Karen Caplan

Historianing, activism, and speaking in the voice of my dog. Your dog, too.

[Evan Serpick @Serps]

SB422 does EXACTLY what AG and OPD say will reduce over-incarceration of Black MDers. JPR is ready to send it to the Senate floor, the Senate and House are ready to pass it. @BlackCaucusMD sent @SenBillFerg a letter urging him to put it up for a vote. Why does he refuse to do so?

[Karen Caplan @quillkdc]

The MD attorney general's and public defender's office are recommending passing the autocharge bill to fight the mass incarceration of Black people in MD. @SenBillFerg @LukeClippinger let's get this done.

[Karen Caplan @quillkdc]

MD people, mini Jorts merch!

[permanent record @PAcat15]

@JortsTheCat mini Jorts merch, and their beautiful mana, available in MD!! 😻🐈🧡

[Evan Serpick @Serps]

The Legislative Black Caucus (@BlackCaucusMD), @MayorBMScott, and a coalition of senior MD judges (see attached) are among those advocating for this bill and making it a priority. Only @SenBillFerg refuses to put the bill up for a vote. 100% unacceptable. https://t.co/xo0FuUaa8a

[Evan Serpick @Serps]

The MD Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee and chair @Willcsmithjr are ready to FINALLY advance a bill limiting the practice of auto-charging children as adults. The Senate is ready to pass it. The House is ready to pass it. ONE PERSON is blocking it: @SenBillFerg. Shame on him

[Karen Caplan @quillkdc]

@whitstrub @JGoldmanNJ We had "antisemitic graffiti" here that said "Israel kills babies." I mean, yes?

[whit strub @whitstrub]

every paragraph of this statement from my Jewish union comrades at Rutgers rings out with moral clarity & righteous anger over the hijacking of their identity to serve an apartheid state's genocide, strongly recommended:
https://t.co/OpLWHIEcWK

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

A reminder that the US government and its supporters were lying when they suggested they needed a court ruling before they could say there is a genocide in Gaza.

[Karen Caplan @quillkdc]

@CMRDMD Josh is such a mess.

[Silver Spring Justice Coalition @SilverCoalition]

Thank you to our community for coming out to dedicate this memorial bench to the memory of those lost to police violence in Montgomery County. We are grateful to our partners at @ypforprogress and the Coalition of Concerned Mothers for joining us. 1/3

[Karen Caplan @quillkdc]

@whitstrub Governor? Oh hell no.

[Karen Caplan @quillkdc]

Good lord.

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

Love this line from the article below: "Dozens of demonstrators chant anti-Israel slogans including 'Amsterdam is saying no to genocide.'" https://t.co/eRFCWUnDRx

[David Grossman @davidgross_man]

Finally, representation for the largest group of American Zionists

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

While Western media is screaming about genocidal Israeli football hooligans in Amsterdam, Israel dropped bombs on residential buildings in Tyre, South Lebanon, killing civilians in their homes.

Countless others are still buried under the rubble.

This is a massacre.

[Karen Caplan @quillkdc]

There are few people I feel stronger animus toward.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Bill Clinton:
"…People in Michigan are thinking about not voting bc they're mad at the Biden admin…that's a mistake."

"I got news for [Hamas]—[Israelis] were there first before their faith existed."

Harris said she'll try to negotiate end to violence…"that oughta be enough."

[Karen Caplan @quillkdc]

@ptcherneva CO did not vote Trump.

[Karen Caplan @quillkdc]

The grossest. (Greenblatt, not Burley)

[Shane Burley בד @shane_burley1]

That’s the ADL celebrating the leading force in bringing antisemitism (as well as pretty much every manifestation of white supremacy) back into mainstream politics. It’s almost as if alignment with power is what they are after rather than eradicating antisemitism.

[Karen Caplan @quillkdc]

@nathanielthrush Also, who names their kid Marianette?

[Karen Caplan @quillkdc]

Hello.

[A.J. Bauer @ajbauer]

The U.S. is not exceptional. There are many ongoing global examples of countries that have drifted from liberal democracy to authoritarianism.

Now is a time for global solidarity and sharing of lessons.