Brown has over 1,200 cameras and it wasn’t enough because cameras are a security blanket we’ve all been sold. They don’t prevent crimes and they barely solve crimes but in the meantime surveillance companies got rich and no one had to address the societal root causes of crime and violence.

We’ve been told there is a Black Friday sale happening on our merch. Check out fivefourpod.com/merch for brand new designs for the man/woman/nb friend of few words in your life:

New episode of Popular Cradle pod: “No Country is Beyond the Reach of Law” I interviewed Jake Romm of the Hind Rajab Foundation about the pursuit of legal accountability against Israel’s war criminal soldiers, and what an end to Israeli impunity can look like open.spotify.com/episode/3Ygn...?

A senior ICE official just admitted in an evidentiary hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case that someone else drafted his declaration in the case and he didn’t know what certain words meant.

That April raid on a birthday party in Hays County resulted in zero criminal charges, despite claims this was some big TdA bust. www.texasobserver.org/prosecutors-...

Wow so she was AG of Florida that whole time Epstein is going buck wild down there huh

DC lawyers and law nerds wyd Saturday

Recent history has shown that attorneys and jurists can play a big role in bringing their nations back from the brink of autocracy. That day is coming for us as well. The Lawyers March for Democracy kicks off on Nov 15 @1pm: @skennedy2504.myatproto.social in @newrepublic.com

This was excellent. I even had feelings towards the end.

I still struggle to understand how this even fucking happened and I was a first hand witness

Appreciate your boosting/sharing of this episode in particular. Action items at the end include a petition for Leqaa

This week’s episode is an interview with two lawyers who represent Leqaa Kordia, a young Palestinian woman who is in ICE detention for protesting genocide. open.spotify.com/episode/7gid...?

I have been a longtime critic of legal podcasts. I think many have only worsened our relationship with the law. But this @fivefourpod.bsky.social is the best it’s ever been done. Props to @aywarhiannon.bsky.social for producing an incredibly important pod well worth your time.

It's 12:40 am. Ate some halloween candy, drank a bloom soda, now perusing the open secrets website like it's quince. i'm clicking links all over the place i'm filtering my search i'm discovering all the layers i'm saying well well well with a smirk

This is a sport for perverts

This enrages me. Honestly, you should just roll up the paper, throw it in the trash can, and join the White House Office of Communications if this is what you’re going to do these days.

This community theater in austin could use some community support after some bad flood damage! If you want to contribute to the grassroots austin comedy scene that’s NOT the rogan simulacrum, consider giving: givebutter.com/c/fallouthar...

NEW: Global Sumud Flotilla says they've detected 20+ unidentified ships on their radar, just 3 nautical miles ahead. They don't know ID of ships, but concerned of a naval blockade. "We will not be intimidated by threats, harassment, or efforts to protect Israel’s illegal siege on Gaza," they say.

I need the crit legal studies takes on the first amendment, writings from left perspective (not regular lib, left) on the first amendment, etc. Left conceptions of speech/dissent/political expression + “the law.” DM me or reply. It’s time for me to learn how to read.

"And for all the concern about the First Amendment ... what about all the amendments that Charlie Kirk lost? Because Charlie Kirk has no amendments right now." - Kayleigh McEnany

Brett Kavanaugh really put his sweaty little hot dog fingers on the keyboard to do explicitly racist adjudication and *he didn’t even have to*

Maybe the thing that breaks me

I went on Bechdel Cast to talk about when a woman shaves her head and withstands torture so she can…idk man it gets complicated just listen to us lose our minds @jamieloftus.bsky.social @caitlindurante.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6tSZ...?

Making a Statement Industrial Complex revving up. make sure to get those Statements in before the deadline tonight!!!!!!!!!

If you think I am like some fan of Qatar you are not fit to be on the internet without (another) adult’s supervision

Something to really underscore here: again, Qatar hosts the U.S. military’s CENTCOM. 1000s of U.S. troops are stationed there, Qatar is one of the richest countries in the world, Qatar hosts and works with every major western corporation and more—none of this protected Qatar from being bombed

From Breakthrough News on x:

(I share these things bc I don’t see anyone talking about things like this here) From Amal Saad on x:

In “a mockery of international law,” per one expert, Israel has bombed the residence of Hamas officials negotiating peace in Doha, Qatar.

🧵In the past week Israel has bombed: Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Tunisia, Yemen, and now Qatar. In Yemen the prime minister and multiple cabinet members were assassinated. In Qatar the Hamas negotiators who were called there by the US to review a ceasefire proposal were targeted. These are acts of

Went to a wedding and the fits were immaculate

@aywarhiannon.bsky.social on this week's @fivefourpod.bsky.social was so powerful. I have been thinking a lot about disability, grief, and action during fascism, and her words were a perfect way to start this week. We have power, otherwise they wouldn't be trying so hard to oppress us.

Did not realize how much I needed @aywarhiannon.bsky.social's absolute banger of a rant on the new @fivefourpod.bsky.social. Suck it up buttercups, and get yourself some dialectical materialism! History is contingent! We make our own but not in circumstances of our choosing.

(complimentary)

Podcast is NOT therapy, but I did practice saying “this makes me angry” a few times

Watch DC residents chase federal agents out of the Columbia Heights neighborhood. Meanwhile, we spotted FBI and Homeland Security agents appear to respond to… an alleged *fare evader.* @zeteo.com

In her Issue Fifteen Dispatch, @aywarhiannon.bsky.social explains why we need to wield the First Amendment “in service of our most powerful formation: the collective.” www.thedriftmag.com/collective-p...

“I have lived through pain in all its details…yet I have never hesitated to convey the truth.” Glory to the martyr Anas Al-Sharif.

The government is tyrant-maxing. It’s giving despot

Due to popular demand, we’ve unlocked this episode for public consumption.

Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a “defend your culture” slogan.

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

me on a podcast

months later i still can't believe this is real

Amazon union organizer Chris Smalls has been severely beaten and faces ongoing mistreatment in Israeli detention. He is the only Black person who was on the Gaza freedom flotilla. Graphics: Gazafreedomflotilla ig

@shaabiranks.bsky.social, March 2024: "The aim of this strategy is to achieve by starvation what could not be achieved by military force." www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Chris Smalls announced hours before being kidnapped by the IOF that he would be going on hunger strike should they detain him and the rest of the Handala freedom flotilla crew (from his x account)

Amazon union organizer Chris Smalls was on the Gaza freedom flotilla which was just raided by Israeli forces.