Interrupting Criminalization
@interruptcrim.bsky.social
Offering research, connection, learning, and practice for organizers and movements working to end criminalization, policing, and punishment. Founded and led by Andrea J. Ritchie and Mariame Kaba.
Learn more at http://interruptingcriminalization.com/
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New resource⚡️ Block it! Don’t Build It. Don’t Fill It. Don’t Fuel It.
A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.
Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.
Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
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Practicing or curious about transformative justice?
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February 3, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Practicing or curious about transformative justice?
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NYC: Join us on Sat, Mar 7th, 4-8PM @ Another World for First Aid for the People, presented by the People’s Health Education Program & Philly Action Readiness Collective.
See the link to sign up; space is LIMITED, so please only do so if you're sure to attend. bit.ly/faftp032026
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February 6, 2026 at 11:52 PM
NYC: Join us on Sat, Mar 7th, 4-8PM @ Another World for First Aid for the People, presented by the People’s Health Education Program & Philly Action Readiness Collective.
See the link to sign up; space is LIMITED, so please only do so if you're sure to attend. bit.ly/faftp032026
See the link to sign up; space is LIMITED, so please only do so if you're sure to attend. bit.ly/faftp032026
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How did we get to the point where police body cams are deemed “best practice” when the # of civilians whom police have killed has only *increased each year* since the widespread adoption of the equipment?
Tamar Sarai explains the body cam propaganda & who stands to benefit from “reform narratives”⤵️
Tamar Sarai explains the body cam propaganda & who stands to benefit from “reform narratives”⤵️
February 3, 2026 at 6:03 PM
How did we get to the point where police body cams are deemed “best practice” when the # of civilians whom police have killed has only *increased each year* since the widespread adoption of the equipment?
Tamar Sarai explains the body cam propaganda & who stands to benefit from “reform narratives”⤵️
Tamar Sarai explains the body cam propaganda & who stands to benefit from “reform narratives”⤵️
Part of criminalization is denying care to targeted groups of people, such as immigrants.
Please check out our Beyond Do No Harm network for healthcare workers who want to help interrupt criminalization!
Please check out our Beyond Do No Harm network for healthcare workers who want to help interrupt criminalization!
February 4, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Part of criminalization is denying care to targeted groups of people, such as immigrants.
Please check out our Beyond Do No Harm network for healthcare workers who want to help interrupt criminalization!
Please check out our Beyond Do No Harm network for healthcare workers who want to help interrupt criminalization!
Prisons and jails are deathmaking institutions.
This is kind of wild -- the Los Angeles jails just had their 2nd in-custody death this month. It's the 9th in-custody death this year
At this rate they'd be on track to more than 90 deaths this year.
At this rate they'd be on track to more than 90 deaths this year.
February 4, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Prisons and jails are deathmaking institutions.
Practicing or curious about transformative justice?
There's still time to register for this FREE session Feb 12, 6:30-8PM ET.
Unrecorded, w/ASL & live captioning. Attendees will receive Zoom link the day of the event.
No prior experience required! Click here: form.jotform.com/260155795389...
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Unrecorded, w/ASL & live captioning. Attendees will receive Zoom link the day of the event.
No prior experience required! Click here: form.jotform.com/260155795389...
February 3, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Practicing or curious about transformative justice?
There's still time to register for this FREE session Feb 12, 6:30-8PM ET.
Unrecorded, w/ASL & live captioning. Attendees will receive Zoom link the day of the event.
No prior experience required! Click here: form.jotform.com/260155795389...
There's still time to register for this FREE session Feb 12, 6:30-8PM ET.
Unrecorded, w/ASL & live captioning. Attendees will receive Zoom link the day of the event.
No prior experience required! Click here: form.jotform.com/260155795389...
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#A2Council as folks at Michigan Medicine get some dire guidance from the institution on dealing with ICE... I'm reminding folks that @interruptcrim.bsky.social has compiled the Beyond Do No Harm toolkit, a number of tools and resources for keeping your patients and communities safe.
Beyond Do No Harm — Interrupting Criminalization
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:49 PM
#A2Council as folks at Michigan Medicine get some dire guidance from the institution on dealing with ICE... I'm reminding folks that @interruptcrim.bsky.social has compiled the Beyond Do No Harm toolkit, a number of tools and resources for keeping your patients and communities safe.
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Over 1,000 prosecutors are set to be elected in 2026—and our new review identifies the counties that are emerging as early hotspots.
boltsmag.org/crimina...
boltsmag.org/crimina...
February 3, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Over 1,000 prosecutors are set to be elected in 2026—and our new review identifies the counties that are emerging as early hotspots.
boltsmag.org/crimina...
boltsmag.org/crimina...
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happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 4:19 PM
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
TUES NIGHT! Historian & professor Jeanne Theoharis will discuss her latest book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South, w/our co-founder Mariame Kaba.
This is in Manhattan & will also be livestreamed. You must register to attend either way; click here:
This is in Manhattan & will also be livestreamed. You must register to attend either way; click here:
Jeanne Theoharis with Mariame Kaba | King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South
Tickets for Jeanne Theoharis with Mariame Kaba | King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South in New York from NYPL. Historian and professor Jeanne Theoharis disc...
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February 3, 2026 at 12:13 AM
TUES NIGHT! Historian & professor Jeanne Theoharis will discuss her latest book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South, w/our co-founder Mariame Kaba.
This is in Manhattan & will also be livestreamed. You must register to attend either way; click here:
This is in Manhattan & will also be livestreamed. You must register to attend either way; click here:
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In the wake of the horrific ICE killings in Minnesota, many prominent Democrats have called for ICE to wear body cameras. Yesterday, @equalityalec.bsky.social talked to @democracynow.org about how important it is that we don't get distracted by meaningless & counterproductive reforms.
January 28, 2026 at 8:14 PM
In the wake of the horrific ICE killings in Minnesota, many prominent Democrats have called for ICE to wear body cameras. Yesterday, @equalityalec.bsky.social talked to @democracynow.org about how important it is that we don't get distracted by meaningless & counterproductive reforms.
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Paper details how police pushed for body cams so that they could protect themselves and control narrative while policing and surveilling more aggressively.
Dems allied w cops to create narrative that this was somehow a corrective for state violence, now every time they kill they get more $$/power
Dems allied w cops to create narrative that this was somehow a corrective for state violence, now every time they kill they get more $$/power
January 29, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Paper details how police pushed for body cams so that they could protect themselves and control narrative while policing and surveilling more aggressively.
Dems allied w cops to create narrative that this was somehow a corrective for state violence, now every time they kill they get more $$/power
Dems allied w cops to create narrative that this was somehow a corrective for state violence, now every time they kill they get more $$/power
Trump said starting Feb. 1 he will deny federal funding to states with local governments resisting his administration’s immigration policies.
Trump threatens to halt federal money next month not only to sanctuary cities but also their states
President Donald Trump says that his administration is planning to halt federal payments to "sanctuary cities" and the states where they're located starting Feb. 1.
apnews.com
January 31, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Trump said starting Feb. 1 he will deny federal funding to states with local governments resisting his administration’s immigration policies.
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"At Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in Portland, nurses publicly expressed outrage over what they saw as hospital cooperation with ICE and the flouting of patient rights. ... [N]umerous patients were brought to the hospital by ICE with serious injuries they sustained while being detained."
After Julio César Peña was taken by ICE from his front yard, he suffered a ministroke. He was shackled to a bed in hospital, he told his wife on a call, and agents were listening in. He was scared he would die. “What hospital are you at?” she asked. “I can’t tell you,” he replied.
Hospital “Blackout Procedures” Make It Hard to Find Hospitalized ICE Detainees
Some hospitals are registering patients under pseudonyms and prohibiting staff from contacting family members.
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January 30, 2026 at 9:08 PM
"At Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in Portland, nurses publicly expressed outrage over what they saw as hospital cooperation with ICE and the flouting of patient rights. ... [N]umerous patients were brought to the hospital by ICE with serious injuries they sustained while being detained."
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In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.
Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice an...
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January 30, 2026 at 3:50 PM
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.
Register now for the Practicing New Worlds retreat with Andrea Ritchie & Nichola Torbett in Bangor, PA May 8 - 10!
Programs Container | Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center
What are you practicing? This retreat is for anyone who knows in their bones that another world is possible beyond militarized borders, policing, and prisons, even if we can’t quite perceive the detai...
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January 31, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Register now for the Practicing New Worlds retreat with Andrea Ritchie & Nichola Torbett in Bangor, PA May 8 - 10!
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"An embrace of policing and the kind of authoritarian politics behind them is an element of convergence between the center-left and the far right. They just both believe in handing money to the people with guns," says @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2059...
Transcript: Trump Is Losing a Lot. We Must Celebrate Our Victories
Georgetown philosophy professor Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò explains why it’s vital for those resisting Trump to acknowledge and share their successes, both large and small.
newrepublic.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:37 PM
"An embrace of policing and the kind of authoritarian politics behind them is an element of convergence between the center-left and the far right. They just both believe in handing money to the people with guns," says @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2059...
We are in solidarity with everyone striking today. Our Block It! mini toolkit is a great source of other actions you can take to disrupt ICE:
Block It! — Interrupting Criminalization
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
January 30, 2026 at 10:59 PM
We are in solidarity with everyone striking today. Our Block It! mini toolkit is a great source of other actions you can take to disrupt ICE:
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"ICE held around 170 children on an average day under Trump."
"More than 6x rise in ICE detention of children under Trump."
"It's only a matter of time before we see a child die within Dilley or another facility."
#USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
"More than 6x rise in ICE detention of children under Trump."
"It's only a matter of time before we see a child die within Dilley or another facility."
#USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
'Why Is This Happening to Us?' Daily Number of Kids in ICE Detention Jumps 6x Under Trump
As the Trump administration detains large numbers of kids, advocates worry 'it's only a matter of time before we see a child die.'
www.themarshallproject.org
January 30, 2026 at 1:20 AM
"ICE held around 170 children on an average day under Trump."
"More than 6x rise in ICE detention of children under Trump."
"It's only a matter of time before we see a child die within Dilley or another facility."
#USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
"More than 6x rise in ICE detention of children under Trump."
"It's only a matter of time before we see a child die within Dilley or another facility."
#USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
"I always think about prison industrialization complex abolition as a vision of a restructured society, basically in a world where we have everything that we need," says our co-founder Mariame Kaba in this interview.
In It for the Long Haul: Increasing the Possibility of Freedom and Liberation for All
Cierra Kaler-Jones interviews Mariame Kaba, organizer, educator, archivist, curator, and author of We Do This ’Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice.
rethinkingschools.org
January 29, 2026 at 9:42 PM
"I always think about prison industrialization complex abolition as a vision of a restructured society, basically in a world where we have everything that we need," says our co-founder Mariame Kaba in this interview.
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I thought about this a lot when we were all pushing to get kilmar abrego garcia released. I'm glad we got him back but literally NO ONE should be sent to CECOT. They should have ALL been brought back.
Never accept an inch. Never accept their framing. Bring everyone back and abolish DHS.
Never accept an inch. Never accept their framing. Bring everyone back and abolish DHS.
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 27, 2026 at 1:15 AM
I thought about this a lot when we were all pushing to get kilmar abrego garcia released. I'm glad we got him back but literally NO ONE should be sent to CECOT. They should have ALL been brought back.
Never accept an inch. Never accept their framing. Bring everyone back and abolish DHS.
Never accept an inch. Never accept their framing. Bring everyone back and abolish DHS.
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in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission
January 24, 2026 at 5:30 PM
in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission
See our Block It, Don't Build It toolkit—an invitation to join efforts already in motion in your community and across the country to disrupt the ICE kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...
you can’t be shocked anymore. Wherever you are, you need to be planning for what you will do when ICE comes to your city. If you are in a PTA, block club, church, book club, rec league basketball—start organizing grocery pickups and school carpools and whistle patrols. Start now
January 28, 2026 at 1:07 AM
See our Block It, Don't Build It toolkit—an invitation to join efforts already in motion in your community and across the country to disrupt the ICE kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...
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January 28, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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This isn't about "training issues." The murderer who executed Renee Good has been with ICE for 10 years, and according to DHS, the murderer who executed Alex Pretti has been there for 8 years.
These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.
These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.
January 26, 2026 at 11:04 PM
This isn't about "training issues." The murderer who executed Renee Good has been with ICE for 10 years, and according to DHS, the murderer who executed Alex Pretti has been there for 8 years.
These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.
These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.