1. End broken windows policing
2. Community oversight
3. Limit use of force
4. Independent investigations & prosecutions
5. Community representation
6. Body cams / film police
7. De-escalation Training
8. End for-profit policing
9. Demilitarization
10. Fair police union contracts
Jon Stewart kicks off The Daily Show's election coverage with a wellness check on America's two chronologically challenged candidates: Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
This $183 m comes from helping Holocaust survivors and their heirs claim restitution for “bank, insurance, and other material losses.” Why is there such an aversion to doing something similar for descendants of slavery and the living victims of US apartheid?
A 13-year-old competitive Tetris player prodigy from Oklahoma advanced so far in the original Nintendo version of the game that it froze and his score read “999999.”
“I can’t feel my fingers,” Willis Gibson said afterward. https://t.co/pa3dNjvOzy
Tax prep giants are terrified. Their lobbyists are working overtime to try to keep the federal government from finally providing an easy, free way to file taxes. But we’re at a historic moment where we can get this done—so let’s keep pushing.
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Multiple police officers in California were arrested during a raid by the FBI after an investigation into them that lasted 18 months.
When the feds seized their phones, they found the n-word and terms describing Black suspects as "gorillas" and "monkeys."
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This video of Trevian Kutti trying to intimidate Ruby Freeman is astonishing.
"I cannot say what specifically will take place. I just know that it will disrupt your freedom."
"You are a loose end for a party that needs to tidy up."
OXFAM: “The combined wealth of the world’s 85 richest people = the bottom 3.5 BILLION people.”
@kevinolearytv: “It’s fantastic.” 😳
Next time someone opposes taxing the super-rich, show them this obscenity. Their greed is killing us. (H/T @JoyAnnReid)
🔥MUST-WATCH: “They died penniless… their skills meant little in society once they no longer belonged to a white man… NO REDEEMING QUALITIES TO SLAVERY.”
@garrison_hayes debunks Florida's slavery argument with labor that built Tennessee’s Capitol👇🏾🗣️
The new documentary “Sound of the Police,” covers the long and violent history between police and Black communities. From slave patrols in the 1700s to Amir Locke’s death in 2022, this film highlights why we’re STILL fighting for better treatment from the police today!
No one is above the law. For two decades, Justice Thomas failed to report millions in gifts. Today, we asked DOJ to investigate Thomas for violating the Ethics of Government Act of 1978. We are joined by Ranking Members Nadler & Raskin, and Judiciary Members Lieu & Hank Johnson.
Texas passed SB8 to ban abortion, claiming a fertilized egg & fetus has rights. NOW Texas is fighting a lawsuit by a prison guard—who was 7 months pregnant, had pains, was denied a break, & the fetus was a still born death—arguing a fetus has no rights.😐
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A last minute phone call on Friday informed teachers that the Arkansas Department of Education will not recognize AP African American Studies for course credit by the state.
School starts in 2 days. AP European History continues to be offered for full credit. https://t.co/8Fnq9GVsYw
The racist violence of the past is ever present in the racial makeup of numerous towns across the US. On this day in 1903, after failing to lynch a Black man, a racist White mob forced the Black residents to flee Whitesboro, Texas. Today this town is less than 1% Black. A 🧵 1/
An entire small-town police department in Kansas raided a newspaper's offices and its reporters' homes because the paper got a tip about a well-connected person's DUI
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Some colleges, like Wesleyan University in Connecticut, are nixing legacy admissions as "a direct response to the Supreme Court ruling that effectively ended affirmative action as part of college admissions."
✍🏾 Mansee Khurana
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