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Rebecca J. Kavanagh @DrRJKavanagh
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Kathy Morse did time on Rikers Island. She was released 8 years ago, but in this searing piece she talks about why even now she doesn’t feel free.

Kathy is such a powerful voice #onhere for incarcerated women. Please follow & more importantly listen & hear what she has to say.
There are some amazing must-follow people #onhere who were at some point during their lives incarcerated, including @keribla @realhomie4life @shonhopwood @PDog119 @swopbehindbars @CloseRosies.

I know I am omitting many because doing this off the top of my head.

Please add.
@JoshuaBHoe!
PS. Searing in first tweet was not intended to be bad pun. Completely unintentional post-New-Years brain fog.
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People so spectacularly missing Tiffany Haddish’s point.

And everything she says is accurate. A recent study showed that people would save a dog from an accident before they would certain “classes” of human beings, including those they deemed “criminal.”

theglowup.theroot.com/so-about-that-…
Please understand I am in no way equating Blackness with criminality.

We live in a society where Willie Horton tropes thrive & Black & Brown people make up the overwhelming number of people in prison so that was why I made the correlation.
And unfortunately the study did not consider race as a variable.
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When judges set bail on my clients’ cases as low as $500, 87% of them cannot afford to pay it. That’s for offenses like trespassing & petit larceny.

It costs NYC, $475 a night to detain someone on Rikers’ Island.

You do the math.

psmag.com/economics/our-… via @pacificstand
When I started as a public defender, I thought judges set bail at $500 honestly - if mistakenly - believing that it was a token amount most people could pay.

Then I smartened up. Judges know exactly what we do: that $500 bail will hold poor people in jail & coerce pleas.
Until NYC and other cities do something about cash bail, please donate to bail funds across the country like @BKBailFund. $500 will buy a person’a freedom. A donation of $5 from 100 people gets us to $500.
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Not addressed here, & rarely ever addressed, when people don’t get arrested for low level offenses, they are still given summonses.

Is that better? Yes - they don’t spend the night in jail.

But it does absolutely nothing to address racial disparities.

at.law.com/Qu4QZd?cmp=sha…
We’ve had this wholesale transference of people from criminal court to summons court. So arrest statistics are down (but as this article points out, racial disparities remain) & the process has just become less visible.

In many ways, it’s a deliberate manipulation.
People issued summonses are still charged with the same offenses as if they were arrested - and in some cases this will be a misdemeanor.

That’s serious, but people, because they got a ticket, may not appreciate that and may be more likely to plead guilty.
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Better yet, folk need to give up on trying to change racist White women/men and focus on fighting unconstitutional voter suppression that’s wiping Black folk with good sense off the rolls.
I’ve been saying this #onhere since I joined Twitter 10 years ago. If White liberals don’t get serious about fighting racist voter suppression in the South and all across America, Democrats will continue to underperform where/when it counts the most.
These red/purple state D candidates are going to keep coming up short bc the national party apparatus is too busy trying to accommodate wishy washy unreliable White voters to actually FIGHT voter suppression and give the Black base a shot at a level playing field. It’s surrender.
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Okay, are you ready for a tale of tragedy, comedy and mice?

We have another story, and you’ll be glad you came for the ride:
(if you’ve been following us for 2+ years you’ll have heard this one already. Sue us.)
A few years ago we realised the museum was – among many other things – ‘too brown’, so we had a makeover.

As in, rip-out-the-organs-dust-down-the-bones-and-start-again makeover.
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yanno, it's funny you mention that. i have some thoughts and some time. allow me to meander a bit. a thread shall commence.
over the last few months, i've asked a few times "why are we still here?" about twitter. it's been rhetorical and, obviously, i'm still here. i don't tweet as much, but i'm still here. that's even though i don't find it particularly enjoyable and struggle to find others who do.
but after watching that museum thing happen, i kinda think we need to really ask ourselves what we're on here for. cuz that seemed like a lot of people who were #onhere for different reasons, and they all came together and exploded.
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So this cool thing came out the other day, which only means one thing. IT'S TIME FOR SOME VERY IMPORTANT SCIENCE ON TWITTER.
The tl;dr version of the article (which I recommend reading - it's very good and also concise) is that music and bilingualism can help combat the onset of dementia, with music seeming to edge out dementia in speed-of-completion in memory tasks.
Sooooooo....
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Several PoC #onhere including me have made mention of why simple “gun control” rhetoric doesn’t work for our communities and I want to take a second to explain what I mean by that.
In Chicago, the people most likely to be victims of gun violence or shoot someone else
***are the same pool of people.***

[this work by WBEZ does a good job of illustrating this.]

interactive.wbez.org/everyotherhour…
The gun violence we deal with in Chicago daily is not [by and large] about a solo shooter coming into a school or movie theater or concert and mass-shooting people. That phenomenon has different social and cultural roots which have been discussed elsewhere.
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Big pharma is evil. It can also be true that my Zoloft has kept me offing myself months ago. Both can exist, simultaneously.
I was having a minimum of 3 panic attacks a day for a month and a half. It was because of Zoloft that I was able to get them under control.
There are ways to discuss the capitalistic nature of Big Pharma™ without being ableist & shaming folks for doing what they must to survive.
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