Did You Know? Your state can ban the electroshock gloves! Since prisons, jails, police, sheriffs, and SCHOOLS are psyched for this corporal punishment device And people seem to hate the gloves (& ICE) And they're not yet prevalent it's probably not a heavy lift! It won't stop ICE but will help

Imagine that, making people happy increases their productivity?! Microsoft Japan's 4-day work week boosted productivity by 40 percent mashable.com/article/micr...

Microsoft Japan's 4-day work week boosted productivity by 40 percent

Ditch Fridays, and also long, stupid meetings.

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With the horrific news about ICE using torture gloves, we're reminded of police use of cattle prods against voting rights activists in the 1960s -- as in 📷 of Roy Wilkins & Medgar Evers, 11 days before Evers was murdered 💔 #TeachTruth about policing history 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ev...

Medgar Evers

Profile. By Dernoral Davis. Medgar Evers (July 2, 1925—June 12, 1963), Civil Rights Movement activist in Mississippi.

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#tdih 1975 "My life is not in the hands of the court. My life is in the hands of the people." Joan Little acquitted for killing guard in self-defense while incarcerated. Read ⬇️with text by @prisonculture.bsky.social & song by Bernice Johnson Reagon. 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/jo...

Aug. 15, 1975: Joan Little Acquitted

Joan Little used deadly force to resist sexual assault and was the first to successfully defend herself in court leading to acquittal.

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I'm really trying to understand the need to whitewash white ppl all time. This is why we're facing the levels of narcissism on our streets today. I'm not a lockemup gal. But, can we not do this?! Tell the whole story instead. Karoline lied w/o blinking and is nice to ppl she thinks have power.

onekade@onekade.bsky.social · 2d ago

Re reporters saying Karoline is super normal off camera: I'll never forget the time I was on television with an anti-immigration think tank person. She lied like she breathed on air. Afterward, I said, you know none of that is true, right? She smiled and said something like, that's not the point.

New: We pieced together dozens of violent incidents from the ICE agents seen in viral videos from Virginia this week. They've roamed across multiple states, but are most often working in Chicago. We also verified the identity of Martin Lagunas, the fed who pointed his gun at a woman on Monday:

Chicago ICE team seen threatening drivers has roamed from Illinois to Minnesota to Virginia

A federal agent from Chicago identified by community members as 40-year-old Martin Lagunas was recorded pointing his gun in the face of a Virginia woman on Monday. His team of ICE agents has been docu...

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“Most people don’t think you’re a nice kid," the owner of an Arkansas private school told a boy before urging other students to take turns attacking him. She repeatedly thwacked him with a footlong plastic cylinder, calling him a liar. with @arktimes.bsky.social

This Private School Had Students Scrub Floors and Attack a Fellow Classmate. The State Still Funds It.

One of the few requirements for Arkansas private schools is that they have an American flag and a flagpole. But millions in state funds go to the largely unmonitored schools while complaints about saf...

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amid all the "woke 1" discourse that really did not need to happen in the way it has, I recalled that last year I asked a bunch of organizers and thinkers to reflect on 2020 and the collective possibilities it laid bare for us, and not a one said it went too far

What the 2020 Protests Can Teach Us About Protesting Today

"It is up to us to change everything. But, against the doomers, I believe in this moment we may be uniquely poised to do so."

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Unfortunately, this has not been true for Black and Indigenous ppl. They have historically been wrongly targeted for prosecution and NO ONE was held accountable for these actions. If we don't remember all the history, our solutions will remain incomplete at best and non-solutions at worst.

Esteban-VOTE to Save America from Trump@estebanhawk.bsky.social · 2d ago

There’s always been corruption in the US government When it happened though there was an investigative body that would root out and arrest the perpetrators and get the convicted in a cordial law Now the corruption lies in the bodys that are supposed to investigate the criminals DOJ FBI ICE DHS

Jordan’s best option among plans is the Income-Contingent Repayment, and under this plan, her new monthly payment is $3,900, almost five times the original amount. “There’s no way on God’s green Earth I can afford that payment,” she said. Jordan is 70. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

The Plan 8 Million Student Loan Borrowers Were Counting On Just Disappeared

As the Biden-era SAVE plan ends, borrowers are facing unaffordable bills, lost payment records, and errors that have falsely put some into default.

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We here at Omni Consumer Products never thought cops would abuse OUR RoboCop!!!!

Flock boss admits surveillance firm took too long to act over police abuse

US police officers have quit after using licence plate-reading cameras to track romantic partners.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · last wk.

Listen, I am sure these almost countless instances nationwide including whole police departments are isolated outliers and that every cop in America is NOT illegally accessing Flock data as we speak to illegally and dangerously intensify the stalking campaigns they do on their exes with impunity

Two Black mayors took cities that the country loves to write off and made them measurably safer. That’s not a fluke. That’s a blueprint. Chicago and Baltimore just posted numbers that should be front-page news. They’re not. We need to talk about why. 🧵 www.theroot.com/opinion-blac...

AOC and Mamdani wanted to defund the police. Their backtracking puts organizers at risk by @derecka.bsky.social

AOC and Mamdani wanted to defund the police. Their backtracking puts organizers at risk | Derecka Purnell

Progressive and democratic socialist politicians are recanting pandemic-era statements on police and prison abolition

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THREAD. As you read chilling stories emerging about the illegal surveillance that Trump's DHS has been doing, recognize that federal law makes it nearly impossible for victims to sue feds for constitutional violations. A minimum part of Democratic platform should call for this.

The Virginia stuff aside, the premise of the headline is true only in the sense that "if we stop testing, we'll have fewer Covid cases" is true. Courts close cases after execution. Prosecutors destroy files and evidence. Innocence groups have to focus on the living.

Death Penalty Supporters Say There’s No Proof of the Innocent Being Executed. Virginia Might Prove Them Wrong.

The possibility of executing the innocent has gone a long way to change the national conversation about the death penalty.

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New polling from YouGov shows that 64% of Americans support Medicare for All. Just 25% oppose it.

Sounds about white.

M Meerkat@kackbro.bsky.social · 3d ago

"All In The Family".......

Dem's always get freaked out by the progressives/Democratic socialists. They really do suck at reading the room. Americans are sick of the corruption and ineffectiveness, that's why Mamdani and other progressives are winning.

Incarcerated for Life in Trump’s War on the Left Autumn Hill had already gone home when a protest outside an ICE facility turned violent. She was still sentenced to 50 years, over twice as long as any Jan. 6 defendant [$] www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Incarcerated for Life in Trump's War on the Left

Autumn Hill left a Prairieland ICE facility protest before it turned violent. She was still sentenced to 50 years as part of Trump's war on "antifa."

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"Dahl said the license plate reader technology some Chicago-area school districts are using is among the most sophisticated and invasive forms of surveillance available. In fact, it's the same technology ICE uses in some immigration investigations, and it isn't foolproof."

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d ago

“An NBC 5 Responds investigation found dozens of local school districts are using increasingly sophisticated tools to verify where families live, including license plate reader cameras.”

THREAD. Contrary to what you are being told, 40 years of polling have established that shifting money away from police/prisons toward social services is one of the most popular public policies among *all* political demographics. But it's not just that, it goes way deeper.

NEW: Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical emergencies without calling 911. with @wpln.bsky.social

He Suffered Abuse in a Private Youth Jail. The Company Never Reported It.

Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical ...

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"U.S. prisons are both the site of—and the engine for—a vast medical crisis." —Jeshua Noel reporting from inside Missouri's FCC prison.

“I Want to Know Who’s Responsible for This Man’s Health” - Jeshua Noel - Inquest

In Missouri prisons, people with cancer say lifesaving treatment is often delayed and denied by a private contractor, leaving incarcerated patients and their families to shoulder the caregiving.

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A shocking 92 percent of US adults are not going to the doctor because it’s too expensive www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

A shocking 92 percent of US adults are not going to the doctor because it’s too expensive

The decision to delay medical care involves multiple factors, including gender - women are more likely to put off care than men

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A new study shows that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and over $1 trillion every year. The new research out of Yale shows that reductions in administrative overhead, lower pharmaceutical prices, less fraudulent billing, and fewer emergency care trips would lead to huge savings. /1

Yale Study: Medicare for All Would Save Over 114,000 Lives and $1 Trillion a Year | Common Dreams

"Do not tell me we cannot afford Medicare for All," the senator said. "What we cannot afford is a broken healthcare system based on greed."

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Please donate if you can, a friend of a friend who had to have emergency surgery after an assault. These are those moments when we really do need to rally with someone while they heal. gofund.me/9aaeed49c

Donate to Urgent help with moving and medical expenses needed, organized by Jessica Klein

On Monday, August 3rd, I was assaulted and strangled in my home. I u… Jessica Klein needs your support for Urgent help with moving and medical expenses needed

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Elon Musk is now pouring money into repealing ranked-choice voting in Alaska, per the Anchorage Daily News: www.adn.com/politics/202...

I’m seeing a lot of people hang their hopes and all their attention on the midterms. Electoral organizing matters, but full-time spectatorship won’t build the power we need. I wrote about checking in with yourself about where your attention is going and what you’re doing with it.

Resisting Total Electoral Absorption

It may be worth checking in with ourselves, from time to time, about what, if anything, our attention is cultivating.

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Today's daily reminder that the UAE is currently engaged in a genocide in Sudan using weapons they receive from the US and money they receive from our tourism dollars, and every celebrity who lives or vacations in Dubai or Abu Dhabi is knowingly funding it.