @joshuafrank.bsky.social as they explore the harms of AI and discuss how to abolish this techno-fascist nightmare.

Wed, Feb. 4th at 3 PM ET

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While Minnesotans Rejoice Over Greg Bovino’s Ouster, His Replacement is a Deportation Hardliner The most notable difference between Tom Homan and Greg Bovino is that Homan has deported a lot more people — and done it at a national scale.

The most notable difference between Tom Homan and Bovino is that Homan has deported a lot more people — and done it at a national scale.

Get ready for a Democratic Party influencer blitz to convince you that replacing Greg Bovino with Tom Homan is a huge win you should be grateful for.

Meanwhile here’s Tom Homan:

Worried about how AI is being used to kill and cage people? Concerned about the impacts of AI on art, labour, or the environment? Join this online event next week on 4 February, sponsored by @haymarketbooks.org, @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social, @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social, and @justseeds.bsky.social

This is not okay. None of this is okay.

The Canadian government brought Roshel’s CEO on a trade mission SIX DAYS after the US regime murdered Renee Good.

They know.

Those armoured vehicles you see driving around Minneapolis? They are manufactured by Roshel in Canada.

#cdnpoli #onpoli #ICE

ICE ordering fleet of 20 armoured vehicles from Canadian firm | CBC News U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement earmarked millions of dollars for a bulk order for 20 armoured vehicles from Canadian defence manufacturer Roshel that are built to resist bullets and bomb bla...

ICE is ordering armoured vehicles from Canada.

If you don't think Canadian military equipment should be used to terrorize and murder civilians, you might send your objections to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs committee:

FAAE@parl.gc.ca

Story:

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Important report from @margaret.bsky.social out of Minneapolis: margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/our-neighb...

Where the Sidewalk Ends, the Lies Begin: On the Execution of Alex Pretti Here’s what I saw after watching multiple videos of the execution of Alexi Pretti: VA nurse Alex Pretti, whom Gregory Bovino said wanted to do “maximum damage,” was trying to protect a woman who was b...

Cheney’s “Dark Side” tactics aren’t for black sites anymore. They’ve come home to roost against Americans in broad daylight. www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/26/w...

Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice an...

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.

We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:

Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we offer an extensive reading list about border and police ab...

Yes, literally.

Carney's Hot Air at Davos as Cover for Western Barbarism On January 20, 2026, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called time of death on the so-called rules-based international order. In a speech lauded by...

Carney called time of death on the fiction of the rules-based international order at Davos and is getting a lot of praise for it. But Canada helped build this fiction, participated in its crimes, and now wants to build more of the same: more extraction, more militarism, more inequality and harm.

Trump Has Made ICE the Largest Law Enforcement Agency in the Country With Congress-approved funding, ICE detention is expected to triple in size, mirroring the scale of Japanese internment.

For @truthout.org I wrote an analysis of the mass deportation boom during 2025. Amid all the spectacle, the passage of the funding bill in July was an ominous milestone in the history of U.S. immigration policy and the Trump administration's aspiring fascism.
truthout.org/articles/tru...