The Post killing its Books section (one of the best around) is so fucking bleak

today’s mass media layoffs really go beyond “industry news.” we’re watching the removal of the people who explain what’s actually happening to us, beyond canned press releases and official narratives, at a time when we need that the most. healthy democracies need journalism!!

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

punxsutawney phil (just had visions of pestilence, blood rain, malignant false idols, stillborn livestock): uuuh 6 more weeks of winter

Last week I wrote that ICE (& immigration judges) are increasingly openly defying courts. lpeproject.org/blog/immigra... Now, a judge compiled 100 cases from ICE’s MN siege where ICE ignored court orders. Yet what are dems offering? Basically—laws that ask ICE to please follow the law.

it’s not a coincidence that government agents are executing people in the streets at the same time as a significant spike in “legal” executions. 47 people executed last year! 5 in gas chambers! 3 by firing squad! as public support for the death penalty sits near historic lows!

when i see blatant lying like this it reminds me that at our core we are a police state, and police lie about everything shamelessly, even when there’s clear evidence to the contrary. it happens so much even in court there’s a term for it — testilying. of course the culture of policing spreads

i am chilled to the fucking bone. executed for simply bearing witness.

the man who murdered Renee Good had plenty of training — in fact it was his training to kill people that made him kill a person

Witnesses are being taken to Whipple. From a lawyer friend: “They’re trying to keep local PD and BCA from getting statements and confiscating any phones with video.”

another murder by the federal government in Minneapolis. in case the connection between ICE and our massive preexisting punishment system isn’t clear, Bureau of Prisons agents were on site too.

ICE is invading Maine now and has detained at least 50 people www.wbur.org/news/2026/01...

this is in motion across the US - in Florida & Nebraska prisons and "work camps" are being repurposed into long term detention sites for immigrants. abolitionists have always warned us that the systems that make mass detention possible have already been constructed AND normalized, targets just shift

i think for some there’s a comforting fiction that ICE operates in some separate universe from “regular” policing, but immigration enforcement is tightly stitched into local jails and policing, whether officials admit it or not www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic96...

Three years ago today, Georgia state police murdered Tortuguita as part of their drive to destroy the Weelaunee Forest and build a deadly police militarization center. Tort fought for a world without police and capitalism, and so should we. Viva, viva Tortuguita.

if I taught journalism students, I would assign them this story—in small groups, each group would get to choose any instance of “clash,” and rewrite it, identifying the aggressor. can they reach a historian in a few hours? a research librarian to recommend a source? recall their own educations?

every secret police force, in every country that has allowed one to exist, eventually sees observation as a threat. systems that are literally built to disappear people are pretty good at expanding who they disappear!

The US is an authoritarian regime so I guess Brazil can bomb Florida and kidnap the fascist in chief now? This is how it goes, right?

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...