Anna Terwiel
@amc-etc.bsky.social
Political theorist and author of Prison Abolition for Realists, f/c Dec 2025.
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Reminder: Crime in the U.S. is at its lowest since 1961.
November 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Reminder: Crime in the U.S. is at its lowest since 1961.
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It's good to gatekeep harassers and Nazis.
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In the audience tonight is Charlotte Bennett, one of the 13 women that Andrew Cuomo is credibly alleged to have sexually harassed while they worked in his government.
She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her.
So I confronted him.
She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her.
So I confronted him.
October 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
It's good to gatekeep harassers and Nazis.
(Insert guy standing up in room thing people post.)
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Mike Johnson doesn't know sh*t
October 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Mike Johnson doesn't know sh*t
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"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit."
Taxing the rich works!
Taxing the rich works!
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit."
Taxing the rich works!
Taxing the rich works!
Excited to share that my book will be out this December! Prison abolitionists have long known that “tough on crime” politics inflict harm, cement inequalities, and disempower citizens. They also show us what alternative responses to harm, and egalitarian forms of democracy, could look like.
October 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Excited to share that my book will be out this December! Prison abolitionists have long known that “tough on crime” politics inflict harm, cement inequalities, and disempower citizens. They also show us what alternative responses to harm, and egalitarian forms of democracy, could look like.
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BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com
Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...
www.courtlistener.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
BREAKING: WE WON!!!
💥 💥 💥
Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
💥 💥 💥
Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
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I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer.
The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial.
Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.
The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial.
Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.
Gov. Greg Abbott pardons Daniel Perry, veteran who killed police brutality protester in 2020
A Travis County jury sentenced Perry to 25 years in prison last year, prompting Abbott to ask the state parole board to review his case.
www.texastribune.org
September 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer.
The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial.
Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.
The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial.
Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.
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“The money that Trump is using to bring the National Guard here, he should use it to make more activities and more programs…And then he should use it to give us better job opportunities. That would help with safety.” - Maya Thompson, 16
www.wbez.org/public-safet...
www.wbez.org/public-safet...
Residents of Chicago’s most violent block don’t want Trump to send the National Guard
O Block, made infamous by rappers like Chief Keef, has seen more shootings than any other block since 2010. But, with crime falling, residents say they feel safer and scoff at the idea a military inte...
www.wbez.org
September 5, 2025 at 1:24 AM
“The money that Trump is using to bring the National Guard here, he should use it to make more activities and more programs…And then he should use it to give us better job opportunities. That would help with safety.” - Maya Thompson, 16
www.wbez.org/public-safet...
www.wbez.org/public-safet...
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"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social
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August 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social
presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
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🚨 Breaking:
Judge's order: halt construction, stop bringing new detainees, & begin winding down operations. ✊ ⚖️
So-called Alligator Alcatraz should have never been built. This is an important victory.
Grateful to @biologicaldiversity.org colleagues & others for this!
Judge's order: halt construction, stop bringing new detainees, & begin winding down operations. ✊ ⚖️
So-called Alligator Alcatraz should have never been built. This is an important victory.
Grateful to @biologicaldiversity.org colleagues & others for this!
Judge Halts Operations at Everglades Detention Center With Preliminary Injunction
MIAMI— A federal judge today ordered the state of Florida and the Trump administration to halt construction, stop bringing new detainees and begin winding down operations at the mass detention center ...
biologicaldiversity.org
August 22, 2025 at 4:07 AM
🚨 Breaking:
Judge's order: halt construction, stop bringing new detainees, & begin winding down operations. ✊ ⚖️
So-called Alligator Alcatraz should have never been built. This is an important victory.
Grateful to @biologicaldiversity.org colleagues & others for this!
Judge's order: halt construction, stop bringing new detainees, & begin winding down operations. ✊ ⚖️
So-called Alligator Alcatraz should have never been built. This is an important victory.
Grateful to @biologicaldiversity.org colleagues & others for this!
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How are we not already calling him Scam Altman
August 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
How are we not already calling him Scam Altman
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You almost never see/hear/read a person-on-the-street quote in which that person is saying "Yeah, immigrants are great." If it hates it rates just like if it bleeds it leads, and we get a disproportionate number of right-wingers sharing their hate and disinformation about immigration from msm.
August 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
You almost never see/hear/read a person-on-the-street quote in which that person is saying "Yeah, immigrants are great." If it hates it rates just like if it bleeds it leads, and we get a disproportionate number of right-wingers sharing their hate and disinformation about immigration from msm.
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Local jails–mostly run by elected sheriffs–are making money off of ICE's rampant criminalization of immigration.
August 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Local jails–mostly run by elected sheriffs–are making money off of ICE's rampant criminalization of immigration.
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Play is anti-fascist.
Join us TOMORROW 8/10 at Abolitionist Toyery at Bluestockings. People 5 years old and up can join us for an exhibition by 2nd graders, a story hour, some face painting, toys, a weaving station and more. Bring gently used and/or new books to donate if you have them.
August 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Play is anti-fascist.
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To illustrate the state of life in America right now:
Several journalists who were bleeding and needed stitches because of assaults by LAPD drove around to urgent care facilities only to find them closed, then wavered on going to emergency rooms because of high costs of treatment there.
Several journalists who were bleeding and needed stitches because of assaults by LAPD drove around to urgent care facilities only to find them closed, then wavered on going to emergency rooms because of high costs of treatment there.
August 9, 2025 at 7:27 AM
To illustrate the state of life in America right now:
Several journalists who were bleeding and needed stitches because of assaults by LAPD drove around to urgent care facilities only to find them closed, then wavered on going to emergency rooms because of high costs of treatment there.
Several journalists who were bleeding and needed stitches because of assaults by LAPD drove around to urgent care facilities only to find them closed, then wavered on going to emergency rooms because of high costs of treatment there.
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Ask them why they keep talking about trans women in women’s spaces when the leader of their party sexually assaulted a woman in women’s dressing room.
The one thing Dems absolutely cannot do is their stupid "go high" virtue signaling garbage. If the GOP wants to gin up anti-trans panic, go on TV and ask why they're protecting pedophiles. Keep asking why they covered up a child sex trafficking ring and don't stop asking
August 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Ask them why they keep talking about trans women in women’s spaces when the leader of their party sexually assaulted a woman in women’s dressing room.
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"What does it mean for people who’ve been abandoned structurally—who have had these spectacular forms of violence become everyday—to come to share an understanding of how we got here?" @lydiajean.bsky.social
in Abolition and Environmental Justice (part 2 of 6) of our chat::
in Abolition and Environmental Justice (part 2 of 6) of our chat::
Abolition and Environmental Justice - Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Craig Gilmore, Judah Schept, & Lydia Pelot-Hobbs - Inquest
Solidarity between abolitionist and environmental justice organizers doesn’t just happen. It results from careful, long-term work to unearth a shared set of goals.
inquest.org
July 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"What does it mean for people who’ve been abandoned structurally—who have had these spectacular forms of violence become everyday—to come to share an understanding of how we got here?" @lydiajean.bsky.social
in Abolition and Environmental Justice (part 2 of 6) of our chat::
in Abolition and Environmental Justice (part 2 of 6) of our chat::
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#CriticalVoices: This fantastic interview about "Alligator Alcatraz" looks at the intersections of prisons, ecology, and human health, and lessons learned from past campaigns to stop, shut down, and improve conditions inside prisons and detention centers. anarchistagency.com/what-would-o...
'What Would Osceola Do?' A conversation with Panagioti Tsolkas, on Alligator Alcatraz and the fight against toxic prisons
By Max Granger, Substack
By now, you’ve probably heard of Trump’s latest white-terror marketing campaign: the ICE concentration camp hastily erected in Florida’s Everglades and officially dubbed Al...
anarchistagency.com
July 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
#CriticalVoices: This fantastic interview about "Alligator Alcatraz" looks at the intersections of prisons, ecology, and human health, and lessons learned from past campaigns to stop, shut down, and improve conditions inside prisons and detention centers. anarchistagency.com/what-would-o...
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The Center + other groups warned government agencies in a legal filing today that they’re breaking the law by failing to protect the Big Cypress National Preserve from the increasingly destructive effects of the mass detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”
More info: biodiv.us/4nO76a8
More info: biodiv.us/4nO76a8
July 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The Center + other groups warned government agencies in a legal filing today that they’re breaking the law by failing to protect the Big Cypress National Preserve from the increasingly destructive effects of the mass detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”
More info: biodiv.us/4nO76a8
More info: biodiv.us/4nO76a8
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Unionize, unionize, unionize. Even if they pay you well. Even if they are elite. Unionize.
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What a time to propose this policy:
"Duke University School of Medicine (SOM) plans to implement new faculty productivity guidelines that would tie tenured professors’ salaries to external research funding, according to documents reviewed by The Chronicle"
www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
What a time to propose this policy:
"Duke University School of Medicine (SOM) plans to implement new faculty productivity guidelines that would tie tenured professors’ salaries to external research funding, according to documents reviewed by The Chronicle"
www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
Duke School of Medicine plans salary cuts for tenured faculty who do not meet grant expectations
Set to go in effect in 2026, the proposed policy would apply to the School’s basic sciences units. These units rely heavily on grants from the National Institutes of Health, which have been increasing...
www.dukechronicle.com
July 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Unionize, unionize, unionize. Even if they pay you well. Even if they are elite. Unionize.
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The Democratic Party’s capitulation to the Crypto lobby is one of the most nakedly corrupt things I’ve seen in my life.
Crypto is a blatant scam with zero value that is designed to end popular control of our currency. Dems just co-signed the next global financial crisis. It’s unforgivable.
Crypto is a blatant scam with zero value that is designed to end popular control of our currency. Dems just co-signed the next global financial crisis. It’s unforgivable.
The House voted 308 to 122 for the GENIUS Act, the corrupt crypto industry bill to set the stage for the next financial crisis, encourage money laundering, and bless Trump's corruption.
102 Democrats voted yes, including 4 out of the 5 memberships of House Dems's Leadership Team.
102 Democrats voted yes, including 4 out of the 5 memberships of House Dems's Leadership Team.
July 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The Democratic Party’s capitulation to the Crypto lobby is one of the most nakedly corrupt things I’ve seen in my life.
Crypto is a blatant scam with zero value that is designed to end popular control of our currency. Dems just co-signed the next global financial crisis. It’s unforgivable.
Crypto is a blatant scam with zero value that is designed to end popular control of our currency. Dems just co-signed the next global financial crisis. It’s unforgivable.
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Centrists are arguing for only half as many tanks.
In preparation for next week’s parade/demonstration, tanks are being moved into Washington, DC today. Unprecedented.
(Photo from a colleague in DC)
(Photo from a colleague in DC)
June 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Centrists are arguing for only half as many tanks.