#Policing

Luddite womanhood

gothhabiba

this idea that compulsory heterosexuality is an “experience” at all, much less an experience that only lesbians have, is already off base. it’s very individualising and dare I say liberal

Margaret O'Mara

margaretomara

Popular stereotypes of Seattle--quirky left-coast outlier, nerdy high-tech hub--overlook bigger, harder truths about its past, & how this city is so much like the rest of America. Here are some

Chris K-V

chris_k_v

I’ve been advised by people much more Twitterate than I that I should have Threaded my Command reflections so here they are as a series. This is stuff I’ve been

Nithya Raman

nithyavraman

LA is the largest urban oil field in the country -- and while many places mandate buffer zones between oil wells and residential areas, we don’t.This means 500,000 Angelenos breathe

Rebecca Rivas

Rebeccarivas

St. Louis Board of Aldermen about to discuss a Board Bill 200 to approve a contract with Persistent Surveillance Systems (PSS) to provide aerial surveillance. Baltimore police recently said that

Lauren Vidas 😷

BroadAndMarket

So, lots of follow up questions from yesterday's budget thread wanting to know more about the police contract. Here’s a primer that tries to explain the interplay between the budget

karen ward

kwardvancouver

so provincial public health is resisting the call for a mask mandate because that means a public safety order, which involves fines and citations, aka criminalization. "it should be a

Haajara

haajara

1. Back by popular demand (ok fine. like 8 people requested this) today we’re gonna talk about Gentrification, #EndSARS & the 1004 Estate in Lagos...ISSA THREAD!! 2. Like everyone

Andy Arthur

cocteautriplets

More of a prompt to myself than anything, but in the early-middle 19th century, the old Calton burgh area was actually an exclave of South Leith Parish. These lands had

Dave McKenna

djmckenna00

Something I've learned while in law school is about the social construction of crime. I work in a legal clinic on wage theft cases, where employers have "improperly paid" workers

offtherails

Women2Dc

Yesterday when legally placing @JoeBiden signs on a public road in LI a man named @roysilber w/ @corcorangroup pulled up parked his car besides me, illegally ripped up the sign

Tony Yates

t0nyyates

@bbclaurak asks what went wrong. Many things.... 1. The government and particularly the PM was complacent in getting into gear as the virus gathered pace in China and Italy. 2.

shanodin (she/they)

shanodin

y'all, let's take a minute to talk about Twitch tags, especially as an LGBTQIA+ streamer. Tags are a "discovery tool" and are either automatically applied by Twitch (e.g. game genres

Iola Ella

IolaElla

Hey, yawl the folks at @JournalSpectre were nice enough to let me write an article to push back on Robin, Moyn, Maher & Khachaturian's assertions that the right is weak

Starling3232

Starling3232

1/14 West Belfast seems to be in a perpetual cycle of car violence. These problems have never been addressed structurally by fixing our streets and neighbourhoods instead money is squandered

The Editorial Board

johnastoehr

We can finally put the lie to Trumpism by @johnastoehr https://stoehr.substack.com/p/we-can-finally-put-the-lie-to-trumpism?r=5msd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter 1. The counting continues this morning, and t

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