So there's a great Thai restaurant in my neighborhood called Kiin. Yesterday, I searched for their website to order some takeout. Here's the Google result.
Today MA Bail Fund attended an en masse bail forfeiture hearing in Worcester District Court. The result of this hearing was that the courts stole about $25,000 of the Bail Fund’s money. A thread:
Please take a moment this weekend to think about how the U.S. puts Black people in cages 6 times the rate of South Africa at height of Apartheid. Almost all people caged in the U.S. are poor. Think about how these horrors have been normalized and justified by the news you hear.
I’m thrilled that the mainstream media is finally reporting on the terror, trauma & rights violations inflicted by the child “welfare”/family policing system. Remember: we are not fighting to fix it; it needs to be abolished & replaced with reimagined safety & support. (1/2)
Many mainstream Democrats are being persuaded every day to support this massive expansion of police based on woeful ignorance about the root causes of crime (poverty, housing, education, access to medical/mental health care, etc.) and based on lies about polling before midterms.
The San Francisco police used DNA from this woman’s rape kit to arrest her for an unrelated property crime. What does that tell you about police and about genetic surveillance? https://t.co/9pbVwiTosh
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@caltrider, @mutalenkonde, and Amanda Bennett will explore digital dangers, strategies, and tools we need to be aware of post Roe v. Wade. #dialoguesanddebates
https://t.co/5kMMvM9D1R
Ken Paxton has been pushing his extremist, anti-choice policies in Texas for years. Now he's suing to ensure doctors watch their patients die instead of treating them.
We can't let him win.
As @melissagira writes in @newrepublic in "The Growing Criminalization of Pregnancy," abortion cops depend on snitches: partners and exes, relatives, health workers, ghoulish "crisis pregnancy centers" and neighbors who rat you out:
https://t.co/Z8ulSozIeM 26/
The *Dobbs* decision brings all this into focus, but for millions of people, primarily people of color and poor and/or indigenous, fertility has long been a criminal justice. 18/
This can already happen in Wisconsin, where juvenile courts can take custody of an “unborn child”— aka a pregnant person—on the suspicion that a person is pregnant and has consumed or MAY consume alcohol or a controlled substance during their pregnancy.: https://t.co/XhcfE5A1WI