renakj.bsky.social
@renakj.bsky.social
i was that one third grader who got in trouble when everyone was talking because my voice “carries”

former juvenile defender and professional hater of the criminal legal system.
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BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
October 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
this narrative pivot from the field that’s like “public safety, not wealth, should decide who is jailed pretrial” vs “pretrial freedom all day every day” is really getting my goat.
September 2, 2025 at 1:53 AM
when they say kids are expensive, they mean we bought $40 of fruit for *the week* at the farmers market this morning at 8:30am. reader, it is 7:33 pm on that very same day and i’m going to invite you to guess how many pieces we have left.
September 1, 2025 at 2:34 AM
gives me chills that people can see somebody experiencing houselessness & feel that *they* are the victims of that story. and that the policy solution is ensuring that they no longer have to see or be proximate to that person, rather than addressing the conditions that leave people without housing.
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
ktla.com KTLA 5 @ktla.com · Aug 29
Newsom launches statewide task force to clear homeless encampments
August 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
i wish more media would just call this president what he is which is blood thirsty. this is the same man who used his own money to take out a full page ad 30 years ago in his personal capacity just to call for the execution of later exonerated Black kids in the Central Park jogger case.
Trump: "Anybody murders something in the capital -- capital punishment. Capital, capital punishment. If somebody kills somebody in the capital -- Washington DC -- we're going to be seeking the death penalty."
August 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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BREAKING: death of anti-ICE protester in Los Angeles

@lapublicpress.bsky.social is reporting Skid Row resident Adrienne Villa was found dead in her jail cell while in LASD custody at the courthouse, hours after pleading not guilty to over a dozen charges of alleged assault/battery on a cop.
August 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM
in law school i supported some organizing to disarm and abolish HUPD (Harvard University Police Department). a lot of people who were really just cop apologists criticized the work heavily as navel gazing, inconsequential and silly. as cosplay activism.
August 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
we don’t bully golfers nearly enough if you ask me.
August 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
been trying to tell y’all….
August 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
as someone who lost their dad at 4, i can’t stop thinking about his daughter. beyond what anas meant to Gaza, to humanity at large, about what he will always mean to her. about receiving a blessing as unthinkable as being born to a dad like that only to have him ripped so needlessly from you.
Anas Al-Sharif was one of the most remarkable reporters of his generation. For 673 days, he defied Israeli threats to kill him.

Al Jazeera now confirm their crew in Gaza City have all been assassinated:

RIP reporters Anas Al-Sharif & Mohammed Qareqea and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher & Mohammed Nofal
August 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Pls stop what you are doing and read this entire report on Israel's murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in Gaza City.

"He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent."

It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...
The Israeli Assassination of Journalist Anas al-Sharif and Five Colleagues in Gaza City
“We understand these are our last days.”
www.dropsitenews.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Anas Al-Sharif was one of the most remarkable reporters of his generation. For 673 days, he defied Israeli threats to kill him.

Al Jazeera now confirm their crew in Gaza City have all been assassinated:

RIP reporters Anas Al-Sharif & Mohammed Qareqea and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher & Mohammed Nofal
August 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Love notes from our 5 year old.
July 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Another 107 people filed complaints Tuesday against the state for allegedly allowing rampant sexual abuse in Illinois juvenile detention facilities, joining 800 other alleged victims who have filed a slew of lawsuits in the last 14 months.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/16/a...
Another 107 former detainees allege sexual abuse in Illinois and Cook County youth detention centers
Another 107 people filed complaints Tuesday against the state for allegedly allowing rampant sexual abuse in Illinois juvenile detention facilities.
www.chicagotribune.com
July 17, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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"Masters, 63, is on a hunger strike at the Sierra Conservation Center in Jamestown, protesting the repeated disappearance of his mail and a lack of transparency as to why and where that mail has gone."

Week 4, and Jarvis has lost 30 lbs.

sacobserver.com/2025/07/blac...
Black Death Row Author On Hunger Strike Over Missing Mail
By Genoa Barrow | OBSERVER Senior Staff Writer - Jarvis Jay Masters, a Black author on California’s death row, undertakes a hunger strike in protest of his mail disappearing.
sacobserver.com
July 17, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Incarceration is deadly.

People incarcerated on a single day in 2008 had a 39% higher risk of death compared to similar people who were not incarcerated.

www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/06...
July 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
if it’s feeling like the lines are getting blurred between the operation of law enforcement and regular, ole interpersonal violence for the purpose of exploitation/ racial terror then DING DING DING.
July 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
whites supremacy isn’t mostly people in white hoods or proud boys. it’s mostly this belief that the mere act of being white imbues superiority upon you; that white people should have first, best or only access to every good, opportunity & privilege has to offer before anybody else gets anything.
July 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
i will never forget the first time i saw kids (16,17,18) coming into Brooklyn criminal court from Rikers like this. it forever radicalized me. please let your heart break and fight for immigrants in ICE detention in this moment.
DON’T LOOK AWAY: Children seen shackled and escorted by federal agents out of a downtown Los Angeles detention center.

Multiple minors. In chains. In public. This is not a “border issue”—this is a fucking human rights crisis.
July 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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WFP, DSA NY, JFREJ, DRUM, etc... take a bow.
June 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"
June 25, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Spare a thought for Jessica Ramos, who threw out her principles & alliances for a spot in the Cuomo administration, and today got 0.39% and is watching a likely Mamdani primary win.
June 25, 2025 at 2:31 AM