Victoria Law's avatar

Victoria Law

@victorialaw.bsky.social

496 followers 16 following 228 posts

Freelance journalist & author. Forthcoming CORRIDORS OF CONTAGION: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration (Haymarket 2024). linktr.ee/victorialaw

Reposted by Victoria Law

Reposted by Victoria Law

Andrew D Thaler's avatar Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social
[ View ]

Library funding is almost always justified through patron numbers. The more people a library serves, the more funding it gets. So even if you don't regularly use a public library, get a library card. It costs you nothing and helps everyone in your community.

9 replies 240 reposts 478 likes

Reposted by Victoria Law

Hell Gate *subscribe today!*'s avatar Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgateny.bsky.social
[ View ]

GrowNYC’s Greenmarket Compost Drop-Offs Are Gone for Good Community composting got $6.2 million in the budget, but the climate-saving initiative has had a "bittersweet" few weeks.

0 replies 4 reposts 2 likes

Victoria Law's avatar Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social
[ View ]

#OTD last year: On July 3, 2023, state, federal, and immigration prisons across the U.S. reported nearly 3,000 COVID deaths since the start of the pandemic.

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Reposted by Victoria Law

Phil Lewis's avatar Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social
[ View ]

COLEMAN, Fla. (AP) — Commission denies parole for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted of killing FBI agents in 1975.

5 replies 38 reposts 62 likes

Reposted by Victoria Law

Prism's avatar Prism @prismreports.bsky.social
[ View ]

Multiple states are building new women’s prisons, but can they be stopped? Prisons’ abuse of incarcerated women has only led to the expansion of the carceral system, Sierra Dickey reports. Meanwhile, real alternatives to prison are largely ignored.
prismreports.org/2024/07/01/s...

0 replies 14 reposts 21 likes

Victoria Law's avatar Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social
[ View ]

COVER REVEAL:
Yesterday was the 3-year anniversary of a horrifying pandemic milestone--half a million people in prison had contracted Covid.
My newest book chronicles this heartbreaking (& enraging) reality. Now available for pre-sale: t.co/mpqTUVWUxy

0 replies 21 reposts 38 likes

Victoria Law's avatar Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social
[ View ]

Anyone else having a problem buying "stamps" on the ConnectNetwork prison e-messaging system today (6/30)?

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Victoria Law's avatar Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social
[ View ]

By this day 3 yrs ago (6/30/21), half a million people in prison had contracted Covid, showing the need to create consistent policies to prevent future health crises from sickening thousands behind bars. It was a missed opportunity to rethink US addiction to incarceration.

1 replies 4 reposts 5 likes

Reposted by Victoria Law

Taniel 's avatar Taniel @taniel.bsky.social
[ View ]

NEW: Guards at a notorious federal prison in California sexually abused women who were incarcerated there.

The abuse survivors are now demanding justice—and pressing for a pathway out known as compassionate release.

Tough story from @psfrench.bsky.social. boltsmag.org/federal-pris...

1 replies 48 reposts 83 likes

Reposted by Victoria Law

Liz Shayne's avatar Liz Shayne @lizshayne.bsky.social
[ View ]

If you're in NY and can sign this, please do. Masks bans will not combat antisemitism, they will just put disabled people at risk. We can and must do better.
www.jewsformaskrights.com

0 replies 148 reposts 260 likes

Victoria Law's avatar Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social
[ View ]

A good reason to leave my house during daylight hours today!

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Victoria Law's avatar Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social
[ View ]

Sending you some street fair sugar from Chinatown…

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Victoria Law's avatar Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social
[ View ]

App 80% of organic waste collected by NYC's Dept of Sanitation becomes methane, which is burned for electricity. Just 20% is turned into the compost that makes tomatoes beefier & trees leafier, while not contributing to the climate crisis by creating more fossil fuels.

0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes

Reposted by Victoria Law

Samuel Rubenfeld's avatar Samuel Rubenfeld @srubenfeld.bsky.social
[ View ]

Companies of a certain size are required to provide COVID leave to their employees until July 2025. I just used it last week after I tested positive.

0 replies 6 reposts 15 likes

Reposted by Victoria Law

jon ben-menachem's avatar jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com
[ View ]

the zionist billionaire whatsapp chat with eric adams and aipac's $15m spend against bowman are really not helping american jews beat back the antisemitic conspiracy theories

0 replies 2 reposts 7 likes

Reposted by Victoria Law

Marisa Kabas's avatar Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social
[ View ]

Reuven Kahane was back in court today. The DA requested a temporary order of protection for the protester Kahane hit with his car, which was denied by the judge. His next appearance is scheduled for 8/19.

2 replies 37 reposts 65 likes

Reposted by Victoria Law

Victoria Law's avatar Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social
[ View ]

That sounds lovely. I even have some of those, but my record player is currently buried under some of these prison documents 😔

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Reposted by Victoria Law

Prisonculture's avatar Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social
[ View ]

NYC: Donate Used Books to Bluestockings! All books in good condition accepted, books will be split between Bluestockings, @brooklynbookbodega and books through bars. drop off any time we are open!

2 replies 57 reposts 99 likes

Victoria Law's avatar Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social
[ View ]

Recommendations for music to get me through laborious task of sorting through giant sheaf of mixed up prison documents?

1 replies 1 reposts 1 likes

Reposted by Victoria Law

Hell Gate *subscribe today!*'s avatar Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgateny.bsky.social
[ View ]

The Adams Administration Is Paving Community Compost Paradise for a Parking Lot On June 30, the City is evicting Big Reuse's award-winning community composting site in Long Island City for vehicle storage. "Does that make sense from a climate perspective?"

4 replies 33 reposts 61 likes

Victoria Law's avatar Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social
[ View ]

"WHEN WE HAVE FIGHTS, WE'RE MOVED RIGHT BACK WITH EACH OTHER BUT WHEN WE GIVE EACH OTHER HUGS WE'RE NEVER ABLE TO RESIDE TOGETHER." -woman incarcerated in NYS prison

0 replies 2 reposts 4 likes

Reposted by Victoria Law

Victoria Law's avatar Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social
[ View ]

Circus Amok at Coney Island yesterday

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Reposted by Victoria Law

Victoria Law's avatar Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social
[ View ]

Are you really a New Yorker if you don’t get motion sick?

1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Victoria Law's avatar Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social
[ View ]

Isn’t that where all the Brooklyn bibliophiles go to read?

1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Victoria Law's avatar Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social
[ View ]

Which should be this weekend’s reading for the beach (and the likely long hot wait for the ferry)?

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Victoria Law's avatar Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social
[ View ]

Hope you were not planning on a quiet reading day by the Cyclone today!

2 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Reposted by Victoria Law

Elana Levin's avatar Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social
[ View ]

@jfrejnyc.bsky.social there today with a life sized Eric Adams cardboard cutout outside the BK library with a speach bubble “ask me why I’m closing libraries”. I’m sure folks would love to make merch.

4 replies 38 reposts 101 likes

Victoria Law's avatar Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social
[ View ]

Because paying 14 transit cops to find ONE fare evader on 14 street and 3 avenue makes total fiscal sense 🙄

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Reposted by Victoria Law

Prisonculture's avatar Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social
[ View ]

I was reading about Louise Norton Little (1894 or 1897 – December 18, 1989) last night. I had never seen a photo of her so I searched for one. She was gorgeous. I also didn't know that she died in 1989!!!! She lived a long life. She was Malcolm X's mother for those who might not know.

10 replies 48 reposts 359 likes

Victoria Law's avatar Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social
[ View ]

Putting on my to read list too!! Thanks for the public learning announcement!!

0 replies 0 reposts 3 likes

Reposted by Victoria Law

Reposted by Victoria Law

Wendy Xu's avatar Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social
[ View ]

I HATE HIM SO MUCH I HATE THIS CLOWN ASS MAYOR

4 replies 55 reposts 209 likes

Reposted by Victoria Law

Victoria Law's avatar Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social
[ View ]

“Reading in prison is an escape, but what happens when you have a large population that is semi-literate?It’s soothing, but it demonstrates a failure of the educational system.” -Kwaneta Harris, who did storytime in seg for those who were less literate www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

0 replies 23 reposts 31 likes

Victoria Law's avatar Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social
[ View ]

A neighbor, who went to Stuyvesant in the 70s, hosted a get-together of her Black friends from high school. WITH their spouses (who did not go to Stuy), there were fewer than 10 people.

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Reposted by Victoria Law

Reposted by Victoria Law

Reposted by Victoria Law

Prisonculture's avatar Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social
[ View ]

Saxapahaw Prison Books has a new home in Brooklyn. My friend Moira launched the project & she needs volunteers to come read letters & pack books. Donations for mailing costs are also needed. www.saxapahawprisonbooks.org

3 replies 47 reposts 69 likes

Reposted by Victoria Law

Reposted by Victoria Law

Reposted by Victoria Law

Cristian Farias's avatar Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com
[ View ]

Clarence Thomas’ grandnephew, whom he and his wife raised as a son, was more or less left on his own when he began using drugs in high school and became involved with the criminal legal system. "I actually don't know if they know that I'm locked up — I'm not sure they'd care too much,” he told BI.

5 replies 49 reposts 253 likes