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I have a small idea what I'm doing. I'm working on a prison abolition game that engages people deeply in the policy choices that have created mass incarceration in the U.S. Emphasis on choices because there are other ways. https://silver-guillotine.itch.io
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what is it called when people who aren't cops and don't have a warrant drag you away, because I don't think "arrest" is the word

submitted 2 days ago • 60 comments

"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."

submitted 1 day ago • 286 comments

Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

submitted 1 day ago • 541 comments

May we find the humanity to abolish the death penalty. “In the spring of 2020, Wardlow decided to start one last game, a smaller, simpler campaign that he created for a few of his friends, involving a mythical city and a quest to save a magic sword.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

"Prisoners in Texas can be sentenced to death only if a jury decides they are guilty and will pose a danger to society. That controversial “future danger” finding has been part of Texas death-penalty law since the 1970s.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

A haunting depiction of the mundanity of state murder.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I think a lot of great writers are tackling this. AFAIK most leave out how law enforcement (specifically sheriffs) are causing this drift; not stopping it. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

My last post (for now) about copaganda. This one looks at the pseudoscience used to wrongly convict people and how these techniques are portrayed in TV series as almost magically accurate forensic science.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I'm going to restrict myself to one (two part) comment, which is: 1) the entire range runs from execs making 290x what their workers make to execs making 350x what their workers make, and 2) this should frame everything else such execs encourage you to be mad about

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

Do you want lower rates of "crime"? Do you want increased childhood development and well-being? Do you want lower rates of homelessness? Do you want to reduce overdose deaths? Do you want these things cheaper than ever? Then give people housing, food, schooling, medicine, and support, for free.

submitted 4 days ago • 67 comments

I'm loving all the large protests and I'm wondering how we turn this energy into long-term organizing for change. Let's not just be against Trump. Let's be for major electoral reform, major police reform, abolishing ICE, and creating strong communities with strong public supports

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Nobody is rioting. Nobody is breaking any laws. These are cops in my city of Las Vegas just assaulting and arresting anyone on Fremont Street who looks at them. This is fascism.

submitted 4 days ago • 910 comments

Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

submitted 4 days ago • 1097 comments

I would like my state, every state, to mandate badges, name plates, no masks, for all law enforcement in the state. And if federal agents try to break the mandate, arrest them, then let the courts sort it out.

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

Call the police if you think the police are at your door...police reform is going so well.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

We know what we have to do to save our city from Andrew Cuomo. We're cross endorsing 🤝 @bradlander.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 301 comments

"Sheriff has history of cop-like behavior"

submitted 5 days ago • 1101 comments

Sen. Alex Padilla was just removed from Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles (video: Bill Melugin/Fox News)

submitted 7 days ago • 1624 comments

It is bizarre the way people with guns, bulletproof vests, riot shields, tanks, and other military gear act like rocks are an equal threat. It’s madness! If you are scared of rocks and think the punishment for having them thrown at you should be death, you shouldn’t be in law enforcement!

submitted 6 days ago • 282 comments

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

submitted 6 days ago • 842 comments

My book list on fascism "Liberals use “fascism” to identify uniquely authoritarian politicians – exceptions to status quo neoliberal order. Rather than an aberration, fascism operates through everyday violences of colonial occupation, capitalist circuits of extraction & racial terror."

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

You can totally de-arrest your friends, even in the US.

submitted 8 days ago • 284 comments

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.

submitted 8 days ago • 597 comments

We feed you. They hunt us.

submitted 8 days ago • 1250 comments

I highly recommend this. I'm working on an upcoming blog post about the connections Walia highlights between mass incarceration and immigration detention/enforcement

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Police escalation leads to cycles of increased violence and distrust. With such a heavily militarized police force, they need to be the first to deescalate. Instead, their overreaction betrays their fear of the power of the people and their underlying weakness.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment