Max Granger

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Max Granger@maxgranger· 15d

Day two, tree sit is still up 🔥

Max Granger@maxgranger· 16d

"Border security" is a death cult

Max Granger@maxgranger· 21d

Correction: at least *33 people* killed by immigration enforcement so far in 2026. I have updated this list to include Dr. Linda Davis, who died in a car crash caused by ICE on February 16, 2026. Updated list here: maxgranger.substack.com/p/ice-killings…

Max Granger@maxgranger· 22d

At least 32 people have died at the hands of ICE and Border Patrol so far in 2026. These are their names.

Max Granger@maxgranger· 24d

Old habits (atrocity apologia) die hard, I guess. From The New Yorker Archives:

Max Granger@maxgranger· Jul 14

Max Granger@maxgranger· Jun 16

Three extraordinary stories in my translation, for the latest issue of Beacon, a magazine from @elfaroenglish.bsky.social Give it a read!

Max Granger@maxgranger· May 29

Official white house dot gov ICE kidnapping tracker page. We are ruled by the stupidest, most evil people alive.

Max Granger@maxgranger· May 27

"Fascism itself is constituted through the quotidian violence of the border." -Harsha Walia

"It is not just that anti-immigration sentiment and white nationalism are the current ideological fodder for fascist forces. Rather, fascism itself-which relies on the idea of a homogeneous, exclusionary body politic - is constituted through the quotidian violence of the border, the perfect breeding ground for fantasies of ethnonationalism, cultural supremacy, racial purity, and Darwinian lifeboat survivalism. Simply put, because borders provide the ideological basis for fascism, being an antifascist means being a border"

Max Granger@maxgranger· May 27

It's not a "failure" if you're not even trying. This is state-sanctioned murder.

"An examination of the 10 suicide deaths found the men died across ICE's detention network, including at centers long run by private contractors and county jails who recently became ICE partners. The AP found that staff in the facilities ignored signs of distress, delayed mental health treatment and failed to monitor detainees who were already deemed at risk. They also permitted detainees to have access to materials that could be used for self-harm, according to AP's review of ICE inspection reports and death records.

In some cases, they jailed distressed detainees in isolation, which can exacerbate feelings of humiliation and helplessness, according to experts."

Max Granger@maxgranger· Apr 28

🙃

Max Granger@maxgranger· Apr 21

A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, hooded, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge. “They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”

Max Granger@maxgranger· Apr 20

As @jwashing.bsky.social recently told @austinkocher.com: the term we typically use to describe this sort of thing—"medical neglect"—is a misnomer. This is not medical neglect; this is medical torture.

The cyst is now estimated to be the size of the tennis ball, and her case has caught the attention of international human rights groups, members of Congress and religious groups from her home state of Minnesota.
"She just told me that the pain extends all the way to her back now. And that when she has her period, which usually lasts three days, it's lasting 10 days. So that's part of the concern, is that she's going to start bleeding out from the cyst," said Ruby Powers, a Houston immigration attorney who is representing Pedro Francisco. Powers visited the woman on Friday at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center near El Paso
International Airport.
Powers said Pedro Francisco has received poor medical treatment in ICE custody - first at
Camp East Montana at Fort Bliss and now at the El Paso processing center.
"They're like, why are you telling people you're not getting treatment?" Powers said of health care providers at the processing center. "And they keep telling her she doesn't have a cyst. They do ultrasounds and say there's nothing there, and they give her constipation medication. She takes the medication and she still has the pain."
"For over a month, my office has gone back and forth with ICE officials about Andrea's condition. We've been ignored, put off, and lied to about the treatment she has received while in detention," Craig

Max Granger@maxgranger· Apr 3

Mary Turfah in conversation with Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, in @proteanmag.com: proteanmag.com/2026/04/02/h...

Max Granger@maxgranger· Apr 2

In a video filmed in Chiapas, Perez’s father expresses disbelief at the official account of his son’s death and pleads for help bringing his body home. “My son could not have taken his own life like that because he’s not mentally unwell. There’s nothing wrong with him. He was fine.”

Max Granger@maxgranger· Apr 1

Chief Banks firing these off from his autohotel room in Cartagena 👍

Max Granger@maxgranger· Mar 19

Max Granger@maxgranger· Mar 13

Checking in on the evolving legal definition of “terrorism”:

Max Granger@maxgranger· Mar 12

perhaps best defined by the goat NYT war propagandist herself:

Max Granger@maxgranger· Mar 12

"military reporting"

Max Granger@maxgranger· Feb 11

This is just the tip of the iceberg and should come as no surprise.

Max Granger@maxgranger· Feb 10

*concentration camps

Max Granger@maxgranger· Feb 9

Also bears repeating that Tom Homan was first appointed to ICE leadership by Obama.

Max Granger@maxgranger· Feb 9

"Despite what they say, it’s not that fascists don’t want migrants; they rely on an anti-migrant politics in order to further racism and in order to further the exploitation, precarity and deportability of migrants."

Max Granger@maxgranger· Feb 9

A for-profit concentration camp opened by Obama in 2014 and normalized by corporate media as necessary for containing the ‘flood,’ ‘surge’ etc of ‘illegal’ families ‘pouring’ over the border.

Max Granger@maxgranger· Feb 6

Anyhow, hope everyone has a nice weekend. I'll be re-reading this 1967 essay by Hal Draper for no particular reason. www.marxists.org/archive/drap...

Max Granger@maxgranger· Feb 6

And 67, of course, is for 1967 (Israel occupies West Bank and Gaza). That symbolism slaps no cap, but I get why they went with 68 (1968, DNC fiasco, Nixon wins the presidency).

Max Granger@maxgranger· Feb 5

“The community’s response has been to create an ecosystem of care that does more than proclaim to ‘love your neighbor’—members of the Somali community, alongside allies across community lines, are building the means necessary to protect and defend each other.” ❤️‍🔥

Max Granger@maxgranger· Feb 4

At least 15 people are dead and 25 injured after the Greek Coast Guard capsized a boat carrying migrants off the coast of Turkey. bbc.com/news/article...