Elliot Sperber
@elliotsperber.bsky.social
Lawyer. Human rights. Degrowth. Bylines here and there. He/him
Snow is nice, but fuck ICE
January 25, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Snow is nice, but fuck ICE
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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democratic commitment to preserving and reforming a nightmare state security organ that’s less than 25 years old *even now* is both craven and betrays such a profound impoverishment of ideas beyond a nonnegotiable given of a withdrawing state where only a giant repressive apparatus can and must grow
We should not fund DHS without serious reform. We could return CBP to border. We could require warrants for immigration arrests. We could beef up training and require identification.
The list of possible reforms is long. What's unacceptable is the current lawless status quo.
The list of possible reforms is long. What's unacceptable is the current lawless status quo.
January 25, 2026 at 2:21 PM
democratic commitment to preserving and reforming a nightmare state security organ that’s less than 25 years old *even now* is both craven and betrays such a profound impoverishment of ideas beyond a nonnegotiable given of a withdrawing state where only a giant repressive apparatus can and must grow
The fish rots from the head.
The best defense is a good offense.
The best defense is a good offense.
January 25, 2026 at 11:20 AM
The fish rots from the head.
The best defense is a good offense.
The best defense is a good offense.
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ICE just gunned down ANOTHER person, beating a man half to death before shooting him at point blank range. What the fuck are we doing?
ARREST ICE NOW. PROSECUTE ICE NOW.
I will not rest until every single one of these murderers is held accountable to the communities they terrorize.
ARREST ICE NOW. PROSECUTE ICE NOW.
I will not rest until every single one of these murderers is held accountable to the communities they terrorize.
January 24, 2026 at 4:28 PM
ICE just gunned down ANOTHER person, beating a man half to death before shooting him at point blank range. What the fuck are we doing?
ARREST ICE NOW. PROSECUTE ICE NOW.
I will not rest until every single one of these murderers is held accountable to the communities they terrorize.
ARREST ICE NOW. PROSECUTE ICE NOW.
I will not rest until every single one of these murderers is held accountable to the communities they terrorize.
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I want to go on the record as being pro-banishment for any & all fascist collaborators.
Every one of those Dems should get every inbox they've got flooded with every picture of every ICE atrocity until they're driven from office.
The seven Democrats who sided with Republicans were Reps. Henry Cuellar (Texas), Jared Golden (Maine), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.), Laura Gillen (N.Y.), Don Davis (N.C.), Tom Suozzi (N.Y.) and Vicente Gonzalez (Texas).
January 23, 2026 at 9:43 PM
I want to go on the record as being pro-banishment for any & all fascist collaborators.
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Something lost on JD Vance—and much of the news media—is that no legal or other reason existed to arrest the 5-year-old child’s father either. Not even the administration has articulated any reason to cage people while their asylum or other cases are proceeding.
January 22, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Something lost on JD Vance—and much of the news media—is that no legal or other reason existed to arrest the 5-year-old child’s father either. Not even the administration has articulated any reason to cage people while their asylum or other cases are proceeding.
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Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
January 22, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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Statement from the entire Minneapolis City Council in support of a General Strike and Day of Truth & Freedom on January 23rd.
January 22, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Statement from the entire Minneapolis City Council in support of a General Strike and Day of Truth & Freedom on January 23rd.
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The Pentagon is drawing up plans to invade a US city
NEWS: Pentagon ordered active-duty soldiers with a military police unit in NC to prepare for possible deployment to Minneapolis, three people familiar told @ms.now
Prepare to deploy order was issued yesterday for at least a few hundred members of an Army military police brigade based at Fort Bragg
Prepare to deploy order was issued yesterday for at least a few hundred members of an Army military police brigade based at Fort Bragg
January 21, 2026 at 4:45 PM
The Pentagon is drawing up plans to invade a US city
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He opened the door to let his friend inside, and as he went to close the door, an ICE officer shot him in the leg.
The DHS said he “began to resist and violently assault the officer.”
They are trying to gaslight us. They will not succeed.
The DHS said he “began to resist and violently assault the officer.”
They are trying to gaslight us. They will not succeed.
Videos add new detail to 2nd Minneapolis ICE shooting in a week • Minnesota Reformer
Two videos add new details to what happened before and after an immigration agent shot a man in the leg in the Hawthorne neighborhood in north Minneapolis Wednesday night. One video, a livestream of a...
minnesotareformer.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:33 PM
He opened the door to let his friend inside, and as he went to close the door, an ICE officer shot him in the leg.
The DHS said he “began to resist and violently assault the officer.”
They are trying to gaslight us. They will not succeed.
The DHS said he “began to resist and violently assault the officer.”
They are trying to gaslight us. They will not succeed.
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This is what you do when you’re running death camps
1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees
ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
popular.info
January 20, 2026 at 6:02 PM
This is what you do when you’re running death camps
Someone’s gotta just grab that guy with a big ol butterfly net
January 20, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Someone’s gotta just grab that guy with a big ol butterfly net
The precedent for Trump dismantling well-established institutions and causing mass destruction is Biden and Gaza.
January 20, 2026 at 11:44 AM
The precedent for Trump dismantling well-established institutions and causing mass destruction is Biden and Gaza.
The irony of Scalia saying “the Constitution is dead dead dead”
January 20, 2026 at 1:02 AM
The irony of Scalia saying “the Constitution is dead dead dead”
ICE et al are openly violating the First, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, the so-called Supreme Law of the Land, repeatedly, openly, and notoriously. And if this isn’t legitimacy-voiding tyranny nothing is.
January 19, 2026 at 11:34 PM
ICE et al are openly violating the First, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, the so-called Supreme Law of the Land, repeatedly, openly, and notoriously. And if this isn’t legitimacy-voiding tyranny nothing is.
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Fraud is a serious crime that merits laying siege to an entire city and collectively punishing every immigrant from Somalia.
It's also a crime for which you can be pardoned and relieved of compensating your victims, so long as some of the money you stole finds its way to the president.
It's also a crime for which you can be pardoned and relieved of compensating your victims, so long as some of the money you stole finds its way to the president.
Trump Sets Fraudster Free From Prison for a Second Time
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Fraud is a serious crime that merits laying siege to an entire city and collectively punishing every immigrant from Somalia.
It's also a crime for which you can be pardoned and relieved of compensating your victims, so long as some of the money you stole finds its way to the president.
It's also a crime for which you can be pardoned and relieved of compensating your victims, so long as some of the money you stole finds its way to the president.
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I bet you could take a whole herd of ICE guys with a medium-large bag of marbles
January 16, 2026 at 1:26 AM
I bet you could take a whole herd of ICE guys with a medium-large bag of marbles
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I’m sorry but if the premise of these encounter between state agents and civilians is the state agents doing ethnic cleansing what would it mean to “reform” the state institution involved and why would you want to be attached to that institution as a thing to reform in the first place
January 16, 2026 at 8:10 PM
I’m sorry but if the premise of these encounter between state agents and civilians is the state agents doing ethnic cleansing what would it mean to “reform” the state institution involved and why would you want to be attached to that institution as a thing to reform in the first place
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Great (and harrowing) episode. Really makes it clear that abolishing ICE isn't enough: we have to also fully dismantle the immigrant deportation infrastructure.
Awful: Trump's budget for scaling up immigration detention means "we could be looking at an ICE detention system as large or even larger than the entire federal prison system."
On the pod, @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social is so good on Leavitt's meltdown and ICE lunacy:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
On the pod, @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social is so good on Leavitt's meltdown and ICE lunacy:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
Trump Press Sec Erupts in Fury at Media over ICE as Polls Spiral Again
As Karoline Leavitt loses it at journalists amid a brutal polling downturn, an immigration expert explains how the White House’s refusal to admit error on ICE portends a Forever War against Americans.
newrepublic.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Great (and harrowing) episode. Really makes it clear that abolishing ICE isn't enough: we have to also fully dismantle the immigrant deportation infrastructure.
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Holy shit.
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Live Updates: Newly Released Records Detail Chaos During Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:43 AM
Holy shit.
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
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This is why businesses may be doing the right thing by banning ICE from their premises.
One of the stories that makes me the saddest out of this ICE invasion is one out of the Minnesota Star Tribune today about ICE agents eating at a little Mexican restaurant in the small town of Willmar, Minn, —and then, when they were done, arresting some of the workers.
January 16, 2026 at 1:54 AM
This is why businesses may be doing the right thing by banning ICE from their premises.
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🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide.
He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.
He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.
January 15, 2026 at 11:03 PM
🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide.
He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.
He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.