I just watched a cnn clip where the reporter said “police now are taught to deescalate, and that’s not what they did here.” I watch body cam every day—deescalation is not the norm. Screaming contradictory impossible to follow and violent commands is what I see.
Me, 2008, Standing and screaming in the middle of intro to music theory that Bush twins are alien love children. Persecuted as I’m asked to leave. Never got to learn counterpoint.
Police hail this man as a hero…and he is! Fun fact: this is also technically a burglary. There are non-hypothetical people who are homeless and have done the same thing and prosecutors want ten years. The police do not hail them as heroes https://t.co/YKZ8WyNAQU
Fuck Bigots. Literally any snide remark, any “well they have some points”-ism when it comes to anti-trans and queer arguments, terfs, and anything of that ilk is bigotry and is killing people. Get on board or get out of the fucking way.
Nextdoor in Miami is awesome because jammed between the usual posts asking for housekeeper recs and complaining about loud parties someone will just be like “THIS LAND’S DAYS ARE NUMBERED WE ARE A DAMNED PEOPLE”
This article is a great example on how the @nytimes coverage of Indigenous issues doesn’t meet the basic standards of journalism. This article grossly misrepresents what happened in the underlying custody cases and the people behind the lawsuit.
The blockade of Cuba is a continuing human rights violation perpetrated by our country and this latest UN vote further exemplifies our government’s commitment to outdated ideology and capital over people’s well-being.
Where is the same uproar from legal professionals who defend people like Katyal for representing child slavers when the Public Defenders in Broward who represented Cruz are getting screamed at by a judge for simply asking their own children not be threatened?
If I were teaching a clinic for future public defenders, I think I would have a bi-weekly “look at an arrest form and research and write a motion in an hour” assignment.
these gallery protests do not damage art but raise the urgent question of how much longer will we continue to value capital acquisition (which is what art galleries do) above the lives climate change is taking and will take