peter tinti
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- Reposted by peter tintiWith Jeff Bezos's dismantling of the Washington Post and Amazon's extensive ICE and DoD profiteering, it's imperative to understand precisely how both have openly become instruments of authoritarianism
- “Extreme hypotheticals.”
- Reposted by peter tintiMartinez: "[I] sat in federal court and watched from 20 feet away as the border patrol agent who attempted to kill me testified at a hearing. Agent Charles Exum—Charles Exum, my attempted executioner was Charles Exum—I hope the government does not consider my use of his name here to be...doxxing."
- Reposted by peter tintiA dispatch from Surprise AZ where residents gathered to protest plans for a warehouse concentration camp in their community by @azrww.bsky.social “Despite this evidence of authoritarian power, it is possible for even the most local form of government to take a stand in the name of the people.”
- Reposted by peter tintiCops were frequently getting caught planting drugs in 2017 because body cameras were new and many of them didn't understand how the technology worked. When cops hit "record" it saved the 30 seconds from *before* they hit the button. Eventually, they figured it out.
- Reposted by peter tinti🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
- I urge everyone to listen to this.
- Identified: the El Paso BORTAC crew rampaging through the Midwest. Great work by the crew at @unraveledpress.com.
- “They couldn’t break me by arresting me,” Ms. Levy Armstrong said, “so they doctored an image to show the world a false iteration of that time to make me look weak.” ”Reducing my image to some scared crying woman was just so degrading, & it just shows how far the office of the president has fallen”
- Worth reiterating that this entire crisis is manufactured by people who just want to harm, harass, incarcerate, and deport black and brown people. They’ve said as much. There is no “immigration crisis“ and even “reasonable“ concerns about the labor market, wages, welfare, etc. are unfounded.
- Reposted by peter tintiJumping to the end, Judge Reyes summarizes why she is blocking the termination of Haitian TPS for now, making clear that Secretary Noem had to follow the law and the facts, and having neither, chose instead to "pound X" with an irrelevant screed about immigrant killers.
- Reposted by peter tintiI don’t think I can say this forcefully enough: hundreds of thousands of Haitians will lose status tomorrow with racist ending of their TPS & are spending today refreshing their feeds for a court order that could literally save thier lives. This is nothing short of psychosocial torture.
- Today I learned that there is something called the Alfalfa Club, which holds an annual invitation only dinner each year to celebrate Robert E. Lee’s birthday. Guests this year included Jerome Powell, Jamie Dimon, David Rubenstein, and Condoleezza Rice…
- It’s all just gonna be slop soon.
- Reposted by peter tintiBREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
- Reposted by peter tintiDHS doesn’t even bother trying to lie well. The man whose skull was shattered told the hospital he’d been struck by ICE officers, an ICE officer told hospital staff the guy “got his sh*t rocked,” then when it became clear how badly he was injured, they claimed he deliberately ran into a wall.
- Reposted by peter tintiSCOOP: 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, a tool Palantir made for ICE which brings up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address. The full user guide here:
- NYT: How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are “Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track protesters, current and former officials said.”
- I did my part. Block Club Chicago: 'Abolish ICE' Submitted 9,200 Times For Chicago Snowplow Naming Contest, Records Show blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/28/a...
- Any system in which a child dies because they were denied access to adequate medical care needs to be abolished, not reformed.
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- Guardian: Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown "The two were held for almost a week in a hotel 80 miles from their home, without access to a lawyer or a hearing before a judge, before being deported to the Central American country."
- Two great passages from this beautifully written piece by @adamserwer.bsky.social. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
- It’s great that people who work for Palantir are realizing “ICE are the bad guys.” Welcome aboard. Let’s organize together! But as someone who used to protest outside Palantir HQ in Palo Alto in *2019*, I am fucking baffled that it took you this long to realize ICE/Palantir are the bad guys.
- Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com "In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this." Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
- That’s one Christmas Adventurer down...
- BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
- Incredible stuff. ”The Line, a futuristic linear city that is the gigaproject’s centrepiece, is to be radically scaled back. Neom could now become a hub for data centres as part of Prince Mohammed’s aggressive push for the kingdom to become a leading AI player, the people said.”
- Reposted by peter tintiThere is no “immigration crisis,” there is only a fascism crisis.
- With the Jonathan Rauch essay—and others like it—making the rounds, I am reminded of this passage from an old Ta-Nehisi Coates blog. It stuck with me at the time and I will never forget it. Atlantic writers should read their own archives.
- “Either way, we tell ourselves, if we can predict the consequences, we have agency. But that’s not how state terror works.”
- Reposted by peter tintiKare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
- PROTIP: “Shame on you” does not work on people who lack the requisite personal dignity and human decency to feel shame.
- Reposted by peter tintiThis is my blood
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- This is spot on.
- The Department of Homeland Security has ordered immigration officers to gather identifying information about anyone filming them and to “send that information to Intel who will do a ‘work-up’ on them.”
- Jury finds Chicago man not guilty in murder-for-hire case involving U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino: live updates chicago.suntimes.com/live/closing...
- AP: Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, memo says
- Are these claims factually correct or coherent? No. Do I admire his extreme confidence? Also no.
- Writing is thinking www.nature.com/articles/s44...
- Reposted by peter tintiLet this radicalize you.
- For those wondering if the horrors in Minneapolis are radicalizing folks, here is one data point: We’ve got MS NOW (née MSNBC) hosts posting CrimethInc essays.
- One of the crazier AFCON tournaments in recent memory, and that’s saying something. Well done, les Lions de la Téranga!
- This is not a drill, folks. ABC: Some 1,500 active duty Army paratroopers have been put on alert for a potential deployment to Minnesota, according to two defense officials. abcnews.go.com/US/live-upda...
- The good people of Minneapolis running fascists out of town.
- Reposted by peter tintiNew: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...
- ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
- "The contemporary African crisis has nothing to do with democracy in its substantive form. What has broken down is the paradigm of auto-colonisation itself." - Achille Mbembe
- Incredible obituary. NYT: Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...
- Chicago. You can download single-page, easily printable ICE watch materials here. English: drive.google.com/file/d/1CKXu... Español: drive.google.com/file/d/1O4F_... Instructions: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
- Reposted by peter tintiFriends—I need you to connect to your rapid response in your city. Your ICE watch. If you don’t have one, start one. I’m watching Minneapolis and we need to be prepared for what comes next. Know the activists in our neighborhoods. If you don’t know your rights now is the time to learn. Have a plan.
- Great read here from @yguichaoua.bsky.social and @wlacher.bsky.social. Dissent: The Demise of Conflict Studies
- ”Just to be upfront, the goal is to put as many guns and badges out in the field as possible.”
- Reposted by peter tintiHi everyone. Here is the book you are looking for: Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Making of an Imperial Republic By Greg Grandin
