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"Justice Dept lawyers argued that the lawsuits should also be tossed because last November’s presidential election made future violations unlikely"

Justice Dept asks judge to toss lawsuit against Trump, Barr for violent clearing of Lafayette Square
washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is…
"A crowd of more than 1,000 largely peaceful demonstrators were protesting the police killing of George Floyd before police forcibly cleared the square using batons, clubs, horses, pepper spray, smoke and fired projectiles."

washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is…
"Lawyers for the ACLU said that despite legal precedents, the government’s defense would 'authorize brutality with impunity' in the heart of Washington at one of the most symbolic spaces within the seat of the federal government."

washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is…
"If their defense was upheld, U.S. authorities 'could have used live ammunition to clear the park, and nobody would have a claim against that as an assault on their constitutional rights,' said Scott Michelman, legal director for ACLU-D.C."
washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is…

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Victoria Brownworth Profile picture
28 May
Nope. This is anti-Democratic propaganda that is meant to target outspoken progressive WOC, like Sheila Jackson Lee, Karen Bass, AOC, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, Val Demings, as well as some men: Schiff, Lieu, Jeffries and Swalwell. Also, senators *are* national figures.
Beware people who want to silence the voices of WOC, who currently represent the largest phalanx of progressives in the House. Also, if you don't understand that senators are supposed to coalesce around NATIONAL issues and proffer laws to address same, you need a civics class.
The LEGISLATIVE branch is supposed to legislate. It is a factor of Americans' limited political and historical knowledge that some regularly claim that members of Congress should be silent. We don't have a parliamentary system--outspoken MOC get laws passed and change made.
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21 May
I spend a lot of days feeling suicidal. Today was one of them. This isn't a cry for help--it's just fact. I'm in therapy for severe #PTSD related to trauma and for #depression. Millons of other folks feel like I do daily. Some lose their fight & die. Don't die.
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#Depression means some days you can barely function. #PTSD means some days everything is painful & you are so traumatized you can barely function. I just want folks to know how hard it is. When famous people like Candace Owens joke about #suicide, they could kill someone.
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I wrote this a couple months ago about the breadth of suicidality in the US. I hope you will read and share it--help someone else. Or you. Let's keep folks alive if we can. Thank you. 💜🌿
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#MentalHealthAwarenessMonth
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12 May
This is verifiably false, which is why no one talks about it. Also, comparing enslaved families to single parents is shockingly wrong.
The extrapolation here is that the violence of slavery and the forced displacement and dissolution of families plus the circumstances of raped women is somehow comparable to today's Black families. On its face and historical mismatch, but guaranteed as the ratio shows, to rile.
The fact that two parent families have declined overall in the US and the factor of cohabitation v. marriage is a complicating data point. But ignoring racist trends enforced by Reagan and Bush1&2 like mass incarceration of Black men is also a factor.
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11 May
Spending the day writing about next week's primary in #Philly. Only here could a guy fired by the current DA for being bad at his job be running to replace him.
The only rational and progressive choice for DA is Larry Krasner, who is implementing much needed CJR.
His opponent, Carlos Vega is supported by the FOP (which should be completely overhauled and John McNesby removed) and Ed Rendell, who hired Vega a bazillion years ago and apparently wants none of the reforms Krasner has put in place.
If you want an end to relentless incarceration of Black, brown and mentally ill Philadelphians, vote for Krasner. If you want police reform, vote for Krasner. If you want the same structural racism and status quo CJ system, Vega is your guy. But Philly deserves and needs better.
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8 May
This essay on Woolf is told jocularly, a #NotAllMen to the killer critiques by men of women's writing. The smug inanity of dismissing Woolf, who pre-dated James Joyce in the invention of stream of consciousness "Helpful Men," indeed. Read more Woolf.
thenation.com/article/cultur…
The importance of Virginia Woolf in English literature really can't be overstated. When we talk about Joyce, we should be talking about Woolf. To the Lighthouse and The Waves are such pivotal works--they re-order our thinking of how a narrative is seen, processed and revealed.
In years of reviewing Toni Morrison, I often thought about how she was the natural inheritor of Woolf: In Beloved and Mercy, Morrison re-orders our view of narration. Even in her earliest works, before her masterworks, Morrison does this. And male critics often got lost.
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4 May
In Tennessee right now, a week after Sen.Tim Scott insisted America is not racist, there is discussion in the state legislature by Rep. Justin Lafferty of how the 3/5 Compromise was good policy and Lafferty got applause from the GOP.

The 3/5 Compromise got applause. In 2021.
If you are unfamiliar with the 3/5 Compromise between the North and South, this is a good, concise, detailed overview.

britannica.com/topic/three-fi…
This is where slavery was codified in the Constitution by the Founders, some of whom were slave owners--that is, men who "owned" other human beings. Never forget this country was founded as a democracy that also believed that Black men, women and children were not fully human.
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