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18 May, 9 tweets, 3 min read
Suicide rates are up 100% among Black Americans; as of 7/2020 40% of LGBTQ+ youth in the U.S. had considered ending their own lives within the past year.

True #JusticeforMikaylaMiller is doing whatever we can to keep vulnerable kids from becoming the next #MikaylaMiller
100%. That's the actual increase in Black suicide rates. This is a public health crisis that *no one* is talking about.

capradio.org/articles/2021/…
Suicide is very personal for me, & this story hit hard as I watched Twitter run wild w/speculation rather than confronting the significant evidence (& more to come) that this choice was hers alone. In a very real way, the conspiracy theories denied Mikayla's agency in any of this
The M.E. must have expedited this due to public pressure bc these reports are taking at least 90+ days right now. Far too many families are having to wait far too long for this closure.

"Unattended" deaths matter, but we don't treat them that way.

masslive.com/news/2017/08/m…
And FYI, the M.E.'s office is not a law enforcement agency and does not work for or with law enforcement. Anyone still inclined to call this a "potential murder" may have their own reasons for preferring conspiracy theories to the truth, but those don't include #JusticeforMikayla
I have no doubt at this point that local media has been well aware for weeks that #MikaylaMiller had been abused at home/sent to DCF & talking about hurting herself for some time. They instead chose to allow us to believe that her 15-yr-old ex-gf may have *murdered* her. Why?
(This was one study in MD, but there's no way it does not represent a broader national problem from my review of the current data)
The answer to youth suicide is not to ignore or (worse) spin out into conspiracy theories.

If you know a kid in crisis, check in. Give your time, love, & ears. And if you're having these feelings yourself, don't be alone. Tell someone. My DMs are open.

theconversation.com/black-kids-and…
*by a factor of 100% in some places

sorry not to be more precise in the lead there

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13 May
It is neither legally possible nor socially desirable to have a publicly "transparent" investigation of something as sensitive as a juvenile death investigation, especially when that death was a suicide. The loudest voices on this absolutely know better
A "transparent" investigation would presumably require releasing:

-thousands of Mikayla Miller's *deeply* personal communications, incl many w/her gf during a breakup

-names of juveniles interviewed (and already exonerated w/hard evidence)

-name of person who found her body
Also: the autopsy report can never be made public pursuant to MA law under any circumstances.

Pretty much everyone promoting the "lynching" narrative doesn't know the first thing about how a death investigation is conducted and who these rules protect, & it truly shows
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4 May
Most misdemeanors in Massachusetts can be decriminalized simply by asking that they not be treated as crimes, or even just at the whim of the judge.

It's my opening bid in most minor criminal cases--bc why wouldn't it be--and every time it works it feels like actual magic.
To name only one benefit: the difference between a criminal drug conviction and a civil drug infraction can be life-changing for US citizens, and life-*saving* for non-citizens for whom even the smallest possession case means mandatory denial of residency and deportation
This 26-yr-old statute is far from perfect. It still excludes offenses relating to sex work, operating under the influence, etc from decriminalization--and decriminalization itself is just a band-aid against so many things which shouldn't be arrestable offenses in the first place
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29 Apr
like so many #immigrationlaw rulings before it, today's #SCOTUS decision on the "stop-time" rule in deportation proceedings (1) can't be described to someone not already familiar in fewer than 3 paragraphs, (2) will make you lol if you think about it too much, (3) will save lives
All you really need to know about this extremely-specifically-important ruling is that it gives possibly tens of thousands of families a chance to stay together in the US who wouldn't have had that chance before. That's it. That's why it matters.
So that's the good news! The bad is that the same bad law still requires applicants to show that qualifying family members (but not themselves) will suffer "exceptional & extremely unusual hardship" upon deportation--eg, substantially beyond what other close families would suffer Image
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27 Apr
*volunteers
*giving out donated copies
*to children
*at one facility in Long Beach
*it is in fact not worth asking
I did hear that everyone in the US is going to be limited to no more than 4 lbs of Kamala Harris books per year though, pass it on
Lol nothing matters, literally nothing

forbes.com/sites/joewalsh…
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20 Apr
A lot going on rn but N.B.: these extremely damning 25-yr-old BPD records were released at pretty much the exact point at which we knew the #DerekChauvinTrial verdict was imminent

#bospoli #mapoli
(And sorry for being all lawyerly here, fyi N.B. is Latin for 🧐🧐🧐)
#bospoli #PatrickRose
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20 Apr
Justice Stevens wrote one of the most important (and immigrant-friendly) decisions in the history of crimmigration law at the age of 90, and for whatever others problems I might have with #SCOTUS as an institution that just absolutely rules
*other
Padilla was clearly more than just an ordinary case for Stevens, and it shows in the degree of care and concern in his public statements on how the court continued to interpret it 5 years later ImageImage
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