@cybelecanterel.bsky.social does it again. My god. Brain hurts. And also. Yes. youtu.be/MbuDAyhavWw

And also, PURPLE COLLARDS EXIST. I had no idea.

Never in my life has a bunch of broccoli made me actually squeeeeee before. But this one did. How is broccoli this cute?

Why Devin Giordano has not applied for clemency 💔 unchaindevin.substack.com/p/i-havent-a...

Badass geese poop on ICE

I'm ashamed to say that I'd been thinking about de-Googling for a while but had never done it b/c I'm so entrenched in Google's web. THIS story was the final straw for me, though. If you haven't already gotten a free or paid account with @proton.me or @tuta.com, please consider it.

From a newsletter from Benevolence Farm this morning. Register here to attend a free webinar on #NorthCarolina 's first Tiny Home Community for formerly incarcerated women and gender expansive people: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Ways to pressure the Trump administration: Economic Boycotts www.resistandunsubscribe.com

Good morning... Not sure if folks can read the full post by Mark linked here since it's on FedBook but if you can, it's worth it to kick off a new week: www.facebook.com/mark.provost...

I was disappointed at first when this photo of the Dahoon Holly turned out blurry because I couldn't get the branch to stop blowing in the wind. But the more I look at it, the more I like it just the way it is. The colors make me happy.

Frozen stream yesterday...before the snow started again ❄️

@pbp-org.bsky.social Are you aware of any incarcerated folks that have successfully used #ParticipatoryBudgeting in partnership with local/state/fed bureaus of prisons? An incarcerated friend in #NorthCarolina and I have been thinking about trying to advocate for such a program in NC.

This is so cool! Nerds rule. birdsoftheworld.org/bow/phylogeny

"'I have to figure out now who is important to talk with, such as my kids, and who I can afford not to talk with. I think this will cause me to lose a lot of relationships,' said Dex the Mex when we were speaking by the phone cages." prisonjournalismproject.org/2026/01/20/w...

If you haven't already subscribed to @cybelecanterel.bsky.social on YouTube just do it already. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRJs...

If you are on Facebook, please follow Connecting Families NC Coalition to learn more about the exploitative costs of #NorthCarolina prison & jail communication. #ncpol www.facebook.com/people/Conne... (I'm not on FB. Hopefully CFNC will have a BlueSky acct soon.)

Keep families connected. Write @ncgovernor.bsky.social and your #NorthCarolina legislative representatives to oppose the exploitative costs of prison communication. #ncpol connectfamiliesnow.com/stateaction

Families in #NorthCarolina bear the burden of exploitative prison communication expenses. No child should be prevented from talking to their parent because of the cost. benevolencefarm.org/connecting-f... #ncpol

Budget stalemate contributes to ‘dire’ conditions in NC prisons, agency leader says ncnewsline.com/2026/01/15/b... FIRE safety upgrades needed. “If we do not address these issues, something bad will happen,” she said. “It is not a question of ‘if,’ it’s a question of ‘when.” #ncpol #NorthCarolina

Prison labor is slave labor. "Missing work is categorized as a serious offense because prisons can’t operate without our labor." This story highlights how bad TN prison wages are: $0.24 to $0.59 per hour. #NorthCarolina is worse: $0.40 to $1.00 per DAY. prisonjournalismproject.org/2026/01/13/t...

Unlike in #NorthCarolina, where we pay exploitative costs to communicate, phone calls from prison in CA are free & easily accessible. Cameron Terhune in CA writes, "(N)ow, as I talk to people on the phone with regularity, my heart is awakening." prisonjournalismproject.org/2026/01/13/h...

This.

"You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye" (Matt. 7:5)

I'm in #NorthCarolina, but I am joining in this economic boycott on January 23, in solidarity with the state of Minnesota.

"As my PaPa testified during my trial, we are no longer living under slavery, and the government should not be able to steal Black babies away from their families." #NorthCarolina #ncpol @jeffjacksonnc.bsky.social

@barryyeoman.com was always a bad-ass! barry-yeoman.beehiiv.com/p/flashback-...

@cybelecanterel.bsky.social is making some of the best, most thoughtful, insightful, and CORRECT analysis videos of our moment. you get smarter by watching them.

A story about chosen family. A story about health care. A story about NC prisons. "An Unlikely Prison Friendship: How Strangers Bonded Through Hardship," by Phillip Vance Smith II open.substack.com/pub/prisonli...

I love this so much. ncnewsline.com/2026/01/06/f...

I only learned recently that all in NC can get a library card with statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/search-libra.... Thanks to that digital card, I got to learn more about what a brilliant, hilariously dirty mind Jane Austen had: www.jstor.org/stable/2903126 #NorthCarolina

And here's some ways to find out whether companies you support profit off off surveillance, detention, mass incarceration and more: American Friends Service Committee investigate.afsc.org/all-companie... As You Sow www.asyousow.org/invest-your-... and www.facingsouth.org/2025/12/whos...

TextBehind has increased its pricing dramatically. In 2025, I could send a scan of a 1-pg black & white pdf letter to an incarcerated loved one in NC for $0.10. Today it's $1.04! WTF?! 🤯@ncgovernor.bsky.social @jeffjacksonnc.bsky.social @prisonpolicy.org @worthrises.bsky.social

"We faced shrinking food portions, high prices for communication, & solitary confinement, but we didn’t write about them... No warden ever said, ‘You can’t print that,’ yet the threat of retaliation kept us in check." Phillip Vance Smith II on running a prison newspaper.

📣 Take a few minutes to add your voice! FCNL.org/NoWarWithVenezuela

Visited a loved one in prison. He's in high school, & his NC DAC SCIENCE teacher has been trying to teach the class that the earth is flat w/a dome over it so that humans cannot leave (i.e. couldn't have gone to the moon or sent drones to Mars). 🧨🧠🤯@ncgovernor.bsky.social

Today's @prisonpolicy.org newsletter alerted me to this new, sobering research re: NC DAC: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Nearly 25% of 2021-23 pop had been in solitary. "Those experiencing solitary confinement died at over twice the rate of others." @ncgovernor.bsky.social #ncpol

@cybelecanterel.bsky.social , you had me at, "The US Healthcare IS socialism...just for corporations." www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxcZ...

Yikes, Asheville! Et tu, Asheville?! Read the full thread. Then, if you haven't read it, read @brian-goldstone.bsky.social 's wonderful book, There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America libro.fm/audiobooks/9.... #ncpol

This is way, way too familiar. My friends incarcerated in NC describe the same kinds of issues, for themselves and others. One friend has routine, untreated anaphylaxis. One has neuro symptoms & worsening brain damage per CT, but no diagnosis or treatment. @ncgovernor.bsky.social #ncpol

White-banded crab spider #InverteFest

Michael Bell will no longer be able to receive a letter with the scent of his grandma's perfume greeting him with love. I am so sad to see that Illinois is joining NC in denying people the right to receive their own postal mail while in prison. @ncgovernor.bsky.social

Phone calls home help maintain the connection when loved ones are separated maintaining that connection can translate into a softer landing when being released. This is just cruel and bad policy if you truly want people to be rehabilitated, which we know they don’t.

Found the CBS feedback form. Left a message about Bari www.cbs.com/showfeedback...

What a beautiful, bittersweet story. And sadly, this could never happen in a NC prison because folks inside are not allowed to receive paper holiday cards (or any other physical mail), not from churches, or their kids, or anyone else. @ncgovernor.bsky.social

@prisonpolicy.org published "Our favorite journalism about the criminal legal system in 2025," which features NC's Phillip Vance Smith II's excellent @boltsmag.org article on the exploitative cost of prison phone calls. www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/12... #ncpol

Great story about the nasty politics happening in NC. #ncpol

@ncgovernor.bsky.social had to know this would happen before signing disastrous & cruel HB 307. I agree with Alamance Co Sheriff Johnson: “I don’t think a whole lot of thought was...put into how it was going to impact the number of inmates increasing..., and that’s where we’ve run into a problem."

This is an excellent list. I would add the books The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us, by John J. Lennon (libro.fm/audiobooks/9...), and Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson. (The movie of the latter is on the list already, but the original book is just outstanding.)