Angela Mitropoulos

First images of ICE migrant detention facility at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas The El Paso Times has obtained the first aerial images of the Trump administration's new immigrant detention facility at Fort Bliss.

Here are the first areal photos of Trump's immigration detention facility at Fort Bliss, El Paso. The first detainees started arriving on Friday.

Here is my quick rundown of what we know about the site.

Is there a difference between fascism and psychopathy?

Incredible footage of the march across Sydney Harbour Bridge #FreePalestine

I'm still getting my head around it. Some helpful background in the replies

Recalling Telos journals' turn to the far Right, also by way of Schmitt interactivist.autonomedia.org/node/3049

The pandemic, and the pandemonium of European philosophy

I may be thinking of a long time ago, and a different group of people.

I don't get why Agamben was given any credence on the pandemic. A little shocked that he seemingly didn't understand epidemiology, or was comfortable with distortions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Still thinking how this took such a turn. One thing, while there are good reasons to produce collective and anonymous texts, it's also a recipe for unaccountability. Because I would sure like to know the names of those responsible here.

Over 100,000 Australians marched across the symbolic heart of Sydney today, and together we showed more leadership on one rainy afternoon than our PM and Foreign Minister have shown in 2 years from the comfort of their offices. Free Palestine. Sanction Israel. 🇵🇸 🕊️

I've not followed them for quite some time, so this is news to me. Awful news. How did this happen?

Why are Endnotes publishing Schmitt?

Open letter against the adoption of the Australian Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism's Plan - Overland literary journal We, the undersigned university researchers, educators, students and professional staff, call on the Australian Government to reject the unprecedented attack on academic freedom and the autonomy of uni...

Academics, consider signing this letter.
overland.org.au/2025/07/open...

A compulsion

The ADL briefly supported South African apartheid in the 1980s. I've not come across anything that links that moment with now, but I would be interested to read.

This is horrific. It leaves me wondering how anyone will prove citizenship if a birth certificate no longer does so.

Eyal Weizman talks about it more in Hollow Land. A lot of this is also eugenicist over the last two decades - reduce entry of food into Gaza to suppress fertility as part of "mowing the lawn" operations

you absolutely cannot cross the nonbinary farmer's market workers, they run those stalls all up and down the east coast. only bigger mistake you can make is insulting the mushroom farm trans femme which is basically a death sentence

The People Being Arrested By ICE That No One’s Talking About The Trump administration’s deportation machine is detaining immigrant women at record numbers — and they've become invisible targets.

Harrowing report about an undocumented mother of two (including a nursing 3-month-old) who called the police on her boyfriend for assaulting her, only for her to end up detained in ICE custody with 30 other women in a men's facility notorious for sexual abuse and medical neglect.

"Free markets" have never existed. Neither has freedom of speech, for that matter.

But it's still remarkable how quickly fascism has swung the broader political Right to the support of forced trading — which is, ofc, linked to their positions on consent, slavery, bodily autonomy.

graphic pie chart showing the scope of immigrant incarceration in the US. While ICE detention data recorded 57,200 people on average in June 2025, a broader count of people detained shows the overall crimmigration system is 45% larger, at around 83,400 people.

So many important takeaways in this new report about jails and mass deportation from @prisonpolicy.org @jkangbrown.bsky.social 1) the scope of immigrants incarcerated *for immigration* is much higher than what is reported by ICE www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/jail...

Well, Reform want a racial welfare state.

If you work in higher ed, you need to get your folks together and end the use of course evals or at least bar their consideration in evaluation, promotion, and hiring. This needed to happen yesterday because they don't measure learning, they measure instructor gender, but now it's a snitch pool.

The top-down government-led attempt to redefine Jews as a privileged class and downgrade the status of black and trans people is a hell of a thing to see universities complying with.

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring.

Read it for yourself here:

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

The high five is a hand gesture whereby two people simultaneously raise one hand and slap the flat of their palm against the other.[2] The gesture is often preceded verbally by a phrase like "Give me five", "High five", or "Up top". Its meaning varies with the context of use but can include as a greeting, congratulations, or celebration. There are many origin stories of the high five,[3] but the first and two most documented candidates are Dusty Baker and Glenn Burke of the Los Angeles Dodgers professional baseball team on October 2, 1977, and Wiley Brown and Derek Smith of the Louisville Cardinals men's college basketball team during the 1978–1979 season.[4][5]

saw the new FANTASTIC FOUR movie and was PULLED OUT OF THE MOVIE by the ubiquitous use in the sixties of characters HIGH-FIVING EACH OTHER

the high-five was invented in 1977 by gay baseball player Glenn Burke (and became a gay shibboleth til the straights stole it) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_five

ICE offering a signing bonus and student loan forgiveness is another sign of recruitment problems. Even with extremely low standards, they can't get close to the desired numbers.

That's good (fewer personnel means less cruelty) and bad (more desperation, leading to encouraging militias/vigilantes).

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

This is a remarkable document for a mainstream media outlet to publish.

(gift link)

wapo.st/3IRLZn6

article takes a while to reveal they torrented all this porno to get their tracker ratios up so they could download pirated books

Once again, proof that immigrants do not cause housing shortages or unaffordability. No market operates as a zero-sum game between consumers.

Post on /r/transgenderUK entitled “Reddit now censors LGBTQ+ content under OFCOM’s new ‘Online Safety Act’”

post text: “I honestly can't even think of words to describe how vile this is. Here's a screenshot of what I now see when I search "lgbt" with my VPN switched off. Occasionally a banner appears at the top of the screen saying something about needing to verify ID to access "mature content" but the button doesn't even work. The fact that we're now considered "mature content" makes me feel sick.”

The screenshot referenced in the previous image, showing the results of a search on Reddit for the term LGBT. No results from LGBT-specific subreddits appear; instead, posts from /r/Conservative, /r/Islam, /r/JustUnsubbed, etc are highlighted.

the UK’s Internet age verification law has led to the effective censorship of all LGBT content on Reddit

what a shocking and unexpected turn of events!

The Professors Who Supported the Student Deportation Frenzy GoFundMe donations, social media posts, and board memberships reveal how a handful of faculty members are backing Zionist doxxing outfits.

NEW: While many academics worried about danger to free speech in higher ed during Trump admin's arrests of students for pro-Palestine speech, some liberal arts professors were supporting the groups looking to detain students...sometimes on their own campuses.

www.dropsitenews.com/p/documentin...