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@Jamiles
May 30, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
In Reserve, Louisiana, where earlier this month we brought you the first installment of our #cancertown series, a coalition of groups are marching in the shadow of the Denka/Dupont Ponchartrain Works facility- the most cancer-causing air polluter in the US according to the EPA. Image
Marchers' demands include a moratorium on new petrochemical plants in the Louisiana river parishes, which, thanks to cheap land, easy transport and lax regulation, is already home to hundreds of polluting industrial sites. Image
If you missed the series you can get caught up here. 'Almost every household has someone that has died from cancer'

theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…
The next stop for marchers is the Whitney slavery museum- a choice imbued with meaning because virtually the entire Louisiana petrochemical corridor sits on land that was once plantations (mostly sugar) worked by enslaved blacks. Image
For more on the linkages between plantation slavery and the siting of petrochemical and other heavy industrial plants read @oliverlaughland's meticulous research and analysis here.
theguardian.com/us-news/2019/m…

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Oct 8, 2020
Harris said a Biden administration would get rid of private prisons, cash bail, and decriminalized marijuana, in addition to banning chokeholds. Let's UNPACK 🙂🙃.
Private companies only hold 8 percent of people incarcerated in the U.S., but have 15 percent of federal prisoners and more than 70 percent of immigration detainees.
An incoming president could direct the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security not to contract with private detention companies. The Obama administration did this (to limited effect) in 2016 for federal prisons...
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Oct 8, 2020
Kamala Harris mentioned that a Harris/Biden administration would ban chokeholds and that would have saved George Floyd's life. There are two restraint techniques that are commonly referred to as “chokeholds” & both involve applying pressure to a person’s neck to gain compliance.
The carotid control technique is when officers apply pressure to the side of the neck to cut off the blood supply to the brain—sometimes informally called a “sleeper” hold. This technique is allowed by many police departments under specific conditions.
A true chokehold, blocking the windpipe so that the person being restrained cannot breathe, is more dangerous. Many departments ban them explicitly while allowing carotid holds.
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Sep 23, 2020
Detective Brett Hankison charged with three counts of wanton endangerment in the first degree by a grand jury in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor.
Judge Annie O'Connell issues a 15K bond and an arrest warrant. That is all of the charges that will be announced today.
The 3 counts were all for firing shots into apartments that were NOT Breonna Taylor's apartment. The initials of those residents were "C.D." "T.M" and "Z.F"

Hankison WAS charged for his behavior that night. He was not charged for shooting at, hitting, or killing Breonna Taylor.
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Aug 12, 2020
A lot is going to be made of Kamala Harris' record as a prosecutor in the coming days and weeks, and it's likely you'll be hearing a lot of two—almost diametrically opposed— versions of her record from commentators on here. Basically these two:
I'm not going to weigh in on that except to say that, as you read these takes, recognize that it's very easy to present a very good or very bad narrative for ANY prosecutor, given the nature of the work, using cherry-picked data and anecdotes.
Be cautious about what you repost or what conclusions you make from any of these pieces— short of a full systematic overview of all the office's work— which to my knowledge hasn't been done.
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Jun 1, 2020
Thread: Think back to the earliest days of life under Coronavirus. One of the images that’s likely to jump to mind is some version of this graph showing why the nation needed to work so urgently to “flatten the curve”. Image
The image charts out two realities: one with a sharp increase in cases that overwhelms the healthcare system, and then flames out just as fast, as everyone becomes infected and the virus runs out of hosts.
The second version was the goal: a gradual slowing of cases that plateaus out into the future, long beyond the unflattened version, but never at such a rate that hospitals begin rationing care.
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Mar 2, 2020
I've been re-reading @radleybalko's Rise of the Warrior Cop this last week, and can't help but be struck by how often Joe Biden's name comes up as the architect or the primary spokesperson of some draconian piece of federal justice policy.
There's so much more than the '94 crime bill, for which he's been routinely called-out for through this cycle. For example, In 1982 Biden (and Hubert Humphrey) tried to beat Reagan to a bill that would dramatically expand the reach of power of civil asset forfeiture...
so that the mere "suspicion" of a drug crime could be grounds for government seizure, including real estate which was previously excluded.
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