“Terrorist”: How #ICE Weaponized 9/11’s Scarlet Letter

#SpencerAckerman on how the politics of #counterterrorism led to ICE and #CBP completing their transformation into a #DeathSquad — and why the agencies are unreformable.

The Intercept Briefing
February 6 2026

"The word 'terrorist' wasn’t coined on September 11, 2001, but the defining event of the early 21st century ushered it in as the United States’ go-to term for demonizing outsiders and dissenters alike. The so-called “war on terror” transformed the way the U.S. wields power at home and abroad, enabling mass surveillance and a crackdown on the right to free speech. It became reflexive for the U.S. to disparage immigrants and protesters as supporters of terrorism.

"President Donald Trump has embraced this model and manipulated it for his own ends, as author Spencer Ackerman points out. The #Trump administration often peddles spurious accusations of #terrorism against the targets of its #ImmigrationRaids."

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/06/spencer-ackerman-9-11-terrorists-ice/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/7VepO

#NineEleven #USPol #ICESucks #DomesticTerrorist #CriminalizingDissent #TrumpSucks #MurderPatrol #BorderPatrol #Profiling #RacialProfing #DefundICE #DefundDHS #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity

Do the lessons of the Holocaust apply to Israel and “skinny Palestinians”?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/michael-f-brown/do-lessons-holocaust-apply-israel-and-skinny-palestinians

#AmericanPrestige pod | The Arrest of #MahmoudKhalil w/ #SpencerAckerman

https://americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/listen/american-prestige-1/special-the-arrest-of-mahmoud-khalil-w-spencer-ackerman

Ackerman's piece @ Forever Wars : https://www.forever-wars.com/mahmoud-khalils-detention-is-a-war-on-terror-milestone/

#FreeMahmoudKhalil #RightToProtest #FreeSpeechOnCampus #StudentProtests #Palestine #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #PoliticalPrisoners #DHS #ICEdetention #StateRepression #USpol #USpolitics @palestine

vi ricordate la famigerata frase di #Bannon: "Darkness is good. Dick Cheney, Darth Vader, Satan.That's power" ?
Giornalista Usa #SpencerAckerman ha analizzato come la brutalità della #WarOnTerror di Bush e Cheney ha contribuito a creare #Trump

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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/spencer-ackerman-trump-9-11-reign-of-terror-1222963/

"@parismarx is joined by #SpencerAckerman to discuss the past year of #Israel's actions in #Palestine and the innovations in #WarTechnology being used to carry out what the ICJ has deemed a 'plausible' #GenocideInGaza."

https://techwontsave.us/episode/242_gaza_is_a_laboratory_for_future_warfare_w_spencer_ackerman

#Gaza #oPt #tech #AI @palestine @israel

#TechWontSaveUs

from #CommonDreams
- #MehdiHasan Launches Media Platform With #NaomiKlein, #GretaThunberg, and More (#RulaJebreal #DianaButtu #CynthiaNixon #VietThanhNguyen #SpencerAckerman #WKamauBell #JohnHarwood and others)

The journalist says #Zeteo will feature "hard-hitting interviews and unsparing analysis" in op-eds, podcasts, and streaming shows.

#news #press @palestine @israel
https://www.commondreams.org/news/mehdi-hasan-msnbc

#SpencerAckerman has said he owes me a beer for helping him find a reference he asked about on twitter, years ago. I'm going to let it go, after reading this masterpiece. #kissinger

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/