The "private prisons" line many people use is well-intended but misleading. For-profit prisons incarcerate less than 10% of the prison population. The problem isn't for-profit prisons... it's the American institution of prison altogether.
Video wasn’t working earlier but watch as the Surprise mayor flees like the coward he is.
Maryland's Montgomery County Council voted unanimously Tuesday to take a proactive anti-ICE stance, barring privately owned detention facilities. "We will not wait for an immigration detention facility to be proposed — we are ensuring it is never built in the first place," Councilmember Glass said.
This is the strat they have been using in Southern California lately, too
ICE in Chicago this morning at Elston and Kennicott—a masked agent tells a witness (on the sidewalk) not to get in front of his car.
Feds are continuing kidnappings across the city & burbs after increased activity this month.
No flashy CBP caravans, just a steady stream of covert ICE arrests.
Are you going to “fight” back or just post?
NEW: Immigrants at the largest Midwest ICE detention center in Baldwin MI are beginning a hunger strike.
One person has died there since the privately owned prison re-opened in June 2025 from what his family believes is medical neglect.
#AbolishICE
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not a whole lot of pushback from yall on it tho
$3.6 billion for LAPD plus hundreds of millions in settlements for police violence and misconduct every single year for the next decade plus.
This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.
“The US has provided no evidence that any of the vessels were involved in drug trafficking, and legal experts and rights groups say the attacks amount to extrajudicial killings as they apparently target civilians who do not pose any immediate threat.”
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Vote!!!!!!
Killings like this have kept me up at night for almost two decades now, since I became a mom of sons.
In Guilford NH on 1/1/2023 police shot and killed Mischa Pataski-Fay in his home two minutes after responding to a MH crisis call. They knew him and his family from prior MH calls.
Your regular reminder that cops don't actually justify their existence or enormous budgets by solving much crime.
Approximately 11% of all serious crimes result in an arrest, and about 2% end in a conviction.
And then there's this...
As @jwashing.bsky.social recently told @austinkocher.com: the term we typically use to describe this sort of thing—"medical neglect"—is a misnomer. This is not medical neglect; this is medical torture.
it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit
Also: "We did not include allegations against local clergy, because there are too many."
sfstandard.com/2026/04/20/7...
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken.
“I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold.
The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.
(Published Jan. 2026)
Which is why the Democratic party is resolved to keeping him office
And the problem with police unions isn't the "union" word, it's the "police" word. Some workers are violence workers.
The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.
ICE is still kidnapping people in Minneapolis, and neighbors are still volunteering as rapid responders.
Defund the hostile domestic troops who wage war against the civilian population of the United States.
A prosecutor declined to charge the officer who killed Da’Quain Johnson in Grand Rapids.
For the legal system, the case is closed.
For the community, it isn’t
New from me:
A mom and widow who had benefits cut because of a mistake on a form. A home health aid making $13/hour who said food pantries are so overwhelmed, they couldn't help. A student who said SNAP access supported eating disorder recovery.
My reporting for @slate.com & @economichardship.bsky.social:
Haley Stevens is booed as she takes the stage at the Michigan Democratic Party Convention in Detroit. She spoke over people screaming "shame" and other comments, many about Palestine, through most of her remarks.
"Democrats, I love you, even when we disagree," Stevens said.
thank you
The submerged state is one of the worst things. The government is paving the roads you travel on, Chad.
