yes. will the Democratic Party support the footsoldiers in the fight against genocide and fascism? or must the Democratic Party also fall?

trying to imagine describing the last 13 months of NYC elections to any five random people in Zuccotti Park in 2011 (when I feel like I knew of maybe two DSA members who were under 50?)

Really bad grant in the Supreme Court's orders list—the justices will consider whether this individual👇had a right to sue federal officials who denied him proper medical care in prison. Preparing to take another (possibly lethal?) bite out of Bivens. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

staggering graph of the how much long ICE detentions (of over a year) have grown

always read @melissagiragrant.com

In his actual National Sheriff Association talk (which I don’t think anyone listened to but me) Mullins said he wanted to buy existing jails and lease them back to counties/ sheriffs. So I would say it’s going to be a switch in tactics

We already know that most of the CBP and ICE agents committing violence are long-time agents. Bovino was in CBP his whole career. This is a way to whitewash how racist ICE and CBP have always been. They were designed to be racist!

This is false. They are not working for ICE. (Not that they don’t share sympathies, but this is false information).

‼️ A colossal jail building boom: The United States has quietly expanded its carceral footprints with more than 1200 counties investing more than $42B in jail expansion and construction projects.

Over 10 years, 98% of medical grievances in federal prisons were rejected, and less than 1% of medical cases ended in a grant of relief. The system is designed to shut down complaints — not resolve them.

glad the Marshall Project and NPR are picking this up now; here's our analysis of this data from March www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2026/03...

The Sheriff's made a stunning admission - that they don't believe the phone trust fund is governed by any laws or regs. The problem with that position is it's literally called a trust fund. And the state has always treated revenue from inmates as restricted.

glad the Marshall Project and NPR are picking this up now; here's our analysis of this data from March www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2026/03...

i went into this expecting the medical grievance denial rate in federal prisons to be in like the 70–80% range after crunching the numbers, i found that 98% of the 66,000 medical grievances lodged between 2014–2024 were rejected by BOP; less than 1,000 cases were granted relief in 10 years

And no that same system will never be turned against the fascists.

Criminalization is the fuel of fascism. And the people who have been saying this for decades are the PIC abolitionists so many deride.

THIS IS SO FUCKED. Pennsylvania's Supreme Court just gave the AG the power to intervene whenever Philly's DA concedes post-conviction relief. When the elected prosecutor reviews a case and concludes someone may have been wrongfully convicted, the state can now show up and argue against that.

Did Susan Collins campaign designate Fossel as a town chair without his knowledge? Really? Or is he only backing out because we raised questions? Why's there a placeholder page on Collins website specifically for him if he has no role? susancollins.com/campaign-cha... Lotsa questions! #MEpolitics

Hmm. We'll have more on this but PPH columnist Jim Fossel is listed as a Susan Collins campaign town chair here: susancollins.com/get-involved... We asked PPH Opinion Editor Siobhán Brett about this and she says Fossel tells her this is "inaccurate" and he's asked for it to be removed. #MEpolitics

30 women jailed at the GEO Group-operated Delaney Hall have joined a hunger strike to demand the firing of a guard they say is sexually assaulting detainees: www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...

an old sheriff trick i see

The speed and passion to which Extremely Online Liberals have coalesced around a Grand Plan of replacing a unfavorable candidate with another preferred option without anyone voting on it is amazing, and to it I say: cool, because that worked out SO WELL last time.

For months, activists with #ICEoutofNJ, which includes the immigrant rights group @cosecha.bsky.social, @paxchristiusa.bsky.social, and @newlabor.bsky.social, have been protesting outside privately owned detention center, Delaney Hall, where immigrants, mostly Latino, are jailed without due process.

"According to @prisonpolicy.org, while the stated goals of jail construction are safety, security, & solving jail overcrowding, the result is most often hundreds or thousands of new jail beds to incarcerate even more people & a windfall for contractors in charge of designing and building new jails."

this has been the centrist rallying cry since bernie ran the first time www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR65...

If you have not already seen it, this page is a great resource for immigration related issues in Maine. It was created by the Maine Immigrants Rights Coalition. Let's be good neighbors and help each other! lighthouseme.org

I have been trying to get answers on our Monroe County jail phone call fund. This is a 2024 paper by @prisonpolicy.org the overall topic. Lots of relevance here.

As energy costs continue to rise, a new Sierra Club analysis shows Maine's low-income households shoulder the highest energy burden in the nation. Families earning less than $50,000 a year spend roughly one-fifth of their income on electricity and heating fuel.

🚨NEW: 3.5 million people are on probation or parole in the U.S. That's more than 1.5x the number of people locked up, making community supervision the leading form of correctional control. How did we get here? New data reveal how probation & parole have changed over time 🧵

In this briefing, we cleaned up and pieced together state-level community supervision data covering roughly the last 45 years, including state-level annual data tables and detailed trendline graphics going back to the 1970s. new from @jkangbrown.bsky.social www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2026/06...

All the conditions you're reading about at ICE detention centers are more or less the status quo at jails and prisons across the country.

The observations ppl make who’ve been incarcerated so long when they get out is just…oof 😢, like Glossip here says he forgot what carpet felt like & almost lost his balance on it; thought dollar bills would be smaller; and that his reflexes forgot that running water doesn’t quickly auto shutoff

We lend our voices to the 150 detainees, including hunger strikers at the Adelanto processing center and read their letter in the “Petition of Writ” that we received from @chu.house.gov. Here are their words. (2 parts) PART 1

Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.

People will say it's "Tech Week" here in NYC. Well, any event run by Andreessen Horowitz is illegitimate, because the NYC tech community has values, and one of its most fundamental is its humanity. They have forfeited theirs.

It barely gets any attention, but so many prisons have been on extended lockdowns since covid, which means that incarcerated people are given cold boxed "meals" in their cells. Really nasty stuff.

For those talking about the lack of food in ICE facilities, you should know that jails and prisons regularly starve people to death. This is not a rare occurrance. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Just like during COVID, its a groundswell of self-organized mutual aid groups who largely step us in the midst of a crisis in working-class communities - not the state. truthout.org/articles/exp...

If you think this looks like a threat to free speech you're wrong. Threats to free speech are when sex pests lose their jobs as magazine editors.

Some liberals are OBSESSED with "private" prisons as though the problem is not simply PRISONS. Folks, the vast majority of prisons in the U.S. are PUBLIC NOT PRIVATE. And they are HELL HOLES. OK? I need folks to stop and actually focus on the PROBLEM which is PRISONS AND JAILS.

Over 20 people inside the Adelanto ICE Processing Center & Desert View Annex in CA have launched a hunger strike in response to inhumane conditions. Click here to learn 5 ways you can support their fight!

Immigrants imprisoned in a Newark camp are on strike to demand their freedom. This is a work stoppage combined with a hunger strike, made harder because the strikers are behind locked doors. Important reporting from Luis Feliz Leon.

In Cook County, prosecutors have asked judges to issue warrants when defendants fail to show up to traffic court — despite knowing that they have no way of making it to court on their own, because they’ve already been arrested by ICE. (Co-published with @chicagoreader.com)

ICE transferred the leaders of a hunger strike at Tacoma’s Northwest Detention Center to unknown locations just hours after the strike began, according to immigrant-rights group La Resistencia, which says the moves were retaliatory.⁠

Immigrant detainees at Delaney Hall ICE prison in Newark, NJ have been forced to cook, clean, & repair the facility for as little as $1/day and sometimes for free. They are on a hunger & labor strike; protesters outside have been tear-gassed. Here's our report, including a quote from a detainee:

days into a hunger and labor strike of hundreds detained in GEO Group-run Delaney Hall, people inside report beatings, rotten food, crumbling facilities, and denied medical care. protesters and organizers outside are confronting ICE in the Newark street. talked to a few about it: @us.theguardian.com

New: Regretful cities are literally covering their Flock cameras with black trash bags because they cannot figure out how to immediately exit their surveillance contracts or get the cameras taken down: www.404media.co/cities-are-c...

I think a lot of people, lawyers and non-lawyers, may have this misconception. Big prestigious law firms pay very high salaries and those jobs are very competitive to get, so they must attract all the best lawyers, right? In fact they don't, though. Lots of brilliant lawyers do other work!

All this kind of framing does is put people with actual mental illness in danger. People want to associate mental illness with being broken. They assume if you are doing things that don't make any sense, you must be mentally ill. But that's actually how white supremacy works. It is illogical.

Wow. Board member at American Prospect gets them to ditch the use of programmatic ads by funding the experiment himself. "I think it’s a good long-term play for the Prospect to take these off and to really focus on reader revenue, and what if I just took the risk away?" www.cjr.org/analysis/dep...