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The Justice Department is investigating a New York sheriff for declining to detain someone on behalf of ICE. It's not clear what the DOJ could charge him with. “There is no such crime as failing to help ICE do its job," one legal expert said. nysfocus.com/2025/02/21/t...

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Just now from the state prison agency: "Those participating in the illegal job action will face administrative penalties along with Department discipline for violating the State’s Taylor Law and a judge’s temporary restraining order."

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A deeply hilarious dispatch that didn't make it into this story: The National Guard "refer to us as 'ma'am,' ask us how we are doing ... NEVER have I had a C0 ask me 'Ma'am, do you have any garbage you'd like to dispose of.'" "I have one question for G0vern0r H0chul, CAN WE PLEASE KEEP THEM?"

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At 10am, @chrisgelardi.bsky.social will talk about the prison guard strikes across New York with WBAI's "On the Count" at 99.5 fm. Here's where you can listen live: wbai.org/listen-live/

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New in @nysfocus.bsky.social: As New York's prison guard strike enters its sixth day, incarcerated people report varied conditions. Some facilities are making do, while others leave people hungry, unshowered, and lacking med care w/ Sara Kielly reporting from the inside nysfocus.com/2025/02/22/p...

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Yesterday, the Trump admin deleted a database tracking federal police misconduct. In New York, however, the state's highest court handed down two victories for police transparency. It held that pre-reform and "unsubstantiated" complaints are both subject to disclosure.

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This is a great backgrounder on the wildcat strike roiling New York prisons right now: nysfocus.com/2025/02/20/b...

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As correction officers continue their strike and Gov. Hochul brings in the National Guard, I spoke to incarcerated New Yorkers to get their take on what's happening in NY prisons for @hellgatenyc.com hellgatenyc.com/prison-guard...

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"Abusive New York prison guards have long enjoyed impunity, made possible by their union’s arbitration agreement with DOCCS, a culture of silence, and the prison system’s lackluster internal investigations apparatus." Absolutely vital reporting on the NY prison strike by @chrisgelardi.bsky.social

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Just now: Amid a guard strike and mediation talks, the New York state prison commissioner issued a memo doing five things: 1. Suspending solitary confinement regulations "that cannot safely be operationalized under a prison-wide state of emergency." (more🔽)

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Best reporting you'll read on this unusual strike:

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The guards are demanding the repeal of the four-year-old HALT Solitary Confinement Act. Lost in much of the conversation: The prison system has been flouting some of the law's central provisions. nysfocus.com/halt-impleme...

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I investigate the New York state prison system for a living. Some reported insights on what's behind the corrections officers strike in @nysfocus.bsky.social: nysfocus.com/2025/02/20/w...

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Looking to be in touch with people who are in touch with people in New York prisons. email: [email protected] signal: cgelardi.42

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I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

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There a lot of news stories on the prison guards strike. Read this one to understand what's actually going on and why ⬇️

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*New: Guard strikes have hit at least 25 New York state prisons — over half. The union told us it's in talks with the governor, who's threatened to activate the National Guard. We analyzed the picketers' top demands. w/ JB Nicholas in @nysfocus.bsky.social: nysfocus.com/2025/02/19/d...

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What's happening right now to federal workers has been happening to teachers for a long time. These battles are so connected. Just last weekend Elon Musk tweeted that California teachers are “indoctrinating kids in DEI racism & sexism & communism” www.vox.com/donald-trump...

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Trump already empowering the worst bosses to just.. ignore labor law. Whole Foods workers won their union vote, and now Whole Foods (owned by Jeff Bezos) is saying they simply won't recognize the vote because nobody is going to make them.

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let's goooooooo

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blood boiling piece

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The US-UK and Israel all bombing Yemen on the same day. A waypoint that never even crossed my mind when @yemendataproject.org started collecting data on Saudi-UAE airstrikes a decade ago.

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*New @nysfocus.bsky.social deep dive: Prosecutors have urged the governor to roll back more of New York’s criminal justice reforms. Public defenders worry about reverting to a time when they had to fight their cases “blindfolded.” nysfocus.com/2025/02/11/k...

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At Virginia's Red Onion State Prison, where six men intentionally burned themselves last year, officials are using a combination of threats and bribes to discourage further incidents of self-harm, @elizabethweill.bsky.social reports. theappeal.org/red-onion-pr...

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They are going to ignore court orders. If they ignore court orders, the social contract is dead and buried, the constitution is no longer in effect. It's a rubicon that cannot be uncrossed.

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On an earnings call, the CEO of Palantir talked openly about killing “enemies,” then added, “I’m sure you’re enjoying this as much as I am!” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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i wrote something about This Place for @404media.co. please read it, and then log off. 💗

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I know outlets need subscriptions to survive but it feels criminal to keep the most important original reporting about an ongoing potential coup BEHIND A PAYWALL

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*New w/ @juliarock.bsky.social: Hochul's deportation announcement sparks confusion, fear. These are scenarios when Hochul says New York can help ICE. Asked what the list even is (a new policy? a guidance?) her admin refused to answer, leaving advocates wondering how to interpret it. 🔗⬇️

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Incarcerated people have asked for more cameras in NY prisons for years, and the state has spent millions. Yet it took the brutal killing of Robert Brooks for them to speed up the process of equipping COs with cameras. Looked into it with @chrisgelardi.bsky.social nysfocus.com/2025/02/03/r...

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I will say this over and over and over, because politicians almost never do: Immigrants are subject to the same US criminal-legal system as non-immigrants. They go to court and jail and all that stuff. Deportation is a whole other thing.

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*New w/ @juliarock.bsky.social: Hochul's deportation announcement sparks confusion, fear. These are scenarios when Hochul says New York can help ICE. Asked what the list even is (a new policy? a guidance?) her admin refused to answer, leaving advocates wondering how to interpret it. 🔗⬇️

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"Hochul has not yet outlined a 'comprehensive approach.' It was unclear if this week’s list provided to reporters is supposed to lay out such an approach, and whether it will be followed by an official order." -New from @juliarock.bsky.social & @chrisgelardi.bsky.social nysfocus.com/2025/02/01/n...

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Will Hochul Fight Trump’s Plan for ‘Mass Deportations’? Clearly the answer is no. But this piece from November gives a lot of valuable context for what we're seeing and hearing this week. Give it a read.

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The degree to which reporters who should otherwise know better are playing into ICE's immigrants = dangerous framing is really frightening.

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NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs. Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."

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looking for information on the TRAC situation. email: [email protected] signal: cgelardi.42

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Last week, a NY appeals court held that a man in police custody "unambiguously invoked his right to remain silent" during a police interrogation when he told officers, twice, "get the fk out of here b*h, you trying to play me." Sounds right to me!

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motion to permanently retire the phrase "make no mistake"

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ICYMI last night trump ordered the government to completely stop all permits to wind projects its a worst case scenario for the wind industry heatmap.news/sparks/wind-...

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