Jessica Pishko
@jesspish.bsky.social
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Book on sheriffs & democracy
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707263/the-highest-law-in-the-land-by-jessica-pishko/
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“Women aren’t typically this crazy about politics.”
Book on sheriffs & democracy
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707263/the-highest-law-in-the-land-by-jessica-pishko/
Repped by @rhaliterary
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“Women aren’t typically this crazy about politics.”
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Forgot to get pics but tonight’s event at my local bookstore was so great, the neighborhood showed up and I hope authors (and publishers) keep Fountain Bookshop & Gifts & Ice Cream as a possible venue down the line.
November 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Forgot to get pics but tonight’s event at my local bookstore was so great, the neighborhood showed up and I hope authors (and publishers) keep Fountain Bookshop & Gifts & Ice Cream as a possible venue down the line.
Evade consequences and then enact violence (and exploit) on others -- today DHS claimed to do a big raid in Florida in which they arrested immigrants allegedly charged with sex crimes.
what if the vast, complex conspiracy of powerful men to ensure they evade consequences for violence and exploitation is just the US criminal legal system
November 14, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Evade consequences and then enact violence (and exploit) on others -- today DHS claimed to do a big raid in Florida in which they arrested immigrants allegedly charged with sex crimes.
That April raid on a birthday party in Hays County resulted in zero criminal charges, despite claims this was some big TdA bust.
www.texasobserver.org/prosecutors-...
www.texasobserver.org/prosecutors-...
Prosecutors Drop Only Criminal Cases from Hays County Airbnb Raid
Pending drug charges have been abandoned from the multi-agency April operation that supposedly targeted Tren de Aragua and led to multiple deportations.
www.texasobserver.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
That April raid on a birthday party in Hays County resulted in zero criminal charges, despite claims this was some big TdA bust.
www.texasobserver.org/prosecutors-...
www.texasobserver.org/prosecutors-...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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remember when most of Congress went hard after Backpage in early 2018 but did nothing to actually help young people who are poor, homeless, and trying to get by
The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
remember when most of Congress went hard after Backpage in early 2018 but did nothing to actually help young people who are poor, homeless, and trying to get by
Nice, just an advert for taking kids away from their parents and selling them to Christians. (also mangled words)
Trump: "Christians and more, think of this, more than twice as likely foster care they'll adopt the general population. They adopt to it so easily. When they get out, they adopt to it like it's become second nature. It's amazing."
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Nice, just an advert for taking kids away from their parents and selling them to Christians. (also mangled words)
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November 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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In a court victory from the 2021 resistance to Line 3 pipeline construction in MN, a federal appeals court ruled that police officers who use excessive force on protesters are not entitled to qualified immunity and cannot use excessive force to prompt compliance.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/federal...
unicornriot.ninja/2025/federal...
Federal Court Ruling Limits Police Qualified Immunity in Line 3 Excessive Force Case - UNICORN RIOT
Police officers who use excessive force on protesters are not entitled to qualified immunity and cannot use excessive force to prompt compliance, a federal appeals court ruled on Sept. 17.
unicornriot.ninja
November 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
In a court victory from the 2021 resistance to Line 3 pipeline construction in MN, a federal appeals court ruled that police officers who use excessive force on protesters are not entitled to qualified immunity and cannot use excessive force to prompt compliance.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/federal...
unicornriot.ninja/2025/federal...
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And here's where to request zines for Charlotte, if you know the local immigrant/refugee orgs: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Zine Request Form
docs.google.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
And here's where to request zines for Charlotte, if you know the local immigrant/refugee orgs: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Also agree with Aaron. People are being moving around and detained with the express purpose of deportation/ expelling them. (The data on exactly who is being detained and where continues to be ...not clear)
I continue to disagree with this. The goal of mass detention is mass deportations. A private prison company leasing 100 beds to ICE gets paid the same if the beds are filled by 100 people for a year each or 1,000 people for a few days each. They don't earn more with long-term detention.
It's not about deporting them. It's about detaining them indefinitely and enriching Prisons for Profiteers and the grift the Convict in the Oval Office collects per detainee.
November 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Also agree with Aaron. People are being moving around and detained with the express purpose of deportation/ expelling them. (The data on exactly who is being detained and where continues to be ...not clear)
They are coming to Charlotte literally because of a few right-wing propaganda accounts on X and I am livid.
Gregory Bovino, the top Border Patrol official leading the charge on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in cities, and his officers are heading to Charlotte, according to a source familiar with the planning. That was news to city officials. https://cnn.it/49crpZT
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
They are coming to Charlotte literally because of a few right-wing propaganda accounts on X and I am livid.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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BREAKING: Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt stops the scheduled execution of Tremane Wood today, commuting his sentence to life without parole.
In doing so, Stitt accepted the recommendation of the Pardon and Parole Board. This is Stitt’s second death-sentence commutation as governor.
In doing so, Stitt accepted the recommendation of the Pardon and Parole Board. This is Stitt’s second death-sentence commutation as governor.
November 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
BREAKING: Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt stops the scheduled execution of Tremane Wood today, commuting his sentence to life without parole.
In doing so, Stitt accepted the recommendation of the Pardon and Parole Board. This is Stitt’s second death-sentence commutation as governor.
In doing so, Stitt accepted the recommendation of the Pardon and Parole Board. This is Stitt’s second death-sentence commutation as governor.
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Really grateful this incredibly thoughtful, in-depth review.
"There Is No Place for Us reads like horror... Goldstone argues that people are not slipping into homelessness but are being actively pushed."
lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-e...
"There Is No Place for Us reads like horror... Goldstone argues that people are not slipping into homelessness but are being actively pushed."
lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-e...
"There is no city, state, or county in America where a two-bedroom apartment is in reach for someone who earns minimum wage and works full time." Zoe Adams reviews Brian Goldstone's book, "There is No Place for Us."
lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-emergency-born-of-prosperity/
lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-emergency-born-of-prosperity/
November 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Really grateful this incredibly thoughtful, in-depth review.
"There Is No Place for Us reads like horror... Goldstone argues that people are not slipping into homelessness but are being actively pushed."
lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-e...
"There Is No Place for Us reads like horror... Goldstone argues that people are not slipping into homelessness but are being actively pushed."
lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-e...
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Tremane Wood is currently on death row, despite his older brother admitting to killing victim Ronnie Wipf in 2002.
Next week, he will have the chance to make his case for mercy.
Oklahoma's attorney general is fighting to ensure his death anyway.
Next week, he will have the chance to make his case for mercy.
Oklahoma's attorney general is fighting to ensure his death anyway.
His Brother Admitted To A Murder. He Is Set To Be Executed For It.
Next week, Tremane Wood will have the chance to make his case for mercy. Oklahoma's attorney general is fighting to ensure his death.
www.huffpost.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Tremane Wood is currently on death row, despite his older brother admitting to killing victim Ronnie Wipf in 2002.
Next week, he will have the chance to make his case for mercy.
Oklahoma's attorney general is fighting to ensure his death anyway.
Next week, he will have the chance to make his case for mercy.
Oklahoma's attorney general is fighting to ensure his death anyway.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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He picked the task force agreement because deputies can do the training online; idk why this is thing people are acting mysterious about. otherwise, he would have had to send 17 deputies to a two week training out of state.
Outgoing MAGA Sheriff Fred Harran told ABC News that his ICE 287 (g) partnership did not sway the election, despite local public outrage over it. "In fact, according to Harran, the immigration issue was 'a positive' for him as a Republican." He lost to Democrat Danny Ceisler by 25,341 votes.
A Pennsylvania sheriff struck a deal with ICE. Months later, he was voted out.
A Philadelphia-area sheriff was ousted last week after facing criticism over a partnership he forged with federal immigration authorities.
abcnews.go.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
He picked the task force agreement because deputies can do the training online; idk why this is thing people are acting mysterious about. otherwise, he would have had to send 17 deputies to a two week training out of state.
this is why i have called these movements "political" and not neutral. there's no "neutral use" of state violence. there's no "neutral" rule of law.
If the Biden administration had sent federal agents to do a law enforcement operation 10X milder in a white suburban neighborhood in order to apprehend a serial pedophile and violent domestic abuser who happened to be a white Christian pastor, the MAGA crew would have reduced the country to rubble.
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
this is why i have called these movements "political" and not neutral. there's no "neutral use" of state violence. there's no "neutral" rule of law.
the highest law in the land theory:
"The district court found that Locke failed to plead
a policy or custom, but it did not consider whether Hubbard County is liable for Sheriff Aukes’s official acts because he was the county’s final policymaker for law enforcement practices."
"The district court found that Locke failed to plead
a policy or custom, but it did not consider whether Hubbard County is liable for Sheriff Aukes’s official acts because he was the county’s final policymaker for law enforcement practices."
Great article about a case of mine where the MacArthur Justice Center skillfully handled the appeal, and @aclumn.bsky.social, @ij.org, @npapjustice.bsky.social, and @jesspish.bsky.social & Farhang Heydari filed important amicus briefs!
In a court victory from the 2021 resistance to Line 3 pipeline construction in MN, a federal appeals court ruled that police officers who use excessive force on protesters are not entitled to qualified immunity and cannot use excessive force to prompt compliance.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/federal...
unicornriot.ninja/2025/federal...
November 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
the highest law in the land theory:
"The district court found that Locke failed to plead
a policy or custom, but it did not consider whether Hubbard County is liable for Sheriff Aukes’s official acts because he was the county’s final policymaker for law enforcement practices."
"The district court found that Locke failed to plead
a policy or custom, but it did not consider whether Hubbard County is liable for Sheriff Aukes’s official acts because he was the county’s final policymaker for law enforcement practices."
Reposted by Jessica Pishko
Great article about a case of mine where the MacArthur Justice Center skillfully handled the appeal, and @aclumn.bsky.social, @ij.org, @npapjustice.bsky.social, and @jesspish.bsky.social & Farhang Heydari filed important amicus briefs!
In a court victory from the 2021 resistance to Line 3 pipeline construction in MN, a federal appeals court ruled that police officers who use excessive force on protesters are not entitled to qualified immunity and cannot use excessive force to prompt compliance.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/federal...
unicornriot.ninja/2025/federal...
Federal Court Ruling Limits Police Qualified Immunity in Line 3 Excessive Force Case - UNICORN RIOT
Police officers who use excessive force on protesters are not entitled to qualified immunity and cannot use excessive force to prompt compliance, a federal appeals court ruled on Sept. 17.
unicornriot.ninja
November 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Great article about a case of mine where the MacArthur Justice Center skillfully handled the appeal, and @aclumn.bsky.social, @ij.org, @npapjustice.bsky.social, and @jesspish.bsky.social & Farhang Heydari filed important amicus briefs!
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At The Nevada Independent, we are in the middle of our end-of-the-year fundraising drive. We are in good shape, but nonprofit journalism is not easy. If you believe in what we do and can spare $5-$10-$25 a month, please donate:
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Love how these women are worried about the bus when most women are killed by their partner or spouse and pregnant women are more likely to die by murder than in childbirth.
"The more-than-300 comments responding to that anonymous post are full of mothers looking for property in New Jersey or Florida, predicting that Mamdani’s promise to make buses free will lead criminals to rape and kill innocent passengers."
LMAO @ UES mommies crashing out
LMAO @ UES mommies crashing out
Upper East Side Moms Are Melting Down Over Mamdani
A 35,000-person Facebook group devolved into panic and infighting after the mayoral election.
www.thecut.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Love how these women are worried about the bus when most women are killed by their partner or spouse and pregnant women are more likely to die by murder than in childbirth.
DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT
November 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT
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Next Wednesday we'll host @mskellymhayes.bsky.social in conversation with organizer Ash Williams to discuss the launch of "Read this When Things Fall Apart" (@akpress.org) a new publication of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times! firestorm.coop/events/3487-...
November 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Next Wednesday we'll host @mskellymhayes.bsky.social in conversation with organizer Ash Williams to discuss the launch of "Read this When Things Fall Apart" (@akpress.org) a new publication of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times! firestorm.coop/events/3487-...
This is a really great story that treats gender transition/ detransition as a living, human process.
“The hypocrisy just proves to me that no matter what I do, people are going to be transphobic to me. People are going to question my gender. And I just have to do me.”
Her gender transition set her free. So did her detransition.
The joy that Adriana Del Orden feels in her body could have only come through transitioning. She’s tired of being told that she ruined her life.
19thnews.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This is a really great story that treats gender transition/ detransition as a living, human process.