The memo, dated Dec. 2, takes aim at existing standards of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) that the department says do not comport with the Trump administration’s first-day executive order that, among other things, targeted protections for trans people behind bars.

cool that the official position of the administration appears to be that black people don’t really count as americans

Trans people suffer the most violence in prison. PREA was never enough but it’s just disgusting to roll it back.

A lot of people do not want to hear that there is an intense pro-police and pro-prison turn among the left. E.g. the drive to limit the pardon power, which is the only way some people get any relief from excessive sentencing on the state and federal level. www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/12...

We drove past Middlebury College this past weekend and I told Best Friend ™️ about her. He'd never even *heard* of her story, and we live just a couple hours from there and our news outlets frequently publish stories about what happens in Vermont. It was almost radio silence about this.

a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit

Regarding The Essay: If you have not yet figured out in Dec. 2025 that an appeal to a strict and fair adherence to the First Amendment is a rigged game, I would like to inspect your wallet for just a moment. The Essay was a trap designed to do just this - fail and then gin up far-right grifting 1/

Mamdani has done a lot to critique surveillance and has a better sense than most politicians of the harms it can do to specific communities and activists—but I do worry he will be asked to compromise the high tech focus of the NYPD in exchange for more sweeping police reforms.

My recent writing : ‘Current conservative politics operate in parallel to the positive energy propaganda system because they aim to maintain staying power and framing attacks on immigrants, Jewish people and minorities as positive to neutral contributions to discussions’

NYPD had a Kidnappers Club for slaves. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/so-c...

NEW: The federal trial for poet and activist Isabel "Isa" Lopez has been reset Feb. 2, 2026, after several delays and cancellations. Lopez is facing four federal felonies from protesting federal agents carrying out an operation in Minneapolis in June. unicornriot.ninja/2025/poets-f...

Not a single major news outlet has covered this story. There is such a blatant, obvious attempt to suppress any and all news that deals with the actual facts about transgender life and experience. As the government rolls back our rights on an unprecedented scale, we have been left out to dry.

St. Paul police brutally assault locals defending their neighbors from ICE, then absurdly accuse the locals of being "professional agitators." "We are not your adversary. We are your police." They support ICE with violence, just as they murder with impunity. They are, in fact, our adversaries.

This Black Friday and Cyber Monday don’t buy into genocide. Avoid these brands enabling Israel’s ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. https://loom.ly/TpPQsDY

Rest in power Imam Jamal Alamin formerly known as H Rap Brown former chairman of SNCC former minister of justice of the Black Panther Party.

The reason you don't see cops stopping ICE is the same reason you don't see Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus in the same room.

Thrilled to share that Chris Duncan, whose conviction was vacated in April, was just granted bail today, after spending over 25 years on Louisiana's death row. It's so rare to get good news when you're covering capital punishment, but this is one very real light in the darkness

Operation Stonegarden, which allows DHS to pay local police to patrol with the Border Patrol, got $450 billion in additional funding in the big beautiful bill

The UAE is buying the West's silence over its 'race war' in Sudan, says top general - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae-buying-wests-silence-over-its-race-war-sudan-says-top-general

Zohran showed that a socialist can take City Hall—but the ruling class still forced him to keep Jessica Tisch at the NYPD. For Zohran to fight the police unions and win, the Left has to build power beyond the ballot box. New from me for The Nation: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

oh mannnnnn

We could use this as a moment to recognize how police and prisons are responsible for a great deal of sexual violence.

I always recommend anything by @laurengill.bsky.social, who really cares about the people she writes about. boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...

I ran into an advocate who told me that the 9 men detained from Canal Street last month struggled to find legal representation. Historically, Black immigrants experience disproportionately *more* removals than any other group. Anti-Black racism fuels US immigration in *every* way.

Jamil Al Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown has passed. Jamil was a political prisoner, an Imam & leader in the Islamic community, chairman of SNCC, Minster of Justice in the Black Panther Party. A revolutionary & a target of COINTELPRO and U.S. police agencies. Rest in Power

When the prison guards went on strike, many inmates said they were doing so to preserve their ability to do things like this.

idk how this is happening but even as statements like 'israel is committing genocide' are becoming more and more acceptable to say in public by people in positions of power, it feels like concern and support for palestinians keeps declining and shouldn't it be the other way around??

Please help my friend survive until her housing benefits kick in! Post explains it but her benefits failed to renew and she has to wait 6 months to access it again, and in the meantime is facing homelessness. Friends are hoping to raise $10,000. chuffed.org/project/1585...

You should be more worried about water. It's not just a Tehran problem

Enormous mistake as @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social reappoints Jessica Tisch NYPD commissioner. He calls her a pursuer of police corruption but she promoted John Chell. Calls her an opponent of authoritarianism but she collaborated with ICE. The case against Tisch:

Mamdani needs to be asking questions about this, but he won’t, because he’s chosen to abdicate policing to the status quo

Alice Wong is a both a huge loss to the disability and Asian American communities. She will be missed and loved still

What doesn't get highlighted enough: bans on trans care almost never end just at healthcare specific to us. They're often a cover for just refusing to treat trans people period, for anything. Broken bone? Surgery complications? Infection? Bigoted medical institutions are happy to let us die.

I swear. I don’t care if you watch or use porn. If you are in the Internet you need to support porn. Without porn most of the Internet you love wouldn’t have happened and wouldn’t be happening. Porn makes the wheels go round. Not that enough ppl pay for theirs but that’s a diff issue. (Cont)

This is an odd way to frame a return to traditional food ways that we ought to celebrate and treat as a chance to reflect on the importance of food sovereignty apnews.com/article/shut...

I will never understand anyone defending the place they work at unless it's a co-op or something like that. Like crashing out over the NYT is embarrassing.

NYT had details of Trump's engagement with Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking and *hid it for him*, at the same time it was crucifying Clinton as untrustworthy due to her document retention & security.

Look, I know we’re all rightfully pissed about the current Epstein stuff, but you should really set aside some time and read this piece. There’s a reason “mitigating the effects of climate change” is one of my key policy positions.

ICYMI

Through the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ

the Iranian drought story is insanely undercovered. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/07/i...

more people need to read Cyclonopedia.

I...just watched a former special forces guy on YouTube say Mamdani is a psy-op by Israel to stoke Islamophobia and thereby strengthen the ties between Israel and America.

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It feels a bit weird to post right now in light of what has happened to @teenvogue.com and so much of the incredible team there. What sources shared here is important, & I’m grateful I got to work on this. I reported on how young people are being impacted by delays to SNAP: “It’s about survival.”

Too many of these election roundups are omitting Mary's landslide victory. Fortunately, Chicago sees Detroit (and always has):

Mary Sheffield became the first woman elected mayor of Detroit on Tuesday, defeating the Rev. Solomon Kinloch. In her first 100 days, she plans to reshape government around housing, human services, gun violence prevention and more.⁠ Read more about her plans here: outliermedia.org/mary-sheffie...

Lebanon is home to an estimated 250,000 migrant domestic workers, whose rights are systematically denied under the kafala system. In this @timep.bsky.social piece, Jasmin explains why we need to stop talking about protecting individuals under this system and start talking about serious reform.

Mali may be the first country to fall to Al Qaeda. "Malian junta expelled a French-led force and hired Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group, but they too failed to quell violence Instead, the Kremlin guns-for-hire embarked on a campaign of widespread reprisal" www.wsj.com/world/africa...