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14 Nov, 7 tweets, 3 min read
Meet Malcom. Caged pretrial since June. On a floating jail barge attached to Rikers. Suffers from various mental health issues. Now at risk of COVID. His mom is trying to raise money to buy his freedom. I just bought a shirt, proceeds of which support him: emulsify.art/malcolmfreedom…
This where Malcom is held. “The Boat.” Otherwise known as the Vernon C. Bain Center. A jail thats part of Rikers just floating in the East River. It houses 600 individuals, most presumed innocent, nearly all black or Latinx. nytimes.com/2019/10/10/nyr…
Far more foreboding in person. You can feel the swaying of this massive prison ship.
More details: Built in 1992 in NOLA for $161 million to curb overcrowding at Rikers. Transformed from a defunct Staten Island ferry boat into this massive prison boat. 47,326-tons. 5 stories. As large as 2 football fields.
To get in you walk across this metal mesh enclosed tunnel bridge over water. So strange looking down and seeing water. Inside they have a wooden model of the ship in a glass case.
“Black people were brought to this country in cages on a boat. Today, hundreds of Black people are caged in the Vernon C. Bain Center, an actual boat floating in the East River in the Bronx. People ask how far we’ve come since slavery. We haven’t moved at all.” -@alicefontier
438 contributors so far. $27,000 of 80,000 raised. Please join me: fundrazr.com/campaigns/b1iW…

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14 Nov
If only our leaders listened. In April, four men caged in Miami tried to save Charles Hobbs. Guards ignored them. He died. Today, as COVID again explodes, leaders across the country still ignore those incarcerated. They spoke out then. I hope we listen now:
Follow me: The violence and indifference inside courts and jails, built to silence people, blocked by physical walls of jail/prison, and insulated by the legalese of the daily process in court, is largely invisible even though it’s no less real. Even more so during the pandemic.
Back in April and continuing to today, there was no cell phone footage inside Metro West Detention Facility in Miami where thousands are caged pre-trial. No photos. Loved ones had long been cut off from visiting and phone calls were not happening.
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Am I totally delusional to think he's going to concede?
Survey says: I'm delusional.
He just called COVID-19 the "China Virus." He's the worst human alive.
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11 Nov
I know Trump won't be protected by Twitter head of state exception after January 20. But if they don't take him down right now, we might not get there. Just saying. RT if you agree @Twitter should suspend Trump's account ASAP. Maybe we'll get their attention?
Taking down a video or adding a disclaimer to one of his brutal and desperate posts just doesn't cut it for Trump. When he posts something millions instantly see lies that undermine democracy and incite anger that will lead to violence and delegitimization. There is no value.
Also -- Don Jr. + Rudy + other members of the admin spewing dangerous lies regularly should be deplatformed immediately. There is no public interest in this. There is no value. It is only dangerous. And Twitter is knowingly enabling this.
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11 Nov
"I wish they taught this in law school." Now we will. ANNOUNCEMENT: I was just appointed Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School! In January, my colleague Alejo & I will be teaching 1Ls. On expanding their advocacy outside the courtroom. Hope this becomes a national model. Watch:
My organization Zealo.us, started off w/ a national training of defenders from around the country on a range of skills you don’t usually learn in law school. Or anywhere else for that matter. Those skills are more relevant today than ever. Part 2 of course preview:
As a public defender for close to a decade, I realized early on the limitations on my ability to create transformative change inside of court alone and how I need to think more expansively about what it would look like to take my advocacy outside the courtroom.
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10 Nov
During his confirmation, Barr said mass incarceration was “working well” & refused to admit it had a harmful impact on Black people. I argued last year that alone should have disqualified him from serving as Attorney General. Thread of Barr being the worst:nbcnews.com/think/opinion/…
Reminder: Barr wrote legal rationale for Gulf War, Panama invasion, & officially sanctioned kidnapping of foreign nationals abroad. He also designed mass incarceration and signed off on a paper called “The Case for More Incarceration.”
Barr made the call not to hold Eric Garner's killer accountable federally. Not to intervene. Claimed Eric Garner was not in a chokehold when he repeatedly gasped, "I can’t breathe." It was on camera. Broad daylight. Didn’t matter to the beast.

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9 Nov
Professor Samuel Issacharoff. Literally wrote the law textbook & course called The Law of Democracy. This is his first & only (so far) tweet. He literally signed up & came onto Twitter just to tell Jared Kushner & Trump’s legal team to sit the f*ck down.
This calm, rational tweet is exactly how the professor would take down over-confident law students. Let you lead yourself down a rabbithole that is wrong w/ some nice Socratic banter, & then point out methodically how your entire premise was wrong. Then call on someone else.
As an aside I took his Law of Democracy course & also was in his first year civil procedure class. One of the great teachers. His first year course was terrifying. Not bc he was mean. But once you were cold called, it was you & him for up to 30 minutes. In front of 100+ students.
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