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Lisa Stampnitzky, Highly Annoying, PhD
@lisastampnitzky.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, cat lady, etc. Thinking about truth, knowledge, secrecy, speakability, torture, “terrorism”, etc.

Book
https://www.cambridge.org/universitypress/subjects/sociology/political-sociology/disciplining-terror-how-experts-invented-terrorism
Pinned
Due to some sort of uk govt nonsense I cannot access my dms here without going through a verification hoo-ha. So, tldr, don’t send me dms here.
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For the record, henceforth if you describe “networking” to me as a necessary professional skill, just know, in my head, I’m thinking of Jeffrey Epstein tremendous “networking” acumen. Fair warning.
January 31, 2026 at 2:58 AM
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remember when the panama papers came out and we found out every rich person on earth was committing tax fraud and then nothing happened
January 31, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Ughhhhh.

Also “The academic subsequently sought help from the dean of the Oxford Saïd Business School, Professor Soumitra Dutta, who made a sexual pass at her. An investigation into him upheld three allegations of harassment and Professor Dutta has since left the university.”
January 31, 2026 at 1:21 PM
The world is descending into fascism but at least the UK press consistently serves up columnists with the most amusing names
January 31, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Status
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
January 29, 2026 at 6:25 AM
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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
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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
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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
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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.)
4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
January 30, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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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.
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
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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
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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.
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
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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
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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
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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
January 29, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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I can’t believe they took his fucking bunny hat.
January 29, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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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...
January 28, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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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.
January 29, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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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
January 29, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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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...
January 29, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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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
January 29, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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good morning. (quilt by Melissa Laranjeira, via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...)
January 29, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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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.
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