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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 19h

Yes! And I strongly urge us all to eschew a politics of contempt for anyone who voted for T. We can help create space for those who are not die-hard racists, Nazis, and white Christian nationalists to come out of the fog of repression.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Everything we've been warning about for years re: policing is playing out globally.

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Please stop with the unacknowledged AI.

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

CCJ was spearheaded by John Arnold, of Enron fame, who played a major funding role in so-called “reform” efforts that have expanded the reach of policing and carceral control. ASU got buckets of $ for CJ studies from right-wing billionaires. Some liberal folk have signed on. Carceral con.

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In which the Ohio Democratic Party considers LGBTQ+ issues a harmful "distraction." #translives #transliberation

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/10/2026

This is incredibly hard to hear—grateful for those who bear witness.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A wrenching loss of a remarkable person. All respect.

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“The worst of the worst” is a catch phrase used to employ fear to increase policing and carceral control, primarily of marginalized and vulnerable groups. It is a criminalizing phrase that is endlessly elastic and justifies all sorts of carceral expansion. Trump uses it now.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

don’t turn my mailman into a cop, that sucks

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Infrastructure is being destroyed, beyond mass firings. Essential funds have already been spent on war, ICE, surveillance, corruption. This admin is a wrecking ball, and it is efficient as such.

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Amen. He enabled and supported police torture as mayor of Chicago. Activists fought for years - and successfully - to bring pilice torture to light and secure some reparations for some of the many incarcerated people who suffered from that torture.

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We should understand this as an intentionally criminalizing move against queers. Along with other measures, it accelerates demolition of the framework of civil rights in order to replace it with processes of criminalization against groups that challenge supremacist governance.

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I live in Missoula. Krakauer’s book is excellent. But nothing has really changed here.

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Social media = surveillance hellscape; Internet = AI nightmare; & Signal threads = insecure! In the context of rising criminalization & authoritarianism, communities of resistance need to build our own communication networks! Join this half-day interactive skill share: bit.ly/infopowerskillshare

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As @interruptcrim.bsky.social has long noted, criminalization is the fuel for fascism. 15 years ago, we explored how processes of criminalization work. And we've continued to educate and warn about "bipartisan" efforts to expand, deepen, strengthen those processes. Join us.

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

RIP Bob Mackie, who designed this perfect outfit for Carol Burnett's memorable turn as Scarlett O'Hara on her weekly comedy hour. (Confesson: I have the Barbie Doll limited edition of Burnett in this outfit.)

Photo shows Carol Burnett and Harvey Korman in a "Gone With the Wind" skit on her weekly TV show. Burnett is in an outfit made by the legendary designer Bob Mackie. Hilariously, it features old green curtains and drapery accessories, a hideous green and gold headdress, and, best of all, curtain rods jutting out from her shoulders. Making a mockery of "Gone With the Wind"? Yes, please!

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is a key insight. Thanks, Jessica, as always.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

30 incarcerated men presented a $4,267 donation to a northwest Kansas school district to pay down the district's unsettled lunch debt The donation was to be "utilized to help local children fuel their day and stay focused and energized this school year"

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Prison inmates help to pay down school lunch debt

A school district's unsettled lunch debt was substantially paid down by a group of inmates.

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Oh! Homophobia, much? Not a good look. I speak as a queer person who loathes everything about this administration, and who warned about the dangers of T prior to 2016.

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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Dolly Parton logged a combined total of 115 years of union membership. Throughout her working life, the “9 to 5” singer/songwriter carried the union cards of two major unions: The American Federation of Musicians Local 257 in Nashville — for 58 years. SAG-AFTRA — for 57 years. HAPPY LABOR DAY!

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Opinion | Celebrate Dolly Parton's working-class solidarity

John Nichols: She carried two union cards, sang Woody Guthrie songs and mocked the bosses in "9 to 5."

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

For years, the Right has been working for deregulation of the professions. Crickets from Dems.

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There's something at the Emanuel nexus of neoliberal triangulation (further shredding the social contract) & supporting police state methods that reveals his anti-democratic leanings. He can't be president, but he can be a ruthless power broker in the way Harris or Shapiro or others can never be.

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

TONIGHT! US & Israel want to merge their military systems to produce deadly weapons & surveillance tech together. This Deadly Merger is inside the annual military spending bill, which Congress will be voting on again soon. We have a small window to block it. Join a @uscpr.bsky.social phonebank!

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Phonebank to Stop the Deadly Merger - USCPR Action

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“Nurses and community activists gathered on South Congress Avenue in Austin on Thursday to call on hospitals to cut ties with [Peter Thiel’s] Palantir… The demonstration began outside 8VC, an investment firm whose founder, Joe Lonsdale, also co-founded Palantir.” 8/27/26 … 1/

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Nurses urge hospitals to cut ties with Palantir as protesters rally in Austin

Nurses and community activists gathered on South Congress Avenue in Austin on Thursday to call on hospitals to cut ties with Palantir Technologies, a company th

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I draw on many of the resources interrupting Criminalization provides; so do many community organizations. An essential site. I urge you to follow the account.

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Great. But the gov is just trying to hitch his right-wing whom to her popularity.

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Brilliant! Thanks @mapquest.com for principles served up with humor. I personally cannot improve upon your example.

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Please refer to Tibet as Tibet. Chinese occupation is reprehensible.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This morning in Danbury, ICE was arresting parents at school bus stops. But it’s more sinister. ICE waited until the kids were on the bus so when they are dropped off at the end of the day, they are alone, scared to death they can’t find their parents. I’m heading to Danbury.

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You can now search which businesses in your area are collaborating with ICE, thanks to a new project from @theappeal.org 🔗 theappeal.org/ice-local-bu...

Background: deli store front | text: A NEW PROJECT ALLOWS YOU SEARCH LOCAL BUSINESSES TO FIND OUT WHO'S COLLABORATING WITH ICE

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