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abolition, journalism, unions. media strategy for @verainstitute , proud member of @vera_union_ , views my own. before: @MarshallProj @BrennanCenter @tripeggert .

New York, NY
Joined November 2023
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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).
@thenation
The Nation
3 months
"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 .
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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:
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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.
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the cops are defunding you.
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People's City Council - Los Angeles
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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
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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.
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i am not emotionally prepared for 2024 (but thank goodness for outlets like Bolts)
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Bolts
8 months
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.
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hey @WNYC what the fuck is this
@WNYC
WNYC 🎙
7 months
New York City's subways are often a convenient and cheap form of getaway for criminals.
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@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.
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@jbenmenachem give back all of columbia, turn barnard into CUNY morningside!!!
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@jbenmenachem fucking wild they took this long to send a damn email.
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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.
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@the_tweedy posture this stunning simply must be witnessed.
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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.
@vera_union_
Vera Union
3 months
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,
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*IOF comms director
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Anderson Cooper is a NYPD communications director, not a journalist
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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.
@EndofSportPod
The End of Sport (@endofsportpod.bsky.social)
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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.
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@_rebeccaclewis she’s certainly raised it numerous times…
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please talk to a lawyer before you talk to press, even if they are good journalists (and chris is).
@chrisgelardi
Chris Gelardi
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Students and faculty in New York state: Hit us up at @nysfocus . We're the outlet that won't fuck you over. For tips, thoughts, and pitches:
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catch our backup @vera_union_
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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.
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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???
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aaron from queens 🇵🇸
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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
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Julie O'Donoghue
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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
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paid off my credit card debt yesterday, voted for claire valdez today, union card check in process… ✨practicing gratitude, baby✨
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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.
@rjamesfinn
James Finn
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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
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are you fucking kidding me
@Poynter
Poynter
4 months
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.
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elongated muskrat may hate workers bit the union is still real and strong
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jon ben-menachem
3 months
Uh - what the fuck?
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@jbenmenachem you’re just sassy i wouldn’t let you take my credit.
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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.
@thenation
The Nation
3 months
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 .
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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.
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@awinston same one that inflicted caroline calloway up on us all
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@awinston teddy sucked in high school and he sucks more now
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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.
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also big big gratitude to @jbenmenachem for sharpening my teeth on unions and abolition and being a good friend while doing it.
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me, my lifetime jstor access and who
@weiss_hadas
Hadas Weiss
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situationship but the situation is you let me use your jstor access
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the cops will break your fucking teeth and ankles and eye sockets for peaceful protest. so what use is “peace”
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i was JUST telling @keribla how NYPD helicopters were starting to give very LA vibes (constant, horrifying)
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fola akinnibi
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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
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@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
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@maiahibbett @nysfocus personally yearn for a @nysfocus croptop, for the girls, gays and theys
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@jbenmenachem certainly blame it for my own decline!!!
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@ 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.
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@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.
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@jbenmenachem oh i am so already there
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source in the ground says al jazeera reporter pepper sprayed at CCNY
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fills me with joy to be in @alaa2325 / @UAW . my dad was a railroad scab -- it has been my life's mission to have a union job and put him to shame.
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@jbenmenachem @he1nousb1tch to be clear it’s my cassandra ass too
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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!!
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@awinston we went to a bougie prep school together
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@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”
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@aaronnarraph
aaron from queens 🇵🇸
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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
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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.
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continue to love @nysfocus . and for those interested, @verainstitute has a great data tool on parole release rates in NYS here:
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New York Focus
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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."
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omg most importantly, if you want to support my extremely wonderful friends and colleagues who were laid off, venmo @veramutualaid
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a mother and child had been bombed. the photo was of their disembodied arms on the ground, mother’s hand still clasping her child’s in death.
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our work is to make a more just world, inside and out.
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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)
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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.
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(tysm zohran tell your dad i love him)
@ZohranKMamdani
Zohran Kwame Mamdani
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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!
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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.
@TND
The National Desk
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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:
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@jbenmenachem we make the real haters run them so they’re more efficient
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@jbenmenachem my friend you’re going to JOIN the campaign to bring back mids i have been out here proselytizing already
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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.
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@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…
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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!
@nysfocus
New York Focus
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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.
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reminder that the nypd is literally defunding US to do this.
@mynameisjro
Jason Rosenberg
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NYPD kicking off 2024 strong by brutally arresting someone for not paying a $2.90 MTA fare at the 7th Ave. F/G station in Brooklyn.
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@lithub
Literary Hub
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These are the poets and writers who have been killed in Gaza.
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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
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@jbenmenachem scans with how he approached a lot of charges from 2020 protests
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@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.
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some of the best people i have ever worked with. so happy and proud of them all that i burst into (happy!!) tears when i saw this today.
@AnnaFlagg
Anna Flagg
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🚨 Thrilled to share that we are unionizing! I could not be more happy or proud of my colleagues than I am today ✊💙
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😎😎😎
@vera_union_
Vera Union
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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
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bodies needed ASAP at NYU and CU encampments.
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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
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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.
@Tarik_Endale
Tarik Endale | ታሪክ እንዳለ
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Professor Rashid Khalidi in an open letter to Columbia University administration in response to an email sent by deans on Dec 21st, 2023.
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@awinston anyway i thought your reporting was EXCELLENT and much-needed.
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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.
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i am BEGGING
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Nick Pinto
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bad photo of a beautiful vigil for palestinian journalists tonight. grateful for journalists with guts.
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hey pols stop trying to make kent/jackson state take two happen what the fuck is wrong with you
@_rebeccaclewis
Rebecca C. Lewis
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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
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very cool thing i would love to see more newsrooms emulate:
@owen_19999
owen berg ☆
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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!) 🧵:
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@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
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new orleans crime is dropping. this is plainly just fear of black people and an interest in massively expanding policing and incarceration.
@samkarlin
Sam Karlin
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"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.
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y'all are gonna have to forgive my word repetition, so much has happened btwn layoffs/announcing/having such a bad case of COVID
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so… sending someone to jail in LA County makes them less likely to appear in court? (ostensibly the fucking purpose of pretrial incarceration???)
@keribla
Keri Blakinger
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Up to ONE THIRD of people in LA County jails can’t get to court because the sheriff's department doesn't have enough functional buses:
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@sa_rrrahhh VIBES THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS you deserve the world
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@Newyorkist can’t confirm if this is the same incident, multiple people pepper sprayed
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@laoganmafanclub this is so beautiful and so unhinged
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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.
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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
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@NYCLU
NYCLU
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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.
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@sa_rrrahhh fart on them the whole time dude
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EARTHQUAKE POSTING TAKE 2
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@lila_seidman oh lila, i am so sorry to hear. it is their huge loss because you do wonderful work, and i hope you find the next opportunity soon.
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@jbenmenachem but also the italian job which i love unironically bc it is simply another ocean's XX, but with mos def in it
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@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.
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cursed to have crushes but never BE crushed
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