I mean, definitely people doing evil things, but what makes it a disturbing read is that it's clear they're mostly just relatively normal people who have reasoned their way to being able to live with doing evil things.

Really appreciated @nhold.bsky.social’s piece elaborating on this comparison. If you could use a link to help persuade family, I think it’s a good pick.

Please sign the petition calling for Tom Alter's reinstatement. Explanation at the link where you can sign.

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Also reposting our piece by @nhold.bsky.social on related matters here.

spectrejournal.com/hands-off/

Thank you, I appreciate this very much.

I heatedly agree!!

I'm glad you also don't like him. I genuinely loathe him. This type who is well and resentful and also condescends about regular people to pretend to be their mouthpiece while pushing a bad political line, it might be the literal worst type out of the whole menagerie that is the hellscape we live in

Yeah that guy sucks. I no longer remember the details but he blocked me a while back for pointing out that he sucks.

Irene Vega recently published a book on how ICE agents navigate the moral dilemmas they encounter. It's good, and it's unsettling in that the dilemmas seem to be generally resolvable for them. It's called Bordering on Indifference.

Chicago friends! I'm thrilled to be joining Eve L. Ewing this Tuesday night (Oct 14) at the National Public Housing Museum to talk about There Is No Place for Us.

Hosted by Build Coffee & Books + NPHM.

Tickets here:

ICE attacks cemetery workers trying to help a man in the Des Plaines river www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUmUjPs/

Keep Resisting Chicago! At Wilson and Sawyer -an hour ago. 10/12/25

You know what no one has ever done before?

Tried to 'reclaim' patriotism for the left.

Labour: Reform migrant policy is "racist" and "immoral."

Also Labour: No more "golden ticket" for these "asylum shoppers."

Respected faculty become administrators.

I will wreak that hate upon him.

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

Today's Marxist Sociology Blog post is a banger from @lwestheuser.bsky.social & Linda Beck based on their Critical Sociology article. It examines how workers think about class & class politics. Against ideas that they are irrelevant or "lost to the right" 1/
marxistsociology.org/2025/10/work...

I heard a panel show joke I liked recently, something like 'Here's Tony Blair, photographed without his colleagues Famine, Pestilence, and Death.'

The normalization of “public expression” causing arrest on a college campus is really something. People are blaming the Trump administration but this is the central building block of the fascist turn and it precedes Trump — the work of institutions maligned as bastions of woke. If only.

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

Personally I'm more like 'if you don't like the weather in Iowa, well, no one else does either. That sucks, but hey, life is suffering.'

Seen in Maywood, Illinois

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

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