@JoeBiden MUST end the use of the Federal Death Penalty....It was LITERALLY part of HIS #cjreform plan during the campaign....it was also LITERALLY part of the @KamalaHarris#cjreform plan
These were the promises they made, not some wild demand from outsiders
Don't believe me?
This is from the @JoeBiden campaign promises web page
While I hope @RepPressley will continue to hold them responsible for these promises....@JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris BOTH promised to end the federal #DeathPenalty and work to push for an end to the Death Penalty at the state level
These were promises THEY made and must uphold
WE must continue to remind them of the promises they made....there should be NO continuation of what has been happening with the rush to execute people at the Federal level over the last year....We have to hold our leaders to their promises
And yes, I do keep all of the candidates #cjreform plans handy.....I will continue to remind them throughout their terms that they made #cjreform promises and try to encourage people to remind them of their platforms
What is odd to me is that reporters seem not to know that, for instance, that both Biden and Harris explicitly stood against the #DeathPenalty in their campaign platforms....I keep seeing articles that present this a progressive push, not something they promised to do themselves
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Yesterday, when I was talking about 2020 accomplishments, I forgot to mention the 19 interviews I produced on the Decarceration Nation Podcast @DNationPod
Was so great to talk to so many amazing and accomplished guests in 2020
The year started with an interview with my friend Val, who returned from over 40 years of incarceration last year...We talked about everything from his service in Vietnam to getting to vote for the first time
* Passed the largest expansion of expungement ever (arguably ever in the United States)
* Passed all 20 pieces of legislation from the recommendations of the Task Force on Jails and Pretrial Incarceration
* Occupational Licensing reform
* SNAP reform
There was more, but it is actually possible that MILLIONS of people will be benefited by these changes and it all happened in a state with GOP control of the legislature and a DEM Governor
EVERY legislator and our Governor deserve a lot of credit for working together #mileg
Obviously, there is still a LOT of work left to do and we are dealing with a full-on COVID crisis in our prisons and jails.
117 people have died from COVID in Michigan prisons as of last night
We need the vaccine in our prisons and commutations for people at high-risk ASAP
I am not sure who needs to hear this....but economic expectations for people coming back from incarceration are INSANE
1. When I got out, I had $10,000 in court costs, fines & fees, charges per day from when I was in jail awaiting transfer to prison etc.
2. In addition, when I was incarcerated, the State of Michigan found out I had money in a bank account and took it as part of paying the price of my incarceration (well over $1,000)
3. After I was released, I was forced to wear an electronic monitor for nearly two years....I am still paying the cost of that off...it was over $6,000
A huge thank you to everyone in the Michigan Legislature....all 20 bills created out of Task Force on Jail and Pretrial Incarceration have now passed and are headed to @GovWhitmer for her signature
People will not be incarcerated because of drivers license suspensions unrelated to dangerous driving, this is one of the largest drivers of incarceration in Michigan
Officers will be able to give citations in lieu of arrest in many of not most misdemeanor situations....something I testified about in front of the task force myself.
It is not censorship when a company chooses not to endorse or distribute your messages....people are not compelled to support or endorse your speech on or using property they own
It is fair to ask why we have decided to make corporately owned platforms, in essence, the 'public square,' but that does not change the fact that these are corporately owned platforms....Twitter has every right (it is in the TIS) to comment or ban me (or anyone else)
If you went to Starbucks, and they had a bulletin board people were invited to use, and you chose to post a racist message...it is not first-amendment protected censorship for Starbucks to take it down...if you put up a lie, they can contest what you said
The WSJ story on Dr. Jill Biden was a troll (trolling for clicks)
The National Review story on Dr. Jill Biden is a troll
They say something offensive and outrageous to get attention, retweets, and to attain virality, it is literally the business model
When you give the story oxygen, when you make it a thing, when you actually retweet the story....you are helping them make money and gain attention.
They do this on purpose
This also explains why all media - right and left - in a sense - work together....Right wing media says something we find offensive - left wing media goes crazy...left wing media says something the right finds offensive....right wing media goes crazy