"abolitionists for absolution" is 💯👌

Hi I'm trans and I will be SCREAMING at ICE. Caveat understood.

Something I haven’t seen mentioned is that more than TSA work at airports! Janitors, food service, retail, etc. I have no faith that security clearance to work at an airport will keep those people safe from ICE, especially brown and Black people with accents.

if you're travelling and you are a documented citizen (esp if you're white/white-passing), you need to speak up & interrupt any racial profiling you witness. We are absolutely defeated if we allow ICE agents to harass people in the broad light of crowded airports. Don't be a good deputy citizen.

The U.S. is the most anti-life entity on the planet. The whole "pro-life" thing was always obviously a lie to cover for the actual desire to control marginalized people's bodies. But it's vertigo-inducing to read Ross's prescient analysis and see so obviously how anti-life this whole empire is.

Taught Loretta Ross's formative essay "The Color of Choice" in Feminist Theory this week. And it feels a type of way to return to it post-Dobbs, as the US is starving people to death in Cuba, facilitating a genocide in Palestine, waging war on Iran, helping Israel to murderously steal Lebanon's land

A Horror story

Do not let the Western media manufacture consent. Hold the anti-imperialist line. You can be against the oppression of Iranian people by their own regime and not use that as excuse to support a US & Israeli act of aggression.

Western bombs do not bring freedom or liberation to the SWANA region.

This has always been ICE and in truth policing for Black, Indigenous, and Latiné folks. It’s just happening at a scale where many more people are exposed to it.

This is a type of ICE "ruse," and is a tactic the agency has deployed for decades.

In 2015, ICE went to my former client's house posing as cops and convinced his 16-year-old US citizen niece to call him home from work with a fake story (the "identity theft ruse" explained below), then arrested him.

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Because it uses fewer characters than my multi-thousand word take on the fascism angle and I don't feel like writing a whole essay on BS.

Down with A.I. data centers. Block and sabotage them all.

Have a great rest of your Sunday.

Oh I got you, no worries 🙂

Yeah I don't argue with strangers over whataboutisms on social media 🤷‍♀️

I like feeding people. I don't like systemitized plagiarism. And I hope the global working class seizes the means of production. But Bluesky is for posts, not long-form analysis or the serious work of actual organizing

Unflinching refusal to use or allow the use of A.I. in reading & writing should be the uncontroversial, default position of teachers from K-12 to colleges & universities. If our administrators tell us we "have to" we tell them to eff off. We will not kill the planet's water for systemic plagiarism.

The utterance of "A.I.'s inevitability" is one of the most stark pure performatives I've seen in my time working in higher ed. Every time it is uttered, it is clearly not reporting a fact about the world but instead actively trying to create the reality it narrates. We can and must refuse.

so about the relationship between the state and capital

Don't let the liberals squash this moment like they have every recent anti-carceral movement by turning "Abolish ICE" into "Defund ICE" into "ICE needs better training" resulting in rehabilitation PR and ultimately increased funding for "reforms."

It's "Abolish ICE" loud and clear, no qualifiers.

US citizen says ICE removed him from his Minnesota home in his underwear after warrantless search Federal immigration agents have detained a U.S. citizen in Minnesota at gunpoint without a warrant. That's according to ChongLy “Scott” Thao, who says agents forced open his door, entered with guns drawn and led him outside in his underwear in freezing conditions.

Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.

And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”

Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

A transfemme person wearing a purple thigh-length dress with a gold zipper leans against a desk with two chalkboards meeting in the corner of a room behind them. They look directly at the camera, wearing glasses and a keffiyeh.

Taught my first week of classes and just submitted my tenure dossier. I would now like to sleep for 12 hours.

It's not lost on me that an intended side effect of doing this is putting children of color behind in their educations.

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.

You could be next.

🌲 Evergreen reminder that some organizing conversations are best had in-person, and definitely not on social media, especially Facebook, and especially discussions of specific tactics 💕

The audacity of Zionists (especially those who think themselves as one of the good ones) never ceases to amaze me.

Never surprised.
But still amazed.

Screenshot of info about a roundtable at 12:00pm at MLA in Toronto. Text: "To protest the MLA’s suppression of Resolution 2025-1, participants discuss how to organize, teach, and research nineteenth-century American literary studies with a commitment to staying and fighting; a failed resolution is a lack of resolve." Presider is Xine Yao. Speakers are Oliver Baker, Max Chapnick, Jess Goldberg, Alex Moskowitz, and Martha E. Schoolman

So MLA just gives platforms to Zionists who wrote about how the pro-Palestine movement is anti-Semitic, huh? Cool, cool.

Anyway, some of us are gonna talk about BDS stuff in a roundtable at 12. I'll probably just yell & sound irritable but I am sure my colleagues will have very smart things to say.

"The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope...is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious." -Walter Benjamin

Remember this is typical IDF behavior in Palestine, and that white folks made desecrating the bodies of lynching victims a ritual

A local rapid response group I work with is desperately trying to raise $5K tonight to get immediate legal representation for a group member who is facing deportation. It is crucial that these funds be raised by tomorrow. These are organizers I trust.

Venmo for donations: @geebees5818

The terrain of battle has been expanded, but the declaration of warfare is not new.

Defending your community against ICE means facing off with an enemy that is armed and organized and willing to kill.

There are more of us than there are of them.

They will not win.