A street medic said “I’ve been working in this field for over 8 years now and I’ve seen a lot of shit, but that was truly one of the most terrible things I’ve witnessed and I never thought that I’d have to see actual children getting gassed like that, but here we are I suppose”
Harm reduction is when you give safer use supplies to drug users or teach teens to clean their self harm wounds. I’m excited 2 hear that your ballot is now directly supplying the populace w/ free crack pipes & insulin needles, can we arrange a drop off to get them to someone cool enough to use them?
Two trans women have faced torture, bigotry and horrific conditions since arrested as part of the infamous Prairieland crackdown on anti-ICE protest.
They tell TNN about surviving behind bars, as @thefreeradical.org delves into the absurd attack on "antifa" that's just about criminalizing dissent:
A deaf teen was violently detained by ICE for not “following orders”.
He couldn’t hear their orders.
They denied him an interpreter.
Denied him accommodations.
This is who they are.
They target the disabled because eugenics and fascism go hand in hand.
anyway. everyone should read "Saving our Own Lives" by Shira Hassan and learn about liberatory harm reduction
harm reduction is not and will never be politicians further entrenching systems of oppression by using reform to create a facade of meaningful change all while everything stays the exact fucking same and in many cases, gets worse + moves more money and resources to carceral systems.
harm reduction as i believe and practice it is first and foremost a political movement led by drug users and sex workers to fight for our liberation. harm reduction as i live it daily is about how we support each other's autonomy with dignity.
i have absolutely zero patience for people referring to any actions of congress + democratic politicians as "harm reduction." take that phrase out of your vocabulary
i often remind myself that if we could do it there, create these pockets of a different world under intensified conditions of surveillance, carceral violence, and brutalization, then we can do it out here. abolition is possible because I've already seen it happen.
a lot of how i think about resistance + action in the outside world comes from the time i spent in solitary. i also think a lot about "Sick Woman Theory" by Johanna Hedva, and what it's meant to become more disabled the longer I fight.
maybe someday i will actually publish that essay i wrote about what it means to protest when you are in solitary confinement, and what resistance looks like when all you have left is yourself, your body, and a concrete room.
A photograph of a march passing through downtown Philadelphia. The participants carry banners reading "Fuck ICE" and "Fuck ICE, go Birds."
Breaking the ICE: A Letter from the Frontline
crimethinc.com/Philadelphia...
A report from a march against ICE in Philadelphia, reflecting on how to move from symbolic protests and top-down organizational models to effective autonomous action.
One day will be the last that they commit an execution in the streets and we can and must bring that day closer however we can
anarcha-feminist (our cat) has learned how to open the fridge and i feel a lot less excited about this then she seems to be
Holy shit a bunch of ICE prisoners who weren't getting fed broke down a fence and escaped this fucking rips
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
www.nj.com/essex/2025/0...
i need to learn how to use bluesky and find all the people i actually want to follow...i fear i hate learning how to use new social media platforms
