Did you know the FBI sat on evidence about Epstein’s sexual assault against minors without investigating him meaningfully for over 20 years? Yeah, I don’t know who’s dealing with the rapists but it’s not the police.

The US punishment apparatus doesn’t bat an eye at prison for a woman trying to provide for her family, but is completely incapable of stopping insurrectionists, killer cops, illegal wars, ICE agents and the dismantling of USAID and other life saving programs

The unrelated combination of a court ruling and legislation passed in the #Illinois statehouse could lead to a brighter, more stable future for #exonerees in the state that leads the nation in number of exonerations. Read more: https://boltsmag.org/illinois-certificates-of-innocence-compensation/

NEW: Chicago prosecutors have been making it hard for people who are exonerated to obtain a 'certificate of innocence', an important doc to be able to move on. But two new developments in Illinois may just have made things easier for people with wrongful convictions!

Joy is itself tactical & strategic. At base level, why do they want streets clear? BECAUSE they don't want ppl out & about w/ each other, having fun, getting ideas, & working our way up to making real changes. They think this song is a weapon. In 1 sense maybe it is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Khb...

Yesterday, the Trump DOJ gutted the main legal tool Black workers use to prove racial discrimination in the workplace. So, RIP disparate impact liability: 1971-2026*. Cause of death: hurt white feelings.

These Broadview 6 DOJ clowns broke every possible law and should all be disbarred, and this Extremely Chicago grand juror had their number immediately

I think the "crock of shit" juror should come forward to collect whatever the northern district equivalent of a key to the city is

These racist motherfuckers burned a cross in Grant Park in Chicago. This is a death threat to the Black community that invokes generational terror. But the coward who slinked away after lighting this is weak, and our city is strong. We stood up to ICE. No one here is about to cower.

Your shortest horror story. Congrats.

Please, I beg you, stop asking generative AI your legal questions. The anti-Black planet destroying theft machine that only tells you what you want to hear is not a good source for ANYTHING when your home or freedom is on the line.

"AI is good for poor people who can't afford lawyers or doctors" is just a shitty way of opposing universal healthcare and universal right to counsel while sounding like you give a shit.

If mainstream US “Christians” actually read and lived out the scriptures, they would see the case for liberation and prison abolition laid out plainly

Forcing immigrant detainees to work for their captors isn’t just exploitative It’s unconstitutional Trump's policies are dramatically expanding both the immigration detention population and the nation’s Thirteenth Amendment crisis ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

remember when Bill Clinton paused his presidential campaign in 1992 to personally oversee the execution of Ricky Ray Rector, an “intellectually impaired” man, to show everyone how “tough on crime” he was?

Inside Audio: Vinyl Records Recorded in Midwest Jails and Prisons, will be held from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on June 12 at Walls Turned Sideways, 2717 W. Madison St. Chicago news.wttw.com/2026/06/04/c...

Happy birthday, #BreonnaTaylor. #SayHerName

Yeah, but they’ve reduced the imaginary crime Black people commit in the heads of people who’ve only seen DC on tv by at least 864%

It's about fascism, it's about the normalization of fascist violence, it's about hating immigrants, and it's about policing. All of these things must be understood in relation to each other.

Welp, that was fast. A promise to not grow the number of cops is already out the window as this mayor falls in line with standard democrat approach to policing

It's sad but a lot of Americans don't live in a way that encourages community with those in your immediate proximity, your neighbors. It's actually constructed so a bunch of people in the suburbs & apartment complexes live lives of isolation where everybody minds their business without speaking.

#Quaker Lucy Duncan: "Prisons, like policing, are born of the seed of chattel slavery, and no amount of striving to make these institutions more mild and gentle will achieve more justice or...create a system that moves from harm to healing." #prisonabolition www.friendsjournal.org/a-quaker-cal...

The DNC finally released its long-awaited autopsy of Kamala Harris's failed presidential campaign, and it doesn't mention Gaza. The Democratic leadership’s refusal to acknowledge the party's shift on Israel could spell another defeat in 2028. mondoweiss.net/2026/05/its-... #Palestine #Israel

Post your comfort album

I’m sorry I can’t come to work today due to circumstances pertaining to Government, and my love for the United States of America

A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release. Civil rights attorneys say it could disproportionately harm Black people — and may even be unconstitutional.

Also the next somebody says reparations for black people is a ridiculous idea, remind them that we have a reparations program for trying to overthrow the government

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

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Pick a new Bond from the photos you already have in your phone.

“…just models of policing” is the most unserious set of words that they could only be written by someone from law enforcement.

literally no difference between what happened then to John Willis Menard, a Black man who overwhelmingly won New Orleans in 1868, and what's happening now to Calvin Duncan, a Black man who overwhelmingly won New Orleans in 2025 ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Emmanuel Andre is bringing a restorative justice mindset to Chicago’s community safety office thetriibe.com/2026/05/emma... - Chicago is lucky to have this man in this position.

Brown University’s Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve argues that false confessions stem from something more pernicious than shoddy law enforcement.

Her rendition of "Precious Lord, take my hand" - the last extant footage of her - which closes this beautiful documentary is just sublime, and the way she introduces it to her Copenhagen audience will wrench your heart. It's not for nothing that these songs are called "spirituals". A giant.

I am committed to taking daily action(s) from where I am, to do what I can, to lessen a little suffering. That is absolutely within my control. And it's really easy to focus on that.

I really encourage everyone who is fixated on the pipe dream of prosecuting ICE agents or whatever “when all this is over” to learn more about #ReparationsWON & the imagination & skillful organizing that went into winning something that actually supports survivors, their families & communities.

Calvin Duncan spent decades in prison for a crime he did not commit The Orleans Parish Clerk of Criminal Court’s Office repeatedly denied him access to files proving his innocence After he was finally exonerated, he ran for that same office to set things right ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Data shows that crime is down in my neighborhood. But anonymous Nextdoor users say it’s up. For busy city residents, it can be hard to know who to trust

Criminalization is the fuel of fascism.

People refuse to believe it and most who do believe it usually shrug it off but US prisons and jails are in fact torture chambers. Conditions are HORRIFIC across the board. People are OK with this on the whole.

With all of the turmoil over elections in Louisiana, Calvin Duncan is back in the news. He was wrongfully convicted of murder, exonerated, and then elected as the criminal court clerk for Orleans parish. However, Gov. Jeff Landry Bill signed a law that eliminates Duncan's position. 1/x

Join us Wednesday, June 3, at Walls Turned Sideways for an informal conversation about certificates of innocence: what they are, why they matter, and how Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke is trying to make them harder to get. airtable.com/appxuo0SNj05...

Read the article we'll be discussing here: buff.ly/GAxhSl8

Barney Frank's last gasp of derangement should put to rest the idea that most "liberals" want any part of progressive politics. Instead, what they want is women, queers, trans people and people of color to be put in their place: out of sight and underpaid, with no autonomy, preferably in prison.

NEW: Chicago keeps having to exonerate people after wrongly convicting and incarcerating them. But when they then try to get a court certificate attesting to their exoneration, to help them with housing & jobs, prosecutors are fighting them. This is due to new policies of Chicago prosecutor:

what is the fucking point of an opposition party that acts like this

Please stop asking AI for legal advice. I got yelled at today by a person who was convinced their GenAI was right and I was wrong on a legal issue bc "computers can't make mistakes." Worse, the GenAI assured the person (wrongly) it is covered by the same attorney client privilege that lawyers are.