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Good News For Lefties<p>📣 New Podcast! "Celebrating Wisconsin's Reproductive Rights, Key West's Community Trust, and Defending Privacy" on <a class="mention" href="https://bsky.app/profile/spreaker.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Spreaker</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23abortion" target="_blank">#abortion</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23access" target="_blank">#access</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23california" target="_blank">#california</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23court" target="_blank">#court</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23day" target="_blank">#day</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23digital" target="_blank">#digital</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23firefighters" target="_blank">#firefighters</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23google" target="_blank">#google</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23immigrant" target="_blank">#immigrant</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23incarcerated" target="_blank">#incarcerated</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23independence" target="_blank">#independence</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23key" target="_blank">#key</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23lawsuit" target="_blank">#lawsuit</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23privacy" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23reproductive" target="_blank">#reproductive</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23rights" target="_blank">#rights</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23supreme" target="_blank">#supreme</a><br><br><a href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/celebrating-wisconsin-s-reproductive-rights-key-west-s-community-trust-and-defending-privacy--66855128" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Celebrating Wisconsin's Reprod...</a></p>
Longreads<p>"Letter after letter showed me a refreshing disregard for that invisible tyranny of taste determining what we 'should'—even 'must'—read." </p><p>Jackie Snow for The Los Angeles Review of Books‬: <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/reading-behind-bars-and-beyond-barriers" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lareviewofbooks.org/article/re</span><span class="invisible">ading-behind-bars-and-beyond-barriers</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reading</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Incarcerated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Incarcerated</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Prisons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Prisons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Jails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jails</span></a></p>
Scott 🇮🇱🇺🇦 WILL NOT COMPLY<p>Looks like the Canadian woman detained by the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/fascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascists</span></a> at <a href="https://babka.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> is finally, after 11+ days, set to be released today. </p><p>Reminder: she broke exactly zero laws but was <a href="https://babka.social/tags/incarcerated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>incarcerated</span></a> and held (with hundreds or thousands of others) in medieval conditions. </p><p>While the good-looking young white woman is finally being released, thousands of brown men, women, and children continue to languish in Red Don’s <a href="https://babka.social/tags/intermentcamps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intermentcamps</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/yukon-born-woman-scheduled-to-be-released-from-u-s-detention-centre-says-father/article_c17d29b5-905b-551d-a2ea-6d1d3889986f.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thestar.com/news/canada/yukon-</span><span class="invisible">born-woman-scheduled-to-be-released-from-u-s-detention-centre-says-father/article_c17d29b5-905b-551d-a2ea-6d1d3889986f.html</span></a><br><a href="https://babka.social/@escott/114157738568376532" translate="no" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">babka.social/@escott/114157738</span><span class="invisible">568376532</span></a></p>
Scott 🇮🇱🇺🇦 WILL NOT COMPLY<p>Canadian woman <a href="https://babka.social/tags/incarcerated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>incarcerated</span></a> entering the country to go to a professional conference, despite holding all the appropriate paperwork. </p><p>And she's still there, <em>eleven days later</em>, in horrible conditions this country usually only reserves for the poor, the Black, and the brown.</p><p>The only upside here is that the improper <a href="https://babka.social/tags/arrest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arrest</span></a> of an attractive young white Canadian woman for imaginary <a href="https://babka.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> violations might start to open some people's eyes.</p><p><a href="https://babka.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/detention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>detention</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resist</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/%CE%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ω</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/refugees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>refugees</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/asylumseekers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>asylumseekers</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/tourists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tourists</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/incarceration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>incarceration</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/privateprisons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privateprisons</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/impeach47" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>impeach47</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/deportElon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deportElon</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://vancouversun.com/news/bc-woman-detained-at-us-border-sent-to-arizona-detention-facility" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vancouversun.com/news/bc-woman</span><span class="invisible">-detained-at-us-border-sent-to-arizona-detention-facility</span></a></p><p>[Edit: typos]</p>
Nonilex<p>This could have devastating consequences — not just for the few vanishing mustangs still roaming free, but for the thousands <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/incarcerated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>incarcerated</span></a> in govt holding facilities.</p><p>…When we talk about BLM’s “wild horse programs,” we are talking about &gt;60k <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WildHorses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WildHorses</span></a> &amp; burros trapped in claustrophobic, sometimes dangerously <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/overcrowded" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>overcrowded</span></a> govt pens, where <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>animals</span></a> have no room to gallop, family bonds are shattered, &amp; some <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/horses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>horses</span></a> mysteriously disappear into the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/slaughter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slaughter</span></a> pipeline despite federal protections.</p>
Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ConvictedFelon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConvictedFelon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> orders <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/incarcerated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>incarcerated</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>women</span></a> to be <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/housed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>housed</span></a> with <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/men" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>men</span></a>: “There will be <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/rapes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rapes</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/inmates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inmates</span></a> are "in a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/panic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>panic</span></a>" about what could happen to them. </p><p><a href="https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/donald-trump-orders-trans-women-inmates-to-be-housed-with-men-there-will-be-rapes/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/donald</span><span class="invisible">-trump-orders-trans-women-inmates-to-be-housed-with-men-there-will-be-rapes/</span></a></p>
Bandersnatch<p>After doing my YouTube research, I've determined that the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SovCit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SovCit</span></a> movement is a conspiracy to keep the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stupidest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stupidest</span></a> Americans <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/incarcerated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>incarcerated</span></a> to provide free <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>labor</span></a> for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/corporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporations</span></a>.</p>
Longreads<p>" Most jobs in North Carolina prisons pay 40¢, 70¢, or $1 per day—so a streaming bundle could cost a prisoner two weeks’ worth of income, or more. We simply can’t afford the price of entertainment."</p><p>For Film Comment, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/incarcerated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>incarcerated</span></a> journalist Philip Vance Smith II writes about the barriers to watching movies and TV in <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a>: <a href="https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/streaming-behind-bars-phillip-vance-smith-ii/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">filmcomment.com/blog/streaming</span><span class="invisible">-behind-bars-phillip-vance-smith-ii/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Movies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/TV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TV</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Streaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Streaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Incarceration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Incarceration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Jail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jail</span></a></p>
HorizonMass<p>ICYMI: <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/PROFITS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PROFITS</span></a> OVER <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/PRISONERS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PRISONERS</span></a>? While <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Massachusetts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Massachusetts</span></a> seeks contractors to provide healthcare services for the incarcerated, advocates push for stronger oversight of private operators as <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/incarcerated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>incarcerated</span></a> people describe “deplorable” neglect and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/mistreatment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mistreatment</span></a>.<br><a href="https://horizonmass.news/2024/01/12/profits-over-prisoners/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">horizonmass.news/2024/01/12/pr</span><span class="invisible">ofits-over-prisoners/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/prisons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prisons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a></p>