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Seen in Vancouver.

"I must endure torture to receive care."

"[C]are became just another word for control, and medical necessity became the perfect excuse for psychological torture."

"My mind became both my prison and my sanctuary, the only space they couldn't steal from me."
#Texas #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration

🚨CALL TO ACTION🚨

When power centralizes, resistance must decentralize. Apps can’t protect us, only people can. Build networks & community protection!

Organize where you live, or they’ll organize how you live. ✊🏻

“We need everyone to get involved in the fight, and we need everyone to have a vested interest in continuing to resist.”

🚨 new from me 🚨

ICEBlock Can’t Block ICE. No App Can.

How Local Organizing, Community Defense and Security Culture Protect Us in Ways Technology Never Could

I'm in @newrepublic.com today, covering how Trump’s grant terminations and new ideological funding conditions are hurting survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. Cancelled grants include those for emergency housing and interpretation services for deaf and hard-of-hearing survivors.

The Ten Demands for Justice provides the roadmap to abolition — with each action chipping away at an inherently, intentionally unjust system.

Read all 10 here, and print this PDF to bring to your city council members.

drive.google.com/file/d/1MKG3...

web.archive.org/web/20240622...

In a world where most politicians won't mention trans people except to throw us under the bus, this ad from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is honestly such a breath of fresh air.

youtu.be/bEvVSpN0BXg?...

During the opening days of the First Committee’s general debate, most states demanded a course correction from dominance and destruction to disarmament and diplomacy. Find out more with our latest report, covering all topics mentioned so far: reachingcriticalwill.org/images/docum...

Shuli Branson recently invited me on The Breakup Theory podcast to talk about a listener letter from someone who had a difficult experience with a community accountability process and was left feeling isolated and defeated.

You can listen to the whole episode wherever you get podcasts.

in 11 days, Robert Roberson is scheduled to die by lethal injection for the murder of his daughter who wasn't murdered but just died tragically after being a medically fragile kiddo, struggling for a long time

everyone agrees: she wasn't murdered

so then WHY is this Autistic man scheduled to die?

Air traffic controllers are enaging increasing sickouts around the United States to protest the government shutdown

paydayreport.com/air-traffic-...

“Simply marching in the streets once every few months will not stop fascism. We have to draw people into concrete organizing and activity. No one else is going to do this for us.” - @crimethinc.com

#NoKings

CDC layoffs mean an even greater need for *neighborhood* public health and safety solutions.

“Aim to build communities of people with longstanding friendships and experience acting together” - @crimethinc.com

www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/05/i...

“I had high hopes for the ICEBlock app, so it’s a shame that the developer is both overly confident and doesn’t know what he’s doing” - @micahflee.com

The @iceblock.app has 1+ million users.

They’re the people on Bluesky, joining @50501movement.bsky.social and attending @teslatakedown.com rallies.

"[C]ruel and unusual punishment."

"Plumbing issues, vermin infestations, feces-covered walls, and limited access to basic hygiene products, such as soap or tampons, are common complaints."

"I haven't had a shower in three to four weeks."
#Missouri #Ohio #Mississippi #USA #Incarceration

they do this all of the time. They beat people and arrest them for celebrating.

“For the supply of prisoners to grow, criminal justice policies must ensure a sufficient number of incarcerated Americans regardless of whether crime is rising or the incarceration is necessary” - @sdonziger.bsky.social, ‘Are Prisons Obsolete?’

Abolitionists, like anarchists, are anti-capitalist.

They’ve long had it out for Portland.

This is a clip from my now-infamous 2020 conversation with the Portland DA

And a link to the story I wrote after Andy Ngo seemed to take it to heart.

youtu.be/i6ugxEWYkJg?...

medium.com/@philmandelb...

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

"In my community where I teach, there’s kids not coming to school for a month at a time because they’re scared of what can happen to them,” he said. “I’m overwhelmed with blinding anger and depression for the people who are being affected.”

blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/08/h...

I had heard rumors but here it is:

Have a piece today in TEEN VOGUE from my new book POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT detailing how the NYPD, LAPD, cops in Chicago and Memphis surveilled the civil rights movement—and then destroyed millions of surveillance files in the ‘70s, including ones that may have shed like on MLK’s assassination.

I never have the expectation that all Black people will line up together. My view is built around meaningful political solidarity, not just identity-based solidarity.” -- Cathy J. Cohen

Building a Political Home | @bostonreview.bsky.social with Brandon Terry
www.bostonreview.net/articles/bui...