Tootfinder

I’ve had this contingent of the language police show up in my replies a few times now over the word “cosplay,” and look…
OK, I get it, I get the instinct to say “Don’t drag me into this!” and I applaud the effort to push fascists out of communities, yes to all that…
…and also we need to recognize that what ICE is doing absolutely •is• cosplay. The word means “costume play.” It refers to assembling and wearing costumes that are not necessarily functional, but show affinity for a particular subculture by reproducing characters from that subculture’s popular narratives.
ICE are cosplaying Call of Duty. That is an accurate description of what’s happening. (Listen to “Gear.”)
I make software and I make music. I don’t think either one of those things •should• be about violence. I don’t •want• them to be about violence. But both are used in the service of violence, like it or not. I shout the violence out whenever it shows up. But would be ridiculous for me to point at what Palantir does and say “That’s not software!” Unfortunately, it •is• software. To deny that would be beyond self-defeating; it would be irresponsible.
ICE •is• doing cosplay, and we hate it. It’s an insult to the cosplay subculture. It is an insult to the whole of humanity. Fascism creeps into all of our spheres, into every beloved craft and community, and the response is never to pretend it’s not there. The response is to drive it out.
@…
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@wildrikku/115956545807535535

„As the state imposed a sweeping information blackout and advanced claims blaming foreign agents for the violence, this brutality has nonetheless been met with a striking absence of sustained outrage in spaces that otherwise position themselves as opponents of state violence. Among Western progressives, the response has largely been silence.“

Regarding the Erasure of Iranian Uprising - TripleAmpersand Journal (&&&)
The most recent state crackdown on Iranian protesters stands among the most violent suppressions of public dissent in Iran’s modern history. Protesters have been killed, blinded, and mass-arrested. As the state imposed a sweeping information blackout and advanced claims blaming foreign agents for the violence, this brutality has nonetheless been met with a striking absence… Read More »

Italy adds ‘femicide’ to the criminal code to curb violence against women | Women News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/26/italy-adds-femicide-to-the-criminal-code-to-curb-violence-against-women?traffic_source=rss

We Should Talk About The Morality of Political Violence (Ken White/The Popehat Report)
https://www.popehat.com/p/we-should-talk-about-the-morality-of-political-violence
http://www.memeorandum.com/260124/p74#a260124p74

The gun lobby is spending millions to protect its power
while young people are fighting for their lives.
As the year ends, we need to meet this moment with real urgency.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗥𝗔 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝘀
— and gun violence won’t pause for the holidays.
Our movement can’t slow down either.
Your donation fuels rapid-response organizing,
expands our Action Hub,
and helps young people push for real accountability in 2026.
𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗽 …

March For Our Lives
Since 2018, we’ve mobilized millions of young people to demand what is rightfully ours: A future free of gun violence.

Trump Tells Walz, Frey It's Time to Cooperate With Feds, Stop Stoking Flames of Division, Chaos, Violence (Jennifer Van Laar/RedState)
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2026/01/25/new-president-trump-walz-frey-cooperate-stop-stoking-division-chaos-violence-n2198513
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p76#a260125p76

Youth without idols: the tragedy of teenage violence in Russia #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/25/youth-without-idols-the-tragedy.html

I am thinking that we are getting close to a domestic version of the March 31, 2004 Fallujah ambush but with ICE goons in lieu of Blackwater goons.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iraqi-ambush-americans-made-mockery-mis…

DHS agents tackled Pretti, held him down, then shot him to death. As in the killing of Renee Good earlier this month, video makes clear this was an extrajudicial killing — violence committed by vengeful agents of the state against a bystander perceived as an enemy.
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/alex-pretti-

The regime's mind-bending lies are a tactic
Thinking about them in terms of truth or falsity is a category error.

Slight tanget but...
There is exactly one way to prevent authoritarianism. That is to make these systems optional. It must be possible to leave a system if it becomes oppressive, and by doing so deprive the system of it's power.
This is what anarchists assert.
Now, have you thought to wonder why the state claiming that someone is an anarchist is generally considered sufficient to excuse any violence against that individual? If someone wants to lock you into the system, they are going to target people who assert that systems should be possible to leave.
Remember that when the only evidience against someone is "they had anarchist literature."

The most ridiculous thing re the US 2nd Amendment zealots casting gun ownership as protection from a tyrannical government is that being armed & in conflict w/ the state (with not just a monopoly on violence but huge advantage) gives then carte blanche to kill you.
Peaceful protest or civil war.

#Chiapas

Finished “People Like Us” by Jason Mott.
I will admit that there were moments early where I struggled, trying to puzzle out the dual narratives. You have to accept it as experimental writing with a plurality in scope. When I surrendered and just READ, I absolutely loved it!
What is it about? So much. Gun violence. Where home is. America. Race. Writers. Trauma & coping. Time travel. Peacocks.
So much to say, but for spoilers 🤐
5/5 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

People Like Us
The riveting new novel by the author of the 2021 Nation…

When violent #ICE henchmen are told from the very beginning that they have legal immunity, no matter what crimes they commit, is it any wonder that these shady characters indulge their lust for murder and violence?
#Minneapolis

Minneapolis and Gaza Now Share the Same Violent Language (Thomas L. Friedman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/opinion/minneapolis-gaza-masked-violence.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p2#a260126p2

And to be clear, zeroing out the budget, scrapping the DHS, returning its law enforcement duties to local agencies, and prosecuting ICE officers — all of that! — is the •moderate• position here.
The extremist position is violence of a kind and scale I shudder to contemplate.
Pressure them. Rattle them out of their stupor.
/end

Kremlin teaches to kill! Why Russian teens are drawn to knives and violence: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/25/kremlin-teaches-to-kill-why.html

ICE has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted
https://bsky.app/profile/404media.co/post/3mdb7ue5f722x

404 Media (@404media.co)
THREAD: 404 Media has been covering ICE and the technology they've been using to surveil and raid "targets", detain people based on a flawed facial recognition app, and lie about violence on the streets. They have established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality. https://www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying-to-you-about-ice-shooting-a-woman/

"Capable LLMs require a logic of dominance and of disregarding consent of the people producing the artifacts that are the raw material for the system. LLMs are based on extraction, exploitation and subjugation. Their politics is violence. How does one “liberate” that? What’s the case for open source violence?"
(Original title: Acting ethically in an imperfect world)

Acting ethically in an imperfect world
Life is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somewhere but your employer will not accept another mode of transportation, you want to eat vegan but are […]

How Right Wing Influencers Used AI Slop to Turn Renee Good Into a Meme https://www.404media.co/ai-renee-good-kirkification-george-floyd-memes/

Pay Attention to What Trump Didn't Say (The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/pay-attention-to-what-trump-didnt-say-state-of-the-union-congress-speech-violence-250-anniversary
http://www.memeorandum.com/260225/p45#a260225p45

Chiefs WR Rashee Rice accused of domestic violence in civil lawsuit filed by ex-girlfriend

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chiefs-rashee-rice-domestic…

The paradox of Nazism being both the most capitalist thing possible, defining itself as explicitly anticommunist, while masquerading as "socialism" is difficult to resolve until you understand one thing: fascism pivots around antisemitism (and its extension, conspiratorial thinking).
I'm, of course, not talking about the redefinition of "antisemitism" into meaning any criticism of Israel but rather an anti-Jewish conspiracy narrative rooted in Roman Christianity.
This is critical to understand as MAGA fascism pivots between capitalist and pseudo-anticapitalist with Trump in the middle. Hitler did the same thing. Strasserism helped the Nazis gain power by pulling in the Left. In the Nazis case they killed the Stasserists pretty quickly. Now, I think we're seeing an attempt to make the opposite pivot happen in MAGA. But it's all the same thing.
Fascism can infinitely fail to address the needs of the people while dismissing it's own responsibility for creating the problem by maintaining a permanent enemy.
This is why it's important to understand antisemitism and how to fight it. It's especially important now because the apparatus of violence in Israel is itself a tool of global fascism, and we finally have an opportunity to dismantle the whole thing. But we have to be aware of how fascists can pivot around to block this.
I've been reading Safety Through Solidarity, and I think it's especially relevant at this time.
https://www.akpress.org/safety-through-solidarity.html

Efforts to repress climate and environmental protest are growing worldwide
through a combination of new legislation,
novel uses of existing legal processes,
police actions,
vilification of activists,
and both violence and killings.
Acts of repression are likely to expand and intensify
as authoritarian regimes roll back climate policies,
with a particular focus on Trump’s actions in office
criminalizing protest,
increasing police po…

Here's the global playbook being used to crack down on climate protest
A new study finds that repression of environmental protest is rising worldwide and Indigenous land defenders face the greatest risk.

I just wrote this.
"In 2013…CBP…knew that their agents would sometimes '…intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby exposing themselves to additional risk and creating justification for the use of deadly force.'"
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/preme…

Premeditated State Violence Must End
Planning to kill is bad. In 2013, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) knew that their agents would sometimes “…intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby exposing themselves to additional risk and creating justification for the use of deadly force” (PDF from CBP web server). Jonathan

Oh good, I was wondering what racists might be thinking about the situation in #Minnesota and those #racist pieces of shit at The Babylon Bee were happy to blow their dog whistle for me.
If you do stumble upon it, I’d encourage you to click thumbs down, then report it for encouraging violence throu…

It's extremly frustrating to read stories of sexual violence in (German) academia and peers supporting the perpetrator over and over again.
https://forbetterscience.com/2026/01/23/schneider-shorts-23-…

Schneider Shorts 23.01.2026 – Marginalised and isolated in academic publishing activities
Schneider Shorts 23.01.2026 – German sexual harasser defended by peers, Italian cheater defended by former mentor, Daddy’s darling wins in court, antivaxxer loses in court, retractions …

The Irish Times making point today as Garda receives suspended sentence for domestic violence
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2026/01/20/gardai-investigated-how-irish-times-reporter-learned…

Gardaí investigated how Irish Times reporter learned of domestic violence charge against member
Initial reporting into Garda Trevor Bolger case in led to journalist being questioned about sources

(In-)Visible Wounds: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Discrimination and Violence https://relcfp.com/cfp/violence/discrimination/interdisciplinary/2026/02/18/invisible-wounds/

(In-)Visible Wounds: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Discrimination and Violence
Date of Conference: 23-25 April, 2026

Day Twenty-Six of the Protests: Government Commits Violence, Denies Responsibility, and Continues Mass Arrests (Hrana)
https://www.en-hrana.org/day-twenty-six-of-the-protests-government-commits-violence-denies-responsibility-and-continues-mass-arrests/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p59#a260123p59

Senate offices are closed today,
but you can email your senators and demand that they use their vote later this week to rein in ICE and CBP death squads:
https://act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out-for-good-senate/?source=mastodon

Tell your senators to rein in ICE NOW
On Wednesday, January 7, Renee Good was killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Then, on January 24, Border Patrol killed Alex Pretti. These deaths were a direct result of unchecked violence, impunity, and abuse carried out by federal immigration enforcement agencies against members of our communities. And yet, the DHS appropriations bill that just passed the House would hand MORE funding to ICE and Border Patrol, and do little to rein in their abuses. So …

It's mind-boggling that tourism to the US was only down by 6% last year. Hopefully, the drop will be a lot bigger this year. Don't go there if you don't have to.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/travel/us-tourism-declines-eu-canada.html

Why the United States Is Seeing an Ongoing Tourism Slump
Last year, the U.S. was the only major destination to see a decline in international travelers. With increased scrutiny at the border, ICE violence and unpredictable policies, the new year isn’t looking better.

Grok, at the request of users, appears to be altering images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed (Maggie Harrison Dupré/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/future-society/grok-violence-women

Grok Is Being Used to Depict Horrific Violence Against Real Women
People are asking Elon Musk's Grok chatbot to alter images to depict women being sexually abused, humiliated, and even killed.

Giving men a common antidepressant could help tackle domestic violence: world-first study https://theconversation.com/giving-men-a-common-antidepressant-could-help-tackle-domestic-violence-world-first-study-2709…

Giving men a common antidepressant could help tackle domestic violence: world-first study
A commonly prescribed antidepressant has sparked a reduction in domestic violence reoffending among highly impulsive, violent men.

If you look at it's history you can count on Russian intelligence services to do everything they can to increase the violence and polarisation in France, using the existing anger and unrest to the max...
#hybridwarfare #russia

I have a dormant #bluesky account so I figured I would start the day by reporting #ICE there but, whenfaced with the choice of reason, I am stumped.
Why isn't there an "all of the above" button?
(I chose violence, btw)

Trump’s assault on the city of Chicago began in September, and it claimed its first casualty quickly.
As Reuters would later report, on September 12, Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez dropped his kids off at their school in the suburb of Franklin Park on his way to his job at a diner on the northwest side.
Villegas-Gonzalez had come to the United States in 2007 to flee the violence in his home state of Michoacšn, Mexico
—violence wrought by the Mexican government’s militarization o…

Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.

Videos published by the NYT show the extremely brutal and inhumane actions of #ICE against people.
I see little difference between this and the thugs of an Ayatollah in Iran.
Who would elect a president who
brings out the worst in people?
ICE is becoming a gathering place for criminals, thugs, and right-wing hooligans.
Darth

Videos From Minnesota Show How Aggressive ICE Has Gotten During Arrests and Encounters With Protesters
For weeks, residents have documented the impact of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign and captured many violent confrontations on camera.

«Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.»
Hannah Arendt (1969)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crises_of_the_Repub…

Crises of the Republic - Wikipedia

* extreme stylised violence
映画『ゼイ・ウィル・キル・ユー』ティザー予告｜2026年5月8日（金）公開
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8CJFJ3ve0k

Translation: I just love Godzilla. Godzilla is the bad guy who destroyed Tokyo. But he’s a hero, or at least he’s popular. Godzilla was sleeping on the ocean floor, but he was awakened by a nuclear test. That’s why he had keloid scars all over his body. We did bad things to Godzilla. So it makes perfect sense for him to use violence against us. That’s why Godzilla is a star. Even though Mothra is the better guy.

No no, instead of regulating social media and requiring them to remove lies, violence and bullshit we’d rather have adults give up their privacy and anonymity instead, so big tech gets even more data.
While children are pushed to much worse corners of the Internet.
People who demand ID laws are child abusers.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/115953243628376573
Initially, I was stunned.
From what I could see from my apartment, there was absolutely no need for any violence,
let alone lethal force by multiple officers.
I immed…

Violence upon the éntheos

Tennessee Counties Adopt Gun Dispossession Measure After Legislative Delay — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-guns-dispossession-domestic-violence-impact

(In-)Visible Wounds: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Discrimination and Violence https://relcfp.com/cfp/violence/discrimination/interdisciplinary/2026/02/18/invisible-wounds/

(In-)Visible Wounds: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Discrimination and Violence
Date of Conference: 23-25 April, 2026

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/115951076268612249
“I’m having to process in real time
with my teenage kids
the fact that they are watching absolute lawlessness
and brutality
and violence
and cruelty
and no one’s coming to stop it.”

No Blood for Oil: Demand a Fossil-Free Future! #environment

No Blood for Oil: Demand a Fossil-Free Future!
2026 should be the year we transition away from oil, coal and gas – not launch conflicts to drill for them. Clinging to fossil fuels locks us into a cycle of violence, volatility, and authoritarianism. Every new fossil fuel project adds fuel to a climate crisis already displacing millions. True security doesn't come from controlling pipelines; it comes from renewable energy that serves communities, not billionaires. Over 80 countries are committed to a roadmap for a fossil-free future. Let’…

Climate change isn't gender-neutral. The 2023/2024 El Niño drought in Southern Africa didn't just destroy crops—it fueled gender-based violence and put women environmental defenders at risk.
COP30's new Belém Gender Action Plan tackles this head-on with gender-responsive budgeting and support for climate action that protects women.

COP30’s Gender Action Plan Needed to Address Climate-Induced Violence - African Climate Wire
Talks underpinning COP30’s Gender Action Plan reveal the fragility of progress in recognising the systems of oppression that affect women, girls, and gender diverse people.

‘Abolish ICE’ Gains Traction After Renee Good’s Death https://thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/15/abolish-ice-gains-traction-after-mom-shot-minneapolis/

A 5-Year-Old Disappeared in Austin. A Mom Shot Dead in Minneapolis. How Much More Violence Will It Take to ‘Abolish ICE’?
50% of American women support the abolish ICE movement.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Kreator:
🎵 Riot of Violence
#Kreator
https://kreator.bandcamp.com/track/riot-of-violence-live-in-korea
https://open.spotify.com/track/61GIlfIVVF7vxKbqcjQuUB

Support Indigenous Land Defender Marcos Aguilar’s Family
(original: https://www.instagram.com/p/DSFUcy_jKU7 by zapatistasolidaritynetwork)
On November 26, 2025, Indigenous land defender Marcos Aguilar Rojas was assassinated for protecting his anc

Zapatista Solidarity Network! on Instagram: "📢‼️URGENT On November 26, 2025, Indigenous land defender Marcos Aguilar Rojas was assassinated for protecting his ancestral territory in San Lorenzo de Azqueltán, Jalisco, Mexico. He leaves behind five young children — including two babies — and elderly parents who depended on him. Marcos was a devoted father, a loving son, and a guardian of Mother Earth. He refused to abandon his community despite threats and violence. This was a planned political attack from those trying to steal Indigenous ancestral territory. ✨ That’s why we are asking for your solidarity: @semillas_collective is collecting donations that will go directly to Marcos’s family and Indigenous community to support: • His children’s wellbeing (food, housing, education) • Care for his parents • Community protection against further attacks • Legal justice for his assassination 🔗Link in our bio to the fundraiser and the communiqué from the Autonomous Indigenous Community or San Lorenzo de Azqueltán (adherents of the National Indigenous Congress [CNI]) 📣Please donate if you are able. If you cannot, share and help us break the silence. Marcos lives in the land, in his children, and in our struggle. Marcos vive — la lucha sigue. ✊🏽💚🌱 #JusticeForMarcos #Semillas #IndigenousSolidarity #Azqueltán #LandBack #ProtectLandDefenders #NoMoreImpunity #MarcosVive #LaLuchaSigue"
99 likes, 0 comments - zapatistasolidaritynetwork on December 10, 2025: "📢‼️URGENT On November 26, 2025, Indigenous land defender Marcos Aguilar Rojas was assassinated for protecting his ancestral territory in San Lorenzo de Azqueltán, Jalisco, Mexico. He leaves behind five young children — including two babies — and elderly parents who depended on him. Marcos was a devoted father, a loving son, and a guardian of Mother Earth. He refused to abandon his community despite threats a…

I won't debate people on conforming with the moral standards set by the far right, because every time a moderate feels the need to condemn a statement that was “inciting violence”, the truth comes out that their so-called violence was a media framing oddly applied to them with a bad-faith reading of their words.

I would recommend reading the source material. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/

Chiefs 'aware' of domestic violence allegations made by ex-girlfriend of Rashee Rice

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rashee-rice-domestic-violence-a…

One of the world’s most wanted drug traffickers, the Mexican cartel boss known as 🔥“El Mencho”, has been killed by security forces, Mexico’s defence ministry has confirmed.
⛔️The operation set off a wave of violence, with torched cars and gunmen blocking highways in more than half a dozen states.
The drug lord, whose real name is
💥Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, was killed on Sunday in the western state of Jalisco along with at least six alleged accomplices, the ministry s…

(In-)Visible Wounds: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Discrimination and Violence #acrel #Religidons #AARSBL

(In-)Visible Wounds: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Discrimination and Violence
Date of Conference: 23-25 April, 2026

ICE got rebranded as Gestapo and now hunts Black and poor workers for the crime of existing while the rich toast their cruelty and call it law, and these Nazi strut around thinking a badge makes their violence patriotic.
Welcome back Nazi Germany, this time with Wi‑Fi and corporate fascist sponsors.
#ICE #USA

Say what you will about state violence, but •orderly• state violence — an officer with a face and a badge, Miranda rights, an orderly booking, the constitutional phone call, the jail roster, the habeas corpus petition, a trial, a system, a process, maybe once in a blue moon consequences for officers’ most egregious abuses — is infinitely preferable to what ICE is now: a secret police with blanket immunity.

One bright spot from its depraved violence: ICE is making an airtight case for abolishing itself
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/1/13/2363177/-One-bright-spot-from-depraved-violence-ICE-is-making-an-airtight-case-for-abolishing-it

Quakertown parents, groups demand release of students in police clash (Bucks County Courier Times)
https://eu.phillyburbs.com/story/news/2026/02/21/quakertown-police-need-to-answer-ice-protest-violence-arrests-groups-quakertown-high-school-naacp/88794892007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260221/p48#a260221p48

So I’m using Facebook marketplace occasionally to look for interesting local stuff (e.g. retrocomputing), and this means I occasionally see the main timeline Facebook serves up for me.
It’s literally ONLY right-wing shit like anti-vaxx stuff, racism about brown people and videos with real or simulated violence.
To call it a cesspit would be unfair to actual cesspits.
How are we as society not making an end to this garbage?

"what does the Kremlin brand as “traditional values”? While Putin denounces Western modernity as a moral threat, Russia itself contradicts its supposed ideals: children are abducted from occupied territories of Ukraine, domestic violence is normalized, religious minorities are persecuted, and soldiers’ lives are deemed expendable."
The Ugly Truth Behind the “Traditional Values” Russia Sells — UNITED24 Media [from October]
https://united24media.com/anti-fake/the-ugly-truth-behind-the-traditional-values-russia-sells-11690

'Cover-Up': The Complicity Of The Press In US Violence https://thedissenter.org/cover-up-the-complicity-of-the-press-in-us-violence/

Brazilian Amazon’s most violent city tied to illegal gold mining on Indigenous land https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/brazilian-amazons-most-violent-city-tied-to-illegal-gold-mining-on-indigenous-land…

Brazilian Amazon’s most violent city tied to illegal gold mining on Indigenous land
Violence has escalated in the small Brazilian town of Vila Bela da Santíssima Trindade as illegal gold mining on the nearby Sararé Indigenous Territory has exploded over the last two years, according to the 2025 Amazon Violence Atlas. Located in Mato Grosso state near the Bolivian border, Vila Bela da Santíssima Trindade recorded the highest […]

WNBA's Rickea Jackson offers to testify vs. Falcons rookie James Pearce in domestic case https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7039157/2026/02/11/james-pearce-rickea-jackson-domestic-violence-charges/

CFP: Sexual Violence in Judaism (all aspects) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20139973/cfp-sexual-violence-judaism-all-aspects

I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping. (Nicole Bedera/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/opinion/minneapolis-ice-watch-protesters-violence-research
http://www.memeorandum.com/260117/p3#a260117p3

"what you are seeing here on the DHS website are over and over videos of essentially violence done, viewed as heroic violence against immigrants and liberal protesters. And this is why you're getting a violent force, because this is who they're recruiting.""
Expert alarmed as Trump now taking a page from ISIS: 'Never seen anything like this' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2674900040/

Videos show security forces firing into crowds in at least six cities across Iran

The videos that have surfaced in recent days paint a stark picture of the crackdown on protests and the rising death toll.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigati

Amid Iran’s blackout, videos show lethal violence across the country
A Washington Post review of videos from Iran posted online of recent protests illustrates how widely violence has spread.

CFP: Sexual Violence in Judaism (all aspects) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20139973/cfp-sexual-violence-judaism-all-aspects

It’s lost in the noise now, but I felt very clearly on that first day of real violence in 2020 — and still maintain now — that the Minneapolis Police turned the protests violent to send a signal to the city that charging police with a crime was unacceptable.
“You hurt us? We hurt your city.” That was the message, clear as day. That’s why police instigated and fomented violence. That’s why they stopped firefighters from putting out fires.
Yes, I am still angry.

One Tuesday morning last month, a 15-year-old Russian boy got ready for school by packing a paramilitary vest, a helmet, and a knife.
Before leaving his house, he sent a manifesto to his classmates denouncing gay people and Jews, and quoting a mass murderer along with a white-supremacist conspiracy theory.
When the boy, identified by prosecutors as Timofey K., arrived at his school, located outside Moscow, he went to the bathroom to put on his gear, which he’d branded with neo-Naz…

Something Is Wrong With Russia’s Children
As violence has come to surround Russian youth, many seem to have become more violent themselves.

But it's worth recognizing the most brutal elements of church violence were directed at "others": Jews, pagans, Muslims, even other sects of Christianity. The Church's persecution of "heretics" neatly folded into the state, as the diest god of "Providence," represented by the "all seeing eye" atop a pyramid, ultimately justified a violent "civilization" of indigenous people.
The "Christianization" of the crusades became "civilization,' which, more recently, became "spreading democracy." Where once Atheists resisted the crushing oppression of the Church, they used the same arguments to justify the invasion of majority Muslim nations and the oppression of Muslims at home...

Trump has a plan for the midterms, and ICE is a big part of it. He wants violence on our streets this year, because he thinks it will give him a pretext to attempt to “cancel” the election. So he’s pulled all guardrails off his masked thugs and given them the green light to be as abusive and cruel as possible, in the hopes that they’ll incite the American people to violence. That’s Trump’s plan.
**Tyranny Is Here** - The Social Contract with Joe Walsh
https://socialcontractwithjoewalsh.substack.com/p/tyranny-is-here

How Trump Is Using Violent Tragedies to Divide America (Mark Follman/Mother Jones)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/trump-violence-assassinations-mass-shootings-ice-lies/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p147#a260116p147

One truly mind-blowing thing about the ICE invading cities is how •little• actual violence there’s been against ICE agents. Observing, filming, making noise, warning neighbors? Yes. Violence, physical assault? Hardly any. At the level of people throwing snowballs.
Imagine, just imagine, the kind of principled self-restraint it takes for basically the entire population to respond to all this ongoing terrorizing and kidnapping following the constitutional principles that these agents themselves are flouting.
Cities? Cities are bastions of peace if you ask me.

Trump's Negation of NATO
Murder in Minneapolis
Violence in Venezuela
Just to distract from Epstein
Enough Already
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/20/trump_epstein

A Distraction from Epstein Files? Trump Ramps Up Chaos in Minnesota, Greenland & Beyond
One month after the deadline set by Congress for the Justice Department to release all files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the Trump administration has made available less than 1% of the files. This comes as President Trump has dramatically expanded immigration operations in Minnesota while attacking Venezuela, threatening to bomb Iran and maintaining that the United States will annex Greenland. Trump’s campaign promised “that the files would be released, all of the fi…

Nick Fuentes: "Please pull the trigger. Please kill them, Mr. President. ... I'm not actually wishing for violence, but please send in the military and restore order." (Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes/nick-fuentes-please-pull-trigger-please-kill-them-mr-president-im-not-actually-wishing
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p137#a260120p137

CFP: Sexual Violence in Judaism (all aspects)
https://ift.tt/VfbMivh
Slave subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds (15th- 20th centuries) Date: October 31,…
via Input 4 RELCFP https://

"Each of [the] killings by CBP agents and ICE officers boosts a bloodlust connected to the culture of white supremacist violence in the U.S. CBP and ICE, like local policing, provide an opportunity to make a job out of white supremacism. That’s why the Trump administration is openly using far-right white supremacist cultural references to recruit for the agency."
Another way out: Power, force, and far-right rewards for killing
https://prismreports.org/2026/02/04/far-right-state-violence-ice/

(In-)Visible Wounds: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Discrimination and Violence
https://ift.tt/Zdj3iyD
Date of Conference: 23-25 April, 2026
via Input 4 RELCFP https://

(In-)Visible Wounds: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Discrimination and Violence
Date of Conference: 23-25 April, 2026

An Indiana judge and his wife were shot at their home on Sunday,
prompting concerns for the safety of the state’s judiciary
after recent increases in threats and violence against public officials nationally.
The police in Lafayette, Ind., said on Monday that they were investigating the shootings of the judge,
Steven P. Meyer of Tippecanoe County Superior Court,
and his wife, Kimberly Meyer.
Both were in stable condition.
Judge Meyer, 66, recently ann…

Indiana Judge and His Wife Are Shot at Their Suburban Home
The police in Lafayette, Ind., said they were investigating the nonfatal shootings of a Tippecanoe County Superior Court judge and his wife on Sunday.

CFP: Sexual Violence in Judaism (all aspects)
https://ift.tt/87CBcvd
Slave subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds (15th- 20th centuries) Date: October 31,…
via Input 4 RELCFP https://

JD Vance Breaks Down The Latest On The Trump Administration's Crackdown On Left-Wing Violence (Harold Hutchison/The Daily Caller)
https://dailycaller.com/2026/01/06/jd-vance-breaks-down-the-latest-on-the-trump-administrations-crackdown-on-left-wing-violence/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p122#a260106p122

South Africa declares violence against women a national disaster after mass protests - The New Feminist
https://thenewfeminist.co.uk/2025/11/south-africa-declares-violence-against-women-a-national-disaster-after-mass-protests/

Firearms have been the leading cause of death for Gen Z since 2017,
when the youngest zoomers were kindergarten age and the oldest could not yet legally drink alcohol.
Since 2013, when the last of Gen Z turned 1, more than 64,000 zoomers have been killed by firearms
https://www.the…

Gun Violence Is Gen Z’s Leading Cause of Death
CDC data shows that Gen Z bears a disproportionate share of our national gun violence crisis.

On this Jan. 6, remember the violence of 2020's BLM riots (Christopher Tremoglie/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/4407921/january-6-remember-violence-destruction-2020-blm-riots/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p53#a260106p53

U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced dumb-ass legislation today
that would allow private entities to play at Pirates🏴‍☠️in the Caribbean
The "Cartel Marque and Reprisal Reauthorization Act"
authorizes felon-president Trump to commission American pirates,
under "letters of marque"
to seize property and persons on land or sea.
Representative Tim Bimbo Burchett (R-TN) introduced the House version of the legislation.

Patriots of the Caribbean: Lee Bill Authorizes American Privateers to Seize Cartel Assets with President’s Approval
U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced legislation today that would allow private entities to stop drug cartel smuggling and violence. The Cartel Marque and Reprisal Reauthorization Act authorizes President Trump, as provided under the Constitution, to commission American operators under letters of marque to seize cartel property and persons on land or sea. Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN) introduced the House version of the legislation.

A federal judge has accused the #Trump administration of
⚠️terrorizing immigrants and recklessly violating the law
in its efforts to deport millions of people living in the country illegally.
Citing the deaths of Renee #Good and Alex #Pretti

Federal judge slams Trump administration's immigration crackdown in scathing decision
A federal judge has accused the Trump administration of terrorizing immigrants and recklessly violating the law in its efforts to deport millions of people living in the country illegally. Citing the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota, the judge said in a scathing decision late Wednesday that the White House had also “extended its violence on its own citizens.” U.S. District Judge Sunshine Sykes in Riverside, California ordered the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to prov…

TRANSCRIPT: Leader Schumer, Leader Jeffries, And Democratic Leadership Call For Oversight And Accountability To End The Violence And Rein In ICE (The Senate Democratic Caucus)
https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/transcript-leader-schumer-leader-jeffries-and-democratic-leadership-call-for-oversight-and-accountability-to-end-the-violence-and-rein-in-ice
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p84#a260205p84

Recent polling shows the majority disapprove of how ICE operates.
But to truly stop the damage requires going further
– it means eradicating the security logic that ever made people think that arming a secret police on an ethnic cleansing mission could ever make them safe.
Formed in 2003, during the embarrassing and disastrous national excesses of the post-9/11 era
– when the nation launched two ill-fated forever wars, and demonized Muslim immigrants
– ICE’s ma…

Democrats want to unmask ICE officers to cause them violence and harm (Christopher Tremoglie/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/4443923/democrats-want-to-unmask-ice-officers-to-cause-violence-harm/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p53#a260203p53

Progressive lawmakers are demanding that the Democrats use the upcoming government funding deadline to reduce DHS’s ability to wreak further havoc.
“I just don’t understand how we provide votes for a bill that funds the extent of the depravity,”
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) told CNN Thursday.
#DefundICE #Make5Calls

Schumer, Jeffries Refuse to Join Democrats' Growing Calls to Slash ICE Spending | Common Dreams
The killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent sparks outrage as Democrats debate funding for the agency. Should they use their power to rein in ICE's violence? Progressive lawmakers demand action, but top Democrats seem hesitant. Is it time for a change in leadership to hold ICE accountable? #ReinInICE #EndViolence

Queer trans ICE protester in small Minn. city recounts agents' violence and humiliation (Marisa Kabas/The Handbasket)
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/queer-trans-ice-protester-st-cloud-minnesota-alice-valentine
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p149#a260116p149

Murder is not a crime of violence as a matter of federal law, a Brooklyn judge has ruled
— as he dismissed two charges in a possible death penalty case against a terrorism suspect.
Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Brian Cogan made the head-scratcher of a pre-trial rulingFeb. 6 in an international terrorism case
where the suspect is accused of planning a brutal November 2015 assault rifle and grenade attack on a hotel in Mali that killed 20 people, including a U.S. citizen.

No one voted for another war.
Congress must stop Trump's lawless violence and hold the regime accountable.
Join tomorrow's emergency organizing call with Sen. Kaine,
Rep. Casar, Rep. Omar, and thousands of activists
to discuss how we can mobilize to stop more endless war
https://

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Attached: 1 image No one voted for another war. Congress must stop Trump's lawless violence and hold the regime accountable. Join tomorrow's emergency organizing call with Sen. Kaine, Rep. Casar, Rep. Omar, and thousands of activists to discuss how we can mobilize to stop more endless war: https://www.mobilize.us/healthcarenotwarfare/event/880579/?utm_source=partner_indivisible

Zoe Weissman came to Brown from Parkland, Florida,
where she was a student at the middle school adjacent to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
during the mass shooting that occurred there in 2018.
“Because I’ve already processed all the grief and the sadness before,”
says Weissman about surviving a second school shooting in her young life,
“my most predominant emotion right now is, honestly, anger …
because we are the only country where this happens, a…

“We’re Angry”: Brown Univ. Student & Parkland Survivor Zoe Weissman Demands Action on Gun Violence
The two victims in Saturday’s mass shooting at Brown University have been identified: freshman Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and sophomore Ella Cook. We speak to another sophomore, Zoe Weissman, who came to Brown from Parkland, Florida, where she was a student at the middle school adjacent to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the mass shooting that occurred there in 2018. “Because I’ve already processed all the grief and the sadness before,” says Weissman about surviving a second s…

I feel like we are witnessing the #moronification of government.
Add violence/genocide and not too different from the Khmer Rouge
-- Kendyl Hanks
https://bsky.app/profile/factpostnews.

FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social)
HHS Secretary RFK Jr: "This idea that you should trust the experts, a good mother doesn't do that"

Congresswoman Ilhan Omarhas warned that Donald Trump’s repeated personal attacks and dehumanising rhetoric
are fuelling a climate of political violence that could have dangerous consequences.
Speaking days after the president called for her to be thrown out of the country,
Omar said Trump’s incendiary language reaches “the worst humans possible” and encourages them to act.
“We’ve had people incarcerated for threatening to kill me,”
“We have people that are being…