Accusing Jordan Silverman A D.C. teaching assistant was accused of molesting up to 15 kids. Multiple law enforcement agencies cleared him. But his nightmare was just beginning.

New from me:

Elite law firms, multiple media outlets, the D.C. attorney general, and a group of parents accused a teacher of molesting 15 kids. They were wrong.

This piece is two-and-a-half years in the making. And as you'll see, it took some incredible turns, even as I was reporting it.

ICE Agents Are Using Family Separation Tactics Central to US State Violence The US’s family policing system honed many of the tactics now being used by ICE agents in Chicago.

ICE agents in Chicago are adopting family separation methods developed within the U.S. family policing system, reflecting broader state violence tactics linked to government enforcement.

I would like to mention again that menstrual products are covered by FSA funds. fsastore.com - so if you find yourself with money left on the table by the end of the year, consider using those funds and donate the products [pantries, homeless shelters etc...]

We've Entered the Gaslighting Phase of Covid in Prisons Covid is spreading, but incarcerated people are being told vaccines aren't necessary.

My latest for @thenation.com compares my recent Covid hospitalization with prisons’ lack of testing & treatment and, in some places, outright gaslighting www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I've mentioned this before but it bears repeating. Don't leave FSA funds on the table at the end of the year. LOTS of places like homeless shelters etc... would love donations of FSA eligible items. For the past 2 years, I've used left over funds to shop here: fsastore.com - then donate the items.

Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

GET RID OF YOUR RING CAMERAS www.yahoo.com/news/article...

the imaginary of the entire managerial class is that everything of worth comes from ‘ideas’ when in fact it comes from *doing things*

Bottom line. Think about your safety AND everyone you know that might not need their comms/photos/home address gifted to cops

In the second case, burner doesn't mean untraceable, just that it contains little to no data & you can toss it if compromised. Using passwords isn't a guarantee they can't get into your phone and you don't know what BS they are going to go after ppl with.

There are 2 things 1. Easy identification of who was at an event & 2. Having law enforcement own ur phone and data. Avoiding No. 1 is harder & requires discipline/cash phone purchases etc. No. 2 means having a phone without ur AND your friends data ready to gift to some cop.

I agree that tomorrow is low risk, but the no burner phone necessary is not the best advice for everyone. Think about your risk factors AND those of the ppl you know. 1 of 4

State troopers in riot gear just plowed into the crowd, started arresting protesters and clergy.

The responses to this tool are a great way to find new ppl to follow. So thanks for that, I guess

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors “With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

this week's post is something i've been thinking about for a long time. it's called "all of us imperfect comrades: or, an army of fuckups cannot lose"

margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/each-of-us...

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

Megha Majumdar — A Guardian and a Thief - with Nicole Chung — at Conn Ave Welcome to our new website! We're excited to see you. *** RETURNING USERS WILL NEED TO RESET THEIR PASSWORD FOR THIS NEW SITE. CLICK HERE TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD.***

DC! Join me at @politicsprose.bsky.social on Saturday, 10/18 to celebrate 🎉 National Book Award finalist 🎉 @meghamaj.bsky.social and her hauntingly gorgeous new novel A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

The flotilla carrying Jewish Currents reporter Emily Wilder has been captured by the Israeli military. Please contact Emily's senators and representatives—Adam Schiff, Alex Padilla, and Jimmy Gomez—and urge them to advocate for her safe release from Israeli detention

This is an incredible headline since, when I was in Miami in the 90s, LGBTQIA+ were being driven from South Beach by club raids and moving into Wynwood and displacing previous residents.

the only appropriate response will be to triple down on supporting the targeted groups rather than to do what so many people usually do which is to run away from them.

A person with brown skin sits at a laptop

A person wearing glasses, with their hair pulled back sits at a desk and looks at a screen.

A person adjusts a piece of art hanging on a wall.

A person wearing an ornate dress covered in blue and green flowers.

Indiscriminate ICE arrests have left Baltimore’s immigrant communities in a constant state of fear and anxiety baltimorebeat.com/indiscrimina...

Nobody should ever be in a situation where they don't have the resources and support they need. Safe haven laws will not fix that. But neither will criminalizing ppl who feel they've run out of options.

Today 10/8! Books donated from our @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social wishlist will be delivered to us with no shipping - bookshop.org/wishlists/1f.... Until October 11, when you buy a book for DC Books to Prisons from our wishlists a donor will match the amount of the gift. But today is the best day!!!

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

Mark Bray is a brilliant scholar and by all accounts a caring and wonderful educator, and is now moving to Europe because the fascists doxed him and his family

Feels pretty huge that he’s forced to do this—the harassment was bad in ‘16 but I don’t think he’s ever felt compelled to leave the country

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“If thousands of studies are telling you to look for a certain kind of harm and then millions of people start wondering why they are experiencing exactly that type of harm, is it so hard to connect those two dots?”

YouTube video by American Experience | PBS Fannie Lou Hamer's Powerful Testimony | Freedom Summer

6 October is Fannie Lou Hamer's birthday.

"Former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer's Congressional testimony is so powerful that President Johnson calls an impromptu press conference to get her off the air. But his plan backfires."

A red book on a yellow background with the words Banned Books Bookdrive October 5-11 All books donated from our partner bookstores will be matched with cash! linktr.ee/dcbtp

@bannedbooksweek.bsky.social starts today! Prisons ban more books than all public schools and libraries combined. All week books donated to us from our partners will be matched. See our @mahoganybooks.bsky.social @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social and @peoplesbooktakoma.com wishlists - linktr.ee/dcbtpp