As a longtime public defender and person with a new book on safety coming in Feb, this NYT breakdown on how Trump’s tactics on crime are a redux of bad ideas we’ve tried before and recognized don’t pan out.
Here’s the details. (I'll link the article in the thread)
People who do difficult, dangerous labor should be paid a meaningful wage commensurate to the difficulty and dangerousness of that labor. Glad to get a chance to say so and thanks @valeriereports for covering this issue!
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The Partners for Justice summer swag shop is open! As always, the tees are buttery and the hoodies are stretchy, cloudlike, and ultra-soft. New designs too!
The shop is ONLY OPEN until 8/18 so tell your friends and whomever else might want to know asap!! https://t.co/PCqXW2q86S
You may have heard the term “Project 2025” floating around, and you may even have cracked open the 900+ page document yourself, only to see a lot of kind of bland, policy-wonk text. So let me crack through the policy-speak and tell you WTF is in this document.
What a quarter we’ve had! We can’t help but share the amazing results Advocates are achieving at PFJ’s 20+ sites across the US. From Jan. 1, Advocates worked on over 4k cases, connecting individuals with nearly 2,600 services and completing 80% of client goals.
Here at PFJ, we know there is a nexus between reliable transportation and client success. And while advocates can move mountains, they can't materialize vehicles. BUT thanks to an incredible partnership with @Uber, now we can make a ride appear when it is most needed!
“It’s liberating to hold responsibility for what your character experiences. I like the excitement of achievement, the competition with other people who play.”
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PFJ is in @NewYorker! When we started as a scrappy nonprofit five years ago, we could only dream of the progress we've made - advocates in 10 states, assisting around 7,000 people annually and eliminating nearly 5,000 years of incarceration. https://t.co/AVxRS7XsX0
@rob_sellars @GrahamStokoe I have no words. I've never seen anything like it. The US broadcast is unhinged. I've just watched Dan Burn, Jamie Carragher and Micah Richards all do the Dan Burn dance on television. HOWAY.