Co-founder ArchCity Defenders. Civil rights and criminal defense attorney working with movements to support transformational change. Cat loving abolitionist and national non-profit survivor. (photo by Nathaniel St. Clair)
One of the founding fathers had a 1000 page 1st person manuscript detailing the history of the american revolution. Instead of telling the truth about the founders, he burned the whole thing. Explicitly so the lies we now call history would become US propaganda. rayraphael.com/Founding_Myt...
Perfect illustration of police’s role in society: when you protest for better living conditions, lower rent, higher wages, an end to mass killing, or racial justice, they send the cops or the military to crush you. Even the firefighters who actually protect people in danger. x.com/GrandserreSy...
Sylvain GRANDSERRE (@GrandserreSylv1) on XRappel en image de la réponse de Macron et d'Édouard Philippe aux revendications des #pompiers (15/10/2019).x.comThis is a good moment to remind everyone just how abusive even police admit they are. It’s an open secret. Even the FBI found that 40% of responding cops reported that they committed physical abuse against their spouse in the last 6 months. That’s 10 times more than the general population.
Steve HeldHis ex-wife said “that she wanted to speak publicly because she had previously reported concerns to his superiors in the military about his mental health. She said he was abusive in their relationship,” and he asked her to lie for him. Exactly the kind of chud you’d expect to work for ICE.
I represent organizers who have been beaten, pepper sprayed, and assaulted by ICE. They still go out every day to help their people. We will sue, but some combo of a truth and reconciliation process along with massive cash reparations for the victims of these fascists has to be on the table.
Tressie McMillan CottomI’m interested in any political imagination for accountability. It has to be proactive & retroactive. It has to be spectacular. And, ideally, it would leave so many of them broke that it actually becomes a deterrent. Being poor is truly all they care about not because they don’t care about prison.
"We will kill you all if you keep complaining” —The united states government on citizens protesting murder by the united states government.
Aaron RuparTom Homan: "It all go backs to the Dems ... there's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted."
Abolishing ICE is the minimum acceptable position. When people first realize the violence and lawlessness of cops like ICE, they often think reform is the right thing. More training, more resources, etc. Stop wasting your time. ICE can’t be reformed. If they exist, they will kill.
Eileen Clancy 🧿NYT: ICE Agent Kills Person in Vehicle in Maine By Jacey Fortin, Heather Beasley Doyle, Miriam Jordan, and Hamed Aleaziz The fatal shooting in Biddeford, Maine, was the second in a week involving an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent firing into a vehicle. @haleaziz.bsky.social
ICE=cops. Cops lie. They are trained to lie. And the next time @npr.org asks for your money, tell them no. You can't quote ICE, never note that they have lied about every single shooting investigation, and keep pretending you’re a journalist. www.mainepublic.org/maine/2026-0...
Developing: 26-year-old Colombian man killed in ICE shooting was not subject of arrest warrantThe FBI and the Maine Attorney General's Office are investigating the fatal shooting of a 26-year-old Colombian man by federal law enforcement in Biddeford Monday morning. And, according to Maine Sen....www.mainepublic.orgSend this to everyone who lets the wealthy elite frame budgeting arguments. Never accept that we can’t help regular people have a better life. Always ask what’s possible if we don’t spend a trillion dollars on military, $250 billion on police, courts, and jails, and offer tax cuts to the rich.
Citations NeededIn Ep 240, "How the Media's 'Burden,' 'Straining Resources' Framing Manufactures the Expendable Other," we discuss the ideological work done by our media's default frame of immigrants, poor seniors, those with disabilities etc as "burdens" on the all mighty Taxpayer
ICE= cops What would it take for good liberals to apply this same argument to every cop? Cops lie every day, whether there’s a republican or a democrat in the White House. That’s been true forever. It might feel more brazen and naked now, but the underlying point is the same. Cops lie.
Robert ReichICE lied about how Renee Good was shot. They lied about how Alex Pretti was shot. And now they’re lying about how Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot. Don’t believe their story for a second.
People came to Wesley Bell’s townhall in 2025 to protest genocide in Palestine. They left with injuries and a clear message: speaking up about Israel’s genocide, the US’s funding for it, and Bell’s support of all that, isn’t allowed. www.instagram.com/reel/Dal4RCM...
ohun.ashe on Instagram: "Wesley Bell is being sued over the brutality from his security at his in-person town hall. The ONLY town hall he’s held in person d…"Wesley Bell is being sued over the brutality from his security at his in-person town hall. The ONLY town hall he’s held in person during his time as congressman. Hopefully, this ends the precedent being set by elected officials, where they use security to harm their constituents when they don’t like what they have to say, or deem the “disrespectful”.www.instagram.comThomas HarveyWesley Bell’s 2025 town hall ended with his security team pushing, shoving, and throttling his constituents after they raised questions about genocide in Palestine, US support for it, and AIPAC's funding for Bell. Today we sued him. www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
Wesley Bell’s 2025 town hall ended with his security team pushing, shoving, and throttling his constituents after they raised questions about genocide in Palestine, US support for it, and AIPAC's funding for Bell. Today we sued him. www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
Wesley Bell's security team assaulted protesters at 2025 townhall, lawsuit allegesThe August 2025 town hall in downtown St. Louis ended with plainclothes security officers and police officers getting into physical altercations with protesters.www.stlpr.orgRemember when Wesley Bell came back from an AIPAC funded trip to Israel for his first town hall and told the crowd there was no genocide in Palestine? And then his security team assaulted people there to ask him questions and protest genocide? www.instagram.com/ohun.ashe/re...
🌻Ohun Ashe🌻 on Instagram: "I don’t really know how to wrap my mind around the experience I had at Wesley Bell’s town hall. It felt dismissive to genocide, careless and ending with police brutality was...837 likes, 38 comments - ohun.ashe on August 20, 2025: "I don’t really know how to wrap my mind around the experience I had at Wesley Bell’s town hall. It felt dismissive to genocide, careless and end...www.instagram.comYou don’t hate the criminal legal system enough. I watched judges issue warrants to people arriving late to court, after taking 3 buses and 1.5 hours to go 20 miles. A muni court judge canceled court for a Cardinal playoff game, with no notice to those who took 3 buses to get there.
Prison Policy InitiativeCops called in to testify end up missing hearings at double the rate of defendants. Yet in many places, defendants alone face the harsh consequences of jail for missing a court date:
My client Prof. Willoughby-Herard heroically stood up for students and was assaulted by cops. Then UCI tried to fire her. The Committee recommended unpaid suspension, but there should be no punishment for protecting students. Please sign and share to support her! sites.google.com/view/withdra...
HomeOn May 15, 2024, several hundred heavily armed police were called in to break up a peaceful encampment at UC Irvine in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Among those arrested that day was UC Irvine G...sites.google.comThink of the amazing things we could be doing to help make everyone’s lives materially better if we weren’t spending hundreds of billions of dollars to cage human beings in the US and murder them abroad. www.ecoportal.net/en/switzerla...
Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm do...High in the Swiss Alps, on a concrete dam wall more than 8,000 feet above the sea, someone bolted thousands of solar panels to a place almost no one thoughtwww.ecoportal.netTo mark 250 years of this country, listen to James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass's speech "The Meaning of July 4th for the American Negro" in a performance of Howard Zinn's Voices of the People's History of the United States on @democracynow.org www.democracynow.org/2018/7/4/wha...
Great explanation of how dangerous the Prairieland case is. Send it to everyone. 30 years in prison for a zine, bookclubs, and stickers the feds don't like. And don't skip @lexmcmenamin.com noting the ACLU and other "free speech" nonprofits declined to help. Unforgivably shameful.
On the MediaA review of the films Midsommar and Hereditary, stickers, a collection of poetry about cancer. How the federal government is using these zines, stickers, and similar posters to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...