i am hanging out here with the lovely people from portland immigrant rights coalition, they talk to people who have appointments, remind them of their rights, keep track of who goes in and out. they say every once in a while someone goes in that doesn’t come out

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Making people afraid of marginalized strangers, and avoiding cultivation of skepticism of state power essential to any meaningful democratic civic life, is one of the most dangerous aspects of so-called Abundance and other various corporate neo-liberal attempts to co-opt a coalition against fascism.

THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.