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It's been over a year since "Pacifying the Homeland" my book fusion centers was released. It won book of the year awards from @marxistsoc and @ASCCriticalCrim.
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It's currently 40% off if you buy it through @ucpress.
Check it out! https://twitter.com/ucpress/status/1329168786998644737
If you're interested in intelligence, surveillance, police, DHS, marxism, state theory, decarceration, and abolition, my book might interest you. Here's a 
about the book & some related work I've been doing.
about the book & some related work I've been doing.
First, check out this tweet thread summary of my book that I wrote up after "Pacifying the Homeland" won the Sweezy Marxist Sociology Book Award from @marxistsoc: https://twitter.com/Brendan_McQuade/status/1262416542035255297
Back in March, Mark Neocleous & I wrote a piece on how the response to COVID is best understood in terms of medical police. It came out in Radical Philosophy this July
"What we are up against is medical police conducted in the name of health security. " https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/beware-medical-police
"What we are up against is medical police conducted in the name of health security. " https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/beware-medical-police
After the #GeorgeFloyd Rebellion, Camden, NJ--which opens & closes my book--became liberals go-to example to defeat & co-opt #DefundThePolice. For @theappeal, I wrote a quick takedown of the Camden model. Don't believe the hype! https://theappeal.org/camden-police-george-floyd/
In @jacobinmag, I explained why the Camden model is so dangerous. It's a glimpse of a nightmare future of mass supervision — the next potential mutation of the various “peculiar institutions” of racial control and class domination that have shaped the US https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/camden-new-jersey-police-reform-surveillance
Before #GeorgeFloyd the protests, a whistle blower suit focused attention on Maine's fusion center. In the @PressHerald, I explained how this controversy was an opportunity to politically confront mass surveillance: https://www.pressherald.com/2020/05/29/maine-voices-maine-fusion-center-suit-shows-its-time-to-confront-mass-surveillance/
After #GeorgeFloyd, I published an op-ed in the @bangordailynews arguing that Maine should shut down its Fusion Center and confront mass surveillance out of respect for black life and to ensure the freedoms of all Mainers. https://bangordailynews.com/2020/06/13/opinion/contributors/investigate-and-shut-down-the-maine-information-and-analysis-center/?amp=1
About a month later, #BLueLeaks broke & started working closely with journalists to break the story: https://mainebeacon.com/data-breach-exposes-activities-of-maines-secretive-police-intelligence-agency/
. @nathanTbernard and @ChHortonTweets with the @MainerNewsCoop did some of best reporting on #Blueleaks in Maine. Check out this article that combines most of their work: https://mainernews.com/teenager-or-terrorist/
I also started working with state legislators to get them up to speed on the issue. We're currently working on a bill to defund the Maine fusion center (more on that soon I hope): https://www.pressherald.com/2020/06/26/hack-included-documents-from-secretive-maine-police-unit/
I alsohelped other journalists, mostly with the @intercept, make sense of #BlueLeaks documents. Here's a great piece from @AlleenBrown & @MazMHussain https://theintercept.com/2020/09/13/blueleaks-railroad-industry-oil-environmental-journalist-terrorist/
And another from @AlleenBrown https://theintercept.com/2020/08/24/fbi-fusion-center-environmental-wind/
During this time, I also did a comprehensive review of 5 gigs of data on the ME fusion center. Most of the #BlueLeaks reporting focused on the tip of the iceberg. It missed biggest story: police surveillance is mass criminalization & crushes people https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/15/police-surveillance-is-criminalization-and-it-crushes-people/
"No one is taking to the streets facing down tear gas to demand police bureaucracy."
@sh4keer of @stoplapdspying & I criticized calls to regulate & not abolish surveillance & explained how academics & lawyers can use their clout to support movements. https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/09/17/police-bureaucracy-and-abolition-why-reforms-driven-by-professionals-will-renew-state-oppression/
@sh4keer of @stoplapdspying & I criticized calls to regulate & not abolish surveillance & explained how academics & lawyers can use their clout to support movements. https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/09/17/police-bureaucracy-and-abolition-why-reforms-driven-by-professionals-will-renew-state-oppression/
Since then, I've been continuing to mine #BlueLeaks for academic papers, while digging into value theory & for (maybe) another book that will think about how the abolition of prison & police can/must also mean the abolition of law of value.
