Liz Schiller #DefundthePolice

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Feminist/white/Jewish/parent/writer. Solidarity is action (Mia McKenzie). Courage then action then hope. Interested in trauma. I write songs and stuff sometimes. (Like ptsdthemusical.net) Bike riding is the most fun. she/her

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Today was great. We fed so many people today in Tampa, connected with families and are working to build more community run gardens in people's spaces. The city isn't going to help its people - the people will help themselves!

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That any elected officials participated in J6 is disturbing. That some of those folks also have prior records is bonkers.This guy's on a school board & has a been arrested for drunken driving & other crimes. He says he won't step down. That level of cognitive dissonace screams evangelical

Virginia school board member sentenced on Jan. 6 riot chargeswww.washingtonpost.com Miles Adkins, who has rejected calls to resign over his presence inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, pleaded guilty and was sentenced this week to 12 days in jail.

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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders. AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...

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There's a Small Problem With the AI Industry: It's Making Absolutely No Moneyfuturism.com AI is not making money for investors which may be connected to businesses having trouble adopting the technology.

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The “it is inevitable” discourse is designed to disempower actual pushback and demoralize voters to turn away or give up on democratic processes and voting. As much as it may seem like things have fully collapsed. Winning the election keeps options on the table that give us actual power to stop this

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A joy list! What a good idea Fresh breezes Chocolate Fresh fruit Magpies Baby birds Growing things Seeing friends' kids grow up Sprouting seeds Community Making kooky crafts Knitting Fresh in-season vegetables Ginger beer Going for walks Seeing friends happy Getting good rest Making useful things

Is it cheating to name all of my cats? IDK buuut here's what brings me joy: Artemis (cat) Mister (cat) Hobbes (cat) Also all of your cats Books Video games Rock & metal music Anime Have I mentioned cats? Writing The wonderful online communities I've built & been part of Horror movies 90s SciFi Cats

Tag yourself, I'm a lion chilling behind the fence.

When I’m manic and someone tells me if I don’t take my no no pills they’ll call the wee woo taxi 🚑

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Not to be corny but I do think the ongoing aspiration to make America a pluralist democracy of equals is righteous, beautiful, and worth honoring, even if it has more often been the struggle of minorities & dissenters than the policy of the government. 🇺🇸

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Republicans are single handedly making whole lines of polisci & law study irrelevant, like the fall of USSR did to Soviet studies.

In light of I'm retiring my Constitutional Interpretation undergrad class. Of course it was front loaded w/ polisci research demonstrating the fed courts are political & the policy effects of rulings. I'd rather spend the rest of my career teaching another class 1/

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So. Google just released an internal paper about the epistemic, ethical, and sociopolitical threats of generative "AI," and golly gee whiz if that doesn't sure as shit sound familiar. 🤔🧐😒🙄 www.404media.co/google-ai-po...

Google: AI Potentially Breaking Reality Is a Feature Not a Bugwww.404media.co “While these uses of GenAI are often neither overtly malicious nor explicitly violate these tools’ content policies or terms of services, their potential for harm is significant.”

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www.huffpost.com/entry/aborti...

Abortion Fund Leaders Have A Stark Warning For Allwww.huffpost.com After the overturn of Roe v. Wade, donations flowed to abortion funds, but over time the money has dried up -- endangering care for people across the country.

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Political education is so necessary for activism! The architects of project 2025 are out there bragging about it because they want their base mobilized. A response might emphasize the importance of, say, state or doj not being staffed by Jan 6 attendees

If Democrats feel that this is a core threat, then what's the political education plan? Are they turning the document into an audiobook? Are they hosting Project 2025 teach ins? Are they creating a Democratic Project 2025? Like what's actually happening in reality?

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Political education is core to activism, which is why the Democrats avoid it like the plague. They do not support or endorse activism - just like the Republicans, they find it to be an objectionable disruption to an orderly status quo, which is why they team up to crush it when they can.

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Street vendors and the unhoused in New Orleans are subject to an exclusion zone for the duration of Essence festival. The city calls it a "clean zone": www.nola.com/news/politic...

Usher and Janet Jackson headline 30th Essence Festival of Culture: The best of Black culture’s policymakers, thought leaders, creatives, business minds, health experts and, of course, musical talent are converging in New Orleans over the Fourth of July holiday weekend as part of the Essence…

Usher and Janet Jackson headline 30th Essence Festival of Culturedlvr.it The best of Black culture’s policymakers, thought leaders, creatives, business minds, health experts and, of course, musical talent are converging in New Orleans over the Fourth of July holiday weekend as part of the Essence Festival of Culture

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It's important to note that this single-post analysis above is entirely consistent with a much more comprehensive analysis by @ketanjoshi.co showing that changes in the X algorithm and moderation policies that began in Oct 2022 have massively favoured trolls and penalized climate scientists. See:

Musk is remaking Twitter into a climate denier sanctuaryketanjoshi.co I got some data that analyses how climate deniers have changed their audience size, relative to pro-climate accounts, on Musk's Twitter. It's....not good.

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Yesterday, I shared this same Canada Day thread on Bluesky, Threads, and X. Here's what I found. 🧵

“Canada is such a northern country, don’t we want a little global warming?” I often hear. In a nutshell, NO. We’re warming 2x faster than the rest of the world, driving extreme heat, flood, and sea level rise we are not prepared for. The wildfire season started in Feb this year. Feb! #canadaday

Canada’s Changing Climate Reportchangingclimate.ca

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This is increasingly my experience on Twitter/X as well, that replies are just rubbish and there's very little scope for discovery/learning/asking questions. Still one of the saddest outcomes about how I've spent my time over the last decade!

Since I had such a large sample (nearly a hundred), I analyzed X comments by category. 47% said climate wasn't changing, I was lying, ignorant, or not really a scientist 15% said I was in it for the $ 14% were insults Content warning: Please don't read the fine print if you're sensitive.

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Btw, I specifically complained to Rep Cardenas’s office that while AOC had already called for an impeachment, he hadn’t even commented on twitter yet. His tweet (a pithy comment on a quote-post of the LAT story) went up an hour later.

You could also call up your US rep and demand they join AOC in this move for impeachment. Can't pass the R House, but they HAVE to use their bully pulpit and rally the public. www.nydailynews.com/2024/07/01/a...

AOC calls for impeachment of ‘corrupt’ Supreme Court after Trump immunity rulingwww.nydailynews.com Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Monday said she would push to impeach what she called “corrupt” Supreme Court justices after they granted substantial immunity to former President Trump. T…

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Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"

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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.

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The onion doing a much better job conveying the stakes in the election than the NYT

The largely silent ad, which will reportedly air in battleground states across the country, features a sequence of headshots depicting politicians, former Trump White House officials, journalists, and seemingly random average Americans with big red X’s over their faces.

New Trump Ad Shows Montage Of People He’ll Kill If Electedwww.theonion.com PHOENIX—Following this week’s landmark Supreme Court ruling granting presidents broad immunity against criminal prosecution for official acts, Donald Trump’s campaign released an ad Wednesday that con...

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russms.bsky.social

Six people did the thing that is supposed to require 2/3 of both chambers of Congress and 3/4 of the states to do

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I hate this court so much and even I am astonished by this case. It writes new provisions into Art 2 of the constitution that were unnecessary to decide the case at hand and that cannot be repealed by legislative action or even undone without a new case of presidential law breaking before the court

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We have had thousands of citizens detained by ICE, largely due to database error and bureaucratic failure. One guy was held for 1273 days! Nothing was done to fix it. The executive branch holds this authority, and no one can check that plenary power. www.latimes.com/archives/sto...

ICE held an American man in custody for 1,273 days. He’s not the only one who had to prove his citizenshipwww.latimes.com Immigration officers in the United States operate under a cardinal rule: Keep your hands off Americans.

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The only two permutations of this that work are: 1) Biden stays in 2) Biden steps aside for Harris but remains in office Everything other permutation of this idea is either a fantasy or propaganda whose discussion is designed to get the Dems to lose the election and usher Trump into power.

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A recent swell of Republican opposition to DEI threatens to upend medical schools' efforts to recruit more Black students, school administrators say

The anti-DEI crusade threatens medical schools' efforts to recruit Black studentswww.whatimreading.net A recent swell of Republican opposition threatens to upend medical schools' efforts to recruit more Black students, school administrators say.

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If you’re in Massachusetts, I recommend Tides for Reproductive Freedom, which is the only abortion fund run by lgbtq and bipoc folks. www.tidesforchange.org

www.huffpost.com/entry/aborti...

HOME | Tides | Funding for Abortions in MAwww.tidesforchange.org Tides for Reproductive Freedom is dedicated to providing financial and practical support for people across race, gender, sexuality, spirituality, ethnicity, ability and history seeking access to abort...

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Anyway, I was right that the media (led by the NYT) is going with "but his debate performance" to tank Biden's chances. They've been looking for a "but her emails" attack on him for months and nothing else has stuck This furor reminds me of their freakout when he withdrew troops from Afghanistan

I don't know if I'd consider someone who would leak such a sensitive conversation (if it happened the way this person said it did) to the NYT to be an ally of President Biden

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"journalism isn't profitable" until you remove the fail upward brunchlords consistently soaking up outsized compensation despite making endless, terrible choices

The Real Story of the Crisis at The Washington Postwww.theatlantic.com How the world’s greatest businessman drove his newspaper into a ditch

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80% of trans floridians had our healthcare illegalized, we are functionally barred from all govt work (all trans people i knew who worked for the local university were fired after the bathroom ban which illegalizes us from using state-owned washrooms), yeah, it's bad! and no one talks about it!

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if your instinct is "calm down, surely this is an exaggeration," allow me to assure you that it's really not

"Don't worry, if the president imprisons his political enemies, you can still get a writ of habeas corpus." "But to prove that's why you've been imprisoned requires proof of..." "Presidential motive!" "And under Trump v US, presidential motive is..." "Inadmissible!"