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This one is an attempt to parse out the logic underpinning sanctuary policies that increase police dependency—who woulda thought they’re just re-iterating the same policies they’ve used all along to dig us into a deeper hole.

Police In, ICE Out? Police appropriation, law-enforcement loops, and the contradiction of police dependency in "sanctuary" cities.

Unleashed from my notes app, I bring you … my Substack.

I’ll be using this to write about abolition (with an emphasis on the carceral tissue of local policymaking), and probably music/books/pedagogy from time to time.

First piece linked here.

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Watching Mad Men for the first time and can’t get over the *days* these people have yet they always seem to be in bed by like 9:30.

Teaching Chapter Ones in fiction workshop today and not sure it gets better than this.

Yo! Thanks to @bruisermag for publishing this lil flash fiction about first loves, fast music, and belonging (among other things).

screen shot of text with some text underlined in red that reads: "Fascism attempts to organize the newly created proletarian masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves"

Walter Benjamin writing about fascism in 1935 - web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/...

Pie chart showing that nearly 2 million people are incarcerated in the U.S.

🚨NEW: Last year, the number of people incarcerated in the U.S. increased again. The driving factor? President Trump’s deportation agenda.

Our annual report, The Whole Pie, gives the big picture of mass incarceration. Here are some key takeaways 🧵

Thanks @danhoyt.bsky.social for inviting me to read! AWP was a blast and reminder I can post more On Here.

Abolish ICE Means Abolish the Police w/ Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie (03/09/26) | The Death Panel Get more from The Death Panel on Patreon

In our latest, Mariame Kaba @prisonculture.bsky.social & Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social on how to understand the spectacular violence of Trump’s ICE surges as an extension of the violence of everyday policing, and why to abolish ICE we must abolish the police

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Flyer for the 13th Annual Rock and Roll Reading

The bill is set for the 13th Annual Rock and Roll Reading at 6 p.m. March 4, Wednesday, @metrobaltimore.bsky.social. Fourteen writers from across the country will read work about or inspired by Rock and Roll (or any of its precursors or offshoots), each for just the length of a song. #AWP #AWP26

Like if you put KISS Alive and Voodoo in a blender, you basically get my music taste.

D’Angelo and Ace Frehley in the same week feels like a cruel fucking joke. 😢 😢 😢 RIP my legends

From a writerly standpoint, feels like PTA’s laziest movie, and I’m afraid it reinforces very unhelpful myths about the root of our current political situation and what can be done about.

*ducks*

One Battle After Another flattens and even disappears its most complex characters, who are also the ones most capable of answering the movie’s central questions.

I hate that we have to do this again but y’all realize they pick the ones who might be dangerous and give them the Super Bowl to neutralize them, right?

She’s popping off! It’s like a decade of little observations she now has the chops to express

My 11 year old kid asked if she could read me a story she was working on and folks I was not prepared for these sentences like wtfff 😳 😍

Have Private Equity Landlords Met Their Match? A new campaign from the Tenant Union Federation is uniting hundreds of tenants in four states to take on the mega-corporation that owns their homes.

Tenants across four states are joining forces to take on private equity landlord Capital Realty Group. From New Haven to Detroit, Louisville, and Kansas City, hundreds of renters are organizing through the Tenant Union Federation to demand collective bargaining.

Yes! Left Behind: The Kids is a regular topic in therapy

What’s wild about this rapture thing is if you actually READ the Left Behind series it’s obvious who the antichrist is

What age is appropriate to introduce your kids to Memphis underground rap from the 1990s? This is a part of parenting I’m really looking forward to but I’ve gotten conflicting feedback.

Kansas Citians: Get your holiday book shopping done and support Liberation Lit at the same time 😎. Dec 14 at Turnsol Books

Hell yes! Lucky to have them.

In KC now tho we have Astringent Press, run by the kindest human being, that has basically become a community print hub for all the organizers artists and weirdos.

I get a real rush from this. Figuring out office patterns so you know when you can be alone with the printer. Mapping out which copiers have color ink or auto staple.

“A constructive politics would … focus on building and rebuilding rooms, not regulating traffic within and between them.” - @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

I know everyone is reading and re-reading this rn but this little blip from the intro never leaves my mind — stop. regulating. traffic.