On Thursday, dozens of cops and prison cops rolled through Oakland rousting people on parole, busting 9 people on mostly mickey mouse b.s. and put them back into the system. Any news coverage by the local media? Nope. www.cdcr.ca.gov/news/2025/10...

More group punishment. This time at San Quentin. Everybody locked down because of a scuffle between one person and a guard. This is the typical Cop Mentality at work. localnewsmatters.org/2025/10/02/s...

In case your nausea at fascist displays and realities weren't already acute enough, in five days it will be Fleet Week here in the Bay.

It popped off at Maguire, the main San Mateo County jail. 6 prisoners hospitalized, 4 deputies reporting minor injuries from a "a fight involving about 30 prisoners Friday morning" www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea...

"He and two other officers were pulling into a Walgreen’s parking lot as looters fled the building, and Tonn shot Monterrosa with a high-powered rifle through the windshield. Monterrosa was shot in the back of the head" This is Sean Monterrosa below. 22 yrs old when killed by this cop in 2020.

"A Vallejo police detective who was once fired for the fatal shooting of Sean Monterrosa in 2020 has been promoted to sergeant, according to a department roster released this week." www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-offi...

These kind of days are fraught now. We only got a few hours until the shitty nonprofits that obstruct and starve revolutionary work at every turn start to wield Assata as an icon for themselves and gut her life of all its revolutionary fullness.

"The federal Bureau of Prisons it is canceling a collective bargaining agreement with its workers and stripping them of union rights, the latest move by the Trump administration to gut labor protections for federal employees" abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

RIP

"The 9/15 arrest of a man inside the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse exposed the weakness of state and local efforts to make courts accessible and safe" Uhhhh... Even w/o ICE, we have found courthouses to be about the most violent and UNsafe places in the country for us. oaklandside.org/2025/09/25/i...

Google "Nutraloaf" "In 2012, a federal appeals court ruled that Nutraloaf was cruel and unusual punishment for a Wisconsin inmate who said the dish was making him sick. “Last I checked,” Cuellar said, “14 states have banned the use of Nutraloaf.” www.fox13now.com/news/fox-13-...

Ya know...... fuck Colbert for platforming this weasel.

"My hand gestures coach has been working wonders for me"

Mmmhmm. Sooo it isn't incarceration and rotten conditions driving the hunger strikes inside Angola prison.... Jailers claim it is the media. 💩 www.wbrz.com/news/louisia...

Teh LIBRAL East Bay.... Pfffft. Man, wake tf up.

“We recognize the State of Palestine and will continue to support the genocide of its people.”

Only weeks after Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted, his first big public appearance was at AmericaFest 1 where he came out to a custom song and thousands of screaming fans after the screens displayed graphic footage of his victims. 🎥 Throwback:

A football stadium overflowing with bigots, hucksters and trash. The right truly "being the change they want in the world"

19 ICE detainees on hunger strike at Angola. Today makes it Day 5. www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...

Resistance ramps up inside CA's newest ICE prison "Yesterday, over 100 immigrants detained at the California City ICE Detention Center launched a peaceful collective action, including sit-ins and meal refusals, to protest severe abuse and neglect." www.ccijustice.org/post/retalia...

Tomorrow (Friday) at 11 AM ET - Brooke Terpstra from @oaklandabosol.bsky.social will join Mtume & Jared to from the Imperial '80s to talk about Vietnam Syndrome, 80s movies, Oliver Stone, and why Platoon isn't really an anti-war movie (and certainly not anti-imperialist)

ROTD From E14 Notes in Heatwave magazine... heatwavemag.info/magazine/iss...

One thing is guaranteed though; We will never get a straight answer on what is going down via CDCr.

CCi-Tehachapi pops off. Again. Wth is going on at Tehachapi. www.cdcr.ca.gov/insidecdcr/2...

REMINDER: Local folks, open meeting tonight. Hit the email inbox if interested.

One of our crew doing a podcasty live thing!

"A national study projected that sweeps could fuel hundreds maybe thousands of extra overdose deaths in the next decade. On the ground, research in California and Colorado found that encampment closures led to spikes in overdoses, hospitalizations, and worsening health" www.kqed.org/science/1998...

Our latest! September Updates: On the ground, what's up from Chicago to Oakland - Fake fentanyl hype behind prison mail bans - Encampment fight heats up in Oakland - Attica, more than an anniversary in September - Open meeting coming up and how to pitch in! mailchi.mp/4c8049093980...

Breaking | Israeli occupation forces abduct over 1,000 Palestinians, including children, from Tulkarm and its surroundings in the occupied West Bank.

Mandatory mourning is psychological warfare.

"Staff had requested approval for a $523k grant application to the DHS for funds.. Yet the grant, according to a federal notice, may have required the agency’s involvement in “border crisis response and enforcement support” Only protest and resistance stopped it. oaklandside.org/2025/09/10/a...

Restrained by the Richmond cops and forcibly sedated. Coroner cites "excited delirium" in cause of death? What is this? The 19th century? richmondside.org/2025/09/10/t...

“It goes without saying that a civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.”

CPE are MLs at this point but this should be interesting.

"The process is punishment."

"They told us if we don't eat, we will end up at a detention center in Texas. They took my money from me, I can't communicate with you. My tablet account has been changed. I have restrictions now. They take us out in handcuffs even to bathe, they are behaving so violently because of our strike."

Note - these 'fascist and vengeful" weapons being introduced into zionist prisons are already in full usage in US prisons and jails english.palinfo.com/news/2025/09...

The journalistic idiom here continues to deliver absurdity. "Controversy brews".... ah yes, *controversy*. The fight over state power and surveillance you mean? The AP style guide and the ever present domestication of journalism for empire keep frying minds. oaklandside.org/2025/09/05/c...

We're on defense, but this has to be fought. This creepo and his base are escalating the war against homeless people. oaklandside.org/2025/09/05/e...

"Two Detained People in Hunger Strike after Being Placed in Solitary Confinement, as Repressive Measure for Past Organizing in Tacoma Detention Center" 🧵Thread with more below

Local man embraces fascism.

Y’all this is absolutely wild. You need to read this article. Coordinated targeting of firefighters on a 10% contained wildfire for immigration enforcement under the pretense of *padding their time cards*. This is insane.

Start your day with a few emails. Here is all you need below to help keep the pressure up for T. on hungerstrike in the UK.

Update: Calla Walsh will be joining us as well

"Hoxha... is facing a “medical emergency” and needs immediate care. The 28-year-old, who is on the 20th day of her hunger strike, has critically low blood sugar levels and is at risk of cardiac arrest, a letter written by the medics said." www.thenational.scot/news/nationa...

it only takes a few minutes to call and email. use this toolkit, print it out, distribute it, do it together.

Something went down at CCI-Tehachapi on Thursday. Prisoncrats say 61 prisoners involved with 7 of them hurt enought to be evac'd to an outside hospital for treatment. www.cdcr.ca.gov/insidecdcr/2...

Three dead as Indonesian protesters set fire to regional parliament building reut.rs/41sLc2x

A state sweeps and harassment SWAT team essentially. Both hype for his presidential campaign as well as more policing

BREAKING "Several purported detainees at the Alligator Alcatraz migrant prison, and their families, contacted Noticias 23 to report that riots were taking place at this migrant prison in the Florida Everglades." www.univision.com/local/miami-...