Gene Harrison

A soft spot for tea and ranting about the evils of capitalism. Strict adherent of Water Discipline; a friend of Jamis, and follower of the Golden Path.

[Rebecca Kavanagh @DrRJKavanagh]

After a corrections officer used a *real* gun to kill a teenager carrying a water gun yesterday morning, NYPD has decided it will devote all its resources to rounding up water guns - and then tweet about it.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

An amazing news story virtually ignored by state/corporate media: scientists are pointing to immediate system change actions because emissions must peak this year to avoid catastrophic 1.5°C/2°C of global warming but economic growth means emissions are surging apocalyptically. 🧵

[Mac @GoodPoliticGuy]

it’s insane that the top 1% has more wealth than the bottom 90% and people have been convinced it was stimulus to the working class that drove inflation instead of record corporate profits and executive pay.

[@tundeolaniran @tundeolaniran]

the layers of late stage capitalism this captures. labor rights, climate change, suburban sprawl, surveillance culture.. i just hope that man is ok

[Robert Komaniecki @Komaniecki_R]

BREAKING: Musicologists have discovered that the so-called "secret chord" played by David was in fact F minor. Researchers are describing God's taste in music as "surprisingly basic"

[Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II @RevDrBarber]

What if Congress held public hearings on voting rights & living wages w/ the same depth as the January 6 Committee? We’d be in a very different place as a democracy.

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

The NYPD has reached a new level of depravity

[Economic Hardship Reporting Project @econhardship]

New from @jacobin and EHRP

@equalityAlec breaks down the destructive functions of copaganda:

1️⃣Draw attention to crimes committed by the poor instead of the powerful

2️⃣Manufacture crime surges

3️⃣Manipulate our understanding of how public safety works https://t.co/9my3xHmBll

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

An off-duty corrections officer who worked at an NYPD firing range killed an 18 year-old who was playing with this exact type of water gun yesterday. And this is what the NYPD posts. I'm disgusted on a level I didn't think was possible

[Katelyn Burns @transscribe]

Alternative history is always like “what if the confederacy won?” Or “what if the Nazis had won?” And never “what if all the southern slaves had murdered all the slave holders?”

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

An off-duty NYC Corrections officer shot and killed an 18 year-old for playing with a water gun in the heat.

[New York City Antifa @NYCAntifa]

where does it say people with this "weapon" will be murdered on sight? or is it that special fine print only pigs can see?

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

It may seem like a 'win' to move from climate denialism to climate change awareness. But it isn't enough if we end up w/ false solutions like carbon trading, corporate greenwashing, and gated communities & borders. Climate justice is noncapitalist, decolonial & internationalist.

[Brian Schatz @brianschatz]

There’s just a ton of semi prominent Nazis and nazi adjacent people in America and it’s 2022 and I’m not gonna lie it makes me pretty uncomfortable.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

At a time of rising authoritarianism and unprecedented surveillance, incarceration, and criminalization of basic medical care, Biden trying to hire 100,000 new cops could go down as one of history’s great betrayals.

[Rafael Shimunov 🍉 🕎 @rafaelshimunov]

It’s not called suicide when most of the world wants climate action, and 1% of it is stopping us. It’s murder.

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

We should probably do something before Amazon breaks out their company towns with company housing and company scrip

[PeterGelderloos @PeterGelderloos]

As the world burns, it can be therapeutic to imagine throwing the wealthy on the fire and cackling as they writhe in the flames. (It's been a hard year, lay off). But there's a hitch: using monstrous tactics makes monsters of us.

*Anarchist ethics in the collapse*
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[Eric Reinhart @_Eric_Reinhart]

Copaganda
1) focuses attention on crimes committed by marginalized people rather than the rich and powerful
2) manipulates perceptions of what actually makes us safer
3) manufactures “crime surges" to drive ever-increasing police spending
@equalityAlec
https://t.co/ZRc6EXXrQr