Reposted by shadd marunaSinisterBulb @sinisterbulb.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Leaves more questions for the media blowing what is basically an employment issue out of all proportion. You have a President who lies every time he opens his mouth. Maybe focus on that… 1591
shadd maruna @shaddmaruna.bsky.social · 21/05/2026There Has Never Been an Example of Presidential Corruption Like This www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/o...nytimes.comOpinion | There Has Never Been an Example of Presidential Corruption Like This 000
Reposted by shadd marunaRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Turns out there’s an economic cost to everyone hating us. 1346192476172
Reposted by shadd marunaThe Howard League @thehowardleague.bsky.social · 31/01/2026The number of people dying in prisons in England and Wales has risen to the highest level on record, official data reveal. Prisons recorded 394 deaths in 2025 – a 15% increase on the previous year. howardleague.org/news/revealed-the-… 036
shadd maruna @shaddmaruna.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Excellent reporting from Canada on the obvious links between ICE and far right terror groups vm.tiktok.com/ZNRAdHqbB/ 010
shadd maruna @shaddmaruna.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I’m old enough to remember when Kyle Rittenhouse was called a hero for showing up at a protest armed to the teeth and shooting to kill www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/s...nytimes.comKyle Rittenhouse Is Once Again a Lightning Rod Online 062
Reposted by shadd marunaSkye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Ben Damberg protest volunteer: “None of us want to be doing this — I don’t, but we simply cannot stand by as other Minnesotans are being hurt — we will march, we will protest, & we will do it all peacefully above all else” 184108492925
Reposted by shadd marunaWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/01/2026in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today 9534967514279
Reposted by shadd marunaAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/01/2026Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN" 16034382816050
Reposted by shadd marunaMichael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war 199222294679
Reposted by shadd marunaNick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 30/12/2025The U.S. Has Killed More than 100 People in 30 Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All. theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t... 614977
Reposted by shadd marunaMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Still in a state of shock trying to process the tragic loss of one of the most gifted men in the entertainment industry & his wife when the Embarrassment-in-Chief disgraces common human decency with this repulsive, deranged statement. #NoWords 🤮 2388427158267
Reposted by shadd marunaMayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 29/11/2025On the sixth anniversary of the Fishmongers’ Hall terror attack, we remember Saskia Jones & Jack Merritt who tragically lost their lives. They will remain in our thoughts, as will our emergency services & the Londoners who bravely put themselves in danger that day to help others. 028545
Reposted by shadd marunaRaw Story @rawstory.com · 16/11/2025Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.bit.ly'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al... 15234461070
Reposted by shadd marunaSean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Minor quibble with the word "appeared" but this is otherwise an accurate description of a thing that happened yesterday. If one of your loved ones did this you would be having hard conversations about giving another family member power of attorney over their bank accounts. 691201327
Reposted by shadd marunaalec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Another good time to remind people that “tear gas” is a term of copaganda that police, the military, and its manufacturers use to obscure that it is a dangerous chemical weapon internationally banned for use even in warfare. 201485575
Reposted by shadd marunaDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 17/09/2025I know I’m naive but it is pretty wild that the president of the United States just publicly declares he and the military killed some guys on a boat, multiple times, and the entirety of Congress doesn’t immediately hit a giant red IMPEACH button 798240935548
Reposted by shadd marunaAlan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Conor Gearty was, without hesitation, the best academic writer I’ve read. He was also a thoroughly decent and kind human being who fearlessly used his position speak truth to power. Conor did law, politics and academia the right way and he will be sorely missed. Ní bheidh a leithéid arís ann. 510120
Reposted by shadd marunaThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/09/2025Breaking News: The EPA moved to stop requiring polluters to report their emissions of greenhouse gases. The proposal would end a key tool the government uses to track carbon dioxide, methane and other gases that are driving climate change.nyti.msE.P.A. to Stop Collecting Emissions Data From PollutersThe data, from thousands of coal-burning power plants, oil refineries, steel mills and other industrial facilities, is the country’s most comprehensive way to track greenhouse gases. 47233163
Reposted by shadd marunaalec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 09/09/2025One of the defining features of authoritarian society is the ruthless but selective use of the machinery of repression—and associated propaganda about criminality and “order”—to immunize predatory behavior of the powerful while crushing everyone else into profitable obedience. 011333
Reposted by shadd marunaGrumpy-ish Brian🏴🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Spot on! 3318113
shadd maruna @shaddmaruna.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Great headline. tsunami of lies. Death of the truth. Awful. 120
Reposted by shadd marunaJoshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 25/08/2025So counterproductive and, frankly, stupid Cashless bail reduces crime. Pretrial incarceration causes more crime than pretrial detention prevents Also, why should only people with money have access to mercy? www.axios.com/2025/08/25/t...axios.comScoop: Trump plans executive order to end "cashless bail" in D.C.It's the latest step in the Trump-driven federal takeover of the capital city's law enforcement. 23415
Reposted by shadd marunaEmily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Chicago doesn't even crack the top 20 most dangerous cities. Denver has a higher crime rate than Chicago. 0164
shadd maruna @shaddmaruna.bsky.social · 25/08/2025And we are hearing the same nonsense about London and other UK cities being overrun by crime and bedlam too. Social media culture allows for moral panics on steroids. 062
Reposted by shadd marunaRobert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · 25/08/2025www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Fear of crime exaggerating the statistical risks is a constant of surveys over my 79 year life. Media and right wing politicians have much to answer for. And repairing broken windows is good. Better still is socioeconomic policy enhancing security and welfaretheguardian.comTrump is wrong about crime – but right about the fear of it | Austin SaratThe deployment of the national guard in Washington ignores the data. But Democrats must not ignore how people feel 042
Reposted by shadd marunadamniel spookradski @self.agency · 25/08/2025so it’s tyranny then?yahoo.com‘The city is dead’: D.C. restaurant reservations drop amid federal crackdownSince President Donald Trump announced his takeover of the D.C. police force last week, restaurant reservations have dropped in the city by as much as 31 percent year over year for a single day, accor... 5781188
Reposted by shadd marunaKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 23/08/2025JUST IN: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers say the Trump administration is trying to coerce him to plead guilty to the charges he is facing by promising to deport him to Costa Rica — and threatening to deport him to Uganda if he doesn’t. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 8921011033
Reposted by shadd marunaGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21/08/2025May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice. 590245757700
Reposted by shadd marunaKara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 23/08/2025By all means, let’s believe the heinous sex offender who lies like she breathes. Todd Blanche is shameful for conducitng this idiotic inquiry designed only to protect Trump www.thedailybeast.com//cackling-ma...thedailybeast.comCackling Maxwell Smears Prince Andrew’s Accuser on DOJ TapeThe convicted child sex offender dismissed allegations against Prince Andrew for jaw-dropping reasons. 581197242
Reposted by shadd marunaSteve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Joe Sim @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social, @debcoles13.bsky.social & me www.theguardian.com/politics/202... @carceralabolition.bsky.social @critcrim.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social @inquest-org.bsky.social @lucybrisbane.bsky.social @timnewburn.bsky.social @waylon18.bsky.social @shaddmaruna.bsky.socialtheguardian.comWhy Shabana Mahmood’s outlook on prisons is wrong | LetterLetter: The justice secretary has not understood many of the issues surrounding the prisons crisis, say Deborah Coles, Joe Sim and Steve Tombs 098
Reposted by shadd marunaSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Camus: Under conditions so desperate, the hard, marvelous task of this century is to create justice in the most unjust of worlds, and to protect freedom from those souls who, out of principle, choose servitude. If we fail, man will return to darkness. But at least we will have fought to find light. 121245330
Reposted by shadd marunaSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11/08/2025“Trump says” vs. actual data on crime dropping in DC is not “Trump says vs. the Mayor says.” It’s “Trump says” vs. fact. Trump’s “crime & squalor” excuse is pretext & his naming other cities all w/Black mayors as his next targets compels an honest confrontation w/Trump’s racism & authoritarianism. 10698204
Reposted by shadd marunaDr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Hey #Criminology It lives! 29 chapters. 8 sections. 50+ authors. #ECRs to veterans. Wide range of themes/topics It's been a labour of over 2 years, but it's forthcoming (release in January 2026) #CriminalJustice #Victimology #Zemiology #SensoryCriminology www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...routledge.comThe Routledge International Handbook of Sensory CriminologyThe Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology reimagines what criminology can become when we take the senses seriously. Centring the sensory as fundamental to the experience of harm, jus... 3157
Reposted by shadd marunaMother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/07/2025Trump EPA moves to kill "holy grail" of climate regulationmotherjones.comTrump EPA moves to kill "holy grail" of climate regulationThe agency said its 2009 finding that greenhouse gases harmed people had caused "years of uncertainty for automakers." 1213252
Reposted by shadd marunaDavid Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 30/07/2025One of the most consequential things Trump is doing. Deserves as much attention as the Epstein mess. But good luck with that. He is changing the policy so that greenhouse gases cannot be regulated and climate change can’t be addressed. Trump is killing the future. 35741328
Reposted by shadd marunaSean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 27/07/2025Just learned that Mike Johnson, before coming to Congress claimed to be the Dean of a law school named after a pedophile. Which may explain a few things. Notably… 31646242
Reposted by shadd marunamike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 13/07/2025mandy patinkin & his family gave a powerful interview, and this part, phewww 27793246
Reposted by shadd marunaDr Oscar @droscaro.bsky.social · 08/07/2025*Another* heatwave arrives this week and it could be the most intense yet. But prisons are ill-prepared to protect prisoners & staff from environmental harm. ✍️ A new paper examines indoor environmental conditions across multiple prisons ❌ It’s not good. www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/stale-and-st...crimeandjustice.org.ukStale and Still | Centre for Crime and Justice Studies 145
Reposted by shadd marunaCarceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Inside prison walls, here's how a book program is changing lives Accessing reading material in prisons is hard, but Freedom Reads co-founder Reginald Betts, a former inmate, went beyond books, creating libraries made by former prisoners www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...nbcnews.comInside prison walls, here's how a book program is changing livesAccessing reading material in prisons is hard, but Freedom Reads co-founder Reginald Betts, a former inmate, went beyond books, creating libraries made by former prisoners. 051
Reposted by shadd marunaRobbie Armstrong @robbiejourno.bsky.social · 02/06/2025The podcast @crmnlgy.bsky.social and I made is in the Guardian today! Listen to Young Warriors here: open.spotify.com/show/1KLXLNF... 0113
shadd maruna @shaddmaruna.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Fixed term teaching post (10 months) in critical criminology in the University of Liverpool's Department of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMV424/l...jobs.ac.ukLecturer - Grade 7 at University of LiverpoolDiscover Lecturer - Grade 7 jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board. 0128