This is an important article from IC board member Robyn Maynard (@policingblack.bsky.social). In it, she discusses how today's border policing is steeped in historic efforts to control Black mobility, from early passports to the Fugitive Slave Act.

Hunted and Banned

Efforts to control Black mobility—from early passports to the Fugitive Slave Act—laid much of the groundwork for today’s border regimes.

bostonreview.net

"..adoption of bargaining rights for law enforcement can explain 14% of all non-White civilian deaths by legal intervention between 1959 & 1988." Check out our toolkit on fighting Police Fraternal Organizations (PFOs — often incorrectly referred to as police unions):

Fight the (FOP) Power! — Interrupting Criminalization

A resource explaining why it is important to focus on police fraternal organizations as we work to divest from policing and create safer communities, including FAQs and core strategies for challenging...

interruptingcriminalization.com

Chris Dwan (he/him)@somershade.bsky.social · 4d ago

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... We find that the introduction of collective bargaining rights significantly increases the number of civilians killed by police, particularly among non-White civilians, while having limited effects on officer safety. 1/?

Goodbye, Minneapolis, Chicago. Hello, Mt. Holly Springs, Pa., pop. 2,300 The inhumanity of mass deportation hits small-town America as a tiny borough with just 4 cops partners with ICE and pulls over dozens of drivers, turning over 32 for deportation My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/moun...

This quaint Pa. borough is a ‘speed trap’ nabbing immigrants for ICE | Will Bunch

Police in Mount Holly Springs, a tiny borough in central Pennsylvania, have turned over 32 immigrants to ICE since March.

inquirer.com

If federal agents come to your door: 1. Do NOT talk to them without an attorney there! 2. Do NOT let them in without a proper warrant! 3. Call the @nlg.org hotline for a privileged conversation with an attorney: (212) 679-5100 For more on this topic, check out @ccrjustice.org's guide:

If An Agent Knocks (resource)

Updated in 2020! The Center for Constitutional Rights created If An Agent Knocks to provide advice to activists likely to be targeted by FBI agents or other federal investigators.

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I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.

ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your Community

While attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that.

newrepublic.com

My latest republished in @truthout.org. "Florida is really ground zero for how much immigration enforcement is changing and expanding." - @silkys13.bsky.social

How Do We Sustain Momentum for the Anti-ICE Movement Over Time?

Silky Shah, executive director of Detention Watch Network, discusses how the fight against ICE has entered a new phase.

truthout.org

this book was pivotal to my own understanding of the criminal legal system and the experiences of queer folks. 10/10 recommend for anyone questioning criminalization, policing, incarceration, or thinking about abolition.

Interrupting Criminalization@interruptcrim.bsky.social · last wk.

There's still time to join the last 2 sessions of the Queer (In)Justice reading group! Register today! bit.ly/IC-QIJ

Such an important conversation with @silkys13.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social.

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · last wk.

In my latest, I talk with @silkys13.bsky.social about the struggle against ICE. How are the government’s tactics shifting, and how must we respond? We also discuss the tremendous victory of fighting off the warehouse model for the regime’s concentration camps, and where the fight goes from here.

There's still time to join the last 2 sessions of the Queer (In)Justice reading group! Register today! bit.ly/IC-QIJ

A state sales tax break for data centers, once estimated to cost $15M a year, could soon cost Kentucky billions of dollars due to much larger new hyperscale data centers. No data center in Kentucky has qualified for these breaks yet, and other states are carefully reassessing similar incentives.

In 1969, the Black Panthers launched their legendary Free Breakfast Program for Children. In a 1969 Senate hearing, the federal school lunch program administrator admitted, "I don’t think [the gov't] wanted to be outdone by a community-based organization, especially the Panthers." Learn more here:

The Free Breakfast Program for Children

In 1969, three years after Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, the Panthers launched into community services, including the highly successful Free Breakfast P...

millionexperiments.com

"After disproportionate contact with law enforcement, unaccommodating courts, and unequipped jails, almost half a million people with disabilities end up locked up in state prisons on a given day — accounting for 40% of state prison populations ... and 50% of women's state prison populations."

Chronic Punishment: The unmet health needs of people in state prisons

New data shows that people in prison have greater healthcare needs than most.

prisonpolicy.org

Prison Policy Initiative@prisonpolicy.org · 2w ago

From hearing to vision-related disabilities, incarcerated people have much higher rates of disability compared to the general US adult population.

Long live Patti

You can still join co-authors @jmogul.bsky.social, @dreanyc123.bsky.social, & @kwhitlock.bsky.social for 2 more sessions of the reading group for their book Queer (In)Justice! 🕰️ 7-9 pm ET/ 6-8 pm CT/ 5-7 pm MT/ 4-6 PT 🗓️ July 30, & August 31 📍 Online Register at: bit.ly/IC-QIJ

These camps must be closed and ICE must be abolished. To find out ways you can get involved in interrupting the ICE machine, check out our toolkit (updated regularly!): interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it

ICE's Largest Detention Centre Described as 'Graveyard for Living People' in New Human Rights Report

A new report highlights severe human rights abuses at Camp East Montana, detailing inadequate medical care, physical abuse, and multiple deaths.

ibtimes.co.uk

They kept distributing it until Thursday. So we've still 2 weeks of poss. new cases. "The shredded iceberg product was distributed June 29th thru July 16th in AL, AR, CT, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, and WI." www.taylorfarms.com/recall/

Join @jmogul.bsky.social, @dreanyc123.bsky.social, and me. The criminalization of queers continues apace.

Interrupting Criminalization@interruptcrim.bsky.social · 3w ago

You can join the next 2 sessions of the Queer (In)Justice reading group by registering here: form.jotform.com/261556168236058 All 3 authors, plus special guests, will be there! Whether you want to revisit this important book, or you've never read it before, you don't want to miss out.

Our friends at @haymarketbooks.org are holding an online discussion on the struggle to dismantle the immigrant detention system. With @silkys13.bsky.social, @jwashing.bsky.social, @harshawalia.bsky.social, & @danieldenvir.bsky.social! Register for link to the livestreamed video the day of the event:

How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention

Join John Washington, Silky Shah, Harsha Walia, and Daniel Denvir as they discuss the struggle to dismantle the immigrant detention system.

haymarketbooks.org

Guilt/complicity/responsibility for great harm isn't relieved by (specious) claims of "...but I didn't know!"

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 3w ago

In 2001, Walter Cronkite appeared on the David Letterman show and shared his thoughts.

Taco Bell does not grow lettuce. This is on Taylor Farms.

As we’ve been saying….

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 3w ago

"Tonight's speech is intended to add the predicate that he needs to declare an emergency at or about the time of the elections," says former White House attorney Ty Cobb. https://to.pbs.org/4fEBoK5

Oh, a former law enforcement officer you say? A former military police officer? It’s almost like ICE are…police? www.pressherald.com/2026/07/16/i...

ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford identified as former Maine law enforcement officer

An ex-wife told the Press Herald that David Brouillette called her and admitted he was the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.

pressherald.com

I see ending qualified immunity is back in the news as panacea to state violence. 🗣️I (& countless other civil rights attorneys) HAVE DEFEATED CLAIMS OF QUALIFIED IMMUNITY & yet THE COPS I SUED ARE STILL OUT THERE DOING WHAT THEY DO…AND had already done what they did by the time QI came into play.

Many good folks think insisting on body cams and warrants will produce the reformed criminal legal/immigrant detention system we need. It will not. Here’s why. www.ucpress.edu/books/carcer...

Carceral Con by Kay Whitlock, Nancy Heitzeg - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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Thread. Join us!

Interrupting Criminalization@interruptcrim.bsky.social · 3w ago

You can still sign up for the 2 remaining sessions of the Queer (In)Justice book club, with all 3 authors! Click here: bit.ly/IC-QIJ

The @interruptcrim.bsky.social folks are remarkable. An excellent resource for any time, but especially for the current moment.

Interrupting Criminalization@interruptcrim.bsky.social · 4w ago

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Block the Bombs Phonebank

For over 1,000 days, Israel has waged genocide on the Palestinian people of Gaza with zero accountability. Armed with 2,000-lb bombs, drones, and technology made in the US, the rogue Israeli apartheid...

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Thread. This is why I donate annually to @prisonpolicy.org. Their stellar research and analysis help us move from rhetoric, impression, and opinion to documented fact.

Prison Policy Initiative@prisonpolicy.org · 3w ago

Today, ICE murdered yet another person — a horrific reminder that police violence is systemic, and not the result of just a "few bad apples." As more Americans question the role and practices of law enforcement, what exactly does the state of policing look like in the U.S.? 🧵

“ProPublica can be extremely generous with its senior reporters,” says reporter Doug Bock Clark, “but for entry level people… they’re not getting paid enough.” We need contract language that ensures fair wages for all ProPublica employees.