🚨 Los Angeles DA Jackie Lacey just conceded to progressive challenger George Gascón. Gascón, who was SF DA, ran on reducing incarceration & bringing the national reform movement to this county of 10 million. And major activist energy around the office. theappeal.org/george-gascon-…

Elections matter

"A lot of Black folk from #Philly are refugees from the south. Their parents or great-grandparents came from Virginia or South Carolina where voter suppression, particularly among Democrats, was the norm," Rep. Chris Rabb of NW Philly representing #PA's 200th legislative district.

It's infuriating how the election volunteers & workers in PA are blamed for pace & hounded with insults, when they've begged PA for months to allow them to process mail early, & the GOP refused precisely to get to a point where it could blame their pace & hound them with insults.

Biden's victory was driven by voters of color. He can deliver change by appointing the most diverse cabinet and judiciary in history. Reps. Rep. Joanna McClinton, Rep. Vernetta Alston, Reginald Bolding Ed.D., LaKeshia Myers, and Carolyn F. Hugley write: businessinsider.com/racism-joe-bid…

Oregon City residents voted to remove Mayor Dan Holladay from office. This comes after he suggested businesses defy the governor's COVID-19 order and remain open. And downplayed police brutality against Black people during ongoing social justice protests. oregonlive.com/clackamascount…

Local administrators are releasing little, if any, information about infections. “Twenty-one of the 23 state prisons have active cases. There has not been a single time during this pandemic that there have been that many active cases." inquirer.com/news/pennsylva…

“I am on a permanent quest to make housing a human right at the local and state level. It’s unconscionable that we have children in encampments that aren’t even fit for animals. We lose a little bit of our humanity each day we let these conditions exist.” theguardian.com/us-news/2020/n…

Hawaii legislation — which was passed in the wake of national protests over George Floyd's death — aimed to eliminate the secrecy around police officers' misconduct records. Now the police union is trying to reverse it in court. civilbeat.org/2020/11/shopo-…

Immigrants' rights organizers scored major wins in South Carolina & Georgia last week, flipping sheriff's offices toward candidates who ran on ending contracts with ICE. new from me: theappeal.org/politicalrepor…

Gov. DeSantis has drafted “anti-mob” legislation in response to police-brutality protests expanding Florida’s Stand Your Ground law — a move that critics say will allow armed citizens to shoot suspected looters or anyone engaged in “criminal mischief." miamiherald.com/news/politics-…

Voters in LA approved new limits to police power, elected a more progressive prosecutor, and mandated that 10% of the local budget be spent on prevention, not incarceration. And progressive candidates beat contenders backed by police and sheriff’s unions. bit.ly/3lvnyvj

Today Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, Sen. Patrick Leahy, Sen. Cory Booker, & I are calling on AG Barr to suspend all federal executions so the incoming Biden-Harris Admin. can evaluate—and hopefully end—the use of the federal death penalty. It is discriminatory, immoral & ineffective. Read our letter here:

This isn't an issue of bad apples.

As someone working on compassionate release motions Georgetown Law clinics, I can tell you that there are lots of COVID-19 cases in federal prisons and lots of medically vulnerable men and women inside those prisons. It’s a humanitarian crisis.

“Nowhere is there the mention that improved facilities, improved teaching methods, concerned teachers, and subject matter that relates to the students’ experience and lifestyle would solve the problem." motherjones.com/crime-justice/…

Defund the police.

In a key test of police reform after the May 25 police killing of #GeorgeFloyd and the summer protests that spread across the country, anti-carceral candidates and policies won across the board — victories that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. huffpost.com/entry/black-li…

Senator Kevin Thomas, targeted by local police union campaign, has won re-election: