@jrbrand07
"The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it, and that is the real trick of the Imperial thought machine. It's easier to hide behind forty atrocities than a single incident." Wren Collective, PDSDC, LJJP.
Absolutely awful result in the "antifa terrorism" trial against the Prairieland noise demonstrators. Innocent people convicted under conspiracy statutes because they had zines at home, or wore black, or were in a Signal chat — even those who did not actually participate in the demonstration.
i'm willing to take cases where there's no evidence and put people through the system where they shouldn't be there- what a world
Honestly I need historians to be the plaintiffs in every case I cover because if they make it to discovery you just KNOW those primary sources are going public.
Exhibit A: The American Historical Association uploading video depos of the DOGE bros to YouTube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkCz...
@404media.co quickly becoming our most important documentarians and historians
Carmen Mejia was wrongfully convicted, spent 22 years in prison, falsely accused of killing her child, and now, after her exoneration, the government is going to try to deport her. She is being held on an ICE detainer. There are no limits to the government's senseless cruelty
It should be a five alarm for all Americans that the Pentagon is going to the mat to force an AI company to let the Defense Department use its powerful technology to surveil Americans. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/u...
Walked out of the State of the Union because I couldn’t sit through hours of Trump’s lies.
Americans know the truth: he’s spiking prices and wrecking our economy.
We’re a better country than this.
SOTU taking on some ominous lynch mob vibes as the almost entirely white and overwhelmingly male Republicans in the chamber stand and jeer at their Democratic colleagues while their angry, screaming leader eggs them on.
Mon Mothma would have walked out
It is absolutely a failure of vision, governance, guts, leadership. Get up and walk out.
How do you stay after this?
I forgot about this, but should not have.
It’s fantastic.
Don’t watch the SOTU, and the torrent of lies that can’t be checked. Don’t let yourself be demoralized by the images of quisling Vichy Republicans clapping at a madman’s rantings.
Watch this, and remember we will win.
I hope one day one of these hockey players' kids asks them why they let themselves be used as political props right after Trump celebrated kicking people off of SNAP benefits and they hold their heads in shame.
Bluesky has not failed--it's literally just a website.
The left, the progressive movement, and American civil society have failed to organize a boycott of the neo-Nazi propaganda website that's central to political media. That's not on Bluesky.
In this week's newsletter, we look at the right's war on journalists and their willingness to use the criminal and civil rights system to suppress the truth. Read in this week's democracy under attack.
defendingwhatmattersmost.substack.com/p/straight-o...
every politician in congress not talking about this and demanding accountability is failing. These guys fund the detention centers. They are the lever of power capable of stopping this inhumanity
Paxton is giving a green light to jails in TX to let people die and then never have an independent investigation if they send the person to the hospital. This decision is especially catastrophic as jails are full because of 287g agreements.
www.star-telegram.com/news/local/a...
Paxton is giving a green light to jails in TX to let people die and then never have an independent investigation if they send the person to the hospital. This decision is especially catastrophic as jails are full because of 287g agreements.
www.star-telegram.com/news/local/a...
Which is exactly the problem, Senator.
The Fifth Circuit has ruled that everyone is subject to mandatory immigration detention, departing from district courts across the country. A catastrophic decision in a Circuit that includes Texas and Louisiana, where many people across the country are sent.
www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
We at The Wren Collective are looking for a digital and design consultant. Please circulate widely.
www.scribd.com/document/991...
Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy
Actually, we are this nation, and we have been for some
time. But we shouldn't be and we don't have to be.
On Wednesday, I had an in-depth discussion with Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty. Overseeing a jurisdiction that includes Minneapolis, Moriarty had significant information to share and a lot of important thoughts about the past year — and the past month.
and a special in tarrant county!
"Fight Against Fed Overreach" is a great term, bc the acronym doesn't feel forced at all.
And worth remembering that by ousting/not electing reformers, places like Chicago and LA opted for DAs who would not stand up against fed law enforcement like this.
A cost of our gross misframing of reform.
I talked with Mary Moriarty about this and so much more today in the type of in-depth discussion you're only going to see at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/hennepin-c...
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.
We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
In Texas on fire, we highlight reporting about Maher Taribishi, who ICE wrested away from his son with Pompe disease, and therefore could not breathe or move on his own.
