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Required reading as we remember the life of George Floyd.
The NYT: Last year, police killed at least 1,226 people, an 18% increase over 2019, the year before Floyd was killed.
Native Americans & Black people are the most likely to be killed by police.
https://t.co/C3PAZBGCxI
Please understand that this platform is about to become the very least reliable source of information in the aggregate if Trump starts losing tomorrow.
Coup Two requires people to feel "robbed" and Musk is going to go into overdrive making the MAGAs feel that.
The NYPD spent $150 Million *extra* last year to catch people who weren't able to afford to pay the subway fare. They owed just $104,000.
$150 million could buy free fares (at going rate) for 95,000 poor New Yorkers per year.
Instead four people shot, including an officer.
Democracy in crisis is more important than poll numbers. We seem unable, even now, to shift news coverage consistently towards the unprecedented unrolling of democratic and constitutional norms and the impending cataclysm. We should be listening not to pundits but to scholars of authoritarianism, historians, journalists from other countries that have seen democracy erode. We must shed the hubris that tells us we know how to cover this because we’ve covered politics before, and the belief that we must maintain old norms even in the face of an unparalleled moment in US history. Otherwise, we are not journalists but accomplices. The winners and losers here are not Democrats or Republicans, but democracy itself.
The Supreme Court has:
-Overturned Roe v. Wade (50+ years of precedent)
-Overturned Chevron (40 years of precedent)
-Overturned affirmative action (60+ years of precedent)
-Allowed cities to criminalize homelessness
And this is all because 1 man became president in 2016.
“Not showmanship. Not recorded applause at press conferences. Not staying to the wee hours of night at Zero Bond. But a relentless focus on making their lives better.” https://t.co/YhYJrrqcax
Immediately after winning the college football national championship Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh called for NCAA athletes to unionize and for players to receive a bigger share of the billions that college sports brings in.
Massachusetts taxed the rich. Now they have an extra $1.5 billion to spend.
In November, 2022 voters approved a 4% tax on incomes over $1 million.
The state can now use that money on free public school meals, free community college, and public transit.
https://t.co/zdccWAgJeK