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How to Stop ICE – The American Prospect
Federal immigration officers are seen near the scene where Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer last week, January 13, 2026, in Minneapolis. Credit: John Locher / AP PhotoHow to Stop ICE
Today on TAP: With another government funding deadline looming, congressional Democrats can at least partly curtail Trump’s thugs.
by Harold Meyerson, January 13, 2026
ICE has frequently been labeled as America’s own Gestapo, but that’s not the only historical antecedent that we should invoke. It’s also, I would submit, a resurrection of the Klan, but this time with de jure, as opposed to de facto, state power.
In its second flourishing—roughly 1915 through 1929—the Klan expanded to Northern states and directed its violence and threats of violence against not just Blacks but also Catholics and Jews, all of whom they saw as threatening the white Protestant essence of the United States. They were the tip of the nativist spear, which in 1924 led Congress to restrict immigration to the overwhelmingly white Protestant nations of northwest Europe.
The ads that the Trump administration is running to bolster recruitment to ICE’s ranks are pitched to white nationalists. One borrows the lyrics of a white nationalist ballad, which promise that “We’ll have our home again” if only we can restore it to its pre-immigrant purity. One social media posting shows a classic car parked on a beach, under the words “America After 100 Million Deportations.” In this case, the mythic past that fascism always invokes is that of the Beach Boys circa 1964—white teens on white beaches.
Getting to 100 million, of course, means it’s not just immigrants but most of non-MAGA America that stands athwart our recapturing of white hegemony. By that standard, the killing of Renee Good was, if not exactly official policy, at least well within the administration’s meta-policy (i.e., conforming to Stephen Miller’s hatreds).
So how can we stop the violent maraudings of our 21st-century Klan? At the state level, some Democratic legislators have introduced legislation that would at least ban state police agencies from hiring ICE employees and former employees. At the congressional level, another federal spending authorization to keep the government open will come before Congress later this month; in theory, at least, the government will have to shutter most of its doors again on January 30. Could the Democrats refuse to pass it unless it defunded ICE?
Not in the House, of course, since the Republicans hold a small majority sufficient to prevail over any Democratic modifications. But it requires only 41 of the Senate’s 47 Democrats to keep a bill from clearing the Senate’s 60-vote cloture threshold.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: How to Stop ICE – The American Prospect
Tags: Curtail Funding, Democrats, How to Stop ICE, ICE, ICE Tactics, ICE Thugs, Stop Funding ICE, TAP, The American Prospect, U.S. Congress
#CurtailFunding #Democrats #HowToStopICE #ICE #ICETactics #ICEThugs #StopFundingICE #TAP #TheAmericanProspect #USCongress -
How to Stop ICE – The American Prospect
Federal immigration officers are seen near the scene where Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer last week, January 13, 2026, in Minneapolis. Credit: John Locher / AP PhotoHow to Stop ICE
Today on TAP: With another government funding deadline looming, congressional Democrats can at least partly curtail Trump’s thugs.
by Harold Meyerson, January 13, 2026
ICE has frequently been labeled as America’s own Gestapo, but that’s not the only historical antecedent that we should invoke. It’s also, I would submit, a resurrection of the Klan, but this time with de jure, as opposed to de facto, state power.
In its second flourishing—roughly 1915 through 1929—the Klan expanded to Northern states and directed its violence and threats of violence against not just Blacks but also Catholics and Jews, all of whom they saw as threatening the white Protestant essence of the United States. They were the tip of the nativist spear, which in 1924 led Congress to restrict immigration to the overwhelmingly white Protestant nations of northwest Europe.
The ads that the Trump administration is running to bolster recruitment to ICE’s ranks are pitched to white nationalists. One borrows the lyrics of a white nationalist ballad, which promise that “We’ll have our home again” if only we can restore it to its pre-immigrant purity. One social media posting shows a classic car parked on a beach, under the words “America After 100 Million Deportations.” In this case, the mythic past that fascism always invokes is that of the Beach Boys circa 1964—white teens on white beaches.
Getting to 100 million, of course, means it’s not just immigrants but most of non-MAGA America that stands athwart our recapturing of white hegemony. By that standard, the killing of Renee Good was, if not exactly official policy, at least well within the administration’s meta-policy (i.e., conforming to Stephen Miller’s hatreds).
So how can we stop the violent maraudings of our 21st-century Klan? At the state level, some Democratic legislators have introduced legislation that would at least ban state police agencies from hiring ICE employees and former employees. At the congressional level, another federal spending authorization to keep the government open will come before Congress later this month; in theory, at least, the government will have to shutter most of its doors again on January 30. Could the Democrats refuse to pass it unless it defunded ICE?
Not in the House, of course, since the Republicans hold a small majority sufficient to prevail over any Democratic modifications. But it requires only 41 of the Senate’s 47 Democrats to keep a bill from clearing the Senate’s 60-vote cloture threshold.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: How to Stop ICE – The American Prospect
Tags: Curtail Funding, Democrats, How to Stop ICE, ICE, ICE Tactics, ICE Thugs, Stop Funding ICE, TAP, The American Prospect, U.S. Congress
#CurtailFunding #Democrats #HowToStopICE #ICE #ICETactics #ICEThugs #StopFundingICE #TAP #TheAmericanProspect #USCongress -
How to Stop ICE – The American Prospect
Federal immigration officers are seen near the scene where Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer last week, January 13, 2026, in Minneapolis. Credit: John Locher / AP PhotoHow to Stop ICE
Today on TAP: With another government funding deadline looming, congressional Democrats can at least partly curtail Trump’s thugs.
by Harold Meyerson, January 13, 2026
ICE has frequently been labeled as America’s own Gestapo, but that’s not the only historical antecedent that we should invoke. It’s also, I would submit, a resurrection of the Klan, but this time with de jure, as opposed to de facto, state power.
In its second flourishing—roughly 1915 through 1929—the Klan expanded to Northern states and directed its violence and threats of violence against not just Blacks but also Catholics and Jews, all of whom they saw as threatening the white Protestant essence of the United States. They were the tip of the nativist spear, which in 1924 led Congress to restrict immigration to the overwhelmingly white Protestant nations of northwest Europe.
The ads that the Trump administration is running to bolster recruitment to ICE’s ranks are pitched to white nationalists. One borrows the lyrics of a white nationalist ballad, which promise that “We’ll have our home again” if only we can restore it to its pre-immigrant purity. One social media posting shows a classic car parked on a beach, under the words “America After 100 Million Deportations.” In this case, the mythic past that fascism always invokes is that of the Beach Boys circa 1964—white teens on white beaches.
Getting to 100 million, of course, means it’s not just immigrants but most of non-MAGA America that stands athwart our recapturing of white hegemony. By that standard, the killing of Renee Good was, if not exactly official policy, at least well within the administration’s meta-policy (i.e., conforming to Stephen Miller’s hatreds).
So how can we stop the violent maraudings of our 21st-century Klan? At the state level, some Democratic legislators have introduced legislation that would at least ban state police agencies from hiring ICE employees and former employees. At the congressional level, another federal spending authorization to keep the government open will come before Congress later this month; in theory, at least, the government will have to shutter most of its doors again on January 30. Could the Democrats refuse to pass it unless it defunded ICE?
Not in the House, of course, since the Republicans hold a small majority sufficient to prevail over any Democratic modifications. But it requires only 41 of the Senate’s 47 Democrats to keep a bill from clearing the Senate’s 60-vote cloture threshold.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: How to Stop ICE – The American Prospect
Tags: Curtail Funding, Democrats, How to Stop ICE, ICE, ICE Tactics, ICE Thugs, Stop Funding ICE, TAP, The American Prospect, U.S. Congress
#CurtailFunding #Democrats #HowToStopICE #ICE #ICETactics #ICEThugs #StopFundingICE #TAP #TheAmericanProspect #USCongress -
How to Stop ICE – The American Prospect
Federal immigration officers are seen near the scene where Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer last week, January 13, 2026, in Minneapolis. Credit: John Locher / AP PhotoHow to Stop ICE
Today on TAP: With another government funding deadline looming, congressional Democrats can at least partly curtail Trump’s thugs.
by Harold Meyerson, January 13, 2026
ICE has frequently been labeled as America’s own Gestapo, but that’s not the only historical antecedent that we should invoke. It’s also, I would submit, a resurrection of the Klan, but this time with de jure, as opposed to de facto, state power.
In its second flourishing—roughly 1915 through 1929—the Klan expanded to Northern states and directed its violence and threats of violence against not just Blacks but also Catholics and Jews, all of whom they saw as threatening the white Protestant essence of the United States. They were the tip of the nativist spear, which in 1924 led Congress to restrict immigration to the overwhelmingly white Protestant nations of northwest Europe.
The ads that the Trump administration is running to bolster recruitment to ICE’s ranks are pitched to white nationalists. One borrows the lyrics of a white nationalist ballad, which promise that “We’ll have our home again” if only we can restore it to its pre-immigrant purity. One social media posting shows a classic car parked on a beach, under the words “America After 100 Million Deportations.” In this case, the mythic past that fascism always invokes is that of the Beach Boys circa 1964—white teens on white beaches.
Getting to 100 million, of course, means it’s not just immigrants but most of non-MAGA America that stands athwart our recapturing of white hegemony. By that standard, the killing of Renee Good was, if not exactly official policy, at least well within the administration’s meta-policy (i.e., conforming to Stephen Miller’s hatreds).
So how can we stop the violent maraudings of our 21st-century Klan? At the state level, some Democratic legislators have introduced legislation that would at least ban state police agencies from hiring ICE employees and former employees. At the congressional level, another federal spending authorization to keep the government open will come before Congress later this month; in theory, at least, the government will have to shutter most of its doors again on January 30. Could the Democrats refuse to pass it unless it defunded ICE?
Not in the House, of course, since the Republicans hold a small majority sufficient to prevail over any Democratic modifications. But it requires only 41 of the Senate’s 47 Democrats to keep a bill from clearing the Senate’s 60-vote cloture threshold.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: How to Stop ICE – The American Prospect
#CurtailFunding #Democrats #HowToStopICE #ICE #ICETactics #ICEThugs #StopFundingICE #TAP #TheAmericanProspect #USCongress -
How to Stop ICE – The American Prospect
Federal immigration officers are seen near the scene where Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer last week, January 13, 2026, in Minneapolis. Credit: John Locher / AP PhotoHow to Stop ICE
Today on TAP: With another government funding deadline looming, congressional Democrats can at least partly curtail Trump’s thugs.
by Harold Meyerson, January 13, 2026
ICE has frequently been labeled as America’s own Gestapo, but that’s not the only historical antecedent that we should invoke. It’s also, I would submit, a resurrection of the Klan, but this time with de jure, as opposed to de facto, state power.
In its second flourishing—roughly 1915 through 1929—the Klan expanded to Northern states and directed its violence and threats of violence against not just Blacks but also Catholics and Jews, all of whom they saw as threatening the white Protestant essence of the United States. They were the tip of the nativist spear, which in 1924 led Congress to restrict immigration to the overwhelmingly white Protestant nations of northwest Europe.
The ads that the Trump administration is running to bolster recruitment to ICE’s ranks are pitched to white nationalists. One borrows the lyrics of a white nationalist ballad, which promise that “We’ll have our home again” if only we can restore it to its pre-immigrant purity. One social media posting shows a classic car parked on a beach, under the words “America After 100 Million Deportations.” In this case, the mythic past that fascism always invokes is that of the Beach Boys circa 1964—white teens on white beaches.
Getting to 100 million, of course, means it’s not just immigrants but most of non-MAGA America that stands athwart our recapturing of white hegemony. By that standard, the killing of Renee Good was, if not exactly official policy, at least well within the administration’s meta-policy (i.e., conforming to Stephen Miller’s hatreds).
So how can we stop the violent maraudings of our 21st-century Klan? At the state level, some Democratic legislators have introduced legislation that would at least ban state police agencies from hiring ICE employees and former employees. At the congressional level, another federal spending authorization to keep the government open will come before Congress later this month; in theory, at least, the government will have to shutter most of its doors again on January 30. Could the Democrats refuse to pass it unless it defunded ICE?
Not in the House, of course, since the Republicans hold a small majority sufficient to prevail over any Democratic modifications. But it requires only 41 of the Senate’s 47 Democrats to keep a bill from clearing the Senate’s 60-vote cloture threshold.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: How to Stop ICE – The American Prospect
Tags: Curtail Funding, Democrats, How to Stop ICE, ICE, ICE Tactics, ICE Thugs, Stop Funding ICE, TAP, The American Prospect, U.S. Congress
#CurtailFunding #Democrats #HowToStopICE #ICE #ICETactics #ICEThugs #StopFundingICE #TAP #TheAmericanProspect #USCongress -
CW: #génocide
Lettre ouverte écrite par l’avocat américain #RalphNader aux principaux organes de presse américain à propos du nombre de morts à #Gaza largement sous évalué :
#NewYorkTimes
Patrick Kingsley
Aaron Boxerman
Isabel Kershner
Adam Rasgon
Natan Odenheimer
Ronen Bergman
International Editor: Philip P. Pan#WashingtonPost
Louisa Loveluck
Shira Rubin
Abbie Cheeseman
Miriam Berger
Gerry Shih
John Hudson
Associate Editor: Karen DeYoung#WallStreetJournal
Foreign News Editor: James Hookway#TheAmericanProspect
Editor, David Dayen#DropsiteNews
Ryan Grim
Jeremy Scahill#TheNewYorker
Editor, David RemnickVous êtes l'un des principaux journalistes et rédacteurs en chef qui ont couvert le meurtre de masse génocidaire et le chaos de #Netanyahu à Gaza. Ce plaidoyer important affirme que vous savez tous mieux que de vous fier uniquement à l'euphémisme étendu des décès et des blessures graves avancés par le #Hamas.
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What is really happening in #LosAngeles, by #DavidDayen (@ddayen):
“This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous.”
👉 https://prospect.org/justice/cries-defiance-songs-joy-los-angeles-ice-protests-immigration-raids/
Source: https://bsky.app/profile/ddayen.bsky.social/post/3lr7t2xyey22c, https://bsky.app/profile/ddayen.bsky.social
#RealLosAngeles #ImmigrationRights #NoKings #ICE #Protest #TheAmericanProspect
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As #RobertKuttner writes for #TheAmericanProspect, this latest rhetorical assault on Social Security is timed to coincide with the ascension of the GOP House's new Speaker, #MikeJohnson, who makes no secret of his intention to destroy Social Security:
https://prospect.org/economy/2023-10-31-debunking-latest-attack-social-security/
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As #RobertKuttner writes for #TheAmericanProspect, this latest rhetorical assault on Social Security is timed to coincide with the ascension of the GOP House's new Speaker, #MikeJohnson, who makes no secret of his intention to destroy Social Security:
https://prospect.org/economy/2023-10-31-debunking-latest-attack-social-security/
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As #RobertKuttner writes for #TheAmericanProspect, this latest rhetorical assault on Social Security is timed to coincide with the ascension of the GOP House's new Speaker, #MikeJohnson, who makes no secret of his intention to destroy Social Security:
https://prospect.org/economy/2023-10-31-debunking-latest-attack-social-security/
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As #RobertKuttner writes for #TheAmericanProspect, this latest rhetorical assault on Social Security is timed to coincide with the ascension of the GOP House's new Speaker, #MikeJohnson, who makes no secret of his intention to destroy Social Security:
https://prospect.org/economy/2023-10-31-debunking-latest-attack-social-security/
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As #RobertKuttner writes for #TheAmericanProspect, this latest rhetorical assault on Social Security is timed to coincide with the ascension of the GOP House's new Speaker, #MikeJohnson, who makes no secret of his intention to destroy Social Security:
https://prospect.org/economy/2023-10-31-debunking-latest-attack-social-security/
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> When the workers, at great personal risk, strike to take back a measure of what is theirs, they are the right side. There is no winning the class war without accepting this premise.
Autoworkers' strikes have been rare for a half-century, but in their heyday, they Got Shit Done. Writing in #TheAmericanProspect, #HaroldMeyerson tells the tale of the 1945/46 #GM strike:
https://prospect.org/labor/2023-09-18-uaw-strikes-built-american-middle-class/
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The story is masterfully told in #TheAmericanProspect by veteran labor writer #HaroldMeyerson:
https://prospect.org/labor/2023-09-13-half-million-california-workers-get-raise/
The story starts with Governor Newsom signing a bill to create a new statewide labor-business board to mediate between workers and bosses, with the goal of elevating the working conditions of the state's large, minimum-wage workforce.
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But as #HaroldMeyerson writes for #TheAmericanProspect, the *Cemex* ruling has its limits. Even if the NLRB forces and employer to recognize a union, they can't force the employer to bargain in good faith for a union contract. The #NationalLaborRelationsAct prohibits the Board from imposing a contract.
That's created a loophole that corrupt bosses have driven entire *fleets* of trucks through.
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They probably shouldn't have. In this interview with *#TheAmericanProspect*'s #PeterHong, the brilliant documentary director #AmyZiering breaks down how #Netflix and the other streamers have rugged documentarians in a classic #enshittification ploy that lured in filmmakers, extracted everything they had, and then discarded the husks:
https://prospect.org/culture/2023-06-21-drowned-in-the-stream/
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This week, *#TheAmericanProspect* is conducting a deep, critical dive into these two models, and into the enterprise of modeling itself. The series kicks off today with a pair superb pieces, one from Nobel economics laureate #JosephStiglitz, the other from *Prospect* editor-in-chief @ddayen and #RakeenMabud, chief economist for the #GroundworkCollaborative.
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