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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

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

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Black Rose / Rosa Negra @blackroserosanegra.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Sanctuary is a verb.

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Become ungovernable @lakermaker.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

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.

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Become ungovernable @lakermaker.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

“… 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.” illwill.com/lies

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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.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 24/01/2026

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")

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…

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

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

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

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

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

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.

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

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

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

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

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 11/01/2026

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. crimethinc.com/Broadview2025

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

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Mansoor Adayfi منصور الضيفي @gtmo441.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Dear friends an 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. Hold the poster. Share it. Tag me. Send photos.

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Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

It is exhausting that liberals continue to ignore this. We are here in this moment because of BOTH PARTIES IN THIS COUNTRY

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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

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.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

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.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

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.

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

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.

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Become ungovernable @lakermaker.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

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 www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...

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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...

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

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.

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National Lawyers Guild @nlg.org · 05/11/2025

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.

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

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

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

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."

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 16/10/2025

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.”

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

And you, governor, should stop providing state cops to police protesters for ICE at Broadview.

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 14/10/2025

In just 5 months, one Tennessee county spent $130,000 of taxpayer money locking people up for ICE. When we say local governments wield significant power in ICE's immigration agenda, this is what we mean. www.wvlt.tv/2025/07/01/k...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/10/2025

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12/10/2025

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I support nonviolent action. It's literally what I do. But telling people that allowing themselves to be harmed to demonstrate the character of their enemy will be politically transformative denies the desensitized reality of the present.

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Remora House DC @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Connect with your people offline. Take the chats to signal but also take your close relationships offline entirely. We need to be connected when they shut this all down. What’s your organizing plan if things go dark? Where do you meet? Who picks up what work? How do we communicate?

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 14/09/2025

This narrative that ICE has "backed off" Chicago persists despite a flood of bystander video and reports showing an unprecedented and growing wave of masked terrorists violently kidnapping Illinoisians off the streets in Chicago. I can only assume our media ecosystem is to blame for this.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

ICE has fired tear gas and pepper balls at protesters outside their Broadview facility. They are terrorizing immigrants across Chicagoland. The time to resist is now. It will only get harder as authoritarianism tightens its grip. Please pay attention to this struggle.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/09/2025

Thinking a lot this morning about how the dispersed nature of these kidnappings over such a broad area makes it so easy for them to avoid making bigger waves. The surface can appear totally calm while they're grabbing neighbors, and most people have no idea until/unless something flashy happens

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Become ungovernable @lakermaker.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

“It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins ‘Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.’ “ Let’s take note from @espiers.bsky.social in the Nation and be honest about what people lived and died for, the good, the bad, and in the case of Charlie Kirk, the ugly.

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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Hot off the press! Out Oct 16, featuring two new chapters, Against the Romance of Police Reform and Futures Beyond Policing. Hoping this study of anti-Black criminalization is helpful as we face the rise in fascistic authoritarian rule, and the policing used to enforce and enable it.

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Anthony Reed @blackpoetics.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Malcolm X: “If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

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Become ungovernable @lakermaker.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

“You are not alone!” I told military members questioning the morality of their orders to deploy to Chicago. @vetsaboutface.bsky.social can connect you with veterans like me who chose to resist. Read more from the press conference and other About Face members. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09...

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Veterans speak out against proposed deployment of National Guard in Chicago

Members of About Face: Veterans Against the War call on Gov. JB Pritzker to direct the Illinois National Guard not to report to Chicago if President Donald Trump orders them to be activated in the pre...

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Urvashi Vaid in 2008: “I do not believe that the bitter power struggle progressive movements have been waging with authoritarian movements can be wished away by speeches seeking a new national consensus or by centrist policy accommodations.”

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

"Table your disputes and connect with people who are providing direct support to targeted groups in your communities ... How can you help? There’s no need to start from scratch. Find already-organized people and figure out how to contribute to or expand upon their efforts."

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 23/08/2025

So far in 2025, local jails saw the largest share of growth in U.S. Marshals detention. Renting jail space to the Marshals has been key to overcoming sanctuary policies and likely is essential to plans for further criminalization using the bloated ICE detention budget:

Chart showing that during the opening months of 2025, local jails saw the largest share of growth in U.S. Marshals detention.

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