Christine Mitchell @christinescd.bsky.social · 02/07/2026his name was Kohen Wiley. the racist, capitalist, violent system of policing decided to place a greater value on a box of diapers than this Black child’s life. 041
Reposted by Christine MitchellJesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 02/07/2026The use of the word “eliminate” in this context should really freak out more than just those of us he’s seeking to remove, to be honest. This should be a red flag so big that it’s visible from space. 132307739
Reposted by Christine MitchellProgressive Mass @progressivemass.bsky.social · 30/06/2026You were rooting for this outcome two years ago. We haven’t forgotten. 0265
Christine Mitchell @christinescd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026finally finished listening to copaganda by @equalityalec.bsky.social on a long drive yesterday. i laughed, i cried, i clapped, i said "YUP" and "THAT'S RIGHT" a bunch of times out loud to myself. cannot recommend this book enough! thenewpress.org/books/978162...thenewpress.orgCopaganda - The New PressFrom the prizewinning rising legal star, the deeply researched and definitive book on the way the media and police distract […] 1215
Reposted by Christine MitchellJesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 02/06/2026This pride month, if you’re not plugged in, please take a moment to think about what you specifically can do to support trans kids under attack. I get asked all the time about steps people can take, so I hope at least one person takes this to heart. I’ll be adding throughout June. A thread.🧵 4643310
Reposted by Christine MitchellLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Pope Leo quoting Tolkien in his encyclical on AI seems like a pointed reference for the tech oligarchs who have appropriated LOTR for their own ends. 543851932
Reposted by Christine MitchellAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org 8665349
Reposted by Christine MitchellIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy. 128100113534
Reposted by Christine MitchellPrison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 20/04/2026Happy National Library Week. In less than 10 years, U.S. spending on immigration policing & detention increased by 171% while funding for libraries didn't even keep up with inflation. Some priorities. 🤔 2206112
Reposted by Christine MitchellThe Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 11/04/2026In the wake of her passing and her recent celebration of life, @loscharlos.bsky.social shares how Alice Wong taught him the power of Disability Justice and how she wielded it to bridge the hesitancy between disability, Long Covid, and COVID-cautious communities. bit.ly/4mohc12 014567
Reposted by Christine MitchellWalker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 09/04/2026I have never wanted a show to fail more than I do this new Harry Potter series. There should be some financial consequence for partnering with transphobic bigots. 927431
Reposted by Christine MitchellJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Please stop saying TACO. We’re talking about an ungodly number of people who could die or maimed. It’s not time for cutesy little internet slang. We have to get away from this bizarre desensitization. 32873041430
Reposted by Christine MitchellJesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 30/03/2026From 2 years ago: “It is 12 hours after I emerged from my second gender-affirming surgery. Like a lot of people, my impulse to accelerate transition goals has escalated over the past year as a growing unease fills my body every day that one day, my body and the care it needs, will soon be outlawed.” 113436
Reposted by Christine MitchellPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/03/2026SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers say they'll change name of César Chavez Day to Farmworkers Day following sexual abuse allegations. 15569511161
Reposted by Christine MitchellHarsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 18/03/2026I can feel Dolores' words deeply in my bones: "I kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the movement." It resonates for me. Wishing everyone impacted by and reeling from this today much ease. 08417
Reposted by Christine MitchellPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Folks who are struggling with the news about Cesar Chavez, be gentle with yourselves. You are not obligated to consume all of the awful details. You can simply offer your belief and support to those who were harmed. 11858161
Reposted by Christine MitchellVictoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social · 17/03/2026My latest for @theappeal.org looks at the crisis of aging in CA's women's prisons: theappeal.org/incarcerated...theappeal.orgCalifornia Spends $300 Million Each Year Incarcerating Senior Citizens in Women’s PrisonsCalifornia’s incarcerated population has aged rapidly over the past 30 years. A new report recommends pathways for release. 17029
Christine Mitchell @christinescd.bsky.social · 09/03/2026today's the kind of day where, after the past 392 months of winter, i remember why i live in boston 🌱☀️ 000
Reposted by Christine MitchellAlex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 04/03/2026The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE. Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009. A quick thread: 171951776
Reposted by Christine MitchellBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/02/2026We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.france24.comUS-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary saysAt least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str... 453168646434
Reposted by Christine MitchellTania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 24/02/2026This is how #PublicHealth should be done in an #OngoingPandemic, now in its 7th year 👇 14926
Reposted by Christine MitchellAnna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 31/08/2025A democracy that would vote to sacrifice my people is of absolutely no use or value to me, and I would oppose it as I would oppose any threat to our survival. I am about trans people and I am for trans people. I am for all others, to the extent it does not conflict with that first position. 618652
Reposted by Christine MitchellPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 09/02/2026FYI: The little boy in Bad Bunny's #SuperBowl halftime show wasn't Liam Ramos as some have said, it was a child actor: Lincoln Fox www.instagram.com/the_lincfox/...instagram.comInstagram 281401446
Reposted by Christine MitchellChris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 06/02/2026“Renee Goodman [sic], Alex Pretti – there are no words,” DeLauro said. “You said there were no words after the murder of those two individuals,” said Rev. Jack Perkins Davidson. “I think the words are ‘Abolish ICE.’” www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-02...ctpublic.orgDeLauro to pressing clergy: 'I will not vote to abolish ICE'The Connecticut U.S. representative found herself at odds with faith leaders. 1253533611
Reposted by Christine Mitchells. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 02/02/2026The history of prison uprisings in the US feels like a very timely topic right now!gq.comIt Was the Most Violent Prison in America. Then the Guards Went on StrikeWhat happens when a group of incarcerated men are left to self govern? In Walpole State Prison in 1973, “peace reigned”—until the guards were sent back in. 113445
Christine Mitchell @christinescd.bsky.social · 02/02/2026this is a policy choice: public health crisis on top of public health crisis on top of public health crisis on top of public health crisis. 030
Reposted by Christine Mitchellmaria @mariatho.bsky.social · 01/02/2026If you’re a health care worker who wants to channel your rage and grief about this into action, join us @interruptcrim.bsky.social‘s Beyond Do No Harm network (www.interruptingcriminalization.com/beyond-do-no...). BDNH principles 11 & 12 are about medical neglect in carceral facilitiesinterruptingcriminalization.comBeyond Do No Harm — Interrupting Criminalization 011
Reposted by Christine MitchellChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/01/2026In 2023, CBP killed a young Black girl that they imprisoned by incarcerating her and failing to provide the needed medical care for her sickle cell anemia You cannot reform this apparatus which kills people no matter which party is in charge Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez, who was 8 years oldcbsnews.comOfficial concedes 8-year-old who died in U.S. custody could have been saved as devastated family recalls final daysThe parents of 8-year-old Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez told CBS News that their daughter died in Border Patrol custody because of negligence and discrimination. 1225751185
Reposted by Christine MitchellKristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.comtheverge.comI grew up with Alex PrettiThe kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend. 496171906829
Christine Mitchell @christinescd.bsky.social · 26/01/2026they don't want "cooperation." they want compliance. there's a big difference. 010
Reposted by Christine MitchellProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 25/01/2026The most important public health story right now in America is that the Trump administration is executing people in the streets, it is kidnapping people of all ages, including 2-year-olds, it is torturing them, & it is putting them in concentration camps where many have been killed or “disappeared” 6598182
Reposted by Christine MitchellArtie Vierkant @avierkant.bsky.social · 24/01/2026It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can 12160545
Reposted by Christine MitchellPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them. 1541911231
Reposted by Christine MitchellJesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Two days ago, 7 democrats voted to fund that execution 7560261892
Reposted by Christine MitchellPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Once again: Focusing on their lack of training is a mistake. With "better training," their violence would simply cost more, and they would still kill whoever they wanted, but make it look more professional — to make people more comfortable, the way many of you are at ease with local police violence. 4035031121
Reposted by Christine MitchellChristian Rincon @christianrincon.com · 24/01/2026This is what 7 House Democrats voted with Republicans to fund. This is what Hakeem Jeffries didn't whip votes against. This is what Gavin Newsom said *wasn't* fascism. Anyone who doesn't commit to abolishing ICE should lose their job. 21073361
Reposted by Christine MitchellTim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Witnesses say a man was shot by a federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning. The Minnesota Star Tribune is on the scene: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...startribune.comLive: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses sayMore than a hundred protesters and observers have gathered near E. 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue. 30618388
Reposted by Christine MitchellChristopher Terry @christopherterry.bsky.social · 23/01/2026They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota. 432264205780
Reposted by Christine MitchellThomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 22/01/2026I guess this post escaped containment, so here's the local media with the partial, constantly updated list of closures. bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...bringmethenews.comList of Minnesota businesses closing for Jan. 23 anti-ICE strikeFirst announced by faith leaders and unions on Jan. 13, Minnesota businesses have begun announcing plans to join the action. 141385383
Christine Mitchell @christinescd.bsky.social · 22/01/2026THAT'S MY FRIEND!! check out Marena's campaign, donate, volunteer, spread the word: www.marenalinforcongress.com 050
Reposted by Christine MitchellUniversal Hub @universalhub.com · 22/01/2026If you have a 3D printer, you can now download software to print out lots of whistles, all embedded with the phone number for LUCE, the local immigrant rapid-response group. www.printables.com/model/156587...printables.comLUCE (Massachusetts) whistle by Sokath | Download free STL model | Printables.com 3148100
Reposted by Christine MitchellJohn Lieske @johnlieske.blackskycomra.de · 21/01/2026Near most bases are lawyers ready to help work through the objector process. If not they can call 202-483-2220 centeronconscience.org/who-is-milit...centeronconscience.orgWho is a Military Conscientious Objector? - Center on Conscience & WarContact us if you’re in the US military and are interested in seeking discharge or reassignment as a Conscientious Objector. We can help. 02614
Reposted by Christine MitchellSusie Hayward @sohayward.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Will you also investigate the ICE agent who played a noisemaker over Catholic prayer for immigrants? Or times when I & other clergy & lay have been tear-gassed, assaulted, insulted, stalked, & in the case of professed Christian Renee Good, murdered, for living Jesus’ command to love God & neighbor? 12348124
Reposted by Christine Mitchellthe original Aloof Wife @cpi.pinball.horse · 14/01/2026A place to donate if you want to support those standing strong against the ICE gestapo: www.lucemass.org/donate LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of MA 1156
Christine Mitchell @christinescd.bsky.social · 11/01/2026good advice to read this book, from a rally in Boston yesterday. @alexvitale.bsky.social 15923