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
"Jamaica, Ayiti, las Antillas"
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.
I talk about this in my book, too! This is what we were talking about in 2020.
I also recommend Devon Carbado's book Unreasonable for folks who want to trace the way this was all prepped in the courts.
Police have been chipping away at 4th amendment protections and accountability measures for years. That's what gives us everything ICE is doing, from racial profiling to warrantless searches and seizures.
It feels like dissonance because it IS! ICE are police. Same mission. Similar tactics. You can't logically accept one and not the other.
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.
Anyway, I talk about that in my book. Cops love body cams for a reason. They don't do anything for accountability but do provide more toys
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.
You're breaking up
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
For sure, but cops are protected and operate with impunity because governments have scaffolded them forever. Murderous policing is a part of all policing! We can stop it by taking away their tools and their power, ie resources, ie defunding them
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
Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there
Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
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
