Police have not always existed. We intend to make a better world without them. We are based in the Mid-South of the USA. (Chickasaw Land)
Memphis, TN
Joined May 2021
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"The barriers facing voters today are not identical to those of 1965. We no longer confront the same system of literacy tests and poll taxes. But questions of fair representation remain urgent . . . democracy never becomes self-sustaining." memphisflyer.com/from-fayett…
"You always count. Whether you vote or not, you always count. The question is, are you using that power of you counting in a way that is going to be best aligned with your interests or not?" revealnews.org/podcast/latos…
"As I recall, 'Thou shalt not kill' was a commandment, not a suggestion. But it’s clear the deity [Tennessee Governor Bill] Lee truly worships wears orange makeup, cotton-candy hair extensions, and has trouble dealing with anyone who doesn’t worship him." memphisflyer.com/defining-mo…
"Alternatives to policing" describes a broad family of policies built around a relatively simple premise: Many social disruptions do not inherently require law enforcement. Rather than asking police to manage every conflict that appears in public space... science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
". . . do not let anyone tell you both parties are the same. They are not. That false equivalency is the lie powerful interests need us to believe, because they are counting on our cynicism. Unchallenged power is the easiest kind to wield . . . " theroot.com/six-reasons-why-…
"Crime in Memphis was already falling substantially before Trump sent in the task force . . . they do not show that Trump’s task force explicitly caused the decline." theroot.com/fact-check-crime…
"These are human beings with families and jobs and lives. Most of them contribute to our communities, often doing the manual work the rest of us don’t want to take on. Now they are being treated like animals by masked, unidentified federal agents . . . " memphisflyer.com/the-worst-o…
"A government that can find $182 billion for ICE can find money to alleviate human suffering and repair our world." epi.org/deportation-calculat…
" . . . a reinterpretation of a complex immigration law has caused a year of frantic emergency cases for the court system and upended people’s lives after Immigration and Customs Enforcement began detaining people who have lived in the U.S. for years." wknofm.org/news-from-npr/202…
"Harkening back to colonial massacres, Trump abandons the premise of proportionality for butchery in Iran and beyond." theintercept.com/2026/08/05/…
"The staggering tally of 55 people who have perished in detention under the tender mercies of the Trump ICE gulag may in fact be an undercount. A recent Human Rights Watch report puts the rate of mortality in ICE detention at an all time high."
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"Nationally, there has been a troubling drumbeat of shootings involving federal personnel as the Trump administration ramps up their use to address crime, clamp down on protests and conduct immigration enforcement." wknofm.org/politics-npr-news…
"Since the Trump administration started its nationwide crackdown on immigration, ICE has shot at twenty people, killing six . . . the president has turned the agency into his own paramilitary force." revealnews.org/podcast/radle…
"After a Black man was shot and killed by two National Guard officers in Memphis, his family is demanding the release of footage related to the incident." theroot.com/a-black-man-was-…
"We may not know exactly what a world without cages and shackles will look like, nor do we know exactly how to get there. But it is past time to stop building solitary cells and death chambers simply because we refuse to believe something else is possible" afsc.org/news/juneteenth-we-…
" . . . the labor market isn't really a zero-sum contest, where immigrants and native workers battle over a fixed number of jobs in a kind of labor market Hunger Games, and the newcomers take the jobs of or undercut the people already here." wknofm.org/politics-npr-news…
". . . for people who are trying to articulate some false narrative and argument that racism is no longer a problem, you are lying. You are lying to yourselves, and you are lying to communities that are feeling the impacts of racism every single day . . ." theintercept.com/2026/05/08/…
" . . . people with power want to stop spending our tax dollars on food for babies and children so they can spend it on war, and an unjust and unlawful one at that . . . We are, in fact, allowed to invest in ourselves and our futures" memphisflyer.com/whos-paying…
