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Christine Mitchell

@christinescd.bsky.social
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she/her. public health. anti-racism. disability justice. abolition of the prison industrial complex. religion. labor unions. views my own. #HealthNotPunishment formerly @Christine_ScD on the bird app

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Christine Mitchell @christinescd.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
his 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.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The 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.
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Progressive Mass @progressivemass.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
You were rooting for this outcome two years ago. We haven’t forgotten.
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Christine Mitchell @christinescd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
finally 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...
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Copaganda - The New Press
From the prizewinning rising legal star, the deeply researched and definitive book on the way the media and police distract […]
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This 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.🧵
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Pope 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.
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Today @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
Screenshot of the Luddite Lab website. The word Luddite Lab is in the top left corner. The tables in the top read: Case Studies, Primers, Resource Library, Contact Us, and About. The text below reads: “The Luddite Lab Resource Hub provides resources for unions, labor organizations, and worker-organizers fighting AI and automation at work. The lab provides strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of new technology through case studies, primers, and a resource library.” Below, there are five cards: Case Studies (Stories from worker organizers resisting AI), Primers (Applied research insights into AI, automation, and the future of work), Resource Library (Additional resources from partners), Contact Us (Ways to connect with the Luddite Lab team), and About (About the Luddite Lab project and team)
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Christine Mitchell @christinescd.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
OMG THIS SO MUCH THIS
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We 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.
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 20/04/2026
Happy 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. 🤔
Infographic with text: Since 2017, funding for immigration policing & detention has increased by 171% while funding for libraries has increased only by 22%.

Not adjusted for inflation.
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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 11/04/2026
In 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
Alice Wong, an Asian-American woman in her early 50s, wears a black t-shirt that says “keep masks in health care”. She rocks a rich plum lipstick and cool multicolor sunglasses. She has a tracheostomy attached to a ventilator. The text reads, “The Sick Times. Alice Wong showed us Disability Justice makes our advocacy stronger. By Charlie McCone.”Alice showed me I can lead a meaningful life — and be cool doing it — while sitting with my pain and limitations. And while we, sick and disabled, channel our rage back at those trying to ignore and erase us.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I 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.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Please 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.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
From 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.”
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers say they'll change name of César Chavez Day to Farmworkers Day following sexual abuse allegations.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I 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.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Folks 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.
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Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
My latest for @theappeal.org looks at the crisis of aging in CA's women's prisons: theappeal.org/incarcerated...
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California Spends $300 Million Each Year Incarcerating Senior Citizens in Women’s Prisons
California’s incarcerated population has aged rapidly over the past 30 years. A new report recommends pathways for release.
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Christine Mitchell @christinescd.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
today's the kind of day where, after the past 392 months of winter, i remember why i live in boston 🌱☀️
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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The 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:
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.
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US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says
At 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...
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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
This is how #PublicHealth should be done in an #OngoingPandemic, now in its 7th year 👇
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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
A 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.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
FYI: 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/...
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Chris 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...
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DeLauro to pressing clergy: 'I will not vote to abolish ICE'
The Connecticut U.S. representative found herself at odds with faith leaders.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 02/02/2026
The history of prison uprisings in the US feels like a very timely topic right now!
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It Was the Most Violent Prison in America. Then the Guards Went on Strike
What 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.
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Christine Mitchell @christinescd.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
this 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.
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maria @mariatho.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
If 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 facilities
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Beyond Do No Harm — Interrupting Criminalization
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/01/2026
In 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 old
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Official concedes 8-year-old who died in U.S. custody could have been saved as devastated family recalls final days
The 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.
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Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
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I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
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Christine Mitchell @christinescd.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
they don't want "cooperation." they want compliance. there's a big difference.
screenshot of YouTube video of Karoline Leavitt speaking at a press conference on the murder of Alex Pretti. text reads: "'We just want cooperation,' Karoline Leavitt says"
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The 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”
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Artie Vierkant @avierkant.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
It 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
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Two days ago, 7 democrats voted to fund that execution
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Once 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.
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Christian Rincon @christianrincon.com · 24/01/2026
This 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.
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Witnesses 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...
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Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say
More than a hundred protesters and observers have gathered near E. 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue.
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Christopher Terry @christopherterry.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.
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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I guess this post escaped containment, so here's the local media with the partial, constantly updated list of closures. bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...
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List of Minnesota businesses closing for Jan. 23 anti-ICE strike
First announced by faith leaders and unions on Jan. 13, Minnesota businesses have begun announcing plans to join the action.
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Christine Mitchell @christinescd.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
THAT'S MY FRIEND!! check out Marena's campaign, donate, volunteer, spread the word: www.marenalinforcongress.com
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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 22/01/2026
If 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...
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LUCE (Massachusetts) whistle by Sokath | Download free STL model | Printables.com
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John Lieske @johnlieske.blackskycomra.de · 21/01/2026
Near 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...
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Who is a Military Conscientious Objector? - Center on Conscience & War
Contact us if you’re in the US military and are interested in seeking discharge or reassignment as a Conscientious Objector. We can help.
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Susie Hayward @sohayward.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Will 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?
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the original Aloof Wife @cpi.pinball.horse · 14/01/2026
A 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

With your support, we will
train

LUCE partners will be able to provide free, customized, and multilingual in person and virtual trainings across Massachusetts. Our current offerings include Know Your Rights, ICE Watch, and Hotline Operations. We hope to expand to provide multilingual bystander intervention and self-defense trainings
mobilize

We are moving communities, building networks and hubs through grassroots organizing, and equipping our  impacted members and allies to navigate this emerging crisis head on. As we grow, we will need support to launch peer-to-peer texting, create digital organizing resources, and hire a communications specialist.
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Christine Mitchell @christinescd.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
good advice to read this book, from a rally in Boston yesterday. @alexvitale.bsky.social
sign at a protest that is the cover of Alex Vitale’s book, The End of Policing. an arrow points up below the cover saying “read this book”
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