Angela Mitropoulos

NEWS: ICE List Launches Wiki to Expose Enforcement Network The Europe-based volunteer-built database links raids, agents, vehicles, and legal structures, aiming to break the cycle of official secrecy.

"...A sweeping new online Wiki built on the ICE List project, promising, for the first time, a central, searchable record tying individual immigration agents to raids, vehicles, local police partners, and the legal machinery behind US immigration enforcement."

The irony of using "performative" as a pejorative is that, while overtly claiming to be against "merely symbolic gestures," its very use signals a knowledge of Concepts.

Your irregular reminder: "performative" means "doing by saying," as in contracts, pledges etc. And, that money is "symbolic."

A Politician Actually Defended Trans People. It Shouldn't Be This Rare. Many Democrats are treating trans people as politically toxic. NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani released a two-minute video proving there's another way.

And Carville had the audacity to invoke Mamdani's win to make his point? Mamdani didn't go "anti-woke" to win. Quite the opposite! www.readtpa.com/p/a-politici...

Aside from a few red-brown types, this is very simply false.

"Both attorneys and smugglers do not merely respond to inequality, they help reproduce it." Marielys Padua Soto reflects on the effect of different actors working across the global migration regime, and how they sustain it.

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That is 700,000 preventable deaths.

The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde

Cas Mudde spells out what has become largely the consensus among researchers: moving right on immigration will not weaken the far right nor strengthen social democracy. If your reaction is "but in Denmark" please at least familiarize yourself with Danish politics

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The fascist-adjacent people are very excited. And wrong. Though, imho, there's way too much credence and space given to "Left" populism within the DSA.

For Elon Musk and his backers in the state capitol the Gigafactory is much more than a place to make cars. The complex’s enormous assembly floor, with its shiny red robots and twenty thousand employees, sends a Texas-sized message to entrepreneurs everywhere: the future won’t be built in California or New York. It will be built in the Bible Belt, by men—always men—with the willpower to tame the forces of technology, wrestle profit from the land, and create new industries out of whole cloth. It will rise up like the oil derricks of a hundred years before and give evidence of the limitless, God-given natural bounty of the region. It will make some men rich and when it does, it will provide evidence that the land still breeds heroes like Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett, defenders of the Alamo

The frontiersman of the apocalypse

The "social factory" as descriptive metaphor for contemporary capitalism disappeared almost as soon as it was uttered. Extraction has since been far more explanatory. So, to read:

“Prohibited words and concepts: Equity, diversity, & inclusion; anti-racism; Bias; Critical race theory; implicit bias; oppression; intersectionality; prohibited discriminatory practices; racial privilege; promoting stereotypes based on personal identity characteristics.”

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

Vaccines do not work when individuated; eg, measles vax has a chance of ending measles if vaccination rates are over 80% for a time.

By keeping vax rates too low, measles can't be eliminated, and people will pay for treatments, both real & woowoo. A bigger market that lasts forever.

(Anyone recall a relatively recent article about men's perceptions of the feminised university and occupations?)

The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, an emblem of fascism and white supremacy inextricably linked to the murder of millions of Jews and that more than 400,000 U.S. troops died fighting against in World War II, as a hate symbol, according to a new policy that takes effect next month.

Now that’s a lede.

Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.

Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

(Anyone recall a relatively recent article about men's perceptions of the feminised university and occupations?)

The state using it's powers to enforce a gendered hierarchy and division of labour.

Quite the Munchausen syndrome

VP JD Vance is now fully embracing the 1924 racist National Origins Act to justify his administration’s white nationalist immigration policy.

Pete Hegseth’s church is part of Wilson’s sect, and Hegseth has praised Wilson.

Contractor Paying Random People $300 to Physically Track Immigrants for ICE “The more I listened to it, the more I’m like, something doesn’t sound right,” a person who was briefed on the pilot plans told 404 Media.

New from 404 Media: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. Spoke to people briefed on plans. This isn't licensed PIs/bounty hunters. These are just former police/military; members of public

"Something doesn't sound right"

www.404media.co/contractor-p...

No public appearances, to avoid public criticism; but will continue teaching, when his creeping in the guise of a teacher is precisely the issue.

"If we can't extract surplus value, capitalism would be ruined."

No Opinion for Gaza: Why we are boycotting the New York Times Sophie Lewis explains why she & 200+ former New York Times contributors are boycotting the outlet until it addresses its anti-Palestinian bias.

The courage to withstand, as feminists, the reformulated myth of the black rapist at the core of Zionism’s femonationalist gambit is also a profound antifascist commitment. We are, quite simply, drawing a line... - me on the NYT contributor strike/boycott for New Arab www.newarab.com/opinion/no-o...

And while he is upturning the consensus on vaccines and eroding any remaining public trust in science, the NYT, Vanity Fair etc are laundering this man's reputation and impact as some kind of romantic figure, when he is truly dangerous.
He may not lob bombs, but his death toll will be significant.

Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.

NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.

DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.

Is "grass" not a well-known term in the US for a police informant?

The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.

See also: Faurisson. Long history of making friends with the worst people.

“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”