Corene Kendrick
@corene.bsky.social
Opinions of pro-choice feminist futbolista, cat herder, dog lover, civil rights litigator, & Oxford comma nut in SF. No kings, crush ICE. Day job @aclu.org National Prison Project Deputy Director Bossed around by @palmercatsf.bsky.social
Heat is killing Texas prisoners, and state leaders won't shell out for AC [via @slate.com]
Heat is killing Texas prisoners, and state leaders won't shell out for AC
The system for choosing who gets a "cool bed" is arbitrary, inadequate, and ineffective,” a judge ruled.
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New Yorkers had to subsidize the $117 million that the NYPD paid out for misconduct lawsuits in 2025 alone, even though most of them were never personally abused by a cop. Where's your worried op-ed on that one?
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Funny how the one “good apple” trying to do the right thing gets punished, while the whole festering rot of racist sexist homophobic cops skate on by with zero accountability.
Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 5d agoLAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping
Overnight this Omni ICE removal trip refueled in Anchorage and is now likely headed to its second refueling stop in Guam. It’ll be another 10 hours at least before it makes its first removal stop. The people onboard have been shackled for at least 14 hours so far.
"Also among those detained was a Ugandan woman in a wheelchair who has sickle cell anemia and an active asylum application, according to her lawyer." “It’s not people with criminal records” being targeted, Mr. Shamieh said. “You are talking about people with legitimate pending applications.”
Yonette Joseph@sugarcane99.bsky.social · last wk.ICE agents have begun arresting foreign citizens with expired U.S. visas as they travel through airports, including spouses of Americans, according to documents obtained by The NYT and interviews with immigration lawyers — opening up a new pool of possible deportees www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...
ICE literally went into a national forest and arrested people who were swimming, etc. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/n...
ICE agents target NC’s Pisgah National Forest and make multiple arrests, feds say
Immigration and Customs Enforcement extends its reach to western North Carolina’s wilderness areas and makes 13 arrests in Pisgah National Forest, feds say.
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Great piece by @gustavoarellano.bsky.social in the @latimes.com about the rewards of adopting a senior dog, love I know very well from our now-gone Lab. A similar group in the Bay Area is @muttvilledogrescue.bsky.social.
Commentary: The joy and heartbreak of adopting a senior dog
As I stared into Cosmo's tired eye, I remembered the lessons he and Hook taught us. Selflessness. A recommitment to the outcasts, the overlooked, the underdogs of society. A reminder that all good thi...
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BREAKING: A court-appointed monitor issued a groundbreaking public report finding that ICE isn’t providing adequate health care to people detained at the California City Detention Facility in violation of a court order. No one should be subjected to this inhumane treatment.
People who are suddenly deported to countries they haven’t been to for years — or, in some cases, have NEVER been to — are incredibly vulnerable. We are going to be reading stories like this for years. God have mercy on their three little girls.
Adam Sawyer@adamjst.bsky.social · last wk.“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
Yet 98.9% of Americans between the ages of 12-99 have never actually read The Odyssey.
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 2w agoThirty percent of Americans now say it was "inappropriate" to cast Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy. That opinion didn't exist a year ago. Somebody built it. New piece on the campaign against The Odyssey: what it failed to do, and what it actually accomplished. www.readtpa.com/p/where-did-...
ICE's temporary holding facility in Manhattan was built to hold a handful of people for a few hours at a time. For several weeks, ICE packed it with up to 86 people without any beds, showers, or full-time medical staff. We're suing.
ICE officials warned of dangerous crowding. See how they kept packing people in.
Dozens were held for days in small rooms last year with no beds, showers or full-time medical staff, records analyzed by The Post show.
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On Tuesday, a New Jersey town pulled $91M out of Citizens Bank over its business with ICE prison contractors GEO Group and CoreCivic. Yesterday, Citizens announced it was ending its relationships with GEO and CoreCivic. Money managers should DIVEST from $GEO $CXW www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...
This N.J. town just pulled $91M from Citizens Bank over ICE
Two N.J. municipalities have now pulled more than $330 million combined, according to the De-ICE Citizens Bank coalition.
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"Inmates live in bare concrete boxes no bigger than the average parking space. We are stripped of all ... possessions. The longer our sentence, the more we can expect to lose. Many long-term inmates leave prison penniless, without any possessions, nowhere to go, and no one left to greet them."
Prison Journalism Project@prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 3w ago"I first got interested in decluttering two years ago after reading an article about the KonMari Method, the latest organizational method, developed by Japanese influencer Marie Kondo," writes Leo. It’s not the KonMari Method. But the "Convict Method" shares a similar result.
I miss the mental engagement of driving a stick. Except for navigating some certain really steep hills in San Francisco.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3w agoDriving a manual vehicle is a lost art. Hopes of a revival have fallen flat. With the rise of EVs and autonomous vehicles, only a few die-hards are holding on.
I saw some right-wing personality last year post something to the effect of “we’re done with climate panic bc Trump won!” Motherfucker, no you’re not. That’s like standing in front of a moving train with your eyes closed and being like “I’m done with railway panic.” They’re bringing us all down.
Now @apnews.com has a deeply reported story confirming the recently-hired ICE officer who shot a man in Maine had serious mental health issues and a long history of violence against women. This comes after ICE slashed hiring standards and rushed some into the field before background checks cleared.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 3w agoICE officer who shot Colombian man in Maine has history of threatening behavior and mental illness, family and court documents say.
NEW: Dozens of people inside Camp East Montana, ICE’s largest detention center, have come forward documenting widespread abuse, including medical neglect, being forced to live in filth, a lack of food, beatings by guards, and access to lawyers cut off. This facility must be shut down.
If you haven’t been to a 2 hour meeting on updating the snow shoveling ordinance you aren’t going to have a clue how to get us universal health care
ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.
WA Whistles@wawhistles.bsky.social · 4w agoICE is surging in the Seattle area. (Map shows activity in the last week) Do you have your whistle with you?
ICE just spent $1.5 BILLION to purchase two massive prisons in California it was already using for detention, in an effort to avoid oversight from the state, which has been pressuring the private prison company that owned them. CoreCivic will continue operating the facilities.
Wendy Fry@wendyfry.bsky.social · last mo.#BreakingNews Private prison company sells two of California’s immigrant detention centers to the feds calmatters.org/justice/2026...
Agree 💯 For all their faults, I will give George H. W. Bush and Bob Dole massive credit for this life-changing law. Not a fucking snowball’s chance in hell that a single GOP Member of Congress (or for that matter, some loser Dems) would ever support the ADA today.
I love Mexico. The Sunday night game will be epic. www.nytimes.com/athletic/741...
Coping with the 'mental bomb' of playing in the Azteca: Fireworks, fire alarms and worse
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I think one accomplishment we can be absolutely jingoistic about is the Americans with Disabilities Act. Traveling abroad immediately teaches you what a massive impact this legislation has had
Crystal Fleming クリスタル@alwaystheself.bsky.social · last mo.Since it’s our 250th anniversary and I’ll probably never ask this again: What’s your #1 favorite thing about the United States?
ICE celebrating “Freedom 250” by taking shackled immigrants from our nation’s capital to concentration camps in the South.
