Never good in the first place
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Never good in the first place
Facts
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“I had high hopes for the ICEBlock app, so it’s a shame that the developer is both overly confident and doesn’t know what he’s doing” - @micahflee.com The @iceblock.app has 1+ million users. They’re the people on Bluesky, joining @50501movement.bsky.social and attending @teslatakedown.com rallies.
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Real
True criminality
You ever in Danbury?
It’s significantly more important, in fact
They do, and it’s bad
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Our model can only be abolition
What I’m saying is that the two types of people most likely to become cops — within the demographic of people likely to become cops — are people who have always been bullied and people who were bullied
Or, were you bullied?
This is different and also bad
Abolish them
All; see my reply
Current statistics: Cops kill 3-6 people a day Cops kill 25 dogs a day Cops are responsible for 1/3 of all stranger murders Nearly half of all cops *admit* to beating their partners Cops steal more money per year than all robberies combined Cops solve 2% of major crimes Cops earn ~ $80k/year
It’s also only the 22nd most dangerous job 😂
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Certainly not!
They commit more crimes than anybody else
Certainly not less. But actually, they should abolish the police.
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Hard to achieve with their current 2% solve rate
Meanwhile, the Law & Order president is defunding the police
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What could possibly go wrong?
I'm so excited to share today's #DoSomething interview with none other than #JasonBerlin - founder of #FieldTeam6 - the force behind a massive Dem voter registration drive that has added millions more voters to our side. Please like, subscribe, and share! rhutabhayga.substack.com/publish/post...
He is dismantling the Postal Service All of this will have to be rebuilt from scratch. So much money wasted.
alright gang, shits getting rough in gaza. gazans were just issued an emergency evacuation order as more bombs are to drop in 2 days. price to escape has lowered substantially, but soad doesnt have enough yet for her and omar - they need $470 to get out. emergency boosts now - she'll die otherwise
FEDERAL AGENTS TAKE NOTE… It’s not just Chicago standing strong. Other blue cities and governors are ready to unite against Trump’s federal invasion. I’m not an attorney, but this point seems huge: if federal agents break state or city laws, they can prosecuted. And Trump cannot pardon them.
"They're takin' our jobs!" has NEVER been true. It's a lie to make US-born people resent immigrants and get them to support harsh, cruel, anti-immigrant measures. No US-born citizens are rushing to fill the jobs undocumented people were doing.
There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused.” - Jim O’Neill, set to lead the CDC, said in 2009 at a Peter Thiel event.
“This is an attack on Black women — fully.” Black women lost 319,000 jobs (public and private sectors) between February and July, while White women saw a job increase of 142,000, and Hispanic women of 176,000. White men saw the largest increase, 365,000. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
🧵(Thread) Crime, Centrism, and the Democratic Party Part 1: Answering SE Cupp This thread is about answering the most prominent talking points about crime being a "loser" for the Democratic party in the face of Trump's federalization of Washington, DC Let's start with SE Cupp's take 1/
Read it and weep for all of us. medium.com/fourth-wave/...
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If John Brown told knock-knock jokes... Knock knock. Who’s there? Lettuce. Lettuce who? Lettuce break every yoke! Lettuce cast off the bonds of Pharaoh and strike down the house of bondage with righteous fury! 🤠 #johnbrown
New research, innovative programs and emboldened advocates are challenging decades-old conventions about how to respond to domestic abuse. ✍️ Katherine Ellison knowmag.org/4n1eJZj
Bittersweet when someone who never should have been charged, let alone spent more than a decade in prison, is released. Though she should not have been in, Alexis Martin is out. #FreeThemAll www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
This is how journalists normalize fascism. Complicit Katie Kull regurgitates the talking points of an openly white supremacist president, never bothering to question the legality of the stops or the impact on people's lives. Stenographers for power like this should make other journlists ashamed.
Family, Here’s a clip from my upcoming film Clearing the Air:The War on Smog—a powerful reminder that when crisis strikes, we can come together and solve it. I hope you will watch the premiere Tonight, August 26, 2025, at 9:00 p.m. on PBS. #ClearingTheAirPBS #ProudBlue www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...
this does not seem like a good thing mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/substack-j...
Another thing to consider here is that the intrusive searches & data theft from international scholars at the border may subject their U.S. colleagues to allegations of having “foreign ties” & “un-American ideas,” esp those of us studying surveilled & suppressed topics like race, class, gender, etc.
Protestors have been projecting the innocent victims illegally kidnapped and detained by ICE on the side of the Los Angeles Detention Facility!! Los Angeles has a spirit Trump can’t crush. Los Angeles will crush him instead!!
One if by air, two if by sea and three if by drones. There are a lot of things the U.S. is doing on our own soil that is revolting. mynewsla.com/business/202...
“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” - Fred Hampton
With States experiencing vaccination rates that fall short of the threshold needed for herd immunity, leading to significant measles outbreaks. With an anti-vaxx Health Secretary, we can expect these outbreaks to escalate, resulting in further loss of life. #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #DemsAct #DemCast
Trump keeps mailing Gavin hats that say “Trump 2028!” If you think he’s joking about a 3rd term, you’re sadly mistaken. He is never planning on leaving the White House. Not hyperbole~ Trump also plans to intimidate voters at the polls with his private police force. 1/2 youtu.be/ps1xS4Sl5bQ?...
Really when will we end this madness There should not only be mass protests there should be a total strike and shutdown. The media is not our friend but we must make them see us
I've been watching MANY videos of protests all over the country. They are huge, people are taking to the streets in masses. IT IS HAPPENING ‼️ I truly believe that the beginning of the end of Trump is here! Don't let up. Put the pedal to the metal. We're at the pivotal point! #StopTheMadness
The thing the mainstream media is not remembering about Hurricane Katrina is their own lethal, racist contribution to treating rumors as facts used to demonize the stranded in New Orleans, turning them from victims to be aided to enemies to be contained.
"His mother told NBC4 that the agent told her son they had confused him with someone else, but to “look at the bright side: you’re gonna have an exciting story to tell your friends when you go back to school”." WTF www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵 The refusal of Jewish refugees by the United States primarily occurred during the 1930s and 1940s, particularly in the context of the Holocaust. Several key events and policies contributed to (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
Heard from a friend ICE raided a car wash - took 30 people who had their papers in their lockers but wouldn’t let them get their papers FUCK ICE PLEASE send this around:
The “AI Action Plan” is what some of us feared: no ethics, no equity. By erasing vulnerable groups from data, it locks racism into medicine, deepens inequities, & will leave certain populations without care - a blueprint for exclusion/extinction disguised as innovation.
"Electroboy" is my memoir about my battle with bipolar disorder and which is being made into a feature film with Timothee Chalamet. The book is out of print - I have h/c and p/b copies which I inscribe to you and ship overnight to you. The cost is $30 for a h/c and $20 for a p/c - send me a DM!
Comedians are the most serious people on the planet. Their intuitions and insights require a strong counterbalance, effective humor. That’s what makes Zelenskyy a tremendous leader and why you never meet a funny republican.
I have an op-ed at @inquirer.com today. All of us who care about democracy need to decide how we'll respond as we see our institutions, our work, and our communities being attacked. Many of us in academia are standing up for our values and our students. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
Trump freezes non-ICE law enforcement training in soft-on-crime move
RFK’s decimating CDC and nearly 300 mass shootings in 2025 IS ALL THE SAME STORY #BecauseOfRepublicans www.thetrace.org/2025/04/cdc-...
With moms and kids and innocent diners eating inside??? WTF www.propublica.org/article/flas...
Trump is no Founding Father. He can’t even count to 3 co-equal branches of government.
Young, fit Black women dying suddenly of heart attacks should concern all of us. www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-ne...
NEW: Social Security’s chief data officer, Charles Borges, has resigned, three days after submitting a whistle-blower complaint that alleged members of DOGE had uploaded the confidential personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to an insecure cloud server.
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Dead or alive, Rudy Giuliani brought “broken windows” policing to NYC. “Not only did broken windows policing fail to reduce crime, but it also provided cover for a deliberate targeting of Black and brown communities.” Why? The theory comes from rightwing think tankers
wtf are you talking about
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you’re speaking totally out of pocket
These candidates all need to hire social media managers
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Great choice!
Rudy Giuliani is known best for his virtue
“Ultimately, broken windows policing isn’t about reducing crime; it’s about assuaging white fears, however irrational or racist, of poor and homeless people, Black people, people of color, and queer and gender-nonconforming people.” - @dreanyc123.bsky.social, @interruptcrim.bsky.social
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The vast majority of the upstate trippers aren’t criminals at all; Rudy Giuliani represents real criminality
Is Rudy Giuliani dead or alive? Screwball had your answer in 1999.
He didn’t fall far
Empathy!? No
It was never benign