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ACAB #AbolishIce
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For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.

The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
www.ms.now
January 16, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.

If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
That is what was relayed
January 15, 2026 at 4:27 AM
More democrats need to get behind this kind of messaging. Being opposed to ethnic cleansing should not be so unpopular.

www.commondreams.org/news/aoc-ice...
AOC: ICE Killing of Renee Good Exposes 'Fundamental Difference' Between Herself and JD Vance | Common Dreams
"I understand that Vice President Vance believes that shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not."
www.commondreams.org
January 15, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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ICE: We proudly murdered a woman, and we are going to continue to terrorize your communities.

America: Uh, please don't do that.

ICE: Oh, you want more? OK, here you go.

Republicans: Americans deserve to have their skulls cracked for being insurgent!
January 15, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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ICE keeps saying the people protesting it are being paid without any evidence, but we have receipts showing that the people *defending* ICE are absolutely being paid.

And yet we only hear lies about the former on cable news.
relevant to the debate over whether we should keep funding DHS without reforms and accountability for how out of control their spending is
January 15, 2026 at 4:28 PM