Mari Latibashvili (she/her)
@mlatibash.bsky.social
The horrors persist and so shall we. Co-Founder, Abolition Advocacy Project & Coalition for Justice | J.D. Candidate, Georgetown Law | Abolitionist, former organizer/politico, & a proud menace.
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"Free D.C.! Free D.C."
Chants of protest against Trump break out in the 51st minute of tonight's Washington Spirit game at Audi Field.
Chants of protest against Trump break out in the 51st minute of tonight's Washington Spirit game at Audi Field.
August 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
"Free D.C.! Free D.C."
Chants of protest against Trump break out in the 51st minute of tonight's Washington Spirit game at Audi Field.
Chants of protest against Trump break out in the 51st minute of tonight's Washington Spirit game at Audi Field.
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We don't talk enough about how any contact at all with the criminal punishment system can destroy your life. The arrest, the court dates, missing work and other associated costs etc... People who aren't proximate to this really have no idea.
August 16, 2025 at 4:02 AM
We don't talk enough about how any contact at all with the criminal punishment system can destroy your life. The arrest, the court dates, missing work and other associated costs etc... People who aren't proximate to this really have no idea.
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“Donna” Kashanian lived in the United States for 47 years, married a U.S. citizen and raised their daughter. She was gardening in the yard of her New Orleans home when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers handcuffed and took her away. apnews.com/article/iran...
After decades in the US, Iranians arrested in Trump’s deportation drive
Some Iranians are getting arrested by immigration authorities after living decades in the United States.
apnews.com
June 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
“Donna” Kashanian lived in the United States for 47 years, married a U.S. citizen and raised their daughter. She was gardening in the yard of her New Orleans home when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers handcuffed and took her away. apnews.com/article/iran...
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Here’s a thing I wish we could do - leave the 20th c labels in the 20th c & try stuff that’s in line w/ shared values that might work to make people’s lives better.Klein &Thompson are liberals.Mamdani is a socialist.They agree on this (& probably a lot else) this is what coalition politics is like.
Evidence politics is all just vibes now: When Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue zombie regs are driving the affordability crisis in blue cities, they get dismissed as neolib shills.
Zohran Mamdani says the same thing at a food cart, and it's socialism.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyL4...
Zohran Mamdani says the same thing at a food cart, and it's socialism.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyL4...
NYC is Suffering from Halalflation
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
www.youtube.com
June 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Here’s a thing I wish we could do - leave the 20th c labels in the 20th c & try stuff that’s in line w/ shared values that might work to make people’s lives better.Klein &Thompson are liberals.Mamdani is a socialist.They agree on this (& probably a lot else) this is what coalition politics is like.
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In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
June 25, 2025 at 5:54 AM
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
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CHECK THIS OUT
ICYMI This Month In Criminalization👇🏽 is full of resources & opportunities for action on every front - war on Iran, ongoing genocide in Palestine, mutual aid in LA, assaults on sanctuary cities, gender affirming care+++
And a new call to action from Rising Majority: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
And a new call to action from Rising Majority: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
June 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
CHECK THIS OUT
Appeasing fascists never works!!!
Just ask law firms, universities, and Trump’s former political allies.
Just ask law firms, universities, and Trump’s former political allies.
Jessica Ramos basically admitted to Brian Lehrer that she thinks Trump will punish and single out NYC if Mamdani wins and that's her justification for backing Cuomo
First off, STOP MAKING DECISIONS BASED ON FEAR.
Second, stop giving that man more power by rewarding his racism with cowardice. FFS
First off, STOP MAKING DECISIONS BASED ON FEAR.
Second, stop giving that man more power by rewarding his racism with cowardice. FFS
June 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Appeasing fascists never works!!!
Just ask law firms, universities, and Trump’s former political allies.
Just ask law firms, universities, and Trump’s former political allies.
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Jessica Ramos basically admitted to Brian Lehrer that she thinks Trump will punish and single out NYC if Mamdani wins and that's her justification for backing Cuomo
First off, STOP MAKING DECISIONS BASED ON FEAR.
Second, stop giving that man more power by rewarding his racism with cowardice. FFS
First off, STOP MAKING DECISIONS BASED ON FEAR.
Second, stop giving that man more power by rewarding his racism with cowardice. FFS
June 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Jessica Ramos basically admitted to Brian Lehrer that she thinks Trump will punish and single out NYC if Mamdani wins and that's her justification for backing Cuomo
First off, STOP MAKING DECISIONS BASED ON FEAR.
Second, stop giving that man more power by rewarding his racism with cowardice. FFS
First off, STOP MAKING DECISIONS BASED ON FEAR.
Second, stop giving that man more power by rewarding his racism with cowardice. FFS
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There's no opinion from the majority because to put it in writing would be to admit the horror they are allowing to take place under this order.
June 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
There's no opinion from the majority because to put it in writing would be to admit the horror they are allowing to take place under this order.
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"SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice"
Honestly still can't believe that I wrote this headline today, let alone that the U.S. Supreme Court's majority did so.
Honestly still can't believe that I wrote this headline today, let alone that the U.S. Supreme Court's majority did so.
SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice
Justice Sotomayor called the order a "gross ... abuse" of the court's authority. Also: Law Dork in the media.
www.lawdork.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:47 AM
"SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice"
Honestly still can't believe that I wrote this headline today, let alone that the U.S. Supreme Court's majority did so.
Honestly still can't believe that I wrote this headline today, let alone that the U.S. Supreme Court's majority did so.
No way to overstate how insane this is.
#BREAKING: Over a (sharp) public dissent from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS clears the way for the Trump administration to remove migrants to third countries *without* giving them an additional opportunity to contest whether they face persecution or other forms of mistreatment there:
www.supremecourt.gov
June 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
No way to overstate how insane this is.
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here’s what the onion’s full page spot is running next to this morning
June 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
here’s what the onion’s full page spot is running next to this morning
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EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
June 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
Got to talk about my favorite thing (organizing around anti-fascism and abolition) with @seriouspod.bsky.social & @mattcameron.bsky.social on their podcast, Opening Arguments. Thank you Thomas, Matt & Lydia for amplifying student / activist voices!
Hope y’all enjoy listening to the episode! 🫶🏻🫶🏻
Hope y’all enjoy listening to the episode! 🫶🏻🫶🏻
Thanks to Mari Latibashvi @mlatibash.bsky.social for the much-needed dose of hope on today's show! It was so encouraging to hear about antifascism *and* abolitionism in practice at one of the country's best law schools
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This Law Student Refused to Let Big Firms Get Away with Quiet Complicity
OA1167 - Georgetown law student Mari Latibashvili is the co-founder of the GU Law Coalition for Justice, which recently made national headlines by organizing law students to refuse interviews and job ...
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June 19, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Got to talk about my favorite thing (organizing around anti-fascism and abolition) with @seriouspod.bsky.social & @mattcameron.bsky.social on their podcast, Opening Arguments. Thank you Thomas, Matt & Lydia for amplifying student / activist voices!
Hope y’all enjoy listening to the episode! 🫶🏻🫶🏻
Hope y’all enjoy listening to the episode! 🫶🏻🫶🏻
just going to re-up this for no reason at all 😁
Protesting matters because:
-we show the fascists we will not be silenced and we are not scared
-we show each other where we stand
-we build community that sparks further action
Don’t let anyone tell you protesting doesn’t matter.
-we show the fascists we will not be silenced and we are not scared
-we show each other where we stand
-we build community that sparks further action
Don’t let anyone tell you protesting doesn’t matter.
June 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
just going to re-up this for no reason at all 😁
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Border and Rule is available for free download!
I wrote a book spanning ICE & borders, Palestine & policing, colonialism & global fascism - in service to internationalist struggles.
I can no longer travel to US, but this book (as well @silkys13.bsky.social & @micahh.bsky.social 's) can come to you
I wrote a book spanning ICE & borders, Palestine & policing, colonialism & global fascism - in service to internationalist struggles.
I can no longer travel to US, but this book (as well @silkys13.bsky.social & @micahh.bsky.social 's) can come to you
Another world is possible if we fight for it.
FREE Ebooks: Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about border and poli...
www.haymarketbooks.org
June 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Border and Rule is available for free download!
I wrote a book spanning ICE & borders, Palestine & policing, colonialism & global fascism - in service to internationalist struggles.
I can no longer travel to US, but this book (as well @silkys13.bsky.social & @micahh.bsky.social 's) can come to you
I wrote a book spanning ICE & borders, Palestine & policing, colonialism & global fascism - in service to internationalist struggles.
I can no longer travel to US, but this book (as well @silkys13.bsky.social & @micahh.bsky.social 's) can come to you
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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
June 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
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"Care is the antidote to criminalization" - @dreanyc123.bsky.social
I watched this weeks ago and the abundant wisdom is still bouncing around my mind, so putting it here for future ref, and for anyone else who could use it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzuy...
I watched this weeks ago and the abundant wisdom is still bouncing around my mind, so putting it here for future ref, and for anyone else who could use it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzuy...
Criminalization: the Core of Authoritarianism, Fascism, and Resistance
YouTube video by Haymarket Books
www.youtube.com
May 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
"Care is the antidote to criminalization" - @dreanyc123.bsky.social
I watched this weeks ago and the abundant wisdom is still bouncing around my mind, so putting it here for future ref, and for anyone else who could use it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzuy...
I watched this weeks ago and the abundant wisdom is still bouncing around my mind, so putting it here for future ref, and for anyone else who could use it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzuy...
Institutions of state violence will never be sites of freedom : )
May 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Institutions of state violence will never be sites of freedom : )
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BREAKING:
Trump's Alien Enemies Act Proclamation is "unlawful," a federal judge in Texas ruled.
That judge was appointed by Trump.
Ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/aea-inquis...
Trump's Alien Enemies Act Proclamation is "unlawful," a federal judge in Texas ruled.
That judge was appointed by Trump.
Ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/aea-inquis...
May 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
BREAKING:
Trump's Alien Enemies Act Proclamation is "unlawful," a federal judge in Texas ruled.
That judge was appointed by Trump.
Ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/aea-inquis...
Trump's Alien Enemies Act Proclamation is "unlawful," a federal judge in Texas ruled.
That judge was appointed by Trump.
Ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/aea-inquis...
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"What they are trying to do to immigrants already, they are already doing to U.S. citizens."
Watch the full video: youtu.be/zbSMcIDwdmg
Watch the full video: youtu.be/zbSMcIDwdmg
May 1, 2025 at 12:46 AM
"What they are trying to do to immigrants already, they are already doing to U.S. citizens."
Watch the full video: youtu.be/zbSMcIDwdmg
Watch the full video: youtu.be/zbSMcIDwdmg
One of my favorite emails that we’ve gotten about the law firm tracker—
Someone created a Google Chrome & Firefox extension that adds a banner at the top of each law firm’s website if they have caved to the administration or complied in advance.
I love nerds!!!
Someone created a Google Chrome & Firefox extension that adds a banner at the top of each law firm’s website if they have caved to the administration or complied in advance.
I love nerds!!!
April 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
One of my favorite emails that we’ve gotten about the law firm tracker—
Someone created a Google Chrome & Firefox extension that adds a banner at the top of each law firm’s website if they have caved to the administration or complied in advance.
I love nerds!!!
Someone created a Google Chrome & Firefox extension that adds a banner at the top of each law firm’s website if they have caved to the administration or complied in advance.
I love nerds!!!
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Yesterday was Trump's 100th day in office. One thing is clear: The criminal legal system is worse off now than it was 100 days ago
It's a new kind of crisis. So we released a tool that tracks how the system is getting larger, harsher & less effective:
www.prisonpolicy.org/federaltrack...
It's a new kind of crisis. So we released a tool that tracks how the system is getting larger, harsher & less effective:
www.prisonpolicy.org/federaltrack...
Tracking how the Trump administration is making the criminal legal system worse
A growing lists of the ways the Trump administration is making prisons worse and gutting programs that keep communities safe
www.prisonpolicy.org
April 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Yesterday was Trump's 100th day in office. One thing is clear: The criminal legal system is worse off now than it was 100 days ago
It's a new kind of crisis. So we released a tool that tracks how the system is getting larger, harsher & less effective:
www.prisonpolicy.org/federaltrack...
It's a new kind of crisis. So we released a tool that tracks how the system is getting larger, harsher & less effective:
www.prisonpolicy.org/federaltrack...
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My amazing colleagues Laila Hlass and Mary Yanik have an important Op Ed out in the New York Times right now about the current immigration landscape and why the current admin is sending detained immigrants to Louisiana. 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/o...
Opinion | This Is Why So Many Immigrants Are Ending Up Detained in Louisiana
Louisiana is a legal black hole for immigrants.
www.nytimes.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
My amazing colleagues Laila Hlass and Mary Yanik have an important Op Ed out in the New York Times right now about the current immigration landscape and why the current admin is sending detained immigrants to Louisiana. 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/o...