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Reece Jones
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Professor of political geography at the University of Hawai'i; editor-in-chief of Geopolitics; author of Violent Borders, White Borders, Border Walls, and Nobody is Protected

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Reece Jones is an American political geographer and Guggenheim Fellow.

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Reece Jones @reecejones.bsky.social · Feb 12
My next book SMUGGLER with Greg Boos will be out in September 2026. Thrilled that HBO optioned the rights for a scripted series

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."

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Reece Jones @reecejones.bsky.social · 1d
Feeling nostalgic now that starter packs are flooding my feed again

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Reece Jones @reecejones.bsky.social · 1d
Several hundred people out for the Honolulu #iceoutforgood rally

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d
This guy is in Minneapolis standing before an American citizen in an SUV.

The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence.

This is not protection. This is occupation.

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Reece Jones @reecejones.bsky.social · 1d
And by interesting I mean entirely predictable

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Reece Jones @reecejones.bsky.social · 1d
It's interesting how "if you see something, say something" went from a government directive to protect the public to a people's directive to protect the public from the government's ICE goons

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Reece Jones @reecejones.bsky.social · 1d
The Honolulu ICE Out for Good rally is today at noon at the state capitol #ICEoutforGood

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 1d
Got a shout out from Chris Hayes yesterday. Data can drive public narrative.

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Chris Curtis @curtosis.bsky.social · 1d
Oh, look. From 2014:

“Border Patrol agents have deliberately stepped in the path of cars apparently to justify shooting at the drivers [in] 67 cases that resulted in 19 deaths.”

You can’t reform that culture.

Ross was in Border Patrol in this period (2007-2015).

www.latimes.com/nation/la-na...
Border Patrol's use of deadly force criticized in report
An independent review of U.S. Border Patrol shootings criticizes the agency for 'lack of diligence' in its investigations and suggests that agents' tactics sometimes create a pretext to open fire.
www.latimes.com

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Reece Jones @reecejones.bsky.social · 2d
Here's the schedule of events in Hawai'i. The main protest in Honolulu is noon Saturday at the state capitol mailchi.mp/indivisibleh...

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Reece Jones @reecejones.bsky.social · 2d
There's a vigil for Renee Nicole Good tonight at 5 pm in Honolulu
Flyer for Honolulu vigil

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4d
Renee Nicole Good, 37, was murdered four fifths of a mile from where George Perry Floyd, Jr., 46, was murdered in May of 2020.
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I want the media to understand just how close what happened today is to where George Floyd was murdered. 0.8 miles.
Screenshot of google map showing walking directions from where George Floyd was murdered to where an ICE agent murdered an observer today, distance of 18 min, 0.8 miles.

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 4d
Video from the scene of the Minnesota ICE shooting contradicts DHS’s narrative that locals were rioting and threatening agents' lives.
Video Shows ICE Agent’s Fatal Shooting of Civilian in Minneapolis
Video from the scene of the Minnesota ICE shooting contradicts DHS’s narrative that locals were rioting and threatening agents’ lives.
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 4d
As I wrote recently in @newrepublic.com, the notion of state protectors bringing charges against federal agents acting outside the bounds of their authority is perfectly plausible and probably necessary
Prosecuting ICE’s Goons Will Be Hard—but Not Impossible
To a growing number of Americans, the necessity of holding the fashy agency to account is becoming obvious. Better start planning how to do it now.
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MBR @flame89.bsky.social · 4d
Mayor of Minneapolis: “Get the fuck out of Minneapolis”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."

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Reece Jones @reecejones.bsky.social · 5d
Congrats

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Julian Hattem @jmhattem.bsky.social · 5d
It's pub day for my book, Shelter from the Storm: How Climate Change Is Creating a New Era of Migration!

Here are some pictures I took during some of the reporting in Guatemala and Bangladesh
Copies of Shelter from the Storm Fixers looking over a valley in Guatemala Me and my fixers on a river in Bangladesh A flooded community in Bangladesh

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Reece Jones @reecejones.bsky.social · 6d
My next book, Smuggler, is one of @inkstickmedia.com most anticipated books of the year inkstickmedia.com/inksticks-mo...
Inkstick’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026 (So Far)
In 2026, several forthcoming and highly anticipated books can help you make sense of authoritarianism, bigotry, and war in a grim age.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 6d
Inkstick’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026 (So Far)

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- Robin Andersen
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Inkstick’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026 (So Far)
In 2026, several forthcoming and highly anticipated books can help you make sense of authoritarianism, bigotry, and war in a grim age.
inkstickmedia.com

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 8d
Thanks Reece. I've added a reference to my recent piece on related questions - progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/30/1...
100 years since the Locarno Treaties and territorial integrity today
On 1 December 1925, the Locarno Treaties were signed by Germany, France, Great Britain, Belgium and Italy, with some of the additional treaties also including Poland and Czechoslovakia as signatori…
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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 9d
New year, new mayor, new essay in @nybooks.com about what the Mamdani mayoral era might mean for the city's immigrant communities:
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
Sanctuary City | Tanvi Misra
Come January, New York City will be led by an immigrant—and, in a series of firsts, by a Muslim Indian American from Uganda. This kind of representation
www.nybooks.com

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 9d
Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/
Cream colored book cover of Anna O. Law's Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship--African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants with a human figure behind an American flag

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 19d
BREAKING: Huge loss for Trump administration at Supreme Court, which rules that the Trump administration had lacked authority to federalize and deploy the National Guard to execute laws in Illinois. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 23d
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...