Brendan McQuade
@bmcquade.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Criminology at University of Southern Maine: https://usm.maine.edu/directories/people/brendan-mcquade/
Anti-security collective member: https://www.anti-security.org/
Your go-to fusion center critic: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/p
Anti-security collective member: https://www.anti-security.org/
Your go-to fusion center critic: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/p
Remember when the Obama administration decided teenagers & young men were "military aged males" or legit targets for drone assassination?
Obama's normalized & institutionalized war on terror policies & practices. The constitutional lawyer turned pres brought impunity not accountability & now this
Obama's normalized & institutionalized war on terror policies & practices. The constitutional lawyer turned pres brought impunity not accountability & now this
“I found their justification for what they’re doing so flimsy that it makes the case for the Iraq War look like a slam dunk,” Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., said on Morning Joe. interc.pt/4nRmHVf
November 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Remember when the Obama administration decided teenagers & young men were "military aged males" or legit targets for drone assassination?
Obama's normalized & institutionalized war on terror policies & practices. The constitutional lawyer turned pres brought impunity not accountability & now this
Obama's normalized & institutionalized war on terror policies & practices. The constitutional lawyer turned pres brought impunity not accountability & now this
NoICE4ME has been organizing against the deportations machinr for months. We've been targeting Cumberland County Commissioners to get then to stop cooperation btw ICE & the sheriff. Yesterday organizers & coalition partners gave powerful presentations to the county
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September 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
NoICE4ME has been organizing against the deportations machinr for months. We've been targeting Cumberland County Commissioners to get then to stop cooperation btw ICE & the sheriff. Yesterday organizers & coalition partners gave powerful presentations to the county
www.youtube.com/live/cJKLM0Y...
www.youtube.com/live/cJKLM0Y...
This is one my all time favorite books & writers. Mayer is really underappreciated essayist. This book on fascism is like Studs Terkel meets Wilhem Riech
From Milton Mayer's "They Thought They Were Free"
I first read it in November and I'm rereading it now. It crushing feeling the exact same things as this academic did. It's the same process.
I first read it in November and I'm rereading it now. It crushing feeling the exact same things as this academic did. It's the same process.
September 18, 2025 at 4:13 AM
This is one my all time favorite books & writers. Mayer is really underappreciated essayist. This book on fascism is like Studs Terkel meets Wilhem Riech
Doubleplusgood
The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
September 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Doubleplusgood
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A prestige TV series of China Mievelle's Bas-Lag trilogy. Pls spectacle pls
August 28, 2025 at 11:11 PM
A prestige TV series of China Mievelle's Bas-Lag trilogy. Pls spectacle pls
"ICE came for Gratien Milandou-Wamba. That tells us everything"
GMW is refugee, was as a sheriff's deputy & now is an ICE detainee. The op-ed below explains the significance of the case & advocates for campaign to end Cumberland County's cooperation with ICE.
www.pressherald.com?p=7471455&uu...
GMW is refugee, was as a sheriff's deputy & now is an ICE detainee. The op-ed below explains the significance of the case & advocates for campaign to end Cumberland County's cooperation with ICE.
www.pressherald.com?p=7471455&uu...
ICE came for Gratien Milandou-Wamba. That tells us everything. | Opinion
The Cumberland County corrections officer was not protected by the system he served.
www.pressherald.com
July 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
"ICE came for Gratien Milandou-Wamba. That tells us everything"
GMW is refugee, was as a sheriff's deputy & now is an ICE detainee. The op-ed below explains the significance of the case & advocates for campaign to end Cumberland County's cooperation with ICE.
www.pressherald.com?p=7471455&uu...
GMW is refugee, was as a sheriff's deputy & now is an ICE detainee. The op-ed below explains the significance of the case & advocates for campaign to end Cumberland County's cooperation with ICE.
www.pressherald.com?p=7471455&uu...
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Seems like Trump’s most powerful advisor being a white nationalist should inspire greater alarm than the possible mayor of new york being pro palestinian rights
June 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Seems like Trump’s most powerful advisor being a white nationalist should inspire greater alarm than the possible mayor of new york being pro palestinian rights
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Can’t successfully push back on ICE without rejecting the criminalization that makes it possible.
June 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Can’t successfully push back on ICE without rejecting the criminalization that makes it possible.
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On May 28, 2020, thousands of community members overran the Minneapolis Police 3rd Precinct and lit the police station on fire in response to days of police violence following the horrific murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police. Watch the night as it unfolded. unicornriot.ninja/2025/reporte...
Reporter Reflection on George Floyd Uprising – Episode 3 (Parts 1 and 2) - UNICORN RIOT
May 28, 2020, the third day of the George Floyd Uprising, was the most significant as the community continued directing its outrage at the Minneapolis Police’s 3rd Precinct, leading to it being ransac...
unicornriot.ninja
May 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
On May 28, 2020, thousands of community members overran the Minneapolis Police 3rd Precinct and lit the police station on fire in response to days of police violence following the horrific murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police. Watch the night as it unfolded. unicornriot.ninja/2025/reporte...
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Why celebrate May Day?
This year, in taking the streets, we are showing each other who is prepared to fight:
"Take a stand—we'll be there, too."
Every year, we are showing that we are part of a story greater than ourselves, stretching back centuries.
Life reinventing itself in defiance of death.
This year, in taking the streets, we are showing each other who is prepared to fight:
"Take a stand—we'll be there, too."
Every year, we are showing that we are part of a story greater than ourselves, stretching back centuries.
Life reinventing itself in defiance of death.
The May Days: Stories of Courage and Resistance
A century and a half of rebellions, uprisings, daring escapes, and adventures celebrating May Day and our collective capacity for freedom and self-determination.
crimethinc.com
May 1, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Why celebrate May Day?
This year, in taking the streets, we are showing each other who is prepared to fight:
"Take a stand—we'll be there, too."
Every year, we are showing that we are part of a story greater than ourselves, stretching back centuries.
Life reinventing itself in defiance of death.
This year, in taking the streets, we are showing each other who is prepared to fight:
"Take a stand—we'll be there, too."
Every year, we are showing that we are part of a story greater than ourselves, stretching back centuries.
Life reinventing itself in defiance of death.
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I wrote for New York magazine about deportations to CECOT in El Salvador, which are bound up with a tradition of US extrajudicial actions in the Americas and further the long arc of concentration camps.
Trump and Bukele’s Concentration Camp
CECOT is no regular prison. It is also a warning.
nymag.com
April 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I wrote for New York magazine about deportations to CECOT in El Salvador, which are bound up with a tradition of US extrajudicial actions in the Americas and further the long arc of concentration camps.
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Workers unite! May Day march and rally this Thursday. This is a coalition of union members, community members, parents and students. Join us! Begins at 3:30 at USM. We hit the streets @ 4:15. #unionstrong #solidarity #resist @bmcquade.bsky.social @kidsarcanum.bsky.social @abstractfigure.bsky.social
April 30, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Workers unite! May Day march and rally this Thursday. This is a coalition of union members, community members, parents and students. Join us! Begins at 3:30 at USM. We hit the streets @ 4:15. #unionstrong #solidarity #resist @bmcquade.bsky.social @kidsarcanum.bsky.social @abstractfigure.bsky.social
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Join us this Sunday, May 4 from 12 to 2p! Bring signs and your voices. If you are a Wells resident, please also attend the select board meeting on Tuesday, May 6. It’s an opportunity to express your dissent, or ask questions, and learn more about why this partnership with ICE is harmful.
April 29, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Join us this Sunday, May 4 from 12 to 2p! Bring signs and your voices. If you are a Wells resident, please also attend the select board meeting on Tuesday, May 6. It’s an opportunity to express your dissent, or ask questions, and learn more about why this partnership with ICE is harmful.
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Global military spending rose to US$2.7 trillion in 2024, a 9.4% increase over the previous year—marking the largest annual rise in recent history and a nearly 20% surge over just three years.
This massive spending increase has not made the world any safer. 🧵👇
#WarCostsUsTheEarth
This massive spending increase has not made the world any safer. 🧵👇
#WarCostsUsTheEarth
April 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Global military spending rose to US$2.7 trillion in 2024, a 9.4% increase over the previous year—marking the largest annual rise in recent history and a nearly 20% surge over just three years.
This massive spending increase has not made the world any safer. 🧵👇
#WarCostsUsTheEarth
This massive spending increase has not made the world any safer. 🧵👇
#WarCostsUsTheEarth
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“We’re upset with ICE but the police are okay,” is a position you can only hold if you’re not aware of how intertwined our local and federal police forces are through shared contracts, spaces, practices, and attitudes. The fusion centers launched in the GWOT are the site of the …fusion of forces.
1️⃣ Maryland's GOP sheriffs are rushing to join an ICE program that's one of the most visible funnels into the deportation machinery.
State Democrats were on the verge of banning the program in Maryland—but chose to stand down.
@burness.bsky.social reports on what happened, & why it matters:
State Democrats were on the verge of banning the program in Maryland—but chose to stand down.
@burness.bsky.social reports on what happened, & why it matters:
“A Betrayal in Slow Motion”: Maryland Democrats Forgo Banning ICE Contracts - Bolts
The clock neared midnight on Monday, April 7, the final day of Maryland’s 2025 legislative session, and immigrant rights advocates, who’d been at the statehouse all day, and for many... Read More
boltsmag.org
April 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
“We’re upset with ICE but the police are okay,” is a position you can only hold if you’re not aware of how intertwined our local and federal police forces are through shared contracts, spaces, practices, and attitudes. The fusion centers launched in the GWOT are the site of the …fusion of forces.
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It's almost like Democrats in power have been warned for *years* by a large coalition of activists that punitive and surveillance infrastructure will be used against vulnerable people and they just ignored it--for security theater at best, and active or quiet agreement with republicans at worst.
April 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
It's almost like Democrats in power have been warned for *years* by a large coalition of activists that punitive and surveillance infrastructure will be used against vulnerable people and they just ignored it--for security theater at best, and active or quiet agreement with republicans at worst.
I'm take ibuprofen before I play pickup basketball years old today
April 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I'm take ibuprofen before I play pickup basketball years old today
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🚨 @nysfocus.bsky.social scoop:
The State Police maintain a gang database that gets shared with ICE.
It contains over 5,100 names and uses hazy criteria like tattoos, clothing, and social associations to label people as gang members. It hasn't been audited by an outside entity.
full story⬇️
The State Police maintain a gang database that gets shared with ICE.
It contains over 5,100 names and uses hazy criteria like tattoos, clothing, and social associations to label people as gang members. It hasn't been audited by an outside entity.
full story⬇️
April 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🚨 @nysfocus.bsky.social scoop:
The State Police maintain a gang database that gets shared with ICE.
It contains over 5,100 names and uses hazy criteria like tattoos, clothing, and social associations to label people as gang members. It hasn't been audited by an outside entity.
full story⬇️
The State Police maintain a gang database that gets shared with ICE.
It contains over 5,100 names and uses hazy criteria like tattoos, clothing, and social associations to label people as gang members. It hasn't been audited by an outside entity.
full story⬇️
NYSP has 5,000 person gang database. Governor Hochul claims NYSP won't cooperate with President Trump's mass deportation campaign — yet the agency funnels the gang database into a federal system that makes it instantly available to ICE.
nysfocus.com/2025/04/23/t...
nysfocus.com/2025/04/23/t...
The New York State Police Are Feeding ICE a Gang Database
For 20 years, state police have been quietly building a database of suspected gang members — and they're feeding it to Donald Trump's administration.
nysfocus.com
April 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
NYSP has 5,000 person gang database. Governor Hochul claims NYSP won't cooperate with President Trump's mass deportation campaign — yet the agency funnels the gang database into a federal system that makes it instantly available to ICE.
nysfocus.com/2025/04/23/t...
nysfocus.com/2025/04/23/t...
