"Free D.C.! Free D.C." Chants of protest against Trump break out in the 51st minute of tonight's Washington Spirit game at Audi Field.

We don't talk enough about how any contact at all with the criminal punishment system can destroy your life. The arrest, the court dates, missing work and other associated costs etc... People who aren't proximate to this really have no idea.

“Donna” Kashanian lived in the United States for 47 years, married a U.S. citizen and raised their daughter. She was gardening in the yard of her New Orleans home when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers handcuffed and took her away. apnews.com/article/iran...

Here’s a thing I wish we could do - leave the 20th c labels in the 20th c & try stuff that’s in line w/ shared values that might work to make people’s lives better.Klein &Thompson are liberals.Mamdani is a socialist.They agree on this (& probably a lot else) this is what coalition politics is like.

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

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Appeasing fascists never works!!! Just ask law firms, universities, and Trump’s former political allies.

Jessica Ramos basically admitted to Brian Lehrer that she thinks Trump will punish and single out NYC if Mamdani wins and that's her justification for backing Cuomo First off, STOP MAKING DECISIONS BASED ON FEAR. Second, stop giving that man more power by rewarding his racism with cowardice. FFS

There's no opinion from the majority because to put it in writing would be to admit the horror they are allowing to take place under this order.

"SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice" Honestly still can't believe that I wrote this headline today, let alone that the U.S. Supreme Court's majority did so.

No way to overstate how insane this is.

here’s what the onion’s full page spot is running next to this morning

EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker. My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...

Got to talk about my favorite thing (organizing around anti-fascism and abolition) with @seriouspod.bsky.social & @mattcameron.bsky.social on their podcast, Opening Arguments. Thank you Thomas, Matt & Lydia for amplifying student / activist voices! Hope y’all enjoy listening to the episode! 🫶🏻🫶🏻

just going to re-up this for no reason at all 😁

Border and Rule is available for free download! I wrote a book spanning ICE & borders, Palestine & policing, colonialism & global fascism - in service to internationalist struggles. I can no longer travel to US, but this book (as well @silkys13.bsky.social & @micahh.bsky.social 's) can come to you

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

"Care is the antidote to criminalization" - @dreanyc123.bsky.social I watched this weeks ago and the abundant wisdom is still bouncing around my mind, so putting it here for future ref, and for anyone else who could use it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzuy...

Institutions of state violence will never be sites of freedom : )

BREAKING: Trump's Alien Enemies Act Proclamation is "unlawful," a federal judge in Texas ruled. That judge was appointed by Trump. Ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Background www.allrisenews.com/p/aea-inquis...

"What they are trying to do to immigrants already, they are already doing to U.S. citizens." Watch the full video: youtu.be/zbSMcIDwdmg

One of my favorite emails that we’ve gotten about the law firm tracker— Someone created a Google Chrome & Firefox extension that adds a banner at the top of each law firm’s website if they have caved to the administration or complied in advance. I love nerds!!!

Yesterday was Trump's 100th day in office. One thing is clear: The criminal legal system is worse off now than it was 100 days ago It's a new kind of crisis. So we released a tool that tracks how the system is getting larger, harsher & less effective: www.prisonpolicy.org/federaltrack...

My amazing colleagues Laila Hlass and Mary Yanik have an important Op Ed out in the New York Times right now about the current immigration landscape and why the current admin is sending detained immigrants to Louisiana. 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/o...

In just two weeks and ~during finals no less~, the amicus brief gained support from: - 1,129 law students - 51 law student organizations - from 161 (out of 196) law schools - in 39 states and territories !!!

Thank you @klasfeldreports.com for shining a light on the Coalition for Justice! I am so lucky to be at an institution like @georgetownlaw.bsky.social, working alongside such amazing student leaders. To all organizing in your little corners of this work—thank you! Together is the only way forward.

Individually, we beg. Together, we make change,

"Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants,” winks Louis Brandies at us.

“I think the fact that students are doing this, and the fact that folks that have much less power — who are six figures in student debt — the fact that we are the ones doing this shows that they can too, and they should not be afraid to,” Latibashvili said.

"You will be better positioned to survive this mess if you're not alone. ... When we are anchored to each other in fellowship and shared purpose, we are better positioned to do the work of collective survival—and there is no collective liberation without collective survival."

No human being belongs there, and no one should have been sent there. We need to keep repeating those parts, too.

Must-read: ‘Letter to Columbia’ written from political prisoner Mahmoud Khalil. www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

So proud of American Resisters today! #Handsoff

Very dense crowd too

Protesting matters because: -we show the fascists we will not be silenced and we are not scared -we show each other where we stand -we build community that sparks further action Don’t let anyone tell you protesting doesn’t matter.

Protest changes the permission structure. It says fascists will not be allowed to proceed unencumbered. And if you didn't think there was anything to be done, a protest shows you many think otherwise.

New York! 😳 Fifth Avenue is filled. Trump will hate this 🎉 #HandsOff #FiftyFiftyOne #HandsOff2025

Brunswick, NC HANDS OFF PROTESTS #RiseUpAndResist #ResistFacisim #Protests #HandsOffProtests

Highly recommend looking through these #HandsOff Protest photos for a shot of energy. Not just the places you'd expect, either!

Absolutely incredible turn out at MN State Capitol! #HandsOff

Curious about how a law firm has responded to the Trump administration's fascist attacks on the legal profession? 300+ firms represented in the attached tracker (and being regularly updated) docs.google.com/spreadsheets... (1/4)

Today, #GeorgetownLaw Dean William M. Treanor joined 79 law school deans in signing the letter posted below, issued March 26, 2025. [ Those signing are expressing their personal views and are not speaking for their institutions. Find the full letter and list of signatories: bit.ly/4hSna6u ]

literally every day is going to provide more evidence that the "let's provide some votes for the least bad trump nominees out of respect for the presidency" was a boneheaded strategy. any idiot could have told senate democrats that any vote for any of these people was going to make them look bad.

Last night, the President issued a memorandum titled “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and Federal Court,” appearing to target those who represent clients in matters adverse to the federal government and specifically targeting Marc Elias*, a prominent attorney and voting rights champion.

“Elias Law Group will not be deterred from fighting for democracy in court. There will be no negotiation with this White House about the clients we represent or the lawsuits we bring on their behalf."

Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:

We are no longer “protecting and defending a democracy.” We are fighting fascism which is very much already here.

We have been screaming that putting more people under enslavement to benefit the billionaires was a large part of this project.