Anthony Obst
@aobst.bsky.social
Researches racism and state violence
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Care amid crisis: Marvel Cooke's abolitionist writing on the “Bronx Slave Market”
During the Great Depression, New Deal legislation enshrined what Cheryl Harris termed “whiteness as property” through ostensibly “colorblind” regulations like excluding domestic and agricultural wo...
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I’ve published an article with @ersjournal.com, which reads Marvel Cooke’s 1930s writing on the “Bronx Slave Market” as a form of abolitionist critique. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Wenn der Faschismus kommt, gibt es standing ovations as it turns out
February 14, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Wenn der Faschismus kommt, gibt es standing ovations as it turns out
Dieses Geld fließt vor allem in immer mehr Polizei an genau diesen Orten. Organisierte Vernachlässigung bedingt organisierte Gewalt. Dazu auch: www.racismontrial.org/de/blog/news...
February 12, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Dieses Geld fließt vor allem in immer mehr Polizei an genau diesen Orten. Organisierte Vernachlässigung bedingt organisierte Gewalt. Dazu auch: www.racismontrial.org/de/blog/news...
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Ich hab über die tödliche Migrationspolitik der EU geschrieben:
„Die Wahrheit ist, dass Menschenrechtsverletzungen von Deutschland und der EU mehr als nur in Kauf genommen werden. Sie sind das Mittel zur Durchsetzung der europäischen Migrationspolitik.“
„Die Wahrheit ist, dass Menschenrechtsverletzungen von Deutschland und der EU mehr als nur in Kauf genommen werden. Sie sind das Mittel zur Durchsetzung der europäischen Migrationspolitik.“
Nach den ICE-Morden in den USA ist das Abgrenzungsbedürfnis in Europa groß. Dabei ist die Migrationsabwehr der EU keineswegs humaner – der Unterschied ist nur, dass die rechtlose Gewalt ins Mittelmeer und nach Nordafrika ausgelagert wird.
Die EU-Migrationsabwehr ist nicht besser als ICE
Nach den ICE-Morden in den USA ist das Abgrenzungsbedürfnis in Europa groß. Dabei ist die Migrationsabwehr der EU keineswegs humaner – der Unterschied ist nur, dass die rechtlose Gewalt ins Mittelmeer und nach Nordafrika ausgelagert wird.
jacobin.de
February 9, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Ich hab über die tödliche Migrationspolitik der EU geschrieben:
„Die Wahrheit ist, dass Menschenrechtsverletzungen von Deutschland und der EU mehr als nur in Kauf genommen werden. Sie sind das Mittel zur Durchsetzung der europäischen Migrationspolitik.“
„Die Wahrheit ist, dass Menschenrechtsverletzungen von Deutschland und der EU mehr als nur in Kauf genommen werden. Sie sind das Mittel zur Durchsetzung der europäischen Migrationspolitik.“
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This was such a special interview to conduct: the first in two episodes with historian Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/the-...
The Commons w/ Peter Linebaugh
Featuring Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below.
www.thedigradio.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:33 AM
This was such a special interview to conduct: the first in two episodes with historian Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/the-...
Hier geht es zur Petition für eine langfristige Sicherung des Aufenthalts von Sidy und Lassana Dramé: www.openpetition.de/petition/onl...
February 10, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Hier geht es zur Petition für eine langfristige Sicherung des Aufenthalts von Sidy und Lassana Dramé: www.openpetition.de/petition/onl...
»ICE should be abolished, to be sure, and it’s important that in saying this that we not be too literal: ICE isn’t the only agency attacking immigrants and allies of immigrants. … When we say ICE we really mean all of them. We mean The Border Power. All of it.«
Since there's been some conversation about historical analogies for the present stuff with ICE, I figured I'd share this. In it I argue the similarity between (opposition to) border enforcement and (the effort to abolish) slavery.
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Against The Border Power
As I’ve mentioned while back I wrote a letter to Little Village saying deportation as such is wrong, that we should think of it as something like slavery and...
buttondown.com
February 8, 2026 at 10:12 AM
»ICE should be abolished, to be sure, and it’s important that in saying this that we not be too literal: ICE isn’t the only agency attacking immigrants and allies of immigrants. … When we say ICE we really mean all of them. We mean The Border Power. All of it.«
Faschisierung bedeutet auch, dass die Polizei ein System entwickelt, mit dem sie Menschen mit psychischer Erkrankung erfasst und überwacht. taz.de/Polizei-Umga...
Polizei-Umgang mit psychisch Erkrankten: Diagnose Risiko
Die Berliner Polizei will potenziell gefährliche Menschen mit psychischer Erkrankung erfassen. Bürgerrechtler:innen sehen eine fatale Entwicklung.
taz.de
February 4, 2026 at 7:07 AM
Faschisierung bedeutet auch, dass die Polizei ein System entwickelt, mit dem sie Menschen mit psychischer Erkrankung erfasst und überwacht. taz.de/Polizei-Umga...
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Am 3. Februar 1932 wird Stuart Hall in Kingston (Jamaika) geboren. Er gilt wie kein anderer als das Gesicht der „Cultural Studies“.
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February 3, 2026 at 7:31 AM
Am 3. Februar 1932 wird Stuart Hall in Kingston (Jamaika) geboren. Er gilt wie kein anderer als das Gesicht der „Cultural Studies“.
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Deportation-industrial complex
ICE isn’t just brutal. It’s also big business. From 2008 to 2021 ICE spent *$1.2 billion* on geolocation tracking, $561M on data analysis, $252M on government databases, and $97M on data brokers. Most of that went to companies who will lobby for this system to stay in place.
January 30, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Deportation-industrial complex
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The largest infrastructure projects currently being built in the US appear to be data centers and detention centers. The AI boom has coincided with ICE becoming the most heavily funded government agency. It's hard not to see a connection: This is the architectures of digital fascism
ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US
Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.
www.bloomberg.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:17 AM
The largest infrastructure projects currently being built in the US appear to be data centers and detention centers. The AI boom has coincided with ICE becoming the most heavily funded government agency. It's hard not to see a connection: This is the architectures of digital fascism
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RWG: “Many people think if they just stay off the radar in some way, whatever way that is, that they will not be caught up by the trouble. And certainly Alberto Toscano’s book [Late Fascism] and other books show us again and again that there is no outside. And therefore there is no time to lose.”
In our latest, we speak with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore about the rapid escalation of police forces and carceral logics on US streets and why abolition is the only way
www.patreon.com/posts/149118...
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The Anti-State State w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore (01/26/26) | The Death Panel
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January 26, 2026 at 10:34 PM
RWG: “Many people think if they just stay off the radar in some way, whatever way that is, that they will not be caught up by the trouble. And certainly Alberto Toscano’s book [Late Fascism] and other books show us again and again that there is no outside. And therefore there is no time to lose.”
I’ve published an article with @ersjournal.com, which reads Marvel Cooke’s 1930s writing on the “Bronx Slave Market” as a form of abolitionist critique. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Care amid crisis: Marvel Cooke's abolitionist writing on the “Bronx Slave Market”
During the Great Depression, New Deal legislation enshrined what Cheryl Harris termed “whiteness as property” through ostensibly “colorblind” regulations like excluding domestic and agricultural wo...
www.tandfonline.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:34 PM
I’ve published an article with @ersjournal.com, which reads Marvel Cooke’s 1930s writing on the “Bronx Slave Market” as a form of abolitionist critique. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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“Our task as social movements is to uproot the system of immigration enforcement, whether it’s ICE or CBP or DHS or the border itself.” @harshawalia.bsky.social
‘We cannot separate imperialism from domestic militarization’: Understanding the links between ICE, Gaza, and U.S. foreign policy
Mondoweiss interviews author Harsha Walia about the history of ICE and how Trump’s immigration crackdown is closely linked to U.S. imperialism abroad, including in Palestine.
mondoweiss.net
January 28, 2026 at 7:09 PM
“Our task as social movements is to uproot the system of immigration enforcement, whether it’s ICE or CBP or DHS or the border itself.” @harshawalia.bsky.social
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new episode out now! we kick off our new series on Marxism & Religion with a discussion of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose universalist ethos and principled nonviolence shine a light on the righteous path to liberation in these dark times www.patreon.com/posts/128-in...
128 | Introducing: Marxism & Religion, Part I: Martin Luther King, Jr. | What's Left of Philosophy
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January 28, 2026 at 5:15 PM
new episode out now! we kick off our new series on Marxism & Religion with a discussion of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose universalist ethos and principled nonviolence shine a light on the righteous path to liberation in these dark times www.patreon.com/posts/128-in...
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Instead of reckoning with the long and violent architecture of U.S. history, much of peoples' search for explanations collapses into racialized tropes and xenophobic reassurance: This isn’t Afghanistan. This isn’t China. This is America. We have rights. This is a democracy. This isn’t who we are.
“This Is Not America” Is the Most Dangerous Lie We Keep Telling Ourselves
The idea that large-scale state violence and repression are foreign to US soil is a dangerous fiction.
truthout.org
January 28, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Instead of reckoning with the long and violent architecture of U.S. history, much of peoples' search for explanations collapses into racialized tropes and xenophobic reassurance: This isn’t Afghanistan. This isn’t China. This is America. We have rights. This is a democracy. This isn’t who we are.
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»The pre-Trump tradition of bipartisan support for immigration enforcement and the Democrats’ failure to challenge the scapegoating and demonization of immigrants has opened the door to the paramilitarization of American life.« @silkys13.bsky.social @truthout.org
truthout.org/articles/tru...
truthout.org/articles/tru...
Trump Has Made ICE the Largest Law Enforcement Agency in the Country
With Congress-approved funding, ICE detention is expected to triple in size, mirroring the scale of Japanese internment.
truthout.org
January 21, 2026 at 7:18 AM
»The pre-Trump tradition of bipartisan support for immigration enforcement and the Democrats’ failure to challenge the scapegoating and demonization of immigrants has opened the door to the paramilitarization of American life.« @silkys13.bsky.social @truthout.org
truthout.org/articles/tru...
truthout.org/articles/tru...
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“The general strike is the name for when the riot, the strike, and the commune all happen at once,” late theorist Joshua Clover said..."that’s the day, the week, or the year where there will be a role for everyone.” There is a role for everyone; that time must be now theintercept.com/2026/01/24/s...
We Can Fight This: Minnesota’s General Strike Shows How
A day before Alex Pretti’s brutal killing by federal agents in the Minneapolis steets, Minnesota showed us a way forward: the general strike.
theintercept.com
January 25, 2026 at 6:13 AM
“The general strike is the name for when the riot, the strike, and the commune all happen at once,” late theorist Joshua Clover said..."that’s the day, the week, or the year where there will be a role for everyone.” There is a role for everyone; that time must be now theintercept.com/2026/01/24/s...
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After murdering a man, ICE has fled the area, making Minneapolis police take over crowd control.
Without the complicity of local and state police who supposedly answer to Democrat politicians, ICE would not be able to continue kidnapping and killing people.
Begin by pressuring local authorities.
Without the complicity of local and state police who supposedly answer to Democrat politicians, ICE would not be able to continue kidnapping and killing people.
Begin by pressuring local authorities.
January 24, 2026 at 6:59 PM
After murdering a man, ICE has fled the area, making Minneapolis police take over crowd control.
Without the complicity of local and state police who supposedly answer to Democrat politicians, ICE would not be able to continue kidnapping and killing people.
Begin by pressuring local authorities.
Without the complicity of local and state police who supposedly answer to Democrat politicians, ICE would not be able to continue kidnapping and killing people.
Begin by pressuring local authorities.
»The pre-Trump tradition of bipartisan support for immigration enforcement and the Democrats’ failure to challenge the scapegoating and demonization of immigrants has opened the door to the paramilitarization of American life.« @silkys13.bsky.social @truthout.org
truthout.org/articles/tru...
truthout.org/articles/tru...
Trump Has Made ICE the Largest Law Enforcement Agency in the Country
With Congress-approved funding, ICE detention is expected to triple in size, mirroring the scale of Japanese internment.
truthout.org
January 21, 2026 at 7:18 AM
»The pre-Trump tradition of bipartisan support for immigration enforcement and the Democrats’ failure to challenge the scapegoating and demonization of immigrants has opened the door to the paramilitarization of American life.« @silkys13.bsky.social @truthout.org
truthout.org/articles/tru...
truthout.org/articles/tru...
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"criminal" is not a meaningful term for describing a person's conduct, personality, etc. "criminalization," however, is a process by which the state makes specific [kinds of] people vulnerable to violence and neglect
January 20, 2026 at 5:19 PM
"criminal" is not a meaningful term for describing a person's conduct, personality, etc. "criminalization," however, is a process by which the state makes specific [kinds of] people vulnerable to violence and neglect
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some of the most important educational work ppl can do right now is to diffuse "criminal" as a thought terminating label
Trump is clearly frustrated by DHS’s propaganda campaign in Minnesota and thinks he can do better
January 20, 2026 at 5:16 PM
some of the most important educational work ppl can do right now is to diffuse "criminal" as a thought terminating label
»It is not enough to abolish ICE. We need to abolish the police and cages and build other institutions and relationships that can bring us genuine safety.«
An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...
An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...
Renee Good's Murder and Other Acts of Terror
An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE—and the broader history of police violence.
www.bostonreview.net
January 18, 2026 at 3:49 PM
»It is not enough to abolish ICE. We need to abolish the police and cages and build other institutions and relationships that can bring us genuine safety.«
An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...
An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...
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If you read one thing today, it should be this
Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’
www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...
Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’
www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...
Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’
Witnesses tell of the brutality inflicted on those taking part in anti-regime protests
www.thetimes.com
January 18, 2026 at 10:04 AM
If you read one thing today, it should be this
Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’
www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...
Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’
www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...
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Und wie heißt das Zeitalter, in dem amerikanische Gerichte etwa die Mörder von Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice und Sean Bell freisprachen bzw. nicht anklagten? Oder die Polizisten, die Rodney King vor laufender Kamera verprügelten und zusammentraten?
US-Vizepräsident JD Vance erklärt, dass Straftaten von ICE-Mitarbeitern nicht verfolgt werden. Damit ist für mich das Zeitalter des amerikanischen Rechtsstaats zu Ende. Die USA sind ein autoritärer Unrechtsstaat. www.fr.de/politik/nach...
Nach tödlichen ICE-Schüssen: JD Vance erklärt USA de facto zum Polizei-Staat
Nach dem Tod einer US-Bürgerin durch ICE-Schüsse in Minneapolis sichert die Regierung dem Schützen vollständige Immunität zu. Rechtsexperten sind alarmiert.
www.fr.de
January 10, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Und wie heißt das Zeitalter, in dem amerikanische Gerichte etwa die Mörder von Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice und Sean Bell freisprachen bzw. nicht anklagten? Oder die Polizisten, die Rodney King vor laufender Kamera verprügelten und zusammentraten?