David Vines

[David Vines @davidvines]

@Ghitelman This is Marcus Stroman and Omar Quintanilla erasure

[Scott Hechinger @ScottHech]

This is astonishing, yet not surprising. If it feels like you're far less safe in NYC than ever before, it's not bc shootings are up. It's because the media (fueled by lies & fearmongering by NYC Mayor Eric Adams) is up. Look at this chart. Red line is shootings. Grey is media.

[lomikriel @lomikriel]

2021 started with Biden admin saying its priorities were ending MPP/Remain in Mexico & reunite separated families (a task force!) and ends w/ MPP back (expanded!) and the task force only reuniting a few dozen of at least 1,000 + Biden admin pulling out of financial compensation

[David Vines @davidvines]

@EZT_News @PitchingNinja I think technically it was for Christmas, but I guess at this point it was more of a belated Hanukkah present 🥎🥷🥎

[freeborn Black woman first of her name @TheWayWithAnoa]

the entire legal fiction of reasonableness is grounded in white fear of the other. it's why white men can escalate and create dangerous situations and later claim they were afraid.

[Ayesha A. Siddiqi @AyeshaASiddiqi]

Americans should be ashamed by the fact they create refugees. These delusions of grandeur are the placid grins of amnesiac murderers

[Ahilan Arulanantham @ahilan_toolong]

The opinion includes detailed analysis of why the 1952 reenactment perpetuated the original racism from the 1929 law. Let's see if the Biden SG's office authorizes an appeal to defend this racist statute or instead uses this to dismantle a key engine of federal mass incarceration

[Ahilan Arulanantham @ahilan_toolong]

Like an earthquake shaking the federal mass incarceration system to its core, Judge Du in Nevada rules the illegal reentry statute unconstitutional because of its racist origins in US v Carrillo Lopez. https://t.co/JMMVcxa4cW @KaraHartzler @Ingrid_Eagly @folksmove @SirineShebaya

[David Vines @davidvines]

@Grottkau4MKE Extremely true and, as you know, not at all an unintended consequence of higher ed privatization.

[David Vines @davidvines]

brb, gonna apply for the Mets beat writer position at @jacobin

[David Vines @davidvines]

Every single word of this tweet was carefully chosen to drive me, specifically, completely insane.

[Mark Gooden @TooGooden17]

@CentralParkNYC Hello Central Park, I am a New York Mets beat writer for The Federalist. I was hoping I could use this graphic in my article to convey the parallels between this barred owl and the Mets season. Thanks in advance!

[David Vines @davidvines]

Anyway, here are two of the better pictures I’ve taken of Barry to cleanse my palate after reading that.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

One core lesson about why "police reform" has been a disaster is that most reforms have given cops more resources "to do better." The ironclad rule is this: when you have a wasteful, corrupt, violent bureaucracy, the first step must always be to reduce its size and power.

[Rashida Tlaib @RashidaTlaib]

Suppose your child did not want to go fight countless and endless shadow wars across the globe, at this time, but you’re paying taxes to fund all of that. You may not be happy about it!

[Jackie Fielder @JackieFielder_]

500 water protectors put in jail for fighting the Line 3 pipeline. Many of them will spend this whole weekend in the box until Tuesday.

How much you wanna bet no one will be put into jail for this? @POTUS

[David Vines @davidvines]

@AndrewEDM1 I’d also like to commend you on the extremely normal behavior of diving into my (and @Ghitelman’s) mentions to argue about bagels because I liked a tweet by @studentactivism that made you mad in a completely different thread.

[David Vines @davidvines]

@AndrewEDM1 Yeah dude, further proof that Anti-Zionism is not anti-semitism. I’m pretty sure that a New York Jew is allowed to praise NYC bagels without condoning the occupation of the Golan Heights or supporting the weird far-right ethnonationalists wandering around the Knesset.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

!! AG Garland just vacated Matter of A-B- I & II and Matter of L-E-A-, taking the first major step towards restoring asylum law to what it was before Sessions and Barr took over.

A-B-: https://t.co/4wxMehgm4f

L-E-A-: https://t.co/D3sPoUyi16