We will never fully know about all the cases of people dying in police custody. Because as @terencekeel.bsky.social points out, the government, at a federal level, hasn’t given us much leadership. @ruwithsonali.bsky.social
Also maybe note that it was written in Hebrew and then translated by Amichai and Ted Hughes.
The video of a United States Senator joining the violent removal of U.S. marine from a hearing and hideously breaking his arm in a door is an example of what has been unleashed in this country. They’re tapping in to get in on the violence.
And then he bragged about it on X later.
I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it:
Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspended—and so were my wife's.
This was a really enlightening conversation and opened my eyes on some things I had hitherto been quite unaware. Well worth a watch/listen!
"We stand up to say: no to war and yes to peace, that we will be the loving country, the loving creatures that we were made to be." @rev-hagler.bsky.social , z"l, spoke with and for us for decades. His words are still needed. His memory for blessing and revolution. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-kV...
Many great words spoken today honoring @rev-hagler.bsky.social's life and legacy. Special thanks to @edgeofsports.bsky.social for his inaugural quotation from Christian text in Rev. Hagler's honor, for the delightful soggy protest story, and for quoting directly from Rev. Graylan Hagler. Amen
With a little help from his Sinners co-star Miles Caton, the near-nonagenarian legend gives the Tiny Desk a history lesson in the blues. n.pr/4tPjN7o
more generally: If no one has a hold on it and I'm waiting for my own hold to show up, I will delay the return until I can return and pick up on one day. I make far fewer trips now that I am likely to encounter Natl Guard between my house and my library.
the ice and all the temperature-related closures at my local branch made some books weeks overdue. I felt very unrighteous, but I was not climbing over snowcrete mountains, especially when there was no one there to process the return anyway.
Conde Nast just sold them.us to the parent company of Out, The Advocate, etc. so there goes like 95% of the trans staffers at the company (after they got rid of 2 of us in November <33)
On this day in 2012, George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin while he was walking home from a store. Zimmerman claimed he looked "suspicious" because he was wearing a hooded sweatshirt.
HAMPSHIRE ATTER = BLACK LIVES MATTER NEW HAMPSHIRE ACTION ALERT ICE FLIGHT GROUNDED AT PEASE Swipe for More Information
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An urgent request from Black Lives Matter New Hampshire, x-posted from: www.instagram.com/p/DVHIyaFiR-...
Details in thread (1/5) #NHPolitics
A must-read from @ijeomaoluo.bsky.social: “Ableism is real, and it’s deadly. It’s especially deadly if you are Black, brown, or Indigenous and disabled. When we are harming nobody and we are beaten, arrested, shot, killed—there are no pleas for understanding. There is no demand to see our humanity.”
insightful lessons from Minneapolis with useful lessons beyond Twin Cities.
THANKS, RIP @rev-hagler.bsky.social (3/1/54-2/17/26). Force for justice and peace, locally, across US, in Palestine, Africa, and elsewhere. Brilliant voice with Faith Strategies, Fellowship of Reconciliation, @wordinblacknews.bsky.social, Occupy DC, and more. So deeply missed www.plymouth-ucc.org
Thank you to @harrietsdreams.bsky.social and @freedcproject.bsky.social and @blmdc.bsky.social and family of Julian Bailey (d. 2/11/26 at hands of US Marshals) for sharing his story and legacy. #justice4julianbailey #blacklivesmatter
Request for support from family, others grieving for Julian Bailey, killed by US marshals in DC. If any local want details about where exactly to gather, LMK. If anyone anywhere has a comment on environmental impact of balloons, sit down. #justiceforjulian #blacklivesmatter @blmdc.bsky.social
of regular local folks calling marshals for any kind of help in any kind of situation. Over the decades, I've heard of marshals in our neighborhoods to execute warrants. Until recently, the idea that they would be "patrolling" was wild. But I have no independent proof, just what reporters say
only news reports: "According to a U.S. Marshals spokesman, marshals responded to a call for service for a crime that was being committed" (WTOP); "D.C. police say they received a call about a man with a weapon making threats at a business..." (Fox5)-- and the fact that in 40 yrs I've never heard...
4TH DEATH in DC facilitated by local entanglement with federal cops. This loss is a horror, going mostly unnoticed so far. Thx tho @wtopnews.bsky.social for active voice -- sadly, an unusual practice for a city where Black men foo often "die following police involvement." @freedcproject.bsky.social
To best of my knowledge, we still don't have the name of the man US marshals killed in DC yesterday. But PLEASE NOTE that US marshals responded to this call to local police and they killed someone shortly after showing up. wtop.com/dc/2026/02/u...
yes, and sadly many neighbors, most public figures, and the rest of the "public safety" crowd at community meetings in DC treat anyone who raises surveillance or security concerns around the cameras and footage as conspiracy theorists or "friends of criminals"
Miami police shot and killed a woman experiencing a mental health crisis this weekend after her 12-year-old daughter called for help.
No mental health crisis should turn deadly by those called to help. Our hearts are with the family as they await answers.
Celebratory graphic for the 10th anniversary of "Books from Birth" by DC Public Library and the DC Public Library Foundation. Features a large star with the text "10 Years" inside, colorful bunting and balloons, and the phrase "Happy Birthday!" in bold letters.
📚🎉 DC Public Library celebrates 10 years of Books from Birth! In partnership with Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, we’ve mailed free books to thousands of DC children since 2016—sparking imaginations and building lifelong readers. https://bit.ly/492C8CD
reposting while this account still exists. Folks reporting their circumstances and asking for help are regularly deleted off this app. So help soon if you can
According to a report leaked by @dropsitenews.com, the US, Israel and members of the Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) are designing a mass detention camp, cynically called a “planned community” in Gaza. As Jews who know our history, we know the plan for a concentration camp when we see it.
Support my friend & fellow GVP advocate @gregoryjacksonjr.bsky.social who is running for DC Council At-Large. As a gun violence survivor, Greg was a fierce advocate for other survivors when he served as a deputy director for the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. www.jacksonfordc.com
Artwork by Monica Trinidad, featuring illustrated tan-colored text on a purple background: “Block It! Don't Build It. Don't Fill It. Don't Fuel It. How are YOU disrupting the ICE kidnapping, detention, & deportation machine?" In the middle are three rows of drawings in orange, tan, and black, depicting: a protest in front of a construction vehicle, transport vans and three Avelo Airlines planes, and hands holding and ripping apart money and a paper with "Palantir" on it.
New resource⚡️ Block it! Don’t Build It. Don’t Fill It. Don’t Fuel It.
A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.
Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
