BAY AREA FOLKS - please join @DarwinBondGraha@JustMrPhillips & I on April 23 at Clio’s Books (353 Grand Ave, Oakland), 6 PM, for a conversation about criminal justice and the law & order backlash in Oakland, SF, CA & beyond.
Paperback copies of RIDERS will also be on sale
Honored to be nominated for the Californiana award by the Commonwealth Club for @awinston and my book, "The Riders Come Out at Night."
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Grateful to the Commonwealth Club for selecting RIDERS as a finalist for the California Book Award. @DarwinBondGraha & I are deeply grateful to be in such company https://t.co/qdbRMNEuqc
San Francisco police recently sought to enforce a search warrant against the local independent news website https://t.co/BipAxlpqWA
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New Year, new project: Bleeding Edge, a compendium of my past reporting & weekly subscriber-only posts.
Small way of building support for my ongoing investigative work on law enforcement, extremism & surveillance.
More to come very, very soon
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I almost missed it, but THE RIDERS COME OUT AT NIGHT came out a year ago today. Since then, @DarwinBondGraha & I won a landmark CA Supreme Court case, were long listed for the Carnegie Medal,
& been recognized by the judge overseeing OPD’s reforms
Went on CNN this evening and was asked about Jayapal getting criticized for allegedly not sufficiently condemning rape.
I said: "This will be one of the key moments we look back on years from now and say, remember when Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the chair of the CPC, was made to put out multiple statements reaffirming the fact that she condemns sexual violence. That will be a window into how warped this has gotten. Like I said, it's Dec. 5. We're talking about Oct. 7. And what has happened between Oct. 7 and now is what history will remember and we'll look at moments like this as ways it was rationalized and allowed to continue."
1. On Sept 26, Target announced it was closing nine stores "because theft and organized retail crime are…contributing to unsustainable business performance."
The release generated a flood of credulous media coverage
But now, @Target's the story is falling apart
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The fact that there were IDF strikes in the area, combined with Israelis initially taking responsibility, and extremely amateurish audio fakes and misleading video...says a lot
We have received multiple calls today regarding Palestinian nationals detained by ICE, and/or visited by the FBI.
The FBI has also visited multiple mosques today, in different states, as well as Arab inmates.
This is a troubling trend.
Under occupation and apartheid almost everyone asserts the right to active resistance. You would in your country. The question of which type of resistance is best is a strategic one, and I don't know enough to comment. I do know I support the liberation of the Palestinian people