Jason Guthartz
@restructures.bsky.social
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Jason Guthartz
@restructures.bsky.social
· Sep 12
also: That people like Friedersdorf—and the entirety of the white punditry class—don't consider the exponential increase in the U.S. prison population during the 1980s & 1990s to be a form of political violence really says everything.
#DefundPolice #AbolishPrisons #DismantleWhiteness
#DefundPolice #AbolishPrisons #DismantleWhiteness
All of the fascist horrors playing out in front of us today have been enabled by the bipartisan consensus that has prioritized an expansion of the PIC & surveillance state at any & all costs in order to serve & protect the violence & cruelty of our systems of whiteness/capitalism.
The 40th anniversary remaster sounds great 🥰
This was such an inspired "supergroup": Duranies John & Andy joining Robert Palmer & Tony Thompson for recordings produced by Bernard Edwards.
(& the horn section included the late great Mars Williams 💐)
I really need to read John Taylor's book.
(& the horn section included the late great Mars Williams 💐)
I really need to read John Taylor's book.
While REO was atop the charts for most of March 1985, that month saw the release of The Power Station's eponymous album.
Its 2 big hits - "Some Like It Hot" & the T. Rex cover "Get It On (Bang a Gong)" - were my least favorite tracks on a really strong album.
"Lonely Tonight"
youtu.be/_k1LvKyk8Jg
Its 2 big hits - "Some Like It Hot" & the T. Rex cover "Get It On (Bang a Gong)" - were my least favorite tracks on a really strong album.
"Lonely Tonight"
youtu.be/_k1LvKyk8Jg
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 AM
The 40th anniversary remaster sounds great 🥰
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Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
www.mprnews.org
February 10, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
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“$5.2 million from Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago for increasing H.I.V. prevention therapy among Black women”
The Trump administration plans to rescind $600 million in public health funds from four states led by Democrats because it finds the grants “inconsistent with agency priorities,” according to documents reviewed by the NYT
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...
Trump Administration to Cut $600 Million in Health Funding From Four States
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:12 AM
“$5.2 million from Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago for increasing H.I.V. prevention therapy among Black women”
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NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...
February 9, 2026 at 11:38 PM
NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...
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Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond.
Thursday at 7 PM ET
events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond.
Thursday at 7 PM ET
events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
February 9, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond.
Thursday at 7 PM ET
events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond.
Thursday at 7 PM ET
events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
The Jazz Baroness - The patron saint of bebop
YouTube video by Larry Keen Channel
www.youtube.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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Bomb threats in Springfield, OH targeting Haitian community members caused evacuations of schools as “suspicious packages” were found outside municipal court and the public safety building..."
Latest violent threats come as ICE is threatening the region. www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/bomb-th...
Latest violent threats come as ICE is threatening the region. www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/bomb-th...
Bomb threats, suspicious packages in Springfield prompt evacuations
Bomb threats that said Haitian immigrants should be gone from Springfield were sent to several Clark County offices Monday morning, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said at a press conference.
www.springfieldnewssun.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Bomb threats in Springfield, OH targeting Haitian community members caused evacuations of schools as “suspicious packages” were found outside municipal court and the public safety building..."
Latest violent threats come as ICE is threatening the region. www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/bomb-th...
Latest violent threats come as ICE is threatening the region. www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/bomb-th...
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Cincinnati standing with the Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio during an anti-ICE protest at Fountain Square. 2.7.2026.
February 7, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Cincinnati standing with the Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio during an anti-ICE protest at Fountain Square. 2.7.2026.
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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I saw someone describe the performance as “aggressive” (laudatory) and I very much feel that. It is joy with a full set of teeth, a self-possession that waters down none of the pain and anger that exists alongside laughter and love.
Truly exquisite.
Truly exquisite.
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 4:28 PM
I saw someone describe the performance as “aggressive” (laudatory) and I very much feel that. It is joy with a full set of teeth, a self-possession that waters down none of the pain and anger that exists alongside laughter and love.
Truly exquisite.
Truly exquisite.
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I say this regularly. People use performative as a substitute for 'inauthentic' and we could all just say the words we mean to say. Erving Goffman helps us to understand that we perform all of the time in real life. Life itself is often a performance of self.
People have worn out "performative." We often perform things that are real, you know. Posting is a kind of performance of one's politics. Performative doesn't actually mean "fake" or "empty," it just gets deployed that way. We actually need performance. Case in point: last night's performance.
February 9, 2026 at 3:57 PM
I say this regularly. People use performative as a substitute for 'inauthentic' and we could all just say the words we mean to say. Erving Goffman helps us to understand that we perform all of the time in real life. Life itself is often a performance of self.
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"Free speech" discourse is a joke, always has been.
Libertarianism in all of its forms is just whiteness.
Whiteness does not tolerate criticism.
bsky.app/profile/rest...
Libertarianism in all of its forms is just whiteness.
Whiteness does not tolerate criticism.
bsky.app/profile/rest...
This headline now says so much more about this moment
September 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"Free speech" discourse is a joke, always has been.
Libertarianism in all of its forms is just whiteness.
Whiteness does not tolerate criticism.
bsky.app/profile/rest...
Libertarianism in all of its forms is just whiteness.
Whiteness does not tolerate criticism.
bsky.app/profile/rest...
Israel has no right to exist as the genocidal apartheid state that Zionism requires it to be.
#FreePalestine #AbolishZionism #DismantleWhiteness
#FreePalestine #AbolishZionism #DismantleWhiteness
In joint statement, countries urge international community to 'compel Israel to halt its dangerous escalation'.
Muslim countries slam Israel for ‘illegal annexation' push in West Bank
In joint statement, countries urge international community to 'compel Israel to halt its dangerous escalation'.
www.aljazeera.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Israel has no right to exist as the genocidal apartheid state that Zionism requires it to be.
#FreePalestine #AbolishZionism #DismantleWhiteness
#FreePalestine #AbolishZionism #DismantleWhiteness
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Israeli forces detained several Palestinians near the al-Zeayem checkpoint outside occupied East Jerusalem, reportedly for not having the right identification cards.
Since 1981, Israel has used a colour-coded ID system to control and restrict Palestinian freedom of movement.
Since 1981, Israel has used a colour-coded ID system to control and restrict Palestinian freedom of movement.
February 9, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Israeli forces detained several Palestinians near the al-Zeayem checkpoint outside occupied East Jerusalem, reportedly for not having the right identification cards.
Since 1981, Israel has used a colour-coded ID system to control and restrict Palestinian freedom of movement.
Since 1981, Israel has used a colour-coded ID system to control and restrict Palestinian freedom of movement.
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Hell of a story. The federal government has awarded contracts to a senior figure in the Patriotic Front, a “white nationalist pyramid scheme.”
The group recruits & trains white nationalists in preparation for what they believe is a coming race war.
The group recruits & trains white nationalists in preparation for what they believe is a coming race war.
“How a prominent white supremacist leader came to work for a federal security contractor is unclear.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
US federal contractor hired white supremacist leader for wildfire relief
Ian Michael Elliott of neofascist Patriot Front worked ‘crisis relief missions’ funded by Department of Agriculture
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Hell of a story. The federal government has awarded contracts to a senior figure in the Patriotic Front, a “white nationalist pyramid scheme.”
The group recruits & trains white nationalists in preparation for what they believe is a coming race war.
The group recruits & trains white nationalists in preparation for what they believe is a coming race war.
“Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Yale universities recently found that 60 FDA-authorized medical devices using AI were linked to 182 product recalls, according to a research letter published in the JAMA Health Forum in August.”
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
www.reuters.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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"TikTok’s Terms of Service now explicitly include tracking of location and citizenship status (among other identity markers, such as sex)." newrepublic.com/article/2059...
How TikTok 2.0 Became a Weapon for ICE
In just one week, the company has gone from being Gen Z’s preferred social media platform to a tool for spying on Americans and the suppression of information.
newrepublic.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:02 PM
"TikTok’s Terms of Service now explicitly include tracking of location and citizenship status (among other identity markers, such as sex)." newrepublic.com/article/2059...
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Attendance is tanking in my kids school for this very reason and attendance directly affects state and fed funding for LA schools and Stephen Miller knows it
My first grader (a US citizen) came home from school crying because a friend from class (also a US citizen) hasn’t been coming to school because his parents (one of whom is not a citizen) are afraid of ICE.
Little kids don’t have concepts of racism and xenophobia. That has to be taught. Or imposed.
Little kids don’t have concepts of racism and xenophobia. That has to be taught. Or imposed.
Gonzales on Liam Ramos and his family: "They're not gonna qualify for asylum. So what do you do with all the people that go through the process and do not qualify for asylum? You deport them. I understand that 5-year-old and it breaks my heart. I also think, what about that 5-year-old US citizen?"
February 8, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Attendance is tanking in my kids school for this very reason and attendance directly affects state and fed funding for LA schools and Stephen Miller knows it
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Again, no serious organization, politician, or journalist should join Substack in 2026.
I'll give grace to those who were on Substack in its early, pre-mask-off days and those who don't already have a platform, but the best time to leave the Nazi bar was yesterday and the second-best time is now.
I'll give grace to those who were on Substack in its early, pre-mask-off days and those who don't already have a platform, but the best time to leave the Nazi bar was yesterday and the second-best time is now.
February 2, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Again, no serious organization, politician, or journalist should join Substack in 2026.
I'll give grace to those who were on Substack in its early, pre-mask-off days and those who don't already have a platform, but the best time to leave the Nazi bar was yesterday and the second-best time is now.
I'll give grace to those who were on Substack in its early, pre-mask-off days and those who don't already have a platform, but the best time to leave the Nazi bar was yesterday and the second-best time is now.
Substack is making money from newsletters promoting “virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism”
One, NatSocToday has 2,800 subscribers, charges $80, and describes Hitler as “one of the greatest men of all time”.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
One, NatSocToday has 2,800 subscribers, charges $80, and describes Hitler as “one of the greatest men of all time”.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
February 8, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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A Florida A&M University law student says the school told her to remove the word 'Black' from a Black History Month event flyer. The school says it is in full compliance with state law
‘Black’ banned from flyers for FAMU College of Law Black History Month event, student says
A student at FAMU College of Law says the school told her to remove the word 'black' from a Black History Month event flyer. The school says it is in full compliance with state law.
www.clickorlando.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:52 PM
A Florida A&M University law student says the school told her to remove the word 'Black' from a Black History Month event flyer. The school says it is in full compliance with state law
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A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
February 8, 2026 at 5:06 AM
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
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His GoFundMe is here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-le... - I donated a few days ago.
February 8, 2026 at 3:49 AM
His GoFundMe is here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-le... - I donated a few days ago.
February 8, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”
Renee Good's partner addresses Minneapolis immigration crackdown one month after killing
Becca Good has seldom spoken out since Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.
nbcnews.to
February 7, 2026 at 9:00 PM
“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”