feeling extremely proud to run a piece in the nation (for palestine and police abolition!!!) the same week i get to announce the
@vera_union
, my off hours hustle of the last six months (and many more ahead).
"The broken bones and bloodshed on campuses across America are not isolated instances of police overreach—they're business as usual for cops," write
@jbenmenachem
and
@tripeggertv2
.
cops deal with palestine protests by breaking teeth, ankles + eye sockets. this violence is not a rupture, but their very purpose – to quell domestic dissent against a nationalist death drive that seeks to consume us all. new from
@jbenmenachem
and me:
ok my actual new year's resolution is to stop fucking using delivery apps, an absolute evil that i am grossly overreliant on out of sheer laziness. doordash account deleted, congrats to my local bodega on the impending massive increase in my patronage.
LAPD is having difficulty recruiting, with its lowest staffing levels in over 2 decades. Sad!
Mayor Bass gave them a $1B budget increase- but if LAPD doesn’t fill the slots allotted, guess what? They get to keep the money. Literally stealing $ as the city faces a budget crisis
incredibly proud to announce that we announced our union today. half of my team was laid off this morning, but we've built something that will keep generations of workers protected.
From championing punitive legislation that only applied to some parts of the state, to fighting against police reform efforts in New Orleans, Louisiana Governor-Elect Jeff Landry has waged a war on the state's predominantly Black cities.
@mcmansionhell
one of these is across the street from me in bushwick, which has heavy foot traffic 24/7 so all day and all night, every few minutes, we all hear the little robot lady say, “HI, YOU ARE BEING RECORDED. HI, YOU ARE BEING RECORDED. HI, YOU ARE BEING RECORDED.” very dystopian.
the vera institute has at least one open job that would be a great fit for someone with a journalism background -- a paltry offering in the face of mass layoffs, but i would love to help at least one person have health insurance.
i am so fucking proud of all my colleagues fighting to keep each other safe. the work to end the injustice of the criminal legal system requires justice in our workplace, too.
On Wednesday, June 5th, an overwhelming majority of staff at the Vera Institute of Justice announced their intent to form a
#union
with
@alaa2325
@uaw
! Our union is created by and for Verans, to establish a workplace grounded in the same values we fight for everyday: safety,
anyone who knows me knows i fucking cannot listen to podcasts but i listened to this whole thing, and not just bc of how much i respect
@jbenmenachem
. so clear and thoughtful on repression of the movement for palestine, the encampments, the cops, the failures of the media.
Ep. 140: The Columbia Encampment
In this special non-sports episode,
@nkalamb
speaks to Columbia University grad student
@jbenmenachem
about all things Columbia University student anti-genocide encampment.
incredibly proud to announce that we announced our union today. half of my team was laid off this morning, but we've built something that will keep generations of workers protected.
DSA please collect your electeds on this brooklyn museum shit are you kidding me? why am i seeing every progressive condemn the action as antisemitic???
regardless of how you feel about the action, this is really embarrassing and should spark some reflection if you feel pressure to quickly label pro-palestine protests as antisemitic
Louisiana turns down an estimated $71 million in federal funds that would have gone to feed almost 600k children this summer.
@LAGovJeffLandry
's administration says families need to become more self sufficient.
#lalege
From
@GregLaRose
generations of damage at unimaginable human cost to communities and hundreds of millions of dollars, for what??? to line the pockets of the sheriffs and other law enforcement who helped elect landry.
HB9 sponsored by Rep. Debbie Villio (R-Kenner), which would almost entirely eliminate parole for people who commit crimes in Louisiana after Aug. 1, is passed by the House. Vote was 71-33.
#lalege
#lagov
The
#Pulitzer
for International Reporting is awarded to the staff of the
@nytimes
, for its wide-ranging and revelatory coverage of Hamas’ lethal attack in southern Israel on October 7, Israel’s intelligence failures and the Israeli military’s sweeping, deadly response in Gaza.
hi friends! i donated my payment for this piece to help get the khais family out of gaza. i want to encourage you to give something today to palestinians seeking safety: even one dollar makes a difference.
Since the student movement for Palestinian liberation gained momentum this spring, universities and politicians have unleashed brutal police forces on campuses across the country. This is no accident, write
@jbenmenachem
and
@tripeggertv2
.
i cannot count the number of equally horrifying things that have come out of footage in palestine since october 7, but watching a 13 year old boy picking up the bloody, unidentifiable pieces of his relative this morning is going to last just as long and as vividly in my memory.
when i worked for
@P4HR
in the thick of the syrian civil war, we were sent an image from doctors on the ground that i thought would always be the worst thing i would ever see, that we decided we could not publish.
we analyzed more than 15k flight records to get a sense of how the nypd uses its helicopters. we found that under mayor eric adams they're flying more than any period over the past five years, leaving the city more and spending more money on operations
@awinston
1) obviously this is just bad political cover for wanting massively expanded discretion to arrest protestors 2) genuinely we are not over using the r-word yet man? it’s 2024 i really thought we had all collectively realized not to
@ nyc reporters covering housing, i hear things are popping off at 13 scholes street in Williamsburg with a landlord trying to evict residents by sending workers in to start destroying the building.
@leximcmenamin
i have often lamented, in the months and months and months i have been alternately unable to get meds or merely incapable of doing the steps to get meds, how much aggressively easier it would be for me to get literal meth.
may i remind university administrators that an alternative to calling cops or, god forbid, the national guard on your students and faculty is to disclose and divest from your investments in israel. try this one simple trick to avoid bloodshed!!
@jbenmenachem
@laoganmafanclub
sarah and i know too much about how stupid everyone and everything getting published is and rightfully ask “why the fuck would people want to hear from me”
regardless of how you feel about the action, this is really embarrassing and should spark some reflection if you feel pressure to quickly label pro-palestine protests as antisemitic
this is part of a strong tide of unionization in justice-focused workplaces, too!! like the amazing
@TMPGuild
,
@BCJ_United
,
@COC_union
, and the other incredible shops in our
@alaa2325
local.
NEW: New York Focus and
@boltsmag
reviewed dozens of parole board decisions and appeals. The decisions run as short as a single paragraph, providing parole seekers little guidance on how to win their release.
“This system is killing hope."
elongated muskrat hates unions i guess so the twitter is down but you can find us on IG at vera_union and the other place at vera-union.b s k (no spaces)
any movement against state slaughter must be a movement against the police. anything we do that has a chance to turn the tide of religious ethnonationalism will be met with state violence. fuck the police, and free palestine.
I'm proud to stand in solidarity with
@vera_union_
, who have taken the exciting step to organize w/
@UAW
@ALAA2325
.
I urge
@VeraInstitute
management to live up to its values of a more just world for everyone.
That means dignity for workers!
this story cites debunked data from the national retail foundation and wrongly conflates categories of shrink to exacerbate fears of retail theft. classic journalistic malpractice from this Sinclair outfit, and local news outlets who share this piece should be ashamed.
Retail crime has become a pressing concern for businesses in several parts of the U.S., with many retailers forced to close down store locations in response.
@CourtneyRauTV
explains:
interesting (disgusting) to live my whole academic & professional life in the wreckage of what bari weiss has wrought, from beloved professors whose lives she tried to ruin to media upon which she is a permanent stain, the larger country lured into ever less humanity by her ilk.
@sa_rrrahhh
i just have to do it! between fully living two blocks from a 24/7 grocery store/high cholesterol/everything
@BigMeanInternet
has rightfully pointed out…
so grateful to
@chrisgelardi
and
@nysfocus
for staying on this story. the city is happy to let our new neighbors suffer and starve. but you can help us fight back and keep our community fed!
NEW: Recently arrived immigrants trying to feed themselves are facing bureaucratic hurdles — including meager meals at city shelters and NYPD harassment for cooking donated groceries on a sidewalk.
if this, the 2000 pound bombs and beheaded children and all the litany of horrors brought down upon palestinians, is what the international order does to civilians, what do you think we need to do to them to make it stop
@AdultOtter
@verainstitute
hey 👋 that is quite literally what we’re working on! see vera’s presence and work on the close MCJ working group and the care first working group/any of our statements on the crisis in LA’s jails.
BIG NEWS! Our union has been voluntarily recognized!!! 🎉⭐️ We appreciate management working quickly with us to recognize that the Vera Union enjoys overwhelming support among staff. We now look forward to bargaining with management for a better, more effective, and more just
can’t stop thinking about how everyone with money and political influence in this country just want to police us all to death it’s time to crank elliot smith and lie down on the floor
columbia can eat my shorts but learning from their MESAAS faculty/barnard’s AMEC faculty was one of the greatest honors of my life. courageous, whip smart, magnificent educators who taught me everything useful i know about the world.
the people most responsible for this genocide speak no language but money and violence. they are not swayed by our humanity, our poetry, our marches, our children.
16 GOP state senators call for Hochul to send the National Guard to break up a pro-Palestine encampment at Columbia in a new letter. Accompanying press release references violent chants made by protesters near but not on the campus as evidence for the need
I thought I’d finally make a thread about the audience engagement project I did with
@THECITYNY
in the fall, which was all about using physical media to promote their online service journalism.
(featuring my presentation slides!) 🧵:
@jbenmenachem
big on beats flex for activities — has a wire that just connects the earbuds and sits behind your neck so nothing flopping around but if you knock an earbud out it is not vanishing forever on the subway tracks etc
"I'm afraid to go there," Republican state Rep. Larry Bagley says of New Orleans, Louisiana's largest city. Lawmakers are debating crime measures in a special session.
all solidarity to the brave & principled students at columbia and barnard, who were always the best part of the university, & to the professors standing with them. shame & scorn on the administration, campus security & the nypd. from the river to the sea, palestine will be free.
as yet another unfounded immigration/crime panic puts our new migrant neighbors at risk, really wish everyone had already read and absorbed
@AnnaFlagg
’s data journalism
Not only is there not a "migrant crime wave" in New York City -- there's no crime wave at all.
The NYPD's own data shows that crime is down this year, and there are no studies that demonstrate a connection between new arrivals and higher crime.
@sa_rrrahhh
god it took me fucking MONTHS to get unemployment last year it is so aggressive. and they never answer the goddamn phone, there’s like a five minute window per day when someone actually picks up and the system doesn’t just end the call on you.