Mari Latibashvili (she/her)

"Free D.C.! Free D.C."

Chants of protest against Trump break out in the 51st minute of tonight's Washington Spirit game at Audi Field.

We don't talk enough about how any contact at all with the criminal punishment system can destroy your life. The arrest, the court dates, missing work and other associated costs etc... People who aren't proximate to this really have no idea.

After decades in the US, Iranians arrested in Trump’s deportation drive Some Iranians are getting arrested by immigration authorities after living decades in the United States.

“Donna” Kashanian lived in the United States for 47 years, married a U.S. citizen and raised their daughter. She was gardening in the yard of her New Orleans home when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers handcuffed and took her away. apnews.com/article/iran...

Here’s a thing I wish we could do - leave the 20th c labels in the 20th c & try stuff that’s in line w/ shared values that might work to make people’s lives better.Klein &Thompson are liberals.Mamdani is a socialist.They agree on this (& probably a lot else) this is what coalition politics is like.

Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.

My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.

I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

CHECK THIS OUT

Appeasing fascists never works!!!

Just ask law firms, universities, and Trump’s former political allies.

Jessica Ramos basically admitted to Brian Lehrer that she thinks Trump will punish and single out NYC if Mamdani wins and that's her justification for backing Cuomo

First off, STOP MAKING DECISIONS BASED ON FEAR.

Second, stop giving that man more power by rewarding his racism with cowardice. FFS

There's no opinion from the majority because to put it in writing would be to admit the horror they are allowing to take place under this order.

SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice Justice Sotomayor called the order a "gross ... abuse" of the court's authority. Also: Law Dork in the media.

"SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice"

Honestly still can't believe that I wrote this headline today, let alone that the U.S. Supreme Court's majority did so.

No way to overstate how insane this is.

photo of two pages of the New York Times, Sunday June 22: left page is aerial photos accompanying the headline “U.S. Joins War Against Iran, Bombing Its Key Nuclear Facilities,” a NYT ad headed “Innovating new story formats,” and right page is an ad comprised of the front page of the latest print issue of the Onion, headlined: “Congress, Now More than Ever, Our National Needs Your Cowardice”

here’s what the onion’s full page spot is running next to this morning

The Onion NYT ad. The headline of the editorial says “CONGRESS, NOW MORE THAN EVER OUR NATION NEEDS YOUR COWARDICE”

EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.

My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...

And anyone who has ever been on the phone with me will hear the familiar meows of Spinach🐱 towards the end of the episode. He had to make sure he was heard!!

Got to talk about my favorite thing (organizing around anti-fascism and abolition) with @seriouspod.bsky.social & @mattcameron.bsky.social on their podcast, Opening Arguments. Thank you Thomas, Matt & Lydia for amplifying student / activist voices!

Hope y’all enjoy listening to the episode! 🫶🏻🫶🏻

just going to re-up this for no reason at all 😁

Border and Rule is available for free download!

I wrote a book spanning ICE & borders, Palestine & policing, colonialism & global fascism - in service to internationalist struggles.

I can no longer travel to US, but this book (as well @silkys13.bsky.social & @micahh.bsky.social 's) can come to you

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

Of course! Thank you for asking! I can be reached at coalitionjustice@protonmail.com.

YouTube video by Haymarket Books Criminalization: the Core of Authoritarianism, Fascism, and Resistance

"Care is the antidote to criminalization" - @dreanyc123.bsky.social

I watched this weeks ago and the abundant wisdom is still bouncing around my mind, so putting it here for future ref, and for anyone else who could use it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzuy...

Institutions of state violence will never be sites of freedom : )

For these reasons, the Court concludes that the President’s invocation of the AEA through the Proclamation exceeds the scope of the statute and, as a result, is unlawful. Respondents do not possess the lawful authority under the AEA, and based on the Proclamation, to detain Venezuelan aliens, transfer them within the United States, or remove them from the country.

BREAKING:

Trump's Alien Enemies Act Proclamation is "unlawful," a federal judge in Texas ruled.

That judge was appointed by Trump.

Ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/aea-inquis...

"What they are trying to do to immigrants already, they are already doing to U.S. citizens."

Watch the full video: youtu.be/zbSMcIDwdmg

BadLaw - Chrome Web Store Displays contextual banners on law firm websites based on public data about their response to the Trump administration.

You can add the extensions to your browser here ⬇️

Google Chrome: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/badla...

Firefox: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...

One of my favorite emails that we’ve gotten about the law firm tracker—

Someone created a Google Chrome & Firefox extension that adds a banner at the top of each law firm’s website if they have caved to the administration or complied in advance.

I love nerds!!!

Tracking how the Trump administration is making the criminal legal system worse A growing lists of the ways the Trump administration is making prisons worse and gutting programs that keep communities safe

Yesterday was Trump's 100th day in office. One thing is clear: The criminal legal system is worse off now than it was 100 days ago

It's a new kind of crisis. So we released a tool that tracks how the system is getting larger, harsher & less effective:
www.prisonpolicy.org/federaltrack...

Thank you for the kind invitation! I’d love to chat. I can be reached at coalitionjustice@protonmail.com :)

Opinion | This Is Why So Many Immigrants Are Ending Up Detained in Louisiana Louisiana is a legal black hole for immigrants.

My amazing colleagues Laila Hlass and Mary Yanik have an important Op Ed out in the New York Times right now about the current immigration landscape and why the current admin is sending detained immigrants to Louisiana. 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/o...

In just two weeks and ~during finals no less~, the amicus brief gained support from:

- 1,129 law students
- 51 law student organizations
- from 161 (out of 196) law schools
- in 39 states and territories

!!!