#DEFUND

Consequence is no coincidence

BlueSteelDC

This year the House passed the Justice in Policing George Floyd Act.This year several local jurisdictions were able to make sweeping police reformsMinnesota who embraced defund could not make more

Smitty

BullCityHeel

Please read this thread about this focus group to again see why "defund the police" is not a good slogan and needs to be repackaged. These folks supported the idea

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golikehellmachi

my feeling on "defund the police" is that i'm mostly in favor of the goals, am ambiguous on the sloganeering, and think that everyone who isn't directly involved with lobbying

Alex Vitale

avitale

I'm not sure why @jacobinmag is so invested in erasing the Movement for Black Lives, with non-sense like this. A thread.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbR3wmKavng&feature=youtu.be 1) I agree that we want a politics of

Fergus Hunter

fergushunter

Unsurprising that this US-centric, simplistic and intentionally provocative take is getting love on Australian politico-media Twitter. Further evidence of how an online intelligentsia is detached from the very rational interests

Sarah Burke

sarahjaneva

So who is going to FOIA the expenditures of VSP, Albemarle Police Dept, CPD, and UVA Police today? You know, just to see how much the Defend the Police block

Sarah

sarah_in_ny

“Defund the Police” was immediately latched onto & spun to fear-monger a captive [white] audience, many of whom in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, were for the first time,

Elizabeth Findell

efindell

.@GovAbbott today said #txlege would freeze property taxes of TX cities that "defund" police.He targeted #atxcouncil for reducing its PD budget, citing @WSJ analysis that Austin has the highest %

Palmer Report

PalmerReport

President Obama is right. "Defund the police" is a terribly ineffective slogan. Most of the public thinks it means something entirely different than what the people using the slogan think

Austin McCoy

AustinMcCoy3

If you’re protesting and organizing against police violence, then your target is going to be the police. And, obviously, law enforcement and those who support them won’t like it. This

Kritika Sen

kritikaseen

I have written a small Chrome extension that will remove all the banners asking for donations on Wikipedia.Source code : https://github.com/kritikaseen/defund-wikipediaProcess to install this extension is pretty simple and is

Julie Gautreau

julie_goats

When they start naming streets Black Lives Matter or passing laws with extra punishment for cops who kill black ppl & naming those laws after the victims, that really means

A.R. (Actually Republic) Moxon

JuliusGoat

I know this isn't popular and turns off suburban centrist voters, but I actually don't think we need to pay *anybody* to sexually abuse Louisville minors, or to engage in

Will Stancil

whstancil

Can someone please explain to me how "defund the police," a little-adopted activist message that appeared at a discrete point of time in the middle of the campaign, caused a

Daniel Marans

danielmarans

A lot of people here are talking about Warnock's victory single-handedly dispelling the idea that "defund the police" rhetoric hurt Democrats down ballot in November.Since I am one of the

Ben Domenech

bdomenech

So @TheAtlantic published a powerful, vivid story of a cop shooting to make the case for defunding the police.The problem is: there's no record it ever happened.https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/16/im-at-a-loss-for-words-the-unraveling-

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