Dethrone Dog
@dethronedog.bsky.social
Just some guy.
Living on Ojibwe land (northern Wisconsin)
Living on Ojibwe land (northern Wisconsin)
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I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch.
It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵
It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵
January 13, 2026 at 5:37 PM
I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch.
It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵
It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵
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Yeah man all my friends in Minnesota are buying high viz vests and forming human chains at class dismissals because ICE is targeting and tear gassing schools. I wonder why parents would want information about that.
January 14, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Yeah man all my friends in Minnesota are buying high viz vests and forming human chains at class dismissals because ICE is targeting and tear gassing schools. I wonder why parents would want information about that.
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THREAD. This can be an important educational moment for progressive people who don't work in or study the punishment bureaucracy. Having spent 20 years in it--and just publishing a book on exactly this topic--I can say that reality works in the opposite way that Jamelle assumes.
maybe an unpopular position on this website but i think the moderate dem focus on ICE training can be, with political pressure, the pathway to more fundamental reforms. rhetorically it is not too hard to move from “more training” to “turns out they’re untrainable and we have to start all over.”
January 14, 2026 at 3:17 AM
THREAD. This can be an important educational moment for progressive people who don't work in or study the punishment bureaucracy. Having spent 20 years in it--and just publishing a book on exactly this topic--I can say that reality works in the opposite way that Jamelle assumes.
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sure, they’ve dismantled the FDA, CDC, EPA, hell even the department of education, but I’ll be damned if I try to abolish ice
January 14, 2026 at 4:12 AM
sure, they’ve dismantled the FDA, CDC, EPA, hell even the department of education, but I’ll be damned if I try to abolish ice
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Third Way is a fascist organization lmao
ICE may be shooting people in the face, sending people to concentration camps, and illegally occupying our cities but, apparently, the Democrats think saying, "abolish ICE" is "emotional" and politically "lethal."
January 14, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Third Way is a fascist organization lmao
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Rhetoric about stuff like "training" has, time and again, in dozens of contexts that I studied, had precisely the opposite effect on the approach of liberals to addressing the violence, lawlessness, and ineffectiveness of the punishment bureaucracy. Jamelle, we should have a public chat about this!
January 14, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Rhetoric about stuff like "training" has, time and again, in dozens of contexts that I studied, had precisely the opposite effect on the approach of liberals to addressing the violence, lawlessness, and ineffectiveness of the punishment bureaucracy. Jamelle, we should have a public chat about this!
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Imagine dressing up on combat fatigues like you're about to patrol Fallujah and subsequently being chased back to base by Will Stancil in his Honda Fit...
January 13, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Imagine dressing up on combat fatigues like you're about to patrol Fallujah and subsequently being chased back to base by Will Stancil in his Honda Fit...
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42% for abolish ICE without an iota of mainstream elected Democratic buy in, this could be over 60% if they tried even a little.
YouGov poll - In the future, would you support or oppose...
Eliminating ICE as a federal agency?
Support 42%
Oppose 45%
Reducing ICE’s size and funding
Support 48%
Oppose 37%
d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/IC...
Eliminating ICE as a federal agency?
Support 42%
Oppose 45%
Reducing ICE’s size and funding
Support 48%
Oppose 37%
d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/IC...
January 12, 2026 at 11:38 PM
42% for abolish ICE without an iota of mainstream elected Democratic buy in, this could be over 60% if they tried even a little.
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I want snap elections so fuckin bad man
Snap elections in Japan coming tomorrow it looks like
*JAPAN PM TO INFORM INTENT TO DISSOLVE PARLIAMENT ON WED: NIKKEI
*JAPAN PM TO INFORM INTENT TO DISSOLVE PARLIAMENT ON WED: NIKKEI
January 13, 2026 at 11:02 PM
I want snap elections so fuckin bad man
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when ICE asks you questions about your neighbors, you've never met your neighbors in your life. you've never even seen them from afar. neighbors? what neighbors?
ICE is targeting Hmong families in St. Paul as they go door to door looking for people to kidnap. they’re asking “do you have any Asian neighbors”
January 13, 2026 at 10:37 PM
when ICE asks you questions about your neighbors, you've never met your neighbors in your life. you've never even seen them from afar. neighbors? what neighbors?
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It’s wild that Democrats are still negotiating their little appropriations bills as though everything is normal and Republicans won’t vote unilaterally to break the deals when Trump asks.
January 13, 2026 at 8:49 PM
It’s wild that Democrats are still negotiating their little appropriations bills as though everything is normal and Republicans won’t vote unilaterally to break the deals when Trump asks.
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this is wildly illegal and the courts will rule it such, but congressional democrats should be thinking long and hard about the terms under which they will agree to continue funding this government
Trump: "Starting February 1, we're not making any payments to sanctuary cities or states having sanctuary cities"
January 13, 2026 at 8:02 PM
this is wildly illegal and the courts will rule it such, but congressional democrats should be thinking long and hard about the terms under which they will agree to continue funding this government
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This is one of those things that sounds like a point until you think about it for 10 seconds. Everyone who serves in ICE is already being released into the wild when they retire, or for that matter at the end of each shift. Not abolishing ICE just makes the problem worse.
It’s worth considering that an overnight dismantling of ICE in 2029 would release into the wild a whole herd of specialists in violence with scant other marketable skills.
January 13, 2026 at 3:40 AM
This is one of those things that sounds like a point until you think about it for 10 seconds. Everyone who serves in ICE is already being released into the wild when they retire, or for that matter at the end of each shift. Not abolishing ICE just makes the problem worse.
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Let me give you a thought experiment:
Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should.
www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...
Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should.
www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...
Absolute Immunity
Alignment with supremacy is a vile choice. Raising the natural costs for those who make that choice by putting first things first.
www.the-reframe.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Let me give you a thought experiment:
Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should.
www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...
Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should.
www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...
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seriously these results are a roadmap to demands for the upcoming budget battle: criminal liability if they break the law, no masks and mandatory IDs, no new funding and clawing back as much as last year’s funding as possible.
January 13, 2026 at 12:37 AM
seriously these results are a roadmap to demands for the upcoming budget battle: criminal liability if they break the law, no masks and mandatory IDs, no new funding and clawing back as much as last year’s funding as possible.
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Some people seem convinced anything other than "It's over, there is no way to stop these fascists" is naive and ignorant.
But please remember: While the people who control the levers of state power are lawless and cruel, they are not omnipotent. Obscuring that distinction is an act of defeatism.
But please remember: While the people who control the levers of state power are lawless and cruel, they are not omnipotent. Obscuring that distinction is an act of defeatism.
A regime driven by the desire to create social media content for their hardcore fans on the extreme Right.
It is an immensely dangerous situation. But I don't think this cruel spectacle is an effective way to consolidate authoritarian rule.
It is an immensely dangerous situation. But I don't think this cruel spectacle is an effective way to consolidate authoritarian rule.
"But more fundamentally, ICE is violence-prone because its main purpose has become theatrical. Under present leadership, ICE is less a law-enforcement agency than it is a content creator."
January 13, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Some people seem convinced anything other than "It's over, there is no way to stop these fascists" is naive and ignorant.
But please remember: While the people who control the levers of state power are lawless and cruel, they are not omnipotent. Obscuring that distinction is an act of defeatism.
But please remember: While the people who control the levers of state power are lawless and cruel, they are not omnipotent. Obscuring that distinction is an act of defeatism.
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remember, society does not flow from above, policy is not outcome, they can say whatever the fuck they want but without buyin they don't have shit
January 12, 2026 at 11:50 PM
remember, society does not flow from above, policy is not outcome, they can say whatever the fuck they want but without buyin they don't have shit
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As others have noted, "Abolish ICE" is in positive territory without Democrats even pushing the message. If they actually leaned into this, they could easily move that number much higher.
BTW, while "Abolish ICE?" is currently polling at 46/43, the same weekly poll had "Abolish the Department of Education?" at 28% support, 58% opposed before Trump did it anyway.
d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...
d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...
January 13, 2026 at 5:22 PM
As others have noted, "Abolish ICE" is in positive territory without Democrats even pushing the message. If they actually leaned into this, they could easily move that number much higher.
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Crazy how the ethical stance is sometimes also the popular one
Wow — New YouGov / Economist poll:
46% support abolishing ICE
43% oppose abolishing ICE
This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support
46% support abolishing ICE
43% oppose abolishing ICE
This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support
January 13, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Crazy how the ethical stance is sometimes also the popular one
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These aren't normal times for politics, but even if they were, it's so clear that Democrats either don't know how to do politics or don't want to. Their position on the board is "the president is hated and his goon forces are despised" and they seem at wit's end how to message from that position.
January 13, 2026 at 11:04 AM
These aren't normal times for politics, but even if they were, it's so clear that Democrats either don't know how to do politics or don't want to. Their position on the board is "the president is hated and his goon forces are despised" and they seem at wit's end how to message from that position.
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Wow — New YouGov / Economist poll:
46% support abolishing ICE
43% oppose abolishing ICE
This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support
46% support abolishing ICE
43% oppose abolishing ICE
This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support
January 13, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Wow — New YouGov / Economist poll:
46% support abolishing ICE
43% oppose abolishing ICE
This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support
46% support abolishing ICE
43% oppose abolishing ICE
This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support
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if democrats came out today as a whole for "abolish ice" that number would jump to 60 or more, they still fail to grasp how powerful a unifying message behind an intent with momentum is
January 13, 2026 at 2:49 PM
if democrats came out today as a whole for "abolish ice" that number would jump to 60 or more, they still fail to grasp how powerful a unifying message behind an intent with momentum is
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Moderates support abolishing ICE, 45-35.
15% of Trump 2024 voters support abolishing ICE as well.
15% of Trump 2024 voters support abolishing ICE as well.
Wow — New YouGov / Economist poll:
46% support abolishing ICE
43% oppose abolishing ICE
This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support
46% support abolishing ICE
43% oppose abolishing ICE
This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support
January 13, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Moderates support abolishing ICE, 45-35.
15% of Trump 2024 voters support abolishing ICE as well.
15% of Trump 2024 voters support abolishing ICE as well.
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The cops are not gonna save us from ICE and y’all gotta fucking stop with this shit.
"the slave catchers are different from the immigrant snatchers" ahh rhetoric
January 12, 2026 at 9:53 PM
The cops are not gonna save us from ICE and y’all gotta fucking stop with this shit.