Nathan Goodman

Congratulations!

bleedingheartlibertarians.com/2014/03/in-p...

reason.com/2021/09/09/w...

A Guide to Meaningful Action Against ICE ICE actions have produced thousands of first-time activists — and it’s easier than ever to resist locally.

Thanks to @annalekasmiller.bsky.social at @truthdig.com for interviewing me for this great article on material actions against ICE. I hope it helps folks joining the fight against ICE & CBP. Check out Anna's great Toolbox article; it's a great primer! Be sure to peep the toolbox for actions to take!

My House Judiciary Subcommittee Testimony Against the "Preserving a Sharia-Free America Act" NA Tomorrow, I will be testifying against the proposed "Preserving a Sharia-Free America Act" at a hearing before the US…

The good Ilya is good

reason.com/volokh/2026/...

This 14th Amendment/Reconstruction angle is something I only recently noticed. Would be interested in buddy check from @jamellebouie.net, @unlawfulentries.bsky.social @asrust.bsky.social @patsobkowski.com. Would birthright citizenship in 1868 imply open borders by common understanding?

Abolition, Amnesty, Decriminalization, Open Borders You may not believe immigration restrictions are racist, but racists believe immigration restrictions are racist.

“I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity, and when there is a supposed conflict between human and national rights, it is safe to go the side of humanity.” - Frederick Douglass www.liberalcurrents.com/abolition-am...

The racists believe immigration restrictions are racist.

Why don't you?

What does open borders mean? It means the individual has presumptive freedom of movement. You can cross borders without suspicion or harassment. If you choose, there is a clear, easy path to citizenship. That's it. Open borders treats everyone like a potential fellow citizen, like a human being. /🧵

Abolition, Amnesty, Decriminalization, Open Borders You may not believe immigration restrictions are racist, but racists believe immigration restrictions are racist.

"At the best of times in the best administrations, tightly controlled borders result in dead bodies in deserts and washed up on shores. ... A closed border means violence and death."

Excellent essay by @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/abolition-am...

Great thread from @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com

#OpenBorders is the Good Samaritan. It's the priests you see putting their bodies between refugees and jackbooted thugs.

Open borders is setting the prisoners free.

#OpenBorders is "Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains" AND it's the gleeful destruction of the Berlin Wall.

#OpenBorders is the Schengen Area. It's trade and peace, the abolition of war and the forging of friendships out of centuries of war. It's the quiet miracle of undefended borders we take for granted because they're so obvious and normal.

I'm very sympathetic to your argument here.

Here's a question that it raises for me, however: Are there some conditions under which we should associate with people who are not admirable, in order to try to push them to do better?

As I was saying. www.aaronrosspowell.com/3m2xqaxqypk26

The US Administration ordered her to seized off the street by masked agents, imprisoned incognito for weeks, all for thoughtfully expressing an opinion with zero advocacy of violence or harm to anyone.

Sickening, anti-Conservative, anti-constitutional, anti-American.

We are far better than this.

How the Right Distorted Libertarianism - Aaron Ross Powell's Blog Once rooted in liberalism, libertarianism's detour through the conservative movement has blunted its radical edge and commitment to principle.

While everyone’s on the topic of libertarians who got in bed with MAGA authoritarianism, here’s what I wrote about it, including the history of how we got here, way back in 2022. The years since have, I believe, made my worries look, if anything, understated. www.aaronrosspowell.com/3m2fgwdmc7c2a

Since last year, we’ve been reporting on ICE extensively. But every week brings new information, and it’s getting harder to keep track of what’s happening, let alone remember what’s already happened.

So here’s a quick thread to help.

Palantir Achieves Another Revenue Record With $1.41 Billion Quarter The data-analytics company, which has been criticized over its role in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, posted a profit of $609 million.

This is the cycle: Governments give surveillance contracts-->Stock goes up-->Right-wing CEOs get rich and donate to right-wing candidates-->Politicians give more contracts to surveillance company.

This is the cycle we need to break, and it needs to start with ending the government contracts.

Yes, @ilyasomin.bsky.social has been downright heroic in his work on immigration, his litigation against the Trump administration's abuses of executive power on tariffs, & his efforts to sound the alarm against Trump in libertarian spaces prior to the most recent election.

No Citizens: Abolishing Borders Beyond the Nation-State The very existence of borders is one of the founding injustices of this world. Most of us recognize this implicitly, and I won’t spend too much time here trying to argue what’s been clearly argued by ...

"it’s useful to think of borders not as bright, clearly defined lines on maps dividing state territories, but rather closer to a set of nested and interlocking fractal spaces that replicates similar logics through space across multiple scales."

c4ss.org/content/52324

Yes, agreed. Still a mess, also. But as you say, less of a mess than everyone else. And a mess that's the best hope for freedom, emancipation, self-governance, & egalitarian social relations.

Everyone rightfully decries this as utterly bullshit, given how many libertarians -- very much including Reason -- were utterly blind and/or complicit re Trump, but it's also true that liberals ignorantly and studiously built the state power he then seized.

Anarchists are the only ones without sin.

How the Right Distorted Libertarianism - Aaron Ross Powell's Blog Once rooted in liberalism, libertarianism's detour through the conservative movement has blunted its radical edge and commitment to principle.

I think a bigger part of it is what I wrote about here. Fusionism meant that libertarianism recruited primarily from the political right, and the libertarian community was friendly to right-wing beliefs and values in a way it wasn’t to socially and culturally liberal ones. And that just compounded.

I mean, even anarchists have had fascist creep problems, as you & ARR both point out. The anarchist movement has been better at responding to fascist creep than any other social movement. But even there it was messy and flawed.

In which I talk about my intent in selecting a cover design for my book

I enjoyed listening to this debate between @jessespafford.bsky.social & Michael Huemer.

I'm closer to Huemer's position on this than Jesse's. But Gillis is in many respects even closer to my position.

Their thread is good, and this @c4ssdotorg.bsky.social essay is good:
c4ss.org/content/53019

A stack of books: "Against the Deportation Terror" by Rachel Ida Buff "Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol" by Kelly Lytle Hernandez "Impossible Subjects" by Mae Ngai "Immigration and Freedom" by Chandran Kukathas

Some books that I'm using as sources as I revise a paper on U.S. immigration policy and the threat it poses to freedom.

@jacobtlevy.bsky.social has long been solid on these issues. Check out his thread today, as well as our conversation on how immigration restrictions and the current anti-immigration crackdowns threaten the rule of law. www.mercatus.org/hayekprogram...
bsky.app/profile/jaco...