@prisonculture.bsky.social
co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
According to the latest Siena poll, 54% of voters said Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state Legislature should approve a tax hike on New York City residents making over $1 million. www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...
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The New York City Councilβs standards and ethics committee voted Monday to charge Council Member Vickie Paladino for Islamophobic remarks sheβs made on social media over the past few months.
www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...
We were promised that the rich were going to leave NYC after Mamdani won and instead we have this...
05.03.2026 11:12 β π 51 π 14 π¬ 3 π 0Edmonia Lewis virtually vanished from history when she died in 1907. A new exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum teases out the mysteries of Lewis's life while showcasing her marble sculptures.
05.03.2026 10:55 β π 33 π 17 π¬ 1 π 0Donald Trump has suggested the US could use an Irish airport for military strikes on Iran even if Ireland objected.
05.03.2026 10:57 β π 13 π 15 π¬ 6 π 8π±Good morningπ
04.03.2026 12:32 β π 103 π 12 π¬ 3 π 0A glorious mess of almond twigs covered in open white-pink flowers with dark pink centers. Bright blue sky in the background.
I am very much in love with my almond tree at this time of the year. ππ±
#organic-gardening
A Spring Star Flower (Ipheion uniflorum) in the morning sunshine
π± #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling
We went from making up reasons like "weapons of mass destruction" to you know what, fuck it we don't need to even lie, the president "had a feeling" that they pose a threat so we just bomb them so we can. A country doing this can't expect peace inside.
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Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto on Iran:
We are told it may last weeks.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf:
US lawmakers have been said that they don't have exit plan,but in media they bluff to control the markets.
We won't stop until the aggressor is punished.
A bunch of white men start an illegal and ill advised war but then decide that white bodies are far too precious to be risked at the front line so they find nefarious ways of enabling brown people to fight each other on their behalf.
The racism of it all.
I'm teaching a graduate level seminar on community organizing this semester. One of the fun parts has been revisiting some old organizing 101 manuals. Here's one by SDS published in 1968.
archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/AmRad/do...
This cop is a menace.
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Not reported by the NYT, but in 2023 Goldmanβs wife also liked a tweet asserting that rape is βrooted at every level of the Arab society.β
Constituents raised the alarm at time but were ignored and dismissed.
The Quakertown Police Chief faces calls to resign after the arrest of five students during an anti-ICE protest, leading to a heated public council meeting with community members demanding accountability.
05.03.2026 04:00 β π 373 π 98 π¬ 3 π 1The secretary of Miami-Dade Countyβs GOP started a group chat for conservative students β and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"
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JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Gov DeSantis from designating CAIR as a terrorist organization and punish those who associate with the group.
βOnce again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,β Judge Walker writes.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Breaking News: In a surprise announcement, Senator Steve Daines, the Montana Republican, said he would not seek re-election.
05.03.2026 02:10 β π 428 π 102 π¬ 41 π 35I can only imagine.
05.03.2026 02:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Shapiro/Slotkin 2028
05.03.2026 02:10 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Tomorrow the City Council has the opportunity to listen to this call and take a step to take care of our residents.
05.03.2026 02:04 β π 128 π 45 π¬ 2 π 0Of this list only Elissa Slotkin (MI): @slotkin.senate.gov has aspirations of higher office. She won't get anywhere.
05.03.2026 02:04 β π 187 π 47 π¬ 15 π 0This is horrifically cruel. βA Haitian asylum seeker held for four months at Florence Correctional Center died Monday at a Scottsdale hospital due to complications from an infected tooth, a local official in Chandler said Tuesday.β An excruciating and wholly preventable death. No words are adequate.
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My latest for @theappeal.org
Women imprisoned in AZ went on hunger strike for more than 2 weeks, issuing 21 polite requests: theappeal.org/arizona-perr...
the info is linked in the Google doc attached.
05.03.2026 01:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0It's not like 60% of the country doesn't already oppose this war. It's way too hard to persuade in such a difficult environment where the vast majority is AGAINST THE WAR.
04.03.2026 22:55 β π 251 π 32 π¬ 3 π 0This was posted on X. Do you think they will enforce the same penalties on the USG that they recently threatened on members of the public for sharing doctored images of conflict?
04.03.2026 22:46 β π 119 π 21 π¬ 1 π 0Oh well, I guess there's nothing to be done.
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