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Trump in China is just the Spanakopita #VentureBros episode
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Police investigations into police killings are usually a black box
But @michaelhayes & I found how NYPD investigated itself after an officer killed a man, Kawaski Trawick, who was home alone
We got audio interviews w/ the officers
Listen as the blue wall of silence is built
👇🏻
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she once ranked Syrian refugees by hotness for a white nationalist's website
Props to @kaitlancollins who was in an impossible position but did a heroic job of fact-checking Trump throughout the town hall. No easy task given how many factually untrue things he said in such a short time. Collins was a true pro and showed what a stellar journalist she is.
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Here's a map of violent crime in Chicago over the last five years (left) and a map of mayoral election results by precint (right).
The areas hit hardest by violence voted for Brandon Johnson, who campaigned hard on alternatives to policing, instead of tough-on-crime Paul Vallas.
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Nashville Students Walk Out of Classes to Demand Gun Controls democracynow.org/2023/4/4/he…
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Austin police officers arrested a deaf, elderly woman at ABIA for trespassing, but she just misunderstood instructions from a ticket clerk. Because she’s elderly and deaf. She spent 3 nights in the Travis County Jail, where a jailer broke her arm. She wasn’t taken to the ER.
Austin jailer breaks elderly deaf woman’s arm after misunderstanding at airport. austinchronicle.com/news/202…
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The criminal legal system reinforces race and class inequalities by design.
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Here is the final update to this post.
After a road rage incident, this Pawtucket off-duty unmarked cop shot a teen driver as he was trying to get away from the angry man with a gun..
He was found not guilty of all 7 charges.. somehow.
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While we’re distracted by pronouns, UFOs, & Woke Jesus, it’s important to remember that over 100,000 gallons of burning vinyl chloride is destroying the air, water, soil, & living creatures of Palestine, Ohio.
This is one of the biggest ecological disasters in American history.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This event is unfolding in East Palestine, a town in northeastern Ohio, not the town of Palestine, in western Ohio. They are nearly 4.5 hours away from each other by car.
cnn.com/2023/02/06/us/…
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I was told handing over public education to Bill Gates and the Walton family, gutting teachers’ unions, and creating an exotic racist web of “accountability” metrics was how you reduced childhood poverty. It turns out you can do it by simply…giving poor people money. Big if true
Amateur assassin, new to Twitter. Is there really a way to get someone's "assassination coordinates"? And is that like, their location or the ideal spot?
Phew, cops are famously great evaluators of "alternative force options"
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Railroad workers grind themselves to the bone for this country as their labor produces billions for Wall St.
They demand the basic dignity of paid sick days. I stand with them.
If Congress intervenes, it should be to have workers’ backs and secure their demands in legislation.
