Emily Galvin-Almanza

I'm so bummed we didn't get to meet! I was too busy crying at all the rest of the awards presentations LOL they were so beautiful

Emily Galvin Almanza, John Mathews, and April Frazier Camara from the national legal aid and Defender association. April is handing Emily the Clara Shortridge Foltz award for best public defender program

It turns out if you work really hard for 7 years and create hundreds of jobs and eliminate 9,000 years of incarceration, you also get to meet incredibly cool people and receive beautiful awards and be humbled by the rooms into which you are invited

this is blood libel gutter racism of the kind that you only encounter if you or your staff are spending a lot of time in online spaces that are avowedly white supremacist

I love kids. I have two of them. They’re amazing. However, kids are the absolute least self aware, clumsiest little puffins on the planet.

Please don’t drive tonight unless you have to, and if you do drive, drive super slow and pay 100% attention at all times.

Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 💀

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Just incredibly, unnecessarily cruel. And I’d be shocked if there wasn’t wanton corruption going on here, too.

Sure fine whatever

I'm calling my local food bank today to figure out how I can help, because we have a president trying to starve people until the Democrats give up fighting to prevent health insurance costs from doubling.

Let's figure out how to feed people and continue the good fight.

Thank you!

Thanks so much!

YouTube video by FIVE MINUTE NEWS Emily Galvin Almanza on people’s rights in the face of Trump’s private army and collapsing economy.

Your rights haven't changed. Don't let them convince you otherwise.

Thanks @theanthonydavis.bsky.social and @meidastouch.com fit a great conversation!

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Flock’s Aggressive Expansions Go Far Beyond Simple Driver Surveillance | ACLU Build it (an authoritarian tracking infrastructure) and they (expanded uses) will come

If you do one surveillance-related thing this week, read this and then check whether your community is using Flock.

Flock’s Aggressive Expansions Go Far Beyond Simple Driver Surveillance | American Civil Liberties Union share.google/zwZzfQliLz3G...

When people glorify ‘Tough On Crime’ they are just saying that they are gleefully punitive & nothing more.

Being tough on crime isn’t the same as addressing crime. We know that the largest predictor for reducing crime is addressing need.

Reducing benefits increases crime, endangering everyone.

Financial Times headline says “critics accuse” Trump of extrajudicial killings

I’m sorry, why are we using “critics accuse” language here? These are factually, unambiguously, extrajudicial killings. It’s not an opinion. It’s not a disputed or disputable claim.

The future!

Who watches the watchmen

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This t-shirt is in fact SO excellent that when it arrived at my house my husband stole it and wore it several times before I even had a chance to make a video for you guys! So guard your swag carefully that's the lesson.

Reminder that if you want to know the dirtiest secrets of the legal system (and some great fixes) and you pre-order a copy of The Price Of Mercy, and register that order on my website, you might win an EXCELLENT t shirt or other prizes.

You know I hear the critique that Americans should protest more like the French and shut down a major road or airport, but in a country with so many guns I hope the world realizes that our protests have to be joyous and even funny for everyone to survive

Pelosi Says Police May Arrest Federal Agents Who Violate California Law

Obviously, I have a lot of thoughts about the reluctance of prosecutors to prosecute police misconduct generally, but no matter what this is a huge step in the right direction: accountability.

Police May Arrest Federal Agents Who Violate California Law www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

There is no difference between Trump destroying the East Wing and using a wrecking ball on the Washington Monument or Smithsonian. Just because he (temporarily) lives there doesn't give him the right to demolish the White House without Congressional approval.

A photo of a black t shirt with an awesome PRICE OF MERCY front in red letters, and the back depicting the image from the book's cover---a cracked landscape, with a small woman standing at the edge of the crack. It alerts the viewer that there is a giveaway happening---if you preorder The Price of Mercy and register your purchase at emilygalvinalmanza.com, you might win this awesome shirt!

OK yes I realize we're in the world of Nonstop Bad News, but here is something nice--a book that takes you inside all the horrible secrets of our criminal courts, offers fixes + data, and NOW maybe a free shirt if you register your preorder! Thanks @crownpublishing.bsky.social!!

Boston. Wow.

everything in here is correct--it *is* counter to the rule of law to basically decide someone is a 'criminal' first and then come up with a 'crime' later--but it also is always a lil darkly funny when some of these statements are like, 'more and more people are being treated like people of color'

Coach scandal deepens at prestigious San Antonio Catholic school He's accused of placing a hidden camera in his office.

Uhhhhh in case anyone's wondering, no I'm not moonlighting as a police public information officer... but there is one with my name! Hilarious!

www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs at the seat of U.S. military power.

Left, right, and center refused to comply with this ridiculous deal. Which is great. But how do we find out what's happening inside the Pentagon now?

Journalists exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules | AP News share.google/q0p8mpN2ng5i...

Opinion | The ‘Sewer Socialism’ of Zohran Mamdani

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...

Opinion | The ‘Sewer Socialism’ of Zohran Mamdani

This is the way.

Brilliance from @ejdionne.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...

🔊 Listen Now: Renewable energy outpaces coal for electricity generation in historic first, report says Morning Edition on NPR One | 2:45

Coal is over. No matter how much the government tries to fight it with weird regulatory tricks, the market is making a decision.

Listen to: Renewable energy outpaces coal for electricity generation in historic first, report says - one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5564...