"Dec 2" -- dropped the date

The @nplusonemag.com Bookmatch quiz is, indeed, great fun... see example shared below. And every year, the "matches" have suggested books I would never otherwise see or somehow missed. Haven't read all, but found some new favorites. Enjoy the quiz by Dec and the books for the long term.

DC's CM Brooke Pinto, candidate for Cong. Delegate, is telling candidate forum that youth curfew and other attacks on youth rights are the "backbone" of protecting DC's sovereignty by showing federal administration that DC deserves to govern itself. Using youth lives to buy cooperation!

‘We the People’ Includes We the Incarcerated It’s time to let all voting-age Americans influence their government.

"'We the People' includes we the incarcerated. It’s long past time to allow all voting-age Americans the freedom to vote." Story co-published with Reckon News.

Battles in West Kordofan as Sudan army resists RSF’s eastward push Reports of the desperate humanitarian situation and atrocities continue to mount as paramilitary RSF pushes eastwards.

Reports of the desperate humanitarian situation and atrocities continue to mount as paramilitary RSF pushes eastwards.

Stop asking the internet if people still go to the library. Yes, every day, 7 days a week. Still free. Still a safe space. Still no purchase required

Is it my imagination, or is the music we're hearing on hold with Governor Stitt's office, 405-521-2342 -- trying to get the governor to honor the clemency recommendation of his own Parole and Pardon's board -- Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"?

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board believes that Tremane Wood shouldn't be put to death, yet the state is planning to execute him very soon. There's still time, Governor Stitt, to honor the recommendation of your own board!

Gender dynamics don't explain everything, but they illuminate this "nice effort in the big world, little miss, now go back home and tend to something more ladylike" move. Oy and: "Yes It’s a badge of shame upon the American journalism industry that nonwhite, non-male voices are being shuffled out."

Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

Tracking All of Trump’s Third-Country Removals (That We Know Of) Bookmark this post, it will be updated.

I've updated the third-country removal tracker to add 19 migrants sent to Ghana on Nov. 6.

Trump has now sent at least 91 migrants to African prisons.

I haven't confirmed yet if the ICE flight to Liberia last week carried third-country nationals.
hardghistory.ghost.io/tracking-all...

Smiling white person with red shirt, glasses, and green cap. Person holds travel mug that reads "drafting the past."

Thank you, @draftingthepast.bsky.social! Kate Carpenter interviews #historians about how--and why--we do what we do. I loved talking with her about what I call the "disco ball of integrity." draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis... And now she's sent me this awesome swag! Thanks for this awesome podcast.

Reminder this Veterans Day: While comprehensive data on the relationship between military service & incarceration is not available, one thing is clear -

The U.S. has left many veterans behind & does not provide enough support for one of the most vulnerable populations. 🧵

so grateful for @religiondispatches.org and the long-term work of Emmaia Gelman

Don't Be Fooled By the Right's Attack on the ADL — It's Just a Tactic to Normalize the Right's Most Virulent Elements The relationship between white Christian nationalists and right-wing Jewish groups is often so stormy it can at times look like they’re eating their own. But it’s nothing to celebrate. The storminess ...

"The ADL’s spankings from the Right are intended to secure its partnership in the escalation of white nationalism, and they’re succeeding. Likewise, the little storms between Christian and Jewish right-wing groups aren’t breakups—they’re just negotiations...." -- crucial piece from Emmaia Gelman

(NEW!) Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis

leftwingbooks.net/products/read-this-when-things-fall-apart

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes

PS -- sorry for clunky sharing. Want this story to get out along with the call to end pretrial detention and to end cash bail.

a cash bail system. Who do they serve, who does this system protect? Don’t just watch or stand there, do something. Get involve with a local organization that’s fighting for our empowerment and freedom. #EndCashBail #LetHerGoHome #EndPretrailDetention #wekeepussafe

constitutionally defined as “presumed innocent” behind bars based not on dangerousness but on poverty. Pretrial detention destroys lives and families....

Deshaun was a Black woman, her roommate was a white woman. The sitting President is trying to make every City and State have...

it was about having to pay for Freedom papers while we fight back against a system that was never built for us.

Money tried to keep DeShaun locked up, but our love brought her back to DC. End Cash Bail NOW! Pretrial detention, in fact, is a system that disproportionately holds people who are...

"When we fight we win" message, with shout out to @harrietsdreams.bsky.social @nationalbailout.bsky.social, blmokc and LifeAfterRelease. [shared from IG with permission]
We who believe in Freedom cannot rest. A $100,000 bond was not about safety...

IG folks: www.instagram.com/reel/DQuF7jW...

this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."

there are nazis in the white house kidnapping people off the streets and disappearing them to human rights abusing states while posting antisemitic memes and calling jews disloyal and we have never gotten a letter from the uja expressing anything resembling a similar fear for jewish safety.

A joint statement from UJA-Federation of New York, JCRC-NY, JC New York, ADL New York/New Jersey, and New York Board of Rabbis on the Election of Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani -- press release cover image

Among Judaism's "deepest convictions and most cherished values" are shmirat ha-lashon [guarding the tongue/keyboard], and pursuing peace, justice, and community building. This statement is a shameful NEGATIVE example. Every Jew shouldn't have to respond to this fear-mongering, but I hope many will

In Conversation with Mahmood Mamdani It is in his bittersweet and touching book on the Asian expulsion from Uganda that one can trace the beginnings of author and intellectual Mahmood Mamdani’s world-view. He captures the terrifying expe...

www.warscapes.com/conversation...

Staff sex abuse in Idaho women’s prisons largely unchecked InvestigateWest reporting exposes sexual abuse by guards, retaliation against victims and a system that fails to track the scope of the problem

"In Idaho prisons, more than two dozen women say guards prey on them with little fear of consequences — and those who speak up are often punished."

The U.S. is a leader in women's incarceration, and behind bars, women are anything but safe. 🧵

"Condé was content to hold Teen Vogue up as a prop for diversity, youth representation and progressive ideals when it benefited it, and then to unceremoniously discard the entire publication with a disingenuous press release when the winds shifted." Such a disaster and shame.

Background, btw, is fan purchased at DC's CurbFest for Political Prisoners this summer to fund local Jail Support. Seemed like a better background than the mess or my tired face.

hand-held folding fan open to show these characters, painted between spines: F [not quite visible] C K 1 2 & 1 3 behind new book, _Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters for Activists in Crisis_ edited by Kelly Hayes

Thx @eastcitybooks.bsky.social for having my copy of _Read This When Things Fall Apart_ ready on publication day. Thx @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and all contributors -- those I know already and those new to me -- for writing and editing and publishing these letters we really need right now