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Sharing this article again because I'm yet again seeing a lot of prison bloodlust in the discourse:

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When you are feeling particularly and justifiably angry, you might hear yourself say, “I think Maga supporters should be in prison!” So what you think should happen, the ideal solution in your heart and mind, is that we take the people who’ve been propagandized into a cult, and we put them in cages. We deprive them of food, we cut them off from their families and communities. We let them get beat up and abused. We cut them off from trees and fresh air and the sound of birds. We deny them medical care and mental health support. We control every minute of their day. We cut them off from any books that would help them understand and organize to change this situation. We staff the place with guards. We put the burden of the dehumanization and control labour on these guards. These guards can then only deal with the psychological fracturing from facilitating this violence all day long by cutting off their ability to see these Maga prisoners as human. We do that to them for some amount of time determined arbitrarily, maybe years. And then, what? We release them back into society after all that trauma? Is that really, in your heart, what you think we should do? Prison as a solution to social problems is a deeply unserious suggestion, and I think that needs to be said more often. But it’s more than that. It reflects a trapped imagination, an inability to think beyond the authoritarian control approaches that we’ve grown up with in settler colonial society. More control, dehumanization and violence will not solve the problems caused by those things. Even if we wanted it to—and many do—we know it doesn’t work. This “jail my enemies” impulse scares me not only because of the unexamined bloodlust people so frequently display and support, but because each of these conversations means we’re not talking about what might actually work to change the conditions we’re facing. It’s doomerism, at its core.
November 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
chevaldaignault.bsky.social
I’ve heard talk that the eight who threw away the best hand the Dems could’ve been dealt plus other blue senators are now shivering at the immense online backlash their awful move is getting and are reconsidering. Does anyone know how to tag them so I can pile on?
Literal ask. I can’t tag them.
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
A 15 year old autistic child named Emmanuel Garcia went missing Oct 4th. Houston PD found him & gave him to ICE despite his Mom having filed a missing person’s report.

He’s now in an immigration facility for unaccompanied minors.

His Mom is pleading for his return:

youtu.be/4PQPtimpVQ4
Vigil held for Emmanuel Gonzalez Garcia, the teen being held in federal custody
YouTube video by KHOU 11
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October 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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scalzi.com
This morning I reached 250,000 followers here on Bluesky, which is a gobsmackingly large number for me. Thanks so much for following me; I hope I make your experience in the sky better. To celebrate, I've donated to @aclu.org, which helps defend immigrant rights.

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Immigrants' Rights | American Civil Liberties Union
The fundamental constitutional protections of due process and equal protection embodied in our Constitution and Bill of Rights apply to every person, regardless of immigration status.
www.aclu.org
January 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM