That is, authoritarian movements and the far-right have employed this as a tactic to discredit (and dismantle) institutions of knowledge, silence experts, and spread misinformation. That's why political literacy isn't optional, it's one of our most effective tools of resistance.
I don't argue with people online anymore. I say what I need to say and get out. I'm happy to engage with folks acting in good faith, but I've accepted that we're living in a time of anti-intellectualism.
My statement on the Supreme Court ruling this week to permit racial profiling:
Been sitting on this for a bit: I’m joining the ACLU of Virginia as Policy Counsel! Feels full circle to return to where I began my civil rights career, this time in my home state. Grateful and ready to fight for a more just, inclusive Virginia 💙
Alongside brilliant organizers, advocates, artists, healers, and storytellers, I've been shaped by their love, solidarity, wisdom, and unwavering commitment to liberation. Can't wait to share what's next! 🩷
Today I put in notice at job after nearly 3 years. It's been the honor of a lifetime to support grassroots campaigns challenging the systems that criminalize and cage our communities and working to abolish them.
Sharing for single parents, guardians, and primary caregivers living in Richmond, VA: www.rva.gov/community-we...
Now spinning- Black Classical Music by Yussef Dayes
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
No More Police by @prisonculture.bsky.social and @dreanyc123.bsky.social
"In a twisted feat of logic, police trumpet claims that violence is on the rise--evidence of their own failure to prevent it in spite of the billions invested in them--as a reason they need more cops, more cash, more laws, and of course, less scrutiny and less accountability."
"Capitalists need policing the most--to protect their property, billions, businesses, and borders by arresting the whom they've exploited, excluded, and extracted from the most."
--Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists
So excited and incredibly honored to be a panelist this year at the 2023 Socialism Conference in Chicago, IL!
Eric Adams hates workers and is a cop in case you missed it.
Thankfully, there was no child abandoned on the side of the road. Thankfully, #CarleeRussell is safe and accounted for. People will forget about this story just like how they forget about missing and abducted Black women. And those folks can kiss my Black ass.
So I'm reading more about #CarleeRussell and what I will say is, y'all are unsurprisingly so quick to believe cops and the general public is typically v apathetic about Black women who go missing. So y'all's outrage is confusing and just another example of you just hating us.
just making sure
Three free audiobooks for Prime members! Offer ends 7/31. I definitely prefer physical books but some books, especially the longer ones, might be easier to get through as audiobooks. So, I used my first credit on a book I've already started- The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois.
Very bad decision for sex workers as FOSTA not only violates the 1A by chilling protected speech, but it makes sex work more dangerous.
truthout.org/articles/law-that-made-s...
Very excited to rebuild a brand new persona like here like you do when you leave your small town behind for college in the big city.
I remember not feeling smart enough in law school because I just couldn't accept the law as it was taught to me. I constantly wondered why and what if. I felt angry all the time and I couldn't understand why my classmates weren't. I wonder if they're feeling outraged yet.
An abolitionist affirmation for the week: "I refuse to give my power to a coward, bully, or a colonizer."
what information and data is being gathered or what the capabilities of the "real time crime center" should alarm Richmond residents.
We're seeing a trend of cops outsourcing to surveillance technology (ring cameras, real time crime centers, ALPRs) to do their job which results in over policing of Black and brown communities. The fact that Chesterfield's police department is refusing to answer questions about
Virginia is really a surveillance state. RVA set aside $2.3M in federal COVID relief funds to create a "real-time crime center" so that police can watch citizens all the time in case a crime is committed to gather as much info as possible instead of canvassing.
