#Defund

Will Stancil

whstancil

The other thing about “defund the police” is that even if you assume that it’s uniquely a killer for Democrats (something, to be clear, there’s literally zero actual evidence of),

jen méndez

jenmendez_

"Defund the police" is not a "mandate." Most of the Black folks who took to the streets to protest do not support that idea.It was mostly pushed by non-Black activists

Matthew Yglesias

mattyglesias

imo the big problem with “defund the police” is that defunding the police is a bad idea — austerity is bad, public services are good, policing is important, and better

Corey Richardson

vexedinthecity

I bet $50 if you took the same principles from the Defund The Police movement and changed the header to "Street Level Policing," that shit would poll through the roof.

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golikehellmachi

there's nothing legally wrong with owning all of this, assuming it was all bought legally, which is one of the more legitimately deranged things about this country.https://twitter.com/JoshBreslowWKRN/status/1352322977522659331 a point t

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drawandstrike

Dear Progressive Leftists: The argument about the 2nd Amendment & citizens being able to be armed with semi-automatic rifles is over.You lost it. Love & Kisses, @drawandstrike https://twitter.com/BillFOXLA/status/1267289308756504576

brent 🍂

brent858

The headline is misleading and I actually agree with Obama here that branding/messaging is everything in politics. You are not (and shouldn’t) police activists, but I think the left often

Angus Johnston

studentactivism

Man. AOC out here responding to left-punching with "be more good at politics, whiners." You honestly love to see it.https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1324694301234921474 And if you want to know what AOC thinks about

Phoenix Woman 🍩

PhoenixWomanMN

I got an email from the Indivisible group today, with their explanation of why they support the Defund the Police movement. The email contained so much BS that I felt

Aidan Smith

aidan_smx

Centrists: Stop saying "defund the police"! Say "reform the police" instead, it polls better.Me: So does "reform police" entail cutting police funding to increase social services?Centrists: No, we mean "ke

Josh Page

joshuapagemn

To reimagine policing and end mass incarceration, we must dethrone the law enforcement lobby. New essay w/ @HeatherS_25 & Michael Campbell. @jacobinmag @samswey @ScottHech 1/https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/07/defund-police-unions-law-en

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

Matthew Chapman

fawfulfan

Stop saying "defund the police."Poll after poll after poll is clear. The public supports funding social services that fill some roles police currently have, but they DON'T support defunding the

micah

micahherskind

“We gathered in the streets to demand change”??? You arrested everyone who protested.https://twitter.com/cnnpolitics/status/1296622977522573312 You put a curfew in place to criminalize protest and have hauled hundreds to jails, further

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Queenfreemarket

Thread: Defund the police Read my words carefully before you respond:As an anarchist, I would LOVE to defund and privatize everything. Here’s the problem: this Defund the Police is nothing

Dan

the_dan

A few years ago, I led message development for a police reform campaign in a major city. We used universal values, got buy-in from local leaders, gained traction in local

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