Logan Middleton

we don’t need to defend reformist police policies just because they’re being offered by a candidate most aligned with our other values. he and you can afford to advocate abolition as-is, not distorted to soothe the angry palates of people who aren’t gunna vote for him anyway.

"This particular and deadly brand of copaganda by Israel and its supporters...in which Israel’s violence—no matter how discriminatory, antidemocratic, cruel, or downright genocidal—is consistently normalized and presumed to be justified while Palestinian existence is framed as a threat"

These fuckers … we don’t have to let them into our institutions. We just don’t.

I really don’t understand why so many of you are on Substack. You’re not on xwitter, so what are you doing?

This is also why I keep hammering the point. Donate only if you can. Spread the word if you cannot.

A Like isn't a share. Reskeeting is.

And like, I get how frustrating it is, seeing people beg in your mentions. But this is a famine. What else must the Palestinian people do on this platform? Die?

Sadly, and I say this as a union member, a lot of faculty unions are not prepared for this political moment.

And too many union siblings think academic freedom is enough to protect us.

it’s almost as if—as some have long maintained—substack has a nazi problem.

I teach at the University of Denver, and it does not surprise me at all that this person is a graduate of the school 👀

Prisoners’ Phone Calls Will Soon Be Free in New York State The move will save the loved ones of the state’s more than 30,000 prisoners over $13 million a year, advocates say.

🎉 BIG NEWS: Prison phone calls in New York will be FREE as of August 1!

With this change, families with loved ones incarcerated in NY prisons can expect to save an $13 million annually — money that too often comes at the expense of groceries, rent, & family stability.

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Counterpoint:

The Sameer Project has been doing crucial work to get food into Gaza. Gaza is facing mass, created starvation- people are dropping in the street from lack of food and water. Never again is now. Donate if you can and spread the ord. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Yanis Varoufuckice This is a disgusting country, I thought, irredeemable visually, psychically, morally, and ethically, and whatever is likable about our people’s warm patter does not in any way forgive what we have don...

“The motivating force behind American career fascism would appear to be wanderlust”. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/... Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Online Only | n+1 | Yanis Varoufuckice

mosab_abutoha On July 11, I asked Patrick Kingsley, the New York Times' Jerusalem bureau chief, whether the paper was going to cover the news of a beheaded fetus killed by an Israeli airstrike in Shati Camp alongside his parents and 3-year-old sister, on July 9. He thanked me for the "suggestion." Because I hoped against hope he would bring light to this horrific crime, I chose not to name him when I posted screenshots of our exchange. It was a Friday when I reached out. Not a single outlet had reported it yet. I offered to help connect him with people on the ground to facilitate coverage. He thanked me again and said, "We have a great team." I asked if that meant they were pursuing the story. He didn't respond. I followed up with him days later, sharing more updates. Still, no reply. It wasn't until today that I felt true rage. This same bureau chief just published a story about the killing of more than 100 people who were shot while trying to get food over the past two days. He framed the massacre not as a war crime, not as state terrorism —but as an example of "Israel's failure to plan for a power transition in Gaza." My cousin Ali was among those killed yesterday. He had five small children. His violent death, like the deaths of so many others, was not acknowledged as a crime. Just a "failure," another "episode," another instance of poor planning. How do I know this man and have his number? He visited me at my home in 2021 to write a profile of me, which he never published. I hope he never does. 5 hours ago

Sharing this post from Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha about the absolute moral bankruptcy of the NYT’s coverage of the genocide in Gaza

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“If we can block even one transfer, it’s all worth it.”

A new hotline aims to help incarcerated people evade the ‘prison-to-ICE deportation pipeline,’ Tamar Sarai reports. Freedom for Immigrants launched a first-of-its-kind hotline in two CA women’s prisons.
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Abolition. Family abolition. Health communism. These aren’t fringe fever dreams of an anti-child too-radical left. They’re traditions specifically rooted in care, survival & futurity. They ask: what would it take for everyone (especially kids) to actually live a good secure life, not just scrape by?

Liberals calling for gestapo to get hundreds of millions in surveillance tech! The idea that the problem with what ICE is doing is that it lacks $100,000,000s for surveillance technology is utterly a wild thing for someone to utter in public. Just an incredible thing to focus liberal energy on.

Four CUNY Professors Say They Were Fired for Supporting Palestine As Congress grills CUNY's chancellor, the terminated Brooklyn College faculty say Palestine activism is "the only thing we have in common."

Four pro-Palestine faculty fired despite strong job performance, despite fully enrolled & scheduled classes for the fall, without prior notification to department chairs, with obstruction of union info requests throughout. Every union needs to keep an eye on non-reappointments this fall.

How to Write About Palestine A concise guide to proper media behavior when discussing the "complicated" situation.

How to write about Palestine:

”Begin on October 7th, 2023.

Nothing important happened before this date.

History began on October 7th.”

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Support the Maine Solidarity Fund! Stand with Maine's Most Vulnerable Communities Right now, immigrant and Trans Mainers are facing unprecedented threats to their safety, dignity, and basic rights. Families are afraid to leave their ho...

Maine peeps, please consider supporting the newly formed Maine Solidarity Fund. It's a project of the People's Coalition for Safety and Justice, whose members include Presente! Maine, and others.

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Microsoft, what are you doing? 🤦‍♂️

As @phylogenomics.bsky.social once put it: Viome is the Theranos of the microbiome world.

They are not transparent, cite shoddy science, and have done very very shady things: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

fuck this place

The horror which will be unleashed by ICE now that their budget is ten times larger is unimaginable. What must be imagined instead is the abolition of ICE.

Just heard Bill Kristol, former chief of staff for Dan Quayle, say he thinks ICE should be defunded and that the entire DHS should probably be disbanded, which puts him to the left of maybe the majority of elected Democrats. Truly wild times we’re living in.

June 23, 2025 The Honorable Bob Ferguson Governor of Washington State PO Box 40002 Olympia, WA 98504-0002 Dear Governor Ferguson, As elected officials from across Washington, we are committed to a nation and a state where all people are equally protected under the law, including immigrants and people of color. Washington State is proudly home to diverse immigrant and refugee communities – some who have lived here most of their lives, others who recently arrived. This is the time for us to stand up. It is incumbent on us, as Washington state’s elected leaders, to do everything in our power to protect the immigrant communities that now face unprecedented threats to their lives at the hands of the Trump administration. We are writing to you with three requests: 1. We ask that you take immediate action to protect Washington resident Tuan Phan, whose life is currently in peril at the hands of the Trump administration, by granting him a pardon. 2. We ask that you use the power of your office to speak out against the cruelty of the Trump Administration’s mass deportation agenda. 3. We ask that you continue to work with the state Legislature in resolving the Washington state Department of Corrections (DOC) cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). For weeks, Tuan has been detained virtually incommunicado by U.S. authorities on a military base in Djibouti where he is being held in a shipping container and shackled by the feet. The Trump administration seeks to deport him to South Sudan, currently one of the most violent countries in the world, where he will be in danger. Tuan is from Vietnam. He came to the United States as a refugee when he was nine years old and grew up in Tacoma. At the age of 18, he was convicted of a crime and sentenced to 25 years in prison. He completed that sentence in March of this year, after which DOC officials transferred him to ICE.

We call on you to immediately pardon Tuan. Doing so would save his life. It would allow him to be freed from U.S. custody, restore his lawful permanent residency, and return home to his wife and family in Tacoma. Over the past few months, the Trump administration has resorted to inhumane cruelty in carrying out its mass deportation agenda. It has blatantly violated court orders to spirit people away to dangerous countries and foreign prisons to perhaps never be seen or heard from again. It has sent plain clothes immigration officers into courtrooms, workplaces, commercial stores, and onto school and university campuses to arrest people simply for exercising their First Amendment rights. In raids in Southern California this past month, ICE wielded tear gas and flash-bang grenades to make arrests, denied lawyers access to their clients, and attacked protesters. In an unprecedented escalation, the administration has now deployed the National Guard and Marines on the streets of Los Angeles, all in the name of the expulsion of immigrants from our communities. In every way, the Trump administration is using its mass deportation agenda to kick down every guardrail in our democracy against the excesses of executive power. It is deliberately inflicting cruel and unusual harm on the people in their custody. They are succeeding, and we are letting them. These actions are unjust, dangerous, and in direct violation of the values and laws we hold dear. They undermine the very idea of equal protection and human dignity — and they threaten the rule of law in every state, including our own. We call on you to join us in using the power of your office to daylight these issues. For the sake of immigrant and refugee communities across Washington who are the fabric of our towns and cities — we urge you to act: show up at places where immigrants are vulnerable — in courthouses, near day laborer sites, and wherever ICE is present. As signatories of this letter, we undersigned elected offic…

Sincerely, State Representative Sharlett Mena 29th Legislative District State Representative Davina Duerr 1st Legislative District State Representative Timm Ormsby 3rd Legislative District State Representative Lisa Callan 5th Legislative District Seattle City Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck Position 8 State Representative Natasha Hill 3rd Legislative District State Representative Zach Hall 5th Legislative District State Representative Strom Peterson 21st Legislative District State Representative Beth Doglio State Representative Lisa Parshley 22nd Legislative District State Representative Tarra Simmons 23rd Legislative District State Representative Steve Tharinger 24th Legislative District State Representative Cindy Ryu 32nd Legislative District State Representative Mia Gregerson 33rd Legislative District House Majority Leader Joe Fitzgibbon 34th Legislative District State Representative Liz Berry 36th Legislative District State Representative Chipalo Street 37th Legislative District State Representative Mary Fosse 38th Legislative District State Representative Alex Ramel 40th Legislative District State Representative My-Linh Thai 41st Legislative District State Representative Shaun Scott 43rd Legislative District State Representative Roger Goodman 45th Legislative District State Representative Debra Entenman 47th Legislative District State Representative Osman Salahuddin 48th Legislative District State Representative Monica Stonier 49th Legislative District State Senator Bob Hasegawa 11th Legislative District State Senator Yasmin Trudeau 27th Legislative District State Senator Noel Frame 36th Legislative District State Senator Liz Lovelett 40th Legislative District King County Councilmember Jorge L. Barón District 4 Kenmore City Councilmember & Mayor Nigel Herbig District 4 Seattle City Councilmember Joy Hollingsworth District 3 Port of Seattle Commissioner Toshiko Hasegawa Position 4 22nd Legislative District State Representative Greg Nance 23rd Legislative Dis…

INBOX: More than 50 Washington State legislators and local elected officials have written an urgent letter to Gov. Bob Ferguson to demand he take all possible actions to help bring home Tuan Phan, a Vietnamese American who was deported to South Sudan and is currently in Djibouti.

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If you approach a brown, Arab, Palestinian, and/or Muslim person and demand they confirm they aren't antisemitic and won't harm Jews - you are a racist.

Futurism MIND GAMES /ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" “I don't know what's wrong with me, but something is very bad — I'm very scared, and I need to go to the hospital.” JUN 28, 9:00 AM EDT by MAGGIE HARRISON DUPRÉ

NEW: People are being involuntarily committed to psychiatric care facilities — and even ending up arrested or jailed — after becoming fixated on ChatGPT and other chatbots and spiraling into psychosis.

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