Almost four hours at church tonight trying to organize folks into direct aid, then hoke to stare at a spreadsheet for direct aid reasons

Priscilla, a committed activist and organizer from the #StopCopCity campaign, was arrested in the Weelaunee Forest in 2023, and has been struggling with health and financial instability ever since. Can you join me in supporting her? She's $173 away from making rent! mailchi.mp/supportprisc...

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

The title "House of Leaves" refers to how they should have "Leaves" that "House"! "of"

I need everyone to know I am sitting on some BANGERS related to signal chat shit, and when it comes time that I am allowed to post them, it will be very funny.

Sharing an important fundraiser for a young person from Michigan who was deported and is trying to move to Spain and rebuild his life: chuffed.org/project/supp...

Watching @willjobst.bsky.social review covers and when they said “how would mudkip hold a gun?” I became POSSESSED

again. the state owes this family and every person it has kidnapped so much. a lifetime of wraparound care. free education and support for three generations. we're talking trillions of dollars worth of care, and we need to fight for it

"On February 9, 1976, Martin Sostre left prison for the last time. When he returned to New York City, he was almost fifty-three years old and had spent most of his adult life inside." (1/2) -Excerpted from A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre by Garrett Felber (2025)

The Whipple Building needs to be shut down. No human should ever be treated with this much inhumanity. 3/

Folks, I too am cheered by the data, but: one of the great challenges we still face is teaching and showing people how “deporting people with criminal records” has been Not What They Think, since Clinton signed IIRIRA in 1996. You can get deported for a minor theft, like stealing a gift card.

NEW EP ALERT!!!!! 🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀 Mano a Gato w/ @kropacabana.bsky.social !!!!!!!

btw @hurrikadow.bsky.social keeping me honest and reminding me I did also read Farmer Boy, because there was a boy in it

"Industrial" in "Prison-Industrial Complex" refers to an assembly line of incarceration that could handle the massive increase in cases. Growth of the system depended on not just more spending. Overcharging & oversentencing led to plea deals freeing up court time, greasing the wheels. 4/

They got the big game on at the bar

oaklandlibrary.org/blogs/post/2... - '28 days of librarians' for Black History Month

Oh no I’m doing prison bed math again, it’s bedtime

I said this yesterday but Angola, aka Louisiana State Prison, aka probably the most well-known “plantation prison” has about 5,000 people incarcerated

There is something about spending my Saturday nights sitting on my couch cleaning up ye olde direct aid spreadsheets that is like. Boy the socialist project of a state that cares looks good

I have incarcerated comrades & loved ones who are enduring the daily torture of US prisons. They also continue to make art. They often don't have the proper supplies and yet they make it knowing that it will never make it out to anyone else. But they continue to make art nonetheless. Keep making art

can't stop thinking about this local street art i stumbled across today

Frog and Toad sat close by the fire. They were scared. The teacups shook in their hands. They were having the shivers. It was a good, warm feeling.

“Ai stop looking up prison capacities and go to bed” and maybe I will

8500 beds is more beds than at Angola

This is amazing news and also for context because I was looking at numbers: 8500 beds is more beds than at Parchman.

The only little house book i read beyond the on the prairie on was on the banks of plum creek because I heard their house burned down and Mary lost her eyesight and I assumed they were the same incident and it really doesn’t hit the same

I have done my laundry, made granola, and in a little bit I will feed my sourdough starter so tomorrow I will get out my calico dress and lose my eyesight to scarlet fever

Update: They succeeded: www.mississippifreepress.org/byhalia-ice-...

I published a short and quick primer on how local law enforcement, mostly sheriffs, can collaborate with ICE. I hope it's useful -- I also would love to know what people are seeing in their community. sheriffs.substack.com/p/how-local-...

I just keep thinking about what the state is going to owe the families of every person who has been kidnapped. I’m thinking about how the reparations are going to need to bankrupt not just DHS out of existence but so many pieces of the deathmaking machine.

They are lying. But given everything, how can anyone support any removal proceedings right now?

A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre (Garrett Felber): www.akpress.org/a-continuous...

and frankly needless to say regardless of his status or even if this person is guilty of a crime, deserves to have his medication

when this is over, we're going to need to discuss what we're going to do with the whipple building. how are we memorializing this horror

A group of creatives with roots in Chicago and branches in LA band together to make their first film, a coming-of-age comedy called "Christ Camp: 2005," using an anti-capitalist funding model. Follow along with the little indie that WILL! #moviemaking #indiefilmmaking #indiecomedy

New riso from Molly Fair in the shop! Inspired by a line from QUEERS READ THIS, a manifesto which urges militancy in the face of violence, homophobia, and the denial of the AIDS epidemic. justseeds.org/product/an-a...

It's a moral injury, yes, just like people who help with executions. Turns out, concentration camps are bad for lots of people idk what else to say.

it’s the freaking weeking baby!!

NYT really said “how do we try to get all the worst people in Minnesota to be redeemed through our paper”

Appreciate that folks lift up the Panthers. Black groups pre-dating the Panthers were also doing community patrols. See one example here: nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaah... Joshua Clark Davis's Police Against the Movement offers some other examples too.

“It seems our university leaders cannot even say that it is wrong to murder a former student in broad daylight because some people might disagree,” geography professor Kate Derickson

Wanna support my 'hood?! The East Side of St Paul has been under siege since November. Families need help now. Please donate if you can. 💛💛💛 Nothing but East Side Pride. We appreciate you.

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.

feeling angry or depressed? why not fix yourself a cup of tea? then you can be angry and depressed while also holding a cup of tea

LRP it’s like even more stupid than a per diem agreement

For those looking at Tom Homan's offer to MN sheriffs -- it's called a Basic Ordering Agreement. In essence, to skirt state law, DHS pays $50 in exchange for sheriffs to hold people 48 hours past their release date. It's not really a contract; it's like a warehousing agreement for bodies.

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

The thing about OCIA is it goes too late so I get wound up and thoughtful too late and I can’t sleep. Anyway unfortunately tonight I am thinking about considering humans as naturally bad but believing we are made in god’s image.

And they are my friends and neighbors