yesterday really made me reflect on how inadequate the mass anti war movement in the US is. not just against this war, or the last one, or the next one. against all wars, as an organizing principle. we haven’t had that in decades (ever?) and we are paying for it right now

A reminder that we put out a report that explains the shady ways technology companies are marketing and selling their devices to police, including how they come up with the claims of effectiveness. Everyone, especially journalists and law makers, should read this. www.eff.org/document/sel...

this reminds me to recommend reading the short novel Orbital if you're feeling even remotely nihilistic!

In 2024, South Carolina granted parole at a rate of 4% — the lowest in the country.

protests are simply good and untold numbers of other organizing projects come out of them, don't be a weird hater

sir this is a wendy's

sorry but gavin newson's hair just screams "i have no firmly held positions on anything at all and i'm a jelly boy with no bones"

hello! has your community successfully fought against a new Flock contract, or tried (successfully or not) to get one cancelled? I want to hear about it for a piece I’m writing!

your Sunday zen is this amazing painting by my mom — migrating geese painted onto a map of the moon, celebrating the spring equinox 💫

While the Trump admin is scrubbing official mentions of climate change, its wars abroad and ICE occupations at home are, in fact, climate policies: They’re showcasing how the US state is orienting itself toward displacement, hardship, and the very idea of global cooperation toward a shared end.

NEW: Mayor Mamdani announced a new approach to oversight of NYC’s violence prevention + mental health crisis response programs that recognizes the need for non-police responses + services. We look forward to working w/ the Mayor to build on these initiatives to deliver bold action.

Kenneth Windley, who spent 19 years in prison for a $550 robbery he didn't commit, was exonerated and freed

Prosecutors say they still plan to take four of the six charged protesters to trial. The charges revolve around events on the morning of Sept. 26 outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview.

promises made promises kept

This was a bad one.

the Trump administration ran a test last week. they wanted to know if they could convict protesters of terrorism for simply showing up to a demonstration. they got their answer! it's not good! a quick thread on the Prairieland convictions and what they mean for all our right to protest:

if you’re in Burlington, Vermont — ICE is in South Burlington trying to take one of your neighbors right now; show up and observe and record:

atlantans! if you care about local media coverage of the many many issues surrounding housing in Atlanta we'd love to see you at this convening at CCI on Friday. good relationships between press & community makes for better reporting (also free lunch!!) sign up here: form.jotform.com/260415222173...

no greater shame than living in the country that kills children around the world with impunity— in hospitals, in schools, sleeping in their homes, in refugee camps, at play, at rest. no greater shame

wow so cool sirs

Introducing Selling Safety! A report that lays bare the ethnically dubious world of marketing and selling police surveillance technology, how effectiveness numbers are manufactured, the role police play in a massive for-profit industry, and new critical questions for reporters and law makers.

HUGELY relevant. Remember that Flock superbowl ad? If that freaked you out, this is info you want.

police tech is a multibillion dollar industry with marketing teams, PR templates, and a well trod employment pipeline between tech sales and police jobs. journalism sometimes just… repeats the claims. we made a guide to help reporters see through the spin: justjournalism.org/page/selling...

not enough talk about this, I fear! thanks to the reconciliation bill last summer ICE can now distribute BETWEEN $1.4 AND $2 BILLION to local police with immigration powers this year. that’s…an unreal amount of money going to policing www.fwd.us/wp-content/u...

Ring has done this before. They partner with cops, get backlash, withdraw a bit, wait for it to calm down, and then go right back to working with cops. Don't believe this spin. www.theverge.com/news/878447/...

yall, Atlanta Community Press Collective is running out of $. we’ve sued for public records when no one else would. we covered Cop City from the ground for years. we train and pay local freelancers. we publish work other outlets wouldn’t touch. if this reporting means anything to you, PLEASE donate

Cop Cities are everywhere, from Georgia to Israel

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,