John Carella
@johnjaan.bsky.social
NC appellate lawyer currently swimming upstream in the criminal punishment system. Loves voting, libraries, public schools. In Durham, NC.
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Civil Rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson has passed. A great man who did great things.
I’ll never forget when he called my sisters and me to Operation PUSH in Chicago to be honored when we won the state tennis championship. He had been following our progress. So honored. 🥹
I’ll never forget when he called my sisters and me to Operation PUSH in Chicago to be honored when we won the state tennis championship. He had been following our progress. So honored. 🥹
February 17, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Civil Rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson has passed. A great man who did great things.
I’ll never forget when he called my sisters and me to Operation PUSH in Chicago to be honored when we won the state tennis championship. He had been following our progress. So honored. 🥹
I’ll never forget when he called my sisters and me to Operation PUSH in Chicago to be honored when we won the state tennis championship. He had been following our progress. So honored. 🥹
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This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
February 10, 2026 at 3:18 AM
This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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Cops were frequently getting caught planting drugs in 2017 because body cameras were new and many of them didn't understand how the technology worked.
When cops hit "record" it saved the 30 seconds from *before* they hit the button. Eventually, they figured it out.
When cops hit "record" it saved the 30 seconds from *before* they hit the button. Eventually, they figured it out.
Why Cops Frequently Got Caught Planting Drugs in 2017
Look. All technology comes with a learning curve.
gizmodo.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Cops were frequently getting caught planting drugs in 2017 because body cameras were new and many of them didn't understand how the technology worked.
When cops hit "record" it saved the 30 seconds from *before* they hit the button. Eventually, they figured it out.
When cops hit "record" it saved the 30 seconds from *before* they hit the button. Eventually, they figured it out.
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This needs to be at the top of every story about the ICE body-cam thing. They already have body cameras.
The ProPublica story on the Pretti killers says DHS has bodycam footage from the incident but they refuse to release it
www.propublica.org/article/alex...
www.propublica.org/article/alex...
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
www.propublica.org
February 2, 2026 at 10:31 PM
This needs to be at the top of every story about the ICE body-cam thing. They already have body cameras.
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The public library is an essential component of a 21st-century left political project as an example of both what is already available to us and what can be improved upon in the future. The library is a public good, and it is free as a public service.
I want more people to make the connections.
I want more people to make the connections.
January 31, 2026 at 10:58 PM
The public library is an essential component of a 21st-century left political project as an example of both what is already available to us and what can be improved upon in the future. The library is a public good, and it is free as a public service.
I want more people to make the connections.
I want more people to make the connections.
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Reminder that, in recent days, children have rallied and protested for their freedom inside an ICE detention center where water has been described as "putrid" and meals reportedly contain “bugs,” dirt, and debris. This is where the kidnapped 5-year-old Liam Ramos is being held.
Protest breaks out at Dilley immigration detention facility holding 5-year-old Liam Ramos
A protest broke out Saturday at the ICE-run South Texas family detention complex in Dilley, where five-year-old Liam Ramos is being detained.
www.tpr.org
January 27, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Reminder that, in recent days, children have rallied and protested for their freedom inside an ICE detention center where water has been described as "putrid" and meals reportedly contain “bugs,” dirt, and debris. This is where the kidnapped 5-year-old Liam Ramos is being held.
As one of the 1,000s from whom she’s heard in the last week, I’m glad to see this statement from my representative.
No money for ICE or CBP!
No money for ICE or CBP!
There is no chance that I'll be voting for the DHS appropriations bill that includes funding for ICE.
Congress should be easing pathways to citizenship and impeaching Trump and Kristi Noem, not bolstering an undemocratic and rogue agency that targets our communities.
Congress should be easing pathways to citizenship and impeaching Trump and Kristi Noem, not bolstering an undemocratic and rogue agency that targets our communities.
January 23, 2026 at 3:22 AM
As one of the 1,000s from whom she’s heard in the last week, I’m glad to see this statement from my representative.
No money for ICE or CBP!
No money for ICE or CBP!
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New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for.
My story:
My story:
Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home
DHS has claimed without evidence that they were looking for someone else when they took ChongLy Scott Thao.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 20, 2026 at 12:29 AM
New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for.
My story:
My story:
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Everything stated in this reporting is reason # 9,479 why I say state supreme courts are important.
www.propublica.org/article/paul...
www.propublica.org/article/paul...
October 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Everything stated in this reporting is reason # 9,479 why I say state supreme courts are important.
www.propublica.org/article/paul...
www.propublica.org/article/paul...
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We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
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Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.
September 15, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.
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Watch the exclusive interview with UN commissioners on new report: zeteo.com/p/united-nat...
BREAKING: UN Commission Concludes Israel is Committing Genocide in Gaza
In an exclusive interview, Mehdi speaks with two of the UN commissioners behind the shocking new report, which lays out the evidence for the crime of crimes.
zeteo.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Watch the exclusive interview with UN commissioners on new report: zeteo.com/p/united-nat...
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Begging people not to treat open white supremacy from the Supreme Court as incomprehensible inconsistency.
September 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Begging people not to treat open white supremacy from the Supreme Court as incomprehensible inconsistency.
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KILMAR IN BALTIMORE: “Never lose hope. Promise me you’ll continue fight for freedom — not just for me, for everybody.”
He was just taken into ICE custody.
He was just taken into ICE custody.
August 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
KILMAR IN BALTIMORE: “Never lose hope. Promise me you’ll continue fight for freedom — not just for me, for everybody.”
He was just taken into ICE custody.
He was just taken into ICE custody.
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Children in Gaza play with a parachute from airdropped aid amid Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians and forced starvation in the besieged enclave.
August 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Children in Gaza play with a parachute from airdropped aid amid Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians and forced starvation in the besieged enclave.
Being my age with kids my children’s age means I can’t get the finale K Pop Demon Hunters song “What it sounds like” out of my head
AND I can’t stop mentally adding the words “…when doves cry!”
AND I can’t stop mentally adding the words “…when doves cry!”
August 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Being my age with kids my children’s age means I can’t get the finale K Pop Demon Hunters song “What it sounds like” out of my head
AND I can’t stop mentally adding the words “…when doves cry!”
AND I can’t stop mentally adding the words “…when doves cry!”
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I want to be clear: this is what American prisons are like.
I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.
I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.
July 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I want to be clear: this is what American prisons are like.
I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.
I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.
To accurately celebrate our nation this 4th of July, it is now recommended that you do, in fact, place your face directly over the firework when you light it.
July 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
To accurately celebrate our nation this 4th of July, it is now recommended that you do, in fact, place your face directly over the firework when you light it.
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BREAKING: EPA workers published a letter of dissent against the administration's policies that undermine the EPA's mission and threaten the health of people and the planet.
June 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
BREAKING: EPA workers published a letter of dissent against the administration's policies that undermine the EPA's mission and threaten the health of people and the planet.
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this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
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"It's fine because the executive order is still barred in blue states."
Folks, PEOPLE IN RED STATES DESERVE HUMAN RIGHTS TOO, AND LOTS OF IMMIGRANTS AND MARGINALIZED PEOPLE DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY THE EO LIVE IN RED STATES.
Folks, PEOPLE IN RED STATES DESERVE HUMAN RIGHTS TOO, AND LOTS OF IMMIGRANTS AND MARGINALIZED PEOPLE DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY THE EO LIVE IN RED STATES.
June 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"It's fine because the executive order is still barred in blue states."
Folks, PEOPLE IN RED STATES DESERVE HUMAN RIGHTS TOO, AND LOTS OF IMMIGRANTS AND MARGINALIZED PEOPLE DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY THE EO LIVE IN RED STATES.
Folks, PEOPLE IN RED STATES DESERVE HUMAN RIGHTS TOO, AND LOTS OF IMMIGRANTS AND MARGINALIZED PEOPLE DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY THE EO LIVE IN RED STATES.
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No, the fight isn't over. Yes, class relief is possible. But people WILL be harmed by today's decision and its effect will NOT be minor.
June 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
No, the fight isn't over. Yes, class relief is possible. But people WILL be harmed by today's decision and its effect will NOT be minor.
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Today is the birthday of African American science fiction author Octavia E. Butler. The winner of numerous Hugo and Nebula Awards, she was the first science fiction author to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. #💙📚
June 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Today is the birthday of African American science fiction author Octavia E. Butler. The winner of numerous Hugo and Nebula Awards, she was the first science fiction author to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. #💙📚
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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
June 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.