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@DrALJONES@mastodon.social · last week

"Copaganda”: Myths About Immigration, Crime & Policing

Author Alec Karakatsanis warns activists: "Don't fall for the 'copaganda', which takes people outraged over abuse & "converts them into supporting meaningless reforms".

Such reforms "don’t reduce the size or power or budget of these bureaucracies."

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/27/alec_karakatsanis

#USPol #Europol #CdnPoli #ICE #BorderPatrol #Press #ResistFascism #StateMurder #DHS .

From George Floyd to Alex Pretti: “Copaganda” Author on Myths About Immigration, Crime & Policing

As calls grow to defund and abolish ICE, author Alec Karakatsanis warns that activists should take care to not fall for “copaganda,” which “takes ordinary people who are outraged over what’s happening and converts them into supporting meaningless reforms that actually don’t reduce the size or power or budget of these bureaucracies.” Karakatsanis is the author of Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News. He breaks down many of the myths about crime and policing that arose in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests over the past decade, including the reformist myth of police body cameras and the so-called crime wave. Police-tracked crime, “contrary to what you have been told in the news every single day for the last several years, is actually down,” says Karakatsanis, but fearmongering mainstream media narratives are “designed to make people so afraid that they support repressive institutions that infringe on their own liberty, that don’t make them safer, but that give people in power in our society more ability to control and manipulate.”

@DrALJONES@mastodon.social · last week

"Copaganda”: Myths About Immigration, Crime & Policing

Author Alec Karakatsanis warns activists: "Don't fall for the 'copaganda', which takes people outraged over abuse & "converts them into supporting meaningless reforms".

Such reforms "don’t reduce the size or power or budget of these bureaucracies."

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/27/alec_karakatsanis

#USPol #Europol #CdnPoli #ICE #BorderPatrol #Press #ResistFascism #StateMurder #DHS .

From George Floyd to Alex Pretti: “Copaganda” Author on Myths About Immigration, Crime & Policing

As calls grow to defund and abolish ICE, author Alec Karakatsanis warns that activists should take care to not fall for “copaganda,” which “takes ordinary people who are outraged over what’s happening and converts them into supporting meaningless reforms that actually don’t reduce the size or power or budget of these bureaucracies.” Karakatsanis is the author of Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News. He breaks down many of the myths about crime and policing that arose in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests over the past decade, including the reformist myth of police body cameras and the so-called crime wave. Police-tracked crime, “contrary to what you have been told in the news every single day for the last several years, is actually down,” says Karakatsanis, but fearmongering mainstream media narratives are “designed to make people so afraid that they support repressive institutions that infringe on their own liberty, that don’t make them safer, but that give people in power in our society more ability to control and manipulate.”

@DrALJONES@mastodon.social · last week

The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including of Alex Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province - terrorized by US execution squads for decades....

Source: Chris Hedges Report 25 Jan

#USImperialism #USPol #UKPol #Europol #Palestine #press #racism #Fascism #stateMurder .

The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets
of Minneapolis, including of Alex Pretti, would not come as a
shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province -
terrorized by US execution squads for decades.

It would not come as a shock to any of the students | teach
in prison. Militarized police in poor urban neighborhoods kick
down doors without warrants & kill with the same impunity.
What the rest of us are facing now is what Aimé Césaire
called "imperial boomerang.” Decaying empires employ the
same savage forms of control at home as they do abroad.
With the collapse of Athenian democracy, the tyranny Athens
imposed on others, it finally imposed on itself.

But before we became the victims of state terror, we were
accomplices. Before we expressed moral outrage at the
indiscriminate taking of innocent lives, we tolerated, & often
celebrated, the same Gestapo tactics directed at those who
lived in the nations we occupied or poor people of color.

We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind. The
machinery of terror, perfected on those we abandoned &
betrayed, including the Palestinians in Gaza, is ready for us.
Chris Hedges, 25 Jan 2026 (abridged) — The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including of Alex Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province - terrorized by US execution squads for decades. It would not come as a shock to any of the students | teach in prison. Militarized police in poor urban neighborhoods kick down doors without warrants & kill with the same impunity. What the rest of us are facing now is what Aimé Césaire called "imperial boomerang.” Decaying empires employ the same savage forms of control at home as they do abroad. With the collapse of Athenian democracy, the tyranny Athens imposed on others, it finally imposed on itself. But before we became the victims of state terror, we were accomplices. Before we expressed moral outrage at the indiscriminate taking of innocent lives, we tolerated, & often celebrated, the same Gestapo tactics directed at those who lived in the nations we occupied or poor people of color. We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind. The machinery of terror, perfected on those we abandoned & betrayed, including the Palestinians in Gaza, is ready for us. Chris Hedges, 25 Jan 2026 (abridged)

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@DrALJONES@mastodon.social · last week

Report: FBI supervisor resigns after being stopped from investigating ICE agent Jonathan Ross for fatally shooting Renee Good.

Tracee Mergen "resigned after being pressured by the FBI’s Washington bureau to discontinue her probe into Ross."

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said, “There is currently no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation” into Good’s killing.

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/26/headlines/fbi_agent_resigns_after_unsuccessfully_trying_to_probe_ice_agent_who_killed_renee_good

#USPol #Europol #ICE #ReneeGood #FBI #StateMurder #Press .

Jonathan Ross

FBI Agent Resigns After Unsuccessfully Trying to Probe ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good

Tracee Mergen, an FBI supervisor in the Minneapolis field office, has resigned after unsuccessfully trying to investigate ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who fatally shot Renee Good. Mergen resigned after being pressured by the FBI’s Washington bureau to discontinue her probe into Ross. It comes as Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said, “There is currently no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation” into Good’s killing.

@DrALJONES@mastodon.social · last week

Report: FBI supervisor resigns after being stopped from investigating ICE agent Jonathan Ross for fatally shooting Renee Good.

Tracee Mergen "resigned after being pressured by the FBI’s Washington bureau to discontinue her probe into Ross."

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said, “There is currently no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation” into Good’s killing.

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/26/headlines/fbi_agent_resigns_after_unsuccessfully_trying_to_probe_ice_agent_who_killed_renee_good

#USPol #Europol #ICE #ReneeGood #FBI #StateMurder #Press .

Jonathan Ross

FBI Agent Resigns After Unsuccessfully Trying to Probe ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good

Tracee Mergen, an FBI supervisor in the Minneapolis field office, has resigned after unsuccessfully trying to investigate ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who fatally shot Renee Good. Mergen resigned after being pressured by the FBI’s Washington bureau to discontinue her probe into Ross. It comes as Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said, “There is currently no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation” into Good’s killing.

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@DrALJONES@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

Analysis: "Imperial Boomerang"

The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including of Alex Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province - terrorized by US execution squads for decades....

Source: Chris Hedges Report 25 Jan

#USImperialism #USPol #UKPol #Europol #Palestine #press #racism #Fascism #stateMurder .

The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets
of Minneapolis, including of Alex Pretti, would not come as a
shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province -
terrorized by US execution squads for decades.

It would not come as a shock to any of the students | teach
in prison. Militarized police in poor urban neighborhoods kick
down doors without warrants & kill with the same impunity.
What the rest of us are facing now is what Aimé Césaire
called "imperial boomerang.” Decaying empires employ the
same savage forms of control at home as they do abroad.
With the collapse of Athenian democracy, the tyranny Athens
imposed on others, it finally imposed on itself.

But before we became the victims of state terror, we were
accomplices. Before we expressed moral outrage at the
indiscriminate taking of innocent lives, we tolerated, & often
celebrated, the same Gestapo tactics directed at those who
lived in the nations we occupied or poor people of color.

We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind. The
machinery of terror, perfected on those we abandoned &
betrayed, including the Palestinians in Gaza, is ready for us.
Chris Hedges, 25 Jan 2026 (abridged) — The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including of Alex Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province - terrorized by US execution squads for decades. It would not come as a shock to any of the students | teach in prison. Militarized police in poor urban neighborhoods kick down doors without warrants & kill with the same impunity. What the rest of us are facing now is what Aimé Césaire called "imperial boomerang.” Decaying empires employ the same savage forms of control at home as they do abroad. With the collapse of Athenian democracy, the tyranny Athens imposed on others, it finally imposed on itself. But before we became the victims of state terror, we were accomplices. Before we expressed moral outrage at the indiscriminate taking of innocent lives, we tolerated, & often celebrated, the same Gestapo tactics directed at those who lived in the nations we occupied or poor people of color. We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind. The machinery of terror, perfected on those we abandoned & betrayed, including the Palestinians in Gaza, is ready for us. Chris Hedges, 25 Jan 2026 (abridged)

@DrALJONES@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

Analysis: "Imperial Boomerang"

The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including of Alex Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province - terrorized by US execution squads for decades....

Source: Chris Hedges Report 25 Jan

#USImperialism #USPol #UKPol #Europol #Palestine #press #racism #Fascism #stateMurder .

The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets
of Minneapolis, including of Alex Pretti, would not come as a
shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province -
terrorized by US execution squads for decades.

It would not come as a shock to any of the students | teach
in prison. Militarized police in poor urban neighborhoods kick
down doors without warrants & kill with the same impunity.
What the rest of us are facing now is what Aimé Césaire
called "imperial boomerang.” Decaying empires employ the
same savage forms of control at home as they do abroad.
With the collapse of Athenian democracy, the tyranny Athens
imposed on others, it finally imposed on itself.

But before we became the victims of state terror, we were
accomplices. Before we expressed moral outrage at the
indiscriminate taking of innocent lives, we tolerated, & often
celebrated, the same Gestapo tactics directed at those who
lived in the nations we occupied or poor people of color.

We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind. The
machinery of terror, perfected on those we abandoned &
betrayed, including the Palestinians in Gaza, is ready for us.
Chris Hedges, 25 Jan 2026 (abridged) — The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including of Alex Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province - terrorized by US execution squads for decades. It would not come as a shock to any of the students | teach in prison. Militarized police in poor urban neighborhoods kick down doors without warrants & kill with the same impunity. What the rest of us are facing now is what Aimé Césaire called "imperial boomerang.” Decaying empires employ the same savage forms of control at home as they do abroad. With the collapse of Athenian democracy, the tyranny Athens imposed on others, it finally imposed on itself. But before we became the victims of state terror, we were accomplices. Before we expressed moral outrage at the indiscriminate taking of innocent lives, we tolerated, & often celebrated, the same Gestapo tactics directed at those who lived in the nations we occupied or poor people of color. We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind. The machinery of terror, perfected on those we abandoned & betrayed, including the Palestinians in Gaza, is ready for us. Chris Hedges, 25 Jan 2026 (abridged)

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@DrALJONES@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

Analysis: "Imperial Boomerang"

The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including of Alex Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province - terrorized by US execution squads for decades....

Source: Chris Hedges Report 25 Jan

#USImperialism #USPol #UKPol #Europol #Palestine #press #racism #Fascism #stateMurder .

The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets
of Minneapolis, including of Alex Pretti, would not come as a
shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province -
terrorized by US execution squads for decades.

It would not come as a shock to any of the students | teach
in prison. Militarized police in poor urban neighborhoods kick
down doors without warrants & kill with the same impunity.
What the rest of us are facing now is what Aimé Césaire
called "imperial boomerang.” Decaying empires employ the
same savage forms of control at home as they do abroad.
With the collapse of Athenian democracy, the tyranny Athens
imposed on others, it finally imposed on itself.

But before we became the victims of state terror, we were
accomplices. Before we expressed moral outrage at the
indiscriminate taking of innocent lives, we tolerated, & often
celebrated, the same Gestapo tactics directed at those who
lived in the nations we occupied or poor people of color.

We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind. The
machinery of terror, perfected on those we abandoned &
betrayed, including the Palestinians in Gaza, is ready for us.
Chris Hedges, 25 Jan 2026 (abridged) — The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including of Alex Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province - terrorized by US execution squads for decades. It would not come as a shock to any of the students | teach in prison. Militarized police in poor urban neighborhoods kick down doors without warrants & kill with the same impunity. What the rest of us are facing now is what Aimé Césaire called "imperial boomerang.” Decaying empires employ the same savage forms of control at home as they do abroad. With the collapse of Athenian democracy, the tyranny Athens imposed on others, it finally imposed on itself. But before we became the victims of state terror, we were accomplices. Before we expressed moral outrage at the indiscriminate taking of innocent lives, we tolerated, & often celebrated, the same Gestapo tactics directed at those who lived in the nations we occupied or poor people of color. We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind. The machinery of terror, perfected on those we abandoned & betrayed, including the Palestinians in Gaza, is ready for us. Chris Hedges, 25 Jan 2026 (abridged)

@DrALJONES@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

Analysis: "Imperial Boomerang"

The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including of Alex Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province - terrorized by US execution squads for decades....

Source: Chris Hedges Report 25 Jan

#USImperialism #USPol #UKPol #Europol #Palestine #press #racism #Fascism #stateMurder .

The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets
of Minneapolis, including of Alex Pretti, would not come as a
shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province -
terrorized by US execution squads for decades.

It would not come as a shock to any of the students | teach
in prison. Militarized police in poor urban neighborhoods kick
down doors without warrants & kill with the same impunity.
What the rest of us are facing now is what Aimé Césaire
called "imperial boomerang.” Decaying empires employ the
same savage forms of control at home as they do abroad.
With the collapse of Athenian democracy, the tyranny Athens
imposed on others, it finally imposed on itself.

But before we became the victims of state terror, we were
accomplices. Before we expressed moral outrage at the
indiscriminate taking of innocent lives, we tolerated, & often
celebrated, the same Gestapo tactics directed at those who
lived in the nations we occupied or poor people of color.

We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind. The
machinery of terror, perfected on those we abandoned &
betrayed, including the Palestinians in Gaza, is ready for us.
Chris Hedges, 25 Jan 2026 (abridged) — The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including of Alex Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province - terrorized by US execution squads for decades. It would not come as a shock to any of the students | teach in prison. Militarized police in poor urban neighborhoods kick down doors without warrants & kill with the same impunity. What the rest of us are facing now is what Aimé Césaire called "imperial boomerang.” Decaying empires employ the same savage forms of control at home as they do abroad. With the collapse of Athenian democracy, the tyranny Athens imposed on others, it finally imposed on itself. But before we became the victims of state terror, we were accomplices. Before we expressed moral outrage at the indiscriminate taking of innocent lives, we tolerated, & often celebrated, the same Gestapo tactics directed at those who lived in the nations we occupied or poor people of color. We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind. The machinery of terror, perfected on those we abandoned & betrayed, including the Palestinians in Gaza, is ready for us. Chris Hedges, 25 Jan 2026 (abridged)

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@DrALJONES@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

Analysis: "Imperial Boomerang"

The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including of Alex Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province - terrorized by US execution squads for decades....

Source: Chris Hedges Report 25 Jan

#USImperialism #USPol #UKPol #Europol #Palestine #racism #Fascism #stateMurder .

The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets
of Minneapolis, including of Alex Pretti, would not come as a
shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province -
terrorized by US execution squads for decades.

It would not come as a shock to any of the students | teach
in prison. Militarized police in poor urban neighborhoods kick
down doors without warrants & kill with the same impunity.
What the rest of us are facing now is what Aimé Césaire
called "imperial boomerang.” Decaying empires employ the
same savage forms of control at home as they do abroad.
With the collapse of Athenian democracy, the tyranny Athens
imposed on others, it finally imposed on itself.

But before we became the victims of state terror, we were
accomplices. Before we expressed moral outrage at the
indiscriminate taking of innocent lives, we tolerated, & often
celebrated, the same Gestapo tactics directed at those who
lived in the nations we occupied or poor people of color.

We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind. The
machinery of terror, perfected on those we abandoned &
betrayed, including the Palestinians in Gaza, is ready for us.
Chris Hedges, 25 Jan 2026 (abridged) — The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including of Alex Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province - terrorized by US execution squads for decades. It would not come as a shock to any of the students | teach in prison. Militarized police in poor urban neighborhoods kick down doors without warrants & kill with the same impunity. What the rest of us are facing now is what Aimé Césaire called "imperial boomerang.” Decaying empires employ the same savage forms of control at home as they do abroad. With the collapse of Athenian democracy, the tyranny Athens imposed on others, it finally imposed on itself. But before we became the victims of state terror, we were accomplices. Before we expressed moral outrage at the indiscriminate taking of innocent lives, we tolerated, & often celebrated, the same Gestapo tactics directed at those who lived in the nations we occupied or poor people of color. We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind. The machinery of terror, perfected on those we abandoned & betrayed, including the Palestinians in Gaza, is ready for us. Chris Hedges, 25 Jan 2026 (abridged)

@DrALJONES@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

Analysis: "Imperial Boomerang"

The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including of Alex Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province - terrorized by US execution squads for decades....

Source: Chris Hedges Report 25 Jan

#USImperialism #USPol #UKPol #Europol #Palestine #racism #Fascism #stateMurder .

The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets
of Minneapolis, including of Alex Pretti, would not come as a
shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province -
terrorized by US execution squads for decades.

It would not come as a shock to any of the students | teach
in prison. Militarized police in poor urban neighborhoods kick
down doors without warrants & kill with the same impunity.
What the rest of us are facing now is what Aimé Césaire
called "imperial boomerang.” Decaying empires employ the
same savage forms of control at home as they do abroad.
With the collapse of Athenian democracy, the tyranny Athens
imposed on others, it finally imposed on itself.

But before we became the victims of state terror, we were
accomplices. Before we expressed moral outrage at the
indiscriminate taking of innocent lives, we tolerated, & often
celebrated, the same Gestapo tactics directed at those who
lived in the nations we occupied or poor people of color.

We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind. The
machinery of terror, perfected on those we abandoned &
betrayed, including the Palestinians in Gaza, is ready for us.
Chris Hedges, 25 Jan 2026 (abridged) — The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including of Alex Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province - terrorized by US execution squads for decades. It would not come as a shock to any of the students | teach in prison. Militarized police in poor urban neighborhoods kick down doors without warrants & kill with the same impunity. What the rest of us are facing now is what Aimé Césaire called "imperial boomerang.” Decaying empires employ the same savage forms of control at home as they do abroad. With the collapse of Athenian democracy, the tyranny Athens imposed on others, it finally imposed on itself. But before we became the victims of state terror, we were accomplices. Before we expressed moral outrage at the indiscriminate taking of innocent lives, we tolerated, & often celebrated, the same Gestapo tactics directed at those who lived in the nations we occupied or poor people of color. We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind. The machinery of terror, perfected on those we abandoned & betrayed, including the Palestinians in Gaza, is ready for us. Chris Hedges, 25 Jan 2026 (abridged)

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