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Anna Terwiel

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Political theorist and author of Prison Abolition for Realists (Minnesota 2025)

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Anna Terwiel @amc-etc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For those interested in the controversies around The Last Ditch, here's important historical and political context from geographer and dyke bar expert Jack Jen Gieseking www.queergeographies.com/stuck-on-the...
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Why We’re Stuck on the Last Ditch
Why does the public delight in watching lesbian bars unravel?
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Against the Grain @radioagainst.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Political theorist Anna Terwiel @amc-etc.bsky.social discusses her @uminnpress.bsky.social book “Prison Abolition for Realists": kpfa.org/episode/agai...
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Thinking Beyond Prisons | KPFA
Prisons won’t be dismantled anytime soon. So what does—or should—prison abolition mean? Anna Terwiel draws from Angela Davis’s writings a host of insights that buttress what Terwiel considers a realis...
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 25/06/2026
BREAKING: #AlligatorAlcatraz is officially closed 🎉🎉🎉 We've reached a huge milestone in our fight against the mass detention center in the heart of the #Everglades: ICE announced it has removed all detainees from the cruelly named “Alligator Alcatraz,” and DeSantis confirmed it is closed.
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 27/04/2026
From being built on toxic Superfund sites to dumping thousands of gallons of raw sewage into waterways, prisons are a daily environmental injustice ⚠️ Incarcerated folks & their communities can't get left behind in the fight for a cleaner planet
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Prison abolition is environmental justice
Revived plans to construct a federal prison in Kentucky lay bare the harms of the prison-industrial complex on incarcerated people, the environment, and surrounding communities
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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
🎧 New on the pod: Abolitionist thinking, practical realities, and radical change with Anna Terwiel and Kirstine Taylor. share.transistor.fm/s/0b209d97 @amc-etc.bsky.social
Book cover for Prison Abolition for Realists by Anna Terwiel. White concrete surface with a crack running top to bottom; title in burgundy beside it in all capitals, sans serif, above the author name in black.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 11/03/2026
The EU must take urgent measures to reduce the carbon footprint of food and farming, a scientific advisory board report says. Otherwise, the bloc’s climate goals won’t be met. 🔗 politi.co/4sHzexi
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 13/11/2025
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 08/11/2025
Reminder: Crime in the U.S. is at its lowest since 1961.
Graph titled: U.S. crime rates continue to fall, and preliminary data indicate that the 2024 crime rate was the lowest since 1961
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 23/10/2025
Mike Johnson doesn't know sh*t
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Jack McGovan @jackmcgovan.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit." Taxing the rich works!
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Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
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Anna Terwiel @amc-etc.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Excited to share that my book will be out this December! Prison abolitionists have long known that “tough on crime” politics inflict harm, cement inequalities, and disempower citizens. They also show us what alternative responses to harm, and egalitarian forms of democracy, could look like.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 30/09/2025
BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:
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Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com
Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.
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Gov. Greg Abbott pardons Daniel Perry, veteran who killed police brutality protester in 2020
A Travis County jury sentenced Perry to 25 years in prison last year, prompting Abbott to ask the state parole board to review his case.
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Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Happy Labor Day! Join your local @aaup.org chapter and pay your dues. No way through but together.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 18/08/2025
How are we not already calling him Scam Altman
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
You almost never see/hear/read a person-on-the-street quote in which that person is saying "Yeah, immigrants are great." If it hates it rates just like if it bleeds it leads, and we get a disproportionate number of right-wingers sharing their hate and disinformation about immigration from msm.
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 09/08/2025
Local jails–mostly run by elected sheriffs–are making money off of ICE's rampant criminalization of immigration.
U.S. map showing that in 25 states and D.C., federal agencies like ICE and the U.S. Marshals only detain people using local jails. In other states, jails play a part in the detention network alongside federal or private facilities. In Arizona, Delaware, and Hawaii no local jails provide substantial detention space to these agencies.
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Benji Jones @benjij.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
soy milk rules unsurprisingly love this @mbolotnikova.bsky.social piece www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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America’s protein obsession is bringing back cow’s milk. That’s a problem.
The rise and fall of dairy milk in America, explained in 8 charts.
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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
To illustrate the state of life in America right now: Several journalists who were bleeding and needed stitches because of assaults by LAPD drove around to urgent care facilities only to find them closed, then wavered on going to emergency rooms because of high costs of treatment there.
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Craig Gilmore @craiggilmore.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
"What does it mean for people who’ve been abandoned structurally—who have had these spectacular forms of violence become everyday—to come to share an understanding of how we got here?" @lydiajean.bsky.social in Abolition and Environmental Justice (part 2 of 6) of our chat::
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Abolition and Environmental Justice - Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Craig Gilmore, Judah Schept, & Lydia Pelot-Hobbs - Inquest
Solidarity between abolitionist and environmental justice organizers doesn’t just happen. It results from careful, long-term work to unearth a shared set of goals.
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Agency @anarchistagency.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
#CriticalVoices: This fantastic interview about "Alligator Alcatraz" looks at the intersections of prisons, ecology, and human health, and lessons learned from past campaigns to stop, shut down, and improve conditions inside prisons and detention centers. anarchistagency.com/what-would-o...
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'What Would Osceola Do?' A conversation with Panagioti Tsolkas, on Alligator Alcatraz and the fight against toxic prisons
By Max Granger, Substack By now, you’ve probably heard of Trump’s latest white-terror marketing campaign: the ICE concentration camp hastily erected in Florida’s Everglades and officially dubbed Al...
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 11/07/2025
The Center + other groups warned government agencies in a legal filing today that they’re breaking the law by failing to protect the Big Cypress National Preserve from the increasingly destructive effects of the mass detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz.” More info: biodiv.us/4nO76a8
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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Unionize, unionize, unionize. Even if they pay you well. Even if they are elite. Unionize.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The Democratic Party’s capitulation to the Crypto lobby is one of the most nakedly corrupt things I’ve seen in my life. Crypto is a blatant scam with zero value that is designed to end popular control of our currency. Dems just co-signed the next global financial crisis. It’s unforgivable.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Centrists are arguing for only half as many tanks.
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
might have been a bad idea for D cities to send astronomical funds and weaponry to a violent armed gang that hates them.
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Rebecca McCray @rebeccakmccray.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
"You lose people, you lose property. You lose so much through a transfer…In prison because of all the violence, who’d want to get moved? You want to be in the hell you already know, the hell that you already got comfortable in." h/t @prisonpolicy.org www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/06...
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“You want to be in the hell you already know”: How prison transfers regularly upend incarcerated people’s lives
Moving people between prisons can improve their access to treatment, programs, and visitation — but transfers can also be deeply traumatizing, disruptive, and destabilizing. In ...
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Join us this coming Wednesday, May 28 at 11 AM ET for our next webinar on Transformative Justice Under Authoritarianism. We’ll be learning from organizers in India who are challenging criminalization and advancing TJ practices under their current conditions and contexts. Learn more and register:
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Transformative Justice Under Authoritarianism: Part 2 — Interrupting Criminalization
Join Interrupting Criminalization for the second installment of our Transformative Justice Under Authoritarianism series. This time, we’ll be learning from organizers and artists in India who are chal...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/05/2025
None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.
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Lawyer for Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison arrested
Ruth López held without access to lawyers at secret location accused of ‘embezzlement’ a decade ago
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
“This means Harvard can no longer enroll foreign students, and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal status.”
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Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students
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