Supreme Court oral argument this morning, in sum Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory) Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)

New: 404 Media is making a zine! Risograph-printed zine all about the surveillance tech ICE has deployed. Facial recognition app; Palantir; much more. Will be available in January but you can pre-order now. The art is amazing, printed by local LA business. Details: www.404media.co/404-media-is...

Make American Children Get Liver Cancer Again (MACGLCA)

Recession indicator

[me beginning my rebuttal after getting absolutely fucking waxed by my debate club opponent] I am sure we can all agree that there is no need for me to spend the time it would require to address each of my counterpart's arguments,

trying to watch my silly little animal videos on TikTok

They're also relatively easy for bad actors to access youtu.be/uB0gr7Fh6lY?...

as cities debate Automated License Plate Readers, we often hear the same reassurances: don’t worry, we’ll regulate them/set strict rules/never share data with ICE/we'll only use them for speeding/etc. political promises may feel comforting but it misses that the INFRASTRUCTURE itself is the danger.

Lifelong animal rescuer Zoe Rosenberg was just sentenced to 90 days in custody for her rescue of four suffering chickens from Perdue's Petaluma Poultry slaughterhouse. She is ordered to turn herself in one week from today on December 10th. @aaldp-du.bsky.social

Hannah is so smart and righteous, and I get smarter by reading the things she writes! You might like doing that too!

You can support the @nashvillebanner.bsky.social here: nashville-public-media.fundjournalism.org/makeagift/?c...

every crisis we talk about nationally - policing, housing, public health, environmental harm - shows up first at the local level, and the only reason the public ever learns about many of these issues is because a local journalist put in the hours. it is an actual survival tool for all of us.

We are all extremely lucky that justice-minded geniuses @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social and @jduffyrice.bsky.social write a newsletter together!!!!

the GOP is realllllly trying to convince Americans that crime is skyrocketing but I think maybe the twist in 2025 is that attention is too scattered to build a true national crime panic the way we used to?? you can't terrify the entire country at once when everyone lives in a different algorithm

It's just past 6pm ET and Florida is set to kill 63-year-old Malik Abdul-Sajjad, also known as Richard Barry Randolph. It will be the 17th execution carried out in FL this year. Two more are scheduled for December.

with so much other stuff going on it doesn't often make headlines, but Florida has executed SEVENTEEN people so far this year, with the eighteenth set to be killed tonight.

if you’re accepting the premise that Homeland Security was created to “keep Americans safe” and the way Trump is using it is somehow an aberration from the original purpose you need to read some more history 😕

flock cameras are in nearly every city in the country now and Atlanta police were using them for immigration searches. this is the model -- once the surveillance grid exists it can be turned on anyone atlpresscollective.com/2025/11/13/a...

hey I live in Vermont now! I’ll still be in Atlanta quite a bit, but if you’re in the Burlington region (all 29 of you) say hi!

when basic every day “governance” depends on cops and jails and raids the public gets used to state coercion and violence and then nakedly authoritarian moves feel just a *little* worse but not much of a departure (bad!)

Journalists: do you need a rundown on how the federal crackdown is affecting the youth justice system? Join us for a briefing featuring national experts, practitioners, & reporters on what’s happening and how to cover it. See below for link to register & more info on the event.

thread: atlanta-area journalist Mario Guevara was arrested June 14 while livestreaming a protest. one of the charges? “pedestrian in the roadway” -- he stepped off a curb as police cleared the street. it’s on his livestream. he was wearing a press vest, and identified himself as media.

can't stop thinking about what Daniel Kwan said about AI: the most dangerous thing is how quickly it's dissolving our shared reality. EVERY part of society is built on shared reality, on agreeing on "what happened," and i fear we won’t realize how fundamental it was until it’s gone.

proud of this edition of the jump line, which features incarcerated writers talking about their experience of heat in their respective prisons. my favorite line, from summertime in a women's prison in Maryland: "if we were orchids, we'd thrive." thejumpline.substack.com/p/inside-the...

can’t believe Pete Hegseth is getting all the generals to come to the live taping of his new podcast

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

this is a critical time for media analysis. if you report at face value the (false) premise that the federal government occupying cities is in any way an attempt to fight "crime," what you write becomes stenography for an authoritarian power-building project, intentionally or not

very excited to be partnering with Prison Policy Initiative for this -- please join/share with colleagues and comrades who might be interested in learning more about shaping news coverage of the criminal legal system!

Big Balls had better never be able to live this down for the rest of his life *gets up to use the restroom* "do you need a marine escort? should we call the FBI?"

I get why ppl want to spray for mosquitos — it seems easy and they’re awful. But, in reality, it hurts way more than it helps. Call me crazy, but I don’t think we should be indiscriminately wiping out all insects around us during the age of mass species extinction.

Re-upping our guide to covering crime stats for those reporting on the latest numbers from the FBI. justjournalism.org/media/downlo...

do I know anyone in Burlington VT here??

Ring cameras are partnering with Axon (makers of police body cameras, among other police tech) to make a new feature that allows people to opt-in to police being able to live-stream everything the doorbell camera sees AND allow police to request footage directly from users

is this a safe place to admit I thought dog the bounty hunter and hulk hogan were the same guy? I thought he just had a lot of nicknames and hobbies

I know there’s so much going on BUT Trump’s Executive Orders on Policing have had impact in a lot of places — primarily in chipping away at the tiny modicum of transparency around police violence and misconduct, but in other ways as well. This is a really helpful resource, please use and share!!

My new standup special Positive Reinforcement premieres TONIGHT at 8pm eastern time on Blonde Medicine’s YouTube channel. I’m really proud of this hour and grateful to all the people who helped make the special happen. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAvN...

the first Cop City RICO trial starts today, two years after the indictment (a nonsensical document that sought to criminalize basic acts of mutual aid, among other things) came down. what happens to Ayla King, first of the 61 people to be tried, will impact protest everywhere.

Later @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social was talking about working to get narratives out there via existing/new media so people can see that "it’s not all loss. This is a time of deep demoralization but I’m hopeful that some of these [tactics] will inspire us to think creatively... more of us than them."

The branding for Atlanta’s end domestic violence campaign continues to be the funniest thing I’ve ever seen??? Who put the mayor in front of a balloon arch that says domestic violence!! Im crying

I don't care what band aids they put on the problem, Flock Safety's surveillance empire is incompatible with a free society.

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

CONFIRMED ICE accuses Lander of assaulting law enforcement and impeding a federal officer

this is what police are training to do at Cop City — screenshot from their promotional video about “crowd control”

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Together with the ACLU of NorCal, we are challenging the reported lack of public access to immigration court in Concord, CA. Any decision to abruptly cut off public access to immigration proceedings would contravene the First Amendment and federal law. 1/2

this week's Jump Line focuses on AI in the criminal legal system -- a scary development the scope of which i don't think the public fully understands yet. first off is a brief Q&A with the brilliant @mguariglia.bsky.social: thejumpline.substack.com

we’re so used to living in a police state in this country — but that shouldn’t mean we get desensitized to this, a true paramilitary occupation

for @thenation.com’s 160th anniversary i wrote about the fight to stop Cop City, and how the scale of the repression simply matched the scale of the solidarity — the facility was built, but the movement also lifted the veil on what policing is for so many across the country

hey! don't fall into the good protester bad protester binary! to the state there are no good protesters! don't do their propaganda work for them!