"make the BOP great again: Now there's a cursed phrase

Military, prisons, cops ... A revolving door for these guys

Fed prison guards are jumping ship to work for ICE. The Bureau of Prisons has lost 1400 employees in a year. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Flock update: NOPE. Rules Cmte will NOT be hearing OPDs contract extension proposal Ext'g proposal is DEAD. 50/50 between incompetence from certain bootlicking council members or straight shadiness from same

Criminy. It's time to just start naming Ken Houston as a fascist.

"The Public Defender has taken the extraordinary step of formally declaring itself unavailable for certain new cases, arguing that ethical caseload limits have been exceeded" davisvanguard.org/2025/11/sf-d...

I’m at Hoover Elementary where there was some ICE presence earlier. The school is on lockdown and community members are chanting “say it loud say it clear immigrants are welcome here” No obvious sign of any federal agents in the area now

Last night, OPD's push to extend the Flock contract was voted down! The Public Safety Committee vote was 2-2, not enough.

Our November newsletter! - Open meeting coming up - Oakland Flock fight - Mass hungerstrike in the UK - Homeless not helpless! - Wood Street rides on - @awinston.bsky.social on Casey's case and a new era of repression, and as always, all kinds of ways to plug in mailchi.mp/e0ac6164dd79...

Pal Action trial begins First cohort of six out of the Filton 24 goes to trial in the UK as collective hunger strike of six others of the Filton 24 across diff UK prisons continues. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

"After weeks of feints and fakes, OPD’s quest to take over and expand the City’s CHP-initiated Flock surveillance system will finally come before the Oakland Public Safety Committee on Tues at 6pm" Recommended, breakdown from @oakland-observer.bsky.social oakland-observer.ghost.io/at-committee...

Roughly a fifth of all deployed US naval ships are in the Caribbean, according to Stars & Stripes and USNI News

Our November newsletter! - Open meeting coming up - Oakland Flock fight - Mass hungerstrike in the UK - Homeless not helpless! - Wood Street rides on - @awinston.bsky.social on Casey's case and a new era of repression, and as always, all kinds of ways to plug in mailchi.mp/e0ac6164dd79...

"Despite its lip-service to progressive politics, Oakland City Council appears poised to advance a proposal to expand its Flock surveillance network." PSC mtg this Tuesday. Organizing against Flock is and has been in motion despite the DSA's tone in the tagline. bayareacurrent.com/oakland-city...

The Teamsters frequently negotiate police union contracts, on behalf of the police unions. I have read and helped analyze over 500 police union contracts, from across the country, and the Teamsters show up constantly.

I don't want to hear shit about how Newsom is standing up to Trump. A judge has issued a stay preventing the feds from yanking the CDLs of legal immigrants but @governor.ca.gov is going forward with it anyway. Just like he's persecuting trans people anyway.

RIP Alice Wong

"I'm honored to be your ancestor" - Alice Wong Thank you, Alice.

When an "abolitionist" non-profit's "visioning" weekend retreat would pay for 4 months of our jail support program... But a key part of organizing is letting go of resentment, right? Fuckin hell.

If the Teamsters were worth a shit, weren't labor aristocracy and weren't aholes that shit on indy and immigrant truckers, the whole country could be shut down over this. www.kqed.org/news/1206398...

"western civilization" and other myths www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

CoreCivic corporation or the state, makes no difference. Prisons are violence incarnate. And a site of struggle. www.latimes.com/california/s...

"He fears now not only being deported, but losing a foot." Prisons, now matter what name they carry, public or private are death zones whether it be quick or slow.

"The diabetic father of two, who has lived in the Los Angeles area for 22 years, was detained and then quickly transferred to California’s biggest detention facility, where he’s been unable to get insulin regularly and now nurses a worsening hole in his foot." www.latimes.com/california/s...

Gdam it. Wtf oaklandside.org/2025/11/13/s...

Punished for... having a period? Yes, you read that right – behind bars, menstruation is treated like misconduct. Here's how prisons punish people for a bodily function they have no control over 🧵

"Ping-ponging", "Diesel therapy", PPI on the realities and brutalities of of prison transfer. “You want to be in the hell you already know” www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/06...

Three weeks ago, Sean Middlebrough, one of the Palestine Action/Filton 24 slipped away while out on a special 4-day bail release and has since refused to report. Prisoner support includes fugitives. Are we ready for that? electronicintifada.net/content/excl...

SNAP update for Alameda County: Everybody here on CalFresh (SNAP for CA) in Alameda County has gotten their full amount. State stepped into the breach to fund it this month. Check your EBT cards. It should be loaded by now.

Most reviled, hated and pathetic man on the planet. So dumb, vain and vile, it is truly making it hard to hold the line and keep a systemic analysis instead of a personalized hate of the individual. Man, I wouldn't let this man into my house or near my dog.

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"Beyond the beatings, tear gas and trips to the isolation room, the men said they were mocked or ignored by medical personnel, forced to spend 24 hours a day under harsh lights and made to drink from wells of fetid water." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

Five UK political prisoners now on hunger strike as T. Hoxha joins. "...their demands, including immediate bail and an end to prison interference with their personal communications, as well as the de-proscription of Palestine Action." www.middleeasteye.net/news/fifth-p...

As much as this brutality described in terms of "human rights", cruelty etc., it would be more accurate to recognize that the prison is a site of warfare, that it is a battlefield. It is indeed true that sadism and violation saturate the zionist prisons but it is in service of a STRATEGY.

Zionist prisons have escalated measures to suppress Palestinian resistance... starvation, overcrowding, every deprivation imaginable + "Four surveillance cameras have been installed in each cell, recording audio and video around the clock." Jailers live in fear. english.palinfo.com/news/2025/11...

Feds are once again ruthlessly targeting ktown & adjacent areas. This is getting really intense. We need to do more.

The problem is not press unable to identify themselves properly. The problem is LAPD shooting us with kinetic munitions and interfering with our work. Ysabel Jurado and Eunisses Hernandez would have us meet LAPD on LAPD’s terms when LAPD is the one breaking the law and shooting people.

Rather than correcting the behavior of non-discriminant shooting by cops at protests, this shifts the blame towards press not having proper credentials. I doubt a mutual agreement will be honored by LAPD. It's not like there is a long history of them breaking laws and "agreements".

Rampant criminalization, DAs stacking tons of charges on people, explosion of digital evidence submissions demanding time to review.... PD system (and us) taking the hit. The cop-prison machine groaning under it's own weight

"The San Francisco Public Defender’s Office warned that the city’s public defense system is collapsing under excessive workloads, forcing it to declare itself unavailable for new cases on certain days" davisvanguard.org/2025/11/publ...

Several hundred kids just marched past my house because John Marshall High is doing an anti-ICE walk out. LA's tradition of high schoolers using their voices to push back on racism and inequality is really an inspiring thing.

In her defense, it’s not possible to become vice president unless you think it’s ok to kill a million people.

Right on cue.

"As Trump prepares an assault on a South American field of resource extraction and deploys federal forces to terrorize American cities, Cheney can eternally look up from his well-earned spot in the afterlife at the fruits of his labor." Best obit I have ever read.

gOTdaMN. bangerrrrrrrr.

"That was the other legacy of Dick Cheney: fiasco. The wars he wanted did not showcase American power. They put on display American weakness, avarice, futility and manic resource extraction."

“No hell is hot enough or eternal enough for Cheney. Any discussion of his works must begin with the 2021 assessment that the War on Terror killed between 897,000 and 929,000 people across five of its battlefields. Codirector Neda Crawford called that assessment “a vast undercount,

"Cheney, 84, picked an appropriate time to die." banger. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

just an fyi, naomi klein went to a village in eastern greece that was fighting a gold mine, and rather than encourage direct resistance to the mine (which the villagers were already doing, and going to jail for), she channeled their energy into SYRIZA and her book, all while spouting NVDA fluff