Hannah Riley Fernandez
@hannahcrileyy.bsky.social
abolition, prisons, journalism, and also sometimes my dog
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A Key Fight Over the Most Infamous Police Project in the Country Is Coming to a Head
The story of Cop City is both deeply local and intensely emblematic of national trends.
slate.com
I wrote about the lawsuit against the Atlanta Police Foundation, and why you should care about it no matter where you live: private actors are increasingly exercising public power while avoiding public accountability, at the same time that open records laws are being gutted slate.com/news-and-pol...
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We are all extremely lucky that justice-minded geniuses @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social and @jduffyrice.bsky.social write a newsletter together!!!!
The Crime Scare Industrial Complex (Season 7)
Hello from Atlanta and Burlington, VERMONT, where Hannah just moved!
thejumpline.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
We are all extremely lucky that justice-minded geniuses @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social and @jduffyrice.bsky.social write a newsletter together!!!!
the GOP is realllllly trying to convince Americans that crime is skyrocketing but I think maybe the twist in 2025 is that attention is too scattered to build a true national crime panic the way we used to?? you can't terrify the entire country at once when everyone lives in a different algorithm
November 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
the GOP is realllllly trying to convince Americans that crime is skyrocketing but I think maybe the twist in 2025 is that attention is too scattered to build a true national crime panic the way we used to?? you can't terrify the entire country at once when everyone lives in a different algorithm
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It's just past 6pm ET and Florida is set to kill 63-year-old Malik Abdul-Sajjad, also known as Richard Barry Randolph. It will be the 17th execution carried out in FL this year. Two more are scheduled for December.
I wrote about the man Florida plans to kill tonight and how the death penalty impacts people in ways we might never imagine.
At 17, She Gave Up Her Son. Sixty Years Later, She Found Him on Death Row.
Richard Randolph, now Malik Abdul-Sajjad, is scheduled to die tonight. His biological mother will never get a chance to meet him.
theintercept.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
It's just past 6pm ET and Florida is set to kill 63-year-old Malik Abdul-Sajjad, also known as Richard Barry Randolph. It will be the 17th execution carried out in FL this year. Two more are scheduled for December.
with so much other stuff going on it doesn't often make headlines, but Florida has executed SEVENTEEN people so far this year, with the eighteenth set to be killed tonight.
November 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
with so much other stuff going on it doesn't often make headlines, but Florida has executed SEVENTEEN people so far this year, with the eighteenth set to be killed tonight.
if you’re accepting the premise that Homeland Security was created to “keep Americans safe” and the way Trump is using it is somehow an aberration from the original purpose you need to read some more history 😕
November 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
if you’re accepting the premise that Homeland Security was created to “keep Americans safe” and the way Trump is using it is somehow an aberration from the original purpose you need to read some more history 😕
flock cameras are in nearly every city in the country now and Atlanta police were using them for immigration searches. this is the model -- once the surveillance grid exists it can be turned on anyone
atlpresscollective.com/2025/11/13/a...
atlpresscollective.com/2025/11/13/a...
Atlanta PD used Flock cameras to track migrants, records show
Atlanta PD denied that it has assisted in immigration enforcement, but records show 15 immigration-related Flock searches in March 2025.
atlpresscollective.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
flock cameras are in nearly every city in the country now and Atlanta police were using them for immigration searches. this is the model -- once the surveillance grid exists it can be turned on anyone
atlpresscollective.com/2025/11/13/a...
atlpresscollective.com/2025/11/13/a...
hey I live in Vermont now! I’ll still be in Atlanta quite a bit, but if you’re in the Burlington region (all 29 of you) say hi!
November 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
hey I live in Vermont now! I’ll still be in Atlanta quite a bit, but if you’re in the Burlington region (all 29 of you) say hi!
when basic every day “governance” depends on cops and jails and raids the public gets used to state coercion and violence and then nakedly authoritarian moves feel just a *little* worse but not much of a departure (bad!)
October 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
when basic every day “governance” depends on cops and jails and raids the public gets used to state coercion and violence and then nakedly authoritarian moves feel just a *little* worse but not much of a departure (bad!)
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Journalists: do you need a rundown on how the federal crackdown is affecting the youth justice system? Join us for a briefing featuring national experts, practitioners, & reporters on what’s happening and how to cover it. See below for link to register & more info on the event.
October 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Journalists: do you need a rundown on how the federal crackdown is affecting the youth justice system? Join us for a briefing featuring national experts, practitioners, & reporters on what’s happening and how to cover it. See below for link to register & more info on the event.
thread: atlanta-area journalist Mario Guevara was arrested June 14 while livestreaming a protest. one of the charges? “pedestrian in the roadway” -- he stepped off a curb as police cleared the street. it’s on his livestream. he was wearing a press vest, and identified himself as media.
October 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
thread: atlanta-area journalist Mario Guevara was arrested June 14 while livestreaming a protest. one of the charges? “pedestrian in the roadway” -- he stepped off a curb as police cleared the street. it’s on his livestream. he was wearing a press vest, and identified himself as media.
can't stop thinking about what Daniel Kwan said about AI: the most dangerous thing is how quickly it's dissolving our shared reality. EVERY part of society is built on shared reality, on agreeing on "what happened," and i fear we won’t realize how fundamental it was until it’s gone.
October 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
can't stop thinking about what Daniel Kwan said about AI: the most dangerous thing is how quickly it's dissolving our shared reality. EVERY part of society is built on shared reality, on agreeing on "what happened," and i fear we won’t realize how fundamental it was until it’s gone.
proud of this edition of the jump line, which features incarcerated writers talking about their experience of heat in their respective prisons. my favorite line, from summertime in a women's prison in Maryland: "if we were orchids, we'd thrive." thejumpline.substack.com/p/inside-the...
Inside the Prison Heat Crisis
Dispatches from Florida, Maryland, and Washington
thejumpline.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
proud of this edition of the jump line, which features incarcerated writers talking about their experience of heat in their respective prisons. my favorite line, from summertime in a women's prison in Maryland: "if we were orchids, we'd thrive." thejumpline.substack.com/p/inside-the...
can’t believe Pete Hegseth is getting all the generals to come to the live taping of his new podcast
September 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
can’t believe Pete Hegseth is getting all the generals to come to the live taping of his new podcast
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I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵
September 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵
this is a critical time for media analysis. if you report at face value the (false) premise that the federal government occupying cities is in any way an attempt to fight "crime," what you write becomes stenography for an authoritarian power-building project, intentionally or not
September 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
this is a critical time for media analysis. if you report at face value the (false) premise that the federal government occupying cities is in any way an attempt to fight "crime," what you write becomes stenography for an authoritarian power-building project, intentionally or not
very excited to be partnering with Prison Policy Initiative for this -- please join/share with colleagues and comrades who might be interested in learning more about shaping news coverage of the criminal legal system!
The system is armed with media teams – for small orgs fighting for change, that can make it hard to get coverage
We're partnering with @justjournalism.bsky.social to change that. This webinar will help advocates looking to take the "lede" in the criminal legal system
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
We're partnering with @justjournalism.bsky.social to change that. This webinar will help advocates looking to take the "lede" in the criminal legal system
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
September 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
very excited to be partnering with Prison Policy Initiative for this -- please join/share with colleagues and comrades who might be interested in learning more about shaping news coverage of the criminal legal system!
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Big Balls had better never be able to live this down for the rest of his life
*gets up to use the restroom*
"do you need a marine escort? should we call the FBI?"
*gets up to use the restroom*
"do you need a marine escort? should we call the FBI?"
August 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Big Balls had better never be able to live this down for the rest of his life
*gets up to use the restroom*
"do you need a marine escort? should we call the FBI?"
*gets up to use the restroom*
"do you need a marine escort? should we call the FBI?"
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I get why ppl want to spray for mosquitos — it seems easy and they’re awful. But, in reality, it hurts way more than it helps.
Call me crazy, but I don’t think we should be indiscriminately wiping out all insects around us during the age of mass species extinction.
Call me crazy, but I don’t think we should be indiscriminately wiping out all insects around us during the age of mass species extinction.
Hundreds of monarch butterflies died in a winter 2024 event. Investigation implicated multiple pyrethroid insecticides:
tinyurl.com/3h3y7wuf
From The Guardian:
"Combinations of pesticides can have a synergistic effect that makes them even more toxic.
The solution...less pesticides."
🧪🌍🦋
tinyurl.com/3h3y7wuf
From The Guardian:
"Combinations of pesticides can have a synergistic effect that makes them even more toxic.
The solution...less pesticides."
🧪🌍🦋
Monarch butterflies’ mass die-off in 2024 caused by pesticide exposure – study
New peer-reviewed research found an average of seven pesticides in each of 10 butterflies tested
www.theguardian.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I get why ppl want to spray for mosquitos — it seems easy and they’re awful. But, in reality, it hurts way more than it helps.
Call me crazy, but I don’t think we should be indiscriminately wiping out all insects around us during the age of mass species extinction.
Call me crazy, but I don’t think we should be indiscriminately wiping out all insects around us during the age of mass species extinction.
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Re-upping our guide to covering crime stats for those reporting on the latest numbers from the FBI. justjournalism.org/media/downlo...
justjournalism.org
August 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Re-upping our guide to covering crime stats for those reporting on the latest numbers from the FBI. justjournalism.org/media/downlo...
do I know anyone in Burlington VT here??
July 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
do I know anyone in Burlington VT here??
Ring cameras are partnering with Axon (makers of police body cameras, among other police tech) to make a new feature that allows people to opt-in to police being able to live-stream everything the doorbell camera sees AND allow police to request footage directly from users
July 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Ring cameras are partnering with Axon (makers of police body cameras, among other police tech) to make a new feature that allows people to opt-in to police being able to live-stream everything the doorbell camera sees AND allow police to request footage directly from users
is this a safe place to admit I thought dog the bounty hunter and hulk hogan were the same guy? I thought he just had a lot of nicknames and hobbies
July 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
is this a safe place to admit I thought dog the bounty hunter and hulk hogan were the same guy? I thought he just had a lot of nicknames and hobbies
I know there’s so much going on BUT Trump’s Executive Orders on Policing have had impact in a lot of places — primarily in chipping away at the tiny modicum of transparency around police violence and misconduct, but in other ways as well. This is a really helpful resource, please use and share!!
For journalists interested in covering the long-term impacts of the recent executive order on policing, we've published new resources at the link below.
July 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I know there’s so much going on BUT Trump’s Executive Orders on Policing have had impact in a lot of places — primarily in chipping away at the tiny modicum of transparency around police violence and misconduct, but in other ways as well. This is a really helpful resource, please use and share!!
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My new standup special Positive Reinforcement premieres TONIGHT at 8pm eastern time on Blonde Medicine’s YouTube channel. I’m really proud of this hour and grateful to all the people who helped make the special happen.
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAvN...
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAvN...
June 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
My new standup special Positive Reinforcement premieres TONIGHT at 8pm eastern time on Blonde Medicine’s YouTube channel. I’m really proud of this hour and grateful to all the people who helped make the special happen.
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAvN...
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAvN...