Chapter 2 of Copaganda explains why this is important, and how manipulating the volume of news is one way powerful institutions get us afraid of the most vulnerable people in society and unbothered by the far more consequential crimes of those with money and power.

I have not encountered a single sentient being in the real world who thinks that the U.S. and Israel are planning to attack Iran because of a genuine concern for human rights and the rights of protesters. Sometimes, the conduct of the New York Times still takes my breath away.

I’m confused about what you are saying. Murphy has a long record of anti-immigrant (even anti asylum!) and pro armed/militarized/human caging response to immigration. He had a whole period where he and other leading Dems taunted republicans for not being tough enough and deporting enough.

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As I explain with many examples in Copaganda, these systems are functioning exactly as they are designed. This is what they are trained to do. This is what they keep doing. The reasons police policies and behavior are the same in hundreds of cities is that it is intentional.

lol absolutely not what he's doing. he went on unhinged rants during that period about how Democrats were tougher on the border and asylum and immigration in general than Republicans. he was saying she's bragging but didn't deport as many as Biden in the average week.

It should go without saying, but you cannot defeat a fascist movement by accepting, validating, and even celebrating its core assumptions, mythologies, and logics. All people of good will must stand up and insist: 2+2=4. www.youtube.com/watch?v=trck...

Here he is mocking Noem for not being cruel enough. You genuinely cannot make this stuff up. Dozens of Democrats voting to praise ICE, sponsoring the Laken Riley Act, hugging and laughing with Rubio. These people are walking us off the cliff.

Excellent read. I just cited it in a forthcoming chapter that I wrote on Academic Copaganda. This book is a great starting point for academics working on police-based propaganda or media studies in general.

...make it seem like a bad apple situation and not the predictable consequence of the tens of billions they voted for and the shameless rhetoric they peddled fear-mongering about immigration and how the solution to supposed problems was more violent immigration enforcement.

And, separately, it will be important as public anger rightly increases, for all the Minnesota and national Democrats--who boosted ICE, celebrated arming and growing ICE, taunted Republicans for being too weak on immigration enforcement, and bragged about building this fascist infrastructure--to...

It's also important for ICE to erase that this kind of public execution was entirely avoidable in any reasonable society. There was no need for a deployment like this, no need for the street interaction here, no need for the drawing of weapons, no need for firing, etc...