Mike German
@rethinkintel.bsky.social
Author: "Policing White Supremacy,” "Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide," "Thinking Like a Terrorist." Co-writer of "Imperium." Former FBI Special Agent, turned civil rights advocate. Re-posts are not endorsements.
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Mike German
@rethinkintel.bsky.social
· Nov 19
First copy of my new book, "Policing White Supremacy," out in the wild. Available on Jan. 6, 2025, from The New Press. thenewpress.com/books/polici...
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What research tells us about national security under authoritarianism.
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The Trumpification of the FBI
What research tells us about national security under authoritarianism.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
What research tells us about national security under authoritarianism.
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Read the latest from @donmoyn.bsky.social for Lincoln Square
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None of this has ever been about “dangerous people” considering Purdue Pharma killed how many people hmm?
This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
None of this has ever been about “dangerous people” considering Purdue Pharma killed how many people hmm?
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Guaranteed multimillion-dollar payouts for immigrant bounty hunters, paid out by the US government. from @dell.bsky.social
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Guaranteed multimillion-dollar payouts for immigrant bounty hunters, paid out by the US government. from @dell.bsky.social
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Church Employee in Texas Allegedly Posed as ICE Agent to Extort Woman
"Safety director" at the Gateway Community church in Webster, TX, near Houston, is alleged to have used fake ID to extort a masseuse. After a massage, he showed her an ICE ID and asked for her ID. Then forced her to Zelle him $.
"Safety director" at the Gateway Community church in Webster, TX, near Houston, is alleged to have used fake ID to extort a masseuse. After a massage, he showed her an ICE ID and asked for her ID. Then forced her to Zelle him $.
Church employee in Texas allegedly posed as ICE agent to extort woman
Man arrested in Houston is alleged to have used fake ID to demand $400 from woman who had given him massage
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Church Employee in Texas Allegedly Posed as ICE Agent to Extort Woman
"Safety director" at the Gateway Community church in Webster, TX, near Houston, is alleged to have used fake ID to extort a masseuse. After a massage, he showed her an ICE ID and asked for her ID. Then forced her to Zelle him $.
"Safety director" at the Gateway Community church in Webster, TX, near Houston, is alleged to have used fake ID to extort a masseuse. After a massage, he showed her an ICE ID and asked for her ID. Then forced her to Zelle him $.
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"Uncommon phrases" by "anarchist extremists"? Count in thousands of people from my friends list, then.
Published in 2022, even under Biden they were doing this shit. Look at this stuff again if you didn't pay attention. These ideas are threats to power.
Published in 2022, even under Biden they were doing this shit. Look at this stuff again if you didn't pay attention. These ideas are threats to power.
November 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
"Uncommon phrases" by "anarchist extremists"? Count in thousands of people from my friends list, then.
Published in 2022, even under Biden they were doing this shit. Look at this stuff again if you didn't pay attention. These ideas are threats to power.
Published in 2022, even under Biden they were doing this shit. Look at this stuff again if you didn't pay attention. These ideas are threats to power.
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We've come to expect this level of idiocy and ignorance from republicans but I hope this underscores the extent to which democrats, including dem leadership, are complicit in maintaining the status quo that got us into the wealth disparity/affordability crisis that we're in right now
November 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
We've come to expect this level of idiocy and ignorance from republicans but I hope this underscores the extent to which democrats, including dem leadership, are complicit in maintaining the status quo that got us into the wealth disparity/affordability crisis that we're in right now
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Engagement on our updates re: ICE kidnappings/fed siege of Los Angeles is significantly lower on Bluesky compared to Twitter. Do ppl on here not care about LA anymore? Are feeds being taken over by liberal commentators? What's going on?
Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.
Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.
The feds are escalating in Los Angeles. We've seen record high kidnappings and our communities are under attack. The media focus on LA has died down so electeds don't feel the need to even feign opposition.
People are out here fighting. We need all of us. Join the struggle. Defend your neighbors.
People are out here fighting. We need all of us. Join the struggle. Defend your neighbors.
DAILY MEMO: Over 50 Arrested in Record Raids: Baby, Pregnant Mom, Gardeners, Sons, Elderly, Vendors, Unhoused In Last Two Days
Full report: lataco.com/daily-memo-o...
Full report: lataco.com/daily-memo-o...
November 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Engagement on our updates re: ICE kidnappings/fed siege of Los Angeles is significantly lower on Bluesky compared to Twitter. Do ppl on here not care about LA anymore? Are feeds being taken over by liberal commentators? What's going on?
Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.
Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.
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‘If we don’t oppress, we will inevitably be victims’ is the mindset of modern colonialism and white supremacy boiled to its essence
November 19, 2025 at 2:11 AM
‘If we don’t oppress, we will inevitably be victims’ is the mindset of modern colonialism and white supremacy boiled to its essence
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the level of islamophobia which is seen as acceptable in public discourse is absolutely disgusting.
Noah Smith is doing Judeo-Bolshevism but about Muslims and Arabs
November 19, 2025 at 4:14 AM
the level of islamophobia which is seen as acceptable in public discourse is absolutely disgusting.
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ICE is using a new app called Mobile Fortify to scan people's faces and determine their immigration status.
The government's use of biased, unreliable facial recognition tech to supercharge its mass deportation campaign endangers all of our rights.
The government's use of biased, unreliable facial recognition tech to supercharge its mass deportation campaign endangers all of our rights.
Face Recognition and the ‘Trump Terror’: A Marriage Made in Hell | ACLU
ICE and CBP are smashing their way not only through car windows but also through any constraints on the use of face recognition
www.aclu.org
November 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
ICE is using a new app called Mobile Fortify to scan people's faces and determine their immigration status.
The government's use of biased, unreliable facial recognition tech to supercharge its mass deportation campaign endangers all of our rights.
The government's use of biased, unreliable facial recognition tech to supercharge its mass deportation campaign endangers all of our rights.
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I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.
November 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.
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unintentionally revealing that he’s not in or even aware of any networks who are at this moment doing exactly what he claims no one is doing because he’s not doing it
November 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
unintentionally revealing that he’s not in or even aware of any networks who are at this moment doing exactly what he claims no one is doing because he’s not doing it
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It’s useful for people of my generation to be reminded that this wasn’t that long ago. Ruby Bridges isn’t just still alive—she’s only 71, not ancient!
65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.
November 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
It’s useful for people of my generation to be reminded that this wasn’t that long ago. Ruby Bridges isn’t just still alive—she’s only 71, not ancient!
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every time I explain to my coworkers that a social media influencer from out of town has convinced the Trump administration that the Portland police are antifa, they look at me like I've sprouted a second head www.theverge.com/policy/81340...
November 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
every time I explain to my coworkers that a social media influencer from out of town has convinced the Trump administration that the Portland police are antifa, they look at me like I've sprouted a second head www.theverge.com/policy/81340...
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It’s cool that Chuck Schumer, Kiersten Gillibrand, and Hakeem Jeffries just proved to every future dem that establishment approval is irrelevant tbh
Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
November 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
It’s cool that Chuck Schumer, Kiersten Gillibrand, and Hakeem Jeffries just proved to every future dem that establishment approval is irrelevant tbh
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"The number of Jake Chatterbrook-Silvers who will call for the GOP to moderate its extreme right-wing positions and focus on voters' kitchen table anxieties will be precisely 0."
"So … the dinner party issues that plague the brains of elite freaks are not the authentic will of the people?"
"So … the dinner party issues that plague the brains of elite freaks are not the authentic will of the people?"
I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
"The number of Jake Chatterbrook-Silvers who will call for the GOP to moderate its extreme right-wing positions and focus on voters' kitchen table anxieties will be precisely 0."
"So … the dinner party issues that plague the brains of elite freaks are not the authentic will of the people?"
"So … the dinner party issues that plague the brains of elite freaks are not the authentic will of the people?"
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We need to address the fact that the LAPD - which is not ICE and at least nominally under the control of a liberal Democrat -- is violent and out of control and violating human rights just like the feds are
Cops going aggro on Sunset near Echo Park in LA after the Dodgers Win. Shooting people with less lethals from point blank range, horses running people and press down. Literally minutes before, fireworks in the street
November 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
We need to address the fact that the LAPD - which is not ICE and at least nominally under the control of a liberal Democrat -- is violent and out of control and violating human rights just like the feds are
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New from me: The police are defunding our cities. In LA, LAPD’s growing liability lawsuits are costing taxpayers millions of dollars in payouts. $400m in payouts since 2019. The biggest culprits: protests, police shootings, and car collisions. More👇
lapublicpress.org/2025/11/lapd...
lapublicpress.org/2025/11/lapd...
Inside LAPD's nearly $400M settlement crisis that's bankrupting LA
Taxpayers are covering civil rights violations and officer misconduct while basic city services face cuts—and a new audit could reveal whether LAPD is doing anything to stop the pattern.
lapublicpress.org
November 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
New from me: The police are defunding our cities. In LA, LAPD’s growing liability lawsuits are costing taxpayers millions of dollars in payouts. $400m in payouts since 2019. The biggest culprits: protests, police shootings, and car collisions. More👇
lapublicpress.org/2025/11/lapd...
lapublicpress.org/2025/11/lapd...
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OT1H, I really don't want to know what this about (guessing stand-your-ground laws, which are correlated with higher homicide rates?).
OTOH, they're not wrong (tho maybe this is getting away with it illegally?).
OTOH, they're not wrong (tho maybe this is getting away with it illegally?).
November 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
OT1H, I really don't want to know what this about (guessing stand-your-ground laws, which are correlated with higher homicide rates?).
OTOH, they're not wrong (tho maybe this is getting away with it illegally?).
OTOH, they're not wrong (tho maybe this is getting away with it illegally?).
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2/8
Each morning begins with fear: crime clips, border “invasions,” & Deep State lies. By night, that fear turns into punishment memes & calls for revenge. This is no accident. It’s a daily outrage cycle built to control emotion and attention. #RightWatch #DisinformationPlaybook youtu.be/_2dYNXXzA84
Each morning begins with fear: crime clips, border “invasions,” & Deep State lies. By night, that fear turns into punishment memes & calls for revenge. This is no accident. It’s a daily outrage cycle built to control emotion and attention. #RightWatch #DisinformationPlaybook youtu.be/_2dYNXXzA84
Emotion for Sale: The New Global Market
YouTube video by Daily MindBrew
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November 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
2/8
Each morning begins with fear: crime clips, border “invasions,” & Deep State lies. By night, that fear turns into punishment memes & calls for revenge. This is no accident. It’s a daily outrage cycle built to control emotion and attention. #RightWatch #DisinformationPlaybook youtu.be/_2dYNXXzA84
Each morning begins with fear: crime clips, border “invasions,” & Deep State lies. By night, that fear turns into punishment memes & calls for revenge. This is no accident. It’s a daily outrage cycle built to control emotion and attention. #RightWatch #DisinformationPlaybook youtu.be/_2dYNXXzA84
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Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María Garcia-Maldonado at ICE detention facility: “Being here is an act of holiness…soon we will seek access to the facility to bring the Eucharist to our brothers and sisters; if they say no again, we will keep praying.”
November 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María Garcia-Maldonado at ICE detention facility: “Being here is an act of holiness…soon we will seek access to the facility to bring the Eucharist to our brothers and sisters; if they say no again, we will keep praying.”
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The continued failure of mainstream media to recognize or acknowledge the racial demographic anxiety undergirding and enabling the political moment and eroding of democracy, government and the safety net, is an abdication that makes us complicit.
November 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The continued failure of mainstream media to recognize or acknowledge the racial demographic anxiety undergirding and enabling the political moment and eroding of democracy, government and the safety net, is an abdication that makes us complicit.
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“The driver’s family identified him as Carlos Jimenez, 24, a U.S. citizen, and said he was on his way to work at a food bank when the shooting occurred.”
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
October 31, 2025 at 9:08 PM
“The driver’s family identified him as Carlos Jimenez, 24, a U.S. citizen, and said he was on his way to work at a food bank when the shooting occurred.”
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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You really have to hand it to the people who came up with the concept of “cancel culture” — it’s a tremendously flexible tool usable by everybody. Why, here it is being used to explain why an organization nominally about values can’t reject overt antisemites.
Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts stands by Tucker Carlson after the former Fox News host release his controversial interview with Nick Fuentes.
"The Heritage Foundation didn't become the intellectual backbone of the conservative movement by canceling our own people" x.com/KevinRoberts...
"The Heritage Foundation didn't become the intellectual backbone of the conservative movement by canceling our own people" x.com/KevinRoberts...
October 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
You really have to hand it to the people who came up with the concept of “cancel culture” — it’s a tremendously flexible tool usable by everybody. Why, here it is being used to explain why an organization nominally about values can’t reject overt antisemites.