Taylor Fox
@taylor-fox.bsky.social
lawyer, researcher / thinking about surveillance & counterinsurgency in the us suburbs 🪁 views my own
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“The state and the different settler factions may quarrel over timing, optics, and methodology, but they agree on the destination.”
Good Settler, Bad Settler | Defector
This article has been adapted from a piece published Nov. 16 on the author’s Substack page. Last week, after masked settlers torched a mosque in Salfit, set fire to Palestinian trucks in Huwara, and b...
defector.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
“The state and the different settler factions may quarrel over timing, optics, and methodology, but they agree on the destination.”
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Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
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Seems like they had a source in the chat & not that they’re able to hack into signal or get the records via warrant. Important distinction for organizers & guardian article should’ve made it more clear.
They are spying ON ORGANIZERS, not just the signal chat. Understand how they will come after you
They are spying ON ORGANIZERS, not just the signal chat. Understand how they will come after you
WHOA. The FBI was/is spying on a Signal chat for a New York immigration court watch group, claiming they were “anarchist violent extremist actors.”
Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Seems like they had a source in the chat & not that they’re able to hack into signal or get the records via warrant. Important distinction for organizers & guardian article should’ve made it more clear.
They are spying ON ORGANIZERS, not just the signal chat. Understand how they will come after you
They are spying ON ORGANIZERS, not just the signal chat. Understand how they will come after you
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that Muslims are a “threat to our freedom” on Tuesday as he targeted the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the U.S. with a foreign terrorist organization label in an escalation of a movement of anti-Muslim hate in the state.
Abbott Says Muslims Are “Threat to Our Freedom” as He Targets Civil Rights Group With Terrorist Designation
Governors do not have the authority to designate groups as a foreign terrorist organization.
truthout.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that Muslims are a “threat to our freedom” on Tuesday as he targeted the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the U.S. with a foreign terrorist organization label in an escalation of a movement of anti-Muslim hate in the state.
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Join us tomorrow for a very timely conversation on municipal power in NYC! The event starts at 6:30pm at CUNY Law.
For New Yorkers newly excited about municipal power, this coming Wednesday, @lpenyc.bsky.social invites you to a conversation featuring NYC Councilmember Sandy Nurse, Fiscal Policy Institute Executive Director Nathan Gusdorf, and our departed captain, @corinneblalock.bsky.social.
Local Power: How to Make NYC More Equal
Building on our recent event, LPE NYC Night School is examining how we can make real, lasting change in NYC. How do we contend with the outsized power of finance and real estate and build a world…
lpeproject.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Join us tomorrow for a very timely conversation on municipal power in NYC! The event starts at 6:30pm at CUNY Law.
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Kind of a big deal that @hellgatenyc.com can confirm that NYC First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro used his position to cancel Kehlani's SummerStage concert in order to punish the artist for their political speech on Palestine:
hellgatenyc.com/randy-mastro...
hellgatenyc.com/randy-mastro...
How Randy Mastro Killed the Kehlani SummerStage Concert—And a Whole Lot More
With Mayor Adams thinking about his next act, the former first deputy mayor to Rudy Giuliani is now "guiding every conceivable aspect of this administration."
hellgatenyc.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Kind of a big deal that @hellgatenyc.com can confirm that NYC First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro used his position to cancel Kehlani's SummerStage concert in order to punish the artist for their political speech on Palestine:
hellgatenyc.com/randy-mastro...
hellgatenyc.com/randy-mastro...
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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Important new report out from AAUP & MESA, “The data…offers a detailed account of how landmark civil rights legislation – and particularly Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act – has become a primary tool to restrict speech on campus.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Surge in antisemitism investigations at US universities after October 7 attacks, data shows
A report shared exclusively with the Guardian documents how a civil rights law has become a tool to impose ideological priorities on US schools
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Important new report out from AAUP & MESA, “The data…offers a detailed account of how landmark civil rights legislation – and particularly Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act – has become a primary tool to restrict speech on campus.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Organized Communities Against Deportations has launched a new mutual aid fund to support immigrant families in Chicago impacted by ICE raids
Link to donate: donorbox.org/mutualaid2025
Link to donate: donorbox.org/mutualaid2025
October 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Organized Communities Against Deportations has launched a new mutual aid fund to support immigrant families in Chicago impacted by ICE raids
Link to donate: donorbox.org/mutualaid2025
Link to donate: donorbox.org/mutualaid2025
“Support of Palestine is inherently subversive in the West because Israel is essential to Europe and America’s idea of themselves. Even if we assiduously focus on Palestine in isolation from other issues, its liberation is necessarily a world-building project.” stevesalaita.com/palestine-an...
Palestine and the Making of a New New World - Steve Salaita
The liberation of Palestine is, above all, a world-building project.
stevesalaita.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
“Support of Palestine is inherently subversive in the West because Israel is essential to Europe and America’s idea of themselves. Even if we assiduously focus on Palestine in isolation from other issues, its liberation is necessarily a world-building project.” stevesalaita.com/palestine-an...
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In 1975, after decades of illegally surveilling & sabotaging left-wing movements in the US (and assassinating people abroad) the Senate painstaking wrote out the government's playbook for destroying movements.
In January, the first commercial and streamlined version of this report hits bookstores.
In January, the first commercial and streamlined version of this report hits bookstores.
The Church Committee Report
After fifty years, this shocking report—released in a single, readable volume for the first time—is still the most accurate account of US government spying on its own citizens., The Church...
wwnorton.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In 1975, after decades of illegally surveilling & sabotaging left-wing movements in the US (and assassinating people abroad) the Senate painstaking wrote out the government's playbook for destroying movements.
In January, the first commercial and streamlined version of this report hits bookstores.
In January, the first commercial and streamlined version of this report hits bookstores.
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Every weekday on Broadway, undocumented immigrants line up to enter 26 Federal Plaza. They enter harshly lit hallways where ICE agents mill around — waiting to take people away. For our cover story, Stephanie Keith captures the anguished scenes of arrest in downtown Manhattan. buff.ly/N6JNPUP.
October 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Every weekday on Broadway, undocumented immigrants line up to enter 26 Federal Plaza. They enter harshly lit hallways where ICE agents mill around — waiting to take people away. For our cover story, Stephanie Keith captures the anguished scenes of arrest in downtown Manhattan. buff.ly/N6JNPUP.
may we all aspire to this level of courage and principled commitment
Turkish activist Sinan Akılotu, aboard the Marinette ship of the Global Sumud Flotilla, the last vessel still sailing towards Gaza, declared:
“We have now entered the high-risk zone. By God’s will, we are heading toward one of two noble outcomes.”
“We have now entered the high-risk zone. By God’s will, we are heading toward one of two noble outcomes.”
October 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
may we all aspire to this level of courage and principled commitment
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Heteropessimism is having a pop culture moment. I wrote about it in my new paper out today in @culsoc.bsky.social ! Please give it a read: doi.org/10.1177/1749...
Huge thanks to my advisor @ralmeling.bsky.social for reading dozens of drafts & supporting me in getting this from early stage to pub!
Huge thanks to my advisor @ralmeling.bsky.social for reading dozens of drafts & supporting me in getting this from early stage to pub!
Reading Heteropessimism: Painful Attachments in Contemporary Literary Fiction - Adora Svitak, 2025
From viral threads describing male partners’ incompetence at grocery shopping to TV shows like Fleabag, heteropessimism abounds in popular culture. Contemporary...
doi.org
September 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Heteropessimism is having a pop culture moment. I wrote about it in my new paper out today in @culsoc.bsky.social ! Please give it a read: doi.org/10.1177/1749...
Huge thanks to my advisor @ralmeling.bsky.social for reading dozens of drafts & supporting me in getting this from early stage to pub!
Huge thanks to my advisor @ralmeling.bsky.social for reading dozens of drafts & supporting me in getting this from early stage to pub!
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ICE raids aren’t abstract headlines. In Pasadena, CA, masked federal agents abducted neighbors and left families terrified.
Residents refused to stay silent.
Listen to the latest Working People Podcast with
@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social & @palumboliu.bsky.social
Residents refused to stay silent.
Listen to the latest Working People Podcast with
@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social & @palumboliu.bsky.social
These 'neighbors from the hood' saw ICE terrorizing their community—and banded together to fight back
“They're showing up and just kidnapping people. I think we, as Americans, should have an expectation that we should be able to walk—regardless of the color of our skin, what we do for a living, the la...
therealnews.com
August 19, 2025 at 2:06 AM
ICE raids aren’t abstract headlines. In Pasadena, CA, masked federal agents abducted neighbors and left families terrified.
Residents refused to stay silent.
Listen to the latest Working People Podcast with
@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social & @palumboliu.bsky.social
Residents refused to stay silent.
Listen to the latest Working People Podcast with
@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social & @palumboliu.bsky.social
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Israel kills 5 journalists of Al Jazeera and the New York Times decides to publish a piece explaining why Israel doesn’t like Al Jazeera and how AJ is controversial.
August 12, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Israel kills 5 journalists of Al Jazeera and the New York Times decides to publish a piece explaining why Israel doesn’t like Al Jazeera and how AJ is controversial.
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Cop City RICO trials: Ayla King day 1 live thread
July 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Cop City RICO trials: Ayla King day 1 live thread
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Alright y'all, another stop & start for the RICO trial. Trial will not start for Ayla today. Kind of technical legal things, but the trial court declared a mistrial w/o prejudice (meaning a new trial would start, pursuant to appellate court order), and the defense is appealing that decision.
the first Cop City RICO trial is scheduled to start today, and the judge has prohibited live streaming. really messed up.
Court is now in session. Judge Farmer ordered media not to live stream any video.
July 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Alright y'all, another stop & start for the RICO trial. Trial will not start for Ayla today. Kind of technical legal things, but the trial court declared a mistrial w/o prejudice (meaning a new trial would start, pursuant to appellate court order), and the defense is appealing that decision.
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A US firm (Boston Consulting Group) was paid $4M+ to model ethnically-cleansing 500,000 people from Gaza.
This is the same firm that helped establish the 'aid' operation currently murdering Palestinians every single day.
(They have now disavowed that depraved project.)
www.ft.com/content/c0e6...
This is the same firm that helped establish the 'aid' operation currently murdering Palestinians every single day.
(They have now disavowed that depraved project.)
www.ft.com/content/c0e6...
July 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
A US firm (Boston Consulting Group) was paid $4M+ to model ethnically-cleansing 500,000 people from Gaza.
This is the same firm that helped establish the 'aid' operation currently murdering Palestinians every single day.
(They have now disavowed that depraved project.)
www.ft.com/content/c0e6...
This is the same firm that helped establish the 'aid' operation currently murdering Palestinians every single day.
(They have now disavowed that depraved project.)
www.ft.com/content/c0e6...
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New for @lapublicpress.bsky.social -
A pattern of members of immigration activists being arrested or targeted for raids by the FBI continues. One located in Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles has seen an arrest and phone seizure just in the past few weeks.
lapublicpress.org/2025/07/la-i...
A pattern of members of immigration activists being arrested or targeted for raids by the FBI continues. One located in Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles has seen an arrest and phone seizure just in the past few weeks.
lapublicpress.org/2025/07/la-i...
These LA immigrant rights activists say the FBI is targeting them
Federal agents arrested a Centro CSO organizer this month, continuing a pattern of surveillance that advocates say spans decades.
lapublicpress.org
July 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
New for @lapublicpress.bsky.social -
A pattern of members of immigration activists being arrested or targeted for raids by the FBI continues. One located in Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles has seen an arrest and phone seizure just in the past few weeks.
lapublicpress.org/2025/07/la-i...
A pattern of members of immigration activists being arrested or targeted for raids by the FBI continues. One located in Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles has seen an arrest and phone seizure just in the past few weeks.
lapublicpress.org/2025/07/la-i...
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I wish Brandon et al had done this in Chicago. Immediately kept people in the city informed about what they were doing, where trouble lay, and importantly what help they would need from city residents. Then a CONSISTENT communication directly from the 5th floor.
Comrades, if Zohran wins in Nov, please release a first 100 days Zine IMMEDIATELY. Y'all have our addresses. Hard copies mailed to us & then social media sharing. Lay out the immediate plans, the obstacles to those plans, and CALLS TO ACTION THAT YOU NEED FROM RESIDENTS especially to pressure Hochul
June 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I wish Brandon et al had done this in Chicago. Immediately kept people in the city informed about what they were doing, where trouble lay, and importantly what help they would need from city residents. Then a CONSISTENT communication directly from the 5th floor.
Fair odds that these data centers are refashioned as fusion centers, reimagined
Eric Schmidt is using China’s threat to US power as a marketing device to get the Pentagon to buy AI.
In a new bonus episode, @parismarx.com and @bcmerchant.bsky.social pull back the curtain on Schmidt’s evolution.
Become a Patreon supporter to listen: www.patreon.com/posts/eric-s...
In a new bonus episode, @parismarx.com and @bcmerchant.bsky.social pull back the curtain on Schmidt’s evolution.
Become a Patreon supporter to listen: www.patreon.com/posts/eric-s...
May 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Fair odds that these data centers are refashioned as fusion centers, reimagined
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The Trump administration is quietly drafting a bold new policy for combating terrorism that targets a wide range of perceived foes, from Tesla vandals to protesters, intelligence sources tell me.
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-team...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-team...
Trump Team Prepping New Strategy for Domestic Terrorism
Goodbye January 6, hello “Hands Off” protesters
www.kenklippenstein.com
April 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
The Trump administration is quietly drafting a bold new policy for combating terrorism that targets a wide range of perceived foes, from Tesla vandals to protesters, intelligence sources tell me.
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-team...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-team...
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“On February 24, Steven Donovan, 47, arrived at an apartment complex in Orlando carrying a gun while demanding entry. The man claimed he was conducting an immigration investigation and wanted to ensure there were “no Mexicans staying illegally” at the property, according to authorities.”
Cases of civilians posing as ICE agents to detain migrants are on the rise
Paola Nagovitch
April 10, 2025
english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-...
Paola Nagovitch
April 10, 2025
english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-...
Cases of civilians posing as ICE agents to detain migrants are on the rise
A man has been arrested in Florida for impersonating a federal agent after chasing two Latinos who refused to prove their immigration status
english.elpais.com
April 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
“On February 24, Steven Donovan, 47, arrived at an apartment complex in Orlando carrying a gun while demanding entry. The man claimed he was conducting an immigration investigation and wanted to ensure there were “no Mexicans staying illegally” at the property, according to authorities.”
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Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
March 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...