#Abolition

Erika Dickerson-Despenza

blkplaywright

“Punishment is easy, accountability is hard.” — Miriame Kaba How have we spent our lives (especially this year) punishing ourselves & others? In addition to the role of unresolved trauma,

David Brauer

dbrauer

I regret to inform you @StribOpinion has published Norm Coleman’s thoughts on our fair city.https://www.startribune.com/defund-and-disband-minneapolis-city-hall-leadership/571301662/ BTW this is the 3rd white GOP elected @StribOpinion has

Garrett Felber

garrett_felber

My chair just *rejected* a $42,000 grant from a major foundation we were awarded to support @study__struggle, a political education project on mass incarceration and immigrant detention, saying it's a

Diala Shamas

dialash

THREAD: I’ve represented people the government views as “terrorists.” Here’s an incomplete set of reasons why calling yesterday “terrorism” is not a good idea: If the goal is to trigger

Zikhona Valela

valavoosh

Slavery was abolished in the Cape on this day in 1834. Slavery had been in existence for 176 years. Slave owners were compensated for this "loss of labour" (the audacity)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh TD

MarcKC_Green

I've been asked by a number of people, including @Deisesupes for the reasoning behind last night's vote on Nurse's Pay. Twitter isn't a great format for detail, but here goes.

Mallory Moore

Chican3ry

Except this isn't how it goes. It goes "there's a man in there, there's a man in there and he had something in his hand. I don't know what it

Jonas Čeika

PhilosophyCuck

Imagine how different popular political opinion would be if people were taught real working class history. If they knew who fought for what. That it was, for example, mainly socialists

Abolish Police Rat 🐀🏴

cabbage_rat

It’s 2AM and I have a million things on my plate rn, but the “Defund” discourse has rattled some THOUGHTS around my old noggin, and I’m deciding to vom some

Proud Bulba ( ˈpɹaʊd:bʊlbə )

ProudBulba

Definition of a Swoop™ :Swoopers show up at an event meant to be centered around total abolition of cops and prisons and they change the messaging to one of reform

your local enboy 🌌 It/Its (capital i)

nebula_pierce

i keep finding antireligion stuff in atheist circles, so I just wanna remind some of you, as a former anti-theist person myself:your anger at religion should actually be directed towards

Reina Sultan #8ToAbolition

SultanReina

This is going to be a thread and I would like to begin by saying, @voxdotcom, I remain tired of you and your writers. 1/https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/1273209625198956545 First of all, are white

Michael Harriot

michaelharriot

To all the people who argue that the "left" should stop using phrases like "defund the police" and words like "socialism" or "reparations"It's a STUPID STUPID STUPID argument. History has

lil uzi veritas

polumechanos

I really believe in public scholarship, and I think a robust academic presence in public discourses is valuable and important — and that’s true even when I disagree with others’

dante 🌹

videodante

You can't discuss racism without discussing capitalism, the two are inextricably linked. Juneteenth is a holiday built on the emancipation of black people in America from slavery, which was *drumroll*

Arthur Asseraf

ArthurAsseraf

A brief history of Martinique in three destroyed statuesI. A few days ago, the mayor of Fort-de-France, capital of the French Caribbean island of Martinique, announced that the statue of

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