John Proctor
@notthatjohnproctor.bsky.social
Comms Manager at Freedom Agenda, Founder/Facilitator at Re/Creation. Views my own but informed by my people.
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I’m now positive most of my fellow Americans don’t mind being told what to do - want it even - just as long as they are allowed to act on their worst impulses, be their most antisocial selves. No wonder so many of us hate the term socialism.
Also, here are some photos of me in the mid-70s.
Also, here are some photos of me in the mid-70s.
I read Alison Townsend's essay "My Pink Lake and Other Digressions" on the train today. Townsend jumps intentionally from her dog’s recent death, to her given and chosen families, to the writing process itself and lots of other stuff. I loved it, and I thought: This is a totally ADHD essay.
December 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I read Alison Townsend's essay "My Pink Lake and Other Digressions" on the train today. Townsend jumps intentionally from her dog’s recent death, to her given and chosen families, to the writing process itself and lots of other stuff. I loved it, and I thought: This is a totally ADHD essay.
I've stayed away from commenting on socials about Epstein stuff, mostly because 1) It's SO FUCKING GROSS, and 2) I don't see anything I can do about it. But I will say: Everything bad in this country is caused by people with too much wealth. It is possible to be too rich. Also, snap into a Slim Jim.
November 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I've stayed away from commenting on socials about Epstein stuff, mostly because 1) It's SO FUCKING GROSS, and 2) I don't see anything I can do about it. But I will say: Everything bad in this country is caused by people with too much wealth. It is possible to be too rich. Also, snap into a Slim Jim.
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"It’s like a hatchet coming out of my heart. But the wound is still there." - Our member Lezandre Khadu, whose son Stephan died at the Vernon C. Bain Center, aka The Boat, on how our organizing got it permanently closed #CloseRikers queenseagle.com/all/2025/10/...
City to send notorious jail barge to Louisiana in the coming days — Queens Daily Eagle
The notorious floating jail complex off Rikers Island known as “The Boat” is being moved south to be turned into scrap metal.
queenseagle.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"It’s like a hatchet coming out of my heart. But the wound is still there." - Our member Lezandre Khadu, whose son Stephan died at the Vernon C. Bain Center, aka The Boat, on how our organizing got it permanently closed #CloseRikers queenseagle.com/all/2025/10/...
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"[The ATI] model succeeds precisely because it treats underlying trauma and instability, directly contrasting with the failure of mass incarceration." - Jason Rodriguez of
@lac_news
#CloseRikers
citylimits.org/opinion-the-...
@lac_news
#CloseRikers
citylimits.org/opinion-the-...
Opinion: The Next Mayor's Test is Closing Rikers— Public Safety Demands It - City Limits
"The next mayor’s commitment to public safety shouldn’t be measured by how many people they jail, but by how they prevent harm before it happens, and reduce incarceration as a result."
citylimits.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"[The ATI] model succeeds precisely because it treats underlying trauma and instability, directly contrasting with the failure of mass incarceration." - Jason Rodriguez of
@lac_news
#CloseRikers
citylimits.org/opinion-the-...
@lac_news
#CloseRikers
citylimits.org/opinion-the-...
This morning I started rereading The Talisman, my favorite book from my childhood about the adventures of 13-year-old Jack Sawyer, which I originally read when I was 13 years old, to my 13-year-old daughter. Sometimes the eternal return can be a good thing.
October 31, 2025 at 11:07 AM
This morning I started rereading The Talisman, my favorite book from my childhood about the adventures of 13-year-old Jack Sawyer, which I originally read when I was 13 years old, to my 13-year-old daughter. Sometimes the eternal return can be a good thing.
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The first televised debate for NYC’s next Mayor is tonight! We have looked at candidates’ positions on an issue at the core of our city’s values - #Rikers. We recently interviewed one “candidate” whose position on Rikers is crystal clear. #CloseRikers youtu.be/qRVbVkrUE7A
The Grim Reaper says: "Keep Rikers Open!"
YouTube video by Freedom Agenda
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October 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The first televised debate for NYC’s next Mayor is tonight! We have looked at candidates’ positions on an issue at the core of our city’s values - #Rikers. We recently interviewed one “candidate” whose position on Rikers is crystal clear. #CloseRikers youtu.be/qRVbVkrUE7A
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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
The fact that we're not honoring Assata Shakur in her death with the same passion conservatives have been honoring Charlie Kirk pretty much sums up what's wrong with the Democratic party.
September 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The fact that we're not honoring Assata Shakur in her death with the same passion conservatives have been honoring Charlie Kirk pretty much sums up what's wrong with the Democratic party.
As I hear right wingers express a desire for vengeance in Charlie Kirk’s death, I think of Jordan Neely.
September 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
As I hear right wingers express a desire for vengeance in Charlie Kirk’s death, I think of Jordan Neely.
With every conversation I have and every new information I get this week, I keep coming back to Lee Thomas’s words from the day after the Charlie Kirk killing. Leave it to a master fiction writer to put it best.
September 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
With every conversation I have and every new information I get this week, I keep coming back to Lee Thomas’s words from the day after the Charlie Kirk killing. Leave it to a master fiction writer to put it best.
So the suspect in the Charlie Kirk killing is <drum roll> a lone wolf white dude from a religious family. White conservatives losing their minds trying to blame POC, trans people, and immigrants, and of course it's someone who most resembles...Charlie Kirk.
September 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
So the suspect in the Charlie Kirk killing is <drum roll> a lone wolf white dude from a religious family. White conservatives losing their minds trying to blame POC, trans people, and immigrants, and of course it's someone who most resembles...Charlie Kirk.
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"[This decision] affirms what community advocates have been saying for years: Rikers is a place of violence and human suffering, and allowing ICE to prey on people there only deepens the harm." - Freedom Agenda Co-Director @iamdarrenmack.bsky.social
#CloseRikers
www.amny.com/police-fire/...
#CloseRikers
www.amny.com/police-fire/...
ICE office on Rikers Island remains closed, for now, after state court strikes down Mayor Adams’ executive order | amNewYork
Elected officials and criminal justice advocates have welcomed a New York State Supreme Court ruling on Monday that struck down an executive order issued by
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September 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"[This decision] affirms what community advocates have been saying for years: Rikers is a place of violence and human suffering, and allowing ICE to prey on people there only deepens the harm." - Freedom Agenda Co-Director @iamdarrenmack.bsky.social
#CloseRikers
www.amny.com/police-fire/...
#CloseRikers
www.amny.com/police-fire/...
When we say "law and order" we mean state power. Republicans fetishize the police and military, Democrats lionize the courts, but they're all part of the same racist class warfare against people who don't have enough money to fight them. And people who have enough money to fight them, ARE them.
September 9, 2025 at 12:48 PM
When we say "law and order" we mean state power. Republicans fetishize the police and military, Democrats lionize the courts, but they're all part of the same racist class warfare against people who don't have enough money to fight them. And people who have enough money to fight them, ARE them.
Something I think about almost constantly right now is how weaponized the act of othering has become, and how quickly it’s become entrenched in our policing. In fact, it’s probably the most important and obvious way we as a country have descended into fascism.
August 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Something I think about almost constantly right now is how weaponized the act of othering has become, and how quickly it’s become entrenched in our policing. In fact, it’s probably the most important and obvious way we as a country have descended into fascism.
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Last night on NY1 with @errollouis.bsky.social our Co-Director Darren Mack spoke out about the human rights crisis at #Rikers and the urgent need to #CloseRikers once and for all. People are suffering and dying in a system that must be dismantled. The time to act is now. ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
Advocates condemn conditions on Rikers Island
The city is legally mandated to close the troubled jail complex by 2027.
ny1.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Last night on NY1 with @errollouis.bsky.social our Co-Director Darren Mack spoke out about the human rights crisis at #Rikers and the urgent need to #CloseRikers once and for all. People are suffering and dying in a system that must be dismantled. The time to act is now. ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
I’m so grossed out by Democrats’ infatuation with Gavin Newsom. This is a conservative-leaning moderate who actively campaigns against LGBTQ+ rights, who demonizes anyone who’s been abused by our carceral state...
August 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I’m so grossed out by Democrats’ infatuation with Gavin Newsom. This is a conservative-leaning moderate who actively campaigns against LGBTQ+ rights, who demonizes anyone who’s been abused by our carceral state...
Here’s how old I am: I enjoy Taylor Swift, but 9 times out of 10 when I try to say her name it comes out Taylor Dayne.
Tell me I’m the only one.
Tell me I’m the only one.
August 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Here’s how old I am: I enjoy Taylor Swift, but 9 times out of 10 when I try to say her name it comes out Taylor Dayne.
Tell me I’m the only one.
Tell me I’m the only one.
I’m reading Crime and Punishment for the first time with my 13-year-old, and realizing that everything I knew going in about the novel takes place in the first hundred pages. The last 400+ are a complete mystery unfolding! Also, Razumikhen might be my new all-time favorite fictional male character.
August 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I’m reading Crime and Punishment for the first time with my 13-year-old, and realizing that everything I knew going in about the novel takes place in the first hundred pages. The last 400+ are a complete mystery unfolding! Also, Razumikhen might be my new all-time favorite fictional male character.
He speaks for all of us!
June 25, 2025 at 10:07 AM
He speaks for all of us!
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"How can we tell which candidates are serious about safety, and which ones care more about stoking our fears than investing in what works?" - Our Co-Director @iamdarrenmack.bsky.social & former Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito #CloseRikers citylimits.org/opinion-nyc-...
Opinion: NYC Needs a Mayor Who is Serious About Safety - City Limits
"We need a mayor who knows that in a city committed to seeing all of us thrive, there is no place for Rikers Island."
citylimits.org
June 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
"How can we tell which candidates are serious about safety, and which ones care more about stoking our fears than investing in what works?" - Our Co-Director @iamdarrenmack.bsky.social & former Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito #CloseRikers citylimits.org/opinion-nyc-...
Remember, New Yorkers: We don’t need another rich white sexual predator who thinks he’s above accountability in a position of executive power. Vote any of the frankly amazing candidates on the slate, and #dontrankcuomo! #CuoNO
June 23, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Remember, New Yorkers: We don’t need another rich white sexual predator who thinks he’s above accountability in a position of executive power. Vote any of the frankly amazing candidates on the slate, and #dontrankcuomo! #CuoNO
Yesterday, we bombed Iran for no justifiable reason, a drunk MAGAt punched a protester in the face at a peaceful action in LaPorte, IN, and I caught this beautiful brown trout.
June 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Yesterday, we bombed Iran for no justifiable reason, a drunk MAGAt punched a protester in the face at a peaceful action in LaPorte, IN, and I caught this beautiful brown trout.
Democratic leaders, this is how you do principled resistance to this fascist regime and its gestapo. Take note, and act.
Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife.
While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.
This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.
This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
June 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Democratic leaders, this is how you do principled resistance to this fascist regime and its gestapo. Take note, and act.
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"For a long time it felt like my siblings and I had no fighting chance to change our storyline. Prison had my dad, and it also had my brothers."
"too often we accept things in order to tolerate the madness."
#NFNow25
"too often we accept things in order to tolerate the madness."
#NFNow25
June 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"For a long time it felt like my siblings and I had no fighting chance to change our storyline. Prison had my dad, and it also had my brothers."
"too often we accept things in order to tolerate the madness."
#NFNow25
"too often we accept things in order to tolerate the madness."
#NFNow25
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K. Michael Williams reads a piece called "Don't Judge a Book by its Color," whose throughline is the case of a man whose judge said "he looks like a criminal to me."
#NFNow25
#NFNow25
June 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
K. Michael Williams reads a piece called "Don't Judge a Book by its Color," whose throughline is the case of a man whose judge said "he looks like a criminal to me."
#NFNow25
#NFNow25