Patrick Hardy
@patrickdhardy.bsky.social
aspiring to be the anti-stephen miller of my generation
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THREAD. Having just written a book about this and talked to a LOT of Democrats, I can assure you that neither Cory Booker nor the policing industry he’s advertising think that more money for ICE “training” and tech would address any problem that any person of good will has with what ICE is doing.
January 18, 2026 at 3:09 PM
THREAD. Having just written a book about this and talked to a LOT of Democrats, I can assure you that neither Cory Booker nor the policing industry he’s advertising think that more money for ICE “training” and tech would address any problem that any person of good will has with what ICE is doing.
Kinda crazy that there are real people earnestly arguing that the best thing to do when faced with imminent threats to your physical safety is fundraise
January 18, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Kinda crazy that there are real people earnestly arguing that the best thing to do when faced with imminent threats to your physical safety is fundraise
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Thanks. We have folks in our community giving vulnerable students rides to school, and a teacher shared that they were putting small stuffed animals on their dashboards to help kids identify safe cars. ICE picked up on it and started doing the same. Horrifying.
January 16, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Thanks. We have folks in our community giving vulnerable students rides to school, and a teacher shared that they were putting small stuffed animals on their dashboards to help kids identify safe cars. ICE picked up on it and started doing the same. Horrifying.
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“Abolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough.
Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray
It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:33 PM
“Abolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough.
Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I tell bedtime stories to my kids every night--usually from books, but sometimes they convince me to make one up. I've found that the stories that resonate the most are the ones where bullies get their comeuppance. They love that shit.
If you work for ice please understand that your kids will laugh at a character based on you dying in an action movie before the end of the decade. They’ll be in movies for really little kids. Like Phineas and Ferb shit. There will be an action figure of you with a detachable head
January 18, 2026 at 5:55 PM
I tell bedtime stories to my kids every night--usually from books, but sometimes they convince me to make one up. I've found that the stories that resonate the most are the ones where bullies get their comeuppance. They love that shit.
Not a sports guy, but I'm glad to see it. This app needs to be more than news & politics if it's going to survive longterm.
January 18, 2026 at 2:58 AM
Not a sports guy, but I'm glad to see it. This app needs to be more than news & politics if it's going to survive longterm.
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This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality
A few days ago, Fox News was whining about ICE agents getting heckled at a Mexican restaurant in Minneapolis.
Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
ICE agents ate at a Minnesota Mexican restaurant before arresting staff
Immigration law enforcement agents reportedly followed employees out of the restaurant after they closed for the evening
www.independent.co.uk
January 18, 2026 at 2:14 AM
This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality
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This person who successfully committed suicide (something which jails are supposed to protect against) was being held at a random Georgia jail through a contract with the U.S. Marshal Service, which let ICE use its network of contracts with local jails. This is not a big detention center.
January 18, 2026 at 2:11 AM
This person who successfully committed suicide (something which jails are supposed to protect against) was being held at a random Georgia jail through a contract with the U.S. Marshal Service, which let ICE use its network of contracts with local jails. This is not a big detention center.
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My last two shots before my world went dark.
January 17, 2026 at 9:55 PM
My last two shots before my world went dark.
Seems like a straightforward 4th Amendment violation.
Forced face scanning of a U.S. citizen with zero cause, just bald racial profiling. This is tech fascism.
Mubashir and his family came to the United States as refugees from Ethiopia when he was a child, and they all became naturalized citizens in 2019.
Despite being a U.S. citizen, Mubashir was targeted by ICE, assaulted, and detained. Listen to his story:
Despite being a U.S. citizen, Mubashir was targeted by ICE, assaulted, and detained. Listen to his story:
January 18, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Seems like a straightforward 4th Amendment violation.
Nothing beats the winter frost like breathing in a big steam cloud from boiled water being drained in the sink. Just hotboxing pasta water in my kitchen like the Good Lord intended.
January 18, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Nothing beats the winter frost like breathing in a big steam cloud from boiled water being drained in the sink. Just hotboxing pasta water in my kitchen like the Good Lord intended.
Brave Minnesotans run off insurrectionist regime ally (2026, colorized)
Self-proclaimed Islamophobe and J6er Jake Lang flees Minnesotans, 1/17/26
January 17, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Brave Minnesotans run off insurrectionist regime ally (2026, colorized)
Is this it? Am I witnessing the beginning stages of a low-intensity conflict in these United States?
GOV. WALZ CALLS UP MINNESOTA NATIONAL GUARD TO "PROTECT THE PUBLIC'S RIGHT TO ASSEMBLE PEACEFULLY"
“We are staged and ready to respond. We are not deployed to city streets at this time" said MN NG Army Maj. Andrea Tsuchiya,...
“We are staged and ready to respond. We are not deployed to city streets at this time" said MN NG Army Maj. Andrea Tsuchiya,...
January 17, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Is this it? Am I witnessing the beginning stages of a low-intensity conflict in these United States?
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DHS getting basic 4th Amendment law wrong on its official Twitter account.
Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.
Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.
January 17, 2026 at 6:57 PM
DHS getting basic 4th Amendment law wrong on its official Twitter account.
Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.
Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.
Not orphaned; his stepmom is alive.
January 17, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Not orphaned; his stepmom is alive.
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Folks saying this is just as bad, I need you to reread about reconstruction. Not holding people accountable is how we get into this position. Removing people who colluded with the administration in an authoritarian takeover of higher ed from their position is the most reasonable thing to do.
January 17, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Folks saying this is just as bad, I need you to reread about reconstruction. Not holding people accountable is how we get into this position. Removing people who colluded with the administration in an authoritarian takeover of higher ed from their position is the most reasonable thing to do.
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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MN ICE watch is measurably de-escalating violence. Attraction to ICE for newbies is social approval & group power. Now, larger group meets them with social censure. They're using more agents (taken from elsewhere) to conduct relatively fewer arrests, lowering abductions there & beyond.
January 17, 2026 at 4:47 AM
MN ICE watch is measurably de-escalating violence. Attraction to ICE for newbies is social approval & group power. Now, larger group meets them with social censure. They're using more agents (taken from elsewhere) to conduct relatively fewer arrests, lowering abductions there & beyond.
I know I already shared this but it's such an incredible photo.
January 17, 2026 at 2:37 PM
I know I already shared this but it's such an incredible photo.
Lethal violence may be "normal" (routine) for US policing & immigration enforcement but it ought never be "normal" (acceptable) to us. And that's why we must abolish ICE.
January 17, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Lethal violence may be "normal" (routine) for US policing & immigration enforcement but it ought never be "normal" (acceptable) to us. And that's why we must abolish ICE.
The only difference between Renee Good and these people is that the Renees of this country (White US citizen women) usually aren't the target of such astonishing violence. imo, the best way to honor Renee is to extend that same righteous anger to all people afflicted by state violence.
January 17, 2026 at 2:18 PM
The only difference between Renee Good and these people is that the Renees of this country (White US citizen women) usually aren't the target of such astonishing violence. imo, the best way to honor Renee is to extend that same righteous anger to all people afflicted by state violence.
On a "good" year, ICE detention kills 5-10 people. These people were not sentenced to death; the system that assumed full responsibility for their care when it incarcerated them was so careless and reckless with that responsibility that they died.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in two decades. Here are the 32 people who died in custody
The deaths came as the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement, detaining a record number of people
www.theguardian.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:12 PM
On a "good" year, ICE detention kills 5-10 people. These people were not sentenced to death; the system that assumed full responsibility for their care when it incarcerated them was so careless and reckless with that responsibility that they died.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The problem with the refrain "let ICE get back to immigration/their normal work" is that their normal work is deadly, too. Increasingly so, given that 2025 saw the highest number--32--of deaths in detention since the agency's creation.
January 17, 2026 at 2:07 PM
The problem with the refrain "let ICE get back to immigration/their normal work" is that their normal work is deadly, too. Increasingly so, given that 2025 saw the highest number--32--of deaths in detention since the agency's creation.
Very good article
For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
www.ms.now
January 17, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Very good article