The broad coalition to halt Baltimore’s $1B Jail (The Banner) www.naacpldf.org/wp-content/u... Note: 70% to 80% of people imprisoned in Baltimore Jails are in pre-trial detention. This is unconstitutional, as it violates the presumption of innocence and infringes on people's 1st amendment rights. +

Aka just a regular jail that provides inadequate treatment to the detained individuals while claiming to help them even though they're just letting them languish. Oh the irony of Governor Wes Moore's slogan "leave no one behind."

$1.2 Billion for a prison but our Maryland students can’t have proper HVAC in their schools.

"No fascist USA!": Baltimore marches against ICE terror & Trump authoritarianism My report from inside yesterday's march is up @therealnews.com youtu.be/wcjWd8X_lDI?...

For the last few months, I kept a document where every time I saw reports of fed immigration agents shooting or pointing their gun at someone, I made a note. The list grew and grew. It now includes 4 deaths. Here is what I noticed keeping that list. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/07/i...

I'm in my mid-50s. I started organizing against the violence of policing when I was a teenager. I've heard ALL of the so-called "reform" proposals. They are the SAME ONES that liberals are offering in 2026. Cops have never killed more people in my lifetime. Gotta do something different.

I hope more people are thinking about how dangerous cop cities are right now and how they have to be shut down now.

A group of Baltimore City youth have created art displayed throughout the city as a way to be a voice for their peers that challenges negative stereotypes and shares positive stories about the city's youth.

Baltimore: "F*ck ICE" Hundreds of residents & local organizers marched through the streets of downtown Baltimore on Thursday, joining nationwide protests following the ICE shooting & killing of US citizen Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. Here's my walkthrough of the march... youtu.be/gTRUfbXdRrE

interesting... I'm listening.

ICE agent Jonathan Ross killed Renee Nicole Good, 37, while she was in her car on Jan. 7. The fatal shooting was at least the 9th time ICE agents have shot into cars since September. At least 5 people have been killed in Trump's immigration crackdown. 32 others died in ICE custody last year.

Once you understand that you're dealing with murderous liars, you stop entertaining what they say as possibly credible and legitimate. The fight against them is about stopping them from terrorizing and killing by any means, not winning debates about your reality versus theirs.

Not people demanding a “full investigation”.

The protests will grow. All it takes is a spark. 6 years ago it was the murder of George Floyd, caught on camera, just a mile from where this happened. Now it's ICE murdering Renee Good. Both times, MAGA and Trump sided with the murderer. Enough. We have the numbers.

Real solidarity means building a mass people’s labour movement to actually wage collective resistance to fascism. Real solidarity is not just statements or emergency protests - we need a sustainable, mass anti fascist and anti empire movement: mass strikes, mass refusal, no pasarán - everywhere.

There are no short cuts. I'm sorry. There is only long term, consistent, and disciplined organizing.

another reason why people have given up on procedural or incremental reforms is that the courts just do not discipline killer cops

Today, ICE shot & killed someone, and then said the officer was using "his training." When police point to their "training" to justify murder, you can't help but wonder – who exactly do they serve and protect?

The following accounts are just a small window into the deeply harmful and trauma-inducing conditions found on the grounds of the "Farm Line" at Angola that incarcerated men are forced to labor on.

In case you need a positive reminder: How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Sheriffs nationwide have enormous control over jail voting access, with many restricting mail and voter guides, making it nearly impossible for incarcerated people to vote. A law in Colorado removed that discretion—and turnout has soared.

While U.S. families struggle through an affordability crisis, mass incarceration still costs taxpayers $182 billion a year. That's a lot of money that could be spent on communities instead of cages.

It's perhaps inconvenient for some to remember that some Panthers ran for local office in the 70s.

1. End Citizens United 2. Tax the rich 3. Prosecute wage theft 4. Pass Medicare for All 5. Vote out bought, corrupt politicians

On Christmas 1914, fighting stopped on the Western Front of WWI. Over hundreds of miles of trenches, soldiers began to sing #Christmas songs. And then they ventured into no man's land to greet each other. Latest episode #StoriesOfResistance @therealnews.com therealnews.com/the-1914-chr...

100,000 soldiers along the Western Front of World War I participated in the 1914 #Christmas Truce. They left their trenches & ventured into no man’s land to embrace their enemies — resistance from men on the frontlines to the savages of war. Latest episode #StoriesOfResistance @therealnews.com

They poisoned a whole community. The EPA helped cover it up. Latest documentary report from me is up @therealnews.com Please watch and share. It is a national crime what private corporations & our own government have done to our people. We can't let them get away with it youtu.be/P8ALDzd1qCM?...

The United States makes up roughly 4% of the world population but holds an estimated 40% of the world’s life-sentenced population. Learn more: bit.ly/4gMO5kk

"Prison during the holidays isn't what you think..." New from me & Mansa Musa, who spent 48 years behind bars. @rattlingthebars.bsky.social @therealnews.com youtu.be/GjB54gjQ4vg?...

After what we're seeing at CBS, if today is not the perfect day for everyone to find some independent journalism & nonprofit newsrooms to support... what day could be better?

Before taking a much-needed break to recover and prepare for the hard fight ahead, we asked our team to share their selections of the most impactful stories we produced this year.

In 2023, I visited Panama City, walked the streets of El Chorrillo (the neighborhood devastated by the US invasion) & spoke w/ survivors. People will not let it be forgotten. You can check out a series of my pictures on my Patreon. #PanamaCity #DueloNacional www.patreon.com/posts/111401...

On December 20, people march in Panama City. They march to remember the fallen. They march to continue to demand justice for the violence, the destruction and for those who were killed by the 1989 US invasion of #Panama. Latest episode #StoriesOfResistance @undertheshadow.bsky.social

$1000 per Girl, Epstein's Photos and the Psychology of power These newly released Epstein photos aren’t random but they’re revealing. Texts treating young women as inventory. Lolita quotes written on a young female body. Dangerous sexual devices. Epstein photographed comfortably with powerful people

Minneapolis stays in a rebellion ✊🏼

Trump's new “corollary” is a return to a #MonroeDoctrine where the US flexes military, political & economic power to achieve its goals in the region. It's a veiled threat against countries that are unwilling to bend to US interests. My latest @truthout.org

Read this moving profile about El Refugio, a hospitality house in Lumpkin, GA, that provides a place for loved ones of immigrants held at Stewart Detention Center to stay, rest, and visit detainees. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/05/i...

In 2024, Sierra Dickey reported a story for @prismreports.org in which an official from VT Department of Corrections claimed the agency supports abolition. Sierra came through with this follow-up, reporting on how VT DOC is actually trying to expand the state's carceral system to ensnare more women

"The impact of ending the subsidies, alongside the myriad other attacks on health care access, is hard to overstate." My latest for @prismreports.org: prismreports.org/2025/12/10/a... Thanks to @thetattooedjew.com @jz-or-not.bsky.social @seemiaroll.bsky.social for your comments and advocacy!

Our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social is co-organizing a toy drive. If you can, please support and share with others! If you are based in NYC, you can also drop off toys and gifts in person on 12/18 and 12/19. Check out the donations list for: 🎁Teen Gifts: amzn.to/4rDn7BG 🎁Toys: bit.ly/48pJUrK

We're close to $2,500 but far from our goal: gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...

Mansa Musa, host of @rattlingthebars.bsky.social and political prisoner-turned-journalist, spent decades inside the US carceral system organizing for liberation. He describes the synergy between journalism and movement building as essential to democracy Donate: support.therealnews.com/-/XPALEKFM

I welcomed the opportunity to connect with Mansa Musa at the Real News Network to discuss efforts to challenge new prison construction in 2025. It's unfortunate that state policymakers from Arkansas to Vermont are looking to build new prisons in this moment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKm7...

Incarcerated people in Alabama plan work strike as families say crisis continues in the prison system aldailynews.com/alabama-inma...

In this week’s Rattling the Bars, Nicole Porter (@nicoledporter.bsky.social) brings a sharp worldview to the U.S. debate on prison systems. Named a “new civil rights leader” by Essence, Porter’s insight guides a new generation pushing to stop prison expansion and end extreme sentencing.

"The ultimate, hidden truth of the world, is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently." —David Graeber Art by Kate DeCiccio (Imagination Card - www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...)

No, this isn't rage bait. 2025 is wrapping up, and the U.S. is still a leader in mass incarceration. The data is clear: The U.S. criminal legal system is out of step with the rest of the world. It's time to end the failed experiment of mass incarceration, once and for all.

We speak with organizers on the ground in Charlotte, NC, and Chicago, IL, about what to do when ICE invades your town.