Friday, 31 July 2020
RT @SessiBlanchard: My friend, a black trans woman, is having a mental health crisis in The Bronx and they responded with 8 police officers, one with a riot shield. A single EMS officer is here. Friend was refusing to come out of apt bc of cops. When another friend (who’s a MD) got her to come... https://t.co/0Axz2S28Dl
Thursday, 30 July 2020
RT @miriamkrinsky: 1/ BREAKING: Over 70 elected prosecutors, youth correctional administrators & law enforcement leaders call to CLOSE ALL YOUTH PRISONS in this joint statement with Youth Correctional Leaders for Justice @CUJusticeLab: https://t.co/tBtP4pwcGg #beyondyouthprisons https://t.co/ocd2aCyUzy
Wednesday, 29 July 2020
RT @Jared_Carrabis: Joe Kelly got a 6-game suspension in a 162-game season for actually hitting Tyler Austin with a fastball & fighting him. How the fuck did he get 8 games in a 60-game season for missing Carlos Correa with a curveball and mocking him for being a crybaby? He didn't even get ejected.
RT @Sedano: Wait, so the @Dodgers Joe Kelly gets suspended 8 games & Manager Dave Roberts gets a 1 game suspension.... Yet, the team w/ the one of the biggest cheating scadals in MLB history had ZERO players suspended for that situation. Gotcha. Is this some sort of kangaroo court? https://t.co/qm5dT2JVhu
Tuesday, 28 July 2020
RT @People4Bernie: We can all see what’s going on here. We can hear no one identify themselves to tell the person you abducted what they were being arrested for. The @NYPDnews is fabricating charges of rocks and water bottles being thrown in real time when there are multiple video angles. https://t.co/IescOlzxFc
RT @davidminpdx: This is really the fundamental question that the press should be asking of every mayor, every city council person. Local officials have given the police a blank check and averted their gaze at police misconduct for so long, they seem incapable of exerting any oversight at all. https://t.co/XyPURI4EkY
RT @daeshikjr: You had Seattle Mayor Durkan on and didn’t think to bring up the irony between her claiming Trump’s feds make local protests unsafe and the attacks her constituents endured by her own police department? @maddow either you’re protecting these neoliberals or you need new producers. https://t.co/6dUQtFBhWe
RT @husainaltaf: @AlanDettlaff This commentary IS a call to action: the social work profession still has so much left to do to change these persistent racist attitudes. Prof @BazziNYU says there's not a single tenured Black faculty member in Mead's dept. Check out this thread: https://t.co/tlMUygAMVy
RT @WaywardWinifred: I can't even imagine went on in the heads of those 125 @dnc platform committee members who voted #MedicareForAll down. Today. Now. When the country is in the deathgrip of a global pandemic and people are dying because they can't afford to the upkeep of their sick-care. Shameful.
RT @RoKhanna: Millions have lost their jobs. They should not lose their healthcare. Our party has been for MedicareForAll since FDR & Truman. It was stripped from our platform in 1980. I stand with all of the activists who believe that our party must stand for extending Medicare to everyone. https://t.co/oazYuxuiIe
RT @GunnelsWarren: Wrong, Elon. The left is winning the middle. 72% want to expand Social Security 69% want #MedicareForAll 67% want a $15 minimum wage 67% want to make marijuana legal 64% want to tax your extreme wealth 64% support unions 63% want the #GreenNewDeal 58% want to #CancelStudentDebt https://t.co/uqR1bTPMS5
Monday, 27 July 2020
RT @shaunking: THIS SYSTEM IS NOT BROKEN. It's functioning exactly the way those who designed and built it intended it to function. So we must tear it down and build something new. ANNOUNCING: The Truth, Justice, & Reconciliation Commission. https://t.co/iZNrMmTmUo 3 Pilot Cities. TODAY. https://t.co/vpqgpvcgSr
Sunday, 26 July 2020
RT @Bobbin_Singh: Curious about the military gear worn by local law enforcement? This picture of local le in PDX lays out the planning and coordination for profound violence. Military gear and tactics by local le are an indicator of a plan to engage in war with its community. https://t.co/1Oh477hs24 https://t.co/qRC4t2p9vo
RT @_SJPeace_: Together since they were teenagers, he adored her. He was there for her through everything. Fought for her life. Fought against the medical negligence & loved her unconditionally after it. He would push her in her wheelchair at events, & protests and was a devoted caregiver... https://t.co/vDhk5Ledgb
RT @lmcgaughy: Today, I talked to the mothers of Garrett Foster, the man shot and killed last night at the protest in Austin, and his fiancee Whitney Mitchell. The couple met in North Texas when they were teens. Foster cared for Mitchell, a quadruple amputee, full-time. https://t.co/rqhjZgLgiF https://t.co/ptHaf7qmPa
RT @_SJPeace_: Garrett Foster was murdered last night peacefully protesting at a BLACK LIVES MATTER protest in Austin, Texas with his fiance, whitney, who is a quadruple amputee because of serious medical negligence. She was thrown off her wheelchair and he was shot 3 times. SAY HIS NAME 😭 https://t.co/q13r3JR35u
RT @SimoneReports: This nurse in scrubs gets blasted by spray while trying to grab someone away from police. Her “day job” is RN at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. She told me helping people is her calling and that’s why she’s here. And yes, her skin burns all over. #Q13FOX #SeattleProtests https://t.co/fWxrCfl9Ph
RT @daeshikjr: Officer maced the camera straight on like he didn’t care who was watching and then an Officer swung his bike and knocked out a protestor. At this rate there is really no point of Trump activating his feds in Seattle. Mayor Durkan is doing his dirty work just fine. #seattleprotest https://t.co/aVPtSkotgo https://t.co/L6AyIpqODA
RT @chrissyshimizoo: Sooooo plot twist: SPD were the bigger threat to Seattle today—NOT Trumps feds that Jenny warned us to stay away from. SPD maced the shit out of Spek, tackled protestors, drowned ppl in mace who were helpless on the ground, and shot blast balls at deadly range. Cool. https://t.co/xDrtYz1B2V
RT @daeshikjr: Here is the full clip of the random attack Seattle police made on protestors. So much mace was used my eyes are still burning. I asked the officer what provoked their attack and they responded by telling me to shutup unless I could prove I was legal council. #seattleprotests https://t.co/B6RrgY1hqD
Saturday, 25 July 2020
RT @daeshikjr: Seattle Police Department don’t have their tear gas and flash bangs to use on protestors tonight so instead they are straight bear macing people in the face. The police are seen here doing just that when they decided it was time to “move the line back” #seattleprotests https://t.co/2rcosm172D
RT @daeshikjr: Police chief announced that due to limited access to chemical weapons, SPD will be using wooden batons/physical attacks to “crowd control”. You can see them beating up an innocent Black man. We are days away from defunding the police by 50%. This is retaliation from Seattle PD. https://t.co/ayprTXNgrh
RT @evoespueblo: .@elonmusk, dueño de la fábrica más grande de autos eléctricos, dice sobre el golpe de Estado en #Bolivia: “Nosotros golpearemos a quien queramos”. Otra prueba más de que el golpe fue por el litio boliviano; y dos masacres como saldo. ¡Defenderemos siempre nuestros recursos! https://t.co/T0O1tReJaj
RT @ByMikeBaker: I have shifted up to Seattle today to follow a large demonstration that's in solidarity with Portland. I'd estimate a crowd of 2,000 already. They just torched construction buildings at the site of a new youth detention center. Meanwhile, feds are here https://t.co/rPuSTAuKkt https://t.co/jWvFqipRo4
RT @briebriejoy: Imagine being a well respected highly paid journalist in 2020 still parroting this long-debunked lie. Bernie is 100% right. Journalists need to stop haranguing Bernie & start asking Biden why he doesn’t support the progressive policies that EARNED Bernie enthusiastic support. https://t.co/ndvMSV9gA2
RT @BernieSanders: Today I’m proud to endorse @joekimok for Broward County State Attorney. Joe has witnessed first-hand the devastation our criminal legal system causes. The people of Broward County have a huge opportunity to bring real change to their communities by electing him. https://t.co/2YY4a1h2mZ
RT @ByMikeBaker: Another huge crowd tonight in Portland, including a new "wall" on the front lines: a Wall of Vets. Here's a look at the line of military veterans getting set up here in front of the federal courthouse. Behind them, the Wall of Moms and the Wall of Dads are arriving. https://t.co/gGnXHjI3k2
Friday, 24 July 2020
RT @daeshikjr: These mothers are relentless. I’ve spoken to a couple of white mothers who have Black children and they’ve shared with me that they believe the least they can do for their child is put their body on the lines in the fight for justice. It’s pretty goddamn beautiful. #PortlandMoms https://t.co/GhlHlwFzzO
RT @ethanbrown72: Family of Wayne Jones, shot 22x by Martinsburg, WV police in 2013, to receive a $3.5 million. Jones was shot after an officer approached him for not walking on the sidewalk. "I think the family’s made a point. But nothing can bring Wayne Jones back." https://t.co/ZE9AZZNclc https://t.co/ISoqyxM2dI
RT @RealJusticePAC: Trump announced that he would send a surge of federal agents into cities. @DA_LarryKrasner has made it clear: If these agents come to Philadelphia to brutally attack protesters and drag people into vans without probable cause, they will be held accountable. https://t.co/pinzO29MeS
RT @KarenBassTweets: Senator Kamala Harris has spent her entire life fighting for the people. I would never want to be labeled the “anti-Kamala Harris.” We’re fortunate to have had her as Attorney General and now as Senator. She would be an excellent VP and the same goes for anyone else on the list. https://t.co/CA4nuTaOia
RT @grassroots_law: This is DJ Henry. While waiting for friends at a bar, Pleasantville PD officer Aaron Hess asked him to move his car. Before DJ could, Hess shot him, dragged him from his car and left him to die. He was 20. Help us fight for justice: 💻 https://t.co/lIv3At8ShF 📱 914-228-7833 https://t.co/KvWhxmpF3q
RT @FreeRodneyReed: Police officers who participated in Rodney Reed’s trial and investigation have since been found guilty of felonies including fraud, corruption, brutality, kidnapping, sexual assault, planting evidence, and conspiracy. He deserves a new trial! @BringRodneyHome https://t.co/qoOCbXXxPx
RT @BarbaraRansby: Activists were determined that the racist monument to Christopher Columbus no longer disgrace our landscape in Chi. Early this morning that statue came down. Congrats to Chi Nation @byp100 @BLMChi and #DefundCPD Thx to the People's elected officials @RossanaFor33 and others https://t.co/5GP95EDqfG
RT @daeshikjr: The @DHSgov hired mercenaries in Portland are out of control. This fed just got done shooting the press with rubber bullets and seen here ripping a sign off the fence that reads “GTFO“. Why’s he that bothered by a sign that he’s willing to shoot peaceful protesters and the press? https://t.co/IEwnDwn0sw
Thursday, 23 July 2020
Wednesday, 22 July 2020
RT @AriRabinHavt: 👍The top three members of Senate Democratic Leadership - Schumer, Durbin and Murray + DSCC Chair Van Hollen all voted for Bernie’s amendment. 👎The fact that Sherrod Brown and Kamala Harris voted no shocks me. Wrote about this amendment here: https://t.co/6X0s3EVU6m https://t.co/iVPb7zxlg5
RT @ninaturner: 🤦🏾♀️America, we need to get an understanding—quick Racism isn’t just the KKK. Hell, the first nine Presidents owned slaves. Then there’s the Constitution, state laws, policies & practices that continue to prop up structural racism & anti-Blackness. Truth & Reconcilation needed now! https://t.co/CVzrGb1ADs
Tuesday, 21 July 2020
RT @RealJusticePAC: For too long, Honolulu has invested in prisons and jails that don't make people any safer. @Esser4J is running for prosecutor to invest in meaningful treatment, rehabilitation, and the resources that people need to succeed. Join the movement: https://t.co/eZOYThbltj https://t.co/U8CzNoqYb1
RT @EmmaVigeland: I can’t believe I’m writing this. Michael Brooks was pure light. He was just good to his core. He was fun-loving, brilliant, generous, thoughtful, loyal, open. He was building a better world. He was my true friend. He was an oasis. I am heartbroken. I will never forget his laugh. https://t.co/4vOOafQqDr
Monday, 20 July 2020
RT @vvorkingclass: Michael Brooks' boundless empathy for all people made him a true radical. I can gladly attest to being one of his converts Michael offered the kind of moral leadership that is most noticed in its absence--selfless, universal, and resolute This a clip from his stream last night https://t.co/nosmHb0zpj
RT @KlasfeldReports: A woman claims in court that ex-Fox host Ed Henry "violently raped" her. Another accuses Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Howard Kurtz of harassment. Their attorneys say Fox fired Henry to "get out ahead" of this lawsuit, which begins with a "Trigger Warning." @CourthouseNews https://t.co/PD49qOmg5N
RT @KeishaBottoms: My aunt, Ruby Doris Smith Robinson, then @SpelmanCollege student, spent nearly 3 months in jail in Jackson, Miss as a Freedom Rider. She was one of the founders of SNCC and died at 26, before I was born. @repjohnlewis cried each time he spoke of her bravery to me. #GoodTrouble https://t.co/hXxg57ayzJ
RT @grassroots_law: Ketamine isn’t FDA-approved for sedation, but Colorado agencies have waivers to use it anyway. Now, Elijah McClain and Elijah McKnight are dead. And after seeing it used on her boyfriend, Anita Springsteen is speaking up: ban ketamine sedation in CO. We stand with her. WATCH: https://t.co/HWvcRGXl1R
RT @GunnelsWarren: Oh, I don't know Chuck. Maybe it's because the healthcare industry spends $10B a year on ads making corporate media execs richer & richer. Maybe it's because the corporate media ignored a peer reviewed Yale study finding that #MedicareForAll would save 68K lives & $450B a year https://t.co/LILKyiLmvz
RT @TheOtherMandela: There is no point to this. It’s about poll numbers. It’s Trump virtue signaling, potentially with force, to his base who already has opinions about Milwaukee because he’s down by so many points in the state. It’s an election strategy to drive an even deeper divide in Wisconsin. https://t.co/WeNrCfPij2
RT @JustCallmeBHunt: Harriet Tubman made 19 trips along the Underground Railroad to free over 300 enslaved people between 1850-1860. She once had a $40,000 ($1.2 million in 2020) bounty on her head. She carried a pistol on her for protection from slave catchers and slaves who wanted to turn back. https://t.co/YLcHZDJAaj
Sunday, 19 July 2020
RT @KeishaBottoms: In addition to being sued over a mask mandate and voluntary advisory guidelines on COVID-19, @GovKemp has asked for an emergency injunction to “restrain” me from issuing press statements and speaking to the press. Far more have sacrificed too much more for me to be silent. https://t.co/gWlnZlCtoR
RT @davidminpdx: 1. If you’re reading national media portrayals of Portland as dangerous, you really ought to read this thread. Other than a few blocks (almost exclusively at night), Portland is a quiet, friendly, safe place. Safer from violence than any time in the past three decades. https://t.co/DPVwBjck0e
Saturday, 18 July 2020
Friday, 17 July 2020
Thursday, 16 July 2020
RT @ScottHech: Two days ago in LA cops beat a wheelchair-bound man, knocked him out of his wheelchair, destroyed the wheelchair. This is a violent gang assault. Are these officers still on the force? A rhetorical question unfortunately. This is hard to watch. They're all hard to watch. https://t.co/pDwynxD7v9
RT @JumaaneWilliams: For years @NYGovCuomo has refused to even consider raising taxes on billionaires & ultra-millionaires, with lower income New Yorkers paying the price. Now, in an economic crisis devastating people in need, he'd still rather cut crucial services than raise revenue. Unacceptable. https://t.co/wTc2tISH7A
RT @keithboykin: Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is suing Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms to block her mask order. They say they believe in local control...until a black local government tries to help its own people. They say they're pro-life...until black people start to die from a pandemic. https://t.co/F6P58pZgor
RT @hoodtotheholler: We showed up. We made our voices heard. We shocked the world. But we were just getting started. We are fired up to launch Hood to the Holler, a people centered org that will redefine politics for the people. A new Southern Strategy! It’s our time: https://t.co/TaC7d4Ls45 https://t.co/vj39olIcjz
RT @NikkitaOliver: Elaborating on this. For nearly 100 years we have invested in a racist armed response to “crime.” It is time for a new approach & paradigm shift from armed policing & criminalization which doesn’t make us safer. It actually perpetuates poverty & racism making us less safe. https://t.co/RWahHnpvlE
RT @matthewferner: So grateful for our colleague Juan Haines always, who continues to report for us from inside San Quentin where COVID-19 has predictably exploded due to failures from Newsom & CDCR, but especially grateful for notes like these in this moment to know he is on path to recovery https://t.co/qKmS2925Nq
Wednesday, 15 July 2020
RT @daeshikjr: If you want Millennials and Get X to stay home then CANCEL THE F*CKING RENT AND EXTEND EVICTION MORATORIUMS!!! Call a state of emergency, offer amnesty on all housing payments, and offer stimulus checks for essential needs. I promise you that these cases will drastically go down. https://t.co/RsxGj6Kd00
RT @NikkitaOliver: All I hear is an argument for defunding the police and investing in a robust mental health system. Then we are one step closer to abolishing the police and stoping them from murdering us. Because make no mistake about it; Charleena Lyles was murdered by SPD officers. https://t.co/OmtJeUFI9k
RT @daeshikjr: Charleena Lyles weighed less than a 100 pounds WHILE PREGNANT and was shot twice on her back. She was also shot twice in the abdomen, twice in the chest, arm and hip. She was also murdered in front of her young kids. How is this bigot Mike Solan in charge of representing SPD? https://t.co/PWucC9SHtg
Tuesday, 14 July 2020
RT @jonswaine: Thread on one case from our @washingtonpost video investigation https://t.co/jpcxEhTeBt 1/ This is 21-year-old Balin Brake of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Brake lost his right eye when he was shot in the face with a police gas canister at a protest in downtown Fort Wayne on May 30. https://t.co/F60QFvod5T
RT @AOC: See? The rich make the case for prison abolition *for themselves* all the time (and often get it), incl for systemic violence, yet are never deemed “radical.” It’s only “radical left” when we ask our legal system to treat normal people 1/10000th of the way it treats the wealthy. https://t.co/4NiTaAJN9W
RT @BernieSanders: Congratulations to @JosePGarza for winning the primary runoff to be Travis County’s next district attorney. We need progressive leaders everywhere who will reform our broken and racist criminal justice system, and I look forward to seeing José bring change in Texas. https://t.co/gkSI7UsV9a
RT @NILC: Say his name. Maurice Gordon Jr. He was a 28-year-old immigrant from Jamaica, a chemistry student + an essential worker who was shot 6 times during a traffic stop on 5/28/2020. Demand justice for immigrants. #BlackLivesMatter #ImmigrantsAreEssential 🎨 Portrait by Uli Knörzer https://t.co/p0kKqjjfTG
RT @RealJusticePAC: Congratulations to @JosePGarza on the huge victory! Tonight, Travis County demanded a new system that holds police accountable, treats survivors with dignity, protects immigrants & ends the criminalization of poverty. Thank you to everyone who worked hard to reimagine justice. https://t.co/KQmv0r4xM2
RT @shaunking: It’s Official!!! 🔥🔥🔥 Change is coming to Texas! Austin, Texas has a new District Attorney!!! A HUGE congrats to @JosePGarza! He won by a landslide and has a mandate for change. Thank you so much to the donors, volunteers, and staff of @RealJusticePAC. Let’s GO!!!🔥🔥 https://t.co/oMwvt7eLdG
RT @latimes: People sing it to pay tribute to essential workers and during Black Lives Matter protests. It's aimed at the level of everyday life. It says: What’s important is the stuff happening down here. The dramatis personae are you, me, all of us. We the people. https://t.co/O0Tsoor0kk https://t.co/yanmMYb7Kd
RT @latimes: Bill Withers’ 1972 soul ballad “Lean On Me” is a modest song with a tidy arrangement. The lyrics hold no pastoral images, no high-minded invocations of liberty or God. It's a deeply American song but it’s not, explicitly at least, a song about America. https://t.co/O0Tsoor0kk https://t.co/RxTWzBAcuY
RT @shaunking: Disgusting. Ending qualified immunity, which simply means brutal police can be held responsible for their actions, is THE STARTING POINT. Colorado’s Governor already did it. This is shameful from @JoeBiden. His whole justice policy is pretty terrible. Try again. https://t.co/cGkU2jHJ7i
Monday, 13 July 2020
RT @nick_w_estes: R*dsk*ns, a Washington football team name that came from the taking of scalp bounties from Native people, is officially retired! Don’t pat racist ass team owners or franchise defenders on the back. This victory belongs to Native people and is about more than a name. https://t.co/dz6dcUgwSC
RT @GunnelsWarren: Taiwan has a #MedicareForAll, single-payer healthcare system Everyone in Taiwan: - is guaranteed healthcare as a human right - can choose their own doctor - has an insurance card storing all medical records Taiwan kicked coronavirus ass, while the virus is still kicking ours https://t.co/eri3atdMsm
RT @GMA: "We are never going to recover from this." The mothers of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Antwon Rose and Botham Jean talk to @DebRobertsABC about their shared grief and journeys for justice. Watch the full convo: https://t.co/0sfOjwWEhT https://t.co/4NnDXQPP6R
Sunday, 12 July 2020
Saturday, 11 July 2020
Friday, 10 July 2020
RT @daeshikjr: Don’t forget Tommy Le was murdered by the same King County Sheriffs that was forced to put a detective on admin leave for posting an “all lives splatter” meme just hours after a protestor was ran over and murdered. Nothings happened to the other sheriffs who thought it was funny. https://t.co/GASxrJnczo https://t.co/EmjJjpniT6
RT @NikkitaOliver: 2. Y’all are showing how racist you really are. If you believe BIPOC officers make you better, then you would you not find a way to prioritize keeping them over officers that don’t make you better? Reality is when there are cuts BIPOC always get fired 1st. That’s how racism works https://t.co/gNclph7xMr
RT @spekulation: I don't think "if you defund us then we'll only keep the white officers," is the convincing argument they think it is. It is this kind of abusive hostage-taking that has enabled Seattle Police to avoid accountability for so long. "Hold us accountable and we'll have to hurt you." https://t.co/wmbze1XHt5
RT @Esser4J: 📢ENDORSEMENT ALERT📢 Retweeting bc I was so excited I forgot to tag @chesaboudin! I am thrilled & honored to have the endorsement of San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin, a leader in the national movement for transformative criminal justice reform! #JacquieEsser #HonoluluProsecutor https://t.co/wz4iw2eUmZ
RT @ethanbrown72: Family of Terelle Thomas, 31, files $35 million lawsuit against Dauphin County, PA and the Harrisburg Police Department after officers took Thomas to jail—instead of treatment—as he overdosed. Thomas died about one hour after being placed in his cell. https://t.co/21HoFS5bLN https://t.co/SE4pbHtilS
RT @theappeal: Orange-Osceola County state attorney candidate @MoniqueHWorrell on police unions’ influence: "What does the entity supporting you stand for?…They have relentlessly supported officers who have been engaged in the type of misconduct that led to the murder of George Floyd.” https://t.co/NVF0TMqeuC
Thursday, 9 July 2020
RT @JessedHagopian: VICTORY FOR THE PEOPLE! So many activists made this possible!Special shoutout to @DecrimSeattle and @KCEquityNow for pushing for this visionary demand! I’m also proud of my union @SeattleEA for voting to support defunding the police! #DefundThePolice & fund education & housing! https://t.co/kEv2RJpEvK
RT @ABC: In remarks on bases named after Confederate generals, Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Mark Milley says, "The Confederacy, the American Civil War...was an act of treason at the time against the Union, against the Stars and Stripes, against the U.S. Constitution." https://t.co/mD5HJulzUt https://t.co/BGcbUO98ce
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