We don't know what's going to happen so might as well fight for better. That's really my basic political orientation.

The crackdown on any protest continues: 4 arrested on charges of "suspicion of malicious communications" for projecting images of Tr*mp & Epstein on the wall of Windsor Castle.

if you know me, you know i am SO READY to vote for @rohitforatlanta.bsky.social but! you don't have to take my word for it. ⬇️ check out this smart thread ⬇️

Atlanta! A big city race is happening: Rohit Malhotra is running for City Council President against the pro-Cop City candidate Marci Overstreet. Rohit has been facing racist attacks & bad faith, and needs our support. Thread w/ my pitch for you to support him: rohitforatlanta.com

Georgia AG Chris Carr has failed in biggest attempt ever to use RICO ag't a protest mvt. Why, and what does it mean? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... @micahh.bsky.social @dnbrgr.bsky.social @equalityalec.bsky.social @alexvitale.bsky.social @stopcopcity.bsky.social

Cop City RICO motions hearings day 3 live thread:

Good news! A judge has thrown out most of the Cop City RICO indictment! Georgia’s AG lacked authority to bring Counts 1 & 3, accounting for most of the defendants. The state will appeal & a subset of defendants still face terrorism charges, but this win is something to celebrate.

Judge’s dismissal pending for (at least) 56 of 61 ppl from the indictment in the Cop City RICO case due to yet another prosecutorial error. This time, it’s an issue of jurisdiction and how the DA brought the case. Expect appeals, ofc. Meanwhile, 61 people’s lives still remain in legal limbo hell.

enormous development in the Cop City RICO case today: the Judge indicated he would be dismissing *at least* the RICO and Arson counts of the indictment, which would eliminate 56 out of 61 people from the indictment. Official answer tomorrow, and it will certainly be appealed.

Join us at @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social Weds 9/17 @ 6pm for a @bkbookfest.bsky.social Bookends panel on NO COP CITY, NO COP WORLD @haymarketbooks.org, w/@micahh.bsky.social @kamaufranklin.bsky.social, Priscilla Grim, Mariah Parker, & free food&drink! RSVP: registration.brooklaw.edu/academic-eve...

Cop City RICO motions hearings Sept. 8, 2025, live thread. Live video stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJvX...

People sometimes unhelpfully flatten the differences between Republican and Democrats but there is NO question that Dems are in many cases actively collaborating with the Republican fascist advance

People have been saying for YEARS that she is part of the Black MISLEADERSHIP CLASS. What a fucking mess.

the feds failing to get a felony indictment against the guy who threw the sandwich 😤😤

hey all! join us Tuesday, Aug 26 at 6pm ET for a @workshops4gaza.bsky.social virtual fundraiser event where we'll be talking about work to stop cop cities and carceral infrastructure across the country. hope you can make it! www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/sto...

The amazing lineup for this year's @bkbookfest.bsky.social #BKBF includes this panel at 6 pm on Sept 17 With @micahh.bsky.social @kamaufranklin.bsky.social ‪‪@marpark.bsky.social‬ @priscillagrim.bsky.social Moderated by @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social brooklynbookfestival.org/event/no-cop...

We are pleased to report that a court has dismissed the terrorism charges against one of the RICO defendants in the #StopCopCity trial, citing the prosecutors' intentional delaying tactics. Indeed—the entire case is simply judicial persecution. Throw out all the charges. crimethinc.com/AtlantaRICO

some rare good news: a Georgia judge has dismissed the Cop City domestic terrorism charges against Jamie Mariscano in DeKalb County, noting that the "Attorney General's Office appears to have delayed this matter in order to gain a tactical advantage over the defense."

Check out our show On the Ground that aired this morning. I caught up with @kamaufranklin.bsky.social who edited NO COP CITY, NO COP world with @micahh.bsky.social when he came to town & you can listen to him. Scholar Gerald Horne speaks on current events, & there's more! @prisonculture.bsky.social

They did this with Chicago’s Brandon Johnson before he even took office as well!! Also, elephant in the room: THE SHOOTING HAPPENED EVEN WITH NYPD BEING A LARGE ARMY! Police didn’t prevent this…

the brakes have only been tapped for a few weeks! we still need people organizing, agitating, and showing up to Council meetings!

cory booker constantly grandstanding and then repeatedly voting the exact opposite of his grandstanding is really a special kind of despicable and vile depravity

Then why did you just vote to fund it?

We can stop the $360 million women's prison compound here in Mass! The compound is a short-sighted investment in torture for a shrinking population It's unpopular It's 7x the original cost The process has been opaque from the beginning We can do better than prisons! #NoNewWomensPrison #mapoli

yall if you’re ever doing a fundraiser/raffle for political prisoners, Palestinians, abolitionist orgs, etc and want a copy of No Cop City, No Cop World to add to it lmk!! probably the best part of publishing a book so far is getting to send it to people to raise money :)

great to see Pittsburgh hit the brakes on a proposed Cop City in response to opposition! with comment from Pittsburgh organizers who traveled to protest Atlanta's Cop City and are now facing RICO charges, and Miracle Jones: www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-c...

watching respectfully and taking notes as hundreds of criminal cases are on their way to being dismissed due to the public defender/bar advocate strike in Massachusetts...

That's always been Israel's project. They've been murdering Palestinian journalists by the hundreds all in an attempt to keep people from reporting the genocide.

hey atlanta friends :) we'll be at Charis Books tomorrow with a bunch of contributors to No Cop City, No Cop World talking about the book, the repression of the movement, and how you can support those facing charges - 7:30 pm! www.charisbooksandmore.com/event/no-cop...

something interesting unfolding: bar advocates (part of Massachusetts' public defender system) are engaging in a work stoppage over pay rates, resulting in 102 people's criminal cases getting dismissed yesterday 👀👀

another interesting finding –– a majority of respondents supported reducing the police budget to expand social services!

Look what I just got!! @micahh.bsky.social

hi!

Trans friends in ATL or who can get to ATL, the comrades at Snap Co are running a free passport clinic from Aug 18-26! More details here: www.snap4freedom.org/event-detail...

carceral capacity and carceral infrastructure--jails, prisons, detention centers, cop cities, police forces, ICE, DHS, sheriff's offices, surveillance tech, fusion centers, real time crime centers, & more--are all part of the same system, and they all have to go if we are truly to be free together

the brutal state repression ramping up in Western states around the world makes clear that police, prisons, and border violence serve and have always served to facilitate racial, gendered, and economic violence. abolition, not reform, is the only way forward.

This is correct and it's why public opinion doesn't actually do anything on its own. It has to be mobilized. You have to DO politics.

okay!!!! www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2541-n...

I am BEGGING ppl to stop repeating the fascists’ framing (ie nickname) of the MAGA Murder Bill. I was talking to a PD this morning & we were ripping our hair out remembering the first lesson of litigation - never repeat the other side’s story or argument. Call it what your article shows it to be.

Harvard has removed the websites for the Harvard women's center and office for BGLTQ+ life. These absolute cowards waited till summer when students are gone and now won't say if they're dismantling these offices entirely. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Amazing news: Princeton & its prosecutors pressed charges against 13 students for a pro-Palestine protest, then offered to dismiss charges against 12 if one, @aditilrao.bsky.social, pled guilty. Instead, everyone held firm, and today the case was DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE & arrest record expunged!!!

Prison labor exists but prisons are better characterized as warehouses for the reserve army of labor.

The cops are defunding our municipalities. Their overtime exceeds the deficit: news.wttw.com/2025/06/30/c...

Can't stress enough that the goal of the Cop City RICO is to destroy a social movement by singling people out for pain & suffering. It's not about individual alleged acts, it's about making randomly arrested people into proxies for the state's revenge on a movement that challenged its power.

Alright y'all, another stop & start for the RICO trial. Trial will not start for Ayla today. Kind of technical legal things, but the trial court declared a mistrial w/o prejudice (meaning a new trial would start, pursuant to appellate court order), and the defense is appealing that decision.

the first Cop City RICO trial is scheduled to start today, and the judge has prohibited live streaming. really messed up.

Cop City RICO trials: Ayla King day 1 live thread

friends lmk if you’re in chicago for socialism conf!!!

The debt, deportation, and death bill has passed. Congress further decimates care work to fund violence work. Vital services eviscerated and ICE becomes the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency ever known. It hasn’t been sold this way, but it’s a massive public jobs program for fascists.

the waymos in atlanta are actually out of control, like they're everywhere