Shutting it down for the night. Good night, everyone. May tomorrow bring us more justice and some peace.

My newsletter goes out tomorrow. I muse about imagination and liberation. prisonculture.substack.com

“A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.” - Albert Einstein

Just saw this super fashy ICE recruitment ad on TV, making the pitch to Chicago cops.

My country today www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

“I see protest as a genuine means of encouraging someone to feel the inconsistencies, the horror, of the lives we are living. Social protest is to say that we do not have to live this way." — Audre Lorde

very comforting to read...

These folks have been protesting every week for 6 months.

www.wqow.com/eye-on-eau-c... "The "Toto, We're Not in America Anymore," protest drew roughly 249 people to Eau Claire's downtown federal courthouse according to a count by one of the organizers at the beginning of the protest."

Things aren't good. Now is the time to try lots of different things.

I know it's hard to do but you have to tune out the constant & I mean constant torrent of criticisms on social media re: activism & organizing. If you don't, it can stop you from trying to do any activism or organizing. Most of the critics aren't doing any organizing themselves so keep trying things

Lessons from Below: Learn from/with Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid (PUMA) and Build Your Own Abolitionist Network of Care Facilitated by Ndindi Kitonga is happening on October 4 and it's really going to be great. Sliding scale from $0 to whatever. It's IN PERSON.

You can register for "#FreeThemAll: A History of Mass Incarceration in New York City" Facilitated by Marissa Gutierrez-Vicario happening next Saturday 9/27 in person: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/communiversi...

I take inspiration from Passenger Pigeon Press's work. www.passengerpigeonpress.com - I particularly appreciate their Public Domain project: www.passengerpigeonpress.com/public-domain

Homan would be such a easy target for an actual opposition party—the architect of a deeply unpopular program who is also cartoonishly corrupt.

Coming soon to @brooklynmuseum.org - Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens - can't wait! www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

The pundit class's notion of "free speech" is predicated on a division of humanity into those who *participate* in debates and those who are the *topic* of debate, where treating one of the former as if they were one of the latter is seen as the direst of all threats to "free speech".

Trump uses the Charlie Kirk memorial to push his threatened military occupation of Chicago: “One of the last things he said to me is ‘Please, sir, save Chicago.’ We’re going to do that. We’re going to save Chicago from horrible crime.“

By following the same steps, you can also refine your search results by combining an American state, such as #NewYork or #California, with #Policing or #Incarceration.

Archiving independent journalism on American policing and incarceration is one of my account's central functions. For access: 1. Click '...' in the top right corner of my profile. 2. Click 'Search posts.' 3. Combine #USA with either #Policing or #Incarceration.

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As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

People are in motion everywhere.

Today is perhaps a good day to remind people that Jimmy Carter personally and publicly pled with Obama to recognize to the State of Palestine before his second term ended and Obama just ignored him lol

Y Combinator founder Paul Graham says he canceled his Disney+ subscription, joining fans boycotting the company over Jimmy Kimmel's suspension.

Let’s talk about the vast numbers potential voters would be more activated by genuine principled commitment to public goods and human rights as opposed to reactionary centrist pandering to bigotry!

Kirk’s phrase “false God of a race-obsessed modernity” has a certain ring to it, but I don’t think it accurately describes MLK’s vision.

I love being clear about what has to happen and then methodically working to make it happen. We need at least 25 people for 25 districts. OK, now we have to reach that goal.

the federal surge in Chicago never ended

I want to thank some of you for taking up our call to meet with your City Council member about funding NYC public libraries. We have over half of the districts covered by at least one person. We still have 25 districts that need a constituent to sign up. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This absolutely correct. I would add that no sentient being should take Fang seriously about ANYTHING but particularly about organizing. He doesn't know anything.

many of us who specifically covered those victims & worked to center those targeted & harmed by people like Kirk and his allies were pushed out of mainstream media in the past few years. it wasn't always a loud public firing, but the stories of how folks who did this work were treated would shock u.

Headed home after a good afternoon spent meeting with comrades from NYC PLAN followed by a stroll through the Brroklyn Book Festival where I also some comrades tabling.

A Rush to Save Ancient Artifacts in Gaza Highlights All That Has Been Lost A bombing delay enabled rescue of some objects, but archaeologists fear the wider loss of antiquities from the many cultures living there over thousands of years. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/w...

Apple pickin season. #crochetsky #crochetaway

lol www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

A report in HuffPo says ICE is evacuating a DHS facility it was using outside of Chicago for its operations. Protests and direct action once again drive Trump out of #Chicago. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ev...

Clothing store, Upper West Side.

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

“Huge crowds packed the squares and beaches of some of Brazil’s biggest cities to voice their opposition to rightwing endeavors to help Bolsonaro escape jail for his failed power grab”

I’m at a community meeting about resisting ICE in Chicago. There are about 400 people in this high school auditorium. Chicago is showing up.

"Martin Luther King Jr was an American hero and I wake up daily to continue his legacy of racial justice." Charlie Kirk

John Lee Hooker with a diagram of the evolution of the Blues.

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