Jack Lesure

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[Jack Lesure @JLesure20]

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[Jack Lesure @JLesure20]

@baileymeyers “Colonel.” Found out it was “Kernel” in HS while reading aloud to my senior year English class. I was baffled.

[mayday.health @HealthMayday]

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[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

Today, June 12, 2022, marks the sixth anniversary of the shooting at Pulse, a night club catering to the LGBTQIA+ community in Orlando, Florida.

49 people were killed--the most in a single shooting in US history up to that point and the largest terrorist attack since 9/11. 1/10

[Jack Lesure @JLesure20]

“If larger police forces make us safe, then by that logic, the U.S. would already be the safest society in the world as over $115 billion is spent on policing a year, a budget larger than any other country’s military budget except for China.”

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

One of the reasons it's so brutal to see us failing to build systems of care and a culture of care right now is that if we don't have them in place as climate change destabilizes society we're going to get absolutely wrecked.

[Frank Rossi @FrankRossi]

Asterisk or not on the 2019-2020 @NCAADIII basketball season, we can’t take away accomplishments like @HWSAthletics MBB reaching the Sweet 16 line for the first time. Be proud and keep your heads up, Hobart.

[Jack Lesure @JLesure20]

“Bad guys”: the ppl stealing $300-$600 billion a year from white-collar crimes, the disproportionate White males responsible for mass shootings, or the policy makers furthering race, gender, class, color, body, etc. inequities?

[Former Congresswoman Val Demings @RepValDemings]

Police departments and law enforcement officers lack sufficient resources to keep our communities safe. With crime rates increasing I am leading efforts to hire additional detectives, provide officer training, and catch the bad guys.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

This, very simply, not true. If you compare US police to the world's armies, they would have the 3rd highest budget. They have tanks, boats, helicopters, submarines. It's not they they don't have the resources, it's that they DO have the resource, while our communities don't.

[Jack Lesure @JLesure20]

Is “having no clue what to do with one’s life” a fulfilling and/or acceptable career path?

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

When Black women (or Black men) have hardly existed in a workplace, or a Supreme Court, in an NFL front office, or at a highly selective university, there are two explanations: the racist and the antiracist explanations. 1/9

[☭ @sleepisocialist]

One of the most sinister things our media does is repackage dystopian social failures as some hopeful or inspiring feat of human resilience

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

Choosing to increase the police presence instead of decreasing poverty is just setting a ticking time bomb for the next explosion of race-class tensions in the streets. It’s just a question of who will be the next George Floyd or Breonna Taylor.

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

I am reminded of segregationists who justified separate restrooms, elevators, waiting rooms, restaurants, phone booths, water fountains, parks, schools, pools, and even cemeteries by claiming White adults and children felt "discomfort" around Black people.

And now this.

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

I want everybody to remember that the Supreme Court has said the government doesn't have the authority to make people wear a mask when it later says it *does* have the authority to force women to give birth against their will.

[Jack Lesure @JLesure20]

@JoshuaPotash Ex: Criminal justice law holding kids responsible as adults who should “know better” vs. family law “kids shouldn’t have a say because they’re incomplete extensions of parents/guardians”.

[Jack Lesure @JLesure20]

@JoshuaPotash This extends to our policy too. Uprichard (2008) said we view kids through a paradigm as either “beings” or “becomings” rather than “beings and becomings.” Both are inherently problematic and limit agency.

[mtp @tsengputterman]

It's clear "learning to live with the virus" is the same paradigm thru which we will be conditioned to live with climate crisis—as the structural effects of capitalism are obscured by calls for individual resilience amidst a supposedly natural (and thus unresolvable) catastrophe