Steve Dillon
theedgeoftheframe.bsky.social
Steve Dillon
@theedgeoftheframe.bsky.social
Scholar of Social Movements, Feminism, Incarceration, Queer and Trans Politics, White supremacy, the State, and Affect. Documentary photographer too.

https://uwyo.academia.edu/StephenDillon

https://www.dukeupress.edu/fugitive-life
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Block It! A Mini Toolkit for Interrupting the Abduction, Detention, and Deportation Machine, from @interruptcrim.bsky.social

www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
Block It! — Interrupting Criminalization
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
“The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, as a hate symbol,” the Washington Post reports.

“Instead, the Coast Guard will classify the Nazi-era insignia as ‘potentially divisive’ under its new guidelines.”
November 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Homeland Security Investigations once targeted human traffickers and cartels. Now it’s leading the charge against student protesters.
Mahmoud Khalil Won His Freedom Despite the Best Efforts of ICE’s Intelligence Unit
Homeland Security Investigations once targeted human traffickers and cartels. Now it’s leading the charge against student protesters.
interc.pt
June 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Protesters being arrested in Dallas now
June 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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#ICYMI: ProPublica has confirmed the names and roles of more than 30 Musk-affiliated staffers who are helping the world’s richest man dismantle or downsize federal agencies one by one.
The Staffers Helping Elon Musk Dismantle and Downsize the U.S. Government, One Agency at a Time
Musk and his lieutenants are reshaping the government and its mission with the blessing of President Trump. ProPublica has confirmed the names and roles of more than 30 staffers affiliated with the…
propub.li
February 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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"No to ethnic cleansing": over 350 rabbis sign NYT ad assailing Trump’s Gaza plan

I'm no rabbi but I signed it too. Grateful to the organizers.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘No to ethnic cleansing’: over 350 rabbis sign US ad assailing Trump’s Gaza plan
Jewish creatives and activists also sign New York Times ad after US president’s proposal to ‘take over Gaza’
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Congratulations to Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw, who has won the James A. Porter Book Award for "The Art of Remembering," and to Emilie Boone, whose book "A Nimble Arc" received honorable mention for the award.
February 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Elon Musk to reporter: “We post our actions to the DOGE website. All of our actions are maximally transparent. I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.”

Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!
February 11, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Updated list of political leaders that seized control of artistic institutions:

Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
Francisco Franco
Mao Zedong
Pol Pot
Kim Il-sung
Nicolae Ceaușescu
Saddam Hussein
Muammar Gaddafi
Idi Amin
Donald Trump

www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
New Kennedy Center board elects Trump as chair. Rutter departs as president.
President Trump’s refashioned board of trustees voted him chairman in a meeting Wednesday afternoon. President Deborah Rutter told staff she was departing the institution.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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May it spread......

“Dozens of American students at a U.S. military installation in Germany walked out of their middle school on Tuesday as part of protests aimed at an official visit by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth."
February 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Shocking......

“A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that advocated for racism and eugenics,”

#DOGE
February 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) told CNN that children should get jobs, including working at McDonald’s, to pay for their school lunches.

He added that children should be “thinking about their future instead of thinking about how they’re going to sponge out the government when they don’t need to.”
January 29, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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In "The Personality of Power: A Theory of Fascism for Anti-Fascist Life ," Brian Massumi retheorizes the conditions of contemporary fascism through the prism of Donald Trump’s persona. Read a sample of this timely new book for free now:
https://buff.ly/42wmnUx
January 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
January 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM