When Nadia Reed refused to work while incarcerated in Colorado, she was punished.
She was put in solitary, not allowed to talk to her family, handcuffed, shackled, & moved to a more punitive part of the prison where she was sexually assaulted.
A judge ruled Colorado has to change its policies.
You took your love to the marketplace
In the wanton corner of a Western state
Where every other shopper is a basket case
Just realizing the horizon forms a frowning face
JUDGE GRANTS TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER, HALTING PROGRESS ON WILLIAMSPORT, MD. DETENTION WAREHOUSE.
As a British MP once said, "To walk the road of peace, sometimes we need to be ready to climb the mountain of conflict"
Newark’s civilian oversight board works with residents who report police misconduct and has advocated for the state to give them stronger powers. “It gives folks a stake in what is happening in the police department,” says one of the board’s commissioners.
they’re so bad at this. it’s going to be self defeating, but really the core thing is that this is the moment to go into their opponents districts and hold town halls about how trump is trying to bring back the gas queues of the ‘70s and send their kids to die for oil.
BREAKING NEWS: WA state lawmakers took a big bite out of the rich just now, with the House voting a 9.9% tax on millionaires through after 24 hrs of debate (restroom breaks included).
Suffice to say, lawmakers have adjourned.
Sometimes it’s political cowardice. Sometimes it’s malice. Sometimes it’s public ignorance in the face of both of those things. But it’s always a lack of imagination.
Portlanders overwhelmingly passed charter reform because they were tired of business as usual.
To be clear: I'm committed to building a more representative, more effective Council that works for East Portland - not a few well-connected individuals used to getting their way in City Hall.
Walking away from Omelas like
When homeless people do stuff like this, mayors, governors, even presidents call for more cops. DAs get recalled. Newspapers run endless fearmongering articles about it.
When bourgeois people do it? Not so much. bsky.app/profile/bend...
maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living
BREAKING: Federal officers barred from unleashing indiscriminate force on ICE protesters in Portland
@oregonian.com
www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0...
Preliminary Injunction granted in the Portland, Oregon-based lawsuit against the Fed's brutal response to non-violent protests at the ICE facility.
You're a tower without the bells
You're a negative wishing well
the purpose of a machine is what it does - in this case allowing for maximum cruelty with minimum accountability.
Maybe they relied on AI to pick targets. But they bombed the school twice, hitting it again 40 minutes after the initial strike, in order to kill survivors and first responders. The mere *existence* of AI means no one has to be held responsible for this crime against humanity
Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.
don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
Pain at the pump 🎶
Feel like a chump 🎶
Just checked the news 🎶
Outbreak of Mumps 🎶
Dare Graham Platner to talk with Isaac Chotiner, tell him he would be a huge wuss if he doesn't
"I closely track all executions in America, and the prospect of Mr. Burton being killed is sticking in my bones. It is exceptionally rare for someone like Mr. Burton to be executed when all sides agree that he did not kill the victim" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/o...
This story contains a porn-texting police chief, a money-hungry police union, a nasty mayor’s race, a man in a Waldo costume and the phrase “pig pig pig” — your weekend read from The Western Edge.
"You don't liberate people at the barrel of a gun. Have we learned nothing from Iraq or Afghanistan? All we seem to have learned is from Gaza. Israel has learned that you can bomb hospitals & schools with impunity."
Me on MSNOW with @chrislhayes.bsky.social
Full intv: youtube.com/watch?v=u7LU...
Look at my big gross president
NEW: A Mississippi bill criminalizing mail-order abortion pills as "drug trafficking" is headed to the Missisisppi governor's desk after passing both the House and Senate.
@heatherharrison.bsky.social reports: www.mississippifreepress.org/bill-crimina...
