Will Porter

Abolish the police.

[Yanni Tragellis @yannitragellis]

4 minute offense trying to ice the game to end practice. 3rd and medium, 1 minute left. Burrow to who else but Dohnte Meyers, who makes yet another big play to end it. Some questions if he went out of bounds or not, but no timeouts left for the defense anyway. #Bengals

[Cincinnati Bengals @Bengals]

“Be great every day.”

[J. Ryder🪿 @harbingerofwoke]

You couldn’t make up a better allegory for the disproportionality in state funding between policing and public housing

[𝕊𝕠𝕔𝕚𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕥 𝕊𝕪𝕤𝕒𝕕𝕞𝕚𝕟 💾 @reset_by_peer]

Cops are fucking STOKED to add “the glove that tazes you” to the messed up game of Simon Says they play with their victims before they shoot them.

[Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy]

Texas cops used Flock cameras to track a woman who self-administered an abortion. Wisconsin cops are now using it to stalk drivers who visit states where weed is legal. It’s never about about crime or public safety, just surveillance and control https://t.co/FfiBCYzL0Y

[microplastics nanobubbler @facetedcarapace]

The less specific the name of a Christian church is, the more evil it is. If your church is called something like Immaculate Southern Methodist Congregants of Christ you're probably normal but if it's called C R O S S R O A D S, you are in danger.

[blue 🫧 @j3tpackblue]

i don’t think a lot of people understand that even if ai was completely environmentally neutral, or even positive, you should still be against it. it’s making everyone dumb and fucking insane. it will be the downfall of our society

[ally 🦋✨🎧⸆⸉ @ally_sheehan]

the world was better without ai

[groucho marxist🔻☭ @fwasiercwane]

everyday this admin passes a new Eat Shit and Die bill and the only response we get out of congress is "damn that's crazy, yall be easy tho" as they send more money to Israel

[Logan McMillen 🇨🇺 🇻🇪 🇭🇹 🇵🇸 @South_Gradient]

Boomers can’t incorporate this information because they must believe that their wealth was “earned” by their singular grit and skill. It’s central to their identity. Everyone should have this sort of lifestyle affordability. But this goes against America’s individualistic ethos.

[Sridhar Ramesh @RadishHarmers]

This is the second time in less than a week that ICE has casually shot a Hispanic driver to death who wasn't even the guy they were looking for. The stories are so similar, the brain mistakes them as just one incident. Exploiting this trick will let them do it one million times.

[deray @deray]

ShotSpotter’s contract notes that it’s turned off for July 4th because it can’t differentiate between gunshots and fireworks.

It wouldn’t have made any difference in this case and he knows it.

The right has to lie about police technology to win.

[Local 12/WKRC-TV @Local12]

Residents in a local township are questioning whether the community’s network of license plate-reading “Flock cameras” is delivering enough results to justify its cost, while also raising concerns about privacy and data security: https://t.co/CZRqtVH3wN

[Slow News Day @SlowNewsDayShow]

Flock's social media team is desperately trying to figure out how to disable community notes along with the comments
Flock systems are unwanted, unneeded, unsuccessful, & undermine every single core concept of the constitution
They have a 2.8% success rate finding criminals

[Lebron Q. Septa @dropkick_murray]

The Boston Slide judges the rider’s soul. The bagpiper was pure of heart and got a peaceful ride, the cop was a cop and was spit out accordingly

[friends of Bones @FriendsofBones]

"Whether one agrees with every aspect of the report's methodology or not, the disparities identified cannot simply be dismissed," said David Whitehead, president of the Cincinnati NAACP, said in a joint statement [with the Holloman Center for Social Justice].

[friends of Bones @FriendsofBones]

So now Mayor Pureval is claiming “the City was prevented from engaging on the study”.

Prevented? Bro the city has had 25 years to do its own study. Nobody is holding you back from giving a shit about racism.

https://t.co/xoTeSCyWZr

[Mo Egger @MoEgger]

Elly De La Cruz made his big league debut three years ago tonight.

That day - and the walkoff win that night over the Dodgers - felt significant. Elly's debut and what appeared to be a nice stockpile of young players made it seem like years of waiting for the Reds contend were finally going to payoff. Maybe not immediately, but sometime in the not-so distant future. Certainly by the middle of the decade.

Since then, the Reds are 246-243. A winning percentage of .503. The Reds don't seem dramatically better than they did 489 games ago. The familiar early-summer themes of "not sure if they're buyers or sellers" have become an annual thing. The number of foundational pieces and truly established players remains startingly small.

When the Reds chose to be really bad in 2022, there was lots of chatter from the front office about the desire to eliminate peaks and valleys moving forward.

It seems as if that mission has been accomplished.