Richard Ashby Wilson
Princeton University Professor of #Anthropology. Co-Director of the Human Rights Initiative. I write about #HumanRights & #CivilRights
Views are personal.
- Wow wow wow. U.S. District Judge Biery writes a fabulous and piercing decision. Maximum respect… www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- My conversation about the current moment and state terror with Amelia Frank-Vitale and Jennifer Burrell in #Anthropology News. www.anthropology-news.org/articles/res...
- Reposted by Richard Ashby WilsonICE is now claiming it can arrest people without a warrant. This comes after another internal memo asserting ICE agents can forcibly enter homes without a judicial warrant. Hello? Democrats cannot let these blatantly unconstitutional actions continue. Not another penny for ICE.
- Trump’s illegal deportation campaign challenged by #HabeasCorpus, a legal protection that goes back (at least) to the #MagnaCarta and 1215 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
- Reposted by Richard Ashby WilsonAmazon has cut a combined 28,000 jobs since October. Its CEO made $40M+ in 2024 UPS has announced 78,000 job cuts since last year. Its CEO made $24M. HP announced up to 6,000 layoffs in November. Its CEO made $21M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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- Reposted by Richard Ashby WilsonThe City of Philadelphia has introduced legislation to limited ICE in the city. The Federal Agents can not be masked, must have ID visible, must have arrested warrants signed by federal judges. They can't attack people. If they can't do this, they will be arrested. youtu.be/i5Yvg_HHfbE?...
- Reposted by Richard Ashby WilsonAmerica does not want us to fund a lawless out of control ICE. - No more roving patrols or profiling. ICE/CBP are not trained to do this. And it's wrong. Require warrants. - No more secret police. Take off the masks. Show ID. - And real accountability for murder and assault.
- Reposted by Richard Ashby WilsonI joined forces with @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social. We explain deep connections between senior administration officials' smearing Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and ICE protestors as "domestic terrorists" and how this fits into the draconian NSPM-7. Important for more people to wake up to this.
- Police chiefs speak out against ICE. There are only 20,000 ICE agents and nearly 1 million state and local police. Just sayin... www.instagram.com/reel/DTxpKrm...
- Will the courts protect us from ICE murders? This is a test of the relevance of law in authoritarian times. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
- Reposted by Richard Ashby WilsonWolves have a moment of silence for Alex Pretti, after seven seconds of silence several fans yell "FUCK ICE"
- Can ICE agents be prosecuted for Minneapolis shootings? Yes, if Minnesota prosecutors can show that their actions were objectively unreasonable or clearly unlawful.
- Reposted by Richard Ashby WilsonIf you want proof that Trump is going to try to rig the elections, here it is: In a letter to Gov. Tim Walz Saturday, Bondi claimed that Walz could “restore the rule of law” by complying with a list of demands, including giving the Department of Justice (DOJ) the state’s voter registration records.
- Reposted by Richard Ashby WilsonThe people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
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- Minneapolis has had three homicides this year and two of them have been committed by ICE agents.
- State execution of a protestor. Are we in Iran now?
- #Murder on the streets of #Minnesota. Words fail me.
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- #Minnesota shows the country how to deal with #authoritarianism and the #goonsquad on our streets. #Respect 👏👏👏 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...
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- Reposted by Richard Ashby Wilson‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- Reposted by Richard Ashby WilsonEven as ICE receives $170B in new funding, it has stopped paying for medical care for detainees — including life-saving medications, dialysis, and chemotherapy treatments. Remember: Over 70% of detainees have no criminal convictions. Cruelty on steroids.
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- It’s almost as if Trump is a Russian asset executing a plan drawn up by Putin….
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- Protests are at a higher level than even first Trump Administration. The future of #democracy in the United States will be decided on the streets, in mass civil protests. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- #Greenland It's all over folks. Europe has won, and Trump’s #tariffs are just a fit of pique by a childish man who has lost his plaything. #idiocy
- Reposted by Richard Ashby WilsonFortune 500 companies that have contracts with ICE: -Amazon -AT&T -Booz Allen Hamilton -Caci -Charter Communications -Comcast -Dell -Ecolab -FedEx -General Dynamics -L3Harris -Motorola -Thermo Fisher -UPS Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.
- Local law enforcement need to start arresting and charging #ICE agents with #criminalassault #murder and #attemptedmurder. Do your job and protect the people you're sworn to protect!
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- We are plunging headlong into #authoritarianism and hope (e.g. Dems perform in Midterms, or courts will save us) is not a plan. chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-machin...
- Reposted by Richard Ashby WilsonWalz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
- Sue ICE until the pips squeak! Nothing happens in America without mass torts litigation. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/o...
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- Reposted by Richard Ashby WilsonMurphy: The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America
- Who would have guessed that it would be the #FederalReserve and #JeromePowell who show the guts that so many others lack? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/b...
- Proud of New Jersey's Immigrant Trust Directive legislation which includes measures to protect its immigrants from #ICE raids at schools, courthouses and hospitals www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/n...
- Reposted by Richard Ashby WilsonWhat can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
- It's shocking that the Chair of the Federal Reserve had to resort to this statement. This is not normal.
- Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
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- Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes? #ICEShooting #Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
- Today an appalling abandonment of the United States' commitment to multilateral solutions to global problems like #climatechange #terrorism and #nuclearproliferation (that won’t go away even if we put our head in the sand, or somewhere else...). www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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- Reposted by Richard Ashby WilsonWalz: "Do you have no decency? We have someone dead in their car for no reason whatsoever. I don't want to be right about this, but I said if they do this they're gonna create a chaotic situation where someone innocent is gonna get killed. And they did it."
- Another absurdity in the Age of Ignorance. As a student I thought #Plato was an unbearable conservative, but now he's deemed too woke. #AcademicFreedom
- Now that the United States has upheld the principle that sovereigns don't have immunity, I look forward to it enforcing the #InternationalCriminalCourt indictments against #Netanyahu and #Putin for mass atrocities.
- Reposted by Richard Ashby WilsonNicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
- Reposted by Richard Ashby WilsonMacCALLUM: You have about 100,000 dying from drug overdoses, most of those drugs from from Venezuela and other places CROW: That's actually not true. The majority of the deaths by drugs in America are the result of meth and fentanyl. Almost none of that comes from Venezuela
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- "U.S. attorney general declared that the United States indicted #Venezuelan President #Maduro...on narcotics charges and will be tried in federal court. That...raises the interesting possibility that #Trump claims he enjoys #immunity but not other heads of state." open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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- Why the rule of law matters. One key protection from #dictatorship and electoral intimidation. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
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- Corporate cravenness hits new lows as Bari Weiss of CBS kills 60 Minutes story revealing the horror of ICE deportations. Excellent explanation here:
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- Reposted by Richard Ashby WilsonThe Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...
- I know, let’s have a completely unregulated nuclear power program for the excessive power needs of (also unregulated) #crypto and #AI. What could go wrong? www.npr.org/2025/12/17/n...
- #Hate symbols have no place in the U.S. military. Maximum respect to @blumenthal.senate.gov for his powerful and principled statement on this issue. #UnitedAgainstHate www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
