One week away! Register for what will be a very powerful event celebrating a decade of Survived & Punished, a national coalition of prison abolitionists organizing defense campaigns for people criminalized for surviving domestic or sexual violence.
"In 2025, 92 percent of all book challenges were initiated by pressure groups, government officials and decision makers, up from 72 percent in 2024. Less than 3 percent of challenges originated from individual parents." 📚
www.ala.org/news/2026/04...
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IDF commanders told Haaretz that southern Lebanon is being demolished “like Gaza.” The declared goal is to prevent civilians from being able to return.
Both are war crimes punishable under international law.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
@oakcliffuu.bsky.social @uusj.bsky.social
At our event at the library today, I passed out information about the fact that the Mayor's preliminary budget cuts our public library budget. Only 2 people were aware of this. Everyone was appalled. We need to increase public education about this fact. Folks promised to contact their council member
Graphic reads Save James Broadnax followed by event details "Interfaith prayer and worship service. Frank Crowley courthouse 133 N Riverfront, Dallas, TX. Tuesday April 21 @ 6pm.
Please share this event with friends in DFW. James has asked for people to join in prayer as his execution date approaches. #dallas #abolition
I look forward to sending it to some friends once it is in paperback!
James Broadnax advocacy checklist 1. Follow our Instagram @justiceforjamesbroadnax 2. Sign the petitioning jamesbroadnax.org 3. Contact Governor Abbott's office and comment on all his social accounts to save James Broadnax. Texas callers: 800-843-5789 Out of state callers: 512-463-1782
View a short documentary on this case and more info at www.jamesbroadnax.org
Pro-Palestinian Tufts University graduate targeted by Trump administration returns to Turkey reut.rs/4sMJT9r
"I cannot march. I cannot vote in this election or the next. I cannot call my congressperson from this phone without paying a corporation for the privilege. But I can write. I can tell you what I see when I read about Palestinian prisoners, and what I see is us."
@micahhh.bsky.social @hannahnpbowman.com this letter may be of interest to you or your contacts 🙏
Do you know a faith leader who opposes the James Broadnax execution? Please ask them to sign on to this letter by tomorrow.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#abolition
James Broadnax advocacy checklist 1. Follow our Instagram @justiceforjamesbroadnax 2. Sign the petitioning jamesbroadnax.org 3. Contact Governor Abbott's office and comment on all his social accounts to save James Broadnax. Texas callers: 800-843-5789 Out of state callers: 512-463-1782
View a short documentary on this case and more info at www.jamesbroadnax.org
@prisonculture.bsky.social please share if possible 🙏
Hey #abolitionsky comrades, I am once again asking you to boost my friend jb's case. After the appeal on new evidence was turned down by the CCA he needs massive public support to stop his execution. Please visit & share the website below www.jamesbroadnax.org
#abolition #deathpenalty #savejb
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.
'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
My thoughts exactly. He couldn't wait to use this an excuse to continue being terrible.
Every once in a while I crack up remembering that my partner started talking to me on fb messenger 15ish years ago because he was sending me parts of his anarchist novel set in spain. These days he falls asleep rereading the same prison escape book every night 😅. Never change guys.
It's the 7th month of the US bombing random ships in Latin American waters they claim are drug smugglers (reminder that two survivors who were rescued were repatriated, not charged), and the death toll is 150+, and it barely gets discussed.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling is part of a nationwide trend to challenge life without parole sentences.
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If Orban is ousted, Hungary also becomes a test case for what policies work to undo authoritarian entrenchment in state institutions. Provides many lessons for us here if/when Trump's faction loses control.
“The FBI was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone even after the app was deleted because copies of the content were saved in the device’s push notification database”
Check Signal notification settings on iPhones:
www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...
Kindly asking my bluesky pals to send a letter for my friend and comrade jb & ask your friends to do the same 💜 #abolition
actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Kindly asking my bluesky pals to send a letter for my friend and comrade jb & ask your friends to do the same 💜 #abolition
actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
A group of devoted volunteers is methodically researching, cataloging and digitizing more than 10,000 concerts that one music fan recorded over four decades.
I was going to write today, but until we know more, I don't have any new words for this moment. What I will say is that if you are reeling, and you know you want to be part of making things better, Mariame Kaba and I wrote a book for you. I hope it helps.
"While this Scandinavian-styled learning center will increase San Quentin’s operating expenses, it is not increasing or enhancing rehabilitative programming as @gavinnewsom.bsky.social intends." -- Steve Brooks.
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