Andrew
@sandshrew.bsky.social
he/him; anti-fascist, from the river to the sea Palestine will be free, organize your workplace, trans rights = human rights; touch grass, pet a dog
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THREAD. ICE is in the news, and rightly so, but a lot of the commentary fails to see how the underlying surveillance tech, militarization, infrastructure, policies/practices/training, and corporate profiteers are shared by other domestic agencies and repressive bureaucracies in other countries.
February 1, 2026 at 1:24 AM
THREAD. ICE is in the news, and rightly so, but a lot of the commentary fails to see how the underlying surveillance tech, militarization, infrastructure, policies/practices/training, and corporate profiteers are shared by other domestic agencies and repressive bureaucracies in other countries.
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January 31, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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What is happening in Minneapolis stands in contrast to the idea of Trumpism’s irresistible power.
It should be a reminder: Being lawless, immoral, and violent does not make the Trumpists omnipotent. Obscuring that distinction is an act of defeatism that only serves the regime.
It should be a reminder: Being lawless, immoral, and violent does not make the Trumpists omnipotent. Obscuring that distinction is an act of defeatism that only serves the regime.
January 31, 2026 at 2:54 PM
What is happening in Minneapolis stands in contrast to the idea of Trumpism’s irresistible power.
It should be a reminder: Being lawless, immoral, and violent does not make the Trumpists omnipotent. Obscuring that distinction is an act of defeatism that only serves the regime.
It should be a reminder: Being lawless, immoral, and violent does not make the Trumpists omnipotent. Obscuring that distinction is an act of defeatism that only serves the regime.
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primaries for every democrat, much much worse for every elected republican, [redacted] for the actual agents themselves
January 24, 2026 at 4:29 PM
primaries for every democrat, much much worse for every elected republican, [redacted] for the actual agents themselves
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to any members of the Chinese military who just got purged: Cool Zone is hiring and we NEED people with experience planning for a land war with India
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Why Xi Jinping Has Purged His Top Military Leaders
China’s armed forces are in the midst of one of the most sweeping shakeups of the Xi Jinping era, with a steady stream of senior generals vanishing from public view or being formally purged. A corrupt...
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January 31, 2026 at 5:52 AM
to any members of the Chinese military who just got purged: Cool Zone is hiring and we NEED people with experience planning for a land war with India
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I just voted against funding for DHS, ICE, and Trump’s lawless administration. We need to defund ICE, get them out of our communities, and abolish this violent agency. Not one more nickel for Trump and his MAGA minions.
January 31, 2026 at 2:07 AM
I just voted against funding for DHS, ICE, and Trump’s lawless administration. We need to defund ICE, get them out of our communities, and abolish this violent agency. Not one more nickel for Trump and his MAGA minions.
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A lot of people are understandably spooked about all the reports of ICE using facial recognition and showing up at observers’ homes, but the truth is there are too many of us for them to handle.
January 31, 2026 at 2:09 AM
A lot of people are understandably spooked about all the reports of ICE using facial recognition and showing up at observers’ homes, but the truth is there are too many of us for them to handle.
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i think this is exactly right. fascism is the Death Drive as ideology. it's why the catastrophic end of the Nazi Party does not deter people from worshipping Nazis. that the Nazis destroyed Germany along with the rest of Europe is part of the appeal.
January 30, 2026 at 7:54 PM
i think this is exactly right. fascism is the Death Drive as ideology. it's why the catastrophic end of the Nazi Party does not deter people from worshipping Nazis. that the Nazis destroyed Germany along with the rest of Europe is part of the appeal.
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THREAD. There's one proposal that would make a difference and that is popular across the population: if ICE or any other federal employee violates your constitutional rights, you should be able to sue them for damages without any immunity or other procedural technicalities that now make it harder.
January 30, 2026 at 8:03 PM
THREAD. There's one proposal that would make a difference and that is popular across the population: if ICE or any other federal employee violates your constitutional rights, you should be able to sue them for damages without any immunity or other procedural technicalities that now make it harder.
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Today on Volts: I'm joined by the great @michaelhobbes.bsky.social to discuss "reactionary centrism," an intellectual tendency that's come to dominate US public life. You know the type: would never view themselves as conservative, yet finds voluntary pronoun use vastly more aggravating than fascism.
All about "reactionary centrism"
Michael Hobbes joins me to diagnose the pundit class's obsession with scolding the left while the right burns down the house.
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January 30, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Today on Volts: I'm joined by the great @michaelhobbes.bsky.social to discuss "reactionary centrism," an intellectual tendency that's come to dominate US public life. You know the type: would never view themselves as conservative, yet finds voluntary pronoun use vastly more aggravating than fascism.
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this episode contains one of my most dominant performances. one pronunciation correction plus a correction when michael very confidently mixes up two actresses
This month's bonus episode is about Olivia Nuzzi: her rise to the top of political media, her FaceTime sex with RFK Jr., and her awful new book.
Olivia Nuzzi's "American Canto" | If Books Could Kill
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January 29, 2026 at 4:24 PM
this episode contains one of my most dominant performances. one pronunciation correction plus a correction when michael very confidently mixes up two actresses
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"The generation China has added since the end of 2021 is also larger than the entire US system."
China’s Four-Year Energy Spree Has Eclipsed Entire US Power Grid
China is undertaking an energy-building boom unlike anything the world has ever seen, as Beijing seeks to ensure supply for power-hungry facilities that are key to dominating emerging industries of th...
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January 28, 2026 at 9:49 PM
"The generation China has added since the end of 2021 is also larger than the entire US system."
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Thanks to everyone who helped stoke the trans moral panic. The inevitable next chapter has arrived.
January 29, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Thanks to everyone who helped stoke the trans moral panic. The inevitable next chapter has arrived.
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It’s so heavy when you are going to get groceries and you find a car sitting with its windows broken out and it’s empty but still running and someone’s stuffed animals or pictures or papers are just laying all over the road. I have personally seen at least five of these in the last three days alone
ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.
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 6:29 PM
It’s so heavy when you are going to get groceries and you find a car sitting with its windows broken out and it’s empty but still running and someone’s stuffed animals or pictures or papers are just laying all over the road. I have personally seen at least five of these in the last three days alone
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not even demands to get members of congress access to the concentration camps.
not even demands for oversight, medical care, decent food.
not even a little demand to give Liam his bunny hat and Spidey backpack back.
just bodycams.
not even demands for oversight, medical care, decent food.
not even a little demand to give Liam his bunny hat and Spidey backpack back.
just bodycams.
January 29, 2026 at 7:45 AM
not even demands to get members of congress access to the concentration camps.
not even demands for oversight, medical care, decent food.
not even a little demand to give Liam his bunny hat and Spidey backpack back.
just bodycams.
not even demands for oversight, medical care, decent food.
not even a little demand to give Liam his bunny hat and Spidey backpack back.
just bodycams.
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The next Democratic president/Congress should offer to fly back every person deported after having TPS revoked, generously compensate them, and offer them citizenship. Let MAGA whine about replacement theory all they want. What they’re doing is reprehensible. We should make it right.
I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
January 29, 2026 at 1:51 AM
The next Democratic president/Congress should offer to fly back every person deported after having TPS revoked, generously compensate them, and offer them citizenship. Let MAGA whine about replacement theory all they want. What they’re doing is reprehensible. We should make it right.
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NEW: If ICE was a national military it would be the 13th biggest in the world, IPS @nationalpriorities.bsky.social researchers found.
To make ICE less deadly, Democratic leadership must focus less on weak reforms and more on cutting its colossal funding. @ahjohnson.bsky.social in @therealnews.com:
To make ICE less deadly, Democratic leadership must focus less on weak reforms and more on cutting its colossal funding. @ahjohnson.bsky.social in @therealnews.com:
In response to the Renee Good killing, Dems propose ICE reforms that would have done nothing to prevent the Renee Good killing
Good’s killer was a 10-year ICE veteran, himself a trainer, and recorded the killing. What good would more training and more cameras have done?
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January 23, 2026 at 8:49 PM
NEW: If ICE was a national military it would be the 13th biggest in the world, IPS @nationalpriorities.bsky.social researchers found.
To make ICE less deadly, Democratic leadership must focus less on weak reforms and more on cutting its colossal funding. @ahjohnson.bsky.social in @therealnews.com:
To make ICE less deadly, Democratic leadership must focus less on weak reforms and more on cutting its colossal funding. @ahjohnson.bsky.social in @therealnews.com:
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I wrote about Senate Dems’ proposed “reforms,” which range from superficial to likely unenforceable to actively harmful; the grip billionaire-backed anti-“abolish” Groups have over Washington and the conspicuous absence of any attempt to touch DHS’s obscene budget.
Senate Democrats’ DHS "Reforms" Shaping Up To Be Another Kneeling Kente Cloth Moment
“Body cams,” vague demands of “accountability,” but no attempt to cut DHS's obscene budget is a recipe for status quo maintenance.
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January 28, 2026 at 10:06 PM
I wrote about Senate Dems’ proposed “reforms,” which range from superficial to likely unenforceable to actively harmful; the grip billionaire-backed anti-“abolish” Groups have over Washington and the conspicuous absence of any attempt to touch DHS’s obscene budget.
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“This is a call to every healthcare worker, to every union member, to every American, to continue these acts of bravery, to confront ICE, to confront Border Patrol where they show up." Important reporting by Amie Stager. workdaymagazine.org/we-will-not-...
“We Will Not Stop Until ICE Is Abolished”: Nurses Hold Week of Action Following Murder of Alex Pretti - Workday Magazine
Nurses say Alex Pretti was upholding his oath to advocate for and protect his patients and community, and they are demanding the abolition of ICE.
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January 28, 2026 at 8:38 PM
“This is a call to every healthcare worker, to every union member, to every American, to continue these acts of bravery, to confront ICE, to confront Border Patrol where they show up." Important reporting by Amie Stager. workdaymagazine.org/we-will-not-...
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This week’s episode is the second and final part of our series about the Voting Rights Act. In this one, we plot the evolution of the conservative reaction, including the ascendance of anti-voting pervert John Roberts.
The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act, Part II
Podcast Episode · 5-4 · 01/27/2026 · 1h 4m
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January 27, 2026 at 5:27 PM
This week’s episode is the second and final part of our series about the Voting Rights Act. In this one, we plot the evolution of the conservative reaction, including the ascendance of anti-voting pervert John Roberts.
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They gave a bunch of roided up thugs weapons and made them immune from legal consequences. You can't really tinker around the edges of something like that, you have to end it
January 27, 2026 at 7:45 PM
They gave a bunch of roided up thugs weapons and made them immune from legal consequences. You can't really tinker around the edges of something like that, you have to end it
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Apple workers are upset that their CEO turned out to be another craven bootlicker.
Apple Workers Are Livid That Tim Cook Saw “Melania” Movie Hours After CBP Killed Pretti
Internal Slack logs shared with The Intercept show outrage over Cook’s coziness with Trump and Apple's silence on Pretti's death.
theintercept.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Apple workers are upset that their CEO turned out to be another craven bootlicker.
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pathetic
SCHUMER says Democrats are “united” behind three DHS reforms
1/ End roving patrols; tighten the rules on warrants and require ICE to coordinate with local authorities.
2/ Enforce accountability; a uniform code of conduct.
3/ Require masks off, body cameras on, agents carry ID.
1/ End roving patrols; tighten the rules on warrants and require ICE to coordinate with local authorities.
2/ Enforce accountability; a uniform code of conduct.
3/ Require masks off, body cameras on, agents carry ID.
January 28, 2026 at 8:16 PM
pathetic
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an actual demand would include at minimum miller out, noem out, all the evidence ICE stole turned over to local authorities to facilitate prosecutions of rene goode’s and alex pretti’s murders, to say nothing of oversight of detention centers.
January 28, 2026 at 8:18 PM
an actual demand would include at minimum miller out, noem out, all the evidence ICE stole turned over to local authorities to facilitate prosecutions of rene goode’s and alex pretti’s murders, to say nothing of oversight of detention centers.