Corene Kendrick

How it started. How it's going.

Elizabeth Holmes is not the face of motherhood for incarcerated women. Jazmin Valentine wailed in agony for 6 hours in labor while staff and nurses LAUGHED at her. She had to resort to sliding her amniotic sac under her cell door to prove she was in labor.

House Judiciary Democrats have just released a 50-page report that pulls together years of assault allegations against Trump and his reported connections to Jeffrey Epstein. The report calls for a special counsel to investigate Trump's ties to Epstein.

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

the new ad where the tarrant county sheriff warns that if talarico is elected, he’s going to close the “juvenile prisons” is fascinating to me, because it suggests there are enough swing voters with an emotional attachment to the concept of juvenile prisons that they must be advertised to

Watching Brazil from USA and it must be amazing to live in an actual electoral democracy — where the candidate who gets the most votes wins.

Lula Goes HARD

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

BREAKING: We're challenging the DOJ’s attempt to preemptively block Alaska from certifying their election results if President Trump’s preferred candidate doesn't win.   The Trump administration doesn't get to reject election results it doesn't like.

BREAKING: SCOTUS rejects Trump admin's request to allow it to end gender-affirming medical care in prisons — a significant, if tentative, rejection of one of the admin's most extreme anti-trans arguments. Only Thomas and Alito noted they would have granted the stay. More to come: www.lawdork.com

Campaign spending from GEO Group and CoreCivic, the 2 main private prison/ICE detention companies, suggest they've mostly given up on the House and are trying to save the Senate for the GOP. Major recipients: Susan Collins, Ashley Moody, Ken Paxton, Mike Rogers, Jon Husted, Ashley Hinson

free speech absolutism update

crazy to me that inflation has risen faster than wage growth and the GOP's criticism of talarico is that he might be secretly vegan

The gauntlet we subject nonwhite political candidates to in this country is unreal. We demand saintly temperament while expecting perfection, and we are worse off for it.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

Happy weekend www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

BREAKING: Texas is considering selling a state park to Elon Musk, per sources. (Gift link).

And the SF condo will still only have 1-1/2 bathrooms (aka a full bathroom plus the emergency toilet)

“Since 2022, at least 154 Bureau of Prisons employees and contractors have been charged in federal court for crimes ranging from fraud, abuse, and bribery to violating constitutional rights, according to a new analysis of federal charges by Court Watch” www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

BREAKING: We’re urging a federal judge to end ICE’s continued abuses at Camp East Montana. For over a year, people have endured unhygienic conditions, medical neglect, guard violence, and degrading treatment at this detention camp located on the Fort Bliss military base.

Shitty Shitty Bang Bang indeed

extremely bold choice to announce that you're ending your campaign at the Alamo www.ksat.com/news/texas/2...

This story makes it sound like the major problem is that the Trump Admin did this w/in 60 days of an election. Yes, that's a real abuse. But the major problem is they're basically threatening to denaturalize an opposition legislator, based on racist insinuations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

People also cant believe there is such a thing as “cell rent.” 41 states have it & even if you leave early states like FL make you pay the TOTALITY of your original stay. One Black woman was billed $127,000 ($50 a day for 2,555 days) for the full 7 years of her sentence despite only staying 10 mos

Tell Governor Newsom to spare hundreds of lives and grant universal clemency now.

🧊✈️ SEATTLE: A girl in chains boards an ICE-chartered GlobalX airplane (tail: N630VA) at Boeing Field, to be transported south to Arizona 👀

People in California who are facing a terrible ICE surge: remember that if you need whistles, we are still sending them out for free. In fact, we just passed 1.7 million whistles sent out. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

"Cat's in the Cradle" was a cautionary tale, not an instruction manual.

Just got a note from my doctor about a global estrogen gel/patch shortage. I'm imagining the amount of unbridled rage this could unleash just in time for the midterms.

So this was the most horrifying and nauseating thing I’ve read in ages. Democratic woman running for Congress stalked and raped in Arizona. Major trigger warnings about the details in the article. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...

Wait, Jim Bakker and Denny Hastert were both alive until today? I thought both of those assholes died 15 or 20 years ago.

Mango Mussolini taunting a country he's currently bombing to go ahead and destroy the two largest cities in California -- San Diego is a huge military city, so apparently besides millions of civilians, he wants U.S. soldiers to die? Luckily Iran has much saner political leaders than the U.S.

If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...

Put the joy of this kid in my veins. Taken by the talented Gabriela Campos at the @santafenewmexican.com.web.brid.gy www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_n...

Thanks to @theonion.com & @bencollins.bsky.social I and all middle-aged women working at nonprofits are seen and celebrated!!

Justice Kagan rejected the state's final bid to halt a court-ordered receivership set to begin Oct. 19 after 14 years of litigation

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

The SCOTUS Six voted for this.

I got back home a bit ago from Tennessee's execution of Christa Pike. We sat in the witness room for nearly 2 and a half hours as she received two rounds of pentobarbital. She was taken away in an ambulance shortly after that and I can't say for sure if she is dead or alive at this moment.

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

To bottom line this for you, the Supreme Court has allowed Trump to deport people without giving them a hearing, and said "we will consider next year whether this violated the laws against torture". They think it's worse to make Trump wait than risk him torturing people.

These are all words in the English language, my native tongue, but I have no fucking idea what any of this means, but since it involves AI, I can presume it’s not good.

So proud of the legal team at @aclu.org National Prison Project, @nyclu.org @maketheroadny.bsky.social & Wang Hecker on this victory. The 127 page opinion is available here: www.nysd.uscourts.gov/sites/defaul...

Tens of thousands of voter registrations have gone unprocessed in Texas. Affecting large areas deeply. If you’re in Texas, check your registration is up to date and accurate ASAP. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/t...

to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.

One of the really cool things about this case is that one of the lead plaintiffs is Lioness - a nonprofit run by women who did time in sweltering Texas prisons themselves. Then they got out and spearheaded this lawsuit that could drastically improve life for all their sisters still inside.