Jeremy Bierbach
@basilok.bsky.social
Antifa lawyer practicing immigration and citizenship law in the Netherlands; researcher on EU citizenship HoyaBScUvALLBLLMPhD 🏳️🌈married to https://bsky.app/profile/stefanmakesthings.bsky.social
https://gram.social/basilok
https://gram.social/basilok
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In Nederland werden 143 kinderen gevangen gezet in vreemdelingenbewaring in 2024.
Boter op ons hoofd.
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Boter op ons hoofd.
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Opgepakte kleuter en vader Minneapolis moeten worden vrijgelaten
Een foto van de opgepakte kleuter leidde tot veel verontwaardiging. Vader en zoon moeten van de rechter uiterlijk dinsdag vrijgelaten worden uit het detentiecentrum in Texas,
nos.nl
February 2, 2026 at 6:07 AM
In Nederland werden 143 kinderen gevangen gezet in vreemdelingenbewaring in 2024.
Boter op ons hoofd.
nos.nl/artikel/2600...
Boter op ons hoofd.
nos.nl/artikel/2600...
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Trump shits himself mid press conference (~33 seconds in) then they rush out all the members of the press. You can see the people behind him reacting to the smell.
youtu.be/u_6kGluvINg?...
youtu.be/u_6kGluvINg?...
Trump Does Not Take Reporters' Questions After Signing Executive Order In The Oval Office
YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News
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January 31, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Trump shits himself mid press conference (~33 seconds in) then they rush out all the members of the press. You can see the people behind him reacting to the smell.
youtu.be/u_6kGluvINg?...
youtu.be/u_6kGluvINg?...
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“Notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein played a role in convincing Bobby Kotick to embrace loot boxes, essentially gambling for children” what is this sentence, what is this world
February 1, 2026 at 1:54 AM
“Notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein played a role in convincing Bobby Kotick to embrace loot boxes, essentially gambling for children” what is this sentence, what is this world
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I am accepting applications for a postdoc to work with me at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
Area of Research: Democratic Institutions, Public Engagement, American History
Due by February 23rd
munkschool.utoronto.ca/current-oppo...
Area of Research: Democratic Institutions, Public Engagement, American History
Due by February 23rd
munkschool.utoronto.ca/current-oppo...
Current opportunities
munkschool.utoronto.ca
January 31, 2026 at 5:20 PM
I am accepting applications for a postdoc to work with me at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
Area of Research: Democratic Institutions, Public Engagement, American History
Due by February 23rd
munkschool.utoronto.ca/current-oppo...
Area of Research: Democratic Institutions, Public Engagement, American History
Due by February 23rd
munkschool.utoronto.ca/current-oppo...
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Courts should treat biometric locks as equivalent to password protection, EFF’s Andrew Crocker told @TheIntercept.com. “Your constitutional right against self-incrimination should not be dependent on technical convenience or lack thereof.”
theintercept.com/2026/01/30/...
theintercept.com/2026/01/30/...
Washington Post Raid Is a Frightening Reminder: Turn Off Your Phone’s Biometrics Now
The search warrant to raid a Washington Post reporter’s home shows how authorities can open your phone without your consent.
theintercept.com
January 31, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Courts should treat biometric locks as equivalent to password protection, EFF’s Andrew Crocker told @TheIntercept.com. “Your constitutional right against self-incrimination should not be dependent on technical convenience or lack thereof.”
theintercept.com/2026/01/30/...
theintercept.com/2026/01/30/...
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Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 31, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Weird phrasing of half-hearted plan new Dutch gov to “modernise nationality law” and accept dual citizenship: yes for Dutch abroad (?), not for immigrants in NL.
Makes no sense.
Makes no sense.
January 30, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Weird phrasing of half-hearted plan new Dutch gov to “modernise nationality law” and accept dual citizenship: yes for Dutch abroad (?), not for immigrants in NL.
Makes no sense.
Makes no sense.
Nogmaals zien we deze juridisch onjuiste stelling terug in het regeerakkoord: “De permanente verblijfsvergunning verdwijnt onder het Europese migratiepact”. RvS geeft inderdaad de juiste uitleg van het EU-recht, in par. 3.2 zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/stcrt-2026-2...
January 31, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Nogmaals zien we deze juridisch onjuiste stelling terug in het regeerakkoord: “De permanente verblijfsvergunning verdwijnt onder het Europese migratiepact”. RvS geeft inderdaad de juiste uitleg van het EU-recht, in par. 3.2 zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/stcrt-2026-2...
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Jelani Cobb writes about how Americans took to the streets to defend their neighbors in the 19th century after the Fugitive Slave Act: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/O5Bxmb
What ICE Should Have Learned from the Fugitive Slave Act
Americans took to the streets to defend their neighbors in the nineteenth century, too.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
January 31, 2026 at 6:10 AM
Jelani Cobb writes about how Americans took to the streets to defend their neighbors in the 19th century after the Fugitive Slave Act: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/O5Bxmb
“Might it be fun to attend as a campy heckle-party and throw popcorn at the screen?”
Nope. This isn’t Rocky Horror or The Valley of Gwangi.
It’s not fun. There is nothing fun about this movie, about this regime, or about the situation Americans find ourselves.”
Nope. This isn’t Rocky Horror or The Valley of Gwangi.
It’s not fun. There is nothing fun about this movie, about this regime, or about the situation Americans find ourselves.”
"Listen, who do I have to fuck to get off this picture?!"
Terry Southern’s immortal lines — never truer
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Terry Southern’s immortal lines — never truer
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Let’s Make This Epic Shunning Matter - Ne, nikoli, Melanija!
This will be remembered as The Day the Movies Broke
susiebright.ink
January 30, 2026 at 11:33 PM
“Might it be fun to attend as a campy heckle-party and throw popcorn at the screen?”
Nope. This isn’t Rocky Horror or The Valley of Gwangi.
It’s not fun. There is nothing fun about this movie, about this regime, or about the situation Americans find ourselves.”
Nope. This isn’t Rocky Horror or The Valley of Gwangi.
It’s not fun. There is nothing fun about this movie, about this regime, or about the situation Americans find ourselves.”
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In Printz v. United States, #SCOTUS held that the Constitution bars the federal government from forcing or otherwise compelling local or state governments to enforce federal law.
The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia:
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The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia:
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January 28, 2026 at 1:41 PM
In Printz v. United States, #SCOTUS held that the Constitution bars the federal government from forcing or otherwise compelling local or state governments to enforce federal law.
The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia:
tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...
The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia:
tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...
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"In order to build tyranny, you have to open zones where the law doesn't apply... one zone like that is the border. The logic of what they've been doing with ICE is to take the border everywhere."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuNB...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuNB...
Snyder: Trump administration using words like ‘terrorist’ and ‘extremist’ is what tyrants do
YouTube video by MS NOW
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January 29, 2026 at 1:59 PM
"In order to build tyranny, you have to open zones where the law doesn't apply... one zone like that is the border. The logic of what they've been doing with ICE is to take the border everywhere."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuNB...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuNB...
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"In theater" is a military term that refers to a wartime theater of operations. ICE and CBP agents are in Minnesota, which is one of the United States. The enemy in this military operation are citizens of Minnesotans and the United States.
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
January 29, 2026 at 5:59 PM
"In theater" is a military term that refers to a wartime theater of operations. ICE and CBP agents are in Minnesota, which is one of the United States. The enemy in this military operation are citizens of Minnesotans and the United States.
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Trump is obessed with Georgia because he is in fundamental disbelief that a former state of the Confederacy could muster a multiracial coalition that cost him the election here. It is racial grievance and entitlement all the way down.
January 29, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Trump is obessed with Georgia because he is in fundamental disbelief that a former state of the Confederacy could muster a multiracial coalition that cost him the election here. It is racial grievance and entitlement all the way down.
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Hart van Nederland ziet de jacht op migranten in de VS en dacht: goh, willen Nederlanders ook zoiets leuk hier.
January 22, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Hart van Nederland ziet de jacht op migranten in de VS en dacht: goh, willen Nederlanders ook zoiets leuk hier.
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Congresswoman @ayannapressley.bsky.social has been trying to get qualified immunity eliminated her ENTIRE career.
What the fuck is it going to take to get people to listen to her?
What the fuck is it going to take to get people to listen to her?
There's no ICE accountability without ending qualified immunity.
They're murdering people. There won't be justice for the lives they've stolen, but there must be accountability.
My bill with @markey.senate.gov would ensure families can sue the agents murdering their loved ones.
They're murdering people. There won't be justice for the lives they've stolen, but there must be accountability.
My bill with @markey.senate.gov would ensure families can sue the agents murdering their loved ones.
January 27, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Congresswoman @ayannapressley.bsky.social has been trying to get qualified immunity eliminated her ENTIRE career.
What the fuck is it going to take to get people to listen to her?
What the fuck is it going to take to get people to listen to her?
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Crafton Heights. Elmont Street. A very pissed off caller told the call taker he just spent two days digging out the parking spot out in front of his house. He pulled out and someone just pulled in. Caller is upset.
January 27, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Crafton Heights. Elmont Street. A very pissed off caller told the call taker he just spent two days digging out the parking spot out in front of his house. He pulled out and someone just pulled in. Caller is upset.
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Almost like the violence is bipartisan & decades in the making and the answer not as simple as "dump trump."
Worth noting that commuting the sentence of one of the people involved in this abhorrent scandal was one of Biden's last acts as president. Food for thought for anyone who thinks the prison-industrial complex doesn't have a stranglehold on all the levers in politics.
Victims ‘shocked’ after Biden grants clemency to ‘kids-for-cash’ judge and $54 million embezzler | CNN Politics
Victims of major public corruption cases in Pennsylvania and Illinois are angry that President Joe Biden granted clemency this week to the two convicted officials.
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January 27, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Almost like the violence is bipartisan & decades in the making and the answer not as simple as "dump trump."
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there has been a tendency in the 21st century to insist that the Holocaust was an event so unique that "never again" becomes ontologically impossible: to the right wing, history has only ever had one horror, and it exists only to be used to shield their own actions and bludgeon their enemies
The US Holocaust Museum being more outraged by Tim Walz saying that, like Anne Frank, children today are in hiding from armed agents of the state, than they are about the fact that children are in hiding from armed agents of the state, is why Holocaust remembrance culture is in crisis.
January 27, 2026 at 5:31 AM
there has been a tendency in the 21st century to insist that the Holocaust was an event so unique that "never again" becomes ontologically impossible: to the right wing, history has only ever had one horror, and it exists only to be used to shield their own actions and bludgeon their enemies
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A question I ask every family member if they are going anywhere now is, "Do you have your passport?" - friends have kids carrying copies of their birth certificates in their backpacks, like. This is it. This anxiety fucking blows, man.
"A document that once made me proud of all the places I’ve traveled is now a badge to prove I belong," writes columnist Laura Yuen. "It speaks volumes that a person like me is scared — somebody with so many privileges, including my perfect American English."
"Aren’t you scared, too?"
"Aren’t you scared, too?"
Yuen: My parents thought we had made it. Now we carry papers.
Living under ICE’s crackdown has changed how some Minnesotans of color, including U.S. citizens, move through the world.
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January 26, 2026 at 7:48 PM
A question I ask every family member if they are going anywhere now is, "Do you have your passport?" - friends have kids carrying copies of their birth certificates in their backpacks, like. This is it. This anxiety fucking blows, man.
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This makes me think of that 1990 interview Trump did with Playboy where he admitted that when it came to Tiananmen Square, he was rooting for the tanks.
January 25, 2026 at 7:56 PM
This makes me think of that 1990 interview Trump did with Playboy where he admitted that when it came to Tiananmen Square, he was rooting for the tanks.
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If it is fascism now it was fascism then but if you were wrong no need to pause to make a special effort to admit your error -- we don't have that much time now, please act right away, get organized, and then tell your followers what you are doing to stop fascism and what they too can do.
January 25, 2026 at 8:33 PM
If it is fascism now it was fascism then but if you were wrong no need to pause to make a special effort to admit your error -- we don't have that much time now, please act right away, get organized, and then tell your followers what you are doing to stop fascism and what they too can do.
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Stralend van genoegen staat #lipstickfasciste Vlaardingerbroek de crimineel en Neo-Nazi Tommy Robinson voor de Britse ambassade in Rome te woord “I just want to go and express my opinion freely. I’m just a tourist, and I’m white, blond, Dutch and I can’t do that.
January 25, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Stralend van genoegen staat #lipstickfasciste Vlaardingerbroek de crimineel en Neo-Nazi Tommy Robinson voor de Britse ambassade in Rome te woord “I just want to go and express my opinion freely. I’m just a tourist, and I’m white, blond, Dutch and I can’t do that.
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Nu weet ik ook wel dat je niet te veel moet verwachten van een land waarin een jijbakkende havist uit Venlo een ‘briljant debater’ is; maar de blinde bewondering voor het handige oliemannetje Rutte zegt weinig goeds over ons. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...
Niks ‘deal van Rutte’, Trump krijgt zijn Groenlandmissie thuis gewoon niet verkocht
www.volkskrant.nl
January 25, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Nu weet ik ook wel dat je niet te veel moet verwachten van een land waarin een jijbakkende havist uit Venlo een ‘briljant debater’ is; maar de blinde bewondering voor het handige oliemannetje Rutte zegt weinig goeds over ons. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...
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Long read but I learned something new in almost every paragraph. Spread this far and wide
Curious why ICE and CBP agents are so brutal? Here's a useful explainer I wrote last week, before Saturday's outrageous murder, about how uniquely unsuited ICE and CBP are for this moment—and why they were so corruptible into Trump's own fascist secret police: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...
"ICE 101" — How Trump changed ICE and CBP into a fascist secret police
ICE and CBP are fatally flawed products of the post-9/11 War on Terror — now Trump has weaponized those very flaws to occupy America.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
January 25, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Long read but I learned something new in almost every paragraph. Spread this far and wide