Senior Staff Attorney @ACLU criminal law reform. Tweets are my own and do not reflect the view of my employer.

New York, NY
Joined August 2009
You couldn’t make up a better allegory for the disproportionality in state funding between policing and public housing
This video is wild. US Marshals were trying to conduct a raid in Missouri, but the balcony had other plans.
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Every time I went to a protest or event about freeing Mumia Abu Jamal, I knew Prof. Johanna Fernandez would be there. Along with her amazing scholarly work, she was absolutely dedicated to the cause of freeing political prisoners. Rest in power!
Panel at the Peoples Forum in NYC on freeing Mumia Abu Jamal starting now. Prof. Johanna Fernandez is starting things off. #FreeMumia #BringMumiaHome
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Bearapalooza!
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We have a new @nytimes investigation out today. SUVs and pickup trucks dominate the roads across the US. And many are bigger — and far deadlier — than ever before. A thread --->
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manhattan should be carless and we should all wear matching outfits and drink nutcrackers in the street at 10 am every day
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My Coyotes are Central My Pigeons are creepin’ My turtles are Painted My Knicks are Sweepin’ #lfgk #nbafinals
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sign this petition to help save nyc's black-crowned night herons!!! these herons are historically the most abundant wading bird in the nyc harbor but their population has fallen 55% in 22 years, and projections say they'll be gone from the city by 2037 :( nycbirdalliance.org/our-work…
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READ: A woman was forced to give birth in Brooklyn criminal court 2 nights ago on a courtroom bench. Shackled. All while courtroom personnel gawked. And the judge ultimately refused even to dismiss her case--trespassing on her own rooftop. This is "justice" in America. More:
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There is no NYC without unions. A people united and organized cannot be defeated. Together, we're showing the world what solidarity means.
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I love that the bryant park woodcocks are going viral because there are few creatures that combine magic and idiocy so well but it bears mentioning that a lot of the birds don't make it out of the park alive. Each of these dots represents a woodcock killed by a window strike.
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If you’d like to understand the history of the country that US and Israeli imperialists are waging an illegal and unjust war against check out @thedigradio’s five part series with Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran thedigradio.com/History%20of…
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in America you need less evidence to kill thousands of Muslims than to arrest one member of an international sex trafficking ring
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The @ACLU has filed a class action damages suit against federal & state officers over an Idaho immigration raid last October. 200 armed officers raided a horse-race festival, detaining 400 Latinos for 4 hrs. All adults & many teens ziptied & searched. 1/8 storage.courtlistener.com/re…
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Newsmax still in the taxis. Sorry but this is Zohran’s NYC I want Democracy Now! on that screen.
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You probably don't know what SEQRA is - but you should know that it's slowing down the housing that we need. Deputy Mayor Leila Bozorg is here to explain why reforming it is key to cutting red tape and building more housing.
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@AcynJan 13
Van Hollen: I—and my office—have been working with a mom from the state of Maryland. She lived here 20 years. She has four kids. She was snatched off the streets by ICE a couple of weeks ago. She asked to be released to be able to visit with her 15-year-old son, who was dying of cancer. They said no. Shame. He died the next day. Her son died the next day without being able to say goodbye to his mom, and his mom was unable to say goodbye to him. That is the lack of humanity. That is the lack of basic human decency that we’re seeing from this administration. And that is why you’re all out here. We are now working very hard to make sure that this mom is at least released to go to her son’s memorial service.
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La Guaira: The U.S. bombed a medical supplies distribution center during its terror attack on Venezuela, destroying a warehouse which stored supplies for a nephrology program for patients undergoing hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis, affecting at least 9,000 kidney patients.
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