Libby

soc phd student interested in prisons & the carceral state

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[Libby @_ljv97]

...so let us be kind and compassionate to remove the sadness of the world

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

A new Palestinian Feminist Collective report concludes that sexualized violence, including rape and sexual enslavement, has been used by Zionist militias and later the Israeli state as a deliberate tool of displacement, domination, torture, and control—from the Nakba to the present. The report demonstrates that the sexual humiliation, torture, rape, blackmail, and targeting of Palestinians since October 2023 are not aberrations but the continuation of a longstanding, institutionalized architecture of settler colonial violence.

[Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy]

people who showed up to a protest outside an ICE facility and left when things got chaotic are getting HALF CENTURY sentences in federal court right now, my god

[¿ @umlarp]

cut my life into peaches

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

ICE has revised its rules to say that detainees who work in custody aren't even required to get $1 per day, after a request from private prison giant Geo Group.

Geo Group also asked ICE to remove lines saying contractors needed to follow state and local laws around the treatment of detainees, asked ICE amend language to support its legal position in these cases, and asked that the standards specify that detainees are not employees of the facilities where they work.

In addition to removing the dollar per day minimum, ICE's new national standards complied with several of Geo Group's other requests, for instance the document now says detainees are not employees “and are not entitled to wages or benefits under applicable wage laws or labor regulations.”

https://t.co/gchghb1sqf

[Libby @_ljv97]

✍️

[Diabetic of Enlightenment @dee_of_e]

if you’re STILL in a PhD program it’s time to graduate NOW 👉⏰

[Demon Realms @Demon_Realms]

If you've ever dated a grad student it's kind of humiliating. You have to be like "good luck with your exam honey :)" and you're both 27

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

the poetics of comfortable yet chic footwear

[Nate Holdren @n_hold]

anyone else keep running into problems due to lack of collective democratic control of the means of production?

[kyle cL @kycarrerolopez]

“statement of purpose,” from my book PARTY LINE, is the poem-a-day up at @POETSorg. thanks to sam sax for selecting it! you can also listen to me read it: https://t.co/QScHsiaAS0

[Tom Snarsky @TomSnarsky]

Buck Downs

[Mahmoud Khalil | محمود خليل @mahmoudkhalel]

I began writing this book in detention and finished it fighting a deportation order. I wrote it because testimony is one of the few things that can make injustice visible before it becomes inevitable. My hope is that anyone who reads it understands: Palestine is not the exception, it is the warning. The rights we are losing were never only ours to lose. Thank you @HenryHolt

[kyle cL @kycarrerolopez]

being vulnerable suxxxx but unfortunately it’s pretty much the only way

[UAINE @mahtowin1]

“Alligator Alcatraz” May Close After Months of Tribal Resistance in the Everglades. https://t.co/k4Su7p0sHe

[Diabetic of Enlightenment @dee_of_e]

A lot of academics aren’t ready to hear this because it will hurt their precious little egos but:

Your students are apathetic about learning because you don’t integrate waterslides and waterparks. They don’t care about learning because they aren’t cascading down wet wet chutes

[nick @unionnick]

.@ABC report tonight on Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff hitting two students with his car after they approached him to discuss repression of free speech on campus and the 80+ student activists he’s suspended without due process:

[evil elly @laffodiI]

the worst part about going on a walk is being perceived

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

For every car let's build a printing press,
libraries, gardens, schools
for all the people.

—Aracelis Girmay, from "Ride"

[Christopher Ingraham🦗 @_cingraham]

NEW: An @ij review of media reports has identified at least 14 recent cases of police officers allegedly using Flock and other automated license plate reader systems to stalk wives, girlfriends, exes, and even strangers who caught their eye in public.

[reclaim UC @reclaimuc]

her employer is northwestern university

[girly&wordly @Brieyonce]

It’s so chic to have books just everywhere. In every single room. Piles of books.