Janine Holc
@jholc.bsky.social
Academic, writer, hostage to a miniature red poodle, lover of Baltimore City, escapee from Tw*****
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Excerpt from my book about why the pre Civil War Constitution didn’t give the feds control over migration and why slave states found a fed power of deportation threatening, thus wouldn’t support it. academicworks.cuny.edu/bc_pubs/400/
The Historical Amnesia of Contemporary Federalism Debates
The article explores competing interpretations of immigration federalism in the 18th century. I argue that the 1787 Constitution did not clearly place authority to manage migration with the national g...
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January 30, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Excerpt from my book about why the pre Civil War Constitution didn’t give the feds control over migration and why slave states found a fed power of deportation threatening, thus wouldn’t support it. academicworks.cuny.edu/bc_pubs/400/
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I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
January 30, 2026 at 4:46 PM
I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
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there's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content
January 30, 2026 at 1:54 PM
there's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content
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LIKE.HE.WAS.A.DEER.
“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”
January 28, 2026 at 10:51 AM
LIKE.HE.WAS.A.DEER.
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I think it’s important to remember that the shooting of Philando Castile happened in a Minneapolis suburb in 2016.
“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
January 24, 2026 at 5:59 PM
I think it’s important to remember that the shooting of Philando Castile happened in a Minneapolis suburb in 2016.
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It’s so telling when people think Black and Brown people saying “this is what has been happening to us” is meant to make them care *less* about the victim and not a wakeup call that they should have cared *more* when it was happening to other people
January 24, 2026 at 5:54 PM
It’s so telling when people think Black and Brown people saying “this is what has been happening to us” is meant to make them care *less* about the victim and not a wakeup call that they should have cared *more* when it was happening to other people
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Yes, Browning and Arendt illustrate these dynamics in European contexts. But Césaire told us in "Discourse on Colonialism" that slavery, colonialism, and imperialism led to indifference, surveillance, control, and violence. This is actually how the US system was created; it is working as intended.
January 24, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Yes, Browning and Arendt illustrate these dynamics in European contexts. But Césaire told us in "Discourse on Colonialism" that slavery, colonialism, and imperialism led to indifference, surveillance, control, and violence. This is actually how the US system was created; it is working as intended.
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UPDATE: @dropsitenews.com has obtained the very graphic video from the lady in the pink coat, which shows ICE executing yet another person in broad daylight:
January 24, 2026 at 6:49 PM
UPDATE: @dropsitenews.com has obtained the very graphic video from the lady in the pink coat, which shows ICE executing yet another person in broad daylight:
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I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.
National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
January 23, 2026 at 12:15 AM
I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.
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New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.
January 20, 2026 at 11:13 PM
New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.
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We’ve decided to make this story free for all readers, forever. We hope you’ll support this reporting by sharing it.
As Homeland Security’s siege on Minneapolis enters its third week, locals are volunteering for patrol shifts, protesting in the streets, and keeping one another up to date in group texts.
Read more from @scottmeslow.bsky.social in Minneapolis:
Read more from @scottmeslow.bsky.social in Minneapolis:
It’s worse than it looks in Minneapolis
But locals are organizing to keep each other safe from ICE agents.
www.theverge.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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The University of Vienna
@univie.ac.at invites applications for at least 40 fully funded, 4-year doctoral positions. I am one of the potential supervisors. If you have an exciting, innovative PhD project on modern #JewishHistory, please feel free to apply: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...
@univie.ac.at invites applications for at least 40 fully funded, 4-year doctoral positions. I am one of the potential supervisors. If you have an exciting, innovative PhD project on modern #JewishHistory, please feel free to apply: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...
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January 20, 2026 at 2:28 PM
The University of Vienna
@univie.ac.at invites applications for at least 40 fully funded, 4-year doctoral positions. I am one of the potential supervisors. If you have an exciting, innovative PhD project on modern #JewishHistory, please feel free to apply: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...
@univie.ac.at invites applications for at least 40 fully funded, 4-year doctoral positions. I am one of the potential supervisors. If you have an exciting, innovative PhD project on modern #JewishHistory, please feel free to apply: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...
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Sunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket.
He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War.
Notice the suppressors
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He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War.
Notice the suppressors
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January 19, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Sunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket.
He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War.
Notice the suppressors
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He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War.
Notice the suppressors
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Exactly this! People are observing and warning. Not protesting, for the most part. There have been protests, there will probably be more protests. But a lot of what is getting called protesting is actually observing or mutual aid.
National media: Please stop describing what’s happening in Minneapolis as “protests.” There has been a modest, sustained protest outside the Whipple federal building, about 10 miles from downtown, but... 1/3
January 18, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Exactly this! People are observing and warning. Not protesting, for the most part. There have been protests, there will probably be more protests. But a lot of what is getting called protesting is actually observing or mutual aid.
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it’s up to 126,000 unique visitors now. doing my best to keep my head above water with updates!
crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.
please keep sharing with your networks.
please keep sharing with your networks.
Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
www.standwithminnesota.com
January 17, 2026 at 3:18 PM
it’s up to 126,000 unique visitors now. doing my best to keep my head above water with updates!
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Animal agriculture is the single largest use of Earth's land.
Yet it's rarely mentioned in eco reporting: only 1% of climate journalism even mentions diet change.
Based on 10,696 U.S. climate articles (2022–2025):
www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/pop... @biologicaldiversity.org
Yet it's rarely mentioned in eco reporting: only 1% of climate journalism even mentions diet change.
Based on 10,696 U.S. climate articles (2022–2025):
www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/pop... @biologicaldiversity.org
January 17, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Animal agriculture is the single largest use of Earth's land.
Yet it's rarely mentioned in eco reporting: only 1% of climate journalism even mentions diet change.
Based on 10,696 U.S. climate articles (2022–2025):
www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/pop... @biologicaldiversity.org
Yet it's rarely mentioned in eco reporting: only 1% of climate journalism even mentions diet change.
Based on 10,696 U.S. climate articles (2022–2025):
www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/pop... @biologicaldiversity.org
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ICE raids are not the first time this was made explicit. I think people downplay how much Jim Crow was not just about controlling Black people but it was also about controlling white people. If you thought racism was dumb and acted that way you could end up with a bomb in your home
Just keep coming back to the fact that keeping people in a constant state of terror is a form of mass disablement and essential to the eugenic project that is the United States.
January 17, 2026 at 6:08 AM
ICE raids are not the first time this was made explicit. I think people downplay how much Jim Crow was not just about controlling Black people but it was also about controlling white people. If you thought racism was dumb and acted that way you could end up with a bomb in your home
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The Hawaiian Kingdom on this day in 1893 was overthrown in a coup d'état against Queen Liliʻuokalani on Oahu.
anticolonialhistory.com/event/13/
anticolonialhistory.com/event/13/
January 17, 2026 at 3:04 PM
The Hawaiian Kingdom on this day in 1893 was overthrown in a coup d'état against Queen Liliʻuokalani on Oahu.
anticolonialhistory.com/event/13/
anticolonialhistory.com/event/13/
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Check out this great talk by @linford.bsky.social on "Stolen Relations: Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas" at a recent @oieahc.bsky.social Digital Projects Coffeehouse.
youtu.be/XquBsLNNhy0?...
youtu.be/XquBsLNNhy0?...
Stolen Relations: Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas
YouTube video by Omohundro Institute
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January 17, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Check out this great talk by @linford.bsky.social on "Stolen Relations: Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas" at a recent @oieahc.bsky.social Digital Projects Coffeehouse.
youtu.be/XquBsLNNhy0?...
youtu.be/XquBsLNNhy0?...
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🔥 From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social : “This is nuts. What the fuck is going on? I’ve never protested in my life… they tell you it’s immigrants — it’s fucking anybody. They’re just trying to scare people. I’m not paid to be here. I have to work in the morning. This is wrong.”
January 15, 2026 at 1:59 PM
🔥 From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social : “This is nuts. What the fuck is going on? I’ve never protested in my life… they tell you it’s immigrants — it’s fucking anybody. They’re just trying to scare people. I’m not paid to be here. I have to work in the morning. This is wrong.”
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It’s my birthday and I’m 45! One way to celebrate with me is to support @truthout.org. TO’s news and analysis rocks, and our Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism works to foster and maintain the ecosystem of movement and indy journalism that we need to fight fascism. truthout.org/donate
January 15, 2026 at 3:49 PM
It’s my birthday and I’m 45! One way to celebrate with me is to support @truthout.org. TO’s news and analysis rocks, and our Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism works to foster and maintain the ecosystem of movement and indy journalism that we need to fight fascism. truthout.org/donate
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The targeting of immersion schools points changing racial logic. Under neoliberal multiculturalism the teaching of racialized languages was permissible if done in ways that benefited white people. Under neofascism the very idea of racialized languages being taught in school is being criminalized.
Can double confirm. ICE vehicles were circling the Chinese immersion school in our neighborhood within the past hour.
Can confirm. My brother's boss had to leave a meeting because they're terrorizing her kid's daycare. This is just what passes for normal now in the cities.
January 14, 2026 at 10:21 PM
The targeting of immersion schools points changing racial logic. Under neoliberal multiculturalism the teaching of racialized languages was permissible if done in ways that benefited white people. Under neofascism the very idea of racialized languages being taught in school is being criminalized.