Barry Langford
@barrylangford1999.bsky.social
Professor of Film Studies at Royal Holloway, sometime screenwriter. Many opinions, largely uninformed, all my own. End the genocide in Palestine 🇵🇸 BDS
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before you take any of the "Trump is pivoting/lamenting/lowering the temperature after the Pretti murder" stories too seriously, absolutely nothing has changed in Minneapolis: "an absolutely brutal day of raids and abductions" says one friend
January 27, 2026 at 9:25 PM
before you take any of the "Trump is pivoting/lamenting/lowering the temperature after the Pretti murder" stories too seriously, absolutely nothing has changed in Minneapolis: "an absolutely brutal day of raids and abductions" says one friend
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Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him.
“When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."
“When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."
January 27, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him.
“When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."
“When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."
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i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
January 27, 2026 at 3:15 PM
i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
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Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
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in terms of violent confrontations, though, homan won’t be out on the streets stirring that up. he’ll be nestled safely in the whipple building. just as evil as bovino but a different energy.
While glad to see Bovino humbled, I really don’t have any higher opinion of Homan—a cruel, cold, corrupt, calculating bureaucrat who’s devoted more of his career to mass deportation than almost anyone. He’s the architect of child separation.
January 27, 2026 at 2:16 AM
in terms of violent confrontations, though, homan won’t be out on the streets stirring that up. he’ll be nestled safely in the whipple building. just as evil as bovino but a different energy.
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We will crush the skulls of our enemies beneath our boots and hear the lamentations of their women.
<loses humiliatingly>
Look, I think it’s time to turn down rhe temperature a little. Why are you so divisive?
<loses humiliatingly>
Look, I think it’s time to turn down rhe temperature a little. Why are you so divisive?
January 27, 2026 at 2:46 PM
We will crush the skulls of our enemies beneath our boots and hear the lamentations of their women.
<loses humiliatingly>
Look, I think it’s time to turn down rhe temperature a little. Why are you so divisive?
<loses humiliatingly>
Look, I think it’s time to turn down rhe temperature a little. Why are you so divisive?
Anyone who falls for this is historically illiterate beyond words.
"Good tsar, bad boyars" has been a recurring theme of Trumpism every year the dude's been office. It's wild.
kayfabe
January 27, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Anyone who falls for this is historically illiterate beyond words.
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ICE ➡️ I Commit Executions
January 25, 2026 at 6:50 PM
ICE ➡️ I Commit Executions
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As the son of a man who as a teenager had to hide in an attic to avoid capture by the Nazis: Every word of this thread. Every word.
And this is what I would say to them if I were face to face with them right now: Sooner or later, you will all be going to jail for what you're doing.
And this is what I would say to them if I were face to face with them right now: Sooner or later, you will all be going to jail for what you're doing.
I look forward to the establishment of a Wiesenthal Center-like organization dedicated to identifying and hunting former DHS agents so that they may be held accountable.
January 24, 2026 at 12:45 PM
As the son of a man who as a teenager had to hide in an attic to avoid capture by the Nazis: Every word of this thread. Every word.
And this is what I would say to them if I were face to face with them right now: Sooner or later, you will all be going to jail for what you're doing.
And this is what I would say to them if I were face to face with them right now: Sooner or later, you will all be going to jail for what you're doing.
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When this is all over I hope every ICE agent’s life is an endless nightmare of tension and inconvenience.
You can picture how it must have felt in there. Four fucking Nazis with their shit-eating grins squeezing their fat asses into a booth at a family-owned Mexican place poisoning the entire room with their smug impunity. Desecrating a place of community www.welcometohellworld.com/we-must-love...
January 20, 2026 at 9:25 PM
When this is all over I hope every ICE agent’s life is an endless nightmare of tension and inconvenience.
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Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland.
There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same.
And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment.
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There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same.
And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment.
1/
January 20, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland.
There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same.
And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment.
1/
There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same.
And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment.
1/
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Trump's Board of Peace is basically the G20 for losers, but with a paid blue check to get your posts boosted.
January 20, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Trump's Board of Peace is basically the G20 for losers, but with a paid blue check to get your posts boosted.
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Trump 's so-called “Board of Peace” for Gaza is a colonial Board of Occupation, run by war criminals and profiteers.
We will continue to march. We will continue to boycott. We will continue to speak out.
Until Palestine is free, from the river to the sea.
We will continue to march. We will continue to boycott. We will continue to speak out.
Until Palestine is free, from the river to the sea.
January 19, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Trump 's so-called “Board of Peace” for Gaza is a colonial Board of Occupation, run by war criminals and profiteers.
We will continue to march. We will continue to boycott. We will continue to speak out.
Until Palestine is free, from the river to the sea.
We will continue to march. We will continue to boycott. We will continue to speak out.
Until Palestine is free, from the river to the sea.
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Springsteen nails it, as usual
m.youtube.com/watch?v=kozx...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=kozx...
Promised Land - for Renee Good, Bruce Springsteen, Light of Day, 1/17/26, Count Basie Theater
YouTube video by MarcGlenRock
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January 18, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Springsteen nails it, as usual
m.youtube.com/watch?v=kozx...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=kozx...
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The first thing Virginia Spanberger did after being sworn in as Governor of Virginia was repeal Youngkin’s executive order requiring state and local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE.
This is the kind of leadership Democratic governors nationwide should be emulating.
This is the kind of leadership Democratic governors nationwide should be emulating.
January 18, 2026 at 11:35 AM
The first thing Virginia Spanberger did after being sworn in as Governor of Virginia was repeal Youngkin’s executive order requiring state and local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE.
This is the kind of leadership Democratic governors nationwide should be emulating.
This is the kind of leadership Democratic governors nationwide should be emulating.
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Everyone should read this. Sanity, solidarity and even hope amidst the maelstrom of dreck.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Everyone should read this. Sanity, solidarity and even hope amidst the maelstrom of dreck.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The ICE agents literally are accessories to murder.
January 16, 2026 at 10:03 PM
The ICE agents literally are accessories to murder.
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January 16, 2026 at 10:27 PM
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