Mass Incarceration and the Prison-Industrial Complex (2022)

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Mass Incarceration and the Prison-Industrial Complex (2021)

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Mass Incarceration and the Prison-Industrial Complex (2020)

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Mass Incarceration and the Prison-Industrial Complex (2019)

'Harrowing' Video Shows Brooklyn Inmates In Freezing Jail Cells Begging For Help (February 1, 2019)

 

 

Why the Justice Department Can’t Be Trusted to Investigate Abysmal Conditions in Federal Prisons (February 9, 2019)

 

 

Do jails kill people (February 20, 2019)

 

 

AOC wants hearing on banks funding immigrant prisons (February 25, 2019)

 

 

 

Mass Incarceration and the Prison-Industrial Complex (2018)

Citing U.S. Prison Conditions, British Appeals Court Refuses to Extradite Accused Hacker Lauri Love to the US (February 6, 2018)

Crime is down, so why do most Americans believe the opposite? (February 14, 2018)

 

 

How Companies Make Millions Charging Prisoners to Send An Email (August 3, 2018)

 

 

How Incarcerated Parents Are Losing Their Children Forever (December 3, 2018)

 

 

Woman Says Police Forced Her To Give Birth In Handcuffs (December 7, 2018)

 

 

 

Immigration (2024)

Trump’s Massive Deportation Plan Echoes Concentration Camp History (July 23, 2024) 

 

 

Inside The Plan To Let Trump Track Millions of Immigrants (November 26, 2024)

 

 

 

Tweets by Nicole Lee Schroeder

It is a really jarring moment to be a historian. To know what might be coming is alarming. To realize that no one around you sees it or acknowledges it is a weird place to be in. Its like time traveling without time traveling. (November 9, 2024)

 

 

 

Trump 2.0 (November 2024)

TWITTER: Huckabee is a Christian evangelical who supports illegal settlers and West Bank annexation, and has a long history of Islamophobic rhetoric. (November 13, 2024) 

 

 

'Ultimate Corporate Corruption': Trump Announces Musk-Led Department to Gut Regulations (November 13, 2024)

 

 

A Texas University Tells Professors Their Teaching and Research Will be Under ‘Intense Scrutiny’ (November 13, 2024)

 

 

6 Things About Trump’s Hawkish New Defense Secretary That Should Scare the Hell Out of You (November 14, 2024)

 

 

'Con Artist,' 'Sore Loser,' 'Saudi’s Bitch': How Trump's Own Cabinet Picks Have Described Their New Boss (November 18, 2024)

 

 

Trump Gives Airlines Their Deregulator (November 20, 2024)

 

 

TWITTER: Elon plans to destroy as much of the government as possible because he recognizes it as the only force capable of limiting his labor abuses, environmental destruction, tax dollar plunder and limitless robber baron domination. The weaker the elected government, the stronger the plutocrats. Trump aides are irritated Elon seems to think he’s co-president but in truth I think he believes he is vastly more powerful than Trump. (November 20, 2024)

 

 

GOP Takes First Steps To Shut Down Climate Groups (November 21, 2024)

 

 

TWITTER: Love to drain the swamp by making an Iraq war hawk the Secretary of State (November 25, 2024)

 

 

 

Tweets by Professor Isabella M. Weber

Unemployment weakens governments. Inflation kills. The politically destructive power of inflation had been forgotten. Standard policy tools left us unprepared and fueled inequality. The re-election of Trump should serve as a warning to all democrats. (November 12, 2024)

 

 

We need policies like price gouging laws & windfall profits taxes to align public & private interests with resilience. As long as corporations see profits go up thanks to threats of shortages, we cannot assume that they prepare for emergencies in the best interest of the public. (November 12, 2024)

Tweets by AIPAC Tracker

Trump has selected rabid Zionist Rep. Elise Stefanik as the next UN Ambassador. #BribedByAIPAC (November 11, 2024)

 

 

Donald Trump's pro-Israel cabinet, a thread (November 12, 2024)

Tweets by @BladeoftheS (Blade of the Sun)

Gary Lineker has received threats after daring to say that Israel should be banned from football for their outrageous war crimes. (November 10, 2024)

 

 

What is happening is that wealth has been concentrated into so few hands that now the richest can push for total control of everything. This was always going to happen, it is why you shouldn't allow billionaires to even exist. (November 11, 2024)

 

End Brexit End The Royal Family Renationalise everything Tax billionaires out of existence Fund the now Public Services. That is what I want for Christmas. (November 11, 2024)

 

 

 

Reproductive Rights (2024)

Wikipedia: Death of Amber Thurman 

 

 

Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother’s Death Was Preventable. (September 16, 2024)

 

 

In Our Own Voice Statement on the Preventable Death of Amber Nicole Thurman (September 16, 2024)

 

 

Amber Thurman was killed by Georgia’s abortion ban. There will be others. (September 19, 2024)

 

 

A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital (October 30, 2024)

 

 

Texas woman died after being denied miscarriage care due to abortion ban, report finds (October 30, 2024)

 

 

Woman dies after abortion care for miscarriage delayed over 40 hours: Report (October 31, 2024)

 

 

Family of Georgia mother who died after delayed abortion care says Amber Thurman should still be alive: "It was preventable" (November 1, 2024)

 

 

A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency Rooms (November 1, 2024)

 

 

 

Tweets by Climate Ben

None of this is front page news. (March 10, 2019) 

 

 

Did you know that over 90% of climate scientists think global warming will be so severe by 2038 or so that we'll hit temperatures shown to be hot enough to wreck the basic crops humanity relies upon for decent survival, or do you get your information from ad-dependent newspapers? (July 4, 2020) 

 

 

COLLAPSING: 86-96% of scientists now think rapid extinction during capitalism with dire global warming of 2°C and rising by around 2037-2048 is essentially unavoidable given increasing deforestation and record levels of fossil emissions both driven by deadly economic growth. (October 27, 2024)

 

 

 

Tweets in the Wake of 2024 Presidential Election

Pray for our immigrant families in the United States. We might need it for the next 4 years. You have no idea what’s about to come if the results don’t change. We will need you. (November 5, 2024)

 

 

There will be zero introspection. Liberal narcissism dictates that it must always be someone else's fault. (November 5, 2024) 

 

I’m seeing people talk about the worldwide trend of countries moving right, and I think that has to be largely understood as the failure of neoliberalism. As liberal parties move right they stop delivering for people and find themselves in political no mans land. (November 6, 2024)

 

 

If you are to blame someone, blame those with the economic and political power to do something about people’s grievances, but have chosen to do nothing- the Democratic Party. (November 6, 2024)

Economics is behind this. People are not doing well economically. (November 6, 2024)

 

 

All over the rich world, people’s lives are getting worse. (November 6, 2024)

 

 

the democrats picking joe biden over bernie sanders in 2020 when a map of donations looked like this is what guaranteed a trump win in 2024 (November 6, 2024)

 

 

Everything That's Wrong with Liberal Centrism in Under 3 mins - As told by the late great David Graeber (November 6, 2024) 

 

 

The ballot measures last night say a few things about voters’ feelings about the economy. (November 6, 2024)

 

 

I’mma say the hard thing. Kamala Harris did not lose the election because of racism and misogyny. That was a negligible reason at best. Rashida Talib, Ilhan Omar, and Summer Lee all won their seats in swing states VP Harris lost. Sit with the real reasons why she lost. (November 7, 2024)

 

Bernie Sanders in 2003. Worth the watch. (November 7, 2024)

 

 

For those who don't recall, Brian Hook was the head of the Iran Action Group in Pompeo's State Dept, overseeing the maximum pressure policy that culminated with Soleimani's assassination. Trump is already letting the neocons back in the building. (November 7, 2024)

 

 

FDR, 1936: "Government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob. Never before in our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they are today. They are unanimous in their hate-and I welcome their hatred!" (November 7, 2024)

 

 

Combined Millennial/Gen Z turnout—age 18-44—declined by 7% from 2016 (44% of voters) to 2024 (37% of voters). This was age group @BernieSanders won & galvanized—but Dems & media took him out by the knees. (November 7, 2024)

 

 

In 2020 I was one of 7 dems that won a district that Trump won, so I held a series of listening sessions with people who voted for Trump and voted for me to understand their actions. I reread the transcripts yesterday and much of it felt like it could have been said today. (November 7, 2024)

 

 

the last really good day was when Bernie won Nevada (November 8, 2024)

 

 

We need to rebuild the “Obama coalition” – here’s how (November 8, 2024) 

 

 

Hey Trump voters. Hate to break it to you - but here’s what actually happened on Tuesday. Watch. Bernie explained it 20 years ago. (November 8, 2024)

 

 

Neoliberalism is the ideology that society should be ruled by "markets," not democracy. But markets are controlled by the wealthy. Letting markets decide meant letting the wealthy rule. OF COURSE it pushed all the wealth up to a few. OF COURSE it brought austerity for the rest. (November 8, 2024)

 

 

"Exit polling shows Bernie Sanders was right about everything. For more, let's go to our panel of former Bush aides, NY Times columnists who got everything wrong, and DNC operatives who lost 2 elections to Trump....we'll also discuss why nobody trusts the media." - cable TV news (November 8, 2024) 

 

 

In Nebraska, a paid sick leave ballot measure got 74% of the vote, an independent Senate candidate got 46% of the vote, and a Democrat running in a statewide contest got 36% of the vote. Empirical proof that national Democratic Party leaders destroyed their party's brand. (November 8, 2024) 

 

 

Democratic consultants just pocketed tens of millions of dollars overseeing the loss of what Dems said was the most important election in history & now Democratic media is trying to convince liberals that they ran a flawless campaign & nothing has to change. We need a new media. (November 8, 2024)

 

 

We didnt lose our repro rights last Tues. We lost them 3 years ago. (November 8, 2024)

 

 

If you want a picture of the future, imagine Chuck Schumer saying "For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia" forever. (November 8, 2024)

 

 

Biden and Kamala somehow managed to leave people economically worse off than they were at the start of the pandemic, and their message to voters was "what are you complaining about, you should be thanking us." (November 8, 2024)

 

 

It would be a VERY good idea for @GreenPartyUS @DemSocialists @WorkingFamilies and the other 3-4 US political parties not 100% owned by big money to hold a conference ASAP to join forces. Maybe @UAW visits? We are running out of time… (November 8, 2024)

 

 

Democrats abandoned FDRs vision for universal economic security in favor of "targeted, temporary, and timely" programs that require the already insecure to run the bureaucratic gauntlet to receive a modicum of support. (November 8, 2024)

 

 

FDR warned us. His party didn’t listen. (November 9, 2024)

 

 

Dems need to move to the center /s (November 9, 2024)

 

 

There will be no introspection. The party will not change. Get out now. (November 9, 2024)

 

 

I remember when Bernie Sanders was booed for promoting universal social programs at an identity politics event. It was a perfect encapsulation of why a lot of working class voters loathe today’s Democratic Party. (November 9, 2024)

 

 

Claudia Sheinbaum offered a very specific set of left-populist policy programs that people liked and won in a landslide. (November 10, 2024) 

 

 

The American people are salivating for the opportunity to bring the capitalist class to heel (November 10, 2024)

 

 

Kamala’s loss in four headlines (November 10, 2024)

 

 

It’s not Liz Cheney in a vacuum, it’s the decision making that leads to campaigning with Liz Cheney. The entire mindset leads to thinking you can win voters over with Beyoncé and Liz Cheney instead of Medicare for All and an arms embargo. (November 10, 2024) 

 

 

What is happening is that wealth has been concentrated into so few hands that now the richest can push for total control of everything. This was always going to happen, it is why you shouldn't allow billionaires to even exist. (November 11, 2024)

 

 

These networks have always had room for NeverTrumpers (who basically only exist on cable news) and even actual Trumpers, but almost completely shut out the populist left. Somehow their commitment to a diversity of viewpoints conveniently excludes the one ideology that threatens capital’s bottom line. (November 11, 2024)

 

 

The populist left’s is more of a threat to the American oligarch class than the populist right (they don’t like them either), because the left backs labor, health care and education reforms. (November 11, 2024)

 

 

The problem with liberalism is that it rests on a fundamental contradiction that cannot be resolved. It will always fail, it will always collapse, and this explains everything about our current moment. (November 11, 2024)

 

 

All the post election takes mean absolutely zero as the House Dems reelect their leaders without any dissent at all. (November 11, 2024)

 

 

Estimated raw change in votes for Democrats from 2020 to 2024 (November 13, 2024)

 

 

Missouri, a conservative state, raised the minimum wage to $15/hr. Nebraska, a conservative state, passed paid sick leave. Arizona, a conservative state, enshrined abortion access in its constitution. People across the political spectrum support these popular policies. (November 14, 2024)

 

 

The same Democratic consulting class that lit $1 billion of liberal money on fire losing a winnable election is now going to make even more money sending liberals texts about Matt Gaetz in new pleas for campaign cash. The grift never ends — it only gets more lucrative. (November 14, 2024)

 

 

Appointed as nominee without getting a single vote, wasted $1.5 billion rehabilitating Dick Cheney and losing to Trump, then went on vacation in Hawaii, while continuing to send bombs to kill brown babies in Gaza. A liberal icon. (November 28, 2024)

 

 

 

Tweets by Climate Defiance

There is no easy way to talk about this. This week the UN announced we are on track to reach up to 3.1° Celsius of warming. We are slated to blow past the goals of the Paris Accords. (October 28, 2024) 

 

 

Carbon levels have reached a level not seen since the Pliocene Epoch 3 million years ago - when sea levels rose an astonishing 30-60 feet. (October 29, 2024)