I think how the term elite gets used by conservatives and some liberals and leftists has contributed to the confusion and we’re better served dealing with the elite in terms of how C. Wright Mills conceptualized it, as those in power who “occupy the strategic command posts of the social structure.”

"Part of the reason Argentine activists can be so public is that their policing infrastructure is less well resourced than it is here in the United States." - #Defund & Abolition are also a reproductive justice issue... lareviewofbooks.org/article/pill...

This is one of the worst papers I've read in a long time and should not be cited by serious scholars and journalists

In a weird way it gives me hope. If this can happen in one of the most surveilled and guarded places in the world, we have more freedom from the Palantir of Sauron than we sometimes assume.

The news that the owner of the South Shore raid building knew in advance of the raid, proactively identified non-paying units to federal authorities, and permitted/endorsed the raid fits squarely in the category of information that is essentially expected, but still horrifying.

Refaat Alareer’s family is struggling. They returned to find their home demolished. If you have quoted a line from his poetry, retweeted something, or mourned his death, please support his family today. chuffed.org/project/1093...

Honestly, I don’t need you to mask everywhere. I just would appreciate it in grocery stores, medical facilities, airports, and airplanes. That would make my life so much safer. Just orders of magnitude safer.

Upcoming Courtwatch LA training for immigration courts--an important role in community defense. Court watchers, like cop watchers, show that the community is actively participating in its own safety, and in holding the justice system accountable.  bit.ly/imm-training-116

An attorney in a New York Supreme Court commercial case got caught using AI in his filings, and then got caught using AI again in the brief where he had to explain why he used AI, according to court documents filed earlier this month. 🔗 www.404media.co/lawyer-using...

ACT UP and its history are at the core of my political consciousness but I also think very often about the fact that many ACT UP actions were rooted in the premise “Cops won’t beat white men on camera” and I don’t think political action can assume that anymore.

New, from me: Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce 1. Purge - those deemed disloyal 2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military 3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

For decades lawmakers have funded and outfitted cops with military gear who are trained to unload on anyone for any reason they see fit, and now getting indiscriminately beaten and arrested by them is apparently the only defense from the actual military doing worse.

I am happy that more people see that the police state is a BIPARTISAN project.

They like what Trump is doing, this really isn't hard. It's not both-sideism, it's running cover for the regime by choice in order to reach a desired outcome. Can we please stop cutting this institution slack it does not deserve?

0/200 Im a trans woman of color and disabled, and Im gonna get evicted if I don't make 200 in the next 24 hours. Im extremely desperate. If 20 people send 10 bucks, ill be covered. Paypal: [email protected] 💸💕 🏳️‍⚧️🚨 Mutual aid #mutualaid #MAboost #transmutualaid #BIPOCMA #helpsky

I’ve been critical of the normalization of the phrase “hate crimes” and its use by social justice folks for several reasons, one being that the framing of something as “hate“ is often used to target minorities and to punish people for challenging structural violence.

For those who missed it: I've been unemployed since July. My previous employer terminated me based on a lie told by my then-client's family, which resulted in me not being eligible for unemployment. My disabled spouse and I have been struggling since then. Looking for boosts and donations!

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson. www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

On Thursday, dozens of cops and prison cops rolled through Oakland rousting people on parole, busting 9 people on mostly mickey mouse b.s. and put them back into the system. Any news coverage by the local media? Nope. www.cdcr.ca.gov/news/2025/10...

Please share and give if you can, Nema hasnt raised much this week and still needs to provid food for her family and medical treatment for Mohammed.

Miss Major, one of the mothers of the trans liberation movement, has been in the hospital for 10 days with sepsis and a blood clot. She has looked out for us for generations, now it’s time to look out for her. Donate if you can: fundly.com/missmajor

The fact that this article on soy causing deforestation doesn't cover how all that soy is being used is a wild media failure. The vast majority (70-80%) is being fed to animals. It's not the "world's taste for soya" it's the world's taste for meat. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

NEW: CBP has been funneling DNA from US citizens—including kids—into the FBI’s crime database. Nearly 2,000 Americans swabbed, many with no charges. Once for violent offenders, CODIS is becoming a mass-surveillance archive. analysis by @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social

Stop trying to argue with the logic of the right. The right purposefully employs inconsistent logic to specifically in order to make people show it is above consistency. It is purely about dominance. And it also has the added benefit of getting its foes obsessed with arguing instead of fighting.

Ancillary benefit of rent control

If there's one piece of research that came out in the last year that I think all housers should read, it is probably this brief. *Affordable AND available* and the need for more income-restricted *deeply* affordable housing for those most vulnerable to housing instability, eviction, & homelessness.

this is the only way for people to connect under conditions of a total internet blackout. please give.

Let's all to take a deep breath & understand that we have reached the phase in fascism where if they want to declare you a criminal, you are a criminal. You can not magically avoid it, or do exactly the right thing to stay off the list. Fascism must always have enemies, and one day you will be one.

This is the DOJ report on far-right extremism and violence that the current administration does not want you to know about. Be sure to spread this as far and as wide as possible. web.archive.org/web/20250911...

Almost all of the initial reporting on ICE murdering Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez in cold blood was wrong because it was based on government propaganda, what seems to have actually happened is that he tried to flee the border Gestapo and they shot him Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

If you give even an inch on this subject, I cannot trust you. There’s no reason to negotiate about the perception or (nonexistent) decency of this man. You know what he was and how harmful his lionization is. No one who aids in it in any way should be forgiven.

Too many people are getting caught up in debates about what the crime data "really" says and whether it justifies military takeovers. This is losing the plot! It ignores the political function of crime data––copaganda and racial criminalization––and legitimizes crime data as the basis of politics.

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

this is why I don't think the current historical moment will be short-lived.

It is never used to refer to violence normalized under capitalism, which includes police violence, people being evicted from their homes, people dying bc they are denied medical care or housing, people being shot by the police, or state-sanctioned genocide.

"They told us if we don't eat, we will end up at a detention center in Texas. They took my money from me, I can't communicate with you. My tablet account has been changed. I have restrictions now. They take us out in handcuffs even to bathe, they are behaving so violently because of our strike."

Asked if racial and sexual attitudes will improve in the 21st century, Octavia E. Butler replied: “The only way the two issues could disappear is under a regime so totalitarian that we are not permitted to talk about it.”

For over a year now I’ve worked so hard and tried everything I could to avoid this. But I couldn’t save enough, so here we are. I made a Gofundme. Depending on the outcome I will either hire an expensive immigration lawyer and give it one more try, or pack up and use the money to start over.

as folks know, conditions are still pretty brutal and Mohamed is still seeking help. please share/boost 🙏🏾

We spent $150K in the last month and only raised $58K. Thankfully the earlier Itch Bundle fundraiser meant that we haven’t yet ran out. All support is deeply appreciated to keep Gazans connected through forced starvation & colonial violence: bit.ly/eSimsRUs #ConnectingGaza

I set up a fundraiser to deal with the water heater purchase and installation. It’s truly not urgent but I would very much appreciate the help with donations and shares if you can spare them! ko-fi.com/mishacopyninja

The critique that police aren’t workers hasn’t been helpful to abolition. It’s not about welcoming carceral industries in the labor movement. It’s about dealing with how the economy, public sector jobs, and budgets are entangled with carcerality. And organizing for a new public with different work.

In addition to the corporations trying to destroy the NLRB and 90 years of labor law, don’t forget a university is also helping, just to fight their own faculty and students.

A lot of societal problems boil down to enough people getting access to Skinner boxes that run on human misery and death and the Skinner box users get super angry when you point this out, often insisting you jump in the fuel grinder if you're so damned concerned about others.