Oh wow, I hadn't thought about that in years, but I feel like I desperately need to watch it now because *everything* My grandma taped it for me when I was a kid and I watched it a million times.
January 30, 2026 at 4:12 AM
Oh wow, I hadn't thought about that in years, but I feel like I desperately need to watch it now because *everything* My grandma taped it for me when I was a kid and I watched it a million times.
So keep pushing. Anything short of ICE’s abolition isn’t nearly enough.
And I’d say that even ICE’s abolition should only be the start of ending the violence that came to feel “normal” under Trump.
And I’d say that even ICE’s abolition should only be the start of ending the violence that came to feel “normal” under Trump.
January 28, 2026 at 4:58 AM
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 28, 2026 at 4:58 AM
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But the group identity formation that is structuring the ICE units reinforces this: A group of strangers parachuted into unfamiliar environments, sent out on violent adrenaline-rush missions and confronted by hostile popular resistance.
All of this creates a hardened us-them boundary.
All of this creates a hardened us-them boundary.
January 25, 2026 at 11:25 AM
But the group identity formation that is structuring the ICE units reinforces this: A group of strangers parachuted into unfamiliar environments, sent out on violent adrenaline-rush missions and confronted by hostile popular resistance.
All of this creates a hardened us-them boundary.
All of this creates a hardened us-them boundary.
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The targeted recruitment of right-wing militarists with no vetting or training creates a paramilitary force unequipped to respond to popular resistance with anything but the use of uncontrolled violence.
It is visibly obvious from all the videos we've seen so far that they are out of their depth.
It is visibly obvious from all the videos we've seen so far that they are out of their depth.
January 25, 2026 at 11:25 AM
The targeted recruitment of right-wing militarists with no vetting or training creates a paramilitary force unequipped to respond to popular resistance with anything but the use of uncontrolled violence.
It is visibly obvious from all the videos we've seen so far that they are out of their depth.
It is visibly obvious from all the videos we've seen so far that they are out of their depth.
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No one will say “That’s not true, that’s false, you’re lying.” They’ll say “There are competing perspectives.” Thus they are given the power to invent reality.
January 25, 2026 at 5:25 PM
No one will say “That’s not true, that’s false, you’re lying.” They’ll say “There are competing perspectives.” Thus they are given the power to invent reality.