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US carceral and urban history, jail and policing, historiography. AAUP, abolition, working mom in CT, personal account. newsletter publisher, plz subscribe: https://carceral-history.ghost.io/

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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 7d

new on @carceralhistory.bsky.social: an author's pitch from @pennpress.bsky.social author @caitlinrwiesner.bsky.social! carceral-history.ghost.io/authors-pitc...

author's pitch: Black Women’s Anti-Rape Activism during the War on Crime

"...community-based care was a necessary alternative to law enforcement’s coercive attempts to control rape"

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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 43m

“What’s today?” cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes.

“Today?” replied the boy. “Why, it’s Paperback Book Release Day sir!”

RING SHOUT paperback w/foreword by author| Tor Nightfire | 10•14•25

Out Today! #Bookrelease #horror

“Adam in the garden…”

Book cover: blood red background with black arms raised and hands outstretched from the bottom in front of white klansman hood with screaming mouths for eyes above words in black, RING SHOUT.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 17h

extramural nonprofessional political speech. no freedom.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 19h

Great story by my colleague Bill Cummings that answers some lingering questions around the Connecticut State Police ticket scandal, particularly around town tickets. www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...

Seven more punished in Connecticut state police ticket data scandal, records show

The new reports also include four constables who were found to have been creating false traffic tickets and could still face discipline.

www.ctinsider.com

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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 17h

the students at the encampments were right

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 21h

thirty-four people have been arrested outside the broadview ice detention center since illinois state police + the cook county sheriff's office set up "unified command" on oct. 3.

charges range from misdemeanors, like resisting/obstruction, to felonies, like criminal damage to government property.

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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 1d

I am late to this because my subaru has a cd player

melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 1d

also I just discovered how good the sound quality is on bandcamp downloads

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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 1d

I have been listening to the Wednesday album “Bleeds” in every free minute since Friday. “Elderberry Wine” is a banger

melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 1d

gonna write a whole second book on Notes app lol

melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 1d

after attending a conference, I have decided I need more time to write

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 1d

look at this absolute robber baron

Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 1d

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1d

another day of border patrol and ice terrorizing chicago—and of spontaneous community resistance.

they tear-gassed community members on a residential street in albany park. they pulled a gun on a rapid responder in rogers park.

they abducted people from alleys and parking lots and train stations.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 4d

week 7, in a city under siege for 32 days and counting, and the students who are able to come to class despite the blitz are showing up like their lives depend on those 50 minutes of togetherness, poetry, and big questions

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 4d

IDK, man. School started 2 weeks ago for us, and once again students remind me that they’re so curious and interested in the world and anxious to ask big questions. We hear that these questions are no longer useful or relevant, but wherever that’s coming from, it’s not what students believe.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

At least Henry Kissinger is still dead

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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 1d

should have included a content warning

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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 1d

responsibility centered management budgeting

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 2d

while that is true I the distinction between COs and cops is rather sacrosanct. LA county deputized the CO position in the 60s but that was a major exception to the rule

melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 2d

Are they giving them plenary powers or what

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 2d

every time we’re out here we see new types of cops.

looks like the illinois department of correction’s tactical team is also here on site.

background: www.chicagoreporter.com/new-uniforms...

two cops in dark blue uniforms stand next to another cop wearing a blue polo

a close-up of one officer’s patch. it reads “tactical dept corrections. illinois sort.”

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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 2d

it’s so funny trying to convey to people that a bunch of the people most important to me go to this conference and like, giving a paper is only part of the deal

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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 2d

I have a cv like this. kind of amazing to move from chance getter to chance giver.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, more info! Looks like this was the culmination of a full Eucharistic procession. bsky.app/profile/rich...

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

an experience I think about a lot: I was visiting a class in DC Jail shortly after Kim Kardashian visited and had brought in her camera team. I relayed critiques of her "performative", "virtue signalling" acts I had heard on the outside. the response was somewhere between a shrug and an eye roll

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 3d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 3d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 3d

The NYC Department of Correction is extremely serious about projecting an image of reform, lawfulness, and considered, sober judgment these days, so it has decided to rename its Lower Manhattan jail complex after... multiply disgraced criminal Bernie Kerik.

hellgatenyc.com/city-jail-na...

Adams Administration Quietly Renames the Tombs for Disgraced Criminal Bernard Kerik

The Lower Manhattan jail facility briefly bore Kerik's name once before, until he was convicted of corruption.

hellgatenyc.com

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 3d

Federal judge: you will not stop reporters from being close enough to report

Sheriff Dart: Those rules are only for the feds. The only reporters WE recognize are the ones who sell our dog/pizza/chess stories

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 3d

Not sure why Tom Dart is enforcing Broadview's arguably unconstitutional executive order but he and the State's Attorney are making some interesting choices these days regarding both immigration and protest of federal abuse

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 4d

earlier this morning, cook county sheriff’s deputies kicked me and a couple other reporters who were standing by ourselves off a public sidewalk because it wasn’t “free speech” hours yet or something idk.

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