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27 Mar, 11 tweets, 3 min read
A walk (and scoot) in Brooklyn thread.
Doesn’t look like it but we’re socially distanced.
Picked up a bunch of ingredients and just made charoset. Zoom Seder staring in 35.

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29 Mar
IMAGINE: Having power to end the impact of a KKK-passed law that still imprisons hundreds. Oregon AG Ellen Rosenblum has that power, but won't use it. Instead she *turned down an interview w/ PBS* as she "awaits more guidance" from the Supreme Court. More: pbs.org/newshour/show/…
Every juror’s voice is supposed to matter. Yet Oregon & Louisiana allowed up to 2 jurors to be silenced. KKK pushed these laws to establish white supremacy. To convict whoever they wanted. Legal lynchings. Louisiana already acted to fix. Oregon wont.
In April 2020, the Supreme Court finally acknowledged what was long obvious: This racist law was unconstitutional. in oral argument, the majority of the Justices were appalled. Even Justice Kavanaugh acknowledged non-unanimous juries were "rooted in racism." Image
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28 Mar
When I hear of a 13 & 15 year old charged w/ murder:

I dont think "killer." I think "child."
I dont think "punishment." I think "help."
I dont think "murder." I think "tragedy" for all.

We can call for justice for Mohammad Anwar w/o calling for the heads of young black girls.
For all of those claiming I'm "racializing" this by & wouldn't have said the same if they were white, clearly you don't know me. I don't think children should be punished as adults. And I don't think prison helps anyone. Survivors or families of survivors included.
The idea that prison is not a place for people charged with acts of violence or a solution to violence is so foreign & crazy to so most. But by any measure--rehabilitation, accountability, reducing recidivism, healing trauma for survivors, deterrence--prison just fails.
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28 Mar
🚨 MARIJUANA JUSTICE. A deal has been reached. This isn’t merely “legalization.” It’s also repairing the harm exacted on Black & Brown communities. A model for the nation. Early this week, the NY legislature will vote. Then onto Gov. Cuomo. Thread w/ more: nytimes.com/2021/03/25/nyr…
In NYC, the average marijuana arrest rate among high marijuana arrest precincts is 15 times higher than low arrest precincts. Between 2010-2019, there were 8 times as many arrests of Black and Latinx people as white people for marijuana. Image
In Buffalo, the average marijuana arrest rate among the high marijuana arrest zip codes is 68 times higher than that of the low arrest zip codes, and there were 3 times as many marijuana arrests of Black people as there were of white people. #PassTheMRTA Image
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25 Mar
🚨🚨🚨JUST IN: MASSIVE VICTORY IN CALIFORNIA! CA Supreme Court just ruled unanimously that "the state cannot keep people behind bars simply because they cannot afford to post bail pending their trial." Cash bail as we know it over in California. Speechless.latimes.com/california/sto…
Just working my way through decision. My lord this is powerful. Highlighting furiously. Completely debunks common claims about the use of bail in theory: “It’s a different story in practice.”
“In principle, pretrial detention should be reserved for those who otherwise cannot be relied upon to make court appearances or who pose a risk to public or victim safety, but it’s a different story in practice.”
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25 Mar
🔥🔥THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD CALLS TODAY FOR THE END OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT.

"The isolation, confinement & sensory deprivation of solitary eats away at bodies and minds. Become prone to self-harm including suicide"

#HALTsolitary is on @NYGovCuomo's desk. nytimes.com/2021/03/25/opi…
"NY stands poised to overhaul solitary confinement in its prisons & jails, a practice widely recognized as inhumane, arbitrary & counterproductive. Despite piles of research detailing brutal physical & psychological toll of solitary confinement its a common form of discipline."
"NY correctional employees have wide discretion to throw people into “the box,” where people spend 23/hrs a day in a tiny space cut off from most human contact. Signs that someone belongs to a gang can land them in the box. So can “eyeballing” a guard."
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24 Mar
Walked out of my son's room (my quarantine office) to grab coffee. He's sitting on the ground playing w/ hot wheels. This is him, verbatim: "Dad. We're having a contest tonight! Whoever is the best beat-boxer wins. You can make any sound you like." Hes 5 years old. I'm so proud.
By the way: We have never had such a contest before. I think I caught him beat-boxing once in the car. He's actually pretty good. Really good with the click noises.
I'm getting nervous.
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