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Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec

4 years ago

Tomorrow, officials in Austin, Texas will be voting on whether to spend $80 million to create a new human caging facility for women. It is the first step in the county's "master plan" to invest $600 million more in human caging. This is how mass incarceration happens.

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Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec

4 years ago

THREAD: A huge scandal is brewing in New York: Cuomo is on the verge of making the highest court in New York one of the most right-wing, pro-incarceration, anti-civil rights courts in modern U.S. history. Incredible that national media is not covering this. (1)

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sash @sash_3

4 years ago

Today I found out and went down a rabbit hole about Germany’s colonization of Namibia & how concentration camps from the Holocaust were practiced & perfected on Namibians decades earlier.

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Don Wilson @heiltsuk_paleo

4 years ago

My Dad rarely spoke about residential school. However, one thing that stuck with me was his account of how the older boys would position themselves closer to the door in the dorms so the younger boys wouldn’t be chosen when the priests came to get them at night. #215children

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Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec

4 years ago

The courts use doctrines like abstention, sovereign immunity, absolute immunity, qualified immunity, mootness, standing, state secrets, etc. both to prevent discovery of facts but also to avoid publicly having to decide the merits of issues that would expose the gap. (4)

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chris evans @chris_notcapn

4 years ago

19 year old Derontae Martin attended a prom party at the home of a known racist in rural Missouri. He was found in the attic dead from one gunshot wound to the head. The medical examiner is calling it a suicide buy Derontae was right handed and his right arm was in a cast.

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Robert Reich @RBReich

4 years ago

A short history of corporate tax rates: Reagan: 34% Clinton: 35% Bush: 35% Obama: 35% Trump: 21% Biden's original plan: 28% Biden's "compromise" plan: 25% This is why Dems need to stop negotiating with themselves.

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Scott Hechinger @ScottHech

4 years ago

For years Oregon's "progressive" AG has fought to keep people imprisoned by a KKK law silencing Black jurors. While lying she lacks power to change it. Not going to work anymore. Journalists are calling her. "The responsibility falls squarely on the office of Ellen Rosenblum."

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Bakari Sellers @Bakari_Sellers

4 years ago

Texas signed a fetal heartbeat bill and executed a man on the same day?!?

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Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec

4 years ago

fraudulent overdraft fees cost more $$$ than all property crime combined. wage theft by employers takes $50 billion per year (3.5 times more than all robberies, burglaries, larcenies, and car thefts combined), and police/DAs in most cities choose not to consider either a "crime."

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one ١٥٧٤ @habhoobahh

4 years ago

@palyouthmvmt BK and Nj

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Abdallah Fayyad @abdallah_fayyad

4 years ago

If you’re outraged by what’s happening in Sheikh Jarrah now, wait till you find out how Israel was established.

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Rashida Tlaib @RashidaTlaib

4 years ago

I see some who were silent as Palestinians were ripped from their homes and tear gassed in their holiest mosques now finding their voices - to stand with the Israeli gov as airstrikes leave Palestinian children dead. Where are your voices when Palestinians are under threat?

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Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN

4 years ago

Many will tell you Israel has a right to defend itself, to safety and security, but are silent on whether Palestinians have those rights too. Until we can defend the rights of Palestinians just as we do Israelis, we have no leg to stand on when it comes to justice or peace.

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Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec

4 years ago

This morning I'm thinking about how 99.9% of the U.S. still doesn't know that, after they killed Breonna Taylor, Louisville cops managed to get the City to increase their budget by $750,000 and to cut the public library budget by $775,000.

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Remi Kanazi @Remroum

4 years ago

The US gives Israel $3.8 billion a year in military aid. It's the first in line to whitewash Israel's crimes. The US isn't being silent, it's actively enabling the oppression Palestinians face.

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Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN

4 years ago

This deputy mayor is describing ethnic cleansing here, yet everyone is the West is pretending that’s not what’s happening to Palestinians. It’s reprehensible.

Nathan Thrall @NathanThrall

4 years ago

This deputy mayor is describing ethnic cleansing here, yet everyone is the West is pretending that’s not what’s happening to Palestinians. It’s reprehensible.

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Rashida Tlaib @RashidaTlaib

4 years ago

There is no reason, none, to attack people while they are praying or seeking medical attention--other than to dehumanize and terrorize them.

The IMEU @theIMEU

4 years ago

There is no reason, none, to attack people while they are praying or seeking medical attention--other than to dehumanize and terrorize them.

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Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN

4 years ago

This is happening as Muslims pray tarawih & tahajud in Palestine. Families who pray all night during Ramadan, the mosque is like home. Palestinians deserve to find refuge in a mosque and peace in Ramadan. Where is the media coverage? 🗣 up against Israeli occupation terror.