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Sandy Hudson
@sandela.bsky.social
Noping my way through life

writer, filmmaker, podcaster & capoeirista

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No better source than @sandela.bsky.social for widening your learning about abolition, read and listen:
February 15, 2026 at 6:20 AM
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“I’ve been watching the mainstream struggle to contextualize ICE vis-a-vis the police... The police have been helping ICE because *of course they are*” @sandela.bsky.social

YES. Necessary discussion from last week:
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Episode 360 – Canada’s Epstein connections
In this episode, Sandy and Nora go through a few Canadians names who appear in the Epstein files. Plus ICE and 911, a Canadian soldier killed in Latvia, Canada to cut refugee health funding programmin...
sandyandnora.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:43 PM
I write about policing and urban design in my book. Policing makes us less safe, but urban infrastructure and design can certainly make us more safe!
It’s because the goal is not safety but policing, and that has more to do with control than anything else. Groups of people gathering, the very basis of community, is by default seen as suspicious. That’s why their preferred designs all have to do with limiting human interactions.
In my experience police have no idea how urban design can and should achieve MANY public goals. They don’t even know how to design for safety.
February 12, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Tomorrow's Sandy and @nolore.bsky.social drop is a banger. And you know it has to be good if it made me actually post
February 11, 2026 at 7:41 AM
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Amazing night with @sandela.bsky.social and @nolore.bsky.social! I finally got to see two huge influences on my politics and understanding of the world in real life.
February 7, 2026 at 4:08 AM
These fools can't go harder than this because then they'd either have to admit they were wrong about policing in general, or admit that they're absolutely fine with the way police are protected doing everything ICE does, targeted at communities that don't matter to them.
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:

End the roving patrols and racial profiling.

Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.

Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 4, 2026 at 6:26 AM
You see how quickly this normally obstinate administration went to outfit ICE with body cams? That's because they are ultimately a surveillance tool for the law enforcement agency outfitted with them. Not a tool of accountability. And research shows they can ultimately increase police violence.
February 3, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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On In Bed with the Elephant, @sandela.bsky.social explains how early encounters with police shaped her politics — and why expanding #police budgets fuels trauma, inequality, and a growing surveillance state.

Full discussion with @caradrianh.bsky.social here:

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#IBWTE
Breaking down the 'myth’ of policing with Sandy Hudson
In a powerful discussion, Sandy Hudson advocates for police abolition. Discover her insights on policing and community-led safety resources.
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February 2, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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It’s not just @sandela.bsky.social Sandy Hudson’s razor-sharp analysis putting policing in context that’s so valuable, it’s her clear and convincing focus that we can actually change things. Listen to this and follow her on the Sandy and Nora podcast, you won’t regret it ❤️
January 24, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Yesterday there were a handful of contradictory headlines about whether Canada is or isn't sending troops to Denmark. Would be nice to know which is true.
January 16, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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@sandela.bsky.social bringing the cathartic outrage this week (thank you for listening to Klein for us bc I cannot even anymore) & @nolore.bsky.social surprising us all by having seen part of a movie! Lots to say about this ep of one of my fav podcasts podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...
Defunding ICE is the moderate position
Podcast Episode · Sandy and Nora talk politics · 2026-01-13 · 49m
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January 13, 2026 at 5:39 PM
When you're studying for the bar using a self-directed online course but need to ask a question
January 10, 2026 at 5:44 AM
Prime example of why body cams don't work and you must defund the police (incl. ICE) to stop them from doing what they're meant to do, which is use violence to control particular populations for the benefit of the wealthy/powerful and to maintain social stratifications
i just watched this video and the fact that they believe this to be exculpatory is genuinely insane
January 9, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there

Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
January 8, 2026 at 12:46 AM
I hope all the people who did their darndest to create a "we went too far on policing" narrative in the post-2020 whitelash see that their blathering apologism justifies every fascist thing ICE, the FBI, the DEA, and other law enforcement agencies are doing rn.
January 7, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Man. It's barely registered that it's been 5 years since the Jan 6 insurrection. Bad sign of the times.
January 7, 2026 at 1:34 AM
This "law enforcement" justification for the clearly illegal strike on Venezuela is absolutely outrageous and should be reported as such. The death toll is now **80 people** and the **American dictatorial gov't** is like "this was just a simple arrest coming from an indictment, wym?" Unfuckingreal
January 4, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Carney's statement is finally out. Apparently we "welcome the opportunity for freedom and democracy" through authoritarian, imperialist, illegal military operations. Elbows so low we're squatting at this point:
January 3, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Very 51st state energy
Please see my statement on the situation in Venezuela:
January 3, 2026 at 10:37 PM
BBC is reporting that Trump says US has "captured" Maduro as of 1:37 am Pacific and CBC doesn't have a single breaking news story up yet...what is going on????
January 3, 2026 at 9:40 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!
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.
October 21, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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