Matthew Boaz
@mboaz.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. of Law - University of Kentucky, J. David Rosenberg College of Law. I write on immigration, criminal law, abolition, and detention issues.
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I started keeping tabs after the election on headlines declaring the death of the resistance. There were a lot of them. And they were premature. Resistance 2.0 is more grizzled, and more local. But it is still cringe, in the sense that it believes in things—like community, and America
Resistance Is Cringe
But it’s also effective.
www.theatlantic.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I started keeping tabs after the election on headlines declaring the death of the resistance. There were a lot of them. And they were premature. Resistance 2.0 is more grizzled, and more local. But it is still cringe, in the sense that it believes in things—like community, and America
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It feels crazy even saying out loud everything that they're doing but this is all really happening.
October 7, 2025 at 12:19 AM
It feels crazy even saying out loud everything that they're doing but this is all really happening.
100%. Though obviously that take a lot of digging.
October 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
100%. Though obviously that take a lot of digging.
Agreed! The hardest part of this is getting detailed info. Great reporting and thanks to you both for these resources.
October 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Agreed! The hardest part of this is getting detailed info. Great reporting and thanks to you both for these resources.
Litigation seems the main way that details are revealed, and then only sparingly.
October 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Litigation seems the main way that details are revealed, and then only sparingly.
Yes! I’m working on identifying and grouping the different types of removals into specific categories. My goal is to identify the various legal mechanisms used in each. The challenging bit has been to identify the substance of the agreements with the receiving countries.
October 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Yes! I’m working on identifying and grouping the different types of removals into specific categories. My goal is to identify the various legal mechanisms used in each. The challenging bit has been to identify the substance of the agreements with the receiving countries.
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“third-country deportation,” like South Sudan/Ghana, are actually just extended chain refoulements, where the third country takes over returning them to their country of origin, or the conditions in the third country are so bad that they’ll be coerced into returning to their country of origin.
October 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
“third-country deportation,” like South Sudan/Ghana, are actually just extended chain refoulements, where the third country takes over returning them to their country of origin, or the conditions in the third country are so bad that they’ll be coerced into returning to their country of origin.