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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Wren Collective's @jrbrand07.bsky.social reflects On Extradition, ICE & Abbott in this Wren Collective essay. Read & subscribe here: defendingwhatmattersmost.substack.com/p/on-extradi...

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

UPDATE! CA AB 2605 (supported by the Wren Collective and its partners) passes the CA Senate unanimously!

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

As AB 690 heads to the CA Senate, Asm. Schultz notes the importance of regulating harmful flat-fee defense contracts, citing @wrencollective.bsky.social and UC Berkeley's report on the issue

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Latest @wrencollective.bsky.social newsletter examines federal attacks on progressive prosecutors and how necessary brave independent local leaders are to challenge federal overreach

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

New messaging from the Wren Collective's We Are Safety campaign that covers #CORCA, #HR5213 and #HR5625, an extension of the federal weaponization of safety and crime to hide their power grabs and budget cuts. Visit the site: www.wearesafety.info/federal-bill

all text, white back ground, black and grey text reading: The Wren Collective’s We Are Safety Website Takes on New Congressional Power Grabs

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The administration's "war of fraud" is really a war on poor people and people of color. Read today's Wren Collective which explains and contextualizes what's happening: defendingwhatmattersmost.substack.com/p/the-real-f...

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Essential reading about pervasive injustice in California via flat-fee contracts for criminal defense. Part 2 of The Wren Collective's Contracted to Fail publication with UC Berkeley Ctr for Criminal Law & Justice Read here: wrencollective.org/contracted-t...

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

How to build justice and safety for our next 250 years-- a two part Wren Collective newsletter Part 1: defendingwhatmattersmost.substack.com/p/the-next-2... Part 2: defendingwhatmattersmost.substack.com/p/the-next-2...

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Thoughts from The Wren Collective's Julia Brown on the intersection of federal immigration detention and deportation policy pushed by the state of TX and the World Cup-- as North TX hosts it Read & subscribe: wrenactiongroup.substack.com/p/the-world-...

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The Court just announced its 6-3 holding in Chatrie that a geofence warrrant is a 4thA search-- The Wren Collective newsletter covered this case earlier this year. Read and subscribe: defendingwhatmattersmost.substack.com/p/mass-surve...

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

@beckysilber.bsky.social writes for the Wren Collective substack about seeing the play Fear of 13 - and what she wishes the audience knew.

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The connection between Alligator Alcatraz and the Jan 6 rioter slush fund? Brazen corruption-- public policy as a series of $$ giveways to political allies. Read about "Justice for Sale" in today's Wren Collective newsletter: defendingwhatmattersmost.substack.com/p/justice-fo...

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Exciting news from CA courtesy of @calmatters.org -- The Wren Collective is a proud partner in this critical effort to advance justice in CA through public defense reform #RightToCounsel #sixthamendment #JusticeforAll

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Join us next week for this Wren Collective conversation with Dr. John Roman Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi... 6/18 @ 1pm ET

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The Wren Collective's Jay Jenkins writes for TX on Fire about how school police in TX impair student learning and safety. Read and subscribe to TX on Fire: substack.com/home/post/p-... #letkidsbekids #justiceforall #schooltoprisonpipeline #texasonfire

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The federal and state attacks on trans rights attack so many critical legal guardrails-- on privacy, liberty and jurisdiction, to name a few. The latest Wren Collective newsletter does a round up of what is happening. Link in comments. #transrights #wrencollective #justiceforall

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

A plea bargain from the TX AG's office is a reminder of how the TX politician outrage machine and scapegoating on crime only targets some TX prosecutors. Read more in Texas on Fire: wrenactiongroup.substack.com/p/what-we-ca... #texasonfire #communitysafety #criminaljustice

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

These attacks on the judiciary also undermine core democratic values like judicial independence and the separation of powers. Read the whole essay by Wren Collective executive Jessica Brand on our website from ABA Magazine: wrencollective.org/the-judiciar...

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The Judiciary Is Under Attack - The Wren Collective

“Dismantling Democracy: Attacks on the Judiciary” by Jessica Brand, ABA Criminal Justice Magazine, Spring 2026

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Read about how CA policymakers are grappling with the state's public defender workload crisis. This terrific piece by @calmatters.org cites the Wren Collective's research and staff.

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The most recent Wren Collective newsletter puts the #scotus #Callais decision in context: part of a broader undoing of 20th century civil rights legislation and policy. read and subscribe here: defendingwhatmattersmost.substack.com/p/jim-and-ja...

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Great piece in the LAT on last week's important victory in the CA Sup Ct for pretrial reform. The Wren Collective esp appreciates the connection between pretrial reform and needed public defense reform in CA. #publicdefense #justiceforallCA #pretrialreform

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Wren Collective executive director Jessica Brand writes about the "new norm" of state and federal legislative and rhetorical attacks on the judiciary. In ABA's Criminal Justice magazine: www.americanbar.org/groups/crimi...

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Join our Wren Collective briefing on FRIDAY, 5/8 @ 1CT/2CT to hear from the Minneapolis DA and City Council President on the FIGHT FOR MINNEAPOLIS: what happened and what is still happening; how they responded and what they've learned. REGISTER HERE: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Terrific reporting; and in the same week as the Chatrie argument. We at the Wren Collective covered mass surveillance and the evisceration of the 4th Amendment earlier this year. Read on: defendingwhatmattersmost.substack.com/p/the-assaul... #flockcameras #ALPRs #masssurveillance

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The Assault on Fourth Amendment Protections

A Wren Collective Newsletter

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Positive news alert! CA AB 2605 advances to Appropriations. The bill would require counties to report public defender caseload numbers, a significant step in tackling the state's caseload crisis. The Wren Collective full statement here: medium.com/@wrencollect...

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Read today's Wren Collective newsletter about the expansion of criminal penalties for voting as part of federal and state efforts to suppress the franchise. Subscribe here: defendingwhatmattersmost.substack.com/p/coordinate...

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

In this week’s Wren Collective newsletter we discuss the raft of Islamophobic action coming from the states— it’s dangerous rhetoric and goes well beyond rhetoric. open.substack.com/pub/defendin...

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Islamophobia: State and Federal Governments Turning Hate into Policy

A Wren Collective Newsletter

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

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Islamophobia: State and Federal Governments Turning Hate into Policy

A Wren Collective Newsletter

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

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Islamophobia: State and Federal Governments Turning Hate into Policy

A Wren Collective Newsletter

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Writing for On The Sixth, the Wren Collective’s @ntbaszynski.bsky.social writes about Ohio’s “HB 741—another legislative attempt to reinforce a two-tiered system of justice, where your pretrial freedom is tied to the money in your pocket”

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Breaking Down The Bad Bail Bill

New effort underway in Ohio to condition freedom on wealth

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Parole, clemency, second look laws are safety valves to provide mercy and second chances. Today’s Wren Collective newsletter explores how they are underutilized and narrowing. #parole #secondlook #justiceforall

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Less Mercy, Less Justice:

The Shrinking Safety Valves in the Criminal Legal System

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Today the Wren Collective launched wearesafety.info: a new website that documents the various ways that this administration is attacking public safety in order to obtain unearned power.

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

April 1 @ 6pm: Community Over Cages and PAD Atlanta host Tale of the Jail-- centering the lived expertise of advocates fighting for human rights in Fulton County, GA. The Wren Collective is a proud participant in the Community Over Cages Coalition. #diversion #pretrialreform #FultonCounty

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

In this week's Democracy Under Attack, The Wren Collective looks at the Prairieland trial, FL's new domestic terrorism bill, and the many ways governments are trying to prosecute, investigate, and surveil its way out of opposition. defendingwhatmattersmost.substack.com/p/guilt-by-a...

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Guilt by Association: Everyone Is Dangerous, Everyone Is a Suspect

A Wren Collective Newsletter

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

The Trump Administration’s attacks on cities are part of a pattern of assault on local governance. The Wren Collective’s Jay Jenkins writes about recent preemption fights for Defending What Matters open.substack.com/pub/defendin...

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Amidst Trump’s Attacks on Cities, Don’t Forget About Preemption

State governments have increasingly moved to usurp local control of cities in recent decades.

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Trump's SOTU last night contained a multitude of lies about the economy, crime, and immigrants. But he never once mentioned ICE or CBP. That silence is telling. 🧵 defendingwhatmattersmost.substack.com/p/what-trump...

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What Trump Didn’t Say Last Night

Trump's silence at the State of the Union shows the limits of a lie

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jrbrand07.bsky.social @jrbrand07.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

In this week's newsletter, we look at the right's war on journalists and their willingness to use the criminal and civil rights system to suppress the truth. Read in this week's democracy under attack. defendingwhatmattersmost.substack.com/p/straight-o...

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Straight Out of the Dictator’s Playbook: How to Declare War on Journalists

Last month, federal agents arrested two journalists—Georgia Fort and Don Lemon—for covering a protest at a Minneapolis-area church. Neither was accused of inciting violence. Neither was accused of dam...

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

ICYMI: In Texas on Fire, Nikki Baszynski of The Wren Collective highlights how a new TX law is trying to end telehealth and medication abortion in the state. Subscribe here: wrenactiongroup.substack.com #wrencollective #reproductivehealth #texas

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

The Wren Collective is proud to be part of the Community Over Cages coalition fighting against the expansion and overcrowding at the Fulton County jail. This ACLU-GA report digs into the problems there and with proposed solutions for county leaders. #criminaljustice #jails #wrencollective

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The Wren Collective's Jay Jenkins writes in Texas on Fire that Taylor Rehmet's victory in the SD-9 race last week is "the latest battle in Tarrant County’s war on the basic democratic rights of its citizens."

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All Politics Are Local

Anti-Democratic Measures Prove Unpopular at Tarrant County Polls

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The scale of incarcerated people who are pregnant in local jails in Texas is shocking: more than 400 people per month across the state between Sept. and Nov. 2025. Amazing advocacy from the Texas Jail Project to keep our state focused on health, safety and transparency in our jails.

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

We at The Wren Collective are looking for a digital and design consultant. Please circulate widely. www.scribd.com/document/991...

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The Wren Collective @wrencollective.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

There are too many heartbreaking stories to count as we watch DHS yank fathers, mothers, caretakers, and children off the street to meet quotas. But it's important we not look away, because every impacted person is worthy of our attention and outrage. wrenactiongroup.substack.com/p/trump-admi...

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Trump Administration Ignores Father's Pleas to Return to His Dying Son

Maher Tarabishi’s son died last week, and he was not there.

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