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i was that one third grader who got in trouble when everyone was talking because my voice “carries” former juvenile defender and professional hater of the criminal legal system.
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The Knicks win resonates so broadly because it’s a much-needed reminder that the good thing about living in a time where anything is possible (doom) is the fact that anything is possible (magic).
bedtime creep is the leading cause of spiritual collapse in parents of small children.
millennials are people pleasing their toddlers and calling it gentle parenting.
that horrifying ICE raid in Chicago? turns out it was really just about slumlords using the full strength of not only police but FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT to forcibly evict people. www.propublica.org/article/chic...
dems: ICE is bad, cops are good! cops will protect us from ICE. cops: Seattle Police Officers Guild President Mike Solan said of Wilson’s plan that “The concept of pitting two armed law enforcement agencies against each other is ludicrous, and will not happen.”
not cops getting a PR glow up on the backs of disgusting ICE and CBP violence. two things can be true: this moment can be unprecedented/ uniquely bad without us unnecessarily drawing not very tight distinctions between ICE and cops that paint cops in a light they certainly don’t deserve.
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
this narrative pivot from the field that’s like “public safety, not wealth, should decide who is jailed pretrial” vs “pretrial freedom all day every day” is really getting my goat.
when they say kids are expensive, they mean we bought $40 of fruit for *the week* at the farmers market this morning at 8:30am. reader, it is 7:33 pm on that very same day and i’m going to invite you to guess how many pieces we have left.
gives me chills that people can see somebody experiencing houselessness & feel that *they* are the victims of that story. and that the policy solution is ensuring that they no longer have to see or be proximate to that person, rather than addressing the conditions that leave people without housing.
Paul F. Tompkins@pftompkins.bsky.social · 11mo agoIf you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
i wish more media would just call this president what he is which is blood thirsty. this is the same man who used his own money to take out a full page ad 30 years ago in his personal capacity just to call for the execution of later exonerated Black kids in the Central Park jogger case.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11mo agoTrump: "Anybody murders something in the capital -- capital punishment. Capital, capital punishment. If somebody kills somebody in the capital -- Washington DC -- we're going to be seeking the death penalty."
BREAKING: death of anti-ICE protester in Los Angeles @lapublicpress.bsky.social is reporting Skid Row resident Adrienne Villa was found dead in her jail cell while in LASD custody at the courthouse, hours after pleading not guilty to over a dozen charges of alleged assault/battery on a cop.
in law school i supported some organizing to disarm and abolish HUPD (Harvard University Police Department). a lot of people who were really just cop apologists criticized the work heavily as navel gazing, inconsequential and silly. as cosplay activism.
as someone who lost their dad at 4, i can’t stop thinking about his daughter. beyond what anas meant to Gaza, to humanity at large, about what he will always mean to her. about receiving a blessing as unthinkable as being born to a dad like that only to have him ripped so needlessly from you.
News Eye@newseye.bsky.social · 12mo agoAnas Al-Sharif was one of the most remarkable reporters of his generation. For 673 days, he defied Israeli threats to kill him. Al Jazeera now confirm their crew in Gaza City have all been assassinated: RIP reporters Anas Al-Sharif & Mohammed Qareqea and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher & Mohammed Nofal
Pls stop what you are doing and read this entire report on Israel's murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in Gaza City. "He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent." It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...
The Israeli Assassination of Journalist Anas al-Sharif and Five Colleagues in Gaza City
“We understand these are our last days.”
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Anas Al-Sharif was one of the most remarkable reporters of his generation. For 673 days, he defied Israeli threats to kill him. Al Jazeera now confirm their crew in Gaza City have all been assassinated: RIP reporters Anas Al-Sharif & Mohammed Qareqea and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher & Mohammed Nofal
"Masters, 63, is on a hunger strike at the Sierra Conservation Center in Jamestown, protesting the repeated disappearance of his mail and a lack of transparency as to why and where that mail has gone." Week 4, and Jarvis has lost 30 lbs. sacobserver.com/2025/07/blac...
Black Death Row Author On Hunger Strike Over Missing Mail
By Genoa Barrow | OBSERVER Senior Staff Writer - Jarvis Jay Masters, a Black author on California’s death row, undertakes a hunger strike in protest of his mail disappearing.
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Incarceration is deadly. People incarcerated on a single day in 2008 had a 39% higher risk of death compared to similar people who were not incarcerated. www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/06...
if it’s feeling like the lines are getting blurred between the operation of law enforcement and regular, ole interpersonal violence for the purpose of exploitation/ racial terror then DING DING DING.
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · last yr.A man was robbed and assaulted in Milton, Delaware, by two masked men impersonating ICE agents www.delawareonline.com/story/news/c...
whites supremacy isn’t mostly people in white hoods or proud boys. it’s mostly this belief that the mere act of being white imbues superiority upon you; that white people should have first, best or only access to every good, opportunity & privilege has to offer before anybody else gets anything.
