So Google is just completely unusable now?

No better source than @sandela.bsky.social for widening your learning about abolition, read and listen:

“I’ve been watching the mainstream struggle to contextualize ICE vis-a-vis the police... The police have been helping ICE because *of course they are*” @sandela.bsky.social YES. Necessary discussion from last week: sandyandnora.com/episode-360-...

I write about policing and urban design in my book. Policing makes us less safe, but urban infrastructure and design can certainly make us more safe!

Tomorrow's Sandy and @nolore.bsky.social drop is a banger. And you know it has to be good if it made me actually post

Amazing night with @sandela.bsky.social and @nolore.bsky.social! I finally got to see two huge influences on my politics and understanding of the world in real life.

These fools can't go harder than this because then they'd either have to admit they were wrong about policing in general, or admit that they're absolutely fine with the way police are protected doing everything ICE does, targeted at communities that don't matter to them.

You see how quickly this normally obstinate administration went to outfit ICE with body cams? That's because they are ultimately a surveillance tool for the law enforcement agency outfitted with them. Not a tool of accountability. And research shows they can ultimately increase police violence.

On In Bed with the Elephant, @sandela.bsky.social explains how early encounters with police shaped her politics — and why expanding #police budgets fuels trauma, inequality, and a growing surveillance state. Full discussion with @caradrianh.bsky.social here: ricochet.media/justice/poli... #IBWTE

It’s not just @sandela.bsky.social Sandy Hudson’s razor-sharp analysis putting policing in context that’s so valuable, it’s her clear and convincing focus that we can actually change things. Listen to this and follow her on the Sandy and Nora podcast, you won’t regret it ❤️

Yesterday there were a handful of contradictory headlines about whether Canada is or isn't sending troops to Denmark. Would be nice to know which is true.

@sandela.bsky.social bringing the cathartic outrage this week (thank you for listening to Klein for us bc I cannot even anymore) & @nolore.bsky.social surprising us all by having seen part of a movie! Lots to say about this ep of one of my fav podcasts podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...

When you're studying for the bar using a self-directed online course but need to ask a question

Prime example of why body cams don't work and you must defund the police (incl. ICE) to stop them from doing what they're meant to do, which is use violence to control particular populations for the benefit of the wealthy/powerful and to maintain social stratifications

I hope all the people who did their darndest to create a "we went too far on policing" narrative in the post-2020 whitelash see that their blathering apologism justifies every fascist thing ICE, the FBI, the DEA, and other law enforcement agencies are doing rn.

Man. It's barely registered that it's been 5 years since the Jan 6 insurrection. Bad sign of the times.

This is a good, if depressing and scary, episode from @sandela.bsky.social and @nolore.bsky.social sandyandnora.com/episode-356-...

This "law enforcement" justification for the clearly illegal strike on Venezuela is absolutely outrageous and should be reported as such. The death toll is now **80 people** and the **American dictatorial gov't** is like "this was just a simple arrest coming from an indictment, wym?" Unfuckingreal

Carney's statement is finally out. Apparently we "welcome the opportunity for freedom and democracy" through authoritarian, imperialist, illegal military operations. Elbows so low we're squatting at this point:

Very 51st state energy

BBC is reporting that Trump says US has "captured" Maduro as of 1:37 am Pacific and CBC doesn't have a single breaking news story up yet...what is going on????

Curious that this video is being pushed to me on multiple platforms. Anyway, this take is trash! And the subject of tomorrow's Sandy and @nolore.bsky.social episode!

Always refuse to play idiotic games

Just signed into Twitter for the first time in eons and *my oh my* has that cesspool devolved

Yes, yes, yes!

Looking forward to this era's Harper Letter 👀

This title is a nightmare. As though all the authoritarian government-led reputation of campus protests supporting Palestinians just....Didn't happen.

DEAR AI CALL CENTER: I JUST WANT TO TALK TO A REPRESENTATIVE. IF I WANTED TO DO ALL THE SHIT YOU'VE JUST TAKEN 30 MINUTES TO RULE OUT, I WOULD'VE DONE IT ONLINE

No longer needed?? The problem has only gotten worse. 2024 was the deadliest year for police killings on record. Before that it was 2023. Before that, 2022....and onward. Deeply frustrated by the popular narrative that there was deep change for Black people following 2020.

Federal agents in DC have been starting dangerous car cases for small stuff like tinted windows. The chases violate DC police policy. Out of 10 cases, six ended in a crash. One car had a minor in back. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Did you miss Sandy and Nora at Mayworks this year? Don’t fret they have posted the two episode recordings including the Q and A session live from Mayworks. Visit the link in our bio to listen 👂 @sandela.bsky.social @nolore.bsky.social

High praise. Thank you!

I was raised to see police as "the good guys." But the witness of the wounded and the weight of history tells another story. As a minister, I’m called to challenge systems that oppress. *Defund* dares us to imagine justice beyond policing. @sandela.bsky.social @pantheonbooks.bsky.social #defund

It is important to note that the police did NOTHING to prevent or stop the mass shooting in Manhattan. We need other strategies than sending SWAT teams after everyone (including the shooter) is already dead.

U.S. military veteran Anthony Aguilar, who worked as a security contractor at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, says he was horrified by war crimes being carried out against starving Palestinians. "The sites have not only become death traps, they were designed as death traps."

Trump is like please hate these Black people. don’t worry about the Epstein files. you all hate Black people, remember?

I used to be a producer on one of Canada’s flagship daily politics shows. We choose the order of segments. The topics for panels. The guests. When a topic leads those shows for days or weeks on end, it forces the government to act. Use your power to end these horrors 💔

Unimaginably horrifying

Check out my latest in Refinery29: Why The "Defund The Police" Movement Is Still Necessary share.google/EZpMHbpSPMsI...

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

PSA: Bagged popcorn is a scam

I do not want to earn "points" on paying rent

“If you're waiting for somebody else to take the mantle of calling out injustice—perhaps that person is you.” @sandela.bsky.social joins @peggynash.bsky.social on Activists Make History to talk about organizing for racial justice and the roots of BLM–Toronto. 🎙️ Listen: perspectivesjournal.ca

I, as an African-American, do not care how Zohran Kwame Mamdani identifies. But I do care about how Blackness is such a proprietary category for white people that their surveillance of us becomes such an internecine battle.

I wonder if we invite them to invade us if they will finally be our friend.

What an incredibly stupid take. Public services don't need to 'break even' or focus on profits.