The ruling class, and much of the pundit class, appear unable or unwilling to understand how systemic violence begets this targeted violence: www.jphilll.com/p/who-gets-t....

39/ VERY IMPORTANT: we need to quickly normalize the idea that immigrants are people who make mistakes and resist the hard-right labeling of anyone who has ever been arrested as a "criminal." People are far more beautiful and complicated than that

38/ If you have appreciated this clear-eyed antidote to despair, please join me and Thomas Smith (@seriouspod.bsky.social) for more on Opening Arguments (@openargs.bsky.social).

We've got a great show coming Monday on how you can help stop mass deportation in your community *today*!