Thinking about Katie Tastrom's book "A People's Guide to Abolition & Disability Justice" in which she talks about "carceral epidemiology," the way the state "uses communicable disease as part of the informal punishment of incarceration."

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

I think people underestimate how big this is. Like a city-wide strike is not something that has happened in the US for nearly 100 years

“Abolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough. Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.

The tragic death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old mother fatally shot by ICE, shows that ICE can’t be reformed and must be abolished. I’ll be introducing the Abolish ICE Act as a step toward justice, accountability, and humanity in our immigration policy. Time to melt ICE.

The leading cause of death by far among ICE officers is COVID-19.

I got to dive into a lot of this literature when I wrote about immediate media coverage of the shooting of Tamir Rice, who was only 14 at the time of his death. It was eye-opening to apply the frameworks from prior research and see it unfold exactly as predicted journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Fox is signaling to their viewers that this woman was from the enemy tribe, so their viewers should not be upset or be concerned about how she was executed in the middle of the road for no reason. "He was no angel" for 2026.

thinking about chandan reddy's argument about the state laying claim to "legitimate violence" (which also necessitates codifying the "legitimate" *targets* of such violence vs those ostensibly being protected, and designating other types of violence as illegitimate by comparison)

they are already turning this into a "debate" and an excuse to scold the left www.thefp.com/p/the-right-...

Incredibly important new study from Cal Horton @fiercemum.bsky.social - the first to look at England's post-Cass child/adolescent gender clinics. Dr Horton found patients and families are being actively harmed, with one young person describing appointments as "the worst thing I’ve ever experienced”.

"You deserve to die if you disagree with us" is their position. bsky.app/profile/atru...

@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social on point as usual

in comparison, in 2020, multiple states gave lighter sentences to motorists who drove into protesters, while charging protesters charged by cars with misdemeanors for "blocking traffic." some police unions backed immunity for people who drove into protesters

This is excellent coverage: it gives readers context beyond the specific incident, showing a pattern of excessive force, and also documents that DHS keeps using the same and increasingly debunked explanations. Much better than both sidesing the shooting.

As always, Defector gets it right: defector.com/ice-agent-ki...

this store is 18+ and they’re strict as hell about it. none of this has ever been about “protecting children,” it’s about trying to force trans people to disappear

My new Intercept piece on the NYPD’s targeting of MLK is up today, with never-before-published police surveillance photos of King.

6 years ago, a federal ban on gender-affirming care for young people was absent from the national Dem agenda, seemed unlikely to almost everyone who isn’t trans. 6 years ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene was a QAnon crank with a crossfit gym. Yesterday her ban passed out of the House with three Dem votes.

Great question tbh and we all know the answer

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday. n.pr/44xQKdD

Huh. It's almost like when institutions stand up to that spineless coward fascist, he loses and folds. I sure wish more institutions would take note of that.

i think it would be great if more people read this annotated indictment of the RICO case against folks involved with Stop Cop City created by @interruptcrim.bsky.social , just for a sense of how the state treats opposition in this country www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...

Anyone can reverse an overdose, and we should all know how. Naloxone is a social intervention; while our public health systems are woefully inadequate, and the war on drugs continues unchecked, we can empower ourselves and one another to step up. ✍️: @nuala.bsky.social 📸: @estefancy.bsky.social

the lost wages and disrupted employment, attorney fees, etc.. all lost and virtually unrecoverable in these cases if i'm not mistaken.. definitely a victory for prosecutions to end, but so much damage in the wake

On Transgender Day of Remembrance, support media orgs like @transjournalists.org doing vital work to materially support queer & trans media workers, & check out this resource page by @fspnwu.bsky.social on pushing for better labor conditions freelancesolidarity.org/kyr-trans-me...

NEW ESSAY for Trans Awareness Week! hopefully it will make ppl aware about how bad actors manipulate transgender statistics & that "social contagion/ROGD" are disproven: on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...

Putting out the same batsignal on all my platforms: Are you an artist/graphic designer? Do you know some whose work you’d recommend? Ideally queer or trans? Do said artists want to potentially talk about designing a book cover? Message me! 🙏

Tell @wearehighered.bsky.social about what's happening on YOUR campus with the attacks on higher ed. We hear a lot about the elite campuses but what about the rest? And we hear when schools do egregious things, but not so much about where things are better. www.wearehighered.org/campus-tracker

Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures

...I mean, can we all finally stop pretending like the NYT is a remotely progressive outlet these days rather than a center-right mouthpiece for the very rich and out-of-touch? I'm bummed too! I grew up reading the NYT! I enjoyed and respected it! But let's not kid ourselves.

for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...

You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.

“With its hateful rhetoric, the right seeks to cast gender identity not as something you are, but as something dangerous that you believe… the end goal is the same: to wipe out transness itself.” We need to disrupt anti-trans genocidal politics and work towards politics that nurture trans people.

Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.

This is a project Alice helped to organize - just made a donation in her honor, and I hope some of you will too.

I am holding so much grief, but also so much gratitude that we lived in a world so shaped by her brilliance and creativity. Rest in power, Alice Wong. Your work changed us. Your vision will continue to lead us. Your memory is a blessing and a responsibility we must honor every day through action.

May her memory be for a revolution. May it deepen our commitments. May her example sharpen our politics. May her life remind us that disability justice is a practice of transforming the world through collective care, accountability, creativity, defiance and imagination.

Alice Wong’s legacy is the political horizon she helped articulate. A horizon where disabled knowledge is central, and care is a shared commitment. She taught us to name grief & rage without collapsing under them, to celebrate disabled brilliance without ignoring the material conditions shaping life

Alice was a master of calling out power without losing sight of community. She named the violence of austerity, medical rationing, eugenics & state abandonment with unflinching clarity. But she also paired critique with genuine belief that disabled futures are possible & already emerging everywhere

Alice was not only a brilliant disability justice activist—she was a cultural force, political strategist & builder of worlds. She showed how access is built through struggle, creative collaboration, interdependence, and principled refusal. She made the invisible labor of disabled life beautiful.

Losing Alice feels like the ground shifting beneath us—I'm devastated—but to have known & shared even part of this life with her was an honor. She was one of the most fearless, generous & visionary disability activists. It’s impossible to measure how much she shifted the world—I feel it everywhere.

Really sad to hear of the passing of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social - a fierce, powerful voice for disability justice and by all accounts a lovely human being. Will be setting aside some time to revisit her work.

I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation

Cornell has become the latest "elite" university to agree to the DOJ memo banning trans students from bathrooms and sports and adopting a definition of sex that defines trans people of out of existence. statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...

“Álvaro López, the electoral coordinator for the New York City Democratic Socialists of America, believes “we need to get away from a ‘holding them accountable’ framework toward a ‘building power’ framework.” hammerandhope.org/article/mamd...

The correct headline here is "Trump administration begs courts to let him keep starving children and elders"

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc