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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 18/07/2026

Today, I visited the 67th Precinct Clergy Council, where I saw firsthand what real public safety looks like. Through Project ECHO, young leaders are resolving conflict with care, and creating stronger communities in the process.

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Marius Smith @mariussmith.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

How uplifting! "These are New Yorkers, and they will be New Yorkers when they get out of Rikers...". It's not that hard to see people in prison as humans, and to imagine a different system of justice, where we focus on creating new beginnings and stronger communities.

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Marius Smith @mariussmith.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Heartbreaking to see another violent attack on a synagogue, in Michigan yesterday. We must stand against antisemitic attacks on Jews everywhere.

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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

14,000 Palestinian babies may die in the next 48 hours. The UN has reported that lorries carrying baby food and nutritional supplies are at the Gaza border, but Israel is not allowing them to enter. How is it possible that no one has taken effective action to stop this?

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/05/2025

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

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Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

At least 590 First Nations people have died in custody since the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in Custody. No one has ever been found criminally responsible for any of their deaths. No one should die in prison. nit.com.au/15-04-2025/1...

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34 years after the Royal Commission, Indigenous deaths in custody continue to rise

34 years after the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, First Nations people continue to be 'disproportionately represented' in Australia's prison system.Tuesday marked the 34th anniver...

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Jeremy Konyndyk @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Can confirm. USAID's DARTs are being fully dismantled. These are the legendary teams that fight famine, beat Ebola, rescue people after earthquakes. They represent the very best of America in the world. Elon Musk was once a builder. Now he just destroys. This shameful nihilism will kill people.

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Marius Smith @mariussmith.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

The current persecution of trans people in US prisons is horrific. Osita is right - it's a historic roll back of rights. And we can see politicians in Australia moving the same way. We have to stand against any attempted persecution of our trans community.

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Marius Smith @mariussmith.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Thank you, @zoedaniel.bsky.social. We must fight this wave of antisemitism, but mandating that we throw people in prison with no thought for how we can best ensure they don't offend again doesn't create the stronger community we want. Never has, never will.

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Vacro @vacro.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

BREAKING: We've just been told that the government's subsidy for phone calls from prison will come into effect from TOMORROW - 1 Feb 2025. This is a huge win for our campaign and will change our participants' and their families' lives. But it's not over yet.

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Marius Smith @mariussmith.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This is is a great result for people in prison and their loved ones in the community. Phone calls from prison will be more than 50% cheaper from tomorrow!

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

There is zero evidence writers festivals or arts events are linked to these attacks (obviously they are not?). For the SMH to just broadcast this specific, baseless allegation without even saying “by the way, police have no evidence to support these incendiary claims” is extremely poor.

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Marius Smith @mariussmith.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

A great U.S. view on an issue that's a huge problem here too - remand (imprisoning people who haven't been convicted of a crime). "The purpose of pretrial detention...is to punish. The harm that I witnessed is not just some unfortunate by-product of our pretrial system. The harm is the point."

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Australian Human Rights Institute @austhumanrights.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

"Prisons don’t create safer communities, so why is Australia spending billions on building them?" Institute Associate @blatmannaama.bsky.social co-authors a new article for The Conversation: bit.ly/PrisonsAustr...

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Marius Smith @mariussmith.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

It was great to feel the solidarity of so many First Nations people and their allies at the Invasion Day rally in Naarm today. We must continue to fight for a just future for our First Nations people, often in the face of fierce opposition.

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Marius Smith @mariussmith.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

This is one of the many horrifying things happening in the US right now. It will have devastating effects for trans people who already face persecution, dehumanisation and discrimination in prison.

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Marius Smith @mariussmith.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

This piece by @emmakrussell.bsky.social and co. is so important. We know law and order policies fail, and we know what works: comprehensive reintegration services for those leaving prison; and investments in strong communities, which prevent people from going to prison in the first place.

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Marius Smith @mariussmith.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

This continued anti semitism is horrifying.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 20/01/2025

a functioning opposition party that represented the working class could spike this photo in the end zone basically forever

Zuckerberg, Mrs. Bezos, Bezos, Pichai, Musk

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Vacro @vacro.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

The findings echo much of what our Lived Experience Panel members reported in their submission to the Inquiry into Women's Pain last year (www.vacro.org.au/Handlers/Dow...).

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Vacro @vacro.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

In this study of reproductive healthcare in a San Diego jail, women report: 🩺 failure to respond to multiple medical requests 🩺 inexperienced medical staff 🩺 dismissiveness, mistreatment, and punishment from staff 🩺 uncomfortable, unsafe practices www.urban.org/research/pub...

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Incarcerated People's Perceptions of Reproductive Health Care in a San Diego County Women's Jail

This study aimed to understand the state of reproductive health care access and quality in a jail in California after early stages of the implementation of Assembly Bill 732 (A.B. 732).

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Vacro @vacro.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

With Corrections Victoria recently announcing $8k sign-on bonuses for new prison officers (www.3aw.com.au/the-big-ince...) we want to strongly echo this sentiment: from Texas to Victoria, prisons cannot recruit and retain their way out of this staffing crisis! The only solution is to decarcerate! 🧵⬇️

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 14/01/2025

Why did sheriffs become such huge players in detaining immigrants if the feds are the ones arresting people? Who is making money off of this? What options do local governments have to resist detention efforts? You asked, Bolts answers: boltsmag.org/the-pas...

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The Past and Present of Immigration Detention: Your Questions Answered

A historian of migrant detention responds to questions from <em>Bolts</em> readers on the vast network of local lockups that jail immigrants, and how it

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krazykitkat.bsky.social @krazykitkat.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Will he be brave and continue this? www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

Mr Battin has made crime a key policy during his tenure in parliament, even testing party lines to support raising the age of criminal responsibility.

“Every week I would engage with kids in that age range … and almost without fail, if you looked at their history, you could identify them as high risk at a very young age because they had a parent in jail or with addiction problems, a lack of family support, had been in and out of care – a whole range of things," Mr Battin told The Age in 2021.

“You can’t just raise the age and think these kids will walk home and be fine. No, we need the systems.

"But if we can do that successfully, we will save a fortune in the long term for not putting these kids in jail.”

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Marius Smith @mariussmith.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

The annual ABS prisoner stats paint a bleak nationwide picture. Victoria was the only state to experience a decrease in prisoner numbers (8%): First Nations prisoner numbers in Vic fell 10%, but First Nations people remain shamefully overincarcerated. www.abs.gov.au/media-centre...

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Prisoners on remand up 13% in 2024

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Sorry, what now, Victoria?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/12/2024

i think it is important to clarify that this — the exclusionary distribution of benefits on some sort of ethnic or national basis — isn’t socialism. it’s, you know, something else.

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Marius Smith @mariussmith.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This has the same vibe and lack of direction as the Forever Wars.

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samantha floreani @floreani.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

in addition to safe, affordable homes, renters should also be able to have nice things like leisure time, activities for kids etc. the cost of renting makes this impossible for so many. a bleak but important report from @betterrenting.bsky.social www.betterrenting.org.au/cost_of_rent...

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Cost of Renting Report 2024

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