Christy Thornton
@llchristyll.bsky.social
Researching development and its discontents. Pell grant prof. Co-director @hpe-project.bsky.social. Naclista pa’ siempre. #NoMoreDrugWar
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As someone who has spent over 35 years trying to explain that violence is inherent to policing only to have most people be OK with this, I could be excused if I decided to just give up. But I'm not. I knew we would be where we are today. I still think that we do not have to live like this.
January 24, 2026 at 8:39 PM
As someone who has spent over 35 years trying to explain that violence is inherent to policing only to have most people be OK with this, I could be excused if I decided to just give up. But I'm not. I knew we would be where we are today. I still think that we do not have to live like this.
Spoiler alert: this kind of discretion is the bedrock of *all* policing
This is an airtight permission structure for violence because ‘provocation’ means whatever they say it means.
January 24, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Spoiler alert: this kind of discretion is the bedrock of *all* policing
Abolish Border Patrol, too
The officer who fatally shot a Minneapolis man during a protest is an 8-year Border Patrol veteran, federal officials say.
Police chief calls for calm after a man is shot and killed during Minneapolis immigration crackdown
Federal immigration officers have shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier.
bit.ly
January 24, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Abolish Border Patrol, too
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An independent autopsy of Renee Good reveals that she had 3 gunshot wounds: to the left arm, right lung, and left temple that exited the right side of her head. That means the third shot, the most unlawful one, from the side, likely killed her. abc7.com/post/minneap...
Independent autopsy in ICE shooting death of Renee Good released by law firm in civil investigation
The results of an independent autopsy for Renee Good have been released as part of a law firm's civil investigation, two weeks after she was shot and killed by a federal agent in Minneapolis.
abc7.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:56 AM
An independent autopsy of Renee Good reveals that she had 3 gunshot wounds: to the left arm, right lung, and left temple that exited the right side of her head. That means the third shot, the most unlawful one, from the side, likely killed her. abc7.com/post/minneap...
Cuba next: "In meetings with Cuban exiles and civic groups in Miami and Washington, they have focused on identifying somebody inside the current government who will see the writing on the wall and want to cut a deal, one U.S. official said."
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
Exclusive | The U.S. Is Actively Seeking Regime Change in Cuba by the End of the Year
After ousting Venezuela’s leader, the Trump administration is hunting for Havana insiders who could cut a deal to end Communist rule.
www.wsj.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Cuba next: "In meetings with Cuban exiles and civic groups in Miami and Washington, they have focused on identifying somebody inside the current government who will see the writing on the wall and want to cut a deal, one U.S. official said."
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
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Davos gave us globalism and now offers a front-row seat to its collapse.
With Grace Ballor, we examine both its historical momentum and weaknesses.
academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
In an issue on the post-neoliberal order by @quinnslobodian.com @llchristyll.bsky.social @akentikelenis.bsky.social
With Grace Ballor, we examine both its historical momentum and weaknesses.
academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
In an issue on the post-neoliberal order by @quinnslobodian.com @llchristyll.bsky.social @akentikelenis.bsky.social
January 22, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Davos gave us globalism and now offers a front-row seat to its collapse.
With Grace Ballor, we examine both its historical momentum and weaknesses.
academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
In an issue on the post-neoliberal order by @quinnslobodian.com @llchristyll.bsky.social @akentikelenis.bsky.social
With Grace Ballor, we examine both its historical momentum and weaknesses.
academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
In an issue on the post-neoliberal order by @quinnslobodian.com @llchristyll.bsky.social @akentikelenis.bsky.social
This is tonight!
Upcoming 1/21 Roundtable on #Venezuela, #Oil, and Global #Politics w/ the Marxist Education Project, @matthuber.bsky.social @stevemaherecon.bsky.social @llchristyll.bsky.social & @cperezbustillo.bsky.social RSVP here: marxedproject.org/event/venezu...
Roundtable on Venezuela, Oil, and Global Politics - Marxist Education Project
Join us for a timely conversation among leading left critics of the Trump administration's attack on Venezuelan sovereignty and its attempt to seize that nation's oil wealth. Matt Huber challenges int...
marxedproject.org
January 21, 2026 at 4:36 PM
This is tonight!
Maybe we can still debate when the terminal crisis of US imperial hegemony began, but we are now very much in it, uh, this week. Who is ready for a new systemic cycle of accumulation? 😬
January 20, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Maybe we can still debate when the terminal crisis of US imperial hegemony began, but we are now very much in it, uh, this week. Who is ready for a new systemic cycle of accumulation? 😬
Exactly this. Corey Booker is a disgrace.
Corey Booker announcing his legislation to make ICE wear body cameras a week after the entire Republican Party excused an ICE officer murdering somebody by showing the video the officer took with his own cell phone of him murdering them is a testament to how stupid Democrats think all of us are.
January 18, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Exactly this. Corey Booker is a disgrace.
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Black folks and immigrants have long lived in a "perogative state" when it comes to law enforcement, and maybe pundits at the largest national outlets should recognize that their past support for punitive policing and immigration enforcement laid the groundwork for the current moment.
January 18, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Black folks and immigrants have long lived in a "perogative state" when it comes to law enforcement, and maybe pundits at the largest national outlets should recognize that their past support for punitive policing and immigration enforcement laid the groundwork for the current moment.
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I'll be doing this online event on Venezuela with Steve Maher and @llchristyll.bsky.social next Wed January 21st at 7:30pm. Thanks to Fred Murphy and the Marxist Education Project for organizing! marxedproject.org/event/venezu...
January 14, 2026 at 6:49 PM
I'll be doing this online event on Venezuela with Steve Maher and @llchristyll.bsky.social next Wed January 21st at 7:30pm. Thanks to Fred Murphy and the Marxist Education Project for organizing! marxedproject.org/event/venezu...
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Jonathan Ross was a firearms trainer and led a team that included multiple federal agencies. All this training didn't stop him from shooting Renee Nicole Good. His training *facilitated* the shooting.
No amount of training will solve the problem that ICE is a violent ethnic cleansing squad.
No amount of training will solve the problem that ICE is a violent ethnic cleansing squad.
Democrats are simultaneously beginning to refer to ICE and CBP agents as "poorly trained."
This message comes from leadership. They're trying to use it as a substitute for dismantling ICE and CBP and imprisoning their current employees. Don't fall for it; don't take any Dem seriously who uses it.
This message comes from leadership. They're trying to use it as a substitute for dismantling ICE and CBP and imprisoning their current employees. Don't fall for it; don't take any Dem seriously who uses it.
January 13, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Jonathan Ross was a firearms trainer and led a team that included multiple federal agencies. All this training didn't stop him from shooting Renee Nicole Good. His training *facilitated* the shooting.
No amount of training will solve the problem that ICE is a violent ethnic cleansing squad.
No amount of training will solve the problem that ICE is a violent ethnic cleansing squad.
As I was saying last night at the AHA, there is a right-wing history to this rejection of multilateralism - it’s the culmination of a long movement of ‘the United States in Opposition’
"This is rather dramatic but lost in the general media turmoil over everything else - 🇺🇸 is withdrawing from 66 international organizations and treaties, most notably everything connected with climate change, democracy and rule of law."
www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Withdraws the United States from International Organizations that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
WITHDRAWING FROM INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum directing the withdrawal of the United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 11, 2026 at 4:55 PM
As I was saying last night at the AHA, there is a right-wing history to this rejection of multilateralism - it’s the culmination of a long movement of ‘the United States in Opposition’
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It’s incumbent on elected Democrats to outline a plan that drastically reorganizes DHS, ICE and CBP with discipline imposed not just by regs but by budget and liability exposure. Literally the job of an opposition party. The “enhanced trainings” response reflexively mouthed by some Dems is a joke
January 11, 2026 at 3:19 PM
It’s incumbent on elected Democrats to outline a plan that drastically reorganizes DHS, ICE and CBP with discipline imposed not just by regs but by budget and liability exposure. Literally the job of an opposition party. The “enhanced trainings” response reflexively mouthed by some Dems is a joke
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ICE shot a man in Glen Burnie and the story they told was contradicted by:
1. ICE’s own photos
2. Bystander video
3. Lawyer for another immigrant at the scene
4. Anne Arundel County Police
Now ICE is revising its story.
The latest from Alex Mann:
www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
1. ICE’s own photos
2. Bystander video
3. Lawyer for another immigrant at the scene
4. Anne Arundel County Police
Now ICE is revising its story.
The latest from Alex Mann:
www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
ICE changes story on Christmas Eve shooting by agents in Glen Burnie
Federal officials changed their account of the Christmas Eve shooting by ICE agents in Glen Burnie.
www.thebanner.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:42 PM
ICE shot a man in Glen Burnie and the story they told was contradicted by:
1. ICE’s own photos
2. Bystander video
3. Lawyer for another immigrant at the scene
4. Anne Arundel County Police
Now ICE is revising its story.
The latest from Alex Mann:
www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
1. ICE’s own photos
2. Bystander video
3. Lawyer for another immigrant at the scene
4. Anne Arundel County Police
Now ICE is revising its story.
The latest from Alex Mann:
www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
It’s imperative that all members at the #AHA26 come to the business meeting tonight at 5:15 in the Hilton Continental Ballroom to exercise our democratic rights as AHA members
The scholasticide continues, and @historians.org won’t even listen to its membership and bring it up for discussion at our upcoming meeting. Shameful.
Several social media reports claiming over 41 students were wounded when Israeli forces stormed Birzeit University, including some videos and posts saying nine by live ammunition.
Video: Tamer | تامر via X (@tamerqdh)
Video: Tamer | تامر via X (@tamerqdh)
January 10, 2026 at 6:56 PM
It’s imperative that all members at the #AHA26 come to the business meeting tonight at 5:15 in the Hilton Continental Ballroom to exercise our democratic rights as AHA members
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“imagine a cheery BBC news report in 1938 breezily asking "which countries could be in Hitler's sights after the Sudetenland?"
January 10, 2026 at 2:47 PM
“imagine a cheery BBC news report in 1938 breezily asking "which countries could be in Hitler's sights after the Sudetenland?"
Looking forward to this great (all women!) panel on US-Latin American relations history today at #AHA26
And for fans of Inter-American History, I gathered a group of some of the smartest people I know to talk about the state of the field! Join us Saturday 3:30-5 in Palmer House Salon 3! #AHA26 @shafrhistorians.bsky.social @elinevanommen.bsky.social @llchristyll.bsky.social @carmensoliz.bsky.social
January 10, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Looking forward to this great (all women!) panel on US-Latin American relations history today at #AHA26
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Re-Post - The Global Turn of American Policing w/ @stschrader1.bsky.social
We've unlocked our episode with Stuart Schrader on the evolution of American policing and how it got to this point.
Link in the replies.
We've unlocked our episode with Stuart Schrader on the evolution of American policing and how it got to this point.
Link in the replies.
January 8, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Re-Post - The Global Turn of American Policing w/ @stschrader1.bsky.social
We've unlocked our episode with Stuart Schrader on the evolution of American policing and how it got to this point.
Link in the replies.
We've unlocked our episode with Stuart Schrader on the evolution of American policing and how it got to this point.
Link in the replies.
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Want to learn more about what’s going on in Venezuela? Check out this curated guide from NACLA (cc @llchristyll.bsky.social @gabrielhetland.bsky.social): nacla.org/a-curated-gu...
A Curated Guide to the U.S. Attack on Venezuela
In this dossier, NACLA offers several pieces to help readers understand the facts about Venezuela’s history and the recent U.S. attack.
nacla.org
January 9, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Want to learn more about what’s going on in Venezuela? Check out this curated guide from NACLA (cc @llchristyll.bsky.social @gabrielhetland.bsky.social): nacla.org/a-curated-gu...
The scholasticide continues, and @historians.org won’t even listen to its membership and bring it up for discussion at our upcoming meeting. Shameful.
Several social media reports claiming over 41 students were wounded when Israeli forces stormed Birzeit University, including some videos and posts saying nine by live ammunition.
Video: Tamer | تامر via X (@tamerqdh)
Video: Tamer | تامر via X (@tamerqdh)
January 6, 2026 at 7:30 PM
The scholasticide continues, and @historians.org won’t even listen to its membership and bring it up for discussion at our upcoming meeting. Shameful.
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The Jan 6 riot was successful. Maybe this will put to bed the constant admonition that "riots don't work."
January 6, 2026 at 2:34 PM
The Jan 6 riot was successful. Maybe this will put to bed the constant admonition that "riots don't work."
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Mikie Sherrill told police unions this year that she opposes giving subpoena power to local civilian police oversight boards.
That’s been a big demand of local officials & activists, for years — and more officials were elected on that platform this fall.
Important tensions on policing in Jersey:
That’s been a big demand of local officials & activists, for years — and more officials were elected on that platform this fall.
Important tensions on policing in Jersey:
New Jersey Cities Are Pressing Resistant State Officials for Civilian Police Oversight - Bolts
Local officials in Newark, Jersey City, and Trenton want civilian agencies that can investigate police and issue subpoenas. But they keep running into the state’s Democratic leaders.
boltsmag.org
December 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Preorder at a hefty discount! 👇
Hey folks, you can preorder my new book Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves at a 25% discount right now from @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stuar... (and it's also discounted at bookshop.org, if you prefer that!). Published in April!
January 6, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Preorder at a hefty discount! 👇