Lisa Stampnitzky, Highly Annoying, PhD
@lisastampnitzky.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, cat lady, etc. Thinking about truth, knowledge, secrecy, speakability, torture, “terrorism”, etc.
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https://www.cambridge.org/universitypress/subjects/sociology/political-sociology/disciplining-terror-how-experts-invented-terrorism
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https://www.cambridge.org/universitypress/subjects/sociology/political-sociology/disciplining-terror-how-experts-invented-terrorism
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The Kirby Frame
writing is a technology, frames are a frame. bespoke human content.
anthonymoser.github.io
January 31, 2026 at 12:59 AM
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January 31, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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by popular request i have turned the meme into a blog post, which explains how it works, links to the template file and includes a selection of examples from the thread
#KirbyFraming
#KirbyFraming
January 29, 2026 at 6:25 AM
by popular request i have turned the meme into a blog post, which explains how it works, links to the template file and includes a selection of examples from the thread
#KirbyFraming
#KirbyFraming
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There’s a lot of expertise on Bluesky, and the remarkable thing is that the Trump regime has done something illegal in everyone’s area. It’s really a crime syndicate masquerading as government.
January 31, 2026 at 12:17 AM
There’s a lot of expertise on Bluesky, and the remarkable thing is that the Trump regime has done something illegal in everyone’s area. It’s really a crime syndicate masquerading as government.
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In 2021 I was telling people in my field of art history to stop legitimizing the use of image recognition, to stop applying for grants to use AI in identifying the subjects of portraiture bc this was what such work was being used to further. All this was obvious. theconversation.com/how-ai-is-hi...
January 30, 2026 at 12:24 PM
In 2021 I was telling people in my field of art history to stop legitimizing the use of image recognition, to stop applying for grants to use AI in identifying the subjects of portraiture bc this was what such work was being used to further. All this was obvious. theconversation.com/how-ai-is-hi...
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And I said during the event that what he is offering is a tolerance of cruelty; thinking on it further now I think you could say that precisely what he is offering is that he will not care about the rule of law and you don't have to either, you can save the nation/Western civ unconstrained by rights
January 30, 2026 at 7:26 PM
And I said during the event that what he is offering is a tolerance of cruelty; thinking on it further now I think you could say that precisely what he is offering is that he will not care about the rule of law and you don't have to either, you can save the nation/Western civ unconstrained by rights
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Alt text for an important OP:
blackpressusa: Don Lemon, Trahem Jeen Crews, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lydell Lundy were arrested by Federal agents in connection to covering the protest that took place in a church in Minneapolis. They are having their rights violated.
(Instagram post with headshots.)
blackpressusa: Don Lemon, Trahem Jeen Crews, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lydell Lundy were arrested by Federal agents in connection to covering the protest that took place in a church in Minneapolis. They are having their rights violated.
(Instagram post with headshots.)
4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
January 30, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Alt text for an important OP:
blackpressusa: Don Lemon, Trahem Jeen Crews, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lydell Lundy were arrested by Federal agents in connection to covering the protest that took place in a church in Minneapolis. They are having their rights violated.
(Instagram post with headshots.)
blackpressusa: Don Lemon, Trahem Jeen Crews, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lydell Lundy were arrested by Federal agents in connection to covering the protest that took place in a church in Minneapolis. They are having their rights violated.
(Instagram post with headshots.)
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Weaponizing civil rights law against the very groups it was written to protect is a hallmark of neofascism.
It’s meant to punish. And also declare loudly that they are above the law and will interpret it to mean whatever they want.
This, in a nutshell, is why policy won’t stop fascism.
It’s meant to punish. And also declare loudly that they are above the law and will interpret it to mean whatever they want.
This, in a nutshell, is why policy won’t stop fascism.
Journalist Don Lemon is charged with federal civil rights crimes in anti-ICE church protest
The Department of Homeland Security says journalist Don Lemon has been charged with federal civil rights crimes in connection with an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a...
apnews.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Weaponizing civil rights law against the very groups it was written to protect is a hallmark of neofascism.
It’s meant to punish. And also declare loudly that they are above the law and will interpret it to mean whatever they want.
This, in a nutshell, is why policy won’t stop fascism.
It’s meant to punish. And also declare loudly that they are above the law and will interpret it to mean whatever they want.
This, in a nutshell, is why policy won’t stop fascism.
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The big fight we had 5-7 years ago about whether we should make these databases more inclusive so that they can accurately identify people across demographic groups and reduce false positives...all seems so quaint now. ICE doesn't care if it's a false positive!
“Agents can identify people on the street through facial recognition, trace their movements through license-plate readers and, in some cases, use commercially available phone-location data to reconstruct daily routines and associations.” All surveillance tools people have pushed back on for ages…
DHS ramps up surveillance in immigration raids, sweeping in citizens
The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis is providing insights into the surveillance technologies the government is using in its mass deportation campaign.
apnews.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:28 PM
The big fight we had 5-7 years ago about whether we should make these databases more inclusive so that they can accurately identify people across demographic groups and reduce false positives...all seems so quaint now. ICE doesn't care if it's a false positive!
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Are you outside of Minnesota and looking for another way to help defeat ICE there?
I personally know and vouch for an organizer of this fund for basic patrol expenses.
I personally know and vouch for an organizer of this fund for basic patrol expenses.
Donate to Fueling The Resistance, organized by Fuel Resistance
Minnesota is resilient but our tanks are running low. This fundraiser is to help those who work… Fuel Resistance needs your support for Fueling The Resistance
www.gofundme.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Are you outside of Minnesota and looking for another way to help defeat ICE there?
I personally know and vouch for an organizer of this fund for basic patrol expenses.
I personally know and vouch for an organizer of this fund for basic patrol expenses.
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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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excuse me?
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand a ban on the deportation of American citizens as a condition of winning their support for legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Jeffries demands ban on deportation of US citizens as part of DHS reforms
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand a ban on the deportation of American citizens as a condition of winning their support for legislation fun…
www.kget.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:26 AM
excuse me?
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what’s astounding about this is not only the incredible cruelty but the complete lack of even the most basic public relations instincts
they kidnap a five year old and generate national outrage and rather than do some basic window dressing to treat him nice while abusing everyone else they do this
they kidnap a five year old and generate national outrage and rather than do some basic window dressing to treat him nice while abusing everyone else they do this
“[Liam] keeps asking about that hat and that backpack that are in the picture,” the congressman said. “I think they took that from him.”
www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/u...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/u...
Rep. Joaquin Castro meets with the 5-year-old boy held with his father at a Texas detention facility | CNN
US Rep. Joaquin Castro met Wednesday with Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old Minnesota boy taken from his family’s suburban Minneapolis driveway last week after federal agents apprehended his father, t...
www.cnn.com
January 29, 2026 at 7:48 PM
what’s astounding about this is not only the incredible cruelty but the complete lack of even the most basic public relations instincts
they kidnap a five year old and generate national outrage and rather than do some basic window dressing to treat him nice while abusing everyone else they do this
they kidnap a five year old and generate national outrage and rather than do some basic window dressing to treat him nice while abusing everyone else they do this
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I can’t believe they took his fucking bunny hat.
“[Liam] keeps asking about that hat and that backpack that are in the picture,” the congressman said. “I think they took that from him.”
www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/u...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/u...
Rep. Joaquin Castro meets with the 5-year-old boy held with his father at a Texas detention facility | CNN
US Rep. Joaquin Castro met Wednesday with Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old Minnesota boy taken from his family’s suburban Minneapolis driveway last week after federal agents apprehended his father, t...
www.cnn.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:28 PM
I can’t believe they took his fucking bunny hat.
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📣Call for abstracts 📣 If you do Critical Security/Terrorism Studies, join our #EISAPEC26 section. We welcome papers, panels, or roundtables. Feel free to get in touch with either myself or @marinegueguin.bsky.social if you have any queries. Deadline is 19 Feb.
eisa-net.org/abstract-sub...
eisa-net.org/abstract-sub...
January 28, 2026 at 12:50 PM
📣Call for abstracts 📣 If you do Critical Security/Terrorism Studies, join our #EISAPEC26 section. We welcome papers, panels, or roundtables. Feel free to get in touch with either myself or @marinegueguin.bsky.social if you have any queries. Deadline is 19 Feb.
eisa-net.org/abstract-sub...
eisa-net.org/abstract-sub...
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A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
January 29, 2026 at 3:58 PM
A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
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From tomorrow, Friday 30 January, ballot papers will start to arrive by post for VP (HE and FE), and several key positions on our NEC.
We're supporting our own @markpendleton.bsky.social for VP (HE) and independent @suzitoole.bsky.social for VP (FE) & lots of other great people. Please share! #UCU
We're supporting our own @markpendleton.bsky.social for VP (HE) and independent @suzitoole.bsky.social for VP (FE) & lots of other great people. Please share! #UCU
January 29, 2026 at 3:12 PM
From tomorrow, Friday 30 January, ballot papers will start to arrive by post for VP (HE and FE), and several key positions on our NEC.
We're supporting our own @markpendleton.bsky.social for VP (HE) and independent @suzitoole.bsky.social for VP (FE) & lots of other great people. Please share! #UCU
We're supporting our own @markpendleton.bsky.social for VP (HE) and independent @suzitoole.bsky.social for VP (FE) & lots of other great people. Please share! #UCU
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As @hebagowayed.bsky.social and I wrote in our Guardian article on abolishing ICE, this is Homan threatening to gun down Americans for using their free speech rights to accurately describe ICE as fascist secret police.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
January 29, 2026 at 2:05 PM
As @hebagowayed.bsky.social and I wrote in our Guardian article on abolishing ICE, this is Homan threatening to gun down Americans for using their free speech rights to accurately describe ICE as fascist secret police.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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In theater. So they think they’re at war.
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
January 29, 2026 at 2:06 PM
In theater. So they think they’re at war.
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good morning. (quilt by Melissa Laranjeira, via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...)
January 29, 2026 at 12:59 PM
good morning. (quilt by Melissa Laranjeira, via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...)
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As far as I know, Tom Suozzi here still does not have a primary challenger in his district (NY-3 on Long Island).
The filing deadline is April 6 for the primary on June 23, and if there's a remotely progressive town council member or PTA president in that district, this is the time to make a move.
The filing deadline is April 6 for the primary on June 23, and if there's a remotely progressive town council member or PTA president in that district, this is the time to make a move.
Confronted Congressman Tom Suozzi, one of seven Democrats casting the decisive votes to increase ICE funding by $10,000,000,000.
January 29, 2026 at 1:45 AM
As far as I know, Tom Suozzi here still does not have a primary challenger in his district (NY-3 on Long Island).
The filing deadline is April 6 for the primary on June 23, and if there's a remotely progressive town council member or PTA president in that district, this is the time to make a move.
The filing deadline is April 6 for the primary on June 23, and if there's a remotely progressive town council member or PTA president in that district, this is the time to make a move.
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The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
January 26, 2026 at 4:17 PM
The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
Reposted by Lisa Stampnitzky, Highly Annoying, PhD
It’s true that what ICE & CBP are doing is not immigration enforcement. But resist the narrative that what they are doing can be divorced from immigration enforcement. “Immigration enforcement,” like “counterterrorism,” is what produced these atrocities — and, if not abolished, will produce more.
January 27, 2026 at 5:50 PM
It’s true that what ICE & CBP are doing is not immigration enforcement. But resist the narrative that what they are doing can be divorced from immigration enforcement. “Immigration enforcement,” like “counterterrorism,” is what produced these atrocities — and, if not abolished, will produce more.
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Wonder if Batya Ungar-Sargon know what slanderous names the Nazis called Jews, but for those of you that don’t know, it often mirrored ‘illegal migrant murderers, rapists, sex offenders, and child abusers’. There was even a name for it: the lust libel fathomjournal.org/the-lust-lib...
January 28, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Wonder if Batya Ungar-Sargon know what slanderous names the Nazis called Jews, but for those of you that don’t know, it often mirrored ‘illegal migrant murderers, rapists, sex offenders, and child abusers’. There was even a name for it: the lust libel fathomjournal.org/the-lust-lib...
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Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.
The intense fallout from the killing of Alex Pretti has forced President Trump to publicly change course in Minneapolis.
Listen to our White House reporters discuss the changes on today's episode of "The Daily."
Listen to our White House reporters discuss the changes on today's episode of "The Daily."
Trump Changes Course in Minneapolis
The White House has been met with broad outcry over the killing of Alex Pretti, as well as pushback from Congress.
nyti.ms
January 28, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.