the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.

I mean, I expected this result. Economic security decreases intimate partner violence. Give money to the people that need it-not to police and prisons. #AbolitionFeminismNow

This doesn’t bode well.

If I were supreme ruler of all things lexical (a word I just looked up), I would outlaw the use of the word "unfortunately." I have spoken.

Preventing harm before it happens, providing safe and non-judgmental spaces in which people who are considering harm can get help without requiring them to be criminalized--this is exactly the kind of thing we should be doing, and House of Ruth is doing it in Maryland.

Today this is a baking account. Chunky Lola cookies (Flour Bakery recipe), chocolate peppermint brownie cookies, and eggnog snickerdoodles (@nytimes.com). Snow outside, cookies inside.

I’ve been doing this for more than 30 years, and if I ever stop being nervous before I walk into court, I’ll know it’s time to stop.

Today's fun fact: if "blue" "progressive" Maryland was a country, we would incarcerate more women per capita than 153 countries, including Canada, China, Argentina, and Venezuela, and would be tied with the Russian Federation. #TheMoreYouKnow www.prisonpolicy.org/global/women...

As a pragmatic abolitionist, I'll use any tool I can to get people out of prison. But laws decreasing sentences for/allowing for resentencing of criminalized survivors are not everything we need to prevent injustice. We need for survivors not to be prosecuted at all. Mine @truthout.org.

Supporting Our Inside-Out Prison Writing Community chuffed.org/project/1574...

Think about this program for Giving Tuesday.

So far during the parade, my kids have booed the NYPD, asked why we continue to glorify the (whiteness of the) 50s, and talked about union busting during a Starbucks commercial. The kids are all right.

Not surprising, but disappointing. Mayor Mamdani, call me--let's talk! nypost.com/2025/11/19/u...

One of my clients died yesterday. She was an absolutely lovely woman, full of faith and joy and light. She cared deeply about the people around her. She was a source of encouragement and support to the women she was incarcerated with. She was 51 years old and had spent 28 years in prison.

To the guy spotted reading Imperfect Victims on the B train last week: I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it. And I hope they liked the flowers. ❤️

This is news to me, a Jew who doesn't feel like I have lost anything because of Zohran's victory. My goodness. Imagine showing everyone how much your brain is just absolutely pickled in fear and bigotry.

The ideas underlying socialism are hardly toxic. Inclusion, community, compassion, opportunity, effective governance are all fundamental, widely embraced. The term socialism itself has been cynically stigmatized. But with a little good sense, we can move past that and focus on values & results.

It’s been so long since there was good news that I forgot you could scroll and smile at the same time.

study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1

Blue sky.

Getting COVID is terrible. Getting COVID in prison, as @victorialaw.bsky.social explores in her latest book, Corridors of Contagion, is still a potentially deadly nightmare. Read about it here: www.thenation.com/article/soci.... And get the book here: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2447-c...

So excited for Kim Hricko, whose essay is part of the "Inside the Prison Heat Crisis" series at The Jump Line. Read it here: thejumpline.substack.com/p/inside-the...

The average salary for NYPD investigators is $100K. $100K x 450 investigators = $45 million/year. Imagine what we could do to decrease intimate partner violence with $45 million a year? But yeah, let's fund more cops instead. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/n...

That this administration is committed to "aggressively arresting and prosecuting every criminal who terrorizes our fellow citizens and their families" tells you everything you need to know about the effectiveness of criminalization as a response to IPV. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

I told Anna Sinfield that the first season of The Girlfriends made me yell at the radio. She interviewed me anyway. 🤷‍♀️ Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Ending cash bail prevents criminalized survivors of gender-based violence from being held unnecessarily. Kudos to the anti-violence advocates in Illinois advocating for maintaining Illinois' bail reform law. 19thnews.org/2025/10/cash...

My relationship to Judaism right now is...complicated. I didn't go to temple today. But I took the Yom Kippur Torah portion to heart: "Is not this the fast that I have chosen...to let the oppressed go free and that ye break every yoke." I took my fast to court. And the world got a little more just.

The Governor of Michigan seems to be aware of domestic violence and yet just denied clemency to multiple criminalized survivors of violence. Is that irony? Or is it just deeply enraging? www.michigan.gov/whitmer/news...

Tell me again how police keep us safe from sexual violence. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/forme...

I learned today that the reason that I do not read science fiction is because I am a science idiot. 🤷‍♀️

On brand-I’m spending my last hours before the Rapture at the Maryland Parole Commission

This Thursday I’ll be in conversation w/ @leighgoodmark.bsky.social about her work on decriminalizing domestic violence at @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social’s domestic violence symposium. If you’re a journalist interested in reporting on DV, & getting funding to do so from USC, register & attend! ⤵️

Super excited to be moderating a panel w/ @leighgoodmark.bsky.social on the criminalization of domestic violence at @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social's Domestic Violence Symposium on 9/25. The event is free & attendance is required if you want to apply for a USC grant to support reporting on DV in CA

Associate Dean @leighgoodmark.bsky.social featured in the @knowablemag.bsky.social article "Can a strategy shift reduce intimate partner violence?"

Bittersweet when someone who never should have been charged, let alone spent more than a decade in prison, is released. Though she should not have been in, Alexis Martin is out. #FreeThemAll www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Maryland Carey Law Professor @mgraber1.bsky.social in today's New York Times: “The Roberts court’s pro-Trump series of decisions creates reason for thinking that you might lose, even as every professor in your law school tells you the law is on your side.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/o...

"The Zaynab Project is a women-led, 100% volunteer-run nonprofit operating directly from within Gaza. We are part of the very communities we serve. No middlemen, no marketing costs, no admin fees — just local teams delivering urgent relief to those most in need."

Gee, who would have guessed? 🙄

Israel is starving Gaza's people. American funding and weapons are supporting this genocide. It's a moral horror of unfathomable scope. indivisible.org/resource/ong...

3 home. So many more to go. #FreeThemAll

Paper files were better. No matter how hard I try, I

Imagine a world in which we actually tried to address why people use violence rather than sending them to places where they are likely to experience trauma and that exacerbate the risks of future violence? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Female law profs: the phantom "law school isn't fair" guy added on this week--he told someone he would feel better if she would walk on his face. Has anyone else heard this one? Trying to figure out if it's human or chatbot.

If you missed the Council on Criminal Justice webinar on Policing Domestic Violence, it's here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMSG.... Yes, I screwed up-Gabby Petito wasn't arrested, just removed from the scene-but the point about the failure of primary aggressor determinations stands.

A new season of "Love After Lockup" is premiering on AMC/WeTV on August 1. Formerly incarcerated people should not be a storyline for other people's entertainment and corporations' profits. Tell AMC/WeTV to stop profiting from incarceration here: campaigns.organizefor.org/petitions/ai...

Not to be a Bobby Buzzkill but the set of anti-DV policies that Zohran is recommending have been up and running in much of the First World for a while and are getting good results. NY should adapt this approach to our own particular circumstances. www.newyorker.com/news/persons...

Prosecutors don’t keep us safer either.

When what I'm reading to write an article about how incarceration is sexual violence is less depressing than the news, you know we're in really bad shape.

Innocence Project New Orleans recently posted a job for an attorney position to focus on their new Women's Justice Initiative, which will tackle post-conviction cases of women's unjust incarceration in Louisiana. I would apply myself if I didn't already have the best job in the world.