John Carella
@johnjaan.bsky.social
NC appellate lawyer currently swimming upstream in the criminal punishment system. Loves voting, libraries, public schools. In Durham, NC.
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Everything stated in this reporting is reason # 9,479 why I say state supreme courts are important.
www.propublica.org/article/paul...
www.propublica.org/article/paul...
October 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Everything stated in this reporting is reason # 9,479 why I say state supreme courts are important.
www.propublica.org/article/paul...
www.propublica.org/article/paul...
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We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
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Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.
September 15, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.
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Watch the exclusive interview with UN commissioners on new report: zeteo.com/p/united-nat...
BREAKING: UN Commission Concludes Israel is Committing Genocide in Gaza
In an exclusive interview, Mehdi speaks with two of the UN commissioners behind the shocking new report, which lays out the evidence for the crime of crimes.
zeteo.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Watch the exclusive interview with UN commissioners on new report: zeteo.com/p/united-nat...
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Begging people not to treat open white supremacy from the Supreme Court as incomprehensible inconsistency.
September 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Begging people not to treat open white supremacy from the Supreme Court as incomprehensible inconsistency.
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KILMAR IN BALTIMORE: “Never lose hope. Promise me you’ll continue fight for freedom — not just for me, for everybody.”
He was just taken into ICE custody.
He was just taken into ICE custody.
August 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
KILMAR IN BALTIMORE: “Never lose hope. Promise me you’ll continue fight for freedom — not just for me, for everybody.”
He was just taken into ICE custody.
He was just taken into ICE custody.
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Children in Gaza play with a parachute from airdropped aid amid Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians and forced starvation in the besieged enclave.
August 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Children in Gaza play with a parachute from airdropped aid amid Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians and forced starvation in the besieged enclave.
Being my age with kids my children’s age means I can’t get the finale K Pop Demon Hunters song “What it sounds like” out of my head
AND I can’t stop mentally adding the words “…when doves cry!”
AND I can’t stop mentally adding the words “…when doves cry!”
August 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Being my age with kids my children’s age means I can’t get the finale K Pop Demon Hunters song “What it sounds like” out of my head
AND I can’t stop mentally adding the words “…when doves cry!”
AND I can’t stop mentally adding the words “…when doves cry!”
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I want to be clear: this is what American prisons are like.
I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.
I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.
July 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I want to be clear: this is what American prisons are like.
I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.
I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.
To accurately celebrate our nation this 4th of July, it is now recommended that you do, in fact, place your face directly over the firework when you light it.
July 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
To accurately celebrate our nation this 4th of July, it is now recommended that you do, in fact, place your face directly over the firework when you light it.
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BREAKING: EPA workers published a letter of dissent against the administration's policies that undermine the EPA's mission and threaten the health of people and the planet.
June 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
BREAKING: EPA workers published a letter of dissent against the administration's policies that undermine the EPA's mission and threaten the health of people and the planet.
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this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
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"It's fine because the executive order is still barred in blue states."
Folks, PEOPLE IN RED STATES DESERVE HUMAN RIGHTS TOO, AND LOTS OF IMMIGRANTS AND MARGINALIZED PEOPLE DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY THE EO LIVE IN RED STATES.
Folks, PEOPLE IN RED STATES DESERVE HUMAN RIGHTS TOO, AND LOTS OF IMMIGRANTS AND MARGINALIZED PEOPLE DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY THE EO LIVE IN RED STATES.
June 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"It's fine because the executive order is still barred in blue states."
Folks, PEOPLE IN RED STATES DESERVE HUMAN RIGHTS TOO, AND LOTS OF IMMIGRANTS AND MARGINALIZED PEOPLE DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY THE EO LIVE IN RED STATES.
Folks, PEOPLE IN RED STATES DESERVE HUMAN RIGHTS TOO, AND LOTS OF IMMIGRANTS AND MARGINALIZED PEOPLE DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY THE EO LIVE IN RED STATES.
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No, the fight isn't over. Yes, class relief is possible. But people WILL be harmed by today's decision and its effect will NOT be minor.
June 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
No, the fight isn't over. Yes, class relief is possible. But people WILL be harmed by today's decision and its effect will NOT be minor.
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Today is the birthday of African American science fiction author Octavia E. Butler. The winner of numerous Hugo and Nebula Awards, she was the first science fiction author to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. #💙📚
June 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Today is the birthday of African American science fiction author Octavia E. Butler. The winner of numerous Hugo and Nebula Awards, she was the first science fiction author to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. #💙📚
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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
June 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
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If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.
June 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.
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1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so.
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I am getting multiple reports that the Trump admin is NOT complying with the court order requiring passport updates for transgender people.
Some passport agencies are being told not to give trans people passports with their correct gender marker, for now.
Some passport agencies are being told not to give trans people passports with their correct gender marker, for now.
June 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so.
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Judge Farbiarz finds there are extraordinary circumstances here, and no flight risk or danger to community. Also the punishment claim is substantial enough to justify release. He orders Mahmoud Khalil RELEASED ON BAIL.
June 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Judge Farbiarz finds there are extraordinary circumstances here, and no flight risk or danger to community. Also the punishment claim is substantial enough to justify release. He orders Mahmoud Khalil RELEASED ON BAIL.
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Those concerned about violence might want to start with violence against immigrants, by ICE here, by illegal deportations to gulags and third countries, the violence against so many federal departments, against the law, the climate, the public lands, waters, civil rights, reproductive rights...
June 9, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Those concerned about violence might want to start with violence against immigrants, by ICE here, by illegal deportations to gulags and third countries, the violence against so many federal departments, against the law, the climate, the public lands, waters, civil rights, reproductive rights...
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😳WATCH & SHARE — NURSE: “These Republican Medicaid/Medicare cuts will cause chaos, kill the disabled & elderly, hurt rural 🇺🇸, and impact everyone… it’s unpopular — That’s why they did it at 1AM. CALL YOUR SENATORS.”
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May 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
😳WATCH & SHARE — NURSE: “These Republican Medicaid/Medicare cuts will cause chaos, kill the disabled & elderly, hurt rural 🇺🇸, and impact everyone… it’s unpopular — That’s why they did it at 1AM. CALL YOUR SENATORS.”
www.instagram.com/reel/DJ_0Sj0...
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This story. Officers lied so casually, and Ms Mason had to fight for any info.
“I want the world to know this is what goes on,” she said. “If I didn’t know my child and know that something wasn’t right from the beginning, they would have gotten away with it.”
www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...
“I want the world to know this is what goes on,” she said. “If I didn’t know my child and know that something wasn’t right from the beginning, they would have gotten away with it.”
www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...
How a mother’s quest for truth about son’s death ignited probe into NC troopers
“I want the world to know this is what goes on,” said Henrietta Mason, the Durham mother of a man who died in a Raleigh wreck.
www.newsobserver.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
This story. Officers lied so casually, and Ms Mason had to fight for any info.
“I want the world to know this is what goes on,” she said. “If I didn’t know my child and know that something wasn’t right from the beginning, they would have gotten away with it.”
www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...
“I want the world to know this is what goes on,” she said. “If I didn’t know my child and know that something wasn’t right from the beginning, they would have gotten away with it.”
www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...
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"When I saw the images of prisoners in El Salvador, it triggered memories of my own life in U.S. prisons. I’ve been in since Ronald Reagan was president and I’ve always found it difficult to communicate certain aspects of the experience," writes Troy.
What We Saw in Those Images From the El Salvador Mega Prison
U.S. Prison writers react to the pictures of Secretary Kristi Noem standing in front of men packed tightly together in CECOT.
prisonjournalismproject.org
May 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"When I saw the images of prisoners in El Salvador, it triggered memories of my own life in U.S. prisons. I’ve been in since Ronald Reagan was president and I’ve always found it difficult to communicate certain aspects of the experience," writes Troy.
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It’s my birthday today, and all I ask is you give even a dollar to my favorite news outlet in the world.
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May 16, 2025 at 1:49 AM
It’s my birthday today, and all I ask is you give even a dollar to my favorite news outlet in the world.