JP Andrews

I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.

Bit of good news for our neighborhood

Piece of More Mesa Gains Permanent Protection Under Conservation Deal | Local News | Noozhawk A 36-acre section of the More Mesa open space in Santa Barbara County has been permanently protected from future development under a new conservation

www.noozhawk.com/piece-of-mor...

REBUILD is now also providing no-fee therapy to people who have been detained by ICE. Please support REBUILD by donating, and share it with those who may benefit from it.
findmeatherapist.org

The criminal legal system has always been used as a tool to dehumanize and control people with the full participation of communities who have been convinced that this is the only option for safety. The immigration detention system uses the same myths and tactics. We must choose freedom over fear.

Group of small paddle boats lit up in rainbow colors at night.

San Diego stroll.

Justice Eddins has been assailing SCOTUS.

In another decision this month, he said the Roberts Court is "pretend law."

In this decision, he said federal rights protections are "suddenly fluid," he describes Dobbs as "stripping autonomy" and "force births."

Give In or Fight Back? Colleges Are Torn on How to Respond to Trump.

If you attend, work for, once went to, or plan to send your kids to a University of California school, write to the presidents and board of regents and demand UC stand up to Trump's attempts to bribe and cower the greatest public unvierstiy system in the world: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...

Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has long worked to protect voting rights. But since President Donald Trump returned to office, the DOJ’s voting section has done a dramatic 180. Today, rather than...

not to brag but @democracydocket.com has this incredibly helpful timeline where you can see how the department of justice voting section has turned upside down since january. if you haven't been following you can get caught up. from @mattdcohen.bsky.social

www.democracydocket.com/timeline-tra...

Parents of young children should be organizing relentlessly for free universal childcare because this seems unsustainable. Truly. At the very least, folks should be vociferously backing politicians who run on this.

Precisely.

better things are possible!!!!

Thread, on how LA and MS are sending NatGuard troops to DC even as homicide rates are higher in many of their own cities, and even as Trump guts federal funding for any and all programs that reduce crime but don't use a gun.

Social control, not safety. Over and over and over and over.

Big appreciation to unions and workers today and all days.

Promotional banner for Labor Day 2025 on September 1st, featuring a megaphone and the slogan "Workers Over Billionaires" on a yellow and black background.

On Labor Day, we rise together. While billionaires buy up our government, we’re coming together to demand a country that puts workers first.

Find an event near you: www.mobilize.us/mayd...

YouTube video by Northwest African American Museum Fannie Lou Hamer's Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Speech

61 years ago today Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer one of the most courageous activists of the Civil Rights Movement posed the question that echoes today with every migrant round-up by masked officers, as federal troops converge on D.C.,as institutions are threatened:

“IS THIS AMERICA?”

youtu.be/DFC1nc3IXBM

This Illinois Reform May Bring Relief to Overworked Public Defenders Public defenders have "nowhere to go for help," at the mercy of floundering local budgets and local prosecutors’ policy swings. Illinois is creating a statewide office to change that.

The Illinois constitution guarantees each defendant a right to effective legal representation, but public defenders throughout the state are facing significant understaffing that undercuts their ability to win their cases.

boltsmag.org/illinoi...

A Democratic message that leaned in HARD into uplifting the idea of the commons and re-teaching people about importance of PUBLIC GOODS and the fact that they are GOOD and FOR EVERYONE would be an easy place to mobilize lots of people towards a project of building.

Anyway, folks will end up debating every word. But what's needed is a simple clear message and action. Followed by relentless repeating of that simple clear message over and over and over again. Followed by specifically telling people what to do/what actions to take in support of the message.

This is unfortunate:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
I wrote to the president of Harvard. I hope other faculty will speak their conscience, even if it means more struggle ahead.

Always enough money for cops, but never enough for the public defenders...

"More than 120 cases, including some for assault on family members and police, were dismissed... fallout from a monthslong dispute over pay that has led public defenders to stop taking new clients"

Reports @apnews.com

Many, many, MANY studies show that the cumulative costs of harassing homeless people—cops, prison, jail, etc—are much more expensive than just housing them and providing income, and that doing those things helps people get to the point where they’re not in crisis any longer.

We choose cruelty.

Crockett: Earlier someone was talking about cities being hellholes. Los Angeles contributes almost 20 billion in taxes. That’s more than all states in this country except for four.

On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls. That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter. The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents sho

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

Police who keep their identities secret are, quite literally, secret police. I don’t know why this is even controversial. You don’t get to yank people off the streets while hiding your face and identity and still retain the respectability of an accountable, democratic police force.

The Supreme Court’s Super-Neutral Principle That Applies Only to Democratic Presidents It is so malleable that all it really does is help courts pick the outcome they want to reach.

It's just hilarious (in an existential dread sort of way) that SCOTUS didn't consider Covid and climate change emergencies meriting extraordinary executive action, but Trump's completely made-up migrant "invasion" and laughable fentanyl-tariff link get complete deference.

Yes, please

Kill the fascist within you.