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Cake day: January 10th, 2025

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  • They do have good cause to strike. Staffing shortages have been bad in most prisons since COVID.

    But, because they’re short staffed and our justice system routinely dumps mentally ill folks in prisons. And guards aren’t mental health workers. And prison’s rarely do enough mental health programming or staff enough professionals to take care of the population. The cops end up thinking the only way they have to manage the situation is to torture folks by tossing them in solitary. Because that’s what they’ve been doing up until NY passed a bill to stop it.

    Sorry those sentences are oddly formatted. A bit stoned.



  • They’re complaint is that they can no longer place people in solitary confinement who are mentally ill. And that they can no longer place prisoners in solitary for longer than 15 days, which is the point that it’s considered torture by human rights organizations.

    Essentially, they are complaining that they can no longer torture folks.

    They have a few other demands too, but this is their main sticking point. Torture is no longer on the table so therefore we are striking.

    Class fucking traitors.






  • Donald Trump is authoritarian. Rather or not the United States can keep him in check is a different question

    And since you were so big on being pedantic, scroll back up and see what I said. I said President Trump is an authoritarian.

    He wants to be king, he wants to be like Putin, he admires people like Hitler.

    I’m talking about his attitudes and intentions. Not rather or not the US qualifies as an authoritarian regime. We will find out the answer to that question very soon.

    He’s a toddler who is going to push the boundaries until they break. And if anyone tells him no, he’s going to throw a fit. What happens after that, will answer the question.

    But my initial comment, was about Trump’s character. Not if the union currently qualifies. I think how they start responding to mass protests in the spring will let us know for sure.

    I fully expect state violence and suppression will be the response. At which point you can eat all of your words.