AD5437

Father, writer, & formerly incarcerated person illuminating how our current Prison Industrial Complex imprisons us all. #BanTheBox

[The Debt Collective 🟥 @StrikeDebt]

In case you need an update on where things are with the ridiculous lawsuit against student debt relief:

The Republican Attorney General in Missouri sued on behalf of student loan servicer MOHELA. But internally, MOHELA says they don't even want to be a part of the lawsuit.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Whether it’s Democrats banning guns in schools or Republicans banning free lunches in schools, both sides have made our nation’s classrooms another battlefield in the culture war.

[Wishing i was 18 again... @scollan_ruth]

I just found these. The person who laid this out is Seerut K. Chawla (IG: @seerutkchawla-

[Dyjuan Tatro @DyjuanTatro]

More money is stolen from people’s wages than the cost of all car thefts, larcenies, burglaries, & robberies combined every year. But we hear almost nothing about it. This is how crime is socially constructed: focus on a little petty crime but ignore massive wage theft.

[New Disabled South @DisabledSouth]

A disabled #StopCopCity organizer is being held in DeKalb County Jail. They are one of the three targeted by the state for operating a bail fund. This is political persecution and everyone needs to call to demand their release.

Please share #CripTheVote #DisabilityTwitter

[# @oaksportsdied]

At Lake Merritt / Fairyland

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

This is a really remarkable opening paragraph. The article describes theft and fraud by corporate entities executives that authorities will never even contemplate treating as criminal:

[The Debt Collective 🟥 @StrikeDebt]

Last night, the Senate voted in favor of a debt ceiling deal that permanently ends the pause on student debt payments. That means the current iteration of the pause can never be extended again—beginning September 1st. This was a brutal provision in the deal and hurts borrowers.

[Sarah Taber @SarahTaber_bww]

Hey like just so we're all clear, "going after political enemies with SWAT teams" is what is happening here.

Extremely authoritarian takeover behavior.

[48 Hills @48hills]

The mayor, hyping downtown development, said that “where Moscone Center is, there used to be nothing but parking lots.”

In fact, the area that became the Yerba Buena Redevelopment site had 3,000 SRO hotel units and hundreds of working-class families.

https://t.co/bYVwGLApUB

[Michael Li 李之樸 @mcpli]

See people, this is what happens when you don’t have intercity high-speed rail.

[AD5437 @PeopleNotPrison]

Hear hear!
Great, important movie!

And Sid Hatfield still the only sheriff I'd vote for.

[Boots Riley @BootsRiley]

Cinephiles, Filmmakers, and everybody else.

This is one of my favorite movies.

If u have't seen it, watch it with friends now-

especially if you're in the #WGA #DGA or #SAGAFTRA

Written and Directed by John Sayles. DP: Haskell Wexler

w Chris Cooper & James Earl Jones

[Oakland Public Library @oaklibrary]

In this program, journalists and co-authors Darwin BondGraham (@DarwinBondGraha) and Ali Winston (@awinston) give us a behind-the-scenes look into the research and resources they used in surveying over 50 years of OPD history.

Learn more: https://t.co/6T70tDeYRe

[Scott Hechinger @ScottHech]

THREAD: When we talk about crime, we tend only to focus on police *arrest data*. “Felony arrest” sounds scary. But what actually happens to those cases? I crunched some numbers.

*In 2021, 86% of all felony charges in NY were ultimately dismissed.* Read on for why this matters.

[Oakland Education Association @OaklandEA]

Tom Morello — unionist, musician, guitarist of Rage Against the Machine — sends solidarity and song to Oakland Education Association educators on strike! “Hold the line, Oakland teachers!

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1943, California enacted a statute requiring all marriage licenses to indicate each party’s race in order to prevent interracial marriage. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/hgbMMNNMcq

[Building the California Dream Alliance @CADreamAlliance]

Denying people with criminal convictions the right to vote is a form of racial oppression that dates back to Jim Crow laws.

This year, California has the opportunity to restore voting rights to people serving a prison sentence by passing ACA4.

@FreeTheVoteCA #YesOnACA4

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

On this day in 1925, high school teacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution in Dayton. He violated Tennessee's Butler Act, which forbade lessons contrary to the Bible's "story of the Divine Creation of man." Punishing those who teach scientific truth is nothing new.