Trump has helped convicts avoid more than a century of prison time through pardons and commutations. And that’s excluding Jan. 6 cases. Add them and the total is 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝟕𝟎𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬.
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The impact of choosing to pardon the J6s is far greater than the number of yrs reduced, so not trying to downplay those pardons.

And the clear corruption of current choices is ... super-bad too.

Think it's more that it's also important to realize JUST HOW MANY person-yrs of prison the Feds impose.

For perspective, the average sentence imposed on ~155,000 ppl in Fed prison is 152 months (12.67 years). That's a total number of person-years of just under 2 million.

Ppl in Fed prison serve ~85% of time imposed. That's 1.7 million person-years.

700 is 0.04% of 1.7M.

My point is complicated tho:

homeless people. the shooter drove up to an encampment, got out, and started shooting at people with a BBgun.

targeting homeless people.

targeting homeless people.

shapeshift!

didn’t we used to have a word for this

If accepted, widening the net of further institutionalization & confinement pursued against people with a mental health diagnosis

Christian Science/Prohibitionist/Puritanical Madness

Trump Turns Homelessness Response Away From Housing, Toward Forced Treatment Staffing cuts would hit part of housing agency overseeing homelessness spending particularly hard

this is testing the waters of how public opinion/checks and balances will respond to the en masse confinement & growth of the Carceral Industrial Complex vis a vis people experiencing homelessness
www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

Signal’s New Usernames Help Keep the Cops Out of Your Data Ephemeral usernames instead of phone numbers safeguard privacy — and makes the Signal messenger app even harder to subpoena.

When exchanging your @signal.org contact info over an insecure channel (like a text message or DM), it's a good idea to generate a Signal link (URL) from the app, then you should RESET that link after you connect with the other person on Signal.

Thanks to @micahflee.com for reporting.

Must-Reads, Resources, and Some Thoughts Sustaining Ourselves Let’s develop the practices and build the infrastructure we need to stay in the fight.

it may be that I just keep reposting @mskellymhayes.bsky.social 's posts here for a minute and that's all I do, but they're gooduns. organizingmythoughts.org/must-reads-r...

Just cause it’s “the best option” we have or has been an improvement doesn’t mean it’s ethical. And it is important to note his financial conflict of interest when he opposes socialized healthcare (like he did last week), etc. Feel free to argue with yourselves about other things I didn’t say 🤷‍♂️

Profit reports are not public but estimated they made at least $25M in the first 3Q of 2023. Should people make money off of products people need? I’ll let you decide. But making literal lifesaving medications a for-profit business is not ethical by any definition. There are no ethical billionaires.

Everyone loves Mark Cuban’s pharma company because he doesn’t profit off of cancer patients *as much* as some others but at the end of the day he’s doing it because he is profiting off of cancer patients.

They literally add a 15% markup to their production cost, plus a $3 “pharmacy fee” & shipping.

Trump’s definitions of "male" and "female" are nonsense science with staggering ramifications "How can you so fully misunderstand basic human biology and then legislate about it?"

“The scientist in me is in disbelief at how stupid it is. How can you so fully misunderstand basic human biology and then legislate about it?”

@msjpauly.bsky.social talked to @kateclancy.bsky.social about the absurdity of Trump’s exec order for @motherjones.com:

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Oath Keepers Are Back -- and Targeting America's Youth Leaked documents and unreported podcasts unveil strategy of rebooted paramilitary group.

Just in time for the new Trump administration: The Oath Keepers have rebooted under the leadership of an infamous ex-cop

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Texas GOP chair claims church-state separation is a myth as lawmakers, pastors prep for “spiritual battle” Abraham George’s comments are the latest sign of the state GOP’s embrace of fundamentalist ideologies that seek to center public life around their faith.

Texas GOP chair claims church-state separation is a myth as lawmakers, pastors prep for “spiritual battle” www.texastribune.org/2025/01/15/t... by @robertdownen.bsky.social

On This Year in the Apocalypse, the hosts of Live Like the World is Dying review 2024. Inmn talks about anti-queer laws, Casandra catches us up on abortion law, Miriam discusses restoration work, James talks about Syria, and Margaret explores the intersection of climate collapse and the economy.

Joe Biden Should Grant Clemency to Criminalized Survivors One expert who serves clients often criminalized and imprisoned for self-defense against their abusers told Jezebel “clemency serves a critical function to redress the system's failures and abuses.”

One expert who serves clients often criminalized and imprisoned for self-defense against their abusers told Jezebel “clemency serves a critical function to redress the system's failures and abuses.”
www.jezebel.com/joe-biden-sh...

The carceral system is inundated with crises – poor conditions, escalating deaths, environmental dangers. That's why investigative journalism is more important than ever

Here are 10 stories from 2024 that shined a light inside the "black box" of mass incarceration 🧵

What we are talking about here is probably the biggest and most deadly drug crime spree in modern history, and U.S. officials, prosecutors, and police have chosen to immunize almost every wealthy/powerful person involved from criminal liability.

The Past and Present of Immigration Detention: Your Questions Answered A historian of migrant detention responds to questions from <em>Bolts</em> readers on the vast network of local lockups that jail immigrants, and how it

For many sheriffs, deals with ICE have become a goldmine, turning their lockups into revenue-producing institutions fueled by federal dollars.
boltsmag.org/the-pas...

"More people died from homelessness than homicide in Nashville this year.”

A friend shared this photo from yesterday's memorial at Riverfront Park.

Opposing Mass Commutation is Supporting Mass Incarceration December 15, 2024

Opposing Mass Commutation is Supporting Mass Incarceration
December 15, 2024
BY Jessica Pishko
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NY police force strip searched nearly everyone it arrested, DOJ says A report from the Department of Justice finds that the police department in a New York City suburb grossly violated residents’ rights, documenting illegal strip searches of people who weren’t under ar...

The Mount Vernon, New York, police department strip searched nearly everyone it arrested and performed illegal cavity searches, Justice Department says

99% of our coffee ☕️ is imported

Just sayin’