Sandy Hudson
@sandela.bsky.social
Noping my way through life
writer, filmmaker, podcaster & capoeirista
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sandyandnora.com
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defundthepolice.org
wildseedcentre.com
abovethepalace.com
writer, filmmaker, podcaster & capoeirista
sandyhudson.ca
sandyandnora.com
blacklivesmatter.ca
defundthepolice.org
wildseedcentre.com
abovethepalace.com
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Sandy Hudson
@sandela.bsky.social
· Nov 27
My book is just about ready for the world! If you're in the US and want to read it before anyone else, enter this Goodreads Giveaway to win a free copy:
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Curious that this video is being pushed to me on multiple platforms. Anyway, this take is trash! And the subject of tomorrow's Sandy and @nolore.bsky.social episode!
sums it up. headlines on crowd sizes and the feeling that maybe something happens (somewhere else) aren’t action, and getting a bunch of people to show up to a party for nothing isn’t organizing.
find your people and build something real.
find your people and build something real.
October 21, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Curious that this video is being pushed to me on multiple platforms. Anyway, this take is trash! And the subject of tomorrow's Sandy and @nolore.bsky.social episode!
Always refuse to play idiotic games
saw this clip of the NYC mayor debate and i had tears in my eyes, perhaps the most insane section of any debate ever
October 17, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Always refuse to play idiotic games
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Liberals and Democrats will call for "funding local police" as a way to solve the problem of DHS/ ICE and no one will think about the fact that this is how we got here.
October 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Liberals and Democrats will call for "funding local police" as a way to solve the problem of DHS/ ICE and no one will think about the fact that this is how we got here.
Just signed into Twitter for the first time in eons and *my oh my* has that cesspool devolved
October 5, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Just signed into Twitter for the first time in eons and *my oh my* has that cesspool devolved
Yes, yes, yes!
The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.
October 3, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Yes, yes, yes!
Looking forward to this era's Harper Letter 👀
September 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Looking forward to this era's Harper Letter 👀
This title is a nightmare. As though all the authoritarian government-led reputation of campus protests supporting Palestinians just....Didn't happen.
Charlie Kirk shooting reignites campus free speech issues in Trump era
Charlie Kirk shooting reignites campus free speech issues in Trump era
The deadly shooting of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk has revived debate and conversation over free speech on college campuses.
www.latimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This title is a nightmare. As though all the authoritarian government-led reputation of campus protests supporting Palestinians just....Didn't happen.
DEAR AI CALL CENTER: I JUST WANT TO TALK TO A REPRESENTATIVE. IF I WANTED TO DO ALL THE SHIT YOU'VE JUST TAKEN 30 MINUTES TO RULE OUT, I WOULD'VE DONE IT ONLINE
September 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
DEAR AI CALL CENTER: I JUST WANT TO TALK TO A REPRESENTATIVE. IF I WANTED TO DO ALL THE SHIT YOU'VE JUST TAKEN 30 MINUTES TO RULE OUT, I WOULD'VE DONE IT ONLINE
No longer needed?? The problem has only gotten worse. 2024 was the deadliest year for police killings on record. Before that it was 2023. Before that, 2022....and onward.
Deeply frustrated by the popular narrative that there was deep change for Black people following 2020.
Deeply frustrated by the popular narrative that there was deep change for Black people following 2020.
'The deployment of federal agents and National Guard troops has caused some Black parents to return to the days of “the talk” about policing that they had hoped was no longer needed to keep their children safe.'
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Trump’s D.C. Law Enforcement Takeover Has Black Parents on Edge
www.nytimes.com
September 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
No longer needed?? The problem has only gotten worse. 2024 was the deadliest year for police killings on record. Before that it was 2023. Before that, 2022....and onward.
Deeply frustrated by the popular narrative that there was deep change for Black people following 2020.
Deeply frustrated by the popular narrative that there was deep change for Black people following 2020.
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Federal agents in DC have been starting dangerous car cases for small stuff like tinted windows. The chases violate DC police policy.
Out of 10 cases, six ended in a crash. One car had a minor in back.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Out of 10 cases, six ended in a crash. One car had a minor in back.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
August 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Federal agents in DC have been starting dangerous car cases for small stuff like tinted windows. The chases violate DC police policy.
Out of 10 cases, six ended in a crash. One car had a minor in back.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Out of 10 cases, six ended in a crash. One car had a minor in back.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Did you miss Sandy and Nora at Mayworks this year?
Don’t fret they have posted the two episode recordings including the Q and A session live from Mayworks. Visit the link in our bio to listen 👂 @sandela.bsky.social @nolore.bsky.social
Don’t fret they have posted the two episode recordings including the Q and A session live from Mayworks. Visit the link in our bio to listen 👂 @sandela.bsky.social @nolore.bsky.social
August 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Did you miss Sandy and Nora at Mayworks this year?
Don’t fret they have posted the two episode recordings including the Q and A session live from Mayworks. Visit the link in our bio to listen 👂 @sandela.bsky.social @nolore.bsky.social
Don’t fret they have posted the two episode recordings including the Q and A session live from Mayworks. Visit the link in our bio to listen 👂 @sandela.bsky.social @nolore.bsky.social
High praise. Thank you!
@sandela.bsky.social
I was born and raised in a police family. As a law teacher, at the beginning I had a very biased view. Listening to your podcast and now this amazing book, makes us all realize the abolishinist argument as not only valid, but also the most logical.
Thank you so much!
I was born and raised in a police family. As a law teacher, at the beginning I had a very biased view. Listening to your podcast and now this amazing book, makes us all realize the abolishinist argument as not only valid, but also the most logical.
Thank you so much!
I was raised to see police as "the good guys." But the witness of the wounded and the weight of history tells another story. As a minister, I’m called to challenge systems that oppress. *Defund* dares us to imagine justice beyond policing. @sandela.bsky.social @pantheonbooks.bsky.social #defund
August 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
High praise. Thank you!
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I was raised to see police as "the good guys." But the witness of the wounded and the weight of history tells another story. As a minister, I’m called to challenge systems that oppress. *Defund* dares us to imagine justice beyond policing. @sandela.bsky.social @pantheonbooks.bsky.social #defund
August 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I was raised to see police as "the good guys." But the witness of the wounded and the weight of history tells another story. As a minister, I’m called to challenge systems that oppress. *Defund* dares us to imagine justice beyond policing. @sandela.bsky.social @pantheonbooks.bsky.social #defund
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It is important to note that the police did NOTHING to prevent or stop the mass shooting in Manhattan. We need other strategies than sending SWAT teams after everyone (including the shooter) is already dead.
July 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
It is important to note that the police did NOTHING to prevent or stop the mass shooting in Manhattan. We need other strategies than sending SWAT teams after everyone (including the shooter) is already dead.
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U.S. military veteran Anthony Aguilar, who worked as a security contractor at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, says he was horrified by war crimes being carried out against starving Palestinians. "The sites have not only become death traps, they were designed as death traps."
July 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
U.S. military veteran Anthony Aguilar, who worked as a security contractor at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, says he was horrified by war crimes being carried out against starving Palestinians. "The sites have not only become death traps, they were designed as death traps."
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Trump is like please hate these Black people. don’t worry about the Epstein files. you all hate Black people, remember?
Trump calls for the prosecution of Beyoncé, Oprah, Al Sharpton, and Kamala Harris:
July 27, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Trump is like please hate these Black people. don’t worry about the Epstein files. you all hate Black people, remember?
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I used to be a producer on one of Canada’s flagship daily politics shows.
We choose the order of segments. The topics for panels. The guests.
When a topic leads those shows for days or weeks on end, it forces the government to act.
Use your power to end these horrors 💔
We choose the order of segments. The topics for panels. The guests.
When a topic leads those shows for days or weeks on end, it forces the government to act.
Use your power to end these horrors 💔
I wonder how different our world would be if Canadian media could muster the same outrage over the government’s inaction on the forced starvation in Gaza as we do for foreign interference and government debt levels…
Breaks my heart, truly. These are choices.
Breaks my heart, truly. These are choices.
July 24, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I used to be a producer on one of Canada’s flagship daily politics shows.
We choose the order of segments. The topics for panels. The guests.
When a topic leads those shows for days or weeks on end, it forces the government to act.
Use your power to end these horrors 💔
We choose the order of segments. The topics for panels. The guests.
When a topic leads those shows for days or weeks on end, it forces the government to act.
Use your power to end these horrors 💔
Unimaginably horrifying
A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
July 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Unimaginably horrifying
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Five Years After 2020’s “Racial Reckoning,” Defunding The Police Is As Necessary As Ever
In this op-ed, author Sandy Hudson looks back on the five years since 2020’s “racial reckoning” and makes the case for why defunding the police is the only way to support a model of security and prote...
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July 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed
July 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed
PSA: Bagged popcorn is a scam
July 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
PSA: Bagged popcorn is a scam
I do not want to earn "points" on paying rent
July 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I do not want to earn "points" on paying rent
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“If you're waiting for somebody else to take the mantle of calling out injustice—perhaps that person is you.”
@sandela.bsky.social joins @peggynash.bsky.social on Activists Make History to talk about organizing for racial justice and the roots of BLM–Toronto.
🎙️ Listen: perspectivesjournal.ca
@sandela.bsky.social joins @peggynash.bsky.social on Activists Make History to talk about organizing for racial justice and the roots of BLM–Toronto.
🎙️ Listen: perspectivesjournal.ca
July 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
“If you're waiting for somebody else to take the mantle of calling out injustice—perhaps that person is you.”
@sandela.bsky.social joins @peggynash.bsky.social on Activists Make History to talk about organizing for racial justice and the roots of BLM–Toronto.
🎙️ Listen: perspectivesjournal.ca
@sandela.bsky.social joins @peggynash.bsky.social on Activists Make History to talk about organizing for racial justice and the roots of BLM–Toronto.
🎙️ Listen: perspectivesjournal.ca
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I, as an African-American, do not care how Zohran Kwame Mamdani identifies. But I do care about how Blackness is such a proprietary category for white people that their surveillance of us becomes such an internecine battle.
July 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I, as an African-American, do not care how Zohran Kwame Mamdani identifies. But I do care about how Blackness is such a proprietary category for white people that their surveillance of us becomes such an internecine battle.
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I wonder if we invite them to invade us if they will finally be our friend.
American flag will fly at Ottawa City Hall on July 4 to mark Independence Day
American flag will fly at Ottawa City Hall on July 4 to mark Independence Day
The American flag will fly at Ottawa City Hall on Friday in recognition of U.S. Independence Day.
bit.ly
July 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I wonder if we invite them to invade us if they will finally be our friend.