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ask me about TIS-B things // he/him

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

THREAD. A common media tactic is calling right-wing policies that selectively use state violence against working class people "tough on crime" or "crime prevention" or "fighting crime." This is a major issue for people of good will who care about preventing the rise of fascism.

[Mac @GoodPoliticGuy]

so instead of housing the homeless they’re gonna give free housing to cops so they can train to go brutalize homeless people

[john teufel @JohnTeufelNYC]

🚨I have some exciting news and I won't bury the lede:
My lawsuit against the city to dislodge NYPD disciplinary reports was successful. I won! Those reports will now be produced in response to FOIL requests. And they are a treasure trove.

Important 🧵⬇️

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

Why is there more money for the military-industrial complex – providing no additional protection for our national security and arguably diminishing it – at the same time U.S. is refusing to spend the $25 billion needed to make enough additional vaccines to vaccinate the world?

[Asa @TheAsa]

@JShankStl @PrivacyWatchSTL For what it's worth, Freelance air is associated with DEA surveillance. N9938Z was using Flint callsign during those circle tracks yesterday which also points to DEA

[Asa @TheAsa]

@MinneapoliSam @webster @Ottergoose sounds like Kona callsign, which points to FBI operations on this one

[Asa @TheAsa]

@webster @MinneapoliSam I believe this one was using callsign Kona, which also points to FBI operations

[Asa @TheAsa]

@MinneapoliSam @Ottergoose Callsign Flint and registered owner Freelance Air points to this likely being a DEA flight

[Asa @TheAsa]

@webster Sounds like it's using callsign Flint54 today, which points to DEA as well

[Brian Castner @Brian_Castner]

Someone tell the general he just said the quiet part out loud.

[Asa @TheAsa]

@MinneapoliSam I believe this was DEA's Flint54 out of KANE this morning

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

The American embargo on Cuba is the longest economic embargo in modern history. Last month, 184 countries voted in favor of a UN resolution demanding the end of the US economic blockade (for the 29th consecutive year).

The US and Israel voted against it.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

ordinary people are learning more and more that the legal system is a cesspool of corruption, bureaucratic cruelty, and shocking inhumanity. the only way cops, prosecutors, and judges can respond is to try to hide what they do.

[southpaw @nycsouthpaw]

I don’t like to speak ill of the dead, but with Rumsfeld there’s no getting around it. Allowing him to be lionized would diminish the humanity of the hundreds of thousands of other men, women, and children whose deaths he played a big part in causing for no good reason.

[Abe @oopsallgoblins]

Work today has been a horrific illustration of the tendency of white collar liberals to view service industry workers as both sub- and superhuman, neither needing things to be easier nor deserving thereof.
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[David Lo Pun-ch Nazis @helpmeskeletor]

The thing about ‘money can’t buy happiness’ is that it doesn’t come from people who want you to be happy it’s people who benefit from you being poor.

[Asa @TheAsa]

@Ottergoose @MinneapoliSam I'm hearing a TROY 219 on ATC comms at KSTP, which fits with this info

[Asa @TheAsa]

@MikeIsler Yep it was!

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

The NYPD is once again violently evicting everyone in Washington square park and violently arresting people. It’s unclear why the park now closes at 10 p.m. on the weekend.