Melissa
@mooremeliss.bsky.social
Policy + Communications + Research for justice.
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moore.melissa@gmail.com
LA/Bay Area/NYC/Newark
http://bit.ly/LearnAboutMelissa
EN/SP/PT
moore.melissa@gmail.com
LA/Bay Area/NYC/Newark
http://bit.ly/LearnAboutMelissa
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UPDATE — For those who want to help, there’s now a way to donate directly to the 7500 South Shore Tenants Union to help with emergency relocation costs as residents “vacate in one of the snowiest winters in Chicago’s history.”
Details in our story.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/judg...
Details in our story.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/judg...
Judge: residents must move out, ICE-raided South Shore building is uninhabitable • The TRiiBE
The tenants of the property at 7500 S. South Shore Drive are ordered to leave the property by Friday.
thetriibe.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
UPDATE — For those who want to help, there’s now a way to donate directly to the 7500 South Shore Tenants Union to help with emergency relocation costs as residents “vacate in one of the snowiest winters in Chicago’s history.”
Details in our story.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/judg...
Details in our story.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/judg...
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We’re entering one of the most pivotal years for drug policy in decades. Cuts to treatment and overdose prevention—and renewed pushes to criminalize—are putting lives on the line.
That’s why we want to hear from you. Tell us your top drug policy priorities for 2026.
Take the poll at bit.ly/48BkSqQ
That’s why we want to hear from you. Tell us your top drug policy priorities for 2026.
Take the poll at bit.ly/48BkSqQ
December 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
We’re entering one of the most pivotal years for drug policy in decades. Cuts to treatment and overdose prevention—and renewed pushes to criminalize—are putting lives on the line.
That’s why we want to hear from you. Tell us your top drug policy priorities for 2026.
Take the poll at bit.ly/48BkSqQ
That’s why we want to hear from you. Tell us your top drug policy priorities for 2026.
Take the poll at bit.ly/48BkSqQ
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The U.S. needs a new approach to the overdose crisis—one rooted in health. For decades, the war on drugs has failed to curb overdose deaths and fueled violence in countries like Colombia and Mexico. It’s time to abandon this broken model and invest in solutions that give people the care they need.
thehill.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The U.S. needs a new approach to the overdose crisis—one rooted in health. For decades, the war on drugs has failed to curb overdose deaths and fueled violence in countries like Colombia and Mexico. It’s time to abandon this broken model and invest in solutions that give people the care they need.
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
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The shutdown is at 39 days but SNAP has only been cut for 8 and we're already seeing massive demand for food pantries, desperate pleas for direct help and assistance on related things like helping people keep pets. This is precarity at its highest. While the rich get richer.
November 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The shutdown is at 39 days but SNAP has only been cut for 8 and we're already seeing massive demand for food pantries, desperate pleas for direct help and assistance on related things like helping people keep pets. This is precarity at its highest. While the rich get richer.
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"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever.
November 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever.
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Has there been an update on this?
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Has there been an update on this?
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In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office.
I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.
I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.
September 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office.
I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.
I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.
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I also have no nostalgia for the road to fascism, which is a trap I think a lot of liberal and progressive folks are falling into—romanticizing the conditions that preceded this moment of acceleration. The path that led to this mess is not the way out.
September 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I also have no nostalgia for the road to fascism, which is a trap I think a lot of liberal and progressive folks are falling into—romanticizing the conditions that preceded this moment of acceleration. The path that led to this mess is not the way out.
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we should stop letting the police departments in supposedly progressive cities use poor communities as policy labs for dangerous technology designed to incarcerate as many of those people as possible
NEW: The NYPD plans to gain real-time access to nearly 18,000 cameras across 119 NYCHA developments, officials testified at an emergency City Council hearing.
nysfocus.com/2025/10/01/n...
nysfocus.com/2025/10/01/n...
NYPD Plans Massive Expansion of Real-Time Surveillance in NYCHA…
The City Council held an emergency hearing on the NYPD's use of a free internet program to gain real-time access to public housing cameras, in response to…
nysfocus.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
we should stop letting the police departments in supposedly progressive cities use poor communities as policy labs for dangerous technology designed to incarcerate as many of those people as possible
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I'm mad about a lot of things (ha! ha!) but the sheer number of journalists who wrote "There are no plans to implement Project 2025" under the grounds of "well, Trump says there aren't, so..." and still have jobs is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy up there
President Trump says he is meeting today with Russ Vought, OMB director and "of PROJECT 2025 Fame," to discuss cuts to "Democrat Agencies."
October 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I'm mad about a lot of things (ha! ha!) but the sheer number of journalists who wrote "There are no plans to implement Project 2025" under the grounds of "well, Trump says there aren't, so..." and still have jobs is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy up there
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I feel naive just writing this, but a president threatening to withhold funding to a city unless it elects his preferred candidate for mayor seems like the sort of thing that shouldn't be legal.
Trump on Mamdani: "He is going to have problems with Washington like no Mayor in the history of our once great City. Remember, he needs the money from me, as President, in order to fulfill all of his FAKE Communist promises. He won’t be getting any of it, so what’s the point of voting for him?"
September 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I feel naive just writing this, but a president threatening to withhold funding to a city unless it elects his preferred candidate for mayor seems like the sort of thing that shouldn't be legal.
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Federal courts across the country have labeled this view of mandatory detention a perversion of immigration law that denies due process and misunderstands Congress’ clear intent. It would even make a key component of the Laken Riley Act superfluous.
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Immigration appeals court expands mandatory detention for millions
The ruling by the Executive Branch panel upends a decadeslong understanding of immigration law.
www.politico.com
September 6, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Federal courts across the country have labeled this view of mandatory detention a perversion of immigration law that denies due process and misunderstands Congress’ clear intent. It would even make a key component of the Laken Riley Act superfluous.
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
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🚨NEW: Reversing *generations* of practice, the Board of Immigration Appeals gives ICE exactly what it demanded, ruling that any undocumented immigrant who entered illegally is categorically ineligible for release from detention on bond — expanding mandatory detention by millions of people.
September 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
🚨NEW: Reversing *generations* of practice, the Board of Immigration Appeals gives ICE exactly what it demanded, ruling that any undocumented immigrant who entered illegally is categorically ineligible for release from detention on bond — expanding mandatory detention by millions of people.
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We have a Digital Security and Doxxing Prevention Checklist for anyone concerned about digital security and doxxing, whether you're a journalist concerned for yourself or a source, or you're someone organizing in your community to keep your neighbors safe. Also available in Spanish:
Digital Security & Doxxing Prevention Checklist — Interrupting Criminalization
A checklist for people concerned about digital security and doxxing, whether you are a journalist or someone whose name or face appears in media or social media, compiled by Interrupting Criminalizati...
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
September 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
We have a Digital Security and Doxxing Prevention Checklist for anyone concerned about digital security and doxxing, whether you're a journalist concerned for yourself or a source, or you're someone organizing in your community to keep your neighbors safe. Also available in Spanish:
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To do list for residents of cities on the brink of federal occupation:
1. Throw money at mutual aid funds that serve immigrants;
2. Start DEMANDING local/county/state elected resistance (all kinds) to fed aggression;
3. Join + fund ICE watch groups;
4. Neutralize police cooperation with ICE/feds
1. Throw money at mutual aid funds that serve immigrants;
2. Start DEMANDING local/county/state elected resistance (all kinds) to fed aggression;
3. Join + fund ICE watch groups;
4. Neutralize police cooperation with ICE/feds
September 4, 2025 at 6:04 AM
To do list for residents of cities on the brink of federal occupation:
1. Throw money at mutual aid funds that serve immigrants;
2. Start DEMANDING local/county/state elected resistance (all kinds) to fed aggression;
3. Join + fund ICE watch groups;
4. Neutralize police cooperation with ICE/feds
1. Throw money at mutual aid funds that serve immigrants;
2. Start DEMANDING local/county/state elected resistance (all kinds) to fed aggression;
3. Join + fund ICE watch groups;
4. Neutralize police cooperation with ICE/feds
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Alexis de Tocqueville's best-known work was his classic study "Democracy in America," analyzing our living standards and system of government during his travels here
He noted America's cash bail system was aristocratic horseshit way back in *1835*
190 years ago:
He noted America's cash bail system was aristocratic horseshit way back in *1835*
190 years ago:
August 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Alexis de Tocqueville's best-known work was his classic study "Democracy in America," analyzing our living standards and system of government during his travels here
He noted America's cash bail system was aristocratic horseshit way back in *1835*
190 years ago:
He noted America's cash bail system was aristocratic horseshit way back in *1835*
190 years ago:
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Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.
August 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.
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Our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social is also running a summer book drive to help support Bluestockings in keeping their doors open. 📚 Drop off or mail new or gently used social justice focused books! More details in the flyer.
July 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social is also running a summer book drive to help support Bluestockings in keeping their doors open. 📚 Drop off or mail new or gently used social justice focused books! More details in the flyer.
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BREAKING: Trump’s new Executive Order directs states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes. Criminalization doesn’t help anyone – we need housing and healthcare, not handcuffs and budget cuts. #HousingNotHandcuffs
Our statement: buff.ly/JlcAsF4
Our statement: buff.ly/JlcAsF4
Trump’s new Executive Order directs states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes - National Homelessness Law Center
Trump’s new Executive Orders direct states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes (WASHINGTON, D.C - March 28th) Everybody needs a safe place to live. Across America, sky-high rents are…
buff.ly
July 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
BREAKING: Trump’s new Executive Order directs states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes. Criminalization doesn’t help anyone – we need housing and healthcare, not handcuffs and budget cuts. #HousingNotHandcuffs
Our statement: buff.ly/JlcAsF4
Our statement: buff.ly/JlcAsF4
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Everyday, all day and forever - Carl Stubbs Way!
July 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Everyday, all day and forever - Carl Stubbs Way!
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Few if any experts know more about the deliberate use of starvation as a war crime than Alex de Waal. If he says it's happening, it's so.
July 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Few if any experts know more about the deliberate use of starvation as a war crime than Alex de Waal. If he says it's happening, it's so.
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PARIS (AP) — French President Macron announces that France will recognize Palestine as a state.
July 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
PARIS (AP) — French President Macron announces that France will recognize Palestine as a state.