Brendan Hornbostel

they/them // GW grad student // former journalist // cops, colonialism, capitalism, counterinsurgency // eternally nascent radical intellectual #AbolishMPD

[Brendan Hornbostel @bthornbostel]

@rafkhach @stschrader1 Yeah that sounds right. I didn’t get into the 1936 bonus payment but reading FDR’s veto makes clear that work programs like the CCC were the primary solution—rather than treating veterans as a special class. For instance, out of 3k marchers in 1933, 2,657 took CCC jobs and left

[Brendan Hornbostel @bthornbostel]

@stschrader1 @rafkhach The eviction riots were precipitated by veteran (& nonveteran) resistance to DC police camps through expanded squatting. After McArthur’s “Bonus War,” the New Deal effectively expands the counterinsurgent logics of DC policing to stave off revolution—no paramilitary force needed.

[Brendan Hornbostel @bthornbostel]

@stschrader1 @rafkhach Longer dissertation answer: The DC police department actually invented the “Bonus Expeditionary Force” as a patriotic lobbying organization to manage the veterans during the Bonus March, including through an auxiliary military police force of antiradical veterans. …

[a = all out against 🧊 @scott_a_ross]

Both federal agents that killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti this month had around a decade of training each. This is not about untrained Trump goons, nor is it about bad apples. This is ICE. This is CBP. This is policing.

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

Conflicting info on whether Pretti was murdered by ICE or CBP makes it clear that ICE is not single "rogue agency"

ICE, CBP and ALL policing & borders must be abolished. This isnt one agency; its infrastructure of carceral control, illegalization & criminalization, and fascism.

[Stuart Schrader @stschrader1]

Six years to the day after the assassination of Soleimani, Trump once again enacts his bilious version of global police power. As I wrote at the time in @ForeignPolicy:

[Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy]

a bunch of government goons from ICE/HSI showed up to an elementary school in DC this morning and tried to detain a staff member in the parking lot but the person's colleagues intervened and stopped it and let that be a reminder to all of us that we can do that

[Ted Rutland @TedRutland]

The kidnapping of Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil makes clear what student activists have been saying for years: campus Palestine solidarity organizing is about liberating Palestine as well as our universities - which in their present form are abetting US and global fascism.

[GWU Grad Workers United @gwugwunited]

WE WON OUR UNION!
A resounding victory with for GWU grad students.
347 YES
2 NO
99.4% yes!
#gwu2 #gwu

[tatiana llaguno @tatianallaguno]

What a day to teach Benjamin…

[People's City Council - Los Angeles @PplsCityCouncil]

Read George Jackson

[vivafalastin 🇵🇸 @vivafalastin]

KEEP SHARING, KEEP PRESSURING!

here is a poem marcellus wrote about the genocide in gaza. our struggles are entwined!

[Stop The Sweeps DC @StoptheSweepsDC]

Call @dcpl and sign our petition at https://t.co/t0tR2DKlLb to tell DC Public Libraries to stop criminalizing homelessness!

[Food Not Bombs DC @dc_fnb]

Via @stopthesweepsdc ! @dcpl and the @DowntownDCBID collaborating to make life harder for unhoused and at risk DC residents. #stopthesweeps

[Stop Police Terror Project DC @StopCopTerrorDC]

Let's be really clear. @MayorBowser decided that she couldn't stand up to a few Republicans in Congress so she happily let MPD do this to DC students the night before she testifies before the House Oversight Committee

[Stop Police Terror Project DC @StopCopTerrorDC]

Cowards waited until 4 AM ON A FUCKING WEDNESDAY to assault college students

[a = all out against 🧊 @scott_a_ross]

Just want to uplift, as the Gaza solidarity encampment at GWU grows and passes the uni admin's deadline, that there's also a campaign to stop DC gov and NPS from evicting a nearby encampment of unhoused folks in the lead up to America's 250 bday. https://t.co/nXiqOVJkp4

[Escalate Network @readytoescalate]

This statement from Emory University protestors is incredible.