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jesspish.bsky.social
she/her Book on sheriffs & democracy https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707263/the-highest-law-in-the-land-by-jessica-pishko/ Repped by @rhaliterary DM for Signal or email [email protected] “Women aren’t typically this crazy about politics.”
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Weird how all these right-leaning movements want to get rid of the 14th Amendment. Idk if something is special about it?

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

If you're not placing today's ruling against gender-affirming care for trans youth in the context of John Roberts' lifelong campaign to suck the life out of the Fourteenth Amendment, and equality for actual humans more broadly, you're doing it wrong. Here, for @vanityfair.com, I attempt to do that.

submitted 6 hours ago • 7 comments

Brennan Center has written extensively on the bogus “radicalization” theory of a predictable path to violence. It relies on “indicators” like new religious views, mental health struggles, & paying off (or having!) debt. It invites bias & delivers few results. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

@jesspish.bsky.social Frederick, MD came out today in protest against the Sheriff's dept cooperation with ICE in 287(g) program. @aclu-md #End287g #EndICE www.facebook.com/share/v/1Guq...

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

@stephenlemons.bsky.social to his credit has been absolutely right on this as long as he's been writing.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Claremont is training sheriffs and local police, and this is what they are training them to think the law is. It's totally ideological and a threat to people across the country.

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

It's awful -- and parents of trans kids will suffer the threat of surveillance and criminalization for trying to do right by their kids. A tragedy all around.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

I have almost too much to say about this, but one thing worth noting is how the piece suggests that cooperating with Trump on mass deportations is a way to stop ICE raids -- which is, I think, the goal. Coerce cooperation with the idea that it's harm reduction.

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

With all due respect, I disagree with this analysis, after studying sheriffs for a decade. I do think we (using it intentionally vaguely) need to take more seriously the problems with electorial strategies and start to consider other methods.

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Here's what everyone needs to know about today's big trans rights ruling: There will be states where trans youth will be able to access lifesaving, medically necessary care, and states where they won't and they and their families will suffer grave harm. If that's not inequality, then nothing is.

submitted 11 hours ago • 8 comments

What do constitutional sheriffs believe in? @jesspish.bsky.social explains the dangerous movement on our webcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFkg...

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

@jesspish.bsky.social on the rise of constitutional sheriffs, on our latest webcast ⬇️ Check out our full convo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFkg...

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Though the Senate passed it, the Assembly closed out its annual session without voting on a bill to make New York the fourth state to ban citation of "excited delirium" syndrome, which medical experts decry as dubious justification for police violence. nysfocus.com/2025/06/11/e...

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Cumberland County Jail officer detained by ICE had applied for asylum

submitted 16 hours ago • 22 comments

With a shocking and unprecedented level of aggressiveness, the Administration has been targeting Democratic officials on trumped up—and often transparently baseless—charges that they’re interfering with Trump’s immigration crackdown. My latest: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment