Art exhibit at Brooklyn Public Library asks visitors to imagine a world without prisons
“The Warehouse,” a collaboration between artist Vic Liu & abolitionist organizer Mariame Kaba, builds an environment where visitors can see and feel through the possible answers prismreports.org/2026/04/13/w...
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
The country’s largest organization representing doctors is being pressed by Republican attorneys general on health care for trans youth.
As families and doctors navigate this care in an increasingly hostile landscape, keeping tabs on what medical groups say matters. Here's what's been said so far:
"We're hurting a lot of people, and we should stop," should not be a terribly controversial stance. Also, if you're the type of person who cares about profit instead of people, "We're basically setting money on fire and should probably hit pause while we figure out what to do instead" works too.
Relatedly, you don't have to have come up with a point-by-point plan for an alternative system in order to observe that the current version is bad/harmful/inefficient/not working.
An excellent writeup of the existentially terrifying House Resolution 7661.
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Isaac Chotiner: You say the two cats who live in your house are "Jerks" and you don't care for them
Me: Absolutely. They are the burdens of my life
Chotiner: It seems you spent an hour searching for special food for them and paid more for it than you do even for your own food.
Me: That's--Hold on,
Why do fascists hate sociology? Because it makes transparent everything fascists don't want you to know. A sociological imagination makes us harder to control. Long live the sociological imagination.
ICYMI, one of my top 10 favorite internet videos of all time: youtu.be/sk2Wc4Y5CxE?...
Help this is SUCH a funny throwback and remarkably restrained/subtle, considering youtu.be/T6s4N2h6Eec?...
I always make it a point to bring this up in classes, because my students absolutely HAVE heard the term “emotional labor” but almost never know where it originally came from or that it referred to something different from “doing something involving emotions that you don’t feel like doing”
And the idea that publishing someone's argument in the paper of record, where it will be seen by many many people and potentially sway their views, doesn't constitute "support" for that person or their stance, is absolutely absurd. Voluntarily choosing to platform someone is supporting them.
Media spots are limited, as are audience's attention spans. Why would we not want journalists to apply *any* degree of discretion or judgment when selecting which opinions to disseminate? This is so deeply inane.
This stance assumes that media outlets and their leadership teams have a) no interest or stake in whether good or bad policies ultimately pass, and b) an obligation to platform misguided ideas simply for the sake of variety, as opposed to choosing ideas that are interesting or show merit. Nonsense.
Cover of The Lancet:
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Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
For the Interept, I reported from Uganda about the effects of USAID cuts on LGBTQ people, HIV prevention activists and sex workers—and tried to tell the story from the POV of these important but criminalized communities. Please read and share.
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Another key example is the COVID-19 pandemic - @victorialaw.bsky.social's book "Corridors of Contagion" offers an excellent, meticulous, completely infuriating explanation of this
We expose incarcerated people to disease just as we expose them to violence, then dismiss both as a natural or expected consequence of lawbreaking: if you didn't want to get sick in prison, you simply shouldn't have gotten yourself arrested.
Thinking about Katie Tastrom's book "A People's Guide to Abolition & Disability Justice" in which she talks about "carceral epidemiology," the way the state "uses communicable disease as part of the informal punishment of incarceration."
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
I think people underestimate how big this is. Like a city-wide strike is not something that has happened in the US for nearly 100 years
“Abolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough.
Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social.
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ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.
Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.
Right, I'm not trying to step on people's optimism, but it's hard for me to share it. If anything, I think "abolish ICE" is a *much* easier sell than "abolish police," given that it's only been around for a few decades, so why *not* start there?
The exact example that came to mind. There are plenty of police and prison abolitionists who have put together very compelling arguments that if your starting point is "reform," you're already conceding that the org/institution should exist in the first place, and are thus on the back foot already.
The tragic death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old mother fatally shot by ICE, shows that ICE can’t be reformed and must be abolished.
I’ll be introducing the Abolish ICE Act as a step toward justice, accountability, and humanity in our immigration policy.
Time to melt ICE.
