by Daniel Hunter | Mar 15, 2026 | Alex Pretti, ICE, Keith Porter Jr., Minneapolis, Op-Ed, Protests, Renee Nicole Good
Fascism depends on our compliance. Authoritarians know they cannot sustain rule by individually repressing each person in the country. They use threats and violence to inflict fear — a primary weapon to force compliance. If fear is their strategy for compliance, then we need a strategy for sustaining dissent. Amid Trump’s unjustified and illegal war on Iran, many of us need space to…
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by George Yancy | Feb 28, 2026 | Abolition, Alex Pretti, anti-Blackness, Donald Trump, Fascism, Haitians, ICE, immigration, Interview, Keith Porter, Keith Porter Jr., Policing, Racial Justice, Renee Nicole Good, Resistance, self-defense
Under Donald Trump, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has started appearing ever more like a private militia, unleashing brutal violence against families and displaying sycophantic loyalty to Trump as he mandates the dehumanizing treatment of immigrants. In the days since January, when federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti and 37…
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