Reposted by minT_Tea_AFBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 14hI wanna quibble a bit with the premise of question 4: 'why court expansion over alternatives' suggests an either/or, but I want a whole suite of reforms But also, court expansion is the most urgent and necessary reform bc it's the clearcut constitutional way to immediately stop the bleeding 1127265
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026My probe into how local cops in Pa.'s York County teamed with ICE to bust 500-plus immigrants on busy highways, terrifying the Haitian community and shattering families over a busted headlight 287(g) has made York the worst place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. www.inquirer.com/opinion/york...inquirer.comHow York County became the most dangerous place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. | Will BunchLocal cops working with ICE in York County, Pa. have made hundreds of arrests, with many more afraid to leave home. 511692812
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFWilliam C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Fascists don’t believe in allowing any opposition at all, not even a symbolic one. No matter what you think of the Democratic Party, it will not be allowed to exist under a truly fascistic regime. 318151
minT_Tea_AF @mint-tea-af.bsky.social · 07/10/2026gofund.meDonate to Jonaston Martin's Funeral and Burial Fund, organized by Jaison Fleming-SmallwoodI’m raising funds for my son, Jonaston Martin of Lancaster, Pennsyl… Jaison Fleming-Smallwood needs your support for Jonaston Martin's Funeral and Burial Fund 000
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFBolts @boltsmag.org · 24/09/2026“We heard from our community that the sheriff’s office is racist,” says a young Salvadoran man who has lived in Frederick for nearly a decade. “We have heard people saying that many times.”boltsmag.org “We're Afraid on a Daily Basis”: How a Maryland Sheriff Targeted Immigrants Long Before ICE Raids Spiked - BoltsFrederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is impossible to ignore. 03713
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"In 2020, there were only six programs in the U.S. that sent unarmed responders, such as mental health clinicians, to certain 911 calls instead of police officers. Now, these programs — sometimes called alternative or community response — are in nearly 100 cities." www.npr.org/2026/09/22/n...npr.orgHow unarmed 911 teams are reshaping public safety in nearly 100 citiesAlternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well? 5755270
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 25/09/2026share.inquirer.com/4R4zKp?utm_s... [gift link]share.inquirer.comU.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver is eight months pregnant and facing 17 years in jail | Jenice ArmstrongMcIver’s inner strength is next level. She is running for reelection while fighting efforts by the Trump administration to jail her. Plus, she’s repping her constituents and caring for her family. 4276127
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026make the John Brown season of Reacher you cowards 465339948
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12/09/2026When you're constantly just trying to keep the lights on and put food on the table, you don't have the time or energy to fight the system. Keeping people hanging on by a thread isn't a policy failure; it's how they keep us too tired to push back. 1383414875
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFChantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026Fuck all these damn ableist sanist eugenicists who hate the poor & are trying to jerk government social support from disabled people who will die without it who are running health in our country, RFK’s bastard ass who dines on diseased roadkill & Dr. Oz’s fraudulent medical charlatan self. 1268
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFediciones inéditas. @ineditas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I recall how vibrant the anarchist mov't was before the PATRIOT Act. Then so many ppl went underground, dropped out or got picked up by the State & people gave even less of a shit about anarchists & our plight. The PATRIOT Act has always been used against the U.S. population. 214044
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFJess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 10/09/2026We had a vote in my 4th grade class on whether we thought invading Iraq was right and I got sent to the principal's office for being the only person to vote against the invasion 🙃 The early aughts were *fucked*, y'all 11679129
minT_Tea_AF @mint-tea-af.bsky.social · 11/09/2026gofund.meDonate to Standing with Pastor Molis and His Family, organized by Omara NunezPastor Molis Augustave is a community builder in York PA, a city he arrived to… Omara Nunez needs your support for Standing with Pastor Molis and His Family 000
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Students from over 180 schools in Colorado walked out of the classroom today to protest ICE. 521247493
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFChantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 05/09/2026Please save Ahmed’s life. His family is terrified watching him slip away day by day. They seriously are so desperate that it means a lot if you give just a little, & many of you doing that is they really need. Seeing their beloved boy’s life fade each day is horrible family & we can help. Boost. 52922
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFCharles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 27/08/2026This is wild. In late 2025, federal and state officials kept a Mexican woman in custody for almost a month by repeatedly rebooking her just before her 72-hour time limit ran out. www.propublica.org/article/immi... 28663336
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFChantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026The reality of the founder of our country, George Washington, is that he was so committed to being a brutal slaveholder he maneuvered around the law to keep slaves in free territory, mercilessly hunted down his runaway slaves, & yanked their teeth for his dentures. @elmcitytree.blacksky.app 13615
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFProPublica @propublica.org · 27/08/2026NEW: These local jails in Florida were supposed to detain immigrants for only up to 72 hours, per DHS. One woman was rebooked 10 times, spending a cumulative 26 days in jail.propublica.orgThese Local Jails Were Supposed to Detain Immigrants for Only 72 Hours. One Woman Was Held for a Total of 26 Days.Rebookings of immigrants into local jails are an effort to circumvent federal rules and regulations, legal experts say. Our nationwide analysis shows that in the past year, two Florida jails had unusu... 14734491882
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFChantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026Our times do not require us to look away from sorrow & suffering. They require our courage to directly confront it & see it as we can do nothing to fight it without doing, knowing that threats for anyone are threats for us, we are one human system, & US empire is one this system's greatest dangers. 14913
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFPam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 27/08/2026‼️ Stars and Stripes is NOT rolling over for Pete Hegseth. A female officer was raped in her own bunk aboard a Navy ship; it was ruled by a judge as *a worker’s comp claim*. While this case was investigated her perpetrator continued to receive pay. 🧾 www.stripes.com/branches/nav...stripes.comLawsuit over sexual assault aboard Navy transport ship dismissed as worker’s comp issueThe order handed down this month closed an attempt by a civilian engineer to get justice for an assault she said threw her life into shambles. 1125
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026usunrome.usmission.gov/why-were-dis...usunrome.usmission.govWhy We’re Dismantling the ICC 10519151
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/08/2026I’m still working to get the unredacted emails at issue. lawandcrime.com/high-profile...lawandcrime.comICE lawyer's email revealed as basis for entering homes without a federal judge's say-soA federal lawsuit has revealed that the origins of the "determination" purportedly empowering ICE agents to enter homes without a warrant signed by a federal judge. 372454737
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026An incredible story. The Iranian Christian woman who wrote “help” on the glass on the hotel in Panama has finally found permanent safety; in Canada. The Trump admin deported her to Panama soon after taking office, rather than let her seek asylum. Read her story 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/w...nytimes.comChristian Convert Who Fled Iran and Was Deported By Trump Finds New Home (Gift Article)Artemis Ghasemzadeh, who had escaped religious persecution, was deported to Panama under Trump’s immigration crackdown. Now, Canada has given her asylum. 331953653
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...nytimes.comWashington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen AttiahAn arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing. 1193326716242
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026some support ideas here blockclubchicago.org/2026/08/21/g...blockclubchicago.orgGary Residents Have Been Without Power For 10 Days. Here's How You Can HelpA South Side business is offering free laundry service for storm-affected Gary families, while another fundraiser is collecting money for essentials as some residents face a second week without electr... 57363
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFSiddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026“Every day I’m crying,” Renita Theus, 41, said outside her darkened apartment, where her car remained trapped under a fallen tree. “It’s hot … I walked to the dollar store and they’re all out of candles and batteries.” "She lost her cleaning job in Chicago … because she was not able to travel."nytimes.comDesperation Mounts as Thousands in Indiana Endure 10 Days Without PowerFloods from powerful thunderstorms devastated Gary, where a third of residents live below the poverty line and full restoration isn’t expected until next week. 16770417
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/08/2026"Their task was simple enough: drop the items, along with school supplies, at a nearby apartment complex. Talking about it is less simple." www.decaturish.com/news/dekalb/...decaturish.comMutual aid group quietly feeds families fearing ICESTAND, a Decatur-based mutual aid group, has been quietly delivering food and school supplies to DeKalb County apartment complexes repeatedly targeted by ICE, where fear has kept families from leaving... 226889
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFChantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 22/08/2026Happy Anniversary to the Haitian Revolution! Yo peoples was slashing cracker slaveholders with machetes & meeting in vodun ceremony to call on higher powers for aid. They kicked those vile French oppressors out & got a country for themselves, the world's first Black republic. @tichatnwa.bsky.social 19329
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026"The Defense Department on Friday fired the publisher and the editor in chief of Stars and Stripes, a government-funded news outlet that reports on the U.S. military..." Seems significant, but hard to tell these days. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...nytimes.comPentagon Fires Editor and Publisher of Independent Military PublicationThe firings at Stars and Stripes also claimed a Middle East correspondent. They are the latest effort by the Pentagon to diminish the news outlet’s editorial independence. 1330973
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Natalie Harp, the child aide being viciously attacked for being a helpless young girl, is 35 years old. 1069216873496
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFKhashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 19/08/2026She's either completely nuts, or his latest Russian handler. No I'm not being misogynistic. This is not normal professional behavior. It's obsessively creepy and weird. 1711685477
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFMother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/08/2026Law enforcement loves these shock gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it.motherjones.comThe Orwellian Company Behind ICE’s New Electric Shock Gloves“With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars.” That makes it hard for victims to sue. 27258142
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFPortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 15/08/2026The Confederacy never died. Just morphed. And spread. It's not like you don't see evidence of it in "blue" states. Oregon, founded in 1859, was a "whites only" state. Conferates moved west bringing their ideas w/ them to other Western states. www.opb.org/news/article...opb.orgA racist history shows why Oregon is still so whiteOregon was the only state in the U.S. that had racist ideologies written into its constitution at its founding. But now these racist foundations, which Oregon and the nation were built on, are beginni... 511337
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026“So if democratic socialism is effective, then why keep funding the New York police department at $11bn? And why dismiss taking money away as “rhetoric”?” 13462106
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Always read @derecka.bsky.social. that is all. ALSO, if folks are actually interested in the roots of "Defund" - @dreanyc123.bsky.social and I write about it in No More Police: thenewpress.org/books/no-mor... [for people who read more than headlines]thenewpress.orgNo More Police - The New PressAn instant national best sellerA persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizers “One of the world’s most prominent advocates, organizers and political educators of the [abolitionist... 213063
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFunraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/08/2026New: We pieced together dozens of violent incidents from the ICE agents seen in viral videos from Virginia this week. They've roamed across multiple states, but are most often working in Chicago. We also verified the identity of Martin Lagunas, the fed who pointed his gun at a woman on Monday:unraveledpress.comChicago ICE team seen threatening drivers has roamed from Illinois to Minnesota to VirginiaA federal agent from Chicago identified by community members as 40-year-old Martin Lagunas was recorded pointing his gun in the face of a Virginia woman on Monday. His team of ICE agents has been docu... 6236821979
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Good news! This builds the circuit split to 7-2. Only the 3rd and 4th Circuits have yet to weigh in, and they’re likely to join the majority. By the time this makes it to the Supreme Court, almost (or possibly actually) every federal district and circuit court in the nation will have weighed in. 829075
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFGabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026Everything you allow to happen to incarcerated people is what you give permission to happen to you. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/u... 38140
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The Washington Post has a scoop alleging that the CIA was behind the sinking of an Ecuadorian fishing boat and the bombing of two others. The men who attacked them spoke English, a surveillance plane was owned by company registered in Virginia, and Salvadorans said it was "the Americans." 20936386
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026it's slavery, and it's unconstitutional ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...ballsandstrikes.orgThe Delaney Hall Strike Is Exposing a Massive Thirteenth Amendment CrisisThe Delaney Hall Strike participants haven’t been convicted of anything—and are still being forced to work for nothing. 3245108
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFNoah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026i've been covering national security for decades, on and off. i've never heard of anything like this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comUSS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reportsAircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land 28257882055
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026"even when we decided to make the difficult decision to asked to be allowed to voluntarily leave the US [...] the govt not only opposed it but suggested that it would appeal any judicial decisions that grant us departure [...] they want to continue our indefinite detention without any end in sight" 8238142
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026we are going to win 101612241
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFFaïza @fayza.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026Pensez à donner à Mohammed pour aider son fils Elias🙏🏻🍉 458
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFGabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 10/08/2026People absolutely hate when I say that in order to have a functioning society, EVERYONE—even people you HATE—have to have rights. The same rights. Them being suspected pedophiles does not change that. That is the albatross Chris Hansen and NBC still carry and why they lost that lawsuit 2291
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/08/2026A nightmarish follow-up from @emilybregel.bsky.social. Ahmed Soliman and two Jamaican women, Peta-Gaye Chambers and Natalie Holmes, say they were cuffed, beaten, and threatened by armed guards at the Equatorial Guinea "hotel" where they are imprisoned after being expelled by ICE. archive.is/zn7GH 215490
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 10/08/2026DeRay didn't do shit but be Black and have an opinion and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said NOT ON MY WATCH ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...ballsandstrikes.orgThe Fifth Circuit’s Dangerous Obsession with DeRay MckessonThe nation’s most conservative appeals court is ignoring decades of Supreme Court precedent to punish protest leaders for exercising their First Amendment rights. 412636
Reposted by minT_Tea_AFKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026New details via NYT: Top White House and administration officials engaged in an elaborate ruse to spirit Trump out of Turkey during the NATO summit — transporting him in a catering cart to a military jet because of a credible threat against him and Air Force One from Iran.nytimes.comAn Elaborate Ruse: Trump Secretly Used Military Jet to Leave Turkey Amid ThreatsPresident Trump hid in an airport catering cart and was taken to a military jet for a secret flight out of country after the NATO summit last month. 219965324