#Policing

Radley Balko

radleybalko

There are many possible reasons violent crime has spiked this year. Record unemployment. Social upheaval from a pandemic. Mistrust of police. Mistrust of government. The least likely explanation: defunding the

jim

yung__mean

good morning to whatever nbc10 intern accidentally put this on tv yesterday this genuinely has made my week she’s not happyhttps://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-police-commissioner-outlaw-nbc-apology-20210212.html?outputType=amp a re

Emily D. Warfield

EmilyDWarfield

Hey maybe since I'm unlocked now I can do a brief educational thread on the history, utility and limitations of the term "sex work" It was coined by Carol Leigh

Wendi C. Thomas

wendi_c_thomas

Yeah, I'm going to have to push back on this. The solution to poverty is... wait for it... More money. Virtually nothing in @MayorMemphis plan directly addresses how little $$$

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

Facebook has just entered antitrust hell, as nearly every US state and the federal government have taken the giant company to court, asserting that the company used predatory acquisitions to

Rattlecans

rattlecans

So that picture of the wumin living in a slum, in 1910 is flying abootThe are so many photos in the Mitchell collection of the awful poverty oor grannies were

ACE-Aware Nation

ACEAwareNation

THREAD. With yesterday’s excitement about the formation of a Trauma-Informed Lawyers’ Group here in Scotland @TraumaAwareLaw, we thought we would do a little retrospective of things that have been happening

Mark Scott

markscott82

.@facebook announced a bunch of efforts to combat electoral interference (mostly aimed at US). There’s lots to unpack here. Giddy up. So what is FB doing? Efforts focused on

Alex Temple

edusolicitor

1/13 SEND families will know how important it is to be able to hold local authorities to account, because they spend half their life doing just that. No one wants

Govind Persad

GovindPersad

Thanks to @JAMA_current for publishing my “The Ethics of COVID-19 Immunity-Based Licenses (‘Immunity Passports’)” (w/Zeke Emanuel) https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765836 The piece is short—trimmed a lot from 1st

Bimexual Disaster

commaSameleon

Ok kids, here’s what’s going to happen: you’re not going to get attention for boring jokes, very pathetic troll attempts, or attempts to intimidate and scare—I’m just going to post

Justin Amash

justinamash

Donald Trump wants to win the support of libertarians, but his actual record on expanding the federal government and eroding liberty is appalling. After claiming he would wipe out the

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

US law enforcement has literal centuries of shameful history of infiltrating and spying on politically disfavored activist groups, from trade unionists to suffragists to abolitionists to civil rights advocates to

Michael Harriot

michaelharriot

This narrative that black people who want an accurate reflection of history are "angry and resentful" leaves us with one logical takeaway:White people don't want to know history because they

Kate Chatfield

ChatfieldKate

What the SFDA's race was, and was not, about. A thread.So for some people, there's the horse-race analysis of elections. This can be somewhat interesting, in the same way that

A.R. (Actually Republic) Moxon

JuliusGoat

Tens of millions of Americans think the person on the left is the violent aggressor. Location South Carolina, late May. Photo Credit: CrushRushhttps://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2882282881998706&id=100006510664599 Enjoying hear

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