John Armenta
Not quite a failed academic.
I study US military veterans, gender, and patriotism...not necessarily in that order. I also teach public speaking to community college students...and no, I'm not good at that either.
- Reposted by John Armentaodd feature of our time in how many liberals and progressive are bog standard monogamous family types--Serwer, Bouie, Hayes, AOC, etc--and how many Traditional Family Values conservatives are fuckin drugged up perverts
- Reposted by John ArmentaThe war on empathy and the war on the arts are part of the same project. www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...
- Trump will always be a landlord
- 1/ Federal records show how a dramatic raid in Chicago was facilitated by a landlord who was apparently concerned about immigrants squatting in the building. The government claimed a Venezuelan gang had taken over the apt complex, but that’s not what docs say. 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/chic...
- Reposted by John ArmentaThe Trump era exposed how badly Congress erred over decades by granting the president emergency powers in certain situations while also making the president the one who decides when we’re in those situations. ICE can’t mask except when ICE’s boss says it’s necessary? Repeating that same mistake.
- "except in extraordinary and unusual circumstances" is a big enough loophole for a family of elephants to walk through. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
- I’m saving this thread. There are some really annoying people in this list.
- Reposted by John ArmentaKiddies who made it out of the ICE dungeon report sighting a schoolmate. Before this, the school district had no information on their whereabouts. The family has now been connected with a lawyer. Youngsters who escape a govt dungeon are the only way to track abducted children? This is fine!
- Reposted by John ArmentaGreat piece. Important reporting. Gift link: wapo.st/4kpCBGc
- My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
- Reposted by John Armentaworth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
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- Reposted by John ArmentaThis is a really detailed and extensive report. tldr - immigrants' fiscal impact is so positive that it would be absolutely foolish to adopt anti-immigrant policies (which of course this administration is doing bc of racism)
- The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
- Reposted by John ArmentaDemocrats want to abolish ICE, you quisling
- Reposted by John Armentathis unprecedented momentum behind a single issue sure might be a useful fulcrum to try and wrench this country back from over the brink
- Reposted by John ArmentaFraggle paper, fraggle scissors
- Reposted by John ArmentaThis is a mask *very* specifically associated with Atomwaffen and Nazi Terrorgram (as OP notes downthread)
- Reposted by John ArmentaLadies and gentlemen, professional American law enforcement. We are the shithole nation. We are the country that needs regime change. We are the beshitted totalitarian state.
- Reposted by John Armentaagain saying the political response of local police depts probably worth following given Trump's efforts to federalize policing
- Reposted by John Armentacontradictions of the anti-state state
- Reposted by John ArmentaMy article "Immigration is Not Invasion" now under submission to law reviews. Everything you ever wanted to know about invasion, but were afraid to ask! Also, it got coveted "highly recommended" rating from @lsolum.bsky.social at his Legal Theory blog: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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- Reposted by John ArmentaThe US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
- Reposted by John Armentahappening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
- Reposted by John ArmentaMy dear friend @jessmaddox.bsky.social has launched a new academic journal for folks who study content creators and influencers! If that's your thing do consider submitting your work: link.springer.com/journal/4453...
- VetBros are an American tradition.
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- Reposted by John ArmentaThe increasing number of billionaires in every new release of the Epstein files are another reminder that billionaires shouldn't exist because they're immoral, exploitative hoarders and the world would be better if we abolished every one of them. Billionaires: the only minority destroying humanity.
- Reposted by John Armentaevery bit of evidence we have suggests it will hurt Republican turnout and supercharge Democratic turnout
- Reposted by John ArmentaDHS literally posted "Want cheaper housing?" with a number to report your neighbors. We did this in the Trail of Tears. We used weak people's desire for free land to get them turn on the Natives. That was the "Destiny" our nation made manifest.
- Reposted by John ArmentaAnyone who has ever spent any time in academia (particularly if you’ve been here as a member of a vulnerable group) feels this viscerally.
- Reposted by John ArmentaHe's like a cautionary tale for all historians to stay in their lane.
- Reposted by John Armenta🚨 Documents leaked to me reveal a federal watchlist of American protesters suspected of being Antifa - including its supposed leader. One Department of Homeland Security document says a 29-year-old resident of Portland "is the leader of Antifa": www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-ident...
- Reposted by John ArmentaIf you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.
- Reposted by John Armentaa woman reached out to donate 500,000 delta skymiles to get people home to MN as they are released from custody in TX. we're getting flights booked today. it should be enough to get at least 15 people home. delta should be doing for free since they take ICE money.
- Reposted by John Armentadeath by preventable disease is an inevitable and even desired outcome of concentration camps. in every era of concentration camps people have died of typhus, which is a disease of privation and enforced crowding. this illness is intentionally inflicted
- Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...
- Reposted by John ArmentaChotiner shot that man right in the face with his own gun and he never heard the *click*.
- New Interview: www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...
- Reposted by John ArmentaMuslim university students were arrested and expelled for protesting genocide. Let's see if college Republicans get even a slap on the wrist for advocating extrajudicial killings.
- University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme. dailyillini.com/news-stories...
- Reposted by John Armentapeople are saying this is about deference to power/centrism, but this is about Whiteness, too; Shapiro and many Dems (who refuse to criticize it) see ICE (positively) because it serves as a weapon of Whiteness
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- Reposted by John ArmentaLaminated notice taped to a utility pole that reads: “ICE KIDNAPPED OUR NEIGHBOR HERE” “AQUÍ LA MIGRA SECUESTRÓ A NUESTRO VECINO.” “HALKAN IMMIGRATION-KA AYAA AFDUUBTAY DERISKEENA.” South Minneapolis, January 2026
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- Reposted by John ArmentaMy definition of Hegemonic media in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Hegemonic media maintain predominance even when regimes change. Mainstream outlets adapt to shrinking press and civic freedoms. Message me if you would like a version of the full chapter. lnkd.in/gS9axbem
- It would be a lot funnier if it weren’t so serious.
- Reposted by John ArmentaThe lack of training is not the problem. The School of the Americas was a training facility, and that only made death squads more efficient.
- Reposted by John ArmentaTexas resident tells ICE in no uncertain terms to "Get the fuck off my property," and ICE promptly gets the fuck off his property. There’s no talking nice to these ICE-holes. No discussions; you need to mean what you say and say it with conviction. #FuckICE #TexasHero #ProudBlue #Pinks #Resist
- Reposted by John ArmentaICE just showed up at our house for the second day in a row. Four cars yesterday, today five. They rolled up slow, then got out to taunt us, and take pictures of the house. They want fear to overwhelm us, to project a fantasy of power meant to intimidate, isolate, produce obedience—not happening.
- Reposted by John Armentaremember what JD Vance said of the ICE agents that arrested this little boy: “what did you expect them to do?”
- Reposted by John ArmentaI spent the evening outside the Whipple federal building in Minneapolis, where the feds have been releasing people they detained — often for no discernible reason — into the freezing cold... wearing whatever little clothing they had on at the time they were taken.
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- Reposted by John ArmentaThis would be DHS's first major push into a red state. Ohio has a Republican governor and Springfield has a Republican mayor. Doing this with the support of city and state officials (unlike in California, Illinois or Minnesota) could be brutal and horrific.
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- Reposted by John ArmentaReminding everyone, PLEASE, DO NOT sub to your favorite content creators through phone apps as it not only charges you more, it also takes a higher % from us AND to top it all off blocks the money from being received for 30 fucking days for some goddamned reason.
- For fucks sake, again with the apple/patreon bullshit. I have to move to monthly billing and fuck me over www.patreon.com/posts/148395... 13 years on your platform. Thanks for nothing patreon. I hope the apple dick is that good.
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