Andrea Ritchie

As of today almost all vendors in New York City will no longer have to worry about being given a criminal record for simply vending.

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I'm out of words here

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IceBreaker is a free online resource that maps the activity of ICE within NYC. It provides key info such as time, date, the # of agents on sight and the number of people detained.
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Third Death in Four Weeks Rocks Bedford Hills Women’s Prison This week’s death, which incarcerated people and advocates described as a suicide, comes at a time of turmoil in the facility.

Third death in 4 weeks at Bedford Hills, NY's largest women's prison
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We Can't Wait: Why Incarcerated Women Need You to Join the Fight for Abolition Remarks for the Incarcerated Womxn's Clemency & Support Project (IWCSP)

“I need you on the outside to join us in this fight. Not to reform our cages. Not to make our suffering slightly more comfortable. But to tear this whole damn system down and build something actually life-giving in its place.” kwanetaharris.substack.com/p/we-cant-wa...

These Women Exposed Prison Sexual Abuse. Now ICE Wants to Deport Them. Federal protections against detention and deportation for sexual abuse survivors have deteriorated under Trump.

My latest for @truthout.org examines ICE’s efforts to deport women who survived & exposed sexual abuse at FCI Dublin

truthout.org/articles/the...

‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside."

Read every word.

COINTELPRO: Teaching the FBI’s War on the Black Freedom Movement Through examining FBI documents, students learn the scope of the FBI’s COINTELPRO campaign to spy on, infiltrate, discredit, and disrupt all corners of the Black Freedom Movement.

Textbooks say little of this FBI role in U.S. history, but it’s essential background for today.

High school teacher Ursula Wolfe-Rocca wrote a lesson using COINTELPRO primary docs. Students are gripped by docs.

Free ⬇️ for grades 7+ to #TeachOutsideTextbook
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/co...

Albuquerque’s Mayor Said Arrests Were “Not the Solution” to Homelessness. Yet Jail Bookings Have Skyrocketed. Under Tim Keller’s leadership, the city has increasingly criminalized conduct associated with homelessness, causing a growing number of people on the streets to be arrested and jailed.

In Albuquerque last year, charges for unlawful camping increased sixfold, law enforcement charged people more than 1,200 times for obstructing sidewalks, and more trespassing charges were handed out than any year since 2017.

there is no opposition party in the U.S.

Today we observed six shackled detainees being loaded onto the ICE Air flight at MSP. They're heading to El Paso, where conditions are so horrific, staff gamble on who the next prisoner to commit suicide will be.

The man walking from right to left at the beginning of the clip is dragging shackles.

The oil is flowing into the sewers and the streets are on fire in Tehran

Iran's FM condemns US attack on Qeshm's freshwater desalination plant, warns of grave consequences US President Donald Trump announced that Iran promised not to attack its neighbours anymore

Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian #desalination plant.
If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination.
timesofoman.com/article/1691...

The pollution from US/Israel strikes will last a long time. They can't even put these fires out. They have to wait for the fire to peter out.
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Her License Was Invalidated For Being Trans "I wish I could convey to them that the people they're hurting are real human beings," says Juniper, 24, of Witchita Kansas.

"In Kansas today, trans Americans are waking up to a nightmare."

Licenses "have been invalidated overnight, potentially subjecting them to criminal charges if they're caught driving with an expired license, simply because they are trans."
#Kansas #USA #Identification #Transportation

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Update: Sarah Afzul, the woman's sister, told me that Naqvi has been released from a detention facility in Wisconsin, where she was transferred overnight and they've been reunited with her

WV Senate passes bills targeting transgender people, drag performances • West Virginia Watch Hours before the crossover day deadline, West Virginia senators passed two bills that target LGBTQ+ people on Wednesday.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Mar 7 WVWatch
WV Senate passes 2 bills: 1 prohibits drag shows as “adult cabaret performances” on public property or where minors cd see them; 2 wd charge trans people using right locker rooms with indecent exposure as sex offenders. Most WV Dems backed both measures.

I was so nervous flying back to the US yesterday bc this worst case scenario is always in my head. I always carry a habeas petition and cash for filing when I’m returning, just in case. Also suggest my friends and family do the same.

Mayor's Office: 612-673-2100

Programs Container | Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center What are you practicing? This retreat is for anyone who knows in their bones that another world is possible beyond militarized borders, policing, and prisons, even if we can’t quite perceive the detai...

Do you just KNOW that another world is possible beyond militarized borders, policing, and prisons? Do you want to work toward that world?

Check out this link about the Practicing New Worlds retreat with Andrea Ritchie & Nichola Torbett in Bangor, PA May 8 - 10!

Re: Proton Mail. "Foreign jurisdiction is not a replacement for opsec." – Kathryn Tewson

[scroll up her thread for the how's and why's]

Bay Area mom arrested by ICE with her two young kids. Her attorneys can’t find them Immigration attorneys are scrambling to find a Bay Area mother and her two young children, one of whom has severe disabilities, after she was arrested by federal immigration officers in San...

Immigration attorneys are scrambling to find a Bay Area mother and her two young children, one of whom has severe disabilities, after she was arrested by federal immigration officers in San Francisco this week.

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

U.S. Military Joins Drug War in Ecuador: “It Wasn’t Going to Be Just Boat Strikes Forever” Two government officials told The Intercept that the joint U.S.–Ecuador military action won’t just be a one-off raid.

The US under 'antiwar' Trump has now also launched military operations in Ecuador too:

Four Union Strategies to Fight on A.I. A corporate artificial intelligence frenzy is sowing fear for workers on a massive scale. Seventy-one percent of people in the U.S., according to a Reuters poll on A.I., are concerned “too many people...

"A.I. is a management power grab, disguised as an inevitable technical upgrade. To fight it, workers can use four strategies proven in the past: name the real problem; unionize it; ransom it; and block it."
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This is our shame, my fellow Americans. And our crime. We're making the lives of millions of everyday people miserable -- for no good reason.

This administration believes the only legitimate function of government is punishment and is contorting the whole bureaucracy to that end.

I mean…obviously?

A victory in Denver and a warning in Miami as Palantir relocates HQ Colorado organizers celebrated the surveillance giant’s move after more than a year of protests, while Miami immigrant communities organized their own pushback

A researcher with the American Friends Service Committee and the national “Purge Palantir” campaign said the next phase is about scaling, helping communities identify where Palantir is embedded through political relationships, and sharing tactics that can be adapted locally.